Paid a Heavy Price

Fortunately, as long as they prepared in advance, this kind of trouble was not hard to avoid. For example, Jiang Xia's current PlanA—he only needed to install a Blood Bag in Matsuda Jinpei and make sure that when a bullet hit him, something normal could spurt out.

Gin seemed to have a habit of manually clearing his memory. Once this busy Organization Cadre finished killing someone, he would immediately erase all information related to the dead from his mind.

So long as no one noticed anything wrong on the spot, even after "dying," the Matsuda puppet would still have opportunities. He could change his appearance, infiltrate the Organization as a Peripheral Member first, then come help Uzo once the time was right... The Organization happened to look very welcoming toward newcomers, even indiscriminately recruiting a whole bunch of Undercover Agents.

Controlling Puppet Clay was, compared with meticulous analysis and calculation, more like an activity that relied on intuition and muscle memory.

Just like how one could usually let one's mind wander while exercising.

Jiang Xia was currently letting his thoughts drift while carefully adjusting the Puppet Clay's movements.

Yet reality proved that multitasking was never a good habit when doing precise work.

—A few seconds later, Jiang Xia suddenly heard a faint pop.

Right afterward, blood began to spill from Matsuda Jinpei's mouth—the Blood Bag had been crushed open by overly solid clay halfway through being inserted.

Matsuda Jinpei wore an expression of calm numbness, resisting the strange sensation of inserting a Blood Bag by blanking out his mind in a Buddhist-like manner.

Only when he noticed that the Blood Bag had burst did he snap back to himself. After a brief daze, he immediately shut his mouth and covered it with his hand, pressing down and wiping away