"The entire Gold-digging Town has fallen?"
Ansheng looked surprised, glancing at Lin Qi, who was calmly explaining the current situation of the town.
Although Gold-digging Town is called a town, it has always been the territory of the Lin International, accumulated while doing business and operations alongside other miners.
Tropical Western Land belonged to Old Lin, with a large modern army stationed here, and together with Lin's in France, it formed a solid local authority.
Even with such military strength, could the Mayflower Organization really beat them like this?
Ansheng expressed his complete bewilderment.
"How rare is it to fall?"
Lin Qi sat on the sofa, casually trimming his cigar, gesturing outside with its tip, and said:
"We are businessmen, apart from the long-term strategies for family roots, our philosophy is all about profit. Our armed forces can retreat a step, my buddies who are as close as brothers can retreat by car."
As Lin Qi spoke, he couldn't hold back himself and almost laughed at those good brothers.
Master Fuli said Gold-digging Town was in danger, and Unos bolted off in a plane that very night after hearing the advice.
As soon as Lin Qi said to hold the fort with the initial Heaven Series generals and not rush into attack, other Landlords of Longevity retreated even faster, even relocating their supplies.
The business world is like a battlefield; for profit, even fathers can be betrayed, let alone allies.
The landlords don't care what Lin Qi said, they only watch what Lin Qi does. Lin Qi's order to hold meant selling out friends when it reached the allies' ears.
"The other side has a tradition of assassinations and kidnappings, Gold-digging Town is like a meat grinder, when the power in the hands of the authorities goes below a certain number, there's a chance of being abducted by the other side."
Unos looked towards Master Fuli and pointed out another reason for the fall of Gold-digging Town.
The ancestors of Mayflower were pirates, and after landing, they became bandits in the West.
They have a tradition of kidnapping and extorting rich merchants, but now robbery doesn't make money as fast as trade, so they are gradually abandoning their path dependence, yet if a suitable opportunity arises, they won't mind taking action.
The essence of Mayflower is as a cult organization, dedicated to bloodline supremacy and divine concepts, while Longevity Club belongs to a business monopoly alliance.
Both poor and fierce, and not afraid of death, that's those bloodline-zealous fanatics.
Suspicion among the Landlords of Longevity, coupled with encountering organized and disciplined desperadoes, caused a big retreat in Gold-digging Town, conceding the mountainous areas and half the city to others.
"Although Gold-digging Town has fallen, we also blocked the land transportation and surrounded them..."
"And to transport supplies, they have to go by air, and once they involve the aviation field, they're under our surveillance." Lin Qi said blandly after sipping his tea.
"It's a pity....that the Mayflower Organization didn't drive straight in, quickly exploring the ruins and looting valuables inside as we anticipated."
"For us to enter, we must fight our way in and clear them all out."
Lin Qi's tone lacked any fluctuation, only a small trace of regret in his words.
Although retreat is part of the strategy, the unexpected lack of ruin exploration and releasing Second Epoch lifeforms by Mayflower was beyond Lin Qi's expectations.
If following the usual progress, the normal plot should be Mayflower suffering heavy losses during ruin exploration, paying the life price to consume ruin monsters, while Longevity Club, holding the land transportation, would annihilate the monsters through long-distance strikes.
Unfortunately...for some reason, the other side isn't playing by the rules.
Now returning to Gold-digging Town means fighting to get back.
"So, you're planning to directly crush Gold-digging Town with the Steel Giant Beast, coordinate with artillery coverage to push to the mining area and break through Mayflower, right?"
Ansheng sipped his coke through a straw, slightly frowning while looking at Lin Qi and saying: "This idea is too risky, right?"
"Residents can be dispersed by broadcast, but the hidden special black fungus in the town won't be scared by your vehicle..."
"Fungus? What fungus?"
After Master Fuli summed up the situation and listened to Lin Qi's raid plans, he posed a question.
However, just as Master Fuli asked, both Lin Qi and Unos, along with Li Wenkang, sent a big question mark his way.
"Hmm!?"
Seeing the stunned expressions on everyone's face, a question mark appeared on Ansheng's forehead too.
"It's the Earl! The Earl's advance troops found that the local natives in Gold-digging Town..."
Ansheng began recounting the video the Earl sent him previously, but as the words just started, his facial expression froze.
Gold-digging Town...is in a fallen area, the busiest and most densely populated mountainous areas, belonging to the Mayflower Organization.
Lin Qi and his group only monitor the periphery and details of hostile organizations' air transportation, not the core area.
But the Earl had been able to get a confidential video that should have only been circulated within Mayflower's ranks.....
The Earl...is affiliated with the Mayflower Organization?
After figuring out some things, Ansheng's little fox face suddenly darkened and said:
"No.....forget everything you've just heard, let me reorganize my words and start again. Anyway, there's a large quantity of specially formulated black fungus ambushed in the town, forget where this intel came from, pretend I never said anything..."
"I can't betray friends, if there's any leak of information, I'll tear down your ancestral halls."
Lin Qi: "......"
Who exactly is your ally? You told Master Fuli about the traps in Gold-digging Town but not me?
Unos and Li Wenkang exchanged quizzical looks with slight enigmatic smiles.
Clearly, the thing about fungus inside Gold-digging Town wasn't mentioned by the Earl to anyone except Master Fuli.
The Earl, having only met Master Fuli once, trusted Master Fuli even more than collaborators?
There seems to be something fishy going on here.
...
Due to the change in intelligence, there have been some completely new developments regarding the layout for the attack on Gold-digging Town.
The Steel Giant Beast rumbled forward, driving out of the city infrastructure comparable to a county town, into the wilderness area, and the outside scenery was documentary-like, belonging to the vast grasslands.
Scattered villages were dotted throughout Naga Country, with modernized capitals being a national project development result.
Other areas are resource regions, but due to the regional war in Gold-digging Town, mining areas have stopped production.
The Steel Giant Beast gradually stopped, within a warning zone 30 kilometers away from Gold-digging Town.
"You all remember, bipeds are very cunning, don't be fooled by their crying and wailing as if they have no defenses at all, but do you see those long sticks?"
"As soon as we pounce, those long sticks will greet our heads."
The lioness led her cubs, crouching in the grass outside the warning line, vigilantly speaking to her children, imparting survival experience:
"Especially those little punks, they're the trickiest, they cry to lure us as soon as they're put on the ground."
"But as soon as we chase, they stop crying, making it impossible for us to locate by sound; the moment they cry again, dozens of bipeds will refresh all around us!"
Standing on the Steel Giant Beast, Ansheng listened to the lioness's low growl of warning, and glanced with surprise at the extremely intelligent lioness in the grass.
"Now...are all grassland animals this smart?"
"But why do you sound like you're from the Northeast!"