It had to be said: Xiao Pu really was meticulous. Though he had never been part of Xie Chun's inner circle and had always been deliberately kept at arm's length, with all kinds of things intentionally concealed from him,
Xiao Pu had still managed to make several extremely valuable deductions from the limited information he had. The bases he had pointed out might not have been proven to belong to the other gates of the Eight-Gate Formation, but Xie Chun had mentioned them often enough that they were certainly worth taking into consideration.
As the Bizarre Tree's Top Agent, Xie Chun was bound to have a deep understanding of the Bizarre Tree's faction. The sites Xiao Pu had identified were absolutely worth investigating.
There was no point hoping to keep things secret.
The Bizarre Tree must have noticed that something had happened to Xie Chun Base long ago. The authorities would have a hard time secretly moving against the other bases.
If those bases belonged to the Eight-Gate Formation, the Bizarre Tree would surely warn them to be on high alert and stop the authorities from attacking and destroying the other gates at all costs.
The battle might have only just begun, but neither side's strategy was much of a secret anymore.
The Bizarre Tree could surely predict their next move: they would look for the other seven gates and destroy them.
And Han Jingjing and the others could, of course, easily predict that the Bizarre Tree would predict that.
They might not have come face-to-face yet, but each side could anticipate the other's anticipation. It wasn't quite an open hand, but it was close.
In the hastily arranged meeting room, all the members of Han Jingjing's team had gathered with the military representative, Jiang Ying, and several of her