Today's third update: Chapter 3007! 3/4!
"What do you mean, 'you don't understand the purpose of their actions'?" Yue Chan'er asked Yanran, who had fallen into thought, her expression puzzled.
Yanran raised her head, her eyes gleaming with the sharp insight of someone who had seen through the battlefield. "Master's Wife, the war on the front lines is already nearing its end. The collapse of the Centipede Race's outer battlefield is a foregone conclusion. The Fifth Division's brilliant victory in the open corridor has completely cut off the enemy's final route for reinforcing the front! Even we, deep behind enemy lines, have seen this clearly. How could the Centipede Race's master—the Sky Dragon Lord, who possesses God's Perspective and overlooks the entire battlefield—not know?"
She raised the central question. "If it were you, knowing the front lines were beyond saving, would you still waste effort scattering a precious army that still retained its organization, tossing them into that doomed abyss like scattering beans?"
Though Yue Chan'er was not skilled in military matters, she understood at once. "You mean... their actions are like carrying firewood to put out a fire? Not only can they not extinguish it, they are pointlessly draining their own strength, completely defying military common sense?"
"Exactly!" Yanran said firmly. "Forcing something that cannot be done is the greatest abnormality! Where there is an abnormality, there must be something suspicious! Since reinforcements are already an empty promise, yet the Sky Dragon Lord still deploys them this way, then behind it... there must be some major scheme we have yet to uncover!"
Yue Chan'er's expression tightened. "You mean... there's a conspiracy behind this?"
Yanran did not answer directly, but her gaze said it all: once every impossibility had been ruled out, whatever remained—no matter how shocking—was likely the