"This is precisely why Uncle Dong’s mission has become the talk of the camp."

Hearing Robinson William’s explanation, Zachary and Madeline finally understood why he had come here.

"Since the content of the originally secret mission has already been exposed by certain individuals, what countermeasures are there at the camp now?"

After all, Robinson William was the chief of the Patrol Office, and if the camp made any decisions, be it finding the leaker or warning others in the camp not to discuss it, they would need to rely on the Patrol Office for intimidation.

"That’s the strangest part, Uncle Dong’s mission details have become known to the entire city, and I have reported this to the committee, but so far, they haven’t given any directives.

Logically speaking, whether issuing a gag order or searching for the leaker, these two actions are not contradictory.

And although I reported it late, by all accounts, the committee should have made a decision by now, not allowing rumors to run rampant in the camp like this."

Zachary and Madeline actually shared similar views with Robinson William’s doubts.

The very situation that should not have happened, unfortunately, did indeed occur.

Just as Robinson William was about to say more, his phone suddenly rang. He looked at the caller ID, gestured for Zachary and Madeline to be quiet, and then immediately answered the call.

"It’s me."

"Understood."

"I’ll make arrangements right away." 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

"Leave it to me, you can rest assured."

After the person on the other end hung up, Robinson William put the phone down from his ear.

"That was Elder Jefferson on the phone, he told me not to worry about the messages in the camp, but to gather people and start looking for the spreader of the rumors.

As I said at the beginning, normally, Uncle Dong’s mission, even if it isn’t a private one, wouldn’t have caused this kind of situation just from its content being known to others.

For it to have escalated to this point, there must be someone with an agenda fanning the flames within the camp.

Elder Jefferson just ordered me to find the person spreading rumors as quickly as possible."

Hearing this, Zachary did not detain Robinson William. However, when Robinson William got to the doorway and saw that Madeline was still standing in place, he directly said to her, "Let’s go, what are you still doing here? Use your connections to help me find this rumor spreader."

Madeline didn’t refuse when called upon by Robinson William and said farewell to Zachary, "I’m off to help my brother. Once we catch the person, we’ll get together another time when we’re free."

"Alright, go help your brother quickly, the sooner you catch the person, the sooner we can catch up when we’re free."

Watching Robinson William and Madeline leave, Zachary used his Divine Sense to observe the situation in the camp.

However, even after having reached the Golden Core Stage, the inherent silence flaw of the Divine Sense hadn’t been amended; his Divine Sense could only observe and still couldn’t hear the voices of those being observed.

Having observed with his Divine Sense, the result was as Zachary expected—no useful clues about the rumors were found.

Even though he didn’t find any leads on the messages, Zachary spotted the con artists’ group once more.

Seeing the four of them gathered together again, Zachary thought back to the idea he once had about learning lip reading.

However, even before the calamity, finding a place to learn lip reading was difficult, let alone now.

Watching the con artists’ group conversing about something, Zachary had a feeling that their busy discussion was probably related to the current bustling situation in the camp.

After watching the silent ’movie’ for a while, Zachary withdrew his Divine Sense. The most important thing now wasn’t to figure out what the group of four was planning, but how to acquire a large amount of spirit-enriched material.

Sitting in his chair, Zachary suddenly thought that perhaps the difficulty he was facing in acquiring materials was because his current camp was a small place; if he were to go to Kyoto, it would probably be much easier to get those special materials there than in the camp.

As the idea took shape in his mind, Zachary suddenly had the urge to leave this place and head to Kyoto to advance his prospects.

"Perhaps this is the reason why in novels, the protagonist has to change locations every time they level up."

Zachary, lost in thought at home, was unaware that the military in charge of guarding the camp, after learning about the leak of the secret mission, had dispatched a third of the troops from the camp to support Mr. Thompson for an assuredly successful mission.

Meanwhile, many of the survivors in the camp, having heard about the appearance of precious natural treasures in the wild, grouped together in threes and fives to go treasure hunting.

At this moment, Robinson William was leading the Patrol Office’s force, using the most primitive methods to trace and find the person spreading the messages.

However, the ’vine’ that the Patrol Office was following would occasionally snap because some people, whether intentionally avoiding the Patrol Office’s investigation or blinded by the appearance of natural treasures in the wild, were always gone from the camp when the Patrol Office tried to trace up the lead.

In such cases, apart from keeping records, they could only start over with a new lead.

Fortunately, since the camp had expanded several times but the population in each area hardly moved, even though they hadn’t found anyone just yet, the constables of the Patrol Office would be the first to know when those individuals returned.