None of them knew what kind of actions the mother organism would plan upon obtaining this information?
Would it command other covert infestations within the city to encircle and annihilate their Vanguard Squad?
Or would it use its cunning to incite other humans in the city to kill these outsiders who had restricted the freedom of Eternal Night City's officials?
Or perhaps, upon realizing its conspiracy had been exposed, would it launch a devastating full-scale attack on Eternal Night City using the Bug Race hive outside the walls?
Even though Bai E and the others had employed every isolating measure they could think of to prevent the monitoring mother organism—potentially lurking in the shadows—from discovering the events here, they could not guarantee secrecy in their actions.
No one knew the ultimate outcome.
Which is why they had to act quickly.
