“What is happening?”
“I don’t know, sir. We suddenly lost contact with all our spies; we don’t know what is going on”. The executioner replied his commander as he visibly shook fearfully in his boots under his leader’s rage.
A few days ago, they already noticed that something was stirring in the city. After wasting a lot of time speculating, they finally decided to send out spies yesterday to check the situation out.
The situation was indeed tense according to the spies, but they did not know what was causing it. Everything was fine, and the city was normal.
This eased their hearts a lot, making them feel that they were panicking because of something inexistent. That was what they thought, but surprisingly they suddenly lost contact with all their spies a few hours ago.
Losing contact with their spies was suspicious but something reasonable may have caused it, but the whole terrorist base also losing communication to the outside world was clearly abnormal.