Chapter 2477  Spying On Hidden Operations

Lin Mu listened to their conversations until they stopped and returned to their tasks at hand. He first observed the hall they were in and noticed its peculiarities, mainly the lack of formations and use of candles for lighting.

"So this is how they"ve reduced their traces as much as possible… They"re using candles to prevent any fine fluctuations from leaving and are also containing their Qi. But this also means they cannot detect me as well." Lin Mu grasped.

This worked in his favor, as it meant that he had a better chance at scanning everything in the room. Thus, he became bolder and decided to peek in directly with his eyes.

Of course, for this he moved to the roof first and then peeked down, with only his eyes coming out of the roof. No one was focusing on the roof and never expected that a pair of eyes would grow out of the ceiling and spy on them in the first place. While they did set up some protections against intruders, they were only set up in the workshop above.

It wouldn"t seem out of the norm, as pretty much every shop and similar establishments would have formations like them. And if anyone broke in, the alarms would be more than enough to alert them down here too.

Thus, they had only set up the protections above, but nothing down here, leaving them rather barren. The same "camouflage" they were hiding behind now was working in Lin Mu"s favor.

He looked at everyone"s faces that he could see from the angle.

"Since they"re not hiding their faces, it seems like they"re comfortable here and don"t hide their ident.i.ties from each other." This told Lin Mu that their organization"s methods were not as good as other similar ones. "Though it could also be that they"re higher up on the hierarchy and thus are fine showing their faces." He thought that was possible too.

From what he had learned from their conversations earlier, the man named Great Dagger was the highest ranked here, with all others being ranked from first dagger to Tenth Dagger. "Their t.i.tles seem to indicate their roles… The Cloaks are those that gather information and spy while the Daggers are those that act and a.s.sa.s.sinate." Lin Mu understood. "But why did he send someone of a lower rank like that girl instead of these people here?" he wondered.

But seeing them hard at work, he reckoned it might be that what was stopping them from going out.

"Let"s see what they"re working on so intently." Lin Mu extended fine tendrils of his immortal sense and began reading the scrolls and books that were kept on the shelves and in cupboards.

With his speed of reading, he quickly transferred all that he had read to a jade slip for proper a.n.a.lysis later. Then he moved onto the actual doc.u.ments that were writing on or reading.

Lin Mu focused on the Great Dagger first, as he was likely to have the most important doc.u.ments.

The man was currently reading a scroll which contained a report about a burglary that they had done in a city called as the Three Flint City. It had been done by them and was commissioned by a merchant named Jin Ur.

Lin Mu recognized the city and remembered it to be far to the north, beyond the Northern Ridges.

"It seems like their influence extends to more than just the Capital City." Lin Mu thought.

~TAP~

After finishing reading the report, the Great Dagger stamped it with a small seal and rolled it up before another person took it away to be stored.

He then opened up another scroll from the stack next to him and began reading it. He repeated this process until all the scrolls were done, giving Lin Mu a decent amount of information.

Lin Mu also checked up on the other people"s work, but they were mostly writing down reports instead. They were about the events happening within the Capital city and were quite detailed. In fact, Lin Mu even read about his own appointment as well as his containment work at the former outpost of the Black Ying Empire.

It stated that he was an expert of unknown strength and that he needed to be considered highly dangerous. Even his cultivation was said to be unknown right now but they estimated himself to be at the Seventh Tribulation Stage of the Immortal Realm at the very least. "They don"t know about my Spatial Skills yet." Lin Mu read that they had mistaken his Spatial Skills for some form of Sealing Technique instead. "I guess they"re not totally wrong, but this works in our favor." He continued to read and found one report about none other than Little Shrubby.

It described him as a mysterious beast that had been raised secretly by the Imperial Family and that he was a secret weapon that they were forced to release because of the arrival of the Black Ying Empire.

"Where did they even get this information from?" Lin Mu was confused, as it was not accurate at all.

Though it did let him know that their information network wasn"t a hundred percent accurate.

~humm~

But before he could continue to spy anymore, he received a message.

"Looks like I"ll have to stop my observations now." Lin Mu was informed that his plan had worked and that the Servant Girl was successfully tricked. And sure enough, the effect of it was scene among the people below too.

"She"s done it!" One of the woman suddenly spoke. "Little Cloak was successful in killing off the Treasury Minister!" The Great Dagger looked up in surprise. "Tell me more."

"She"s already escaped the hall and is probably heading to the hideout." She stated.

"Good… Time for us to finish our side of work too then. Wrap it all up and head out." The Great Dagger ordered.

"Yes!" everyone replied.

~THUD~THUD~THUD~THUD~

But as soon as they did, they all fell to the ground as if a great weight was put upon them.

"You"re not going anywhere."