"Kill you?" Chen Ye looked as if he had just heard a boring topic and curled his lip. "If I killed you, who would carry my message? That would be no fun."
He leaned close to Ling Zhao and spoke softly, in a voice only the two of them could hear. "Go back and tell your superior, the Division Head sitting at the highest position in the capital. Tell him they were wrong. They awakened an existence with their own hands, one they should never have touched."
Ling Zhao's pupils contracted to pinpricks. The Division Head! He had actually called the Division Head by that title!
"And one more thing," Chen Ye said, the corner of his mouth curling into a malicious smile. "Pass along a warning for me... Tell him to watch out for the person who revealed the location of the 'Demon Summoning Ritual' to you. How could an 'awakening' planned for so long have been found so easily? There's much more going on here than you imagine."
The words exploded in Ling Zhao's mind like a clap of thunder!
That was right!
How had they found such a hidden ritual site so precisely?
A contact had provided the classified intelligence! That contact held a very high position. Only the Division Head and core members at his level knew about them!
If Chen Ye was telling the truth... didn't that mean there was a traitor among the highest ranks of the Demon Suppressing Division?! Or perhaps the entire affair had been a vast conspiracy against the Demon Suppressing Division from beginning to end?!
Ling Zhao felt as if his brain had turned to mush, with countless thoughts crashing wildly against one another. The look he gave Chen Ye had shifted from fear to deep wariness... and confusion.
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