"I swear, I truly didn't know he had other informants in the company," Qiu Ming said with a bitter smile. "We've stayed in contact over the years, but he never revealed anything like that to me."
"No, I should have thought of this long ago," Zhang Heng said. "Back in the Second Layer Space, he sent out an entire Exoskeleton Warrior squad, all equipped with the military's latest generation of Exoskeleton Gear. Someone was clearly secretly supplying him with these cutting-edge weapons. We may also have underestimated his armed forces beyond the First Layer. It looks like he had more than just that one squad. If that's the case, then everything makes sense."
"What makes sense?"
"According to you, he broke into Shen Tang Morgan's base and fought these Hunter VI type robots. Others might not know those robots exist, but there's no reason for him not to know. So when he launched this riot, he couldn't possibly have disregarded their impact. No, more precisely, those Hunter VI type robots were probably his target."
Qiu Ming realized it as well. "You mean he deliberately used the riot to draw those robots to the First Layer, because he knew the management couldn't tolerate prolonged unrest there. If that's the case... then the base's defenses are at their weakest right now. There's only one Hunter VI type robot and around two hundred security guards there. Two Exoskeleton Warrior squads would be enough to break into the base."
"But what are they after?" Qiu Ming frowned. "The most valuable and best-defended place inside the base is the Memory Encoding area. The Memory Encoders are stored there, but several guard teams protect it. In an emergency, they can cut the power, seal it off completely with metal walls, and even destroy it remotely."
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