He hung up the phone.
Lu Yang said to Bai Shi and the others beside him, "The war begins in one week. Everyone, make your preparations."
"Yes," Bai Shi, Zhou Tianming, and the others replied together.
The Iron Blood Brotherhood's war machine immediately began to turn. More than 400,000 players living in Game City gradually entered large-scale deployment operations. Personnel in all important related positions were forbidden from going home to rest or making any more calls outside.
From the outside, there appeared to be nothing unusual about the Iron Blood Brotherhood, but internally, it had entered an extremely tense state. Mobilizing more than ten million players at every level for battle within a week was no simple matter.
Now that something had happened to Tom, the eyes of media outlets around the world were focused on the Iron Blood Brotherhood and Lu Yang. As long as the Iron Blood Brotherhood dared to send more players to the ruins, lava caves, Celestial God, Bit, and Demon Bull Stronghold, the entire world would know Lu Yang intended to attack Tom.
Lu Yang did not want everyone's attention focused on him, because Jerz would be joining him in the attack. After some thought, he decided to hold an online press conference.
At eight in the morning.
Lu Yang released the news. One hour later, over a thousand media outlets from around the world had sent in applications. Lu Yang invited them into his special space, a venue similar to a press conference, and bluntly told everyone, "The Iron Blood Brotherhood absolutely has no intention of attacking Mr. Tom. The Iron Blood Brotherhood still needs to absorb all the forces in the Eight Nation Alliance's territory and the Olma Region. Therefore, Mr. Sanyou Weimen, Mr. Roland, and Mr. Jerz, who have been watching