Shen Zongdao opened the bedroom door and walked in. He turned around and pressed a few times on the door frame to seal the room. Then he walked to the spacious high-end sofa in front of the projector and sat down, then took the hologram with him. Blindfold.
With a few flashes of blue light on the black eye mask, the entire room was instantly enveloped in blue light. At the same time, a waterfall of blue light flowed out from the eye mask, brushing across Shen Zongdao's body. Then all the light faded at the same time, and the scene in the room in front of him also changed back to its original state.
It's just that there are three more figures in front of him.
Standing directly opposite him was a middle-aged woman in her forties, on the right was a young man in his twenties, and on the right was an old man who looked like he might be close to fifty.
Although they all looked unremarkable, even Shen Zongdao, who was watching them through the holographic influence, became a little nervous, because two of the three were official members of the neoliberal faction, and the old man was from the institute. Senior Member.
The middle-aged woman spoke:
"We heard about Xiaoyao and Ma En. You were there at the time, right?"
Shen Zongdao nodded nervously:
"Yes, I originally wanted to cause trouble for them according to the original plan, and in fact I had already angered Tang Xueluan, and Ma En had nothing to do to stop me, but just when I was about to put pressure on them, Xiaoyao The Taoist came over by himself.
"Then he said he wanted to apologize to Ma En. At the time, I thought he was mocking Ma En. I thought Xiaoyao wanted to plot against Ma En by giving away those things, but he did not target Ma En again in his words. Opportunity.
"Then Ma En was sent to negotiate with Shenxiao. To be honest, he behaved extremely badly there. I even felt that I had another chance to suppress the Rongbang faction. At that time, I had already thought of Ma En There may be a great need for anti-psychic metal. We can make a fuss about this and use the excuse that he has not handed over the elixir to not give him anti-psychic metal, so that members of the Rongbang faction cannot cooperate with him.
"But before I saw him again, Taoist Xiaoyao proposed the deal, and then he became the star of the entire federation. Although Ma En did not directly agree, it was somewhat beyond our expectations.
"But until he formally refuses, I can't do anything against these two Rongbang faction members."
After he finished speaking, the three figures looked at each other a few times, and then the middle-aged woman asked him again:
"You said this might be Xiaoyao's plot against Ma En. Then what do you think Xiaoyao's actual purpose is, and are his claims to the outside world credible?"
Shen Zongdao paused and thought for a moment, but finally said:
"I can't see it."
The young man spoke:
"This matter is quite strange. The interests involved cannot be viewed in terms of anti-psychic metal. For me, it is not a problem to give that thing to a young person with potential. But no matter what Ma En can do, he Not even worth ten longevity pills.
"I think Xiaoyao either wants to take revenge on Ma En, or he accepted Ma En by the way, but his real purpose is to use Ma En as a reason to deal with us, or he is not worried at all that we can crack the longevity pill technology. He might even have some real intentions towards Ma En.
"Of course, Xiaoyao's attitude toward the Federation and Ma En are actually unrelated to each other. He may be dealing with both sides at the same time. This means that whether he is trying to fool us or not, there is a slight possibility that he actually doesn't want to deal with Ma En at all. .
"But it doesn't really matter to us what his purpose is.
"At least what he meant by offering longevity pills in exchange for anti-psychic metal is actually to let us use this thing to force Ma En to submit. Because Ma En desires and needs anti-psychic metal, we can use this to force Ma En to submit. Well, what he gave us was ten longevity pills, and it was impossible for the Federation to refuse this condition.
"He is a very cunning ability user, and he has never suffered any losses when he came into contact with us before. According to the judgment of the institute, almost 90% of the information our spies collected was made by him, so the current situation is actually quite unreasonable."
The middle-aged woman then asked:
"Do you really have no ideas?"
Shen Zongdao shook his head:
"No, I can't think of anything."
The middle-aged woman continued expressionlessly:
"No need to pretend here, I know you just don't want to cause trouble. After Xiaoyao proposed the deal, you never targeted them again, and you didn't even try to suppress them. Of course, there is nothing wrong with what you did.
