Bait and a Transport Mission
The gill-bearing Aliens headed toward Special Defense Department headquarters. The five Players in Wenshan Mountain also left from different locations, with Special Defense Department Players following close behind. They weren't only after the Aliens—they were also carrying out the original bombing plan.
The plan had been to wait thirty minutes, but the changing situation had already pushed things past that point. The Special Defense Department issued a new order: the bombing was still to go ahead.
Xu Huo also received a call from Team Leader Wu. He asked about the latest water quality report and learned that the black rain's composition hadn't changed much. That made him realize something else: the basin might be one source of the black rain, but it wasn't necessarily the only one.
If the item's special properties allowed the basin to sustain such heavy rainfall, then purifying it just now should have caused a dramatic change in the rain over the Capital City area.
Why had the Aliens brought the item toward the Capital City? And after the Players from Country Y failed in their mission to guard the item, why had they also retreated in that direction?
A flood of thoughts came to him, only to be dismissed one after another in a matter of seconds. Xu Huo called Nie Xuan.
Nie Xuan was still interrogating the Player. He'd tried items and drugs that affected the mind, but hadn't gotten much useful information. After all that effort, the only conclusion he'd reached was that the Player was bait—and that he couldn't kill him.
"Found anything useful?" Nie Xuan cut straight to the point.
"Did you know the Aliens under the basin were heading toward Special Defense Department headquarters?" Xu Huo said. "They can't think. They only run in straight