On Hidden Star, Guo Chunfeng and Lu Zui confronted each other in silence. ↓ ↓
Invisible electric arcs were raised from the collision between the supervisor of the first division of the Secret Sword Bureau and the director of the Secret Sword Bureau. Even the air was spluttering.
Next to Lu Zui, four Cultivators in Crystal Suits were standing. Their weapons were unsheathed, and their bullets were loaded. They had locked onto every joint on Guo Chunfeng's body.
Guo Chunfeng glanced at them and smiled. "'Death Slaying Sword' Gu Feizhou, 'Murderous Shadow' Gao Cheng, Lei Po, an elder of the Green Cloud Sect and known as the best expert in the Great Dream Swamp in the southwest, and Xie Longyin, the chief tutor of the Slay Iron Exo Training Camp. Four of the best Cultivators in the Core Formation Stage. I didn't know that they were all working for the Secret Sword Bureau. They are all 'Dark Sword Agents' directly under the director's command. How surprising!"
Right now, he was heavily wounded, and his blood was flooding out. He was like a tiger that had fallen into a trap and was caught in a trap.
However, Gu Feizhou, Gao Cheng, Lei Po, and Xie Longyin, the four Core Formation Stage Cultivators who had fought their way out of mountains of corpses and oceans of blood, did not dare relax at all. Their intimidating aura seemed to be real and tied him up like invisible chains.
"Ah Feng, you seemed to be leaving just now."
Lu Zui asked. "Blood Devil Li Yao was just executed. Where were you going instead of reporting to me? If my men had been one step later, would you have escaped into the underground and vanished into thin air? "
Guo Chunfeng was silent.
Lu Zui gradually raised his voice. "Blood Devil Li Yao flicked something into your pocket at the last moment. Why didn't you report such an important thing?"
"You mean this?"
Guo Chunfeng opened his hands. A brocade bag appeared in his palm, in which a square object was stored.
Lu Zui's eyes shone. The four Core Formation Stage Cultivators were about to step forward and snatch it when Guo Chunfeng flipped his hands and put the object back into his Cosmos Ring. He took a step back and bellowed like a tiger, "Who dares to snatch it?"
Lu Zui narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "Ah Feng, what is the meaning of this? This is the critical evidence of the explosion in the square of the Federation. As the director of the Secret Sword Bureau, I order you to turn it in. Is there a problem? "
"Yes!"
Guo Chunfeng stared at him. "After Li Yao snuck into the headquarters, he came to me and told me that the explosion in the square of the Federation was planned by you. He had proof, which was hidden inside the Jade Crystal Disc!
Lu Zui scoffed. "You believe such a low-level lie?"
"I didn't believe it at first!"
Guo Chunfeng said, one word after another. "That's why I pretended to agree with him and went to Professor Mo Xuan's cell with him. When he was most relaxed, I drew my sword and executed him!
"However, the look in his eyes and his face before his death was too weird!
"I could tell that he had a chance to die together with me, but he didn't. Instead, he blew out a strong wind and pushed me out of the cell. He even threw the Jade Crystal Disc into my pocket!
"What's the meaning of this?
"If he is really the Blood Devil, why did he give the Jade Crystal Disc to me even at the cost of his own life? Is there such a Blood Devil?
"What kind of secrets are hidden inside the Jade Crystal Disc? Or rather, what kind of 'evidence' is so important to both him and you?
"Director, that's the question. If you can give me a reasonable answer, I will give the Jade Crystal Disc to you immediately!"
This time, it was Lu Zui who was silent.
Guo Chunfeng gnashed his teeth. "Director, there is another way. We can find a specialist of crystal processors to crack the Jade Crystal Disc in public and retrieve the information inside. Then, the whole thing will be resolved and your innocence will be proven!"
Lu Zui was still silent, but his eyes were sharper and sharper.
His eyes made Guo Chunfeng shudder. He lost his composure and exclaimed, "Are you saying that Blood Devil Li Yao is telling the truth? No. He is not the Blood Devil at all. He is Li Yao. He is Vulture Li Yao! There is indeed evidence of paramount importance inside the disc! "
"Ah Feng."
Lu Zui stood up slowly, as if he had aged almost thirty years all of a sudden.
At first, he took out a piece of magical equipment in the shape of an egg from the drawer and tossed it into the air softly.
An ocean of light was emitted from the egg magical equipment, which filled every corner of the cabin with feeble squeaking noises.
"Alright," Lu Zui said. "This cabin has been jammed. All the eavesdropping chips have been blocked.
"Now, we can confide in each other and have a good chat."
Holding the desk, he sighed softly. "Ah Feng, you are a talent. Over the past decades, I've been training you carefully and watching you grow up step by step. I have high hopes for your potential and future!
