Chapter 487 Intelligence Gap
After pinching his nose and eating Jhin's soul, Tam's fat catfish face was calm at first, but in the next second it instantly turned into a mask of pain.
"Have you read his memory?" Levi asked impatiently.
"Wait." Tam was so disgusted that he leaned against a tree and retched: "This guy's soul smells like shit. I need to calm down first..."
Jie, Shen: “…”
Witnessing the evil Golden Demon finally being completely destroyed in Tam's bloody mouth, both Zed and Shen fell into a brief confusion because of this sudden change.
"President Levi, what is going on?" They all looked over quickly.
"It's a long story..." Levi carefully explained the truth to the two of them.
Because of the existence of the Windleader's Underworld Branch, he and Janna actually already have information that Mordekaiser is about to counterattack the mortal world.
However, those undead leaders who are only the lowest-level wandering souls in the underworld cannot, and dare not, risk being exposed and contacting Modkaiser 's ruling core, so the information they can send back is relatively limited.
The only information Levi knows now is that Mordekaiser summoned his army of tens of millions of undead three months ago, and selected newly dead people from the undead who are familiar with the current situation in Runeterra.
As for whether Modkaiser chose these newly deceased people to learn about the situation in the mortal world from them, or for some other purpose.
Who are these chosen ones? Where did they go and what did they do? When, where, and how will Mordekaiser invade the mortal world...
Levi and Janna were completely unaware of this important information.
They can only gather their strength in secret and be prepared to fight at any time.
Then wait for the enemy to attack, or... reveal a flaw.
"Jin might be the flaw." Levi told the truth.
“…” Jie and Shen were shocked, but they quickly realized the seriousness of the problem.
Modkaiser is coming back, and he is planning something in the dark. The most important thing for the leader now is intelligence.
"Mr. Tam?" Everyone looked at Tam.
Tam suppressed his nausea and savored Jhin's soul full of "artistic atmosphere" carefully, and finally gave an answer: "This guy is indeed a subordinate of Mordekaiser."
"They plan to use the 'God's messengers' who have infiltrated the mortal world, that is, some of the undead sent back from the underworld by Mordekaiser, to organize a group of human traitors and armed forces to lead the way."
"Then carry out multiple terrorist attacks at the same time throughout Runeterra, causing as many deaths as possible in a short period of time."
"They will use this to activate Mordekaiser's undead magic and open multiple dimensional channels between the mortal world and the underworld around the world."
“By then, Mordekaiser’s army of tens of millions of undead will follow these dimensional channels and pour into various places in Runeterra. They will kill all Janna’s followers in the mortal world and completely occupy the material realm.”
Upon hearing the enemy's plan, the expressions of Levi and the other two became more solemn.
This is a full-scale invasion of the mortal world by the underworld. War will be fought fiercely in every plane channel that is opened and in every piece of land.
Leaders around the world will face unprecedented tests. Even if they win in the end, this massive war covering the entire globe will still bring irreparable casualties to people around the world.
"Can we stop this in advance?" Shen asked concernedly.
He didn't want those dead undead to appear in Ionia. Their existence in the mortal world was a threat to the balance.
A single shot from Jinn turned a few meters of land into a barren land. If millions of undead were allowed to flood into the mortal world and step on the land of the first birth... the consequences would be unimaginable.
Therefore, Shen hopes to stop the enemy before the attack occurs, so that the undead cannot set foot in the mortal world from the beginning.
"I'm afraid we can't do this." Tam shook his head. "Even if we knew the time and place in advance, we might not be able to stop the enemy."
He digested Jhin's memories and explained, "After all, all the enemy needs is death."
"You can stop them from launching attacks, but can you stop them from killing their own people, or even committing suicide as a sacrifice?"
“This…” Shen and Jie were slightly stunned.
They soon thought of the decisive battle of Barue.
Yes. It is easy to kill people, but difficult to save them. And the master of those people is Mordekaiser, so they are not afraid of suicide.
If the enemies all sacrificed their own people like Vladimir did, or simply committed mass suicide like Jhin just now...how could they stop the enemy?
"But..." Jie quickly realized that something was wrong: "If the enemy can open the plane channel just by killing each other, then why would they spend time and effort planning these attacks?"
"Because the more lives sacrificed, the more stable and wider the opened plane channel will be." Tam explained based on Jhin's memory.
The undead army that Mordekaiser spent thousands of years accumulating may have tens of millions of people, which is endless.
This is truly a vast ocean.
Therefore, what affects the enemy’s combat effectiveness is not the “amount of water” but the “flow rate”.
The more channels opened between the underworld and the mortal world, and the wider the "outlet", the more likely it is that Modkaiser's undead army will be able to pour into Runeland like a tide in the shortest possible time.
If too few people are sacrificed, the hole opened will not be big enough, and the attack of the undead army will not be strong enough...
It is possible that the leader could send out a strong force to block the small "leakage point" and even block the "fountain" to kill the undead.
In short, the more souls the enemy sacrifices, the more powerful the offensive of the undead army will be, and the more difficult it will be to stop.
“I see…” Shen and Jie both felt heavy-hearted.
If that's the case, then it would be almost impossible for them to completely stop the war.
Once a war breaks out, there will be a price to pay. This is unavoidable.
"Then..." Levi used his firm voice to break the gradually heavy atmosphere: "Let's find a way to reduce the cost of this war to the minimum!"
Since war is inevitable, we must win it as beautifully as possible.
Then he asked, "Mr. Tam, which targets did the enemy choose?"
"When and where do they plan to attack and open the plane channel at which locations?"
If we know the time and place of the enemy's attack in advance, we can make targeted preparations as early as possible to minimize the damage that the attack may cause.
“The location of the attack…” Tam digested Jhin’s memory carefully: “He doesn’t know that either.”
