Su Hong quickly laid out Li Yan's deduction, as well as the conclusion she had already guessed, one by one.
"You mean the information leaks behind those previous failed surveillance and arrests did not come from the people involved who knew about them, nor from the Punishment Hall.
"Rather, someone inferred the intelligence from the allocation of Guiyin jade slips, or after seeing the account lists, and then notified their accomplices of it..."
After listening to Su Hong's rapid explanation, a faint fluctuation entered the Purple-Robed Youth's voice.
At that moment, he too suddenly understood the reason. It was nothing more than a layer of window paper, something that would break with a single poke!
Yet these were two completely different directions of investigation. From the very beginning, they had chosen the wrong direction, so no matter how hard they investigated—
In the end, they not only wasted time and effort without uncovering that traitor, but the information continued leaking without end.
As for what Su Hong had said, the Purple-Robed Youth had already concluded that Li Yan had found the root of the problem. The more he thought about it, the more convinced he became that this was the truth.
This began to alarm him. How had none of them thought of something so simple? Yet after arriving, the other party had needed less than two days...
Thus, after hearing Su Hong's analysis, the Purple-Robed Youth could not help but ask. By the end, however, he was already muttering to himself, when another voice rang out.
"The storeroom... truly cunning. It would be very difficult for anyone to notice such a place. That should indeed be the situation. Otherwise, why had we investigated ourselves for so long, only to not find the traitor leaking information and instead make the