Jin Xinyue left the secret chamber in a series of chuckles.
The three big shots of the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector, who had been dominating the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector since the age of the old Federation, were left behind. They looked at each other in silence and sensed the coldness spreading out of each other's bones.
…
A black, extended, bulletproof shuttle with a mirror surface floated up from the top of the private club without a sound and dashed toward the building of the Ministry of Development like a ghost.
However, Jin Xinyue was not on the shuttle.
Five minutes later, another shuttle that looked plain and common flew out of a small parking lot not far away from the private club and headed for the industrial area at the northeast corner of the capital city.
After half an hour of zigzagging flight, the shuttle slowly landed in an empty, rusted, forsaken warehouse that was about to be reconstructed.
When Jin Xinyue got off the shuttle, she felt chills all over her body. She put on a thick, black coat made of the fur of a horned camel.
"Clack, clack, clack."
She passed through the empty warehouse. Her high-heeled boots tapped on the ground, producing crisp and empty noises.
When she was about to reach the end of the warehouse, Jin Xinyue stopped and took off the black veil on her face, revealing a pale but delicate smile.
Opposite her, deep inside the warehouse, Ding Ling Dong, who was wearing a dark red training suit, walked straight to her and stopped three meters away from her.
For the two Yuanying experts, it was definitely not a friendly distance.
Ding Ling Dong and Jin Xinyue, perhaps the two most dangerous women in the Xing Yao Federation, confronted each other in silence with a distance of three meters between them.
Huala! Huala! Huala!
Even the spacious warehouse could not bear the surging spiritual energy of the two of them. The broken windows around were all shaking crazily, letting out noises that sounded like the cries of ghosts.
"Masteress, I didn't expect that you would ask me to meet you in such a place."
Jin Xinyue smiled faintly. "You and I are both public figures now, and also … competitors. If the media finds out about this meeting, it won't just be big news, it will be a superstorm.
"But that's true. Thinking back, ever since Master left, how many years has it been since we last met face to face? Oh, it seems like it has never happened before?"
"Cut the crap."
Ding Ling Dong cut to the chase. "Were you behind the rebellion of the Immortal Cultivators on Firefly? Is Lu Qingchen one of your men? Are you secretly supporting the CFIA? "
Jin Xinyue seemed to have expected that Ding Ling Dong would ask such a question. She spread out her hands and said, "Ma'am, you believe such groundless rumors?"
"It's because I don't believe it that I'm looking for you!"
Ding Ling Dong stepped forward again, shortening the distance between the two of them to two meters. "Jin Xinyue, look me in the eyes and answer my question just now! If you dare look me in the eyes and say that it's not you, I will choose to believe you! "
Jin Xinyue looked at Ding Ling Dong in the eyes, but the infinite brilliance inside the latter's eyes soon made her turn around. She continued smiling. "Masteress, when you are really elected as the Supreme Speaker of the Xing Yao Federation, I will certainly tell you everything I know and decrypt everything to you. But right now, a lot of things are related to the top secrets of the country. I cannot say them, and you are not qualified to listen, either!"
Ding Lingdang snorted coldly. "So, the information that 'Moonfall' revealed is all true?"
"As the minister of the Ministry of Development of the Federation and the president of the Dim Moon Fund, I cannot tell you a single word," Jin Xinyue said. "However, you are my masteress. If it is just a private chat between the two of us, I would like to know more about it. Let's say that in a country that does not exist, let's call it the Xing Yao Federation for now, and let's say that there is a leader of an intelligence agency, let's call her Jin Xinyue, and she has really done such a thing, so what? Is there a problem?
"It is obvious that the expedition army of the Imperium is about to arrive and may even appear above our heads at any moment. The old fogeys of the government-in-exile are still hesitating and trying to bargain. Do we have so much time and energy to deal with the government-in-exile?
"Through a rebellion of the Immortal Cultivators that we know in advance, on one hand, we can make the leadership of the government-in-exile realize the threat of the Immortal Cultivators, and on the other hand, we can help them remove the 'boils' inside. Two birds with one stone. Why not?
"By saying that, I am not admitting that I did it. However, 'assuming' that it was really Jin Xinyue who did it, is it really disgraceful?
"At the very least, the result of the incident was not bad. The Immortal Cultivators lurking on Firefly were basically all fished up. The old Speaker of the government-in-exile was scared out of his wits, too. He immediately asked for full cooperation with us. Tell me, masteress, what exactly is it that makes you so angry? Or do you think that it was done too well, and you are worried that my credit will be greatly increased so that I will secure the final victory? "
"Bullsh * t!"
Ding Ling Dong narrowed her eyes. "Don't think that everybody in the world considers the position of the 'Supreme Speaker' more important than anything else! Let me tell you, to this moment, I have never really cared about whether or not I am the 'Supreme Speaker' for one second!
