Ye Qingcang did not like waiting.
He liked passive counterattacks even less.
Although knowing the plot well was one of his greatest advantages, rashly changing it could easily affect later developments. But as a transmigrator, if he did not even dare alter the plot, what was the point of transmigrating?
Therefore, after meeting with Han Fei and the others,
after sending Red Lotus back to the palace and instructing Jing Ni to protect her,
Ye Qingcang took a map in hand
and began exploring.
The map had been taken from the intelligence archives of the Web of Nets branch stationed in Xin Zheng, Han Kingdom.
"Heavenly Net, no holes barred"—this saying had not been coined only after Zhao Gao joined the organization. It had existed from the very beginning of Web of Nets, and the Web of Nets under Lü Buwei had naturally been no different.
However, Web of Nets was Web of Nets, and the Faceless Men were Faceless Men.
No matter how capable Web of Nets was, it could not compare to the Faceless Men.
This referred to infiltration.
If they were competing in strength,
or discussing assassination,
the Faceless Men were inferior to Web of Nets.
Because Web of Nets assassins had been trained through real, rigorous practice.
The strength of a Faceless Man depended entirely on the person devoured. If the devoured person was strong, they were strong; if the devoured person was weak, they were weak. Though they could inherit everything from the devoured person after devouring them, including their memories, this absurd ability came at the cost of having their upper limit locked. If an organization wanted to develop healthily, it could never rely on Faceless Men. In other words, Faceless Men were creatures that only knew how to destroy and possessed no ability