It was a sweeping purge.
Of the fifteen Level Seven Card Adepts, only eight remained. The proportion was high enough to leave anyone speechless. Relatively speaking, far fewer ordinary members had problems, but forty-six were still caught in the net. The entire purge met with no resistance, all thanks to Chen Mu's order that they remove their Wrist Devices before leaving the camp. Without a Wrist Device, even a Level Seven Card Adept had no combat ability whatsoever.
Nevertheless, the purge affected the Wood Character Camp's morale, leaving everyone on edge.
Xiao Bo and Sang Hanshui wore grim expressions all day, but what intrigued them more was how their boss had done it.
"There were people hiding among us. You two had already thought of that, hadn't you?" Chen Mu asked.
"Of course," Xiao Bo replied at once. "With the boss stirring things up on this scale, it would've been strange if the others hadn't reacted."
Sang Hanshui said nothing, but his expression showed his agreement. These years were nothing like the past. Back when the political situation was stable, planting spies in one another's ranks had been far less common. But as the situation steadily deteriorated over the years, such incidents had become rampant. The sheer number of spies Chen Mu had rooted out this time offered a glimpse of that.
Chen Mu continued, "If Chief Steward Bagnell or Chief Steward Xi were here, they'd naturally have ways of handling this sort of thing. The three of us don't know the first thing about it. We have too many sensitive things in our hands. If we let them stay hidden, the consequences would be serious. I started thinking: since schemes wouldn't get us very far, we'd have to use another approach. Technical means, for instance!"
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