The exterior of the Black Organization's New York headquarters looked like nothing more than an ordinary old office building.
Pushing open the front doors, Xu Yue found only an old security guard picking at his feet as he sat on a stool reading the newspaper, while the corridor contained nothing but an elevator entrance.
If the apparently bleary-eyed guard had a palm-leaf fan to wave around, he would have been practically identical to the elderly gatekeepers at old residential compounds.
After bringing Xu Yue here, K led him straight to the elevator and pressed the button for the lower levels.
The entire headquarters had practically hollowed out half the district beneath them. Even many aliens waiting for flights came here to board their ships.
"Your Black Ball faction is a bit of a mess itself, but everyone who manages to fight their way through and keep going is an elite. And you even have a chance to revive. Honestly, we're pretty envious."
After pressing the elevator button, K shrugged at Xu Yue.
New York also had the New York Black Orb Squad, and theoretically, the Black Ball faction in the US Federal was even stronger. They might well become the main force in the final offensive against the aliens.
Otherwise, there was no explaining why Kurono and the others had succeeded so easily.
K was also thoroughly familiar with the Black Ball faction, but every attempt by the Black Organization to place agents inside Black Ball had ended in failure, costing them quite a few agents for nothing. They could only wait and see whether they could recruit suitable cannon fodder.
Ordinary Black Ball participants were easy enough to use as cannon fodder. They were replaced batch after batch like running water, but those who could truly persist for the