"An offshore exercise?"
Luo Yan seemed to think of something and looked toward Deputy Captain Bai. The two of them spoke at the same time: "Loki."
Dong Huang looked bewildered. "What are you talking about?"
Luo Yan explained, "When we went to support the Tianying Squad earlier, we captured several supernatural beings. One of them was a girl named Loki, and she provided us with a set of coordinates."
"In the waters at those coordinates, there's a Seaborne Base belonging to Freedom Wings."
He pointed at the screen. "Before we returned, we submitted those coordinates to the Strategic Affairs Department. So this offshore exercise is probably meant to bombard that Seaborne Base."
Only then did Dong Huang understand. Although he knew about the offshore exercise, he hadn't known there was such a reason behind it.
Then he slapped his thigh. "Since that's the case, why did we announce it ahead of time? Didn't that give Freedom Wings time to evacuate their personnel?"
Luo Yan looked up at the screen and said calmly, "Because we're the Giant Beast Strategy Department!"
Those words seemed to say nothing, yet they also seemed to reveal a great deal.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
The offshore exercise ended, but immediately afterward, the Strategic Affairs Department joined forces with the Cherno Fortress, White Elephant Regiment, Merlion, Eight Heavenly Dragons, and other Southeast Asian mecha groups to propose and convene a World Mecha Joint Summit.
They invited all members of the Iron Gull Strategic Chain, led by Freedom Wings, to attend. The meeting was set to take place on an unaffiliated island in the High Seas.
That same day, Luo Yan and Deputy Captain Bai boarded an underground train bound for Guangling Underground City.
On the train, Deputy Captain Bai handed her phone