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Two months passed in the blink of an eye.
Li Yuan had kept busy, setting up a flurry of business talks between the Flying Nimbus Group, Windfall Group, and every other major merchant guild in the region. During those polite exchanges, he’d quietly shackle people, one after another.
By the time he was done, more than 50 executives, accountants, and guards across the big merchant guilds were wearing human-skin manacles and answering only to him. They would not go hunting for secrets on purpose. But whatever the enemy tried to dig up, he would now hear about it as well.
With that net in place, Li Yuan took Xue Ning home back to Cloudpeak Province.
The Flying Nimbus Group was compromised; fine, he’d let it keep turning a profit and act as an open switchboard.
Every scrap of news Li Yuan learned, the enemy’s spies would learn too. And every scrap the enemy learned would flow straight back through his own spies.
It was a stalemate....
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