The soldiers didn't want to show it, but they subconsciously became wary of their officer.
Everything pointed to the fact that he was a traitor.
Shang could have kept the suspicious information a secret and could have passed it along to the relevant authorities.
Yet, he had unveiled all the suspicious information without censoring it.
He was essentially publicly accusing the officer of being a traitor without saying it directly.
The soldiers became very nervous.
If their officer were truly a traitor…
Then, would he just kill all of them to silence them?!
"They were smart," the officer said.
Shang and the soldiers only looked at him.
"Remember, no plan is complete without a backup plan for when the primary plan backfires," the officer explained. "By sending nine people, their primary plan evidently was to wake the True Path Stage beast."
"But if they fail, their backup plan was to get rid of me," the officer said.
