After receiving the news, the gray-clad young man immediately began investigating as well, but the results were rather strange. Jin Zhiyuan had only run into trouble after making contact, while everything on his superior's end remained normal.
Jin Zhiyuan had always been exceedingly cautious. He should not have made a mistake while passing intelligence. So how had someone set their sights on him?
"Have you verified the intelligence he sent out?"
The figure in the darkness pressed the question again. No emotion could be heard in his voice, but that only made the gray-clad young man more nervous.
The more the other party acted this way, the more it showed that anger was simmering in his heart. The gray-clad young man understood this perfectly well.
"We notified every sleeper agent in the city who might be exposed to proceed carefully, and ordered them to lie completely low for the time being, without making any moves.
"At the same time, we had them thoroughly inspect their surroundings. But more than a day has passed, and no one has discovered that they are under surveillance.
"However... however, the intelligence cannot be confirmed completely. After suffering repeated failures, the other side has become increasingly cautious, and their methods have grown ever more covert.
"Even if they truly are keeping watch on us, it means they have not obtained any evidence at all. While matters remain uncertain, we cannot immediately pull out the sleeper agents. Otherwise, our losses would be far too great."
The gray-clad young man answered respectfully once again. This sort of thing had happened quite a few times already, but unless they were driven to the absolute brink, they would never withdraw a sleeper agent.
Planting a sleeper agent was no easy task, especially when some of those agents held extremely