Once the earthquake began, every country had to locate the epicenter and carry out data calculations and collection.
But unlike the other countries, North Star had changed its arrangements within just two days because of what had happened during the Level 2 Earthquake.
When the earthquake struck, the monitoring bureau received the instrument signal and reported it by phone as usual.
This time, however, they did not directly report the latitude and longitude. Instead, they reported a string of code.
After Shadow, who had been secretly eavesdropping, relayed the sound to Guan Tong, Guan Tong immediately realized—the authorities had become wary of him.
After last time, the authorities would naturally want to find him, but they would also surely wonder how the person who had dealt with the Earth Vein Pillar had known the epicenter's location.
Just as Guan Tong could figure out that the information source was the earthquake bureau, there was no reason the authorities' people could not think of it too.
If the authorities suspected an internal leak from the earthquake bureau, they would naturally tighten confidentiality. Abandoning "plaintext passwords" and using encrypted codes to represent latitude and longitude coordinates was one way of handling it.
It had to be said that this method worked very well. Without the codebook, Guan Tong had no idea what that string of code meant and thus could not learn the location of the earthquake's source.
"This is troublesome."
Guan Tong had originally wanted to run a test during this earthquake, but he had not expected the authorities to move so quickly and cut off his channel for obtaining information.
"In that case, I can only wait for the authorities' data," Guan Tong thought. "They have data from the first earthquake and now from this third one. Comparing the two should