Inside the command tent, White Tiger Duke Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu sat at a table, their faces clouded with worry.
The Sun Moon Empire's war target was not the Star Luo Empire. That was certainly good news, but both Xu Jiujiu and Dai Hao regretted being unable to exploit the lack of military forces within the Sun Moon Empire to launch an attack, striking where the enemy would be forced to come to the rescue.
"What should we do?"
Xu Jiujiu murmured, "Thermal Soul Tools, High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools-even factoring in the Soul Tool Seismic Detector Chen Ping mentioned seeing in Rising Sun City-theoretically, they still shouldn't be able to discover our elite troops before they reach the Mingdou Mountain Range, should they?"
"That's what puzzles me too," Dai Hao said. "The Mingdou Mountain Range is simply too vast. Without pinpointing their personnel and equipment, even if we have Cannons capable of firing over extremely long distances, how much damage indiscriminate bombardment could inflict would still be unknown."
"But the crux of the matter is, how exactly did the Sun Moon Empire learn our squads' movements? Could there be a spy among us?"
At this point, Dai Hao closed his eyes in thought, his expression grave.
The squads he had organized on these recent occasions had all been drawn from his personal guards and battle-hardened elite soldiers. Every one of them was fearless in the face of death. Even if there really were one or two traitors among them, surely there couldn't be a traitor in every squad?
"Is it possible that this actually has nothing to do with traitors, and that beyond the High-Altitude Detectors, the Sun Moon Empire has another super Soul Tool that costs more and detects things over greater distances?"
Just then, a ringing male