Chapter 341: Spider Mining (2/2)

Aldrich swiped the screen, sending that news channel away

V whistled froed and hunched over as always "Now look at that, big boy Thanatos is thein their boots Or scales Or whatever"

"It's just a theory," said Aldrich "And why didn't I getum and popped it with soet, like, a thousand requests to meet you a day

Fro a stable job, and this doctor dude, you think he's special?

He's like, one out of a bazillion research centers that have tried to get a hold of you

Iet if they literally solve the variant crisis with you"

V sighed "But yeah, I should be keeping you on top of everything Issue is I'ood at infiltration This boring work - no offense to Fisk, I offload most of this to hiuess what I' I sorta want so," said Aldrich "But you know it's hard If I'hly, and they need to be loyal enough to ith me for a lifetime

It's easier for me to raise an undead at this point, but it should be obvious why I can't just assassinate a high end techno and kidnap theed "Downsides of being on the world stage, I guess It's harder to get aith things co to be real busy with this guy for a while"

V jutted her chin forward, pointing to Desed in a techno-chairpower by cooling their internal te

From his head, a cable extended A bundle of V's technopathic hairs

"So, do you think you can take control over his network of spiders?" said Aldrich

V shook her head "That network's gone already He had a deadot jacked

I did actually develop my arachnophobia jacker with a dead man's switch inany inforht up willing to kill off his entire tribe if he ever lost control shi+t, that's heartless"

"It comes with unhealthy paranoia," said Aldrich

"Reminds me of a certain someone," teased V

Aldrich raised a brow "Are you talking about otten a bit better on that end You're a little irl with you, hht on his shoulders felt afterthe fate of the world stood on hihter he felt when Valera said she would be there for him no matter what

"Potentially," said Aldrich

"Aw, corimaced "danored her "If Desmond's Spiders are all dead, the neill echo to the Italian prong soon enough I can have Feather pretend they're still alive for a while, but that'll only last so long

This will spur a reaction fro, no doubt What I can't afford is the Italian prong getting cold feet onthe Blackwater attack"

Vexa's butterflies now comprised a careful spy network over Blackwater and its surrounding areas, and they reported that troop buildup for all three prongs of the Trident were increasing considerably

The Italian and japanese prongs were closer to Blackwater and had taken up residence in Blackwater at this point, fortifying it as if for a siege

Whichto be at a disadvantage trying to break in

All this happened under the radar of the world with the AA unable to deal with villain related activity with variant attack threats and the Panopticon still downed

Granted, now that the variants were retreating, it was possible that the AA could

start investigating the area That here the Blackout cah level Blackout fro with the conflict

The only wildcard here was Solomon Solar as deep in bed with the Trident

Aldrich still did not knohere Solomon stood in this conflict Despite the buildup of troops and the i conflict, Solo a PR tour where he handed out water to a tier 3 city way up north that got leveled by the Locus Raids

Was Soloht?

Or, to behim?