"If you admit that it was really you who instigated the rebellion of the Immortal Cultivators on Firefly and then extinguished the fire, is it any different from the firemen who set the fire on their own and then extinguished the fire in order to claim credit for themselves? You — you have completely embarked on the evil path that Lu Zui walked on a hundred years ago! What you are doing right now is no different from what Lu Zui did! "
"That's where you are wrong, masteress."
Faced with Ding Ling Dong's storm, Jin Xinyue was still as unperturbed as before. She said casually, "Firstly, Lu Zui personally planned and carried out the assassination of the Speaker of the Federation and the murder of countless people of the Federation. His hands were stained with the blood of his compatriots in the first place.
"But as for me, hypothetically speaking — remember, hypothetically speaking — if I really wanted to make a difference, I would never have planned and carried out everything as idiotic as Lu Zui.
"At best, I only 'happened' to hear that a rebellion was about to break out on Firefly. In order to catch the big fish, I did not report it in time and simply guided it by the way.
"It is quite understandable in intelligence work, isn't it? Firstly, I had to protect the safety of my own intelligence personnel. Secondly, considering the awkward relationship between us and the government-in-exile at that time, what should I say? Should I go to Cui Lingfeng and tell him that Speaker Cui, your trusted subordinate and the third in command on the starship are going to join hands and start a rebellion?
"This is the nature of intelligence work. If you arrest the small fries every time you discover their tricks, you will never be able to catch the big fish!
"It is the same for the Dim Moon Fund. It is the same for the Secret Sword Bureau. It is the same for the common police. Why are you so harsh on me, masteress?"
"There's no need to avoid the issue. You know what I mean very well!"
Holding back her fury, Ding Ling Dong said coldly, "Thankfully, the rebellion of the Immortal Cultivators was suppressed in time. Otherwise, how many innocent people on Firefly would have been killed because of your 'catching the big fish with a long line'? Have you ever thought about that?"
Jin Xinyue's eyes gradually narrowed, like a starship that had slowly lowered its defense shield and entered the combat state. "Then, have you ever thought about how much trouble the government-in-exile will cause for us and how many innocent people will be killed because of the trouble if we do not resolve the problems on Firefly decisively and completely uproot the 'cancer' before the war?
"At the very least, if anyone is going to die right now, it will be the ordinary people of the government-in-exile who will die.
"On the other hand, if I am softhearted and soft-hearted, it will very likely be the ordinary people of the Xing Yao Federation who will die. They will be our compatriots who are a hundred times more numerous than those under the government of the government-in-exile!
"This is the greatest difference between Lu Zui and me. Lu Zui claims to be the guardian of the Federation, but the people he kills are all his compatriots. My blades, claws, and teeth, on the other hand, will only be used to deal with the outsiders and to defend the Federation! If the deaths of some outsiders can save the lives of more compatriots of the Federation, I don't think it is inappropriate at all! "
Jin Xinyue's suddenly raised voice and intimidating aura stunned even Ding Ling Dong.
Taking a deep breath, the human-shaped tyrannosaurus stared at the saintess of the demons solemnly and mumbled, "You are truly sinking deeper and deeper into the swirl of power, Jin Xinyue! Although I knew that you were ambitious and ruthless, I always thought that Li Yao must've seen that you still had some boundaries in your heart since he recruited you as his disciple and that you would not really do anything that would trample on everything!
"But he was wrong!
"Look at everything that you have done in the past hundred years, especially the dirty deals that you did with the secret troop in the four new Sectors after you left the Secret Sword Bureau and established the Dim Moon Fund. Also, for the future of the demon race, you bowed before the so-called 'big shots' of the core worlds and worked as their claws and teeth willingly! Think about everything that you have done. Do you not feel that you are slipping slowly from a 'Cultivator' to an 'Immortal Cultivator'? "
Jin Xinyue smiled unconcernedly and tightened the fur on her body. "Cultivator or Immortal Cultivator is just a noun. Is there any difference between them and 'worker', 'farmer', 'police', and 'teacher'? They are not words that are engraved on the forehead that can never be erased! I don't care about the Cultivators or the Immortal Cultivators. I only know that what I have done is worthy of both my master and the Federation.
"What, do you think that my methods are dirty? But how could the four new Sectors have been conquered so easily without such dirty methods? If I hadn't led my brothers to risk their lives and plucked the most annoying 'thorns', how could the rest of the people have joined the Federation so obediently?
"With the clandestine, dirty methods of the Dim Moon Fund, the time to completely integrate the four new Sectors into the Federation has been accelerated by at least ten years. How much can the integration of our resources, the improvement of our combat ability, and the construction of our army be improved in ten years? How many lives of ordinary people will be saved in the coming war? One billion? Two billion? Five billion? Ten billion?
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