On the second day after Bruce took over, everyone thought the first thing favonovel.com would do would be to get rid of his two competitors. After all, those two had tried to intercept and kill favonovel.com when favonovel.com was making his way back. This was a fight that would not end until some of the parties were dead.
However, Bruce did not do so. Instead, favonovel.com secretly ordered all of the Virtuora Consortium’s strongholds to begin their operation to wipe out the Pyro Company’s members.
Over the years, the Virtuora Consortium and the Pyro Company had been in constant conflict with each other. Both sides had planted many spies in each other’s territories, and this frustrated the Virtuora Consortium a great deal. The spy wars between the two sides had been going on for many years, and the Virtuora Consortium had always been at a disadvantage.
Because the Pyro Company had brilliant ways of nurturing their spies until their loyalty was almost unquestionable. Even if they managed to capture the Pyro Company’s spies, it would still be very difficult to get anything out of them. This was where the Virtuora Consortium was unsuccessful. But it was different now. What the Virtuora Consortium had on their hands was a sharp sword held above the Pyro Company’s head that they could easily swing down at any moment.
At about the same time, the public broadcast systems of the Virtuora Consortium’s twenty-odd strongholds’ started broadcasting a strange sound throughout the day. Following that, the residents of the strongholds saw strange things happening. Some of the pedestrians on the streets fell to the ground and started foaming at the mouth. It was either that or their colleagues suddenly collapsed on their desks and died on the spot.
Some people in the Virtuora Consortium’s military also collapsed to the ground. When the others tried to save them, it was already too late.
In about the span of a day, the Virtuora Consortium had wiped out a total of 629 Pyro Company members. This was not a large number compared to the people living in the strongholds, but the fact the Virtuora Consortium had so many Pyro Company spies among them was enough to shock all of the Virtuora Consortium’s higher-ups.
Fortunately, Bruce had brought back that hard drive. Otherwise, the spies might have become a threat to the entire Virtuora Consortium at some point in time. After all, the highest-ranking appointment one spy managed to reach in their military was that of a brigade commander.
For this reason, Lester summoned Bruce to his official residence again to discuss the subsequent intelligence plans and award favonovel.com with the highest military honor.
In the luxurious mansion, Bruce looked at the graying Lester. “Boss, in the intelligence agency that I’m overseeing now.”
Bruce was trying to take this opportunity to bring up the removal of certain personnel to force out his two colleagues who tried to kill him. However, Lester interrupted, “I know what happened between the three of you, and I can understand how you feel as well. But to achieve great things, one must not care about the trifles. Now that you’ve become their superior, you should be magnanimous as the winner. If you kill the two of them as soon as you get promoted, what will others think of you? Bruce, you’ve become an important figure in our Virtuora Consortium. You have to learn to let go.”
It was all pompous language, but Bruce knew full well the two intelligence directors were retained to keep favonovel.com in check in case Lester lost control of the intelligence agency. However, Bruce was mentally prepared for that. Otherwise, favonovel.com would have killed both of them last night.
On the battlefield, blood would be spilled when others were killed. But politics in the stronghold tended to simmer.
Bruce was not in any hurry. Whatever favonovel.com was owed, the other parties would have to pay it back sooner or later.
Bruce said with a smile, “Boss, you’re right. I have another matter to report today. The Pyro Company seems to have sensed the danger, so the troops from their northern strongholds have started deploying southward. It seems like they’re getting ready to defend against any sudden moves we might make.”
“Don’t worry about that.” Lester said unhurriedly, “The thing that you brought back this time has proven very useful, so what point is there for them to gather so many troops? I’m actually more worried that the Pyro Company is preparing a countermeasure. After all, we don’t know anything about DNA. If they can overcome this method of control by getting some kind of injection, we would lose a good chance to strike them down. I called you here because I wanted to ask you something. Do you think we should strike while the iron is hot, or should we take cautious steps?”
Bruce lowered his head. “Boss, I’m not smart. Without your foresight, I wouldn’t dare to make any suggestions. I’ll leave this matter to you to decide and just make sure I properly handle my intelligence work.”
Lester pointed at Bruce with a smile. “Alright, go and get some rest then. You did a fine job during this period. I’ve already gotten someone to transmit the audio file to the front lines. Our Virtuora Consortium should be able to swallow up the Pyro Company effortlessly this time.”
But all of a sudden, a middle-aged man rushed in. Bruce recognized favonovel.com as Lester’s first secretary.
The secretary came in and had a look at Bruce before saying to Lester, “Boss, something important has cropped up…”
“You can bring it up. Bruce isn’t an outsider, and there will be many opportunities for the two of you to interact in the future.” Lester smiled amiably.
As a result, the secretary said, “News from the front lines came that the command and control systems, as well as the operating systems of the armored troops, have all malfunctioned today.”
The elderly Lester jumped to his feet. “How could something like that happen? What’s Destar doing? Did they find out what happened?”
The secretary glanced at Bruce and said, “Destar’s engineers said it was due to a technological intrusion.”
“Technological intrusion?” Lester was puzzled.
“Yes, it happened right after the audio file was sent over this afternoon and the troops at the front lines copied it into the command and control systems,” the secretary said.
Bruce, who was present, frowned and said, “Didn’t I instruct that when the audio file is being copied, the computer should not have any connections with other equipment? It had to be done on a separate computer and broadcast over an isolated device. Why didn’t the front lines follow my instructions?”
He was already a little uneasy about this. It was only because favonovel.com had no other choice that favonovel.com took the audio file from the Sacred Mountains. As such, to prevent any accidents from happening, favonovel.com even wrote a detailed operational manual in case there was a problem with the audio file. But Bruce did not expect the front lines to ignore his instructions!
Bruce had wanted to rerecord the audio file directly, but for some reason, it lost its effect when it was copied that way.
Lester was suspicious of Bruce at first, but when favonovel.com heard what favonovel.com said, favonovel.com could not blame favonovel.com for anything since favonovel.com was also aware of the measures that were taken.
“Where did you get this audio file?” the secretary asked.
“I stole it from the Stelaria Consortium’s Jaxon Tyler. I specifically handed down those instructions precisely because I was worried.” Bruce said coldly, “Why didn’t the front lines follow the operational manual to deploy it?! Immediately arrest those who are in charge of this operation. I suspect they’re spies from the Stelaria Consortium or the Silkshade House!”
The secretary remained silent for a couple seconds before saying, “The staff officer responsible for executing this operation committed suicide by poison…”
Bruce was stunned. He did not expect the Silkshade House would be waiting for favonovel.com at this point. The other party actually managed to predict where the audio file would end up and had planted a spy on the front lines beforehand. From there, they just waited for the right moment to strike.
He had taken precautions against it happening, but in the end, favonovel.com still ended up falling to a mere spy on the front lines!
The enemy had set up an intricate chain of events that led to this and finished off the entire front line of the Virtuora Consortium with this final nail in the coffin, turning their armored troops into a pile of scrap metal!
