Chapter 355
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Chapter 355: Listening While Drawing
“If Yi Chen’s plan is to skip our Federal Parliament and Military and go directly to the Envoy, then the best way to handle it is undoubtedly to draw him out,” Lu Qingxian explained. “Because of Yi Chen’s departure and the fact that the first Envoy’s body was taken over by the Soul Emperor, the entire federation’s populace is feeling low and dissatisfied right now.”
“We can use the excuse of soothing the public to announce that the Envoy has arrived in the galaxy.”
“If Yi Chen is still in the galaxy, he will definitely try to learn about the Envoy’s whereabouts. His flying treasure can block scanner scans, so he likely will attempt to infiltrate the Military or the Parliament headquarters to gather information.”
“We can create a series of confidential messages in the Parliament and Military headquarters that will let him somewhat determine where the Envoy is located.”
“This plan could work!” Morris couldn’t help but nod. If it succeeded, it would be as if Yi Chen delivered himself right to their doorstep. Retrieving the contract, Ketes’s Space Stone, and forcing Yi Chen to sign a contract with the human federation would all be smoothly resolved.
Yi Chen, who was continuously draining Morris’s luck, also thought this plan was quite good.
Unfortunately, no one realized that he had no intention of signing a contract or pledging loyalty to the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.
He was just overly ambitious, thinking about trying to persuade Morris to suppress the Federal Parliament.
Everyone believed that the Tree-Dwelling Tribe was the boss of both him and the human federation. Any disputes and conflicts could only be resolved through the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.
But Yi Chen had not thought about it that way. He only wanted to be the boss himself, not to recognize anyone else as the boss.
“There is another possibility!” Lu Qingxian continued, “That is, Yi Chen might find a way to acquire a Large Battleship and the coordinates of the Tree Star Cluster, aiming to directly meet with the foreign affairs department.”
“Are you saying he might guess that I would side with you? So he plans to skip over me as well?” Morris frowned.
“Yes!” Lu Qingxian nodded, “If that’s the case, Envoy, you will need to mobilize connections from the foreign affairs department to find a way to stop Yi Chen from contacting the upper echelons of the department.”
“…”
Morris felt speechless.
He wanted to do that, but the problem was, he lacked the ability.
With his strength realm and status in the foreign affairs department, he should have a wide network of connections.
But theory and reality are two different matters.
In terms of strength and status, he was much stronger than the first and second Envoys.
Especially when facing the first Tree-Dwelling Tribe envoy, he overwhelmed the counterpart in both strength and status.
Yet in terms of connections, he actually had fewer than the first Tree-Dwelling Tribe envoy.
This was a result of his personality and style.
Not to mention the Tree-Dwelling Tribe beings of the same level, even those with lower strength and status were unwilling to support him.
Because there is no benefit in supporting him, it instead requires constant offerings.
Asking him to use his connections to stop Yi Chen from contacting the high ranks of the foreign affairs department puts him in a difficult position.
“It’s possible!”
However, after thinking it over, Morris nodded in agreement.
As a middle and upper rank in the foreign affairs department, he could not afford to say he had no connections there.
Fortunately, even without connections, he had many subordinates in the foreign affairs department.
If Yi Chen really ran to the Tree Star Cluster, he would be unfamiliar with the area and would at least need to ask lower-ranking people for information about the high ranks in the foreign affairs department.
His subordinates could easily gather this information.
“As long as we block that route, it will be foolproof.”
Lu Qingxian said confidently.
“That’s good!”
Morris nodded slightly.
Although they encountered such an unexpected situation upon arriving in the galaxy, causing them to fail in various tasks, it only meant spending more time.
After all, as long as the Shadow King was not dealt with, he had to stay in the galaxy to suppress the Shadow King.
Waiting a bit longer was no problem.
For him, the real headache was whether he could find and kill the Shadow King.
If he could not find the Shadow King in a year, he would have to stay in the galaxy for a year.
If he could not find the Shadow King in a hundred years, he would have to stay in the galaxy for a hundred years.
On the foreign affairs department’s side, there were no other middle and upper ranks to speak well of him. Those high-ranking leaders would not remember him either.
If the Shadow King was still in the star cluster, that would be better.
Morris was just afraid that this guy had already returned to the super star cluster and was hiding there with the remaining members of the Shadow Clan.
If that happened, with no trace of the Shadow King on that side, he would have to stay in the galaxy.
“Is there any news from the Shadow King?”
He couldn’t help but ask.
“None. Ever since he suddenly attacked alongside the Soul Emperor against Lord Ketes, he has vanished without a trace. We estimate… he may have a grudge against Lord Ketes and, after taking his revenge, has returned to the super star cluster,” Lu Qingxian replied, shaking his head.
Morris felt a headache coming on.
He naturally knew the deep hatred between the Shadow King and Ketes.
The likelihood of the Shadow King leaving the star cluster after successfully killing Ketes and returning to the super star cluster was indeed very high.
If that were the case, he would need to contact his subordinates and find a way to investigate the movements of the Shadow Clan.
If he could uncover the whereabouts of the Shadow Clan and send people to attack them, he could definitely draw out the Shadow King, proving that the Shadow King was no longer in the star cluster but had returned to the super star cluster.
In this way, there was no need for him to stay and suppress anyone.
However, finding the constantly hidden Shadow Clan was not an easy task.
At least, it would be difficult to do so in the short term.
“Where did the Soul Emperor and the Soul Clan go after they couldn’t find Yi Chen?”
Morris thought he could try looking for the Soul Emperor.
Although, with the Soul Emperor’s strength realm, the Shadow King would surely look down upon him, and the chances of any interaction were slim.
But nothing is absolute.
It was possible that the Shadow King might take an interest in some ability of the Soul Emperor, leading to some connection.
“Lost without a trace…”
Lu Qingxian said helplessly.
“Look for the movements of the Soul Emperor and the Soul Clan. Notify me when you find something.”
Morris suddenly felt that everything was going wrong.
Indeed, the gossip going around the foreign affairs department had some truth to it.
This foreign star cluster had seen two ambassadors come and both had faced heavy losses—one dead and one injured.
There was some bad luck with the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.
“Alright!”
Lu Qingxian nodded eagerly.
“Alright, I’ll find a place to train. Leave one of your communicators with me. If there’s any important news, let me know.”
Morris could only summon up his spirit and see if things could take a turn for the better after a while.
Lu Qingxian hurriedly held out a specially prepared communicator and approached Morris.
An invisible energy enveloped the communicator, wrapping it in a piece of green leaf from Morris.
Without saying much more, Morris activated his Perception Ability to the maximum, looking for a suitable area to meditate.
The Shadow King followed closely behind Yi Chen, continuously siphoning off Morris’s fortune.
Even when facing terrifying opponents at level 100, he could extract their fortune silently.
A master of stealth could quietly follow even if he was two major realms higher.
The combination of both was simply terrifying.
