Chapter 555

This senior spy, even they didn't know who it was.

That senior spy always hid each message in a specific location for the Shoushen Sect's Starlight-tier Beast Tamer to retrieve.

So far, that senior spy has already transmitted multiple classified military reports to the Shoushen Sect through this outpost!

A few days ago, while delivering intelligence, that senior spy also informed them of Su Yang's arrival in Yilan City, urging them to proceed with caution.

But after the two Starlight-tier Beast Tamers carried the message out, they did not order their subordinate spies to evacuate.

There was no choice!

The Shoushen Sect knew a major war was imminent.

They could not abandon their intelligence network—built painstakingly over decades—just because of Su Yang alone!

Once full-scale war broke out, intelligence would become critically important.

Even if Su Yang arrived, they had to hold their ground!

For the sake of the Beast God!

Unfortunately, they couldn't hold it.

Some of their spies, upon hearing Su Yang had arrived, became terrified…

In truth, whether they were afraid or not, the outcome would be the same.

When that senior spy of the Shoushen Sect informed them of Su Yang's arrival in Yilan City, he also wrote down the next location and approximate time for retrieving the intelligence.

Su Yang guessed that the senior spy embedded within the High-ranking military officials of the Western Army had already been alerted!

For the foreseeable future, he would most likely not appear again.

But just because he wouldn't show himself didn't mean Su Yang couldn't find him.

Wherever one walks, traces remain.

After Su Yang arrived in Yilan City, that spy still sent a message to the Shoushen Sect.

It had been less than ten days.

Ten days was enough!

"Captain Zhou, take me to the place where the senior spy delivered his message a few days ago!"

Su Yang wasn't familiar with Yilan City.

"Alright!"

Captain Zhou took Su Yang and Liu Mengyun into a military vehicle; after more than half an hour, they arrived at a small river.

The river's water level was shallow and murky, emitting a faint stench.

Beside the river, the guardrail was old and broken; a rusted trash bin stood silently beside a flowerbed overgrown with weeds.

Inside the weed-choked flowerbed lay an unremarkable, rotting stone slab—no one knew who had thrown it there.

Su Yang walked to the stone slab; beneath it was yellowish-brown soil, and a common earthworm quickly burrowed into its hole.

A few days ago, that senior spy's intelligence had been placed beneath this stone slab.

It was a primitive method of intelligence delivery—but highly effective.

In Yilan City, telephones were rare and easily monitored by the military.

Telegrams were out of the question—any moderately skilled Beast Tamer was highly sensitive to the electromagnetic waves they emitted!

Zhou Wanshan said: "There are no surveillance cameras nearby."

"Mm."

Su Yang subtly inhaled.

Many scents drifted into his nose.

Very few people ever came to this place.

Within the past ten days, only two human scents had passed through this location.

One scent was definitely that of the Shoushen Sect's Starlight-tier Beast Tamer; as for the other…

Cotton gloves?

Sackcloth?

The human scent was barely detectable!

Odor-eliminating potion?

Su Yang rubbed his nose—he knew the Shoushen Sect had also noticed the Earth Bear's olfactory talent.

But they had underestimated the Earth Bear's nose.

The Earth Bear's sense of smell was mythic.

When his olfactory talent was still legendary, odor-eliminating potions could indeed affect his judgment.

If enough time had passed, Su Yang might have smelled nothing at all.

But after experiencing mythic olfactory talent, Su Yang could only say: the so-called odor-eliminating potion was a joke.

How could any true odor-eliminating potion exist in this world?

Even the odor-eliminating potion itself had a scent—just an extremely faint one.

Applied to the human body or sprayed on clothing, odor-eliminating potions could remove the vast majority of scents.

But only the vast majority!

Humans breathe—and breathing produces scent.

Walking to this location, any step touching the ground left behind unique traces of scent.

No matter how carefully the opponent tried to erase every trace, that caution, to Su Yang, was nothing but a joke!

The Shoushen Sect's senior spy had no idea how terrifying the Earth Bear's sense of smell truly was!

"Follow me!"

"Yes!"

The opponent had tied sacks to his feet, and the sacks had been sprayed with odor-eliminating solvent.

But when the sacks touched the ground, they still carried a special odor; no matter how far he walked, the odor-eliminating solvent couldn't eliminate odor indefinitely—it had a limit.

The opponent was very careful, walking for about half an hour, until Su Yang found a pile of ash inside a trash bin.

Su Yang praised: "Good job, very sharp!"

Liu Mengyun and the others all knew Su Yang had found an important clue.

Su Yang walked two steps around the trash bin and discovered that during the time the sacks and gloves had burned, there was no other odor nearby—not even the scent of the odor-eliminating solvent.

The only possible conclusion: the opponent had flown away.

Flown away? That's a problem!

Odor can also be scattered by the wind.

"Major Su, any leads?" Zhou Wanshan asked anxiously.

After all, this Shoushen Sect spy might be hiding among the High-ranking military command.

If he isn't caught, the Junbuyi Gang's high-ranking officials will likely lose sleep and suspect each other…

War is about to begin—if the high command doesn't trust one another, it'll be disastrous!