The source of the intelligence was not the long-fallen Siberian Federation, but a United States spy—more precisely, the descendant of a United States spy.
In Year 4598 of the Yellow Calendar, the construction of the Nameless Island Research Institute was approved under the strictest secrecy by the top leaders of the two regimes. What followed was an intense period of preparation—vast quantities of supplies were gathered in Jinggu City from across both federations, the city's four largest ports were completely sealed off under the pretext of a "major military operation," and tens of thousands of staff signed confidentiality agreements over twenty pages long.
However, no wall was airtight. No matter how thorough the Xiazhou Federation and Siberian Federation's secrecy measures were, movements of such enormous quantities of supplies could never escape the eyes of United States intelligence personnel—the Nameless Island Research Institute plan soon reached the ears of the United States leadership.
But this time, the United States chose not to alert the enemy.
In the early spring of March, Year 4599 of the Yellow Calendar, Professor Anatoly Ilyich Pavlov of St. Petersburg University boarded a special train bound for Jinggu City in the Xiazhou Federation.
Sitting beside him was his newlywed wife, Vera Kurikova, who was nearly forty years younger than him.
Three months earlier, Professor Anatoly's first wife had been tragically killed in a traffic accident while shopping for groceries. During that period of unbearable grief, it was this young, beautiful, and understanding student who had stayed by his side... Before long, they crossed the final line between them. After Vera climbed onto the single bed in his office that he used for afternoon naps, Anatoly learned that she was not only understanding, but also quite adept at undressing him.
The professor, already past sixty, fell in