Let them offer their loyalty

Ye Hua began to think that such authority not only meant advanced technical capabilities, but also showed that the organization was deeply rooted in the internal structure of Dragon City.

If it was a violent hack from outside, Longcheng should have known about it long ago. It couldn't have been so silent.

During this process of thinking, Ye Hua felt shocked and confused. Why would an organization with such great power hide in the dark?

No matter how hard you try to hide it, there will always be news.

No, if it has already infiltrated various places, then it is indeed possible to hide.

In the intricate power structure of Longcheng, this unknown mysterious organization is like an invisible net, quietly covering every corner of Longcheng. Over the years, its existence has been like an invisible undercurrent, controlling the fate of Longcheng while leaving most people unaware.

Can you imagine that the person selling sweet tofu pudding on the street is an undercover agent of an organization? Can you believe that the person you were chatting with yesterday actually has the mission of collecting intelligence?

The fact that an organization capable of hacking into a database can hide for a long time in a place like Longcheng without being discovered undoubtedly shows that this organization not only possesses superb strategies and techniques, but also has the ability to penetrate into the core of Longcheng. The people at the top support the people below, and the people below in turn support the people at the top.

In the communication, the anonymous person's voice carried a deep weight: "Yes, I discovered the existence of this organization after an in-depth investigation. For many years, they have been hiding in the shadows, manipulating the decision-making and development of Dragon City. However, it was not until I began to notice some unusual things happening that I realized their existence."

Ye Hua held the phone nervously, her heart filled with shock and awe: "How did you find them?"

The anonymous person answered slowly, "Initially, there were some subtle anomalies - inconsistencies in the data, vague patterns behind certain decisions, and almost imperceptible changes in the database. I began to investigate privately and gradually pieced together the existence of this organization. It is impossible to see Dragon City clearly from inside Dragon City. Only by thinking outside the way you have always used can you possibly detect it."

Ye Hua was silent for a moment, various information and possibilities spinning rapidly in her mind. This intelligence not only made her feel deeply uneasy, but also turned her world upside down: "..... We must do something, this organization can no longer continue to control Dragon City in secret, at least..."

At least it can't go on like this.

"We need to talk." Ye Hua's voice was tense, but still full of determination: "Let's talk face to face. You know, these things can't be explained clearly over the phone."

No matter how strong her mental state is, it is impossible for her to just pretend these things never happened.

There was silence for a while on the other end of the line, and then he said, "Ye Hua, I know you may be confused and uneasy right now. Tell me, what do you need?"

"I need to know what we should do next." Ye Hua's tone revealed urgency: "I am very shocked by the existence of this organization. I don't know where to start or what action we should take next."

"First of all, you must remain calm. The power and influence of this organization may be beyond our imagination. I will do my best to provide you with information and help. If you have any questions, please speak up now, because I don't know if I can communicate so smoothly next time."

"Okay, okay, I understand..."

Ye Hua took a deep breath, and many questions flashed through his mind, but in the end he stopped at one question.

"What I want to ask is whether my partner, Yue Chen, who came to District 25 with me, is an undercover agent."

Chapter 615: Dragon City Detective solves the case directly!

Although he guessed that Yue Yun's identity was not simple and had conducted various investigations, Yue Yun acted too innocent, as if she knew nothing. However, every action she took did not seem to show her loyalty to Longcheng and the Swordsman.

Whether it was leading a gang that was several times larger than the small gang to attack those weaker gangs, but was defeated instead, or Ji Yeling asked her to go back to Longcheng, but she refused to go back, both were too suspicious.

But she still needed someone to give her an answer, or to confirm her guess, so that she could feel at ease.

Ye Hua's fingers tapped lightly on the table. On the communication screen, the voice of the anonymous person continued to come. Every word was like a blockbuster bomb, bombarding Ye Hua's heart.

"It's very likely, and nine out of ten high-ranking officials in Dragon City wouldn't believe it." The anonymous person's words echoed in Ye Hua's ears, like an invisible warning that made her heart beat faster.

Ye Hua took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down.

"I understand." Ye Hua tried to keep her voice calm, but her heart was in turmoil. "You mean, someone in the upper echelons of Dragon City is a member of this mysterious organization, or at least, a pawn of theirs?"

