Lu Zui was like a gambler who had wagered all his belongings only to lose everything. All his feelings except frustration and desperation had been drained away. The only thing left was an empty shell that answered Guo Chunfeng's questions mechanically.
However, behind the frustration and desperation, Li Yao vaguely sensed tranquility.
It was not the tranquility of desperation and abandonment.
It was the tranquility of waiting for something before a storm!
Something is wrong.
Lu Zui is too tranquil, desperate, and frustrated. As a Yuanying expert, his belief should be extremely firm. Will he give up so easily?
He has just suffered a brutal failure. In his eyes, the Federation should be hopeless. Faced with such an outcome, he did not even try to struggle? Is he going to confess everything just like that? Is he going to watch the Patriots Partnership being destroyed while doing nothing?
Li Yao and Guo Chunfeng looked at each other. "I want to meet him."
When the two of them stepped into the prison cell, Lu Zui, who had been locked up by barriers, was sitting cross-legged in a corner, staring at a dim illumination rune array on the ceiling in a trance.
On the illumination rune array, a few bugs were crashing into it nonstop. Their heads were bleeding, but they would not regret it even if they were killed.
Lu Zui's interest was entirely focused on the few bugs. He did not even bother to look at Li Yao and Guo Chunfeng.
Right now, it was Lu Zui's turn again. Li Yao and Guo Chunfeng could not afford to waste time. Guo Chunfeng could not help but ask, "Director, what are you looking at?"
"I'm looking at the future."
Lu Zui's voice was both low and slow, as if he were floating from the depths of a swamp. His every word was dripping with mud. "The future in a hundred years.
"In recent decades, the demon race has surrendered, and human beings have secured a great victory. The strength of the Federation has soared rapidly. Everybody has been dwelling in the dream of peace and prosperity. Li Yao and Guo Chunfeng, the two Cultivators who have facilitated everything in person, have become the great heroes that everybody has been watching!
"The demons at the beginning of their surrender hid their claws and teeth and concealed their brutality. They pretended to be innocent lambs and diligent mules and snuck into the Federation in the most humble and docile way, shouldering the most arduous and dirty work.
"With the joint efforts of each other, the Federation was thriving. Everything seemed to be going in the best direction.
"But the good times did not last.
"Gradually, the number of demons increased. With their advantages of higher survival abilities, the demons spread to the resource planets in the Tian Yuan Realm, the Flying Star Sector, and even vaster.
"As for human beings, because of their weak bodies, they could not be infiltrated into the Blood Demon Sector.
"As a result, the number of demons increased, and they occupied more and more worlds. Gradually, they climbed to the critical posts in the new Federation.
"The war in the past was gradually forgotten. The more integrated the two parties were, the louder the demons' demands for rights became. In order to stabilize the Federation and resist the Imperium, the demons, as the weaker species, were given all kinds of preferential policies. The rules, morals, and even laws that had been passed for hundreds, thousands, and even tens of thousands of years were smashed into smithereens because of the word 'discrimination'. Even the words' demons' were forbidden to be uttered on the grounds that it was' politically incorrect '.
"Perhaps, the demons at that time would not be called demons but 'people with extraordinary physical strength' or 'people of the Blood Demon Descendant Federation', right?
"Even so, the demons would still not be satisfied. They would be insatiable in every aspect. They would replace our rules with their rules, corrupt our culture with their culture, and twist our history with their history! The heroes who sacrificed themselves in the battlefields against the demons would no longer be regarded as real heroes, and the dramas and illusions with the experts of the demon race as the protagonists would be performed openly!
"In the end, every human child would lose their wariness of the demons and forget the martyrs who had fought for hundreds of years. They would even feel ashamed of their natural-born wariness!
"Such a change will not happen overnight. Instead, it will happen slowly under the banner of 'love, peace, and integration' in decades to come, in a subtle and piecemeal way."
"Nobody will realize that this is a different kind of invasion. The idiotic public will only be brainwashed by the media and the consortiums. The smart politicians will think that they can make use of the force. Only a few people who are clear-headed can see the dangers in it. But they cannot make a sound when they are alone. Even if they make a sound, they will soon be labeled as the remnants of the Patriots Partnership. They will be accused of 'sabotaging the integration', and they will be despised by everyone."
"In the end, when the stinky demons occupy our streets, take away our jobs, steal our women, and tarnish our flag, perhaps some people will wake up from their dream and regret it.
"But by then, it will be too late. They will be like patients whose cancer cells have spread all over their body, and they will not have any strength to reverse everything.
"By then, perhaps the patients will regret that they did not listen to the doctor's suggestion and cut off all the cancerous organs with a sharp scalpel, no matter how important the organs were!
"This is everything I saw. Director Guo — no, 'Director Guo', the new director of the Secret Sword Bureau, are you interested in watching it with me?"
Li Yao and Guo Chunfeng looked at each other, both feeling that it was rather tricky.
Guo Chunfeng sighed and said, "Director, do you know who this is?"
