Jiang Hai's refusal to form a mental link was something none of the other divine envoys had expected, nor could they understand why he had refused.
After multiple failed attempts, they had no choice but to give up and think of another solution.
Yet this situation was like an endless loop. How could they possibly come up with a solution so easily? It could be said that Lin Fan had successfully established an absolute asymmetric advantage over the six Cleansers.
Of course, nothing in this world was truly without a solution. If they thought desperately enough, they could always come up with one.
And sure enough, a divine envoy soon thought of a way.
Since they could not deal with the Heretics' guerrilla-like tactics, and only the Heretics were able to attack, then they could simply dismantle all the Black Hole Gates and return to the original situation—leaving only the Black Hole Gate in each civilization's Capital Realm.
Wouldn't that settle everything?
When the divine envoys heard it, they realized that was exactly right.
Why had they only thought of something so simple now?
So they immediately set to work. In those Black Hole Cavity Realms that had not yet been attacked by the Federation, the garrisons directly dismantled all their Black Hole Gates.
Naturally, this move could not escape the Federation's notice.
After all,
while they were dismantling them, Luo Li was monitoring the gate transit network in real time. The most obvious sign was that one Black Hole Gate after another was disconnecting from the transit network.
Very soon, the intelligence was delivered to Lin Fan.
"So they finally remembered?"
"For more than a hundred years, I've been worried sick over their intelligence."
"But since they've remembered, we can move on to the second phase of the operation!"