If he kept tracking them down, wouldn't that be as good as telling everyone that his side had lost a whole lot of people, while their opponent was still at large?
He could imagine how passive that would leave Lord Wu, and how much doubt he would face.
The smartest choice was to let it go and stop searching for and hunting them down.
Of course, stopping the search didn't mean doing nothing.
They still had to remain vigilant on all fronts. As long as their opponent didn't come into the core area to cause trouble, they could let him be, like a mouse hiding in the shadows.
Lord Tree Ancestor had a thousand things to deal with right now. There was no need to keep wasting manpower and energy on this.
Even Lord Wu couldn't help wondering about the other side's motive for such a large-scale mobilization. Could they be deliberately luring the forces in the core area out, so they could attack Lord Tree Ancestor's main body?
Though the possibility was extremely slim, Lord Wu still felt he had to take it into consideration.
The search had stopped, but the incident still cast a shadow over everyone involved.
Everyone felt an inexplicable sense of grief, as if they were mourning the death of a fellow rabbit.
Several hundred people had vanished overnight, with no explanation. Who exactly was the enemy? Had they died too? No one knew.
They had originally sided with Lord Tree Ancestor simply to survive and make something of themselves. But reality had cruelly laid itself bare before them.
If circumstances changed and conflict broke out, they so-called agents were nothing more than hired muscle, nothing more than cannon fodder.
If they were sacrificed, then they were sacrificed. Who would speak up for them? Who