Long Qi was used to livestreaming. Seeing Raven react so rarely, he immediately slipped into commentator mode and his mouth no longer stopped moving:
"Speaking of which, one reason Huai City Government launched its large-scale Westward Advance Strategy was this: faced with the rapidly northward-advancing Toothed Crocodile Legion and the correspondingly expanding Underground Labyrinth, they were spending enormous amounts every year for negligible results.
"So they proposed two plans. One was the East Defense, Westward Advance Strategy; the other was to send an elite force into the Poison Swamp Zone and detonate a high-yield Hydrogen Bomb at its core... And naturally, they chose Plan A."
"They chose both Plan A and plan B," Cat's Eye replied.
"Huh?"
"Calling it a choice isn't quite right." Cat's Eye put an arm around Raven's slender shoulders, keeping the girl from being misled by this guy who was always talking nonsense. "As far as I know, the military was the one that proposed plan B. So even though Huai City didn't offer much support, the plan still went ahead."
Long Qi glanced toward Meng Tu. "It failed?"
"Obviously."
Meng Tu coughed, his gaze passing over the two temporary subordinates enthusiastically discussing high-level gossip.
Long Qi was unafraid and kept analyzing. "Huai City never had any Extraordinary Species combat power. If it was just the military..."
"Huai City didn't have any Extraordinary Species, but Gao Wenfu, President of Lake City, personally took part that time. They also borrowed Liu Jia from An City, so they weren't lacking high-level combat power."
When it came to gossip... well, intelligence, Li Taisheng was never behind anyone. Unable to bear being left out, he joined in.
There was no need to explain Gao Wenfu. Spade 7 of the Card Deck, he was a powerful, well-rounded veteran.
Liu Jia, meanwhile,