After a while, Li Yan's gaze, which had remained fixed, swept across the tabletop again. After setting down this Guiyin jade slip, he found several jade slips he had examined earlier and carefully read through them several more times.
The contents recorded in these jade slips had little to do with that elder from before, but these slips had been classified separately as a major category.
This was because they were not records of transactions or escort missions, but missions of surveillance or capture. They detailed how, after the headquarters found clues at a later stage, it sent cultivators over to secretly monitor or seize the targets.
Yet apart from a very few successes, the vast majority had failed without exception. Even in the successful cases, they had only caught small fish and shrimp.
Although they had obtained some clues, those people had merely been peripheral informants secretly bought off by the enemy, and what they knew was extremely limited.
Thus, despite "Return and Come Back" mobilizing such a great force, it had not gained much useful information. And even when those people were used as bait, no one took the hook afterward...
Li Yan quickly set those jade slips aside. A sharp light flowed rapidly through his eyes, and at last, he suddenly spoke to Su Hong on the other side.
"Miss Su, I have a few questions!"
Su Hong immediately opened her eyes.
"What questions?"
"I want to know what sort of people you send to investigate when you are looking into suspected traitors."
"At first, the Criminal Hall handled the investigations, but more often than not, the moment their investigation began, the person being investigated would suddenly disappear. Or, when they intended to seize someone, the other party would somehow flee in advance. It was plainly someone