Eight Exquisites (3)

Though it was the same matter, different people always saw it from different angles.

Straw Coat Guest's intelligence was still too outdated.

His intelligence network was too rotten as well.

He had no idea that just moments ago, right under his nose, the Eight Exquisites had already entered Xin Zheng. Nor did he know that the Eight Exquisites were originally part of Hei Bai Xuan Jian—a special lifeform constructed from the lingering souls Hei Bai Xuan Jian had preserved from those he had killed.

However, considering that three-quarters of Straw Coat Guest's intelligence network had already been infiltrated and replaced by Faceless Men, it was only natural that his information lagged behind. There was nothing strange about it. When half or more of any intelligence network had been replaced, it would fall into a state of paralysis, perhaps even reach the point of no return. After all, the enemy knew how many of their own people there were and who those people were, while you could not be sure how many of your own remained, nor whether any given person was truly one of yours. Every known method of investigation would become ineffective. That was how Web of Nets had been infiltrated, gradually slipping out of control.

Put simply, the enemy could manufacture eyewitnesses.

They would erode the network little by little, from the outside in.

Take an intelligence agent who had been replaced. He could use the excuse that he had obtained valuable intelligence to meet his superior or contact an equal-ranking colleague. During a private report or exchange, he could strike. Even if people outside sensed something wrong and rushed in, all they would see was a superior who had already been replaced by a Faceless Man, along with the dead original host. At that point, the replaced