“I’m sorry, Mr. Wu Yin, but we’re short on supplies right now. Many of our supply routes have been cut off by that fanatical group. Only a few more concealed routes are left, and they can’t transport much. So please forgive us—lunch is just this simple meal.”
“Don’t worry about it. I was just stopping by to say hello. I’d feel bad if I was taking food from the soldiers.”
Seeing how casual I was, Commander Walid’s tense brow finally relaxed a bit, and he could speak to me in a lighter tone.
“As you can see, Mr. Wu Yin, we’re currently surrounded by the fanatical group—the Saint Assembly. I’m very sorry, but we can’t provide support for your investigation. If…”
Commander Walid stopped there, probably thinking it was something embarrassing to bring up.
“It’s fine. I’ll help you fend off that… um, Saint Assembly’s attacks. My team is waiting outside the city and can provide support at any time.”
“The squad led by Mr. Wu Yin… I’ve only heard some rumors. I look forward to seeing their performance.”
“Then I’ll contact them first.”
I reached into my pocket and then realized the problem.
“I think I dropped my phone… Sorry.”
“That’s all right. They’ve set up jamming towers outside, so all communication inside and outside the city is cut off right now. It’s very difficult to contact your team using communication methods.”
“Hmm… Then can someone deliver a message? Or perhaps carrier pigeons?”
“I can deliver a message.”
Mora, who had been standing silently beside us, spoke up.
“Can I ask you to do that?”
“Yeah. I know a safe way out of the city.”
“Then I’ll leave it to you.”
“Yeah.”
“But how will you prove it’s from me? Give this to them.”
“What’s this?”
Mora looked confused as she took the small strip of paper I had cut.
I put on a mysterious air and said, “It’s… my little secret.”
“I see.”
“Hey, that reaction makes me awkward.”
“Huh?”
“Never mind. Anyway, I’m counting on you.”
Mora nodded slightly, then jumped back to the window.
After telling us she was leaving, she leaned backward and fell into the air dozens of meters high.
I couldn’t help my curiosity and ran to the window.
I saw Mora stepping on the air—no, it was reflecting light.
Something was reflecting light.
After taking a closer look, I realized there were silver threads stretched across the outside of the building, dense and almost everywhere.
Mora stepped on these silver threads as smoothly as if she were on flat ground.
Her running motion was completely unaffected.
How is she so much like an assassin?
And not just any assassin—the kind I admire most.
I used to watch movies and fantasize about seeing an assassin who moves invisibly and kills without a trace.
I never thought I’d encounter one here.
Such incredible skill can’t be achieved just by enhancing physical abilities.
I think if my team members tried it, they’d fall after a few steps.
This requires years of training.
“Curious about Mora?”
Commander Walid seemed to read my thoughts and walked over to stand beside me.
“Yeah, honestly, I never thought someone like this actually existed in reality.”
“After all, the person who trained her was not one to show off.”
“Her master?”
“I don’t know the details either. I only found her hiding in a corner during one of my outings. She was covered in wounds, so I tied her up and brought her back.”
“I see. Huh? Why tied up?”
“Because she didn’t want to come with us at the time. She even attacked our people. It was a last resort.”
“Oh… I see.”
‘Wait, is that allowed?’
“So her master abandoned her?”
“I don’t know that either. No one came for her afterward, and she never said anything about herself. In the end, I kept her as my personal guard.”
“That sounds like something out of a novel.”
“Haha! Does it? But well, nothing interesting is going to happen between us.”
“What a shame.”
I deliberately ignored the loneliness on Walid’s face and casually responded.
“Mr. Wu Yin, if it’s convenient, let me explain the current situation now.”
“Sure.”
Walid stood in front of his desk, on which lay a paper map—something rare these days.
He pointed at the map and explained slowly, “The circle drawn inside the city marks the boundary between us and the Saint Assembly’s area of influence. Outside the city, there are many Saint Assembly camps. The ones circled in green are camps with jamming towers.”
“Our top priority right now is to destroy these jamming towers so we can request reinforcements from outside. I have high hopes for Mr. Wu Yin’s team, but can you break through their defenses while under missile bombardment from their vehicles?”
“Hmm… If there were fifty MS-4s, they could indeed hold back my team.”
“That’s really… if you weren’t saying it so seriously, I’d think it was a joke.”
MS-4s are the military’s most advanced missile vehicles.
If fifty MS-4s fired simultaneously, they could level a mountain in a few minutes.
But for my team, that’s not a huge problem.
“That’s normal. It’s hard for ordinary people to imagine if they’ve never seen it.”
“So, can I ask you to deal with those jamming towers?”
“Leave it to us. Let me ask, roughly how many people are in the Saint Assembly?”
“According to the intelligence we’ve gathered, about ten thousand. We only have three thousand defenders in the city right now, which is a huge numerical disadvantage. But their equipment isn’t very sophisticated. You can tell they don’t have enough missiles from the fact that they haven’t bombed our controlled area.”
“Then leave it to us.”
I stood up and suddenly felt that this large-scale attack on Bola City by the Saint Assembly might not just be because the army was transferred.
“Are you saying they started this operation because of the arrival of that Giant Mad Beast?”
“Yes, that possibility can’t be ruled out. Because the tracking of that Giant Mad Beast was lost in this desert before. It’s possible the Saint Assembly had something to do with it.”
“In that case, that Giant Mad Beast…”
“Might be their ultimate weapon.”
“You’re saying that Giant Mad Beast will attack Bola City?!”
“That’s just one possibility. Calm down.”
I patted Walid on the shoulder.
He realized he had lost his composure, took a deep breath, and quickly calmed himself down.
“If that Giant Mad Beast attacks Bola City now, we have no chance of holding it.”
“It’s okay.”
Suddenly, an image of Leng Qiongling appeared in my vision, but I immediately realized it was an illusion.
“We’ll take care of it.”
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