Intelligence work placed the greatest importance on gathering information. Being caught did not necessarily mean much danger; deals could be made, and people could be bought off, as long as they had enough value.
Those without value might go to prison, but they were rarely killed—this was an unspoken understanding, because both sides had intelligence personnel.
If you killed my people today, I could kill yours tomorrow. That would get rather bloody.
For intelligence operatives, killing was only a measure used as a last resort.
That was precisely why the Overseas Department personnel had looked so displeased when Zhang Caixin killed people in the Leo Kingdom.
The man surnamed Xu finally understood why the Overseas Wanderers Society had used a Barrett. According to intelligence reports, Feng Jun had once gone to Mud Country and killed many Overseas Wanderers Society members. That truly had been a little excessive.
Killing people was one thing, but actually going to their doorstep to do it was another. Killing someone outside Mud Country and running into their home to kill them were completely different concepts. No one could tolerate the latter.
Feng Jun looked at him with an odd expression. "Your bias is more than a little severe. Never mind whether I was responsible for what happened in Mud Country. Let me ask you this: was anyone shot to death?"
The man surnamed Xu was immediately speechless. He had heard that those believed to have been killed by Feng Jun had all died in various accidents. In his mind, dying in supernatural incidents was more tragic than any other kind of death.
But after hearing Feng Jun put it that way, he realized that while those accidental deaths sounded terrifying, wasn't Feng Jun actually giving the other side some face?
What truly could not be