"You know that I'm more than two hundred years old now. However well I take care of myself, my head is not very bright anymore. It is impossible for me to sit in this position for long.
"Before, I hoped that you could replace me as the next director of the Secret Sword Bureau and the guardian of the black frontline of the Federation after I retired!
"Even now, I don't want to ruin you. I hope that you won't do anything stupid and ruin yourself.
"Hand over the Jade Crystal Disc, and I'll arrange a place for you to treat your wounds for a couple of days. You can reunite with your family after that. What do you think?"
"Since you're the one who raised me, you should know my character. I don't care about sand in my eyes, and I can't hide anything that can't be exposed in my heart!"
Guo Chunfeng declared resolutely. "Tell me the truth. What is inside the Jade Crystal Disc exactly? Maybe I can take the director's side after careful consideration. Otherwise, just do it!"
The atmosphere in the cabin suddenly became tense. The metal walls all around began to emit "Ka Ka" sounds of metal fatigue!
Lu Zui stared at him for a long time, his eyes unsteady. After much consideration, he finally said, "It's Elder Nether Spring's memories. Three months ago, we captured Elder Nether Spring and retrieved all his memories with 'soul-searching'. We learned the truth of the Children of the Nether World plan, too."
"What!"
As if struck by lightning, Guo Chunfeng shook and mumbled, "You captured Elder Nether Spring a long time ago and learned the truth of the Children of the Nether World. Then, you knew the demon race's plan to assassinate the Speaker and steal Burning Prairie a long time ago, but you just watched it happen?
"No! No! No!
"I understand it now. Li Yao was speaking the truth. There was no such scheme as the demon race stealing Burning Prairie. Everything was planned by you. It was all you!
"Why? Why?
"Director, you are an extraordinary person standing at the peak of the Federation. You have fought for the Federation for two hundred years. You have no reason to betray the Federation at all. Why did you do that?"
"I did not betray the Federation!"
Lu Zui roared. "Everything I did was to protect the Federation and our purest, most sacred, and greatest Federation!
"Ah Feng, don't you understand? Human beings and demons cannot be integrated at all. If we do, we will only plant time bombs that will explode at the most critical moment decades later!
"Ah Feng, you are a war orphan, too. Your hometown was destroyed by the beast tides, and your parents died miserably under the claws and teeth of the demon beasts. Can you not see the evil nature of the demon race? Those stinky, inhumane animals are not qualified to 'integrate' with us!
"Only by attacking and conquering the Blood Demon Sector completely, turning the lowly animals into slaves and sending them to the resource planets of the Flying Star Sector for mining is the only way to save the Federation!
"Even so —"
Guo Chunfeng roared, too. "Why didn't you propose your idea openly and persuade most of the representatives in parliament to start a fair war? Why — why did you raise the hatred of the people in such a sordid, shameless, and insane way? "
"Because we don't have the time to let the hatred ferment."
Lu Zui suddenly calmed down and said coldly, "The general public is numb, weak, and short-sighted. They will not see the conflicts decades later at all. They will only be dwelling in the peace before their eyes!
"Ever since the Flying Star Sector came to the Tian Yuan Realm and brought the news of the Imperium of True Human Beings, the entire Federation has been dwelling in the groundless illusions, hoping that the peace between the Tian Yuan Realm and the Blood Demon Sector could be realized and that they could work together against the Imperium of True Human Beings.
"Enshrouded in such an atmosphere, all kinds of bizarre theories have been popping up. Even the toughest warriors in the past have been corrupted. They believe that the sabers and swords of human beings and demons can be pointed in the same direction and that the bloody grudge that has lasted tens of thousands of years can be eliminated without a trace!
"That is human beings. They are the weakest animals in the world. They only believe what they are willing to believe. They always have unrealistic illusions, but they are unwilling to open their eyes and see the cruel world clearly!
"In the Blood Demon Sector, Jin Tuyi, the rarely-seen schemer, grasped the weakness of humanity of the Federation deeply, too. He covered himself in a coat of 'peace' and proposed a conciliation plan, hoping to corrupt the entire Federation in a subtle way!
"The conciliation plan was brought back to the Tian Yuan Realm by Li Yao, the hero of the Federation in the past!
"Ah Feng, I've been working in the Secret Sword Bureau for two hundred years. I've seen too many lies, disguises, betrayals, regrets, and deaths. I know the sordidness of the demons and the cowardice of our compatriots too well!
"I guarantee that, when Li Yao returned to the Tian Yuan Realm with the conciliation plan in the name of the hero of the Federation, our short-sighted and weak compatriots would certainly have been bewildered by his fancy words and welcomed peace in high spirits!
"But it is not peace. Not real peace. It is just a preparation period of decades for the demons to sharpen their claws and teeth before they butcher us!
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