"Rescue mission?"
Luo Yan raised an eyebrow. He had only recently gone to Lion City to rescue the Merlion higher-ups, and now there was another one?
Bai Shaotang lifted his cup and sipped the goji berry water from his thermos. "To be precise, it's a search-and-rescue mission."
"Because right now, we still can't confirm whether Anatoly is in the town."
"However, every member of Alpha Squad is equipped with special armor, and those suits have life monitors embedded in them."
"Cherno Fortress has already provided the source code for that batch of life monitors. Our engineers are urgently designing a program. Once it's completed, we'll be able to use our satellites to locate the signals from Alpha Squad's life monitors and pinpoint their positions."
Luo Yan nodded. "When can the design be completed?"
Bai Shaotang said, "With the assistance of the Central Supercomputer, Jun Hong, it should be ready for use by the time you reach the target."
"Also, aside from sending you to search for and rescue them in order to support our brothers and allies, we're also going to throw a Smoke Grenade at Freedom Wings."
Luo Yan froze. "A Smoke Grenade? What kind of Smoke Grenade?"
Bai Shaotang set down his cup and smiled. "After you complete the search-and-rescue mission, you'll temporarily station yourselves in that theater of war."
"At the same time, we'll 'secretly' prepare a lightning strike against Freedom City."
"Old Morton is an extremely suspicious man. If he sees you stationed in the theater, he'll be more inclined to believe in our plan to launch a lightning strike against Freedom City."
"He'll think that your Heavenly Fire Squad's stationing in the theater is merely a ruse, meant to make them believe that we won't risk launching a cross-sea offensive."
"War is a battle of