All right. Since the girls put it that way, their reasons for showing up in New Shuntian were naturally all perfectly legal and reasonable.
"Then let me guess: those attackers were all mercenaries and terrorists, right?" Yu Lian said with a smile.
"Exactly. They were all from mercenary outfits famous in the underworld. I mean the kind of famous mercenaries you find in the underworld, you understand, Commander Yu?" Zhixia said.
"...Miss, please don't use a precious military communications channel to crack jokes," Yu Lian said in a flat, deadpan voice.
The "underworld," of course, referred to illegal mercenaries who weren't registered with the Adventurers' Guild or the public security agencies of any country. They'd take any job as long as they were paid. In the eyes of official institutions, these mercenary groups were no different from terrorists.
Of course, that didn't mean they had no principles. In fact, in certain circumstances, they were even more trustworthy than so-called legitimate mercenary groups. If the contract said to wipe out the whole family, they'd wipe out the whole family. They'd be too embarrassed to collect the rest of their fee if even one dog got away.
"Still, some people who were backed into a corner took poison and killed themselves. The surviving prisoners all identified them as the employer's representatives and the ones directing the fighting at the scene," Lilia said.
"We had three guys on our end who blew themselves up. They'd hidden bombs in their teeth, so their heads went pop, pop, like balloons..." Daina puffed out her cheeks and mimed blowing air.
"Seventeen people in total committed suicide. We're still investigating their identities. But, A-Lian, you know as well as I do that we're unlikely to find out anything useful," Zhixia said.
Yu Lian nodded to show he