"That's right." The anonymous person's voice revealed a hint of helplessness. "The roots of this organization are far deeper than we imagined. They not only control the flow of information, but also influence decision-making. They are already manipulating the future of Dragon City."

A cold feeling rose in Ye Hua's heart. She once thought that she was a senior swordsman in Dragon City. Even if she didn't know all the secrets of this city, she should at least know some of the hidden secrets.

"Ye Hua, you must understand that Dragon City is not as simple as it seems on the surface." The anonymous person began his explanation: "The upper echelons of this city are a complex network of various forces and factions. The power struggles between them have long exceeded the imagination of ordinary people."

Ye Hua's brows were furrowed, her heartbeat quickened, but she remained calm and listened attentively.

"This organization has its roots deeply embedded in this network of contacts," the anonymous source continued. "Not only do they control information, they can also influence decision-making. Their members, or their influence, have penetrated every corner of Dragon City."

"Nine out of ten people won't believe what you said, what does that mean?" Ye Hua asked.

The anonymous person was silent for a moment, as if searching for the right words.

"Among the senior officials in Dragon City, most have been influenced by this organization." He said slowly, "They may be direct members of the organization, or they may be used pawns. Do you think that there are only one or two senior officials who provide protection, and the people below provide protection for others?"

Ye Hua was silent. She really thought so and thought that even if this was the case, the situation would not be too bad.

"In fact, the top leaders of Dragon City have been infiltrated almost completely. Don't trust nine out of ten people. They are all related to that organization. Your boss, your boss's friends, or even higher-ups, could all be their pawns. Do you understand?"

Ye Hua felt a chill, and she began to truly realize how terrible it was that her home, the place where she had grown up, had been infiltrated.

"Then what should I do now?" She subconsciously asked for help, completely unaware that she was now dependent on this anonymous person.

"You don't need to do anything now. Just do what you should do and pretend that nothing has happened. Then wait for our next contact. Good luck, Sword Bearer."

"Drip drip drip."

Communication hang up.

Jonas took a long breath, picked up the coffee that had long gone cold, and took a sip.

Various documents were scattered on his desk, but his attention did not seem to be on these matters. The aroma of coffee slowly permeated the air, mixed with the smell of books and leather in the office, creating a unique atmosphere.

"No suspicious points were revealed during the communication process, and Ye Hua completely believed it. In this case, we can just leave the rest to time."

He looked at Iris and found that she was frowning slightly, as if thinking about something.

Iris wouldn't say that lying is bad, would she?

Elise sat on the sofa in the office, her posture seemed a little nervous, her hands clasped together. There was a subtle worry in her eyes, as if she was worried about the plan to be implemented. She took a deep breath, mustered up her courage, and quietly asked Jonas who was sitting behind the desk.

"Mr. Jonas, can you really fool people like this?" Iris asked, with a slight tremor and uncertainty in her voice.

She saw Mr. Jonas said something and then hung up. The process was so simple that Iris couldn't help but doubt. Could this really fool people?

Normally, it shouldn't be very difficult, right?

It turns out that I was just worried about whether my words could deceive people...

Jonas turned his head slowly, a cunning gleam in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly, forming an almost invisible smile.

"Iris, from your perspective, I only said a few words and the other party took the bait." Jonas' voice was low, and he continued slowly: "Although Ye Hua is smart, it is precisely because of her intelligence that we can succeed. It is precisely because of her intelligence that she will try to take advantage of every seemingly favorable opportunity. What we did was just to provide him with a perfect bait."

He stood up and walked to the window. He leaned against the cold glass and looked at the city skyline in the distance. "All we have to do is make the trap look real and tempting enough so that Ye Hua will walk in on her own." Jonas turned around and looked at Iris firmly. "Besides, we have already laid a net. Even if she has any doubts, it will be difficult for her to escape."

"Iris, the reason you have such doubts is because you have a God's perspective. You know what's going on here, and you already know that this is a trap."

Jonas said calmly, "You saw the whole plan and knew every step of it, but Ye Hua is different. She can only make judgments based on her own perspective and the information at hand."

Jonas walked to a wall in the office and gently touched a painting hanging on the wall. "When we are in the middle of a situation, it is difficult to have a global perspective. Ye Hua will make decisions based on his experience, intuition, and current intelligence. He cannot know everything we know."

