Chapter 694: Plan Review 3

Chapter 694: Plan Review 3

“Thanks for the compliment,” Gao Yang joked to ease the tension.

“It’s not a compliment!”

“I’ll get back to it,” Gao Yang said. “Once you earn the Guild’s trust, try to come into contact with Colorless and Goldthread. One of the two is likely Dust.”

“But how?”

“It won’t be difficult. I’ll give you two options.” Gao Yang extended two fingers.

“First, with my intervention tomorrow, the trade for Rune Circuits will fail. The Zodiacs and the Union are going to trade again. You should be able to get Yan Liang to take you with him by acting servile to him. That will be your chance to contact Colorless and Goldthread.”

“Second, you ask for the Support Rune Circuit. For the plan to work, you will have to act like a different person. You’ll reveal yourself to be a calculative, cunning, power-hungry person who is good at acting and difficult to pin down, with little things you won’t do.”

“After betraying the Nine Scions, you ask Qilin for a reward and hope to be an Elder, as well as access to the Support Rune Circuit to level up Strange to level 4. The Support Rune Circuit is owned by the Hundred Rivers Union. When borrowing it from them, you’ll have a chance to contact Colorless and Goldthread.”

“Let me think...” Ke Yo lowered her head and frowned, trying to imagine herself doing it.

After a minute, she looked up, still hesitant. “Go on.”

“After coming into contact with Colorless and Goldthread, try to give them each a slip of paper. Remember, they cannot know about each other.”

“On each slip will be a meeting time and a place, and the time and place of the two slips must be different.”

“For example, meet one at location A at one in the morning and the other at location B at three. You don’t have to give a name, only the symbol of the Cult.”

“Then you wait for the fish to bite the bait.” In the dim screening room, Gao Yang nodded slightly, his tone growing lower.

“The one who isn’t a spy won’t take the risk to meet you. They will be worried that you’re trying to set them up or instill distrust, or it can be a trap to assassinate them. By the way, the meeting time you give them must be so soon that they won’t have the chance to think or investigate. Then it’ll be very likely for the innocent member to not go to the meeting place.”

“Not Dust though. Dust will come to you.”

“For certain?”

“For certain.” Gao Yang was a hundred percent sure. “When Dust receives the slip of paper, they will assume that you know their identity. After all, you were once a member of Tails, which served the Cult. It makes sense for you to know Dust’s true identity.” R/ê/Ad lateSt ch/a/pters at nô(v)e(l)bin/.c/o//m Only

Ke Yo nodded.

“But you betrayed the Nine Scions and openly declared your allegiance to the Qilin Guild. Were that true, Dust would be in danger. Sooner or later you would expose Dust to the Qilin Guild for your reward.”

Ke Yo understood. “So Dust will come to me to confirm if I’m truly loyal to the Qilin Guild.”

“The greatest difficulty of the plan is acting, Ke Yo.”

Gao Yang said seriously, “I’ve prepared a detailed character profile for you that’s a few thousand words long. There are many lines you can use to establish your character. You must memorize the whole thing.”

“Huh? A few thousand words...” Ke Yo started to regret it. “How can I possibly memorize that now?”

“Don’t worry. I’ll give you the spiel now.”

Gao Yang seemed to have predicted her reaction. “Once you wake up, find a chance to swing by Miss Liu’s restaurant. Go to the restroom. There will be a bottle of Medicine M hidden in the toilet tank. Drink it, and you’ll have a photographic memory for the next three days, as well as remember every word I tell you right now. That’ll help you play your character well.”

“Got it.” Ke Yo turned to Gao Yang in disbelief. “You’ve thought the whole thing through.”

“I have to.” Gao Yang was nervous under his calm front. After all, a small mistake could lead to death.

...

Gao Yang briefly explained his plan in the car.

Can gasped many times during his explanation. Her jaw fell. “Captain, you, you, you...”

She stuttered until she finally found the words to describe him. “That’s crazy! Devious! You even fooled us!”

“I had no choice. The fewer people that knew, the greater the chance of success.” Gao Yang had now recovered his upper body.

Nainai had gotten off Qing Ling’s lap and was now squatting between the front seat and the back seat. Qing Ling had to make room by lifting her legs and resting them on Nainai’s back.

Nainai had never felt such humiliation—and it was humiliating, definitely, for real—but she didn’t dare to voice her grievances.

She had crouched down to massage Gao Yang’s legs, restoring his body further.

“Still, I underestimated Qilin and Yan Liang and almost got everyone killed.” Thinking back to what happened on Huangsong Street, Gao Yang couldn’t help but feel guilty.

He had not only asked Waking Insects to be their insurance, but also have Wang Zikai, Qing Ling, Hong Xiaoxiao, and Lithe Snake on standby in case something happened. However, that ended up biting him in the rear. Qilin and Yan Liang had almost killed all five of them with their collaboration.

Although Lithe Snake and Qing Ling were brought back in the end, Gao Yang’s guilt and pain were real that day. He blamed himself for the decision.

If they died, they would never know that they got killed because of the person they trusted the most. Gao Yang could’ve gone for easy mode but chose the insane hard mode instead.

He almost lost two companions just to root out a spy.

At that point, though, there really was no turning back.