"The enemy has established an anti-Wind Leader organization throughout Runeterra, and this guy is just a lower-level member of this organization."
"The person who recruited him into the organization was an undead general named Urgot. And judging from Jhin's memories, this Urgot was just a pawn deployed by Mordekaiser in the Ionia region."
"So, Jhin just received the mission to attack Waili from his superior."
"As for what other targets the enemy plans to attack outside of the Waili area, in Ionia, or even in Runeterra, this guy has no idea."
"This..." Levi frowned.
In Jin's memory, there was only the attack plan about the Weili area that he was responsible for.
What about places outside of Weili?
Are they going to wait until the enemy launches attacks all over the world before they passively respond?
"Mr. Tam, can you help me find Urgot?" Levi asked hopefully.
As Jhin's replacement, perhaps Urgot could provide more detailed information, he thought.
Tam just shook his head helplessly: "I'm afraid this won't work."
"After Jhin received the mission to attack Waili, he left Urgot and went his separate ways. So he doesn't know where Urgot is right now."
“And most importantly…” Tam’s tone became serious: “We don’t have time to follow the clues in Jhin’s memory and slowly find Urgot.”
"Time?" Levi's heart sank.
Yes...Jhin may not know all the attack locations, but he definitely knows when the attacks start.
"What time is this?"
"Tomorrow morning," Tam announced the bad news, "which is tonight, Noxian time."
"What?" Everyone present looked grim. "Then, doesn't that mean we only have less than a day left?"
"Yes..." There was silence.
Levi frowned, thinking about everything.
Of course, less than a day was not enough time for him to slowly collect intelligence.
Even if they found Urgot, they might not be able to obtain the enemy's detailed attack plan across Runeterra from this "regional agent" who was only responsible for Ionia affairs.
Time is running out, and the information Jhin can provide is not comprehensive enough.
At this moment, there seems to be only one way for the leaders. That is to prepare for war as much as possible, and wait until the enemy launches an attack and the "flood" has already occurred in various places, and then let the leaders of various places rush to stop it.
As for whether the leaders can arrive at the scene in time, whether they can stop the flood of undead that is spreading everywhere, whether they can block the dams that are bursting, and how much losses and casualties will be incurred in the process... that is not something Levi can predict in advance.
He had no choice but to wait...
"Wait." Levi thought of something.
Jhin doesn't know the enemy's full plan. Urgot probably doesn't know it either, and it would take him a long time to find out.
If the leader does not want to be passively attacked, he must find someone who is high enough in the enemy's organization and may know the overall plan within less than a day...
Are there such people?
Levi was not sure either. He could only try to ask Tam, "Mr. Tam, you said that the enemy has established a large organization in the mortal world, and Jhin is just a lower level of this organization, right?"
"Yeah." Tam nodded.
The Leader has many enemies in the mortal world. These reactionaries who have committed many evil deeds and are afraid of being liquidated have long been frightened and driven into desperate situations by the Leader who is becoming increasingly invincible.
Therefore, Modkaiser only sent a group of "God's messengers" who still had connections in the mortal world. Within a few months, they easily recruited countless desperate traitors in the material world and formed a huge anti-Janna organization.
This hastily formed big tent alliance certainly will not have strong combat effectiveness and cohesion.
But they don't need this - after all, their mission is just to organize attacks that don't have to be very successful and then die.
Under this development model that does not require any guarantee and only requires attracting as many people as possible to die, this organization naturally grew rapidly into a global behemoth.
"I understand." Levi nodded secretly: "Since it is an organization, there are lower-level people like Jin who are responsible for carrying out specific tasks, and there must be upper-level core people who are responsible for coordinating the upper and lower levels and planning the overall situation."
"So, Mr. Tam..."
"Does Jin have any information about the organization's upper echelons in his memory? Does he know where the organization's headquarters is roughly located?"
Tam thought for a moment and quickly answered, "Noxus."
"The top leaders of this organization should be in Noxus."
Urgot, who developed Jhin, came from Noxus.
He also brought with him many Noxian nobles' private soldiers to serve as thugs in their expansion into Ionia and as reserve sacrifices for Mordekaiser.
"When Urgot used the communication spell to contact the top leaders of the organization, the other party also spoke the language of Noxus." Tam then carefully flipped through a passage in Jhin's memory: "Judging from the accent and idiomatic words, the other party should be a high-ranking noble in Noxus."
"Noxus..." A glimmer of hope flashed in Levi's eyes.
“What’s wrong?” Jie and Shen looked over with concern.
"I seem to have found a solution to the problem." Levi made a quick decision: "Zed, Shen, you two go back to Weili first."
"I have asked Chapter President Riven to secretly prepare for battle at any time. The Ionian Wind Leader Legion and the Alliance of Progressive Sects led by Master Karma are already in a secret state of readiness for battle."
"The situation is still unclear. If there are any further instructions or arrangements, the branch superiors will inform you promptly."
"Yes." The two accepted the arrangement.
But they still asked with concern: "President Levi, you said 'the situation is still unclear'... Could it be that there are still variables in this matter?"
"Yes." Levi nodded, confirming this.
If the top leaders of the enemy organization are in Noxus, then he may still have a chance to catch the core figures of the organization and learn the enemy's overall plan in less than a day.
Because Noxus had already discovered that the nobles were secretly colluding and plotting against Cana.
However, the Leader has not yet been able to prove the relationship between this secret alliance of imperial nobles and Modkaiser.
But now…
There is no need to wait for any solid evidence.
Time is running out, so let’s just strike hard first.
“Janna, tell Swain—” Levi said impatiently, “Tell him to meet us at the Immortal Bastion.”
"We don't have time to wait and see, we have to close the net today!"
