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This was the last thing either of them wanted to discuss. After a brief mention, they tacitly fell silent.
Then Momonga crunched on a piece of ice and continued, "By the way, Loa, did you find any trace of the Revolutionary Army on the island?"
"The Revolutionary Army? I have a few suspicions."
At first, Loa had only intended to complete his mission. He had never imagined the Revolutionary Army would be on the island too, so naturally he hadn't noticed any sign of them.
But after finishing his business, he went to see whether any more cannons had been smuggled onto the island. That was when he discovered that Jones's underground arms depot had been cleaned out!
And "cleaned out" was exactly the phrase.
Not a thing left!
Jones, who had been showing them the way, had been a sight to behold. His face had gone black, Bai, green, and yellow by turns, like a vat of mixed dye.
Then, with Gangying's help, Loa and the others found a few traces.
They found no one, but one thing was clear: while Loa attacked the island, a group had taken advantage of the chaos to make off with the high-end weapons Jones had obtained through his connections with the Dragon People.
More importantly, it seemed they couldn't carry everything away. They had detonated the weapons left beneath the Forest Altar, destroying them completely and burning a huge swath of Jones's carefully raised Ghost-faced insects to death.
Those insects had been one of the traps Jones prepared for Loa. But before he could use it, he had been defeated and captured.
From a bird's-eye view, the coincidences were remarkable.
First, Loa prepared to attack Kuriswia. Jones tried to get someone else to