With Jiang Yue stirring up trouble in the Bizarre Tree's territory, the strongholds of its various branches were clearly affected as well.
Panic spread at incredible speed, reaching the strongholds of every branch. The agents stationed there heard that the core region had collapsed, that several Top Agents had been killed or wounded, and that tens of thousands of agents in the core region and its surrounding areas had scattered in every direction.
The ones bringing this news were none other than agents from the core region and its outskirts. Clearly, this was no rumor.
It was like a war between nations: while soldiers on the border were still fighting tooth and nail, the capital had already fallen, with the powerful dead, fleeing, or surrendering...
Among the agents stationed at the various branch strongholds, there were certainly some who were clever and formidable, and who tried to suppress the news. But the tide of events was beyond their control.
If even the Top Agents couldn't contain the situation, then the agents at their branch strongholds were, to put it bluntly, little more than tools. How much fighting spirit could they possibly have?
The collapse spread from the core region all the way to the branch strongholds.
The human forces were naturally the ones who felt the effects of the branch strongholds' rapid collapse most keenly.
When Little Deer and Professor Lu Jinwen brought back the news, quite a few people were skeptical at first, wondering if it might be a trap.
Then Jiang Qiao, Jiang Yue's father, appeared. Even Old Xia, one of the agents who had surrendered, came forward to share his firsthand account, dispelling the last doubts within the Human Faction.
Of course, the Joint Command Group had never doubted the news from Lu Jinwen in the first