That evening, outside the office, Guan Tong met with Shangyuan Zi and chatted for a while.
Guan Tong told her about the North Star Team's suspicions regarding Suoloma and also asked about the situation on their side.
"According to the people sent by Lu Rui Country, aside from North Star, Suoloma, and Xisiya, the other six small countries each sent only one person not because they did not want to send more, but because the UHC required them to send only one—or no one at all," Shangyuan Zi said.
"Oh? Why?"
"They were afraid of moles. The person from Lu Rui Country said that Suoloma feared the upper ranks of several small countries had already been infiltrated by the Fire Thief Cult or parasites. If they sent too many people, there might be moles who leaked information and caused this operation to fail."
"I see."
Guan Tong understood now.
Indeed, infiltration by parasites and the Fire Thief Cult had always been a major problem for UHC member nations.
Even an organization as tightly controlled as the North Star Countermeasure Research Institute had been infiltrated by parasites, let alone several smaller countries with more chaotic internal conditions and looser management.
Yingqi Nation, to which Shangyuan Zi belonged, had no idea how many parasites lurked within it.
The reason North Star had not dealt with them for the time being was, first, that it had no manpower to spare, and second, that the border between the two countries was currently closed, so parasites could not enter North Star even if they wanted to. As for the parasites remaining in Yingqi Nation, constrained by the country's current situation, they had no stage on which to cause trouble even if they wanted to.
If this operation was mainly handled by North Star and the