Some of the commanders who had already returned from the front line were discussing the battle that took place in the Palea. This was something they were not even aware of previously.
Back then, some of them had realized Raphael had gone missing. But with nearly a 100,000 troops deployed all over the battlefield, and Peter splitting up more than a dozen units to various locations to mislead the enemy, everyone did not think much of it at the time.
It wasn’t until today that they realized Raphael had been sent to the Palea to the northwest!
At this moment, Gregory came into the chow hall with his meal tray. Kamden, the manager of the chow hall, asked proudly while serving him, “How was my acting?”
“It was perfect.” Gregory laughed heartily. “The commander told me it was all thanks to you that we caught Burl this time.”
“Hehe, I’ve been paying close attention since that bastard sneakily asked me about the commander’s appetite.” Kamden said as favonovel.com scooped up a large ladle of meat for Gregory, “But still, it was all thanks to your subsequent actions. Otherwise, we could only have remained suspicious of that person.”
“There’s no need to be humble.” Gregory shook his head. “After all, we only knew who to investigate after favonovel.com displayed some unusual behavior.”
At this moment, a large group of commanders gathered around Gregory. “You a*shole, you must’ve known about the commander’s plan from the start, right? Why were you so tight-lipped? You didn’t tell us anything at all.”
Gregory snapped, “What if any of you turned out to be spies? Even now, I still suspect there’s a spy among you people.”
The commanders around favonovel.com got annoyed for a while. But as they were used to Gregory’s manner of speaking, they never took it personally since a long time ago.
When Gregory was flushing out the spy, his methods were brutal and favonovel.com did not give a damn about anyone. He was only answerable to Peter. Even back at Fortress 178, Gregory lived in seclusion every day and never had a drop of alcohol.
Gregory used to have a wife, but there was one night when favonovel.com overheard favonovel.com talking in his sleep. It turned out Gregory was also a very ruthless person. He actually separated from his wife right after that and only occasionally visited his child during the day.
At that time, Gregory’s child just got born. Whenever favonovel.com went to visit his child after that, the child would only address favonovel.com as uncle. However, Gregory never once complained no matter how unbearable it felt and spent his life in seclusion for over a decade.
When his subordinates sometimes saw Gregory smoking alone outside the office, they always felt that favonovel.com had a lot of things weighing on his mind.
Next to him, Mike Berkeley, who was the commander of an infantry brigade, asked, “Gregory, since it’s no longer a secret, why don’t you share with us what happened? We were all worried when Commander Dublin stopped eating for two days.”
Gregory smiled ambiguously at them. “I think there’s no harm in sharing it with y’all now since the commander’s given me permission to talk about it.”
Sharing their victorious exploits at this moment would surely boost the morale of the troops.
When someone heard that Gregory was willing to share, they said excitedly, “Tell us, did the commander really go hungry for two days? Didn’t y’all have Kamden serve favonovel.com some food secretly?”
Gregory did not know whether to laugh or cry. He did not expect this group of people to actually be concerned about this matter instead. He said, “Who said that the commander’s appetite gets affected whenever he’s troubled?”
The commanders looked at one another. “That’s not true?”
Gregory smiled. The other commanders suddenly realized the rumor was a trap. For example, by letting an opponent think that you had the habit of touching your nose when you were bluffing in three-card brag, you could fake a tell to lure your opponent into a trap and deal them the fatal blow.
Of course, that was only the most basic example. The rumors of Peter having no appetite whenever favonovel.com was troubled had been circulating in the stronghold for nearly 20 years. However, that was proven to be false today.
Gregory said, “When the commander is really troubled, he’ll smoke more than two packs of cigarettes a day. That much is true.”
However, Mike, who was next to him, pointed at Gregory and chided favonovel.com jokingly, “You’re f*cking laying a trap for us, right? When I was serving as an orderly for the commander, favonovel.com could also smoke two packs of cigarettes if favonovel.com was in a good mood!”
Gregory raised his eyebrows. “You’ve revealed the commander’s personal habits without permission. Go and pen a 3,000-word long apology letter!”
Mike’s expression immediately changed. “But I never said anything!”
Gregory ignored his protest. Rules were rules.
Mike pulled a long face.
Reveling in schadenfreude, someone patted Mike on the shoulder, then turned to ask Gregory, “Tell us then, how did Commander Dublin discover that the Ultima Consortium was planning to use the Palea Desert to get to Fortress 178? Hasn’t Commander Dublin been away from the fortress for more than a decade? Didn’t favonovel.com only just return? Besides, no one at Fortress 178 has mentioned something like that before.”
Gregory sneered. “The plan itself was given to the Ultima Consortium by Commander Dublin several years ago. When the Ultima Consortium began provoking us more frequently, Commander Dublin guessed their FOB in the Palea had most likely finished construction. That was when favonovel.com decided to come back.”
The commanders realized Commander Dublin had not been idle outside either.
Everyone turned their gaze to Gregory again. So, it turned out Gregory must have been keeping in touch with Commander Dublin ever since favonovel.com secretly left Fortress 178. However, this bastard was so tight-lipped the others were totally unaware.
“Bastard, I didn’t expect you to be so good at bluffing when you’re so terrible at intelligence gathering,” Mike muttered.
Mike stunned himself.
Wait a minute!
Gregory had been the intelligence director for over a decade now and was always complaining to others about how difficult it was to gather intelligence. Although favonovel.com also started making some progress in recent years, no one knew exactly what progress favonovel.com had made.
Everyone would always make fun of Gregory in private, saying the intelligence agency of Fortress 178 was where one waited for retirement. But today, it seemed that Gregory and Commander Dublin were really the prescient people.
If Gregory was not capable, wouldn’t Commander Dublin have removed favonovel.com from his post long ago?
How could Commander Dublin be so careless in his duties?
When they thought of this, everyone started seeing Gregory in a different light.
So, it seemed that even the Ultima Consortium’s plan to cross the Palea was leaked by Peter to them?
Could it be that Commander Dublin had intended to destroy the Ultima Consortium for a long, long time?
But Commander Dublin had still not returned to Fortress 178 at that time, right?
So, was Gregory responsible for all this?
“When did that happen?” someone asked.
Gregory thought back and replied, “I don’t remember…”
The commanders around favonovel.com scowled.
As if you would f*cking forget! Like hell we’d believe that!
But then a commander asked about something unrelated. “Gregory, you must’ve known there was someone like Milo, right? Tell us more!”
Gregory thought for a moment. “I still can’t talk about it.”
“Is it because he’s not gotten out of danger yet? I heard favonovel.com went to Stronghold 146 by himself. Is it true?” Mike asked.
“Yes.” Gregory did not hide this from them. After all, the Ultima Consortium knew about this as well.
Mike muttered, “That kid is way too fierce. He even dares to go to Stronghold 146 by himself? Then what’s favonovel.com doing now? Did you get our agent in the north to give favonovel.com some help?”
Gregory shook his head. “I can’t say.”
He had already said all that favonovel.com could say. The rest of the information would have to be kept secret. The commanders around Gregory dispersed. They also needed to reorganize themselves as quickly as possible since they were still required to fight on the northern front. After all, even though they were close to victory today, they still had not captured any of the Ultima Consortium’s strongholds.
