Chapter 1572: Chapter 848: The Corpse’s Emotions Are Extremely Stable

"What about my military merits if I leave..." Marquis Bolton muttered quietly: "But if I’m going to die, what’s the use of merits..."

Qing Chen was stunned for a moment, you have a damn good point.

But the problem is, if you run away, who am I going to use as the puppet here, who else will listen to me?

At this moment, he had some understanding of this Marquis Bolton: no harmful intentions, just wants to enjoy life and take good care of his wife. Although a bit ambitious, he has strong self-awareness and doesn’t really take his ambitions seriously.

Having self-awareness is a good thing, it’s just a bit frustrating... like mud that can’t stick to a wall.

But right now, Qing Chen’s task isn’t to get this marquis to pull himself together, he just needs to nail this mud on the wall with an iron plate so it won’t run away.

Qing Chen felt he might have scared the marquis just now, so he softly reassured Marquis Bolton: "I just feel something is off, maybe it’s just a wrong feeling? I’m just casually reporting this to you! Listen to the outside, there’s nothing happening."

Marquis Bolton patted his chest: "I saw how careful you were when deploying the airships, and how scary you sounded, I thought the forward base would disappear today."

Qing Chen laughed and said: "Marquis, you go ahead and continue your Superconductor World game, everything’s on me, no worries."

"Alright," Marquis Bolton, easy to appease, genuinely put on the virtual glasses and continued gaming.

The next moment, Qing Chen’s face turned solemn.

He genuinely had a foreboding feeling, though uncertain about who was coming, he knew for sure there would be dangerous events: from 40 minutes ago, the time for sending and receiving coordination letters here went awry.

The coordination letters have a set process, where the forward base sends a letter to Storm City, and upon receipt, their system automatically returns a "Acknowledged receipt" letter. The military system is stringent, without this reply letter, it indicates the information has been intercepted.

Qing Chen, after finishing deployment, sent a deployment record letter to Storm City, like moving the Duke of Storm City’s main force out as coordinated by another unit.

This time, the reply from Storm City took 0.7 seconds longer than usual.

0.7 seconds may seem brief but to Qing Chen, any unusual sign is noteworthy, and victory in warfare precisely accumulates from such keen insight.

The forward base uses military-grade fiber-optic cables, Storm City has an auto-response system, why slower by 0.7 seconds?

Others might overlook it, but not Qing Chen.

Therefore, only one possibility: his communication was actually intercepted, the deployment letter to Storm City passed through an unusual information processing station on the way, causing the 0.7-second delay!

Why is this happening? Because someone wants to intercept the forward base’s distress signals!

Qing Chen walked to the window, peering through the curtain slits to overlook the outside of the base, the distant Taboo Forest enveloped in darkness.

He squinted his eyes, feeling an unusual heaviness from there...

No, ordinarily even in Taboo Forest, occasionally birds fly out from the canopy, yet he observed for 20 minutes, not a single bird sighted.

Within the Giant Race, every giant has special racial talents, information he gathered from Ding Dong and Gu Dong, these West Continent giants presumably have such talents too.

Qing Chen picked up the internal phone from behind his desk, using Marquis Bolton’s voice, said: "James, recheck the Metal Storm, confirm no issues and report back."

Finishing his words, he returned to beside the window, coldly observing everything.

Qing Chen could issue a level-one alert in Marquis Bolton’s name, even order all A-Class Airships into the sky, yet he didn’t preemptively warn all this.

Firstly, causing a commotion by launching all airships invites investigations. Qing Chen can’t explain his discoveries to others, excessive sharpness draws many warnings, like those from the Fifth Princess.

Secondly, amidst struggles between the Roosevelt Kingdom, rebels, and Giant Dynasty, isn’t more casualties preferable? Worst case, Qing Chen and Marquis Bolton could flee.

Yet Qing Chen knows it won’t reach that stage.

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In the dark Taboo Forest, hundreds of enormous black-green figures silently traversed barefoot.

They stepped barefoot on the soft soil and rotting leaves, producing faint noises.

At this time, Wild Wind silently gestured, and soon a giant with the Talent of Thousand-Miles-Eye climbed a tree, peeking past the canopy to cautiously examine the distant forward base.

He lowered his head and said: "Du Du."

(There is a drone group intercepting, but unsure whether this drone group has, as the human kid said, relaxed its vigilance.)

Wild Wind: "Wind!"

(What about the forward base?)

"Du Du!"

(The forward base very quiet, no airships patrolling in the sky, nor an aerial fortress!)

This is also one of the talents of the Giant Race, growing up in these forests, they utter a couple syllables to convey meaning to a companion.

Each giant issues slightly different syllables, their names mostly reflect these syllables, only commanders like Wild Wind receive names and surnames from the Giant King, distinguished by surnames to form clans within the Giant Race.

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