Chapter 3265

A normal person, even if wearing a long-sleeved shirt, could not possibly keep their left hand hidden in the sleeve at all times, but Ye Chen, upon seeing multiple photos of Wu Shutong taken by the AI, noticed that Wu Shutong's left hand never emerged from his sleeve from beginning to end, which was somewhat puzzling.

Song Ruyu also came over to take a look, puzzled, and said: "Strange, the Grand Commander never used to do this before; it feels like his hand has some problem and he doesn't want people to see it."

Li Yalin, standing nearby, frowned and said: "Could it be that he lost his left hand? I observed his normal walking posture, and he didn't deliberately hunch his left shoulder and arm; his right hand was normally exposed symmetrically, but his left hand was completely hidden, which is certainly not normal."

Song Ruyu murmured: "That shouldn't be the case; just a few days ago I still saw the Grand Commander, right before he set off for Nigeria, and at that time there was no sign of any abnormality. Moreover, he had three great elders guarding him in Nigeria, so it's impossible he encountered any danger that would have caused him to lose his left hand."

Li Yalin said: "However, based on my experience, from the video we can infer that his left hand is indeed missing."

Ye Chen said calmly: "Perhaps his left hand wasn't lost due to encountering danger; maybe it's because we took down Duke Mining, Wu Feiyan flew into a rage and needed to find someone to take responsibility. As the Right Army Commander's Governor, he is the primary responsible party. Given Wu Feiyan's modus operandi, cutting off his left hand is already lenient toward him."

Song Ruyu exclaimed: "This…… this can't be blamed on the Grand Commander? Setting traps in Nigeria was the Yingzhu's idea, and the Grand Commander was ordered to go to Nigeria. If Duke Mining ran into trouble, how can it be blamed on the Grand Commander's head……"

Li Yalin smiled and said: "In any organization, as long as there is a major problem in business, someone must be held responsible. You can't possibly let the organization's leader take the blame, can you?"

Song Ruyu couldn't help but feel a chill down her back. She herself had been stationed at the Right Army Commander's Governor's Office for two years and had a relatively good understanding of the antecedents and consequences. In her view, the fault certainly did not lie with Wu Shutong, but if Wu Shutong truly lost his left hand over this matter, in her opinion it was truly unreasonable.

At this moment, Ye Chen spoke up: "A Grand Commander of the Right Army Commander's Governor's Office suddenly having his left hand cut off—surely he must feel resentful inside, and in the future he might take the opportunity to do something."

Li Yalin recalled something and hurriedly said: "Mr. Ye, since Wu Shutong is coming to Morocco, can we find an opportunity to bring him under control?"

Ye Chen pondered for a moment and said: "Whether we can act against him depends on whether those three elders in Nigeria have left. If they haven't left, then Wu Shutong is essentially bait. Regardless of whether they have that intention, right now over ten thousand people are waiting for our safe withdrawal, so for now it's best not to come into contact with him."

As he spoke, Ye Chen added: "There's no rush to make contact with Wu Shutong. Before long, all international airports worldwide will be covered by our vending machines—perhaps not the same brand or the same operating company, but ultimately all their surveillance data will be uploaded in real time to our AI system. By then, whenever Wu Shutong goes abroad, he will inevitably be exposed to our view immediately, and if we want to make contact with him, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future."

……

Morning of that day in Moroccan time.

Hundreds of the Elite Cavalry Guard had already flown to Casablanca.

Arriving before and after them were also over three hundred Tiger-Brave Soldiers from the Right Army Commander's Governor's Office.

The Tiger-Brave Soldiers are the true confidants and direct lineage of each Governor's Office; to enter the Tiger-Brave Soldiers, one's cultivation must at least be the peak of the Bright Realm, and many have already smoothly entered the Dark Realm.

The master of the Wanpo Army once voluntarily joined the Tiger-Brave Soldiers in order to break through his cultivation.

Wu Shutong arrived slightly later than these people. Upon arrival, he immediately went together with Yuan Chengze from the airport straight to the headquarters of Moor Trade.

For unified deployment, Wu Shutong had long required everyone to gather at the headquarters of Moor Trade after landing.

Moor Trade has been assisting Duke Mining with the import and export of materials for years, and at the same time serves as the link between Duke Mining and the Right Army Commander's Governor's Office. For convenience, they have their own four-story office building in Casablanca, as well as a warehouse for storing import and export goods.