"Of course."
Lu Zui did not look at Li Yao at all. He said casually, "An idiot who thinks that he is smart. An idiot who thinks that he has not been corrupted by the Blood Devil but has in fact been corrupted without knowing it."
"Director!"
Guo Chunfeng raised his voice. "With everything coming to this point, do you not feel any regret for what you have done? Li Yao has saved the Federation time and time again. He is a well-deserved hero of the Federation. Yet, in order to achieve your purpose, you slandered him in such a shameless way and even implicated Ding Ling Dong, Professor Mo Xuan, and many more people! "
"I did not slander him."
Lu Zui said calmly. "The past contributions cannot be used to make up for today's mistakes. To this moment, I still maintain my opinion. The real Li Yao has been killed in the Blood Demon Sector. The one who is alive right now is just a devil in Li Yao's body, and the devil will destroy the Federation eventually!
"I tried to stop the devil, but it was too cunning, too strong, and too good at taking advantage of the weaknesses of humanity. Therefore, I failed in the end.
"Are you sad? Of course!
"But regret? Hehe. My conscience is clear. I am unrepentant! "
Li Yao narrowed his eyes and confronted Lu Zui head-on for the first time. "You are unrepentant, but you confessed the nests of the Patriots Partnership, which led to the collapse of the organization and the capture of a lot of 'patriots'?"
"As I said, the winner takes all. You have to accept your loss."
Lu Zui said lazily. "I did not kill Guo Chunfeng on 'Hidden Star' because our organization did everything not for personal grudges but for justice and for the strength of the Federation!
"Killing Guo Chunfeng was just to vent my anger, but the country would have lost an excellent director of the Secret Sword Bureau, which was against my belief. So, I did not do it.
"By the same logic, we have failed, and there is no possibility of a comeback. Is there any need for us to struggle and waste the national strength of the Federation?
"If we are going to lose, let's lose quickly. It is the last bit of dignity that we can save for ourselves!"
Li Yao scratched his head. He was not an interrogation specialist. Lu Zui's words were flawless, and he could not find any loopholes in them.
However, why was he getting more and more confused?
"You did not admit defeat!"
Li Yao suddenly bulged his eyes. Brilliance beamed out of his eyes, and a red brilliance and a black brilliance pierced into Lu Zui's eyes. "You still have a chance of a comeback! Everything you are doing right now is exactly the same as what Guo Chunfeng did on 'Hidden Star'. You are stalling for time and creating an opportunity for … someone else! "
Lu Zui's eyes were empty. There was not the slightest fluctuation of emotions. He smiled and raised his head to study the moths darting into the fire.
"No! No! No! "
Li Yao thought quickly and felt that his brain was exploding. He retrieved all the nests of the Patriots Partnership that Lu Zui had given him and finally found the source of his uneasiness.
"Lu Zui, in the past twelve hours, you have given us thirty-seven nests, but thirty-one of them are in the south of the Federation and the East Ocean!
"The few most important production bases of the Demon God Virus, which are guarded by experts, are all in the southernmost part of the Federation and in the depths of the ocean!"
"What's the meaning of this? Is the Patriots Partnership discriminating against non-southerners because of their geography?"
Lu Zui simply closed his eyes and fell silent, but a mocking smile gradually popped up on his lips.
Guo Chunfeng was a top-tier interrogation specialist. He had been trapped in the mountains and could not free himself. Now that he was reminded by Li Yao, he immediately realized what was going on. "Are you suggesting that he is luring us away?
"The thirty-seven nests that he gave us are all of paramount importance. A lot of elite warriors of the Patriots Partnership are gathered there!
"In order to destroy the nests and capture all the members of the organization, not only have the local Cultivators all taken action, even the experts in the north and the central regions of the Federation have marched to the south on crystal warships!
"Right now, most of the Jin Dan experts and the Yuanying experts of the Federation have been concentrated in the southern rainforests and the depths of the ocean to deal with the Patriots Partnership. It is impossible for them to be summoned back anytime soon!
"Li Yao, you are not implying that someone else is hiding behind Lu Zui, a leader of the Patriots Partnership who is at least on par with him, and that everything that Lu Zui is doing is exactly the same as everything that I am doing for you. It is to buy time for him to activate a 'backup plan', isn't it?"
Solemnly, Li Yao nodded slowly. "Do you not find it odd, Brother Guo? Now that I think about it, in order to set me up, Lu Zui mobilized tremendous manpower and resources in the military, the political world, and the world of Cultivators. For the identity of 'director of the Secret Sword Bureau', aren't the resources involved a bit too much? "
"Also, isn't the victory too easy? The Patriots Partnership has been carefully planning for such a long time. They have taken every aspect into consideration. Did they not prepare a 'Plan B' in case of desperation? Did they really die just like that? "
Guo Chunfeng's hair was standing on end. He bulged his eyes. "Another leader of the Patriots Partnership? Who — who are you suspecting? "
"Tear apart all the illusions. There is only one truth!"
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