The Alliance's spies had limited intelligence-gathering capabilities. All they had learned was that it seemed Digital Phantom had done something there again.
Taiqing Star was currently being turned upside down, with every suspicious individual being investigated.
Yet although the search was extremely strict and all travel had been prohibited, the morale of the Alliance personnel was exceptionally low.
The military found this somewhat puzzling. After all, they had been the ones to inform Digital Phantom about Taiqing Branch in the first place.
So what had happened there? According to records from the Alliance War Zone, that team did not seem to have gone to the Alliance recently.
In any case, now that they had a reason, the starships around Dawn Base contacted the base again and mentioned the changes in Taiqing.
Digital Phantom's response was rather thought-provoking: "We are currently organizing the relevant information."
Organizing it... Had they done this or not? The soldiers were going mad with anxiety, yet they did not dare press further.
So they asked another question: the Alliance now seemed inclined toward peace talks. What did your side think of this?
Fourth Boss had already heard that First One had defined the Alliance's current state as "Imperial Dusk."
So he replied dismissively, "Matters of state and war are not something a small group like ours can participate in."
"However, we can basically be certain of one thing: the Alliance's backbone... has more or less been broken."
He said it lightly, but it sounded entirely different to the Imperial soldiers.
What did the Alliance's backbone refer to? How could they be certain it had been broken? Yet Fourth Boss gave no further answer, and the soldiers could not conveniently ask more. They could only report it to headquarters.
The people at headquarters were even more helpless