I Am The Swarm

Although Difeck’s reasoning made sense, Viller still had an intuition that the Swarm wouldn’t simply give up the encirclement they had worked so hard to create. They must have a greater plan in mind.

But what could it be? After hearing Difeck’s explanation, Viller also felt that his earlier speculation was somewhat fantastical. How could the Swarm have prepared for something that hadn’t even been decided yet?

Moreover, such plans were highly confidential. Even if a decision had been made, the Swarm couldn’t have obtained the information before the plan was fully executed. Only high-ranking officials would have access to such details, and the Swarm couldn’t possibly offer enough benefits to lure them into betrayal.

And even if the Swarm could offer astronomical rewards, would those high-ranking officials not understand the strength of those powerful civilizations? The strength of the Ji race? Even if they were offered mountains of wealth, they’d still need to be alive to enjoy it. Therefore, Viller didn’t believe there could be traitors within their ranks.

So, could the Swarm have relied on external reconnaissance methods?

The Ji race’s previous reports had mentioned that the Swarm could deploy reconnaissance units disguised as asteroids. Therefore, during defensive preparations, the coalition adopted a “better safe than sorry” approach, destroying any suspicious asteroids.

Perhaps the Swarm had other reconnaissance methods—this was highly likely. Because Viller was 99.99% certain that the Swarm had detected the coalition’s assembly here.

It was possible that the Swarm had noticed the coalition’s movements as soon as they set out from LKDW262. After all, large-scale troop movements were difficult to conceal. But even if that were the case, it had been less than a year since then.

A year wasn’t enough time for the Swarm to redirect their forces from LKDW265 and 267 to this location.