Forward Base, Combat Command Room.
The Combat Command Room, which should have been bustling and noisy, had fallen deathly silent. In the enormous space, you could have heard a pin drop.
Everyone stared blankly at the images captured by the wartime satellite and transmitted back to them.
Some were so shocked that their mouths hung open without them even realizing it.
A junior staff officer swallowed hard and forced out a voice that seemed to come from the depths of his throat. "Who is that?"
The sudden voice jolted the chief of staff back to his senses. He took a deep breath, barely holding on to his crumbling worldview.
"He should be the deputy captain of City Direct Military's Team Ten."
"The one named Lu Bai?"
The senior commanders present might not have recognized City Direct Military's ranks. After all, the deputy captain of Team Ten was one or two ranks below quite a few of them.
But the moment they heard the name Lu Bai, they all knew who he was.
As members of the Combat Command Center, they were of course well aware of what had caused the impending war with the Mona people.
"So it was him."
"That explains it."
"What do you mean, that explains it? He's insanely strong!"
"Why do I feel like he's all we need? It's almost as if we don't even have a part to play."
Some of the younger officers even joked about it.
He had effortlessly blown up a Mona starship all by himself. Perhaps Lu Bai's performance had been so explosive that it made them feel optimistic about the coming war.
Of course, their optimism depended on them not knowing that the starship Lu Bai had blown up was an obsolete model the Mona people had left behind hundreds