"What do you mean by unconventional methods?"
Xia Ke'an had always been speechless over Xu Shi's fondness for speaking in riddles. Hearing him keep her in suspense, she simply pressed on.
"More accurately, it's an idea."
Xu Shi pondered. "If the hacker attack on Night Sin City before wasn't enough to determine who was behind it, then what happened in the Qingyun Immortal Realm has completely convinced me."
If this fucking wasn't a chain of traps set by the Heavenly Principle, not even ghosts would believe it. Their headquarters got hit, and the people he sent out got into trouble right afterward. It couldn't possibly be a coincidence, could it?
Those bastards weren't even trying to hide anymore. The top-ranked codename in invader-t was "α," while the one who attacked Su Lin and the others was "β." They practically screamed biological siblings.
Everyone now knew that the members of the Heavenly Principle were mostly artificial humans. "Observers" like He Yuxia and Xu Ying were, and naturally, the so-called "Purgers" were too. As they had said, though, their divisions of labor differed, and so did their ranks.
But that wasn't the important part.
The important part was what they should do in the face of an enemy army taking the initiative and pressing down on them. According to Xia Ke'an's prophecy, their side was still unquestionably at a disadvantage.
"Don't tell me you want to take the initiative...?"
The old auntie was getting anxious and started guessing wildly.
"Are you insane?"
Xu Shi shot her a glance.
Taking the initiative was indeed unlikely. When Su Lin and the others faced a single powerful enemy, they could certainly try such a method to seize the initiative. But across the entire battlefield, the logic was different.
With the little high-end combat power they