NOVEL WEB Chapter 18 Truth_2
"Magic armament?"
Lin Yun furrowed his brows, "I should have ordered you all to guard them strictly. How could a situation like this still arise?"
"I'm terribly sorry, Director,"
The tall man expressionlessly handed over a hard drive, "So I brought the inventory access records, hoping you could confirm the names on it to see if there are any oversights."
Lin Yun took the hard drive from his hand and bent over to connect it to his computer, "Have you already checked it?"
The tall man placed a hand behind his back, "Yes, we have."
Lin Yun still looked at the computer's host, "Didn't you find any problems?"
"No." The tall man took out a clump of purple-black flesh from his pocket.
"How do you even work? You can't even handle such a small matter."
Lin Yun seemed very angry as he bent down to open the computer and said, "Where is Minister Li? Hurry up and call him over."
"Ok, I'll call him right now." The man pressed the purple-black flesh to his chest.
"Alright, then I'll ask you one last question."
"Please go ahead," the man replied woodenly.
"Who let you in, Zhuang Yang or Tao Fang?"
Lin Yun raised his head, his expression calm as he looked at him:
"Or should I say, does this Abnormal Strategy Bureau still have a mole I'm unaware of?"
At these words, the tall man's pupils suddenly constricted.
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Almost at the same moment, he opened his mouth, gripping the purple-black flesh in his hand, attempting to say something. But before he could utter a syllable, strands of blue silk abruptly entwined around his wrist and yanked the hand holding the flesh to the side.
The man immediately raised his other hand which was already grasping a spell technique medium, and purple-black magic power flashed at his fingertips. But just the same, he was wrapped up in the blue silk before he had the chance to activate any spell techniques, completely immobilized.
Lin Yun, expressionless, manipulated the silk strands nearby, and in an instant, they hoisted the immobilized man high into the air. Then, without a word, he charged out the door.
In his perception, at the very moment the man was restrained, a surge of magic power had already started moving towards the emergency exit.
Seeing Lin Yun's action, the man dangling in mid-air knew all too well that his own and his accomplices' actions had been clearly seen. Without further ado, he shouted loudly, "Run!"
Unfortunately, it was too late for both him and the master of the magic power outside the door.
The moment Lin Yun stepped into the corridor, he took out the Heart of the Flowers from his pocket and activated it fiercely. A petite blue silhouette rose from the glow of magic power and swiftly chased down the figure at the end of the corridor. Then, as he had done before, he used blue silk threads to bind and control the figure.
The man who had been hiding outside the door had no clue why he was caught. He felt as though he was about to escape, yet was inexplicably bound and suspended in the air. He tried to find the person responsible for this but could only see Lin Yun standing not far away, with a few strands of blue glow still fading around him.
When he saw Lin Yun's face, he stopped saying anything and just numbly closed his eyes.
After reverting from his transformed state, Lin Yun examined the man's appearance and immediately recognized his identity—it was "Zhuang Yang," the very man Lin Yun had mentioned when questioning the tall man.
"Zhuang Yang" and "Tao Fang," these two were moles of Black Ash Dawn that Lin Yun had secretly marked but had not pulled out in the open.
The reason he left them be was that since the reconstruction of the Abnormal Strategy Bureau, they hadn't done anything that substantially harmed the Bureau. Moreover, their positions were not high, meaning they couldn't cause serious trouble. Considering the remnants of Black Ash Dawn were deeply hidden and difficult to trace through normal investigation, Lin Yun thought it best to leave them as leads, hoping to follow the trail back to the enemy.
However, he had not expected this mole named Zhuang Yan to be so bold as to secretly bring an assassin into the Bureau during working hours, especially a beast-transformed one.
Looking at the numb man before him, Lin Yun was about to ask questions but suddenly had an epiphany, recalling something else.
If Zhuang Yang was here, what was Tao Fang doing?
With that thought, he pulled out his phone without hesitation, called the Intelligence Department, and spoke urgently to a relatively trusted employee:
"Check where Tao Fang is right now and access the surveillance on her communication records from the last two days. I need to know with whom she has had private contact."
After making his request, he paced back and forth, holding his phone and quietly waiting for a response.
Commands coming directly from the Director naturally received high priority from the Intelligence Department. A few minutes later, the entire recent activity log of Tao Fang was scrutinized and reported to Lin Yun by the head of the Intelligence Department.
Lin Yun listened intently to the report, carefully memorizing every place mentioned, comparing and cross-referencing them in his mind. Until at one moment, a name said by the person on the other end of the call made his heart skip a beat.
It was at the sound of this name that his thoughts became completely clear, and he suddenly understood exactly what the situation was: