Zhushi Jiu’s current feeling was like running a 10,000-meter long-distance race, exhausting himself to death, almost exhausting his lungs, and just when he thought he saw the finish line, he was suddenly told that he still had one lap to go. And to make matters worse, the judge who was supposed to be waiting for him to finish the race suddenly tripped him up, and there was even a pile of dog poop waiting for him, which was garlic-flavored, to top it all off…
It was truly a pile of dog poop. Reality was a pile of dog poop! All his previous efforts were also a pile of dog poop! Those people in black were dog poop! And the man he was talking to right now was also dog poop!
Zhushi Jiu was struck by the garlic-flavored dog poop, unable to utter a single word, and could only process this massive amount of information in his mind.
He finally understood why, during the fourth week, when he was being interrogated, the man had sneered at him when he said he was a national agent serving the country.
He finally realized that the purpose of the organization mentioned by the man during the fifth week, “to maintain world peace,” was not a joke.
He also finally knew why the authorities had not taken action, allowing the organization to develop to this stage, and ultimately, did not even have any reaction.
He reacted to why this organization had such strong PR capabilities, controlling public opinion like a sharp blade, and ignoring all criticisms on the internet.
“Why…”
Zhushi Jiu muttered to himself, not daring to believe it was true.
But the scenes flashing through his mind like lightning made him feel puzzled, and his emotions told him it was not true, while his rationality was shouting that it was indeed an extremely credible piece of information.
“What’s going on? Has this news shocked you speechless?” The man’s voice had a satisfied tone, as if Zhushi Jiu’s current reaction had pleased him very much.
“I don’t understand… why?” Zhushi Jiu thought of himself and Li Hua being tortured to the brink of death during the fourth week, and his heart still had the last bit of disbelief.
He did not want to believe, nor did he dare to believe what the man was saying.
The current question was, why would this official organization use that super-scale weapon tomorrow morning? Was the real enemy the organization in black? If not, what was the black-clad organization trying to fight against? Why did the man describe them as the last line of defense for the world?
Zhushi Jiu felt extremely helpless.
“What’s wrong with you? You know their actions for tomorrow, why are you still shocked by their identity?”
No, I know nothing. Zhushi Jiu covered his face in pain.
He thought he knew, but in reality, he knew nothing. Would the black-clad organization really destroy the world tomorrow? He couldn’t even confirm that.
The man did not give Zhushi Jiu time to calm down, saying, “Since I’ve told you such classified information, you should also tell me what you know about them. What do you know about their actions tomorrow?”
Zhushi Jiu wanted to know more, so he sat down by a tree, leaning against it.
“I’m not even sure if what you’re saying is true. If they’re really an official organization, existing to maintain world peace, then what are you?”
The man replied, “They can maintain world peace, can’t we? Our organization also exists to maintain world peace.”
Zhushi Jiu was really confused. The black-clad organization was guarding the world, and you were maintaining world peace… I want to save the world… Why were these three parties entangled in a struggle?
Who was his enemy, after all?
Just as Zhushi Jiu was thinking about this question, the man said, “I’ve answered two key questions for you. If you don’t give me a satisfactory answer, then this conversation is over.”
This was the final warning.
Zhushi Jiu had no choice but to say something he was certain about.
“Tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock, that’s when they’ll be taking action.”
“Very good,” the man replied. “So what do you want to know? We’ll take it one question at a time.”
Zhushi Jiu understood that the man wanted to use this method to extract the black-clad organization’s action plan from him.
It was likely that the man thought the information he provided was worthless, but in reality, it was extremely valuable.
After all, if it weren’t for the man’s words, Zhushi Jiu would probably still be in the dark, sending himself to his death by attacking the black-clad organization. If that really happened, when he finally found the truth after much hardship, he would likely collapse immediately.
“I want to know…”
Zhushi Jiu had many things he wanted to ask, the most critical one being what would happen tomorrow. But the man didn’t even know the black-clad organization’s action time tomorrow, so would he know what they were planning?
“…what are they preparing to do?”
He confirmed it again.
Since the man’s organization could make the black-clad organization wary, they should know what the black-clad organization was planning, even if they didn’t know the specific time of their action tomorrow.
The man’s answer was, “They’ll be launching a probing attack on the ‘World Enemy’.”
Zhushi Jiu blurted out, “What is the World Enemy?”
“That’s the next question.”
This damn thing!
The man calmly asked, “Do you know where they’ll be acting?”
“Jiang City.”
“I know it’s in Jiang City, but what’s the specific location?”
Zhushi Jiu puckered up and answered, “That’s the next question.”
In the silence, Zhushi Jiu was also thinking. Did the man already know the black-clad organization’s action location was in Jiang City? Why was he so certain? Why Jiang City? There had to be a reason, it couldn’t be just randomly chosen, and then a super-scale weapon would be used.
He had a guess that the so-called “World Enemy” was in Jiang City.
But before that, there was a more important question.
“What is the World Enemy? What are they, or rather, what is humanity facing?”
The man calmly said, “This question has a completely different value from the previous one, let’s change the question.”
It seemed it wasn’t that easy, Zhushi Jiu knew that the other party was willing to reveal some less valuable information but would not reveal truly important information, and he was just a lucky person who happened to obtain some news.
If he wanted to obtain more valuable information, he had to make himself look more valuable.
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