"All right, everyone, come in!"
Once everyone had arrived, Lin Qi still had a few things left to ask. He stubbed out the cigarette in his hand in the ashtray.
The two of them entered the conference room together. Guided by the staff, Lin Qi took a seat toward the back on the right rather than too close to the front.
Of those attending today's meeting, only a few looked like they weren't government officials. The rest were either military officers or intelligence and security personnel, and every one of them wore an unusually solemn expression.
This incident had derailed a whole series of their subsequent plans and ruined their previous arrangements as well. It was extremely irritating! The meeting was even duller than Lin Qi had imagined, with every department reporting the extent of its losses.
They had arranged for quite a few people to enter Maliro. Now the general was dead, Isabella was missing, Sanchez was wounded, and the people they had sent had suffered injuries of varying severity.
Some even suspected that the major warlords of Maliro had noticed something was wrong, which was why they had joined forces to attack the general. Their goal was to keep the Federation and its influence firmly outside their borders.
After all, once Isabella and Sanchez established themselves, they would no longer represent the interests of the locals, but those of the Federation.
The major warlords had the confidence to shut their doors and fight a war at home, but they had little confidence in defeating opponents supported by the Federation. They seemed to be eliminating a potential danger.
This speculation had gained considerable traction. Some believed that Sanchez had been too eager from the very beginning and had therefore exposed a weakness.
Some had even started arguing because they