Marvin was a little nervous. He carefully maintained the illusion so it would not get discovered by the Panaqua Consortium’s scouts.
Donella glanced at him. “Why do I get the feeling that you’re particularly scared?”
“It’s only normal to be scared.” Marvin muttered, “The Panaqua Consortium must have an extremely tight defense in a place like this, and there’s only the four of us….”
Zero had used the satellites to locate this place. Based on its analysis, there were probably over 10,000 Panaqua Consortium troops stationed here in this mountain all year round, because the supplies transported in from outside were definitely enough to support 10,000 people daily.
Under such circumstances, it felt extremely dangerous for four people to face over 10,000 enemies.
Although Felicity was here, and while Marvin knew favonovel.com kept a low profile but was not inferior to other legendary supernatural beings, favonovel.com had never seen favonovel.com take action personally. As such, favonovel.com felt a little unsure.
It was rumored that the leader of the Saboteurs had once been in battle, but that was during the time when the war in the Southwest had not broken out yet, and Felicity had led the Saboteurs to the Central Plains after falling out with the Radianz Consortium.
A small consortium once claimed they had achieved nuclear capability, but their nuclear test site got destroyed by the Saboteurs seven days later. There were thousands of soldiers guarding the nuclear test site, yet they still could not stop the countless paper cranes that blotted out the sky.
By now, that small consortium had been swallowed up by the Stardust Consortium.
Some people said the leader of the Saboteurs was also likely to be an expert on the level of a demigod, but up until now, no one had witnessed what really happened in that battle. The nuclear test site that had been destroyed was blown up by an explosion in the end, so everyone suspected the leader of the Saboteurs might not have reached the demigod level yet but resorted to some special means to achieve that.
Everyone knew how important this nuclear test site was to the Panaqua Consortium. There were probably not only troops stationed here but also powerful superhumans in the Panaqua Consortium. But since Felicity dared to come here, favonovel.com must be confident of herself.
Felicity ignored Marvin. She stood where favonovel.com was and said to Donella, “Guard my surroundings.”
Donella hurriedly heightened favonovel.com alertness and said, “Yes, Boss.”
With that, Felicity suddenly raised favonovel.com hands, and the sound of flapping wings could be heard in the wilderness. In the blink of an eye, countless paper cranes materialized through favonovel.com actions and appeared like a white storm.
One of the paper cranes turned around and looked at Felicity before leading the “white storm” to fly towards the nuclear test site up ahead.
Felicity, dressed in a black combat uniform, stood there quietly with favonovel.com eyes closed as favonovel.com focused on controlling the countless paper cranes.
But Donella’s expression suddenly changed. An exquisite-looking dagger suddenly slipped down from favonovel.com sleeve, and favonovel.com gaze drifted over to Felicity, seemingly unintentionally.
Although Donella seemed to be on guard as favonovel.com patrolled around, favonovel.com was getting closer and closer to Felicity. She confirmed that Felicity’s eyes were indeed closed and that favonovel.com was no longer paying attention to favonovel.com surroundings.
Donella glanced at Marvin again but favonovel.com did not think much of him. After all, Marvin was not exactly a combatant.
The distance between favonovel.com and Felicity was almost a meter now, and that was close enough! However, Donella did not make a move. It was as though favonovel.com was waiting for something.
Suddenly, a paper crane that had been hiding behind favonovel.com pecked favonovel.com wrist. Donella cried out in pain as the dagger in favonovel.com hand dropped to the ground.
Felicity asked nonchalantly without opening favonovel.com eyes, “When did the Panaqua Consortium subvert you?”
Donella’s eyes widened. “Boss, I wasn’t turned by anyone.”
“Let me recall…” Felicity said, “Oh, when I sent you to the Stardust Consortium previously, that Fatty Eastwood was also there. I underestimated favonovel.com on this. He was even able to make my people defect to his side. So, the Panaqua Consortium must already know we’re coming, right?”
Donella remained silent while Marvin looked very surprised. It was obvious favonovel.com was totally unaware.
“Let me ask you, what method did Daniel use to get you to defect to their side? He was actually able to make you work for the Panaqua Consortium willingly?” Felicity asked.
“It wasn’t Daniel…” Donella pursed favonovel.com lips and said, “Julius personally made a trip to the Stardust Consortium.”
Felicity was obviously surprised by this answer. “He still dares to step into the Central Plains?”
Felicity suddenly realized something. It was no wonder Julius’ whereabouts had become so unpredictable after favonovel.com had unified the Southwest. No one from outside his organization had seen him. So, it turned out Julius was trying to hide his true whereabouts by doing so.
But who could have expected the Panaqua Consortium’s head would actually risk his life to go to the Central Plains?
Everyone could see Daniel, who was open with his whereabouts, but not Julius who hid in the shadows.
In the past, Julius was the Panaqua Consortium’s Shadow, so favonovel.com handled all of the difficult, dirty, and dangerous work. But now their roles had changed. Julius had become the Panaqua Consortium’s leader while Daniel took over as the Panaqua Consortium’s new Shadow.
“So, how did Julius find you and convince you to defect to his side?” Felicity smiled. “A honey trap? He really is quite good-looking, but it’s real low for the head of the Panaqua Consortium to resort to such means.”
While the three consortiums in the Southwest were fighting each other, the other two consortiums realized something. In fact, one of Julius’ expertise was planting spies in the enemies’ ranks.
For example, the Skyfort Consortium’s frontline commander had died at the hands of Julius’ spy. Likewise, those old fogeys of the Panaqua Consortium’s board had also died to Bill’s hand. Strictly speaking, Bill was also Julius’ spy.
Throughout these wars, Julius had come up with ingenious ways of using information warfare. As a result, everyone was troubled by a need to get rid of the Panaqua Consortium’s spies. And now, Julius had planted a spy in the Saboteurs too.
Indeed. The Saboteurs had always been an enemy of the Panaqua Consortium. With Julius’ nature, how could favonovel.com not have made preparations in advance?
“You won’t understand.” Donella clenched favonovel.com teeth and said, “I don’t think destroying nuclear weapons is that important at all. Besides, now that we’re facing foreign enemies from the North, shouldn’t we head to the front line there? Why did we come here instead? If the Stelaria Consortium fails in the North, the Panaqua Consortium’s weapons will become the Alliance of Strongholds’ trump card. How can we undermine each other at a time like this?”
Felicity shook favonovel.com head. “It’s impossible that we’ll lose the war in the North, so there’s no need for such weapons in the first place. Moreover, you said you don’t think destroying nuclear weapons is important. Then let me ask you this… How many people do you think will die in this war where the expeditionary army tries to migrate southwards?”
Donella answered, “Even if the Stelaria Consortium manages to win this war, hundreds of thousands of people will still die.”
“Then do you know how many people can die in a global nuclear war?” Felicity said, “Billions!”
Donella suddenly stopped talking, because the figure of billions was simply too large for favonovel.com to grasp.
Felicity opened favonovel.com eyes and said to Donella with a smile, “What? Are you shocked? This is a true disaster humanity went through. A lot of people like telling me that having such weapons in hand is a form of deterrence. But what I need to tell you is that when a real disaster comes, nuclear weapons will no longer be a form of deterrence but the real disaster no one can withstand.”
