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Chapter 174: Traitors

"Only one last line of defense remains! Everyone, charge with me!" Though Li Mofu was covered in blood, it couldn't hide the beaming smile on his face. "The Twelve-Person Council, I'll soon have a seat at the table."

But just then, an unexpected event interrupted his reverie.

"I've broken through!" He Lai, a researcher behind Li Mofu, had broken through his own limits after the fierce battle, and his Life Field appeared.

"What am I doing?" After the newborn Life Field spontaneously expelled the stimulants that were harmful to his body, he instantly reverted to his usual self, beginning to feel somewhat lost about his previous actions.

"Little He, we are in the midst of a revolution! Fighting to establish a nation led by researchers!" Li Mofu immediately reacted, speaking in an extremely infectious tone.

"Fight their mothers!"

"Slay our way to a clear and bright new heaven and earth!"

The young people around them, still under the influence of the stimulants, hearing such grand pronouncements, clamored one after another to fight to the very end, completely ignoring the fact that nearly a third of their entire brigade had already been killed or wounded.

"Yes! Hack down these old-era monsters and demons!" After realizing everyone had fallen into an abnormal frenzy, whether truly or falsely, the now-sober Little He could only follow suit and shout such a slogan. The accusation of being a traitor within the ranks was no laughing matter.

"That's sensible enough. If you had spoken carelessly, I would have had to make a move." Li Mofu looked at Little He's flickering eyes, clearly understanding that the frenzy in his mind had completely subsided. Without the effects of the stimulants, inciting his emotions again would be almost impossible.

He hesitated for a moment, then still withdrew his left hand, which had been ready to deliver a fatal blow.

"Go! Soon we'll plant our flag on Ziliu Sea's gatehouse!"

"Go!"

"Charge!"

"Their condition is definitely abnormal, completely different from their usual behavior. They say it's the last layer of defense, but the closer we get to the final moment, the more people will die. I'm a researcher, not a soldier charging into battle."

"But if I desert now, Director Li will definitely kill me. It's better to follow along for now, and retreat when he's too busy to notice me."

Knowing he had escaped a close call, He Lai wiped the mixture of blood and sweat from his forehead and walked in the center of the team, holding his Spirit Energy electromagnetic cannon.

"I wonder how Liang Muhai's side is doing..." Li Mofu worried about the team led by the other deputy director as he advanced. "It's a good thing that fellow Bai Mo went courting death, heading to America alone. Otherwise, with his combat power, he could definitely tie down a lot of people."

Just then, the heavily wounded Imperial Guard Captain Wu Ye returned to the medical area after a round of bloody combat, just as he encountered Cheng Mu, who had come out to survey the situation.

"Wu Ye, what's the situation outside?"

"Sir, the situation is quite unfavorable for us now. Each of us basically has to fight one against two. Without these blood vials, the front line would collapse very quickly."

He had the medics bandage some of his serious wounds first, then he gulped down the rapid recovery potion refined from a vampire's body, watching the scratches on his own body heal at a visible rate.

"With such a loyal and devoted person like you, how could our nation not prosper!" Cheng Mu gently patted Wu Ye's shoulder, not minding the splotches of blood on his uniform in the slightest.

"Please rest assured, Speaker, I, Wu Ye, swear to complete my defense mission even unto death!"

"The nation will not forget your contributions."

"Old men, give up! This is no longer your era!" Just as the two were chatting, an arrogant voice spread from outside, echoing throughout the entire Ziliu Sea.

"Liu Munian, is it worth it for you to conspire with the Americans to provoke this civil war?" Cheng Mu walked into the broadcast room and spoke using the internal public address system.

"We are the choice of this era! This nation needs change! You have degenerated to the point where you rely on distributing money every month to maintain public sentiment – that's merely drinking poison to quench thirst! Massive inflation will drag us into the abyss of collapse!"

Liu Munian relied on his abilities to spread his voice throughout Tianqing, and at the same time, using satellites provided by America, broadcast his words across the entire nation.

Huaxia was destined for a sleepless night. Countless residents listened intently to this conversation.

"Is this what you call change? The Twelve-Person Council?" Cheng Mu took a document from his secretary's hand and forcefully slammed it onto the ground.

"You!" Liu Munian began to panic slightly. He immediately knew that a traitor had appeared among the high-ranking members of his faction.

Upon hearing the words "Twelve-Person Council," not only he, but also Li Mofu, Liang Muhai, and several others were momentarily stunned.

"Turn it off, immediately turn off the broadcast." The person behind him, seeing the situation was unfavorable, immediately stopped the broadcast.

But the broadcast, ending with a tiger's head and a snake's tail, was clearly an attempt to cover up that only made things more obvious, and the audience's curiosity grew even stronger.

"We want to know the truth! What exactly does the Twelve-Person Council represent!" Led by a large number of online keyboard warriors, even though it was the middle of the night, a new wave of discussion was still stirred up.

However, the officials responsible for network security management at this moment clearly weren't concerned with the mood of these online agitators. All their attention was focused on the battle in Tianqing. Picking the wrong side could be fatal, especially in this kind of dragon-contending battle.

To shut up those flies, they directly ordered major portal websites and social media platforms to implement a keyword account-blocking program, automatically suspending all accounts that mentioned related terms!

"Sister Ye, should we appear now? I've already handed over the relevant data about the Twelve-Person Council to them as you instructed." In a small town on the outskirts of Tianqing, Yue Yu teleported into existence behind Ye Zi.

"I really didn't expect Ziliu Sea to have something like a spirit-severing array. I can't even directly teleport inside."

"If teleportation could directly penetrate their defenses, this battle wouldn't have been necessary long ago. This defensive array must use spirit-severing flowers as its main material, specifically targeting infiltration abilities like teleportation and invisibility."

"How did I not know about such a thing?" Yue Yu asked, a look of innocence on her face.

"If you're dumb, you should read more books. All this knowledge is available for exchange within the Contribution Point System." Yun Jie retorted pointedly at the opportune moment.

"You!"

"Ye Zi, can you tell us now why you didn't go with Xiao Hao and the others?" Liang Gong, standing nearby, ignored the two who had started their usual banter again.

"No particular reason. I was indeed in favor of it originally, but shortly before we made our move, I suddenly had a premonition that the other side was hiding something capable of threatening me. That's why I ultimately chose to remain neutral."

"Those old geezers actually have such a trump card, capable of harming you?" After seeing Ye Zi conjure a meteor-level fireball with a mere flick of her hand not long ago, everyone had made up their minds to latch onto her.

"Leaving aside anything else, if they chose to perish together, like in the previous Tianzhou Ghost King Annihilation Battle, and dropped twenty or thirty nuclear bombs over Tianqing, I would at least be severely wounded."

"That's true..."

"Moreover, I feel that their true trump card isn't this, but what it specifically is, I can't guess."