Chapter 5140 — The Inside Line
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Unfortunately, he had still underestimated Central Headquarters' methods by far. With their technological prowess, wiretapping a phone call was child's play—there was no need to tamper with his phone at all. They could simply tap straight into the communications network and do it effortlessly. After all, this was no encrypted line; it was just an ordinary telephone.
Dr. Glasses not only heard the two men's conversation but also forwarded the recording to Lan Xiaoru at Central Headquarters, grinding his teeth as he said, "Hmph. So the thing really is a turncoat, a mole. The business with Number One must have been cooked up by him and this Wei Zhao—all that nonsense about the Evil-Warding Sect and the blood-corpse bugs. Quite the tidy little story he spun. I nearly believed his pack of lies myself!"
"I can't say I'm surprised. Dafeng has played the model of obedience this past month, and his conduct has shown not the slightest flaw or loose end—but that is precisely what makes him suspicious," Lan Xiaoru said flatly.
"Dr. Lan, I'll have that miserable wretch dragged back here this instant and clean house for Central Headquarters!" Dr. Glasses fumed.
"Slow down!" Lan Xiaoru stopped him. "Not only must you not arrest him—you must keep him close at your side and act as though nothing has happened. Do you understand what I mean?"
"Dr. Lan, you mean to cast a long line to hook a big fish?" Dr. Glasses blinked, taken aback.
"Precisely. Our intelligence on the Antiquity Alliance is still far from adequate, and that Wei Zhao clearly knows the ins and outs of it. Keeping Dafeng as our 'inside line' will make many things more convenient. Whatever we don't know, we'll have Dafeng find out for us—I trust he'll bring us good news." Lan Xiaoru smiled faintly.
"Turn their own scheme against them. Dr. Lan, you're as brilliant as ever!" Dr. Glasses seized the moment to butter her up, but then asked, "In that case, why don't we simply follow the vine to the melon and just arrest this Wei Zhao?"
"That won't do. I've had my eye on Wei Zhao for a long time. He vanished abruptly some years ago—presumably he went to Cloud Terrace Island. But what I don't quite understand now is why he has suddenly come back. Or did he never make it there in the first place?" Lan Xiaoru said, somewhat perplexed.
"That's it!" At her words, Dr. Glasses suddenly slapped his forehead and said excitedly, "Dr. Lan, now that you mention it, I remember—a couple of years ago a letter came from the Cloud Terrace Island side. I happened to glance at it once by chance, and the sender seemed to be Wei Zhao. It must be the same man, don't you think?"
"Mm, I have a vague memory of it too. We'll know for certain once someone verifies it. But if it is the same man, then all the more reason we must not alert the snake in the grass," Lan Xiaoru said thoughtfully.
"Why?" Dr. Glasses could not help but find it odd. Even if Wei Zhao really had gone to Cloud Terrace Island, in his view the man was a nobody—why would Lan Xiaoru take such interest?
"The transfer passage between Cloud Terrace Island and the secular world is the core secret of our Center. And even our passage cannot easily send a living person back—yet this Wei Zhao has appeared alive and well in the secular world. Don't you think there must be something extraordinary behind that?" Lan Xiaoru paused, drew a deep breath, and said, "And from what I know, this man's background is not simple..."
"Not simple how?" Dr. Glasses grew all the more curious.
"Nothing much—you'll be told when the time is right." Lan Xiaoru's expression shifted. She had the mind to groom Dr. Glasses as her right-hand man, but at his present station he was not yet qualified to touch intelligence of that level, so she cut the subject short. "Never mind. I'll ask the Cloud Terrace Island side about this matter myself. You need only remember one thing: do not, under any circumstances, alert the snake."