"After all, Xiaoyao has the longevity pill we long for, but that doesn't mean we have to watch Ma En obtain the anti-psychic metal and reach an in-depth cooperation with the Shu family. You have to know that there is another worst possibility, and that is Xiaoyao didn't lie about Ma En. Ma En is really a spiritual genius with the potential to advance to level V.
"This is actually what we are most worried about, because the longevity pill does not have a high impact on us and the Rongbang sect, but if the Rongbang sect and the Shu family have more V-level foreign aid, it will be a terrible situation for us. bad news.
"That's why we asked you what Xiaoyao's true purpose is. If what he wants is revenge on Ma En, and you can see that he may kill Ma En in the future, or Ma En has no chance to advance to level V, then we You can just ignore this matter completely.
"But if Ma En can take the opportunity to advance to level V, then even if he doesn't need the longevity pill, we still have to mess with this matter."
These words made Shen Zongdao feel a little worried and afraid:
"What do you mean? That's a longevity pill. It's related to the Fountain of Youth project. How could you just give up like that?"
He doesn't care about longevity pills because he is still young, but there are many old immortals among the neoliberals nowadays.
Many of them have reached triple digits in age, and have almost used up all the life extension programs through the Fountain of Youth Project. For them, longevity pills are a must-have. They don’t even need to actually replicate this medicine, but As long as we can find a new way to extend life through this kind of thing, even if it is only for a few years or even a few months, those old things will not be let go.
Shen Zongdao couldn't figure out why the congressman in front of him would say such a thing.
Seeing his surprised expression, the middle-aged woman smiled:
"Are you scared? Don't worry, there must be a reason why I dare you to do this. Academician Huang's research is about to have a new breakthrough, and it is also about the Fountain of Youth project, but the federation is not clear about it yet.
"He did not disclose his research precisely because of the existence of Taoist Xiaoyao. Now the plans for the Fountain of Youth are placed with Taoist Xiaoyao. Even if Mr. Huang discloses his research now, he will not get the resources to make a breakthrough."
The old man nodded slightly and said:
"My research is very close to success. I just need enough experiments and accumulation."
The middle-aged woman continued:
"The resources he needs are not a small amount, but it is indeed not impossible. The Federation itself will not allow us to invest such a huge amount of resources when the Taoist Xiaoyao people will give us longevity pills, and the politicians of the Rongbang faction will not be willing to let Academician Huang, who is so close to us, has no choice but to make a breakthrough.
"Rather than letting the Shu family of the Rongbang sect obtain the Longevity Pill, we prefer Academician Huang to complete his research, so even if there is no Longevity Pill, it is not an unacceptable result for us. What this matter will really hurt is Rong. Bangpai.
"Ma En is one of theirs now. If he and Tang Xueluan get the Longevity Pill, all the credit will go to him, so you can dispel your doubts. We are not asking you to carry out a suicide plan.
"The other members knew about it."
Shen Zongdao did have this worry. After hearing the news, he was not only shocked but also scared. After all, if this was a private decision made by the three people in front of him who did not care so much about life extension, then they wanted to Use it as a knife.
And he wondered what would happen to him in this situation - becoming a scapegoat.
Because he often does this kind of thing himself, but there should be no problem with them doing this now. Although they did not say it explicitly, it is very likely that the research in Academician Huang's hand is the reason why they really want to stop Ma En, but these are not what he It's time to know.
Shen Zongdao is still a little worried:
"So you don't want Ma En to be promoted to a level V ability user, but he is a former member of the Salvation Alliance. If you prevent him and the Rongbang faction from cooperating with him, it is still outside the scope of the contract, but you directly block him like this. "
The middle-aged woman smiled and said:
"If he is not a former member of the Salvation Alliance, then we have a million ways to manipulate him. Killing him is just a matter of saying a few words for us. It is precisely because of his sensitive identity that we came here Found you.
"In the negotiations a few days ago, your performance was on the qualified line. Things like Xiaoyao are difficult for anyone to deal with. In the end, you also deliberately showed hostility towards Ma En and Tang Xueluan, and you kept your distance from them. Once the distance is set, this is actually enough.