"Our job is to make sure that every piece of information that she's exposed to is carefully crafted by us to guide her in the direction that we want her to go, and that we create a real organization in her vision that gives her confidence that she's making the right decisions."

"Elise, you must understand that the reason why our plan is so ingenious is that every step was decided by Ye Hua herself. We did not force her to do anything. We just provided her with the information she needed at the right time and place, and did a little, um, guidance."

Jonas paused to make sure that Elise was fully focused on what he was saying, and he continued, "Remember the chip? We made sure it was where Ye Hua could find it, but in the end it was her decision to insert it into the database. All we did was give it a gentle push to get things moving in the direction we wanted."

He walked to a corner of the room, picked up a piece of paper and a pen, and began to draw a simplified diagram of the plan. As the pen tip moved on the paper, he explained every step, every decision point, and how Ye Hua made the choice she thought was most appropriate at each node.

"Look," Jonas pointed to the nodes on the blueprint, "Here, Ye Hua discovered the chip, and here, she decided to connect it to the system. Each step is based on her understanding of the situation and her goals. We just make sure that her understanding and goals are consistent with our plan."

He put down his pen and looked up at Iris, with a sly gleam in his eyes: "Yehua is a confident person. She believes in her own judgment. When she saw that the data in the chip was consistent with her expectations, how could she doubt it? In her opinion, everything is her own credit and her own discovery."

No one would suddenly suspect that the chip had been tampered with, causing it to start changing all kinds of data as soon as it enters the database.

Do you suspect that the information given by your browser has just been rewritten by someone through your computer?

Moreover, Ye Hua subconsciously believed that a place like a database should have a very strict firewall, and it would be impossible for an ordinary hacker to complete the modification so quickly.

But the problem is that they have Iris on their side!

"Elise, the reason our plan worked so well was because we never directly told Ye Hua what to do."

Jonas said slowly, his voice full of persuasion: "All we did was to provide some clues at the critical moment, allowing Ye Hua to discover and investigate on his own."

He walked to the window, rested his hands against the cool glass, and looked out at the skyline in the distance, as if recalling every detail of their careful design.

"Imagine this," Jonas turned around and faced Iris, his eyes revealing a deep light, "If we give Ye Hua all the answers directly, she will immediately doubt whether it is fake, and then go to various investigations, but if she discovered it herself and pieced it together by herself, then she will believe it is true and will not doubt it anymore."

He walked over to the table, picked up a piece of paper, and began lightly marking the key points of his plan.

“We just left some clues at the right time,” Jonas explained as he drew. “For example, we left some data in the database that she could access, or placed some documents in places she would go. These are clues that she can naturally discover, and then she won’t go back to doubt it.”

He stopped writing and looked directly into Iris' eyes.

"Ye Hua is a smart person, but because she is smart and confident, she will not doubt that the clues she found were deliberately placed there by others. What we did was just to give her a puzzle and let her solve it herself. She will be proud of her discovery and will not doubt whether there is someone guiding her behind the scenes."

"For me, I just used a specific bait and put the rod in the water, and it was that simple."

.......................

Ye Hua sat alone in the dim room, with only a faint light coming from the table lamp in the corner, casting a shadow of light and dark on her face. Her eyes were empty, as if she was staring into some distant void, or was deeply lost in her own thoughts.

The air around them was almost frozen, and the silence in the room seemed to slow down the pace of time. The clock on the wall ticked, and every tick seemed to emphasize the silence in the room. Ye Hua's fingers unconsciously stroked the table, which was her habitual action when she was thinking deeply, but her eyes did not focus because of it.

She had just experienced a series of discoveries, and each clue was like a carefully designed maze, leading her to one mystery after another. Now, when all the clues seemed to point to an unexpected conclusion, she felt an unprecedented confusion and uncertainty.

Ye Hua's mind was filled with fragments of information, which kept colliding and reorganizing in her thinking, trying to piece together a complete picture, but every time she felt that she was close to the truth, new questions would arise, making her fall into deeper confusion.

"Is Dragon City really doomed? Is it true that no one has noticed the existence of this organization?"

Ye Hua's body suddenly trembled, and a torrent of emotions seemed to surge in her body, uncontrollable. She clenched her hands into fists, her nails almost piercing into her palms, but the pain could not calm the waves in her heart. Her breathing became rapid, and every breath she inhaled seemed to add fuel to her anger.

