The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 1257 - 431: Infiltrating Undead (6k)_2
"Your Highness, we’ve received a message!"
.........
Meanwhile, in the Edge Star Zone, at the Faith Hunter headquarters.
Returning to the headquarters after so long, the captain felt an immense sense of familiarity.
During their return, they had already taken the time to leave the warp state for a brief report, confirming that the high-tier officer had fallen.
Even a Seventh Rank had fallen at the hands of those Red Moon believers, yet he managed to return alive.
Upon first leaving the planet, they hadn’t felt it, but now, only a sense of gratitude remained for them being able to return alive.
Thank goodness he came back at last, so he could bring this invaluable information back...
The captain found a reason for his escape that could convince himself.
The ship docked in the outer space, sending a request to the Star Port below.
Even though prior communication had been made in advance, the application was still thoroughly validated, before the captain finally saw the verification pass message on the screen.
He hurriedly docked the ship at the Star Port below. As soon as he opened the hatch, he saw an agent waiting.
"Just leave the ship to the staff.
The leader is already waiting for you in the command room, follow me."
The agent spoke formally and seriously, making the transfer.
After saying that, the agent turned and walked in one direction.
Following the internal passage, the agent took the captain and the team behind him through planetary transport and stopped in front of a room in another building.
Through the open door, the captain saw the leader, whom he had only seen once on the day the organization was established, also one of the three 8th Rank officers.
At the moment, the leader was in the command room watching a pieced-together video comprised of various segments, which featured the battle he had just experienced.
However, because it was all pieced together from different on-site video clips, even making sense of the events inside was rather difficult.
The captain halted his thoughts and stepped into the command room, approaching the leader, saluting.
"Leader!"
Hearing the noise, the leader paused the video and turned to scrutinize him and his teammates, nodding after a moment:
"Hmm, it seems there was no psychic influence, and we can preliminarily rule out Parasite for now.
However, within each of you there remain traces of those Red Moon believers’ Transcendent abilities, make sure to visit the medical room for treatment.
Now let’s talk about what exactly happened in that battle.
And how did you manage to come back alive?"
Here it comes!
The captain had long anticipated such questioning and promptly recounted the event in detail.
From planning with the high-tier officer and setting up an ambush on that planet, to every detail of the battle initiation, and even their thoughts, to his final decision to withdraw.
The entire process was meticulously described.
The leader did not interrupt, quietly listened to the narration, then after a long silence, slowly asked in his particularly forceful tone:
"So your initial attack didn’t achieve the expected outcome at all, and even the subsequent strikes were already preemptively defended against by them?
You were even led into unfamiliar melee combat unwillingly?"
"Yes..."
The captain replied reluctantly but then quickly explained:
"We also found it strange at the time, those Red Moon believers seemed to have foreseen how we would ambush, every countermeasure was precisely enough to deadlock our subsequent actions.
Our intelligence simply did not perform the expected function.
But the battle had started, and there was no chance to adjust the plan.
I even suspect whether they have mastered a similar ability, able to foresee the enemy’s movements...
That’s how they could achieve this..."
The leader glanced at the captain, though this suspicion seemed somewhat like an excuse, yet its likelihood couldn’t be denied.
Otherwise, those prior preventative measures that appeared prescient couldn’t be explained by luck.
Being lucky just once with defense can be reasonable, but it shouldn’t be perfect across the board; explaining one or two might barely suffice, but all of them making the same defenses?
Coincidence simply doesn’t cover it.
But if assuming they obtained precognitive-like intelligence akin to theirs...
It’s not out of the question.
The captain might not understand how this intelligence came about, but the leader was fully aware.
Yet...
This captain shouldn’t know about "prophecy" itself, is this testing?
The leader neither confirmed nor denied, asking again:
"And about the second issue, why did that Red Moon believer, possessing the combat power to defeat the Seventh Rank, particularly spare you? How did you manage to return alive?"
The captain took a deep breath, silently acknowledging the interrogation for suspicion.
Being seemingly deliberately released by a powerful foe and losing a major combat strength in return, even he needed to suspect this might be an inside job.
"I don’t know either..."
The captain chose honesty over seeking reasons for defense.
"I was pondering this issue throughout my return, but only formed some conjectures.
Those Red Moon believers likely foresaw the high-tier officer’s ambush through their precognitive means; hence deliberately feigned weakness, using our team to expose him.
The Red Moon believers’ target was always that high-tier officer."
