Outside the laboratory, Gedo silently left after witnessing the scene.
He had thought these spies were tough, but it turned out they were just like this?
Upon returning to the lounge, he found Yulia already there, staring expressionlessly at a photo of Lily hanging on the wall.
He curled his lips, not speaking to Yulia.
Yulia's popularity within the Truth Society was extremely poor; on one hand, it was because she herself was very cold and arrogant, always wearing a sour expression as if she looked down on everyone, which made many people hostile towards her.
On the other hand, it was because her identity was very special; she didn't genuinely join the Truth Society but was forced to work for it after being captured by the President, so very few people in the Truth Society would try to build good relations with her.
However, one thing that had to be admitted was that Yulia's true strength was formidable.
Her ability was rated as 'Forbidden-level' within the Truth Society; what she had shown so far included enslaving others, creating doppelgangers, large-scale mass killing, levitation, and superpower fields—abilities that if others possessed even one, they could soar.
This was also why Gedo believed that with Yulia joining, they could eliminate Lily.
"I heard Lily is here?" Yulia's voice suddenly echoed in the room.
Gedo paused for a moment before replying, "That's right."
"Excellent, I was just about to go find her, but I didn't expect her to deliver herself to my doorstep."
Yulia licked her lips, her icy blue eyebrows also relaxing with excitement.
She didn't want to be this crazy, but her time was running out; once the Truth Society figured out all her abilities, she would lose her value, so she had to break free from her cage as quickly as possible.
Hopefully, Lily could satisfy her.
Gedo ignored the somewhat abnormal-looking Yulia, and after sitting down in a chair, he immediately relayed what happened at Bagaros Base to headquarters.
Upon receiving the news, Bernardo, Minister of the Combat Department, felt a sudden jolt in his heart, thinking it was bad news.
He nervously found the President, who was executing someone in the interrogation room, and seeing the breathless person in the interrogation room, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
"Pre... President, Gedo just sent back a message."
"What, have he and Yulia already killed Lily?" The President turned around, wiping his hands with a tissue.
Bernardo said, "No, they haven't even set off yet.
Lily and the Gene Primordial people were attracted by the bait we set up in Bagaros, and then..."
The President's face darkened, "Don't tell me the operation to kill Lily has failed again?"
"That's not it."
Bernardo swallowed, "The situation is much more serious than that.
Just now, Bagaros Base captured Lily's lackey..."
He recounted what had just happened.
Without his explanation, after hearing what he said, the President understood that Inoue's exposure was 99% likely unrelated to an inside mole, but rather because Lily's lackey named crouching tigers and hidden dragons had the ability to resurrect from the dead.
So...
He turned around and looked at the high-ranking Truth Society official whom he had beaten to death under the guise of 'rectification'.
No wonder, no matter how harshly he dealt with him just now, even using Yulia's ability, this person stubbornly insisted that he had nothing to do with Lily or the Gene Primordial.
It turned out it wasn't because this person was stubborn, but because he really wasn't an inside mole; he was just simply dishonest and had embezzled a lot of money.
"Bai! Fu!"
The hoarse voice was squeezed out of his throat.
Bernardo was sweating profusely.
After a long while, he finally heard the President say, "This matter is not to be leaked today."
How could Bernardo dare to say no? He quickly agreed.
...
On the other side, Lily, as one of the main forces of the Four Directions in this operation, was attending a pre-war meeting hosted by the Gene Primordial military.
For this attack on Bagaros Base, the Gene Primordial dispatched many people.
Perhaps to retaliate against the Truth Society's disgraceful defection of Inoue, the Intelligence Bureau alone sent out two subordinate departments, the Third and Four Directions, and the military side also dispatched influential figures within the Gene Primordial.
However, this created a problem.
Too many cooks spoil the broth; the meeting instantly devolved into an argument.
