Jiang Mian didn't let her clone stay there for long. After getting a general idea of the situation, it quietly returned.
Numbers Four and Eight were probably both fairly high in the sequence. They were both Third-tier and followed the [Chaos] path, specializing in stealth and infiltration.
So as long as they didn't run into an Awakened with keen senses while leaving the city, there generally wouldn't be any accidents.
As it happened, they'd originally planned to come test the waters as soon as they received the mission. If possible, they'd take care of things right then and there.
But before they'd even emerged from the shadows, they nearly ran into Shen Yuan and Shen Ming, who had come looking for her at the time. And then...
The two of them had chosen to run.
Given the current situation in the city, they wouldn't dare face a Fourth-tier Awakened head-on.
Of course, they wouldn't dare under normal circumstances, either.
So they'd simply moved the meeting place outside the city.
They'd also considered putting it off for a few days and waiting for a chance to approach Team Five when they went out alone.
Unfortunately, cases of Awakened going missing had been frequent lately. Calamities were suspected of having infiltrated the city, and they seemed quite active.
So the higher-ups had made a small round of personnel changes. Starting today, they'd increased the number of patrols and split up the people who'd previously been watching the pipelines to lead new recruits.
This had affected their planted mole, who was transferred straight out of the original post. After that, the pipeline route wouldn't be so easy to exploit.
Jiang Mian controlled her clone and, after making sure nobody was following, returned home by way of a side street.
Once inside, the clone