Bringing up the old history of the Wu Kingdom again?
Shen Tang looked at the words in the letter, lowering her eyes to hide her Killing Intent.
With Wei Cheng and his nephew as firsthand witnesses, she knew all too well how the Wu Kingdom had fallen. Back then, the Assembly of Gods had meddled and caused divisions within the Wu Kingdom. Now they wanted to use the same trick again? She couldn't help feeling worried, afraid that Tan Ting's disappearance was connected to this. As for the other possibility Qi Shan had alluded to in his letter—
[Tan Ting's prolonged disappearance may indicate that he has defected.]
Without concrete evidence, Shen Tang wasn't willing to suspect her own people, much less question their loyalty lightly.
A crack in trust gave outside flies a chance to buzz in.
She pondered for a moment, then picked up her brush and wrote back to Qi Shan. Use every resource currently available in the Central Branch to investigate Tan Ting's whereabouts!
In short, she wanted to see him alive or see his corpse!
"We still have to find a way to contact him as soon as possible. If we're too late..." Shen Tang snapped her brush without thinking. After much hesitation, she decided to contact her incarnation, Wu You, herself. She had originally wanted Wu You to look for an opportunity to infiltrate the Northeast Continent, focusing on gathering intelligence. If he had the spare capacity, he could take advantage of the chaos to secretly recruit talent and, while he was at it, throw a wrench into Qu Kingdom's attempts to meddle in the Northeast Continent.
Now it seemed there was no time.
She couldn't have both fish and bear's paw.
Shen Tang chose to look for Tan Ting first.
If he really