"How could I do nothing? Just wait for the next opportunity to come?" Her voice echoed in the dim room with a hint of roar. She stood up and staggered.

Ye Hua couldn't accept that she was kept in the dark. Now facing such a situation, she felt unprecedented frustration and anger.

"I have to investigate. I can't just sit there and wait for death." Ye Hua murmured to herself. Her voice was low and it was difficult to tell whether she was still calm.

Ye Hua took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down.

"Just because the people in Longcheng don't know and can't find out, doesn't mean I don't know and I can't find out. Longcheng has been shrouded in the shadow of the Black Hand. I may be able to find some clues to the details that others can't notice. Anyway, we can't go on like this."

She was full of determination.

Chapter 616: Big Sister, you are indeed a traitor!

Although Ye Hua was far away from Longcheng and unable to investigate personally, her mind was tense and always focused on Longcheng. She knew that if she wanted to uncover the truth, there must be a pair of eyes in Longcheng to help her find clues.

In her family, she has her own loyal warriors, and she will never doubt their loyalty.

Although these assassins are rare, they are loyal to themselves rather than to their families.

But even so, Ye Hua couldn't help but imagine that if these assassins were people who had grown up and were sent by their families, and they were waiting for certain people to know about this organization and then clean up those who had known about that mysterious organization, it would be too scary.

To be safe, it is better not to tell everyone what you want to investigate first.

Although I didn't know where those people might be active, I just knew that such an organization really existed.

She opened a file, and a map of Dragon City and marks of some key locations appeared on the screen. Ye Hua tapped lightly with her fingertips, listing in detail the places, people, and possible clues that needed to be investigated. Each item was a conclusion she had come to after careful consideration.

If there really is such a group of people lurking in every corner of Dragon City, then they must pass through these places.

In front of Ye Hua was a dim desk lamp, casting a soft light. She opened the communication interface and dialed directly. The contact's voice was in her ears, and she fell silent after saying "hello".

"Intelligence activity, Longcheng," Ye Hua's voice was low and his words were brief, "Go and see if there have been any people with strange behavior there recently? Especially those who don't look like they are here to shop, and may be looking for or monitoring something. I need you to disperse to the following key locations for observation: the antique shop in the East City, the library in the West District, the teahouse on North Street, and the dock in the South City. You should be aware that there may be some people with unusual behavior appearing in these places. They may not be real customers or tourists, but people with specific purposes. Please collect descriptions of these people, their behavior patterns, and the people they may interact with. Remember, keep a low profile and don't arouse anyone's suspicion."

"You need to pay attention," Ye Hua continued, "to see if anyone always appears in the same place, or if anyone inadvertently reveals excessive attention to a certain stall, store or specific area."

"Also," Ye Hua added, "if you find anything, don't make contact rashly. Write down all the details and then find a safe way to tell me. We can't let them know about our actions."

“Of course, safety first,” the contact replied, his voice revealing respect for Ye Hua. “I will proceed with caution and ensure that the information is delivered to you safely.”

"Okay, that's it," Ye Hua said, and hung up the phone. She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and prayed silently in her heart that these people could complete the task successfully.

Ye Hua was in a complicated mood. It was like looking for a tiny needle in the vast ocean or finding an identical leaf from a pile of fallen leaves. It was an almost impossible task.

Her mind was racing, trying to analyze and reason from every possible angle, but Ye Hua knew that she couldn't tell the assassins her guesses directly, as doing so might put them in danger, and most importantly, might expose herself.

She could only guess as far as possible within the vague range, and she didn't know how to narrow it down.

But they only gave a few places, and the only clue was that they looked suspicious. Honestly speaking, Ye Hua felt that the chance of actually finding the people was too small. At most, he could catch a few pickpockets, thieves, and robbers.

But these things happen every day in Longcheng.

Ye Hua's eyes fell on the screen again. The only thing that the key locations she marked on the map of Dragon City had in common was that they had a large flow of people.

Her death squads are scattered throughout the city. Their eyes and ears will become extensions of themselves, collecting every clue in the city.

But in the end it may be in vain.

Although Ye Hua did not hold out much hope, she still persisted. Sometimes, people would inexplicably believe that they would be that one in ten million.