Of course, given the current situation, Titan City-state clearly couldn't carry out such a massive plan overnight.
Jiang Yue and the others still had plenty of time to prepare. But one urgent matter had to be dealt with: they needed to send the information back to the Surface World as quickly as possible, so people there could prepare adequately.
Even if the Underground Race's raiding parties made it into the Surface World, they would have a hard time assembling a large force for now. And with the special medicine still not widely available, the corrosive force of the Surface World remained a problem they couldn't ignore.
That meant large-scale raids still carried enormous risks for the raiders.
These were all advantages the Surface World could make good use of.
The old man thought for a long while, then sighed. "Nobody can say for sure how many infiltrators have poured into the Surface World. Back then, the legacy families didn't keep in close contact with one another. In those days, the legacy clans were also constantly jockeying for position and power behind the scenes. Many of them weren't close at all—in fact, some had pretty bad relations."
"Of course, it wasn't like that across the board. Some families got along well. I kept in regular contact with about a dozen old friends I was very close to, as well as some of their descendants. To have willingly infiltrated the Underground World under such difficult circumstances, they must have been shaped by their family traditions and have a strong sense of responsibility. They're absolutely trustworthy."
"Only a dozen?" Jiang Yue was dumbfounded. He'd thought there would be at least a few hundred, or at the very least eighty or a hundred.
He hadn't expected there to be so few.
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