A few seconds of silence descended over the entire room.

Then, Su Mo coughed, turned around, and walked out crisply, leaving a sentence as he left.

"Dismissed!"

......

After leaving the room, the muscles on Su Mo's face twitched involuntarily. He was speechless!

His first search in life turned out to be for this kind of thing. It was truly embarrassing.

......

Two days later, Su Mo stood on the streets of Sector B5.

He sighed softly as he watched the search teams hurrying past.

It had been two days, and the two missing soldiers still hadn't been found.

But it wasn't surprising. Bright Glory City was just too large. Although the city wasn't fully expanded, it was originally designed to be a gigantic city capable of accommodating and housing trillions of people.

Not to mention anything else, even within Sector B5, which Su Mo directly managed, he couldn't guarantee that it had been searched thoroughly.

There were too many blind spots that hadn't been searched.

The only comforting thing was that Gorya, faced with the fruitless search, simply ordered the search to continue and everyone to remain vigilant.

She didn't put pressure on anyone, demanding that the bodies or survivors of the missing people be found within a limited time.

Nor were there any severe punishments.

However, precisely because of this, everyone felt a little embarrassed and searched even harder.

Just then, Herbert was patrolling the various areas with a team and happened to pass by.

All the officers along the way saluted.

"Commander."

Herbert nodded slightly in response, his expressionless.

Seeing the other party approaching, Su Mo quickly stood up straight, saluted, and greeted him.

"Commander."

Unfortunately, Herbert completely ignored Su Mo and walked straight past him.

Su Mo watched Herbert's departing back, stroking his chin. He was now certain that the other party hadn't accidentally missed him.

Instead, he simply disliked him. But Su Mo was a little puzzled. He didn't seem to have any previous interactions with the other party.

He stood there thinking for a long time, but still couldn't figure it out.

Suddenly, Su Mo thought of something. He raised his wrist device and sent an inquiry to Luo Yue.

"Do you know anything about Herbert, one of the Royal Order's Twelve Knights?"

"Uh, what's wrong?"

Luo Yue's reply quickly popped up.

"It's like this, I feel like something's not quite right. Herbert seems to dislike me? I haven't had any interactions with him before."

"Wait a moment, I'll look it up."

Inside the mission dispatch and command room, Luo Yue looked at the message sent by Su Mo.

She quickly called up the data center and began to look up Herbert's public information for analysis.

She wanted to see where the problem lay.

Su Mo found a public chair to sit on, leaning back against the backrest as he quietly waited for Luo Yue's feedback.

Less than half an hour later.

Su Mo's wrist device vibrated. He opened his electronic wrist device and looked at it. Luo Yue had sent a message.

"Herbert is from the Mechanical Empire, which is the strongest country in the First Cradle. It supports a total of three people in the Royal Order, and Rogerd was one of them. Although Rogerd's death wasn't directly related to you, the Wings of the Scorching Sun fell into your hands after his death, and you completely wrecked it. Because of this, the Mechanical Empire not only lost a top combat force, but also a top-tier mecha."

"You need to know that mecha are considered private property. The Mechanical Empire can't trouble you for various reasons, but naturally they won't give you a good look. Of course, it's not just because of the mecha, because that would seem very petty. According to internal news, the Mechanical Empire is fully recommending Rogerd's younger brother, Roche, to take the position, and you are the biggest obstacle."

Su Mo looked at the message, his mouth twitching incessantly.

So there were so many twists and turns involved. Luo Yue's intelligence analysis skills were impressive.

"Any suggestions?"

Su Mo thought for a moment and sent it to Luo Yue.

After a few seconds, Luo Yue sent a message.

"Why don't you quickly advance to become one of the Royal Order's Twelve Knights, boss?"

Su Mo smiled dumbly. This little girl was quite interesting.

......

At night.

Inside an inconspicuous room in Bright Glory City.

Mai Han and Lu Lawei sat in the main seats, with seven soldiers in Star Ring City uniforms standing below.

If the logistics officers were present, they would immediately recognize that these soldiers were all from the logistics maintenance department.

Lu Lawei looked at everyone present with a smile on his face, and as if by magic, took out a test tube containing a special transparent liquid.

Mai Han's proud face twitched slightly as he watched Lu Lawei take out the test tube, but he quickly regained his composure.

"You are all people that the Eternal Slumber Clan spent a great deal of effort to insert into Star Ring City. Now is the time for you to play your part."

Lu Lawei said bluntly.

"Just tell us directly what you want us to do."

At this time, the soldier in the lead, with an ordinary appearance, took a step forward and replied in a hoarse voice.

"This is the skC-07 type of corrupted virus carefully crafted by our Fallen God Church. This virus can quickly self-replicate in water. Anyone infected with this virus will begin to mutate and attack people everywhere after a certain incubation period. This virus has a strong ability to evade detection. Ordinary equipment cannot detect it. I need you to add this reagent silently to the water reservoir of Bright Glory City, causing mass mutation and commotion."

Lu Lawei played with the reagent in his hand and said confidently.

"Adding it to the reservoir is unrealistic. Not only is it heavily guarded, but even if you really add it, it may not be useful. It's not that we look down on your reagent, but the monitoring devices built into the reservoir of Bright Glory City are very advanced. As long as there is a problem with the water, an alarm will be issued, and large-scale water purification devices and defense measures will be activated to directly stifle it."

The leading soldier said simply and neatly.

"Then what should we do?"

Mai Han asked with a frown.

"In fact, the most appropriate method is to add it to the end outlets. The level of water purification and monitoring devices at the end is not that high, so it should not be detected. However, the workload is too large, and the risk of exposure is extremely high. Therefore, the best suggestion is to act in the middle section of the water supply system and find a relatively large pipeline to release it. As for how much effect it can have, it is hard to say."

"Okay, I don't care how you do it, just cause as much commotion as possible and attract the other party's attention to the greatest extent."

Lu Lawei handed the reagent to the leading soldier.

"Okay."

The soldier took it without hesitation.

Lu Lawei then continued: "There is one more thing I want to make clear to you. Once you take action, Star Ring City will definitely investigate immediately. Sooner or later, you will be exposed."

"Don't worry, we will all drink the mutated water and become mindless mutated monsters. The clues will naturally be cut off. Everything is for the Eternal Slumber Clan!"

The soldiers in front of them replied without fear.