After the soldier left, Maxwell fell into thought.
He genuinely couldn't figure out what the Yamato Empire was trying to do.
Everyone was barely holding on, living on edge—and yet they were still willing to take a massive risk, cross the ocean, and sail straight into Atlas Federation territory. For what?
He turned it over in his head for a long time and still came up empty. In the end, he could only drop it.
When the time came, he'd just capture one of them alive and interrogate them. That would tell him everything.
Just then, someone knocked on his office door again.
"Come in!"
A different soldier hurried inside.
"General—something happened at the Silverlake City compound!"
Maxwell's expression changed instantly. "What happened?"
The Silverlake City compound had originally been founded by the nearby Joint Base. Under military command, it had grown into one of the largest survivor compounds in the region.
