Chapter 1136: 1136
Guo Chunfeng's sweat congregated into two pools below his feet, and he seemed to lose several pounds all of a sudden . He tapped on his portable crystal processor quickly, projecting more than ten light beams .
"Take a look, young brother . After the 'expedition motion' was paused, the Speaker issued an 'ultimate order' as the supreme commander of the federal army, ordering all troops on the Grand Desolate Plateau to quit the preparation for war and stand by in their respective garrisons . The troops from the south of the Grand Desolate Plateau to the Giant Blade Pass are now being summoned . Those participating in the drill from the north of the Grand Desolate Plateau to the Dark Desolate Domain will finish the drill and return to the bases soon . "
"How are you certain that the military will follow the ultimate order?" Li Yao asked .
"The ultimate order is directly sent to Iron Commander Zhou Hengdao and the commanders of every legion," Guo Chunfeng explained . "The Iron Commander expressed his shock and replied that Duanmu Ming—the commander of the Dragon Horse Legion, who is also a Child of the Nether World—was already arrested . The commanders of the legions all indicated that they would obey the order and not attack easily .
"Powerful as the Patriots Partnership might be, and high as Iron Commander Zhou Hengdao's prestige is, they are not enough to make dozens of commanders disobey the ultimate order at the same time!"
Li Yao thought quickly and asked, "How does the inland communicate with the Grand Desolate Plateau nowadays? As I recall, the Spiritual Nexus on the Grand Desolate Plateau has never been steady, has it? After the burn-everything-to-the-ground strategy was implemented, there are barely any towns on the Grand Desolate Plateau now . The only establishments left are military camps . How do you ensure the connection of the Spiritual Nexus?"
The communication between the inland and the Grand Desolate Plateau had always been a headache for the federation .
The Spiritual Nexus counted on the spiritual waves that were released by the spiritual towers, a type of special magical equipment .
The Grand Desolate Plateau had been given such a name because it was both 'grand' and 'desolate' . On such a vast, unpopulated desert, it would consume astronomical resources to set up enough spiritual towers to build a network and maintain their daily operation .
To make matters worse, the Grand Desolate Plateau was also plagued by disasters, such as tornadoes, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and beast tides . Any disaster might cause serious damage to the spiritual towers .
Therefore, the Spiritual Nexus on the Grand Desolate Plateau was intermittent and unstable .
Ever since the federal army implemented the burn-everything-to-the-ground strategy, deciding to trade space for time, the Grand Desolate Plateau had essentially been abandoned, and the coalition army of demons had galloped on it without any obstacles .
The first things that the coalition army of demons destroyed were, of course, the spiritual towers, which were the most important nodes of communication .
Now, although the coalition army of demons had retreated to the Blood Demon Sector, the spiritual towers on the Grand Desolate Plateau had mostly been ruined and would not be reconstructed so easily .
In the north of the Grand Desolate Plateau, at the Dark Desolate Domain, which was the point of impact for the two worlds and boasted the most chaotic magnetic field, the situation was even worse .
Due to the tremendous spiritual waves that the spiritual towers released, they were like natural lightning conductors and always tended to attract all kinds of violent spiritual energy . Few spiritual towers were able to survive one month in the Dark Desolate Domain .
Therefore, the further one went north, the more difficult it would be to communicate . The Dark Desolate Domain was often off the network all year round .
Once upon a time, Li Yao had been trapped in the Thunderous Sound Mountain in the Dark Desolate Domain . It was exactly because of the absence of signals that he had needed to travel on his own for ten days and ten nights before he finally fled from the hunting squad of the silver-blood demons .
"For the joint drill, and to march into the depths of the Blood Demon Sector later, the federal army has developed a batch of highly-powerful, super-large spiritual towers on their own," Guo Chunfeng said . "Such spiritual towers have been established on the Dark Desolate Domain and the north of the Grand Desolate Plateau as 'communication bases' . Now, sixteen communication bases are working and responsible to relay messages . "
"It means that, controlling the sixteen bases will be grabbing the throat of communication between the capital city and the frontline, and whoever controls the bases can block all messages sent to the troops performing the drill or fake the replies of all the commanders of said troops, right?" Li Yao asked .
Guo Chunfeng pondered for a moment and said, "It is very difficult even in theory . All the commanders of the legions in the drill have their unique identification code . Other than them, the only one—"
"The only one who knows it is Iron Commander Zhou Hengdao, right?" Li Yao's voice was cold .
Guo Chunfeng was silent for a long time . He shook his head slowly . "I don't believe that Iron Commander Zhou Hengdao is a schemer . It's not about his attitude but about his character .
"Iron Commander Zhou Hengdao is most famous for his valiance and straightforwardness in the federal army . He is definitely not sophisticated enough to prepare such a delicate trap!
"Don't say that he has pretended to be 'simpleminded' for a hundred years to realize his ambitions . It must be noted that, until one year ago, he couldn't have foreseen that the Imperium of True Human Beings would arrive at all or that a truce between mankind and the demon race would be struck . Was it necessary for him to hide his really personality for more than a hundred years?"
"The Iron Commander doesn't have to be a schemer . " Li Yao nodded at the corner of the prison with his chin . "Because there is already a super schemer in the Patriots Partnership .
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