"But I know that your ability is more than that. You have been in the limelight recently and have solved several difficult things. It seems to me that you deliberately avoided Ma En when dealing with them and focused more on On Tang Xueluan's body.
"And this is because you don't want to get into trouble at all, you just finish the task at hand and deal with it, right?"
This question made Shen Zongdao a little embarrassed:
"No, I have actually tried my best..."
The middle-aged woman interrupted with an unhappy expression:
"Don't act in front of us. I don't want to accuse you. You are not our slave, so your caution does not make me think there is anything wrong. I can completely understand your behavior of reducing risks. No matter what, It is said that Ma and En are all capable people.
“Not long ago, many politicians died at the hands of capable people, but now we need you to show your abilities.
"It's impossible for us to deal with Ma En. How could we do such a thing? But didn't you notice anything strange about Ma En in this negotiation?"
Shen Zongdao didn't think there was anything strange about Ma En's performance, but he still asked:
"What?"
The middle-aged woman continued:
"We watched the video of Marn's negotiation and had it checked repeatedly by professionals. Finally, we discovered a surprising fact, that is, Marn's negotiation was not beneficial to him.
"Furthermore, some experts have pointed out that Ma En has actually performed very well in many previous scenes, but this time the negotiation in front of Shenxiao seemed a bit too embarrassing. This is probably what he acted for us.
"And this means that he may have done something secretly with Shenxiao. Although we don't have any evidence and haven't found anything, we absolutely cannot rule out this possibility, are you right?"
Shen Zongdao was stunned for a moment, and then immediately replied:
"That's right."
She is telling lies with her eyes wide open. If there is a problem with Ma En's negotiation video, then it is the entire federation that should know, not the neoliberal people, and Ma En's motives are actually very obvious.
And if we can doubt Ma En without getting any benefits, then the premise must be that Ma En has the ability to succeed in everything. This seems even more absurd and ridiculous, and his performance is actually very reasonable. The individual experts she calls Probably the least capable ones.
And the most important thing is that what Ma En thinks is not important to them at all. With the size of the Federation, it is impossible to doubt an ability user of Ma En's level. No matter what, he will never do anything about Shenxiao. hands and feet.
This is not a question of whether you want to or not, but that Ma En simply cannot do it.
The only reason why this suspicion can be established is that Ma En was once a member of the Salvation Alliance. Everything else is ridiculous, but even this is enough. After all, they do not really doubt Ma En.
This was just a reason to get around the armistice.
The middle-aged woman continued the question she just asked:
"Do you think what Xiaoyao said at that time was sincere?"
But this time Shen Zongdao immediately understood what she meant:
"I think it's quite possible that Xiaoyao wants to deal with Ma En."
This is true, but it doesn't tell the whole story.
The middle-aged woman nodded:
"So what do you have in mind now?"
Shen Zongdao narrowed his eyes slightly, and then immediately gave his answer:
"First of all, we have to investigate Ma En again. His recent behavior is somewhat suspicious. I suspect that he actually wants to have an affair with Shen Xiao. We have to investigate him, and I think there are several places where we can start.
"We need to conduct a more in-depth background investigation on him, and then we will investigate Tang Xueluan, and I plan to find Kania, who has just completed the inspection of Ma En, and use her to find out if Ma En has any secrets.
"During the negotiation, I felt that Kania actually had something unspoken in her heart. I thought she might be our breakthrough. As long as there is any 'evidence', we will find her to conduct an in-depth investigation.
"Secondly, before our investigation is successful, we have to prevent Xiaoyao from harming Ma En, an important member of our federation. I plan to investigate whether Xiaoyao wants to hurt Ma En secretly. If so, we must stop him from doing so."
If Xiaoyao really wanted to hurt Ma En, they could just watch Ma En die. Only if Xiaoyao really wanted to teach Ma En, they would have to find ways to disrupt Huang's apprenticeship.
And the truth is probably that there's nothing wrong with either of those things, but that doesn't matter either.
Because as long as you swing the shovel hard enough, you can dig out real gold from a fake treasure map.
(End of chapter)
