When the ashes returned to the base of the Yellow Spring Training Camp, they happened to catch up with the alternation of light and dark seasons. The sun, which was originally hanging in the air, sank from the top of the sky to below the horizon in just over a dozen minutes. Those who see this scene for the first time will inevitably have an indescribable strange feeling, just like an invisible hand twitching the movement of the stars in the dark... But for those living here, this scene is already commonplace.

The dark clouds gathered together, blocking the last ray of light of the sun, and the whole world was once again shrouded in deep darkness.

The sudden drop in temperature made the Ashes shudder. He was wearing a thin Qingqi uniform and there was no warm velvet lining inside. He was quickly lost from the ground - the Rinfeng Plain in the dark season, and the lowest temperature could even reach more than minus forty degrees below zero.

The playground of the training camp base is paved with volcanic basalt. At this moment, the black and gray basalt surface has a layer of white frost, and it will make a chewy sound when you step on it.

Since more than half of the people in the training camp were taken away for investigation, Ashes' class schedule also changed greatly. Nearly half of the cultural classes were forced to suspend classes, and the extra class hours were all classified into basic physical training.

However, when he was waiting for him at the training ground, he was not the instructor in charge of physical training, but Yuri, who had not met for a while, and a tall and thin man in a black tights.

"Ash, there's something wrong," Yuri said to Ash straight to the point, his brows frowned, and several heavy backpacks piled up at his feet.

"Trouble? Because... the matter of Floating Ice Harbor?"

"Yes, you should know that there was a traitor in the 11th period of Huangquan, and this traitor played a crucial role in the fall of Floating Ice Harbor."

"Well, I know." Ashes nodded.

It is precisely because of this reason that he is the only one left in the entire Huangquan 11th issue.

"The empire's top leaders think this is a great humiliation. It would be fine if the traitor appeared in other departments, but he just came out of the Huangquan Training Camp, which has always been known for strict review, and this problem would be great... In this month, because of that traitor, many people have been sent to the execution ground for "debt of duty", and have been dismissed and removed from their posts... Of course, this has nothing to do with you, but recently, a voice has spread from it..."

"What?"

"Some people at the top believe that the traitors have shamed the entire Huangquan training camp, and the 11th phase trainees were almost all killed in the Floating Ice Harbor Battle. Continuing to maintain the operation of Huangquan training camp requires a lot of resources. Together, the best solution is to disband the 11th phase training camp... And if the 11th phase is disbanded, you will be deported to the second quarantine area. I think, you should never want to go back to that place, right?"

"Don't want to." Ashes bit his teeth hard and shook his head without hesitation.

He finally crawled out of the abyss that was no longer visible to the sky. He thought he had already escaped the darkness... But now, the abyss chased him, just like the strange singularity that devoured Soya in the nightmare. The ink-colored fog pulled his limbs like a ghostly tentacle, trying to drag him back to the nightmare again...

Huge fear spread in the ashes' heart, and the cold sweat suddenly oozed out instantly wet his close clothes.

"But we have a last chance," Yuri said suddenly, "The above said. If you can 'clean' that traitor, you can not only cleanse the shame of the 11th period of Huangquan, but also prove that you are worthy of the Empire's use of the resources of the 11th period of the entire 11th period of the imperial training camp... If you can succeed, the 11th period of Huangquan Training Camp will not be disbanded, and you don't have to go back to that ghost place."

...

Yuri pulled out two file bags from the backpack at his feet and threw them to the ashes, saying, "These two files are the files of the traitor. The first one was transferred from the Imperial Household Registration Department and the Intelligence Department when he joined the Huangquan Training Camp, and the second one... was exchanged for the lives of four intelligence agents."

Ashes opened the first file bag, and the first thing that caught his eyes was the name and photo of the traitor.

"Talun, male, sixteen years old, was born in Floating Ice Harbor, the port city of the North Coast of the Empire. His mother died early, and his father was a fisherman in Floating Ice Harbor. He has a reserve military status...Talun showed extraordinary alchemy talent and mechanical talent when he was young... At the age of fifteen, he joined the Ice Harbor Ice Navy Reserve Force. The following year, he was recommended to participate in the 11th phase of the Huangquan Training Camp, and obtained excellent results in the assessment. He ranked eighth in the total score, and chose the department as the support department... Then, he received training at the Linfeng Castle Base of the Huangquan Training Camp..."

Unlike the first file that is more than twenty pages thick, the second file is much simpler, with only a few two pages of paper—

"Taren, a northern federal citizen, was born in the Cossack tribe. He was selected by Kreb (Federal Security Agency) at the age of four, participated in the program and received special training. He was secretly sent to Floating Ice Harbor at the age of eight, and successfully replaced the preset chess pieces and became the son of a fisherman in Floating Ice Harbor..."

The second file has many places where it has been smeared and modified, and some important time points and locations are also very blurred, but the black and white photo is very clear. Although the person in the photo looks less than ten years old, he is definitely the same person as the first file.

"Your mission is to kill him," Yuri said, pointing to another tall and thin man in a black tights. "This guy is a graduate of my time. He is proficient in infiltration, lurking and assassination. He also has high attainments in poison use. Although I am not willing to admit it, this guy is indeed among the top ones in our group. He will train you as much as possible to become a qualified assassin this week, and I am responsible for providing you with equipment assistance."

"The fifth issue of Huangquan, code-named 'Black Bee'." The tall and thin man nodded to the ashes.
Chapter completed!