“Y-You mean another safehold were all swarmed by the Gilaso and only few people survived?” Shi Tian was in disbelief.
“Is that even possible?” He added.
Even if there are numerous Gilaso that had been hatched, they should still be toddlers, meaning they shouldn’t be capable of confronting experienced people.
Mary smiled bitterly and turned on her watch function, showing a holographic screen.
Within the holographic screen was a scenery of multiple ruined buildings.
Upon getting a closer look, there was a vivid image of corpses scattered everywhere, but most importantly. There were at least thousands of grown Gilaso scurrying around, with most of them eating the corpses as they shrieked and slithered their tongue.
Needless to say, it was grotesque and gruesome images of a deadly battle that had occurred and resulted in the loss of humanity.
“How long ago were these images taken?” Shi Tian pointed at these images and asked.
“It was a few hours ago, and we only managed to receive it now due to the transmission signal being destroyed by the Gilaso during their process of swarming the safehold,” Mary responded, her expression being extremely solemn.
Shi Tian had never seen her flashing such a serious face, not even when she was talking about Yolanda or other activities.
Shi Tian wasn’t an expert in these types of scenarios, so he patiently remained silent, waiting for Mary’s instruction.
A few seconds later, Mary sighed softly. “The fall of the safehold had already been circulated, and Gerald informed me that Gearits City had issued a state of emergency after learning of the news.” .𝒐𝙧𝒈
“So that means we don’t have to do anything else, right?” Shi Tian asked.
If Gearits City had already issued a state of emergency, then it meant that people learned of the tragedy and were now ready to counterattack.
This essentially means that they don’t need to do much since the leading organization party must now come up with a strategy to defend.
However, Shi Tian’s thinking was too naive this time as Mary explained why she was even more worried than before.
“With this state of emergency and images as evidence, I’m afraid the Five Families’ influence would only increase further. In fact, they might even use this as an opportunity to eliminate those that are threatening their position.” Mary said exhaustively.
Whatever effort and tricks she had played previously were now in the void. They were going back to zero and the situation for them was even worse.
Meanwhile, Shi Tian finally understood her worries and realized he was truly retarded to believe the higher-ups of Gearits City would wholeheartedly defend against this crisis.
“In that case, then the Harrett Family would definitely use this as leverage to consume Optic Mech.” Shi Tian exclaimed.
“Indeed, our Optic Mech, for the sake of our reputation, would have to comply with the state of emergency and be forced to give out resources to defend Gearits City.”
A moment of silence then occurred, with Mary sulking and her face filled with frustration.
While Mary was busy trying to compose her emotion, Shi Tian had long calmed down and was thinking about some possibilities.
“Could this be another scheme?” He murmured, feeling the timing was too coincidental.
“Mary, where did Gerald say the source of the images is from? ” Shi Tian asked her.
“Why do you want to know now?” She raised an eyebrow in confusion. Now was not the time to care about the sources, but how to resolve the upcoming crisis.
Seeing that Mary wasn’t in the mood to think, Shi Tian decided to raise his tone and demanded an answer. “Just tell me where the sources are from!”
“Ugh, they were obviously from the few survivors that managed to escape from the siege of the Gilaso.” She shouted frustratingly.
“Have Gerald checked the identities of the survivors?” Shi Tian pressured further.
“Of course not, we needed to-”
Mary suddenly stopped when she came to realize why Shi Tian was asking for such information when it was clear that she was annoyed.
Without hesitation, Mary quickly asked Gerald to investigate the survivors’ identity, and thoroughly at that.
Once the message was sent, Mary turned to Shi Tian and asked, “Are you suspecting this is a scheme from the Five Families?”
Shi Tian shook his head. “No, I’m not suspecting it to be the Five Families scheme, but only one of them.”
“The Harrett Family?”
Shi Tian nodded his head.
“The deployment of their military reserve seemed to be a desperate measure from our deduction, but it could actually be a plan by them. Not to mention, this terrain around here is monitored by which military?”
Mary was slightly taken aback and nearly fumbled to the ground once she connected the pieces.
Although the wilderness was a lawless place, the Five Families still decided to have their own people to monitor specific acres. They needed surveillance on people that are always in the wilderness to check whether they had any intention of rebelling.
Thus, it was already a known fact that the Five Families might not be able to control and impose laws in the wilderness, but they could still know about their movement and actions.
And this particular terrain was managed by the Harrett Family, so only the Harrett Family could pull off something like this without anyone ever discovering this place.
“If your suspicions are correct, then that means the Harrett Family was plotting this for a while already. To be able to find variants of Gilaso and allow such a situation to fester, just what are they planning to do?” Mary was astonished.
Their actions this time were no longer just trying to compete against them. This goes against humanity as a whole and once caught, the Harrett Family would be ruined completely.
“Maybe they just wanted to decrease the population as a whole or deplete everyone else’s arsenal. The terrain here might be monitored by the Harrett Family, but other than that. Everywhere else is from the other Families. The Harrett Family wouldn’t lose much compared to the others.” Shi Tian sneered coldly.
He really must give it to the Harret Family to come up with such a devious scheme to decrease the competition once the New Region opened up