Tang San's First Counter-Setup: White Stone Warehouse Was the Real Bait, the Accounts Were Fake

Outside Heaven Dou City lay an abandoned mountain village.

The night wind blew through the broken window frames, making them creak.

No lamps were lit inside.

Only a nearly extinguished oil lamp barely illuminated the tabletop.

A crude map lay spread across the table.

Iron Furnace Town.

White Stone Warehouse.

North Border Mountain Path.

The three locations were circled in charcoal.

Tang San sat before the table, his expression terrible.

It was not mere anger.

It was the coldness that came after suppressing himself to the limit.

He had not been this quiet in a long time.

Ever since Di Yao awakened Demon Emperor Di Jun, it felt as though an invisible hand had kept tearing his world apart.

The Grandmaster's theories had been suppressed.

His Hidden Weapons had been forced into the open.

His material supply lines had been cut.

Iron Furnace Town had been taken.

Every time he tried to take a step forward, Di Yao seemed to be standing there in advance, crushing the path beneath his feet.

That feeling was more agonizing than a direct defeat.

Because he could not even see which step had caused him to lose.

Xiao Wu stood not far away, her eyes full of worry.

"Xiao San..."

Tang San did not look up.

His fingers pressed down on the words White Stone Warehouse.

"Iron Furnace Town is gone."

Xiao Wu said softly, "We can still find other materials."

Tang San shook his head.

"It's different."

"Iron Furnace Town was not merely a batch of materials. What Di Yao obtained were the accounts. Following those accounts, he can find White Stone Warehouse. Then, following White Stone Warehouse, he can find the Heaven Dou Chamber of Commerce, the Black Market, and even every transit point we ever contacted."

His fingertips gradually tightened.

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