That same night, at Crow Base, more than a hundred kilometers from Fog City, the entire facility was brightly lit.
Beams of light projected into the night sky from the ground swept across the mecha inside the base from time to time, illuminating the mottled armor of those Steel Giants before quickly moving off into the distance.
Unlike the London Tower Base, Crow Base was located aboveground, inside an abandoned city.
The new Ninth Organ had cleared out one corner of the city and built an outpost base there.
Crow Base made no attempt to conceal its existence. On the contrary, the base had deployed a large number of drones codenamed "Crows" to search the surrounding area and guard against a sudden attack by the Strategic Affairs Department.
Besides those drones, the base had also set up numerous hidden sentry posts throughout the abandoned city.
The moment an enemy infiltrated the city, they would inevitably be discovered by those sentries.
Right in front of the base, inside a building at the city entrance, two sentries sat against the wall with their rifles in their arms, smoking.
"Fog City's been pretty unsettled lately. I heard the Central Military Police were catching a spy last night."
"I know. I also heard that the spy seemed to have connections with Count Glan."
"Could Count Glan be planning to sell out Fog City?"
"Hard to say. Ever since the Lake Light Knight surrendered, the atmosphere in Fog City has felt off. Count Glan and his people seem to be brewing something."
"Who do you think will control the Ninth Organ in the end, Commander Louis or Count Glan?"
"Come on, does it really matter who's in charge? But if I had to choose, I'd still support Commander Louis. I don't want to become a