"The City Lord is absolutely right. After all, there's nothing Shenxiao Immortal Lord wouldn't do. He's the most professional commander this old man has ever seen. I believe he's capable of using this kind of tactic—gaining much with little. It has already intimidated our troops. Besides, splitting up and detonating too much also causes them considerable losses. If they hadn't been driven to desperation, who would be willing to do this?" an old adviser said gravely.
I nodded in agreement, and Jiufang Tao also said, "But splitting up causes us no small losses either. One of our units was wiped out in an explosion earlier. What are we supposed to do if this happens every time? Besides, we're already struggling to look after ourselves. They're constantly sending out harassment units now. If we're even slightly careless and let them break into the island's inner space, that would be disastrous. We can't split up and detonate part of the floating-island region either."
"Hmm, you have a point. The reason they keep sending out harassment units and putting up all kinds of defenses to let us continue boarding the island is very likely that they can't split up and detonate more of the floating island. The earlier split may have been a smokescreen, because they were afraid we'd use the same trick again," I said.
A group of advisers hurriedly voiced their agreement. Jiufang Tao also understood and said, "Although we can assume they're afraid of us boarding the island, their island isn't easy to board now either. Our probes are constant. Whenever a large-scale enemy approaches, they immediately change course."
"In that case, we'll use the suicide-swarm tactic." I smiled.
"Suicide swarm?" Jiufang Tao and the many advisers were all stunned.
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