The Traitor

The feedback left the captain stunned. Their situation was not an isolated case. Across the Coalition Army, nearly every race had reported warships being infiltrated by the Zerg, and the number of such reports was still growing.

Not long after he reported the situation, a second warship from their own race discovered a Zerg infiltration, followed by a third, a fourth, a fifth...

More and more warships were found to have been infiltrated by the Zerg. Nor was it limited to their race; every race in the Coalition Army was facing the same issue. This shocked everyone, because it meant the situation had become serious.

At first, when the Zerg infiltrations appeared only sporadically, no one was overly nervous. They assumed these were isolated incidents—that the Zerg had used some unknown method to place combat units aboard their warships.

The Operations Staff Department's conclusion at the time was that a handful of their own personnel had been corrupted by the Zerg. While the war was still in its preparation stage and the fleet was still at the Star Port, those people had helped the Zerg smuggle individual units aboard the warships.

As for why they had been corrupted and what benefits had swayed them, no conclusion had yet been reached. But they could investigate slowly and root out those black sheep.

However, as the number of infiltrated warships surged, the Coalition Army Staff Department's speculation collapsed on its own. A few people would have been understandable. After all, this was the Zerg borderlands. The Zerg had fought here for a hundred years without a single defeat, influencing far too many neighboring civilizations.

And ninety percent of the personnel at the Coalition Army's forward Star Port came from surrounding civilizations. There were always individuals who liked to be unconventional and stand