The words "Bizarre Tree" alone were enough to leave Jiang Ying and Old Jin utterly shocked. They knew all too well how much commotion the Bizarre Tree had caused in Star City. The entire Star City operations department had been mobilized, and even then, they had only just managed to suppress the Bizarre Tree, eliminate all its agents, and force it into hiding.
The Bizarre Tree in the Western Frontier Military Region had nearly brought down the entire region. If reinforcements from across the country hadn't rushed there, and if the Star City team hadn't performed so well, the Western Frontier Military Region would probably have been under the Bizarre Tree's control by now.
Who could have guessed that less than a month after the fighting in the Western Frontier Military Region had ended, and only a few days after the Star City team had returned, trouble would flare up right in Star City's backyard?
The Bizarre Tree had even nearly infiltrated the area around Mount Dajin, yet the military had been so slow to catch on. It was rather embarrassing, to say the least.
No wonder Jiang Ying and Old Jin looked so grim.
No matter how many excuses or reasons they could come up with, none of them justified their failure to notice.
They represented the strongest and highest-ranking armed force in the Central South Military Region. Other departments could make all kinds of excuses, saying they lacked personnel or resources, and come up with one reason after another. But the military could never make excuses!
And yet Jiang Du had said that his intelligence was ten times more important than the Bizarre Tree!
The news about the Bizarre Tree in Star City was already explosive. Anything ten times more important than that had to involve a massive