The attendees argued fiercely over whether the Intelligence Bureau should first conduct reconnaissance and then launch a general attack, or if the military should launch the attack while the Intelligence Bureau took the opportunity to infiltrate Bagaros Base.
Director Madeleine, who usually liked to slack off, surprisingly became the main force in the argument this time, completely unafraid even when facing threats from the military representative.
"Don't look at Boss Lu, he usually acts like a slacker, but when it comes to external matters, he's very responsible.
Otherwise, how would those connected individuals in our Four Directions be convinced by him?
Who doesn't like a leader who doesn't dictate internally and is willing to proactively shield them from external storms?"
Si whispered to Lily.
Lily nodded.
Her impression of the Four Directions was actually quite good; except for that birdman Inoue, almost no one had made things difficult for her, and recently, when they saw her, they would sweet-talk her with "Sister Lily" or "Sister Bai."
Lily looked around, and just then, she suddenly received a game notification.
[Under your indirect influence, the Truth Society has suffered a certain degree of damage]
What the heck?
Lily was a bit confused.
She was sitting here in a meeting, doing nothing, so how did the Truth Society get damaged under her influence?
She quickly opened the plot quest [Truth Unknown] which was triggered after defeating the second wave of assassins sent by Inoue.
After exposing Inoue, the progress of this quest increased from 0% to 0.13%, and after that, the progress never moved again.
But now, when she looked again, she found that the progress had somehow increased to 0.28%.
What the hell, could it be a game bug?
Lily was confused; she checked the game notifications for a long time but still couldn't figure out the situation.
However, considering that an increase in quest progress was not a bad thing from any perspective, she stopped dwelling on it.
"Is the meeting over?"
She asked Si and Shino beside her.
Shino said, "It was finally decided that our Intelligence Bureau would first investigate the situation, and the formal operation will be in half an hour."
Lily had no objection; even if she did, it wouldn't change anything.
As she and Shino chatted, Bask, the military representative, suddenly walked over.
"You must be Lily, right? I am Bask from the Gene Primordial Combat Strategy Office."
Bask had a gentle smile on his face, "I heard that it was entirely thanks to you that the Four Directions was able to expose the traitor Inoue.
I look forward to your performance in this operation."
He simply greeted her and then left.
Lily didn't pay too much attention, merely instinctively casting Psionic Vision on the stranger she encountered, but the feedback data was very interesting.
[Affection]: Hostile (-31)
"Is he on good terms with Inoue?" Lily asked.
Shino shook her head, "I haven't heard of him having any connection with Inoue."
That doesn't make sense then; what I did doesn't affect him.
Could it be that he's also a spy for the Truth Society, or is he jealous of my beauty?
Lily remained calm, preparing to find a player to keep an eye on Bask, just in case of any accidents.
She brought so many players over; it would be a waste not to utilize them properly.
As she walked outside, she saw Excavation Princess running over in a hurry.
"Oh no, Fufu, something big has happened!"
"What is it?" Lily was slightly stunned.
Excavation Princess glanced at Si and Shino, revealing a look of difficulty.
Lily immediately understood her meaning and proactively led her aside: "You can speak now."
Excavation Princess said, "Just now, Sword Qi Soaring to the Sky and the others secretly ran to Bagaros, and then they were captured by the Truth Society's people.
Now our whereabouts have been exposed.
The only good news is that they sent out the location of Bagaros Base."
She handed Lily a hand-drawn map, with a large red cross marked on it.
The moment she saw the red cross, Lily's eyes flashed with a sharp light.
The location of Bagaros Base indicated by this red cross was completely different from the point marked on the map the military representative showed at the meeting.
Bagaros was indeed a trap set by the Truth Society; they built a fake base, and the real base was several miles away from the fake one.
Unfortunately, no matter how cunning the Truth Society was, they couldn't have imagined the existence of even more cunning beings like players in this world.
Lily looked at the more than one hundred players who came with her.
Truth Society, I'm coming for you!
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