Five hours had passed since the Legion officially invaded Gonzales.
Within the Legion High Network.
Conductor: The operational objective has been achieved. Two-thirds of the resource planets within Gonzales have been plundered. Calculations indicate that excessive plundering would draw widespread attention across the Star Sea and affect the Legion's plans to lie low. Artist: Agreed. Performer: Calculation results from the Wisdom designated Conductor have been received. This unit concurs. The Legion's operational objective has been achieved. Legion withdrawal is now being coordinated.
Almost instantly, nearly all the Legion's mechas began withdrawing from Gonzales in succession.
Meanwhile, unnoticed by anyone, the eyes of some tourists from various civilizations visiting Gonzales had already turned cold.
Not long after the wormholes throughout the Gonzales Co-Link disappeared, communications across Gonzales returned to normal.
The various star sectors under Gonzales's rule also began reporting their losses to the Gonzales Homeworld.
Nearly every report reaching the Gonzales Homeworld said the same thing: no civilian casualties, but the resource star regions had vanished.
When Wagner saw those reports, he coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Far away in Patricia, Cheng Yu and the others also learned through Wood that the Mechanicus's counterattack was over.
But no one could bring themselves to feel happy.
Outside, when Gonzales usernames reappeared on the Star Sea Network, the entire Star Sea turned its attention toward them once again.
At the same time, all the Infiltrator 0-6 spies who had assumed the identities of the original inhabitants received various messages. They all boiled down to one question: had they seen the Mechanicus's methods of warfare?
Every spy gave a simple answer: no. The enemy had never invaded the planetary surface, and they had seen no fighting in outer space either. Aside from the spaceports inexplicably exploding earlier and some starships