Just as they'd thought.
Qin Luo and the others exchanged a glance. The intentions of City I's leader were plain to see.
Blatantly obvious.
Bai Shu continued typing on his tablet. [What's the deal with that bodyguard? Are you sure your mayor is innocent?]
The report said the bodyguard had been hospitalized after saving people, while the mayor had worked tirelessly, gathering all the Ability Users to fight the Mutated Marine Creatures.
The plea for help had painted a picture of heroic sacrifice.
Was it all a lie?
Little Deer recited her script aloud while typing. She was remarkably good at multitasking.
[Our mayor is a good man. It's that bodyguard who's vicious. He gives most of the orders now, and the mayor is helpless too.]
[There's something else. That bodyguard keeps demanding mutant cores from other Ability Users. But I found a wristband once and briefly browsed a forum. It clearly said mutant cores were very useful for improving an Ability User's abilities and other things. The people running the base have hidden that information, though, and they never give Ability Users wristbands.]
[Our base is extremely, extremely backward. Nobody has any way to contact the outside world.]
That left them terribly isolated and ignorant of many things. The bodyguard was currently the leader of the base's Ability Users, and everyone called him Lord Yi. He kept recruiting ordinary Ability Users, then giving them plenty of perks.
All to make them work for him.
And those poorly informed ordinary Ability Users fell straight for his tricks.
As a result, the Ability Users at the base were all low-level. Many had barely reached level one.
Yi Liuqi also duped the squads that came here on missions. In short, even if they didn't work for him, they wouldn't expose what was