"Of the 48 new cities, two of the city gates were broken. However, the military teams provided timely support. Except for the casualties of more than a hundred civilians in Nanyue Pass and Xituguan, there were no large number of civilian casualties."

Qu Wanliang reported slowly, with a little sadness in his eyes.

They had anticipated this wave of mutated beasts and had made sufficient preparations for it, but civilians still died.

"Among the 16 cities under key monitoring, the original cannons of 12 cities were destroyed. Among them, 7 people were captured on the spot and all were sent to Beizhen Pass, but two committed suicide in Beizhen Pass."

"Only 7 people were caught?"

There was no emotion on Chen Pojun's face and he gently touched his chin.

Qu Liangyu nodded.

"The other party is more cunning than we thought, so we are laying out suspicions. There are suspects, but it is difficult to distinguish them."

"Moreover, the seven people arrested have different identities. Some are traffickers, some are from the military, and some are socially awakened. There is nothing in common."

Li Wanjun and others listened quietly to the conversation between the two, with serious expressions on their faces.

This operation was so secretive that even people at their level were kept in the dark. They didn't know the cause and effect until after the operation started.

"I didn't expect that Daxia really had a traitor."

This was Li Wanjun's first reaction after learning about the action plan.

The establishment of the new city symbolizes Daxia's preparation to step outside the wall and regain its homeland. This is also equivalent to a powerful response to the last wave of mutated beasts.

In addition to symbolic significance, more people will give birth to more talents. Today, Daxia has a total population of more than 200 million. If all new cities can be successfully established, in the next few decades, the population of Daxia will be nearly 100 million more.

Ten million!

With a population of tens of millions, many geniuses can be born!

The existence of the Beast King among the mutated beasts is impossible to ignore.

Moreover, although the new city lacks the protection of walls and cannot resist attacks by ordinary mutant beasts, because it is a small place, the cost of deploying heavy weapons is relatively low, so it is equipped with original cannons that are only available in important border cities!

In this way, the threat of low-level mutant beasts is minimized.

As for the danger of surprise attacks by high-level mutant beasts?

The military and the Presbyterian Council also issued an iron-blooded order to rotate the strong men of the aristocratic families. Each aristocratic family must regularly dispatch personnel to garrison at the fortress a hundred kilometers outside the new city to provide early warning.

This matter caused a lot of controversy. After all, many aristocratic families were definitely not willing to waste this time and take this risk, so they finally made a decision.

Li Wanjun originally thought that the Spider Plan was to build a new city like a spider web outside the wall. It was a long-term development plan.

However, just now he learned that there was another meaning!

The senior military officials concluded for some reason that there were people among humans who were colluding with mutant beasts and would not sit idly by and let the spider plan succeed.

A very important part of the Spider Plan is actually to call on more humans to move into the new city outside the wall. If they suffer large-scale casualties, they will definitely not be willing to die if they want future people to move in.

In the future, these 48 new cities will be empty structures once they are built.

Therefore, the military has already mobilized heavy troops, including city guards and survey troops, to disperse and garrison the new city.

Not only that, after the mutant beasts finally began to attack, Li Wanjun discovered that the military's actions were greater than imagined!

General Zhong actually issued an order directly, asking the masters from the aristocratic families close to the city wall to assemble individually and block the powerful beings above the fifth level of the mutant beast from the outside.

At the same time, the Night Crime Division team was also ordered to quickly support Xincheng.

In fact, based on the defense strength allocated to each new city, it is completely sufficient to defend against the tide of mutated beasts below level five.

Li Wanjun didn't understand at the time why there was such a big battle.

Now he understood that the military had actually known that the spies would take advantage of the opportunity to act.

The 16 new cities under surveillance either have strategic geographical locations or have large populations. If there are really traitors among humans, this will be their first choice.

Indeed, as the military expected, someone took action to destroy the original cannon!

However, fewer people were caught than expected.

"Have you already started searching for souls?"

"It has already started, but...the five people arrested all have strong soul protection. Someone should have engraved it on them."

Chen Pojun was silent for a long time and said.

"Did Lao Zhou take action?"

Qu Liangyu nodded. He knew that the old Zhou Chen Pojun was talking about was Zhou Zhenbang, another general at the same level as Chen Pojun in the military department and the president of the city guard army.

"Even if you take action, you can't break the soul's defense."

Chen Pojun finally showed a little surprise on his face.

"I understand, is there any other news?"

"The Force Power of these seven people has been sealed and they cannot commit suicide. While the other five new cities under surveillance have not arrested anyone, they have identified 15 suspects and nothing has been done to them so far."

"In addition, there are three new cities that are not under key surveillance. There have also been cases where giant cannons were destroyed during the chaos, but because no monitors were arranged, even the suspects could not be found."

Chen Pojun nodded.

The situation was more difficult than he imagined.

In the Night Criminal Division, he mobilized 16 people to disperse and conduct key surveillance. He had already exhausted all available manpower. The first thing he didn't expect was that there was a problem in 12 cities, and only 7 people were arrested.

In fact, seven people are quite a lot. The Night Punishment Division has many methods to pry out clues from these seven people, the most important one is soul searching.

The soul-searching technique for advanced awakened people is rather overbearing and overly powerful. After using it, people will basically become stupid.

But these seven people were all captured on the spot, and Chen Pojun didn't care whether they were stupid or dead.

But the second thing I didn't expect was that these people actually deployed super strong soul defenses that even Zhou Zhenbang, who was about the same strength as him, couldn't break them.

"Let's lock up those 15 suspects for now, and let's see if we can use other means besides searching for souls to extract useful information from those five spies."

"good."

Qu Wanliang nodded.

This is the second level of the spider plan, allowing the spies within Daxia to fall into the spider web on their own.

After the meeting, Li Wanjun received a call from Xu Zhaohua. After listening to Xu Zhaohua's report, he was silent for a long time.

Although Xu Zhaohua brought some useful information, it was impossible to determine who destroyed the original cannon through this.

Therefore, he also fed back the information he obtained to Xu Zhaohua.

"A spy who colludes with mutant beasts?"

"Yes, but your Beiling Pass is not a key city, and there are no monitors arranged. If there are any results, please report to me."

Li Wanjun didn't expect Yueying's people to find any clues.

Now, there are no clues even from the people who have been captured. Yueying is purely here to support them. If they want them to find the person, it will be even harder.

The matter involved a lot, and after he explained it to Xu Zhaohua, he went to work on other things.
Chapter completed!