A Change Once Befell the Formless Bloodline

Of course Blue Demon knew the case he mentioned.

In spy warfare, the mingling of truth and falsehood was indeed the norm.

There were more than enough cases of killing enemy higher-ups, disguising oneself as one of them, and infiltrating behind enemy lines.

But...

Blue Demon pondered. "In Jing Lei's later years, he repeatedly rendered extraordinary service. Quite a few Hydra members died by his own hand."

"Who exactly were they?" Lin Xiaosu's gaze flickered. "If you analyze them carefully and compare them against Hydra's overall structure now exposed, you'll find that the Hydra members who died at Jing Lei's hands were, for the overwhelming majority, people outside the Chaispur Consortium. Every time he acted, it looked as though he was killing Hydra, but the greatest beneficiary had always been the Chaispur Consortium!"

Blue Demon drew in a deep breath and slowly let it out. "There were factional struggles within Hydra too, right?"

"Yes. One side acted in exchange for Qianlong merits, while the other borrowed Qianlong's strength to eliminate competitors!" Lin Xiaosu said. "If this was Chaispur's method, then it was undoubtedly an exceedingly ingenious one!"

Blue Demon tilted her face toward the sky, her chest rising and falling gently.

After a long, long while...

Her gaze slowly shifted to Lin Xiaosu's eyes. "When I decrypted the materials this time, I paid attention to Jing Lei as well. His name appeared only once in the entire file—on the Death List, at the very top! I find it difficult to suspect that the person Hydra was willing to trade the strength of an entire base to kill would be one of their own!"

Lin Xiaosu's eyes suddenly lit up. "In the materials you decrypted, Jing Lei was still at the top of the list?"

"Yes! He had always been at