Chapter 1121

"Then we'll go search right now!"

"Let's go together!"

Su Yang took Liu Yun and the others and found Liu Yun's secret chamber. The chamber was extremely well hidden, fitted with mechanisms and a self-destruct combination lock, but Su Yang easily cracked all of it using the intelligence he had obtained from Lin Tianhong through the Seven-Colored Illusion Butterfly!

Inside Lin Tianhong's secret chamber were many precious fierce beast eggs and fierce beast crystal cores, a Tianxing Society branch helmsman token, other miscellaneous items, and several letters that had not yet been dealt with.

Su Yang sniffed, catching a familiar scent in the air.

He quickly noticed a brazier in the corner of the secret chamber.

The brazier was full of black ash—it must have been used for burning important documents.

Su Yang bent down and, at the edge of the brazier, picked up a thumb-sized corner of letter paper that had not been burned to ash.

It was likely that when Lin Tianhong was burning the paper, his hand had been gripping that corner of the letter!

After burning the letter's contents to ash, he casually tossed that corner aside…

That corner had no writing on it at all.

The paper itself was an extremely ordinary letter paper, leaving behind no clues whatsoever.

Except for the scent!

Seeing Su Yang holding that corner of letter paper in thought, Liu Yun asked, "General Su, is this some important item?"

"Not really!" Su Yang shook his head. "I just smelled the scent of an old friend on it!"

Liu Yun immediately grew wary: "Who? Someone from our Southeast Military Department?"

"Not someone from the Southeast Military Department—someone who used to be from the Southwest Military Department, though nominally she's already dead!" Su Yang said with a smile. "I've always wondered which side she was on; now it's roughly clear."

"General Su, the person you killed is indeed very likely Tianxing Society branch helmsman Lin Tianhong!" Liu Yun said in a low voice. "We found the Tianxing Society branch helmsman's token, two secret letters that hadn't been dealt with in time, and the dossier materials of important figures from our Southeast Military Department—and yours is among them too!"

"That's good then!" Su Yang said. "I had the Seven-Colored Illusion Butterfly leave two survivors alive—you can take them back for interrogation!"

"Oh, General Su, that secret letter also concerns General, my lord!"

"What does it say?"

Liu Yun nodded solemnly: "It says to subvert Sovereign Jiazi!"

"Not a big problem!" Su Yang said with a smile. "I've already made arrangements on Sovereign Jiazi's side long ago. Get some painters and veteran soldiers from the army to come over. Tianxing Society has spies within our Southeast Military Department as well. I need the painters to sketch out those important spies, and the veteran soldiers can enter the Illusory Realm directly to identify the military personnel among them. Then you can sweep out this trash!"

"I'll go inform the Deputy City Lord right away and get it done immediately!"

Liu Yun said hurriedly.

Su Yang followed Liu Yun to the Zhanghai City Military Department and met the Zhanghai City Deputy City Lord.

The Deputy City Lord was also surprised to see Su Yang appear in Zhanghai City.

Su Yang briefly told him about the front-line matters, then shifted the topic to the Tianxing Society affair!

Once this matter was brought up, the Zhanghai City Deputy City Lord could only, like Liu Yun, suppress his curiosity and help Su Yang find the people he needed.

What could he do, when Su Yang's military rank was higher than this Deputy City Lord's?

The Southeast Military Department had not been deeply infiltrated by the Tianxing Society. Two hours later, over a hundred beast tamers had their likenesses sketched by the painters, and more than twenty others were recognized by a group of veteran soldiers.

The hundred-plus were estimated to be ordinary beast-tamer soldiers.

Most of the twenty-plus were low-ranking officers.

There were three field-grade officers, among them a lieutenant colonel!

The Southeast Military Department's review of officer appointments was extremely strict.

This lieutenant colonel had not been planted into the military department by the Tianxing Society—he had been subverted!

When they saw this lieutenant colonel's name, both the Zhanghai City Deputy City Lord and Liu Yun confirmed it with Su Yang twice.

The Zhanghai City Deputy City Lord said, "I never expected Cao Yuande to have been subverted!"

"Indeed, I always thought Cao Yuande looked quite reliable!"

"Is he important?" Su Yang asked, puzzled.

He had not heard much of Cao Yuande's name and had no strong impression of him.

The intelligence on Cao Yuande was in the Seven-Colored Illusion Butterfly's mind, not Su Yang's.

"He's quite critical!" Liu Yun said helplessly. "He's capable, cautious in his actions, and has served in the military for over forty years. Recently someone proposed to General Qian to transfer Cao Yuande into the City Guard troops, in charge of security and defense for the Chengxi District of Zhanghai City!"

If it went through, Cao Yuande would effectively have entered the core management of Zhanghai City's City Guard.