Su Xiao stopped on the first floor of Headquarters. The scene before him was a complete mess, with bloodstains everywhere. Twelve of their people had died, while eight from the Eclipse Organization had been killed. In a chaotic melee of this scale, thinking no one would die was far too naive. This was the price of using S-001. Su Xiao and Kingsley had been prepared for it long ago.
Dealing with the Insect Mother was no child's play. Without being ruthless enough, one would not even qualify to find the Insect Mother, let alone kill it. Waiting for the Insect Mother to reveal itself voluntarily would take who knew how long. And once it was willing to appear, that meant it had already recovered. By then, within a month, there would be no living creatures left in the Alliance World. Everywhere one looked would be filled with nematode offspring.
"Xili..."
Su Xiao had just spoken when he remembered that Xili had been kidnapped. Xili really did not understand flattery and was also a crude, loudmouthed troublemaker, but he was genuinely capable. As long as Su Xiao gave him an order, he would see the results before long, and Su Xiao never had to worry about anything in between.
"Belloc."
"Here."
Adjutant Belloc hurried forward.
"You handle things here."
Leaving those words behind, Su Xiao headed upstairs. S-001 had already been taken out. Next, he had to calm the situation and establish an overt cooperative relationship with the Eclipse Organization.
That was necessary. After Kingsley used S-001 to alter the future, Headquarters and the Eclipse Organization would have to mobilize every intelligence resource they had and use the altered future to locate the Insect Mother.
To accomplish that, the intelligence agents secretly assembled would be nowhere near enough. They had to