"Yes, just as I wrote on the paper, I could confirm that within the Earth Force fleet attacking PLANT, there was a hidden Special Operations Unit. A force carrying countless nuclear bombs would attack PLANT's Colony Satellites. The orders this force truly carried out were completely different from the Earth Force's deterrence strike, and it answered only to LOGOS and Blue Cosmos, who controlled everything behind the Earth Force. Once the Earth Force and ZAFT entered battle and were too occupied to pay attention, this force would act, launching direct attacks on PLANT's Colony Satellites regardless of the cost."
After Lacus finished reading what Xiao Ran had written, she gave the man who had emerged from the glass room another deep look. She soon left alone, leaving Xiao Ran in the garden. More than ten minutes later, she returned and had someone bring him a table, a chair, and a cup of tea.
The standoff continued for roughly three hours. Lacus quietly kept him company from the other end of the garden for those three hours, though she did so under the watchful eyes of numerous guards.
Now, Xiao Ran faced Cigel Klein and Patrick Zala. Lacus sat behind them as little more than an accompaniment. The meeting took place in the garden's glass room, and besides the four of them, the small room also contained four men in black suits and a blond man wearing a white ZAFT uniform.
During the brief ten-plus minutes Lacus had spent away from the garden, she had contacted her father, Cigel Klein. Klein had been greatly shocked to learn that someone had actually broken into his home, especially at a time when PLANT was about to go to war with the Earth Force.
However, Xiao Ran had written down a set of coordinates,