Chapter 531

Wood was an old hand at espionage. In the business of spying, he had once come close to the very pinnacle of what an ordinary mortal could achieve. Though he had grown somewhat dull over the years, the foundation he had built in the past remained, as did his basic qualities.

At this moment, amid crisis and pain, the slight sluggishness brought on by years of comfortable living was brushed away like dust. He became once more the topmost spy whom others had looked up to in those days.

In an instant, he had roughly guessed the whole story.

But he would rather have remained as dull as before—or, better yet, so dull that he could not guess anything at all.

He even felt that perhaps the best outcome would have been for him to notice nothing and simply die on the spot.

The situation was already clear. The Federation had probably judged, based on the increasingly worthless intelligence he had sent back over the years, that he had been bought off by the Northwest Republic and was about to betray the Federation. North Wind had not come to assist him. She had come to eliminate him.

In truth, he had sensed something long ago. Given his situation these past few years, even if the Federation wanted to send additional personnel, they should only have sent someone to take command and demoted him to deputy. How could they possibly send an elite spy to serve as his assistant?

If they had wanted to send him help, they could have done so long ago. Nor was there any need to send an especially formidable spy. They only needed someone who could help provide cover; an ordinary spy would have been equal to the task.

The Federation had sent North Wind here