We have to admit, Reed, the host who erged from major events like Flowing Silver Combat Skill and Platinum Racing, shows no signs of stage fright and possesses a robust psychological endurance, joining this battle eting quite calmly.
Li Ang had just spotted him, but he didn't see the need to drive him away or introduce him specially, and the people from the Shadow Factory probably considered him as part of Li Ang's entourage, so they didn't bother and even arranged a room of the sa standard for him earlier.
"Rescuing people isn't easy," Loken said, frowning.
"How do you plan to save those from the seven shipyards? Forget about suggesting infiltration first," Xiaomo said.
The reason everyone plans to attack cooperatively is that the Empire has connected these twelve shipyards into a whole system after its occupation.
During the reconnaissance, Li Ang and Xiaomo noticed that besides the Annihilation Knights, who are key combat forces, their researchers and so Imperial Soldiers were patrolling back and forth, transporting Flesh Storage Tanks.
Therefore, even if our high-level combat forces infiltrate and begin rescuing people, the large area covered by the shipyards would make it hard to cover everything, and rescuing one or two shipyards has a high probability of being noticed by the Empire.
This is why everyone believes that attacking together is optimal, thus discussing how to rally manpower for a joint attack.
The current issue is that even with reinforcents from multiple parties, it's still insufficient to attack simultaneously.
Yet, Reed suggested a way to rescue people first, concentrating manpower on five shipyards, making many people willing to hear his idea, even the stern and upright Loken was included.
Reed chuckled, "We just need to liberate all the shipyards in one go."
"Liberate together? You're not talking about infiltration, but rather embedding within them? Preparing everything inside now?" an engineer asked.
"Exactly."
"That's impossible."
Loken said in a deep voice, "We often choose to embed ourselves, and many tasks involve our personnel relaying information within those major shipyards, but this ti is different. The Empire has completely sealed off communication between the twelve shipyards and the outside world to prevent any issues."
Infiltration was originally an optional action item, but maybe to prevent such situations, the Empire assigned external affairs to The Soul Apex, and the latter, to avoid complications, only used trusted sub-group mbers.
"We tried infiltration earlier," Neil said.
"There's one affair untouched,"
Reed pointed to himself, "What was my previous profession?"
"A jester in front of the Sand Kings," Andasu said.
"An entertainer," Dorothy evaluated.
"Ugh, describing
like that really hurts," Reed said, clutching his chest.
"You're a host," ALulu noted.
"Oh, finally, Lady Paladin is reliable,"
Reed said, "I'm the host of Platinum Racing, having witnessed countless racers firsthand, whether it's fearless villains or desperate ones needing the grand prize to survive, all racing with their utmost effort—quite different from the people we've encountered before."
Everyone present agreed on this point he made.
Loken added, "Saying a large factory stopped production to fully service small flying airships might fool soone who doesn't understand shipbuilding. Even the current Sky Fla easily builds a fair enough small ship."
"Those racers and their handlers indeed don't cut it," Andasu said.
Upon arriving island yesterday and seeing those people, White Wolf couldn't move at first, and Li Ang noticed she was wholeheartedly watching with so anticipation, but obviously, she held them in contempt afterward.
"Since I got here, I've felt those organizing this event half-understand what's necessary, and even altered my title to host it, with the racers rely putting up a facade. So I specifically followed to see where they end up."
"Is it within those seven shipyards?" Li Ang imdiately asked.
"Exactly."
"Did they collaborate with the Empire too?" Zoe frowned and asked.
"Unlikely," Li Ang speculated, "They're all standout enthusiasts recruited by The Soul Apex likely uninford, simply here for money and fun. So, The Soul Apex only allowed them into seven non-core shipyards."
"They said each shipyard selects one representative, didn't they?" Zoe said.
"The twelve shipyards were performing the sa tasks under the Empire's coercion; that's just a facade for outsiders," Xiaomo explained.
The young man with beast ears looked at Reed, "You an these racers are the connection point between the Empire, The Soul Apex, and the outside world? But they wouldn't accept foreign maintenance engineers, and getting to know them might result in the Empire barring extra personnel from entering the shipyards."
"Not acquaintances, do they deserve it?"
Reed said excitedly.
"They claim the core of the event here is the airship race, and now we know it's covering for warship construction. Then what are they most afraid of? It's this getting exposed, of course."
Reed said, "You all have concerns because your friends and colleagues are involved, wanting a safe rescue. But if you expose the Empire's conspiracy without worry, they'd be the ones afraid."
Li Ang said, "I understand what you an. They don't know we have the initiative now. From their perspective, any information leakage is alarming, so you want to utilize this to have them voluntarily allow us in."
"Ah, the commander understands after all."
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