"How else can we explain it? A failure is a failure. We'll just report it as it is.
The blame for this failure doesn't lie with us. It was entirely because of Tie Qiu Heng and his team. Something went wrong on their end at the critical moment, causing the plan to fail.
Steward Zhang is a discerning man; he won't punish us over this..." the head of the intelligence department said.
"Phew..." The subordinate sighed in relief upon hearing this.
If they had to take the blame for the failed rescue mission, it was highly likely that Steward Zhang would transfer many of them out of headquarters, an outcome neither he nor his colleagues wanted to see.
"Even though we aren't to blame for the plan's failure, we still need to investigate what caused Tie Qiu Heng's team to fail at the very last step," said the head of the intelligence department.