The office building and warehouse are located together, forming an independent compound. Although the office building is not large in area, the warehouse covers tens of thousands of square meters. To avoid suspicion from the outside world, they also engage in normal import and export trade.

Nearly a thousand people arrived at Moor Trade in broad daylight, which is indeed somewhat ostentatious, but Wu Shutong didn't care and didn't remind them to pay attention to disguise, because in his view, since it's already an open secret, there's no need to hide anymore—after all, this place will soon lose its value.

Currently, Duke Mining no longer exists. Logically, everyone here should be gathered up and killed outright, completely cutting off all clues related to this line in Morocco.

But this time is different from the Cyprus incident. In Cyprus, the enemy directly vanished without a trace, likely having already escaped by sea, so the Breaking Clean Society also didn't pursue Ye Chen's clues and whereabouts. But this time, Wu Feiyan can no longer tolerate it and swears to find Ye Chen's traces in Morocco, so Moor Trade still retains some value for now.

Although it still has some utility, in Wu Shutong's view, the mission here has only one last task left. Regardless of whether clues can be found, after this matter is over, Moor Trade has no necessity or possibility to continue existing, so for now he also can't be bothered to keep up appearances.

At this very moment, the envoy of Moor Trade, Dong Mingchao, felt uneasy in his heart. Over the course of the morning, seven or eight hundred people had arrived one after another. After arriving, they all went to the warehouse to line up and wait, creating a magnificent sight.

His deputy nervously asked him in a low voice: "My lord, these people are openly coming here in broad daylight like this—isn't that too careless? If someone with ill intentions sees us, won't we also be exposed?"

"Exposed?" Dong Mingchao gave a bitter smile: "The buildings have all collapsed, so what's the point of erecting a bare, doorless gate in front of the ruins? Put another way, if the buildings are gone, what use is a bare, doorless gate?"

The deputy instantly understood his meaning and hurriedly asked: "Then how will they arrange things for us above?"

Dong Mingchao shook his head and said: "I can't say for sure. Right now we need to cooperate with them to find clues about those people. After this matter is over, we might be transferred out, or we might be executed, but we absolutely cannot continue staying here."

"Executed?!" The deputy panicked and blurted out: "We haven't done anything wrong—surely they wouldn't execute us, would they?"

Dong Mingchao said with worry: "Who can say for sure? The organization has always acted ruthlessly, and besides, the secrecy protection between various garrisons is very strong. Even if other garrisons were destroyed by people, we would hardly know about it. But if we were assigned to other garrisons, that would amount to exposing the secret of Duke Mining's destruction to other garrisons. Would the organization be willing to bear such a risk?"

The deputy hurriedly said: "But they're currently carrying out a massive blood exchange—don't they fear that the exchanged Elite Cavalry Guard would simultaneously exchange the secrets of each garrison?"

Dong Mingchao asked: "What secrets are being exchanged? Where are each garrison's locations? Is it meaningful? Even if exchanged, they couldn't leave that place. Even if they knew the positions of ten garrisons outside, what use would that be? Their personal freedom is strictly controlled, and they have no contact with the outside world at all—are we still afraid they'd leak secrets?"

As he spoke, Dong Mingchao added: "Besides, these people's families are all in other garrisons. Even if they had the chance to leak the organization's secrets, they would absolutely not dare to do so."

Continuing, Dong Mingchao paused slightly and said with regret: "We are different, though. We know everything that happened to Duke Mining. This kind of news is absolutely not allowed to spread within the organization—it would greatly affect morale and the organization's authority. If I were the Yingzhu, I wouldn't let a group of people carry their own scandal to other places……"

The deputy's face turned deathly pale from fright, and he exclaimed: "My lord, what should we do now?! We can't just sit here and wait for death, can we?"

Dong Mingchao countered: "Besides sitting and waiting for death, what other good ideas do you have?"

The deputy was suddenly speechless. He also knew that under these circumstances, these people simply have no strength to resist.

Dong Mingchao sighed: "No matter how you look at it, those people from Duke Mining are still the luckiest—they were rescued together with their families before the great blood exchange. As long as they survive this wave of searches, they can rest easy!"

The deputy couldn't help but say: "Why don't we have such good luck……"

Just as he finished speaking, a subordinate ran over quickly and, speaking nervously through the door crack, said: "Envoy! The Grand Commander has arrived!"