When the secretary delivered the invitation to Xiao Ran, he stared blankly at the letter in his hand. To show his sincerity, Durandal had actually handwritten a letter and dispatched someone to deliver it personally—and at such an important time for Orb.
Now that intelligence agents had leaked Orb's preparations for testing a new model, Xiao Ran did not believe Durandal was unaware of it. Orb was currently devoting all its energy to the new model, and there was no doubt that ZAFT had intelligence personnel within Orb. Moreover, they were in the middle of a war. It would have been one thing for Durandal to visit personally, but inviting Xiao Ran at a time like this was rather inappropriate. It was impossible to tell what Durandal was trying to accomplish.
Xiao Ran opened the letter the secretary had delivered and frowned slightly as he read its contents. It began with some polite pleasantries from Durandal before getting to the main point. ZAFT had discovered what appeared to be an abandoned Alliance research base somewhere and found evidence inside of LOGOS and the Alliance conducting forbidden research on the human body. He hoped Orb would send someone to handle the matter jointly. In addition, traces of a Mysterious Organization had been found somewhere in East Asia. It seemed to be connected to the organization Orb was currently investigating, though it was uncertain whether it had any connection to LOGOS or the Alliance.
ZAFT had also fought the machines of this Mysterious Organization. Those machines were identical to the ones that had appeared during the Junius 7 incident, and several pilots from the organization had been captured. However, because the matter was of great importance, he hoped Xiao Ran would personally receive them.
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