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Chapter 231. Where the Moonlight Reaches

Wen Yu didn't drink tea; instead, he took a sip of the plain water placed in front of him and slowly said:
"Jiang Jianxin is a good friend of mine. He had asked me to do something for him before, so I gave it to him."

"Ayu's advanced privileges only allow him to mobilize more computing power and help answer some in-depth questions."

Zhu Yan smiled as calmly as possible:

"Do you know that if Jiang Jianxin, who had high-level privileges, hadn't intervened, Qin Xuan would have died there?"

The gray-robed youth calmly took a sip of water and said nonchalantly:
"Qin Xuan's abilities are useless to the Dream Pavilion. There's no point in absorbing her or killing her. Why is Deputy Commander Zhu Yan so persistent?"

Zhu Yan took a deep breath; she felt the nameless anger in her heart was about to burst forth.

As a brilliant strategist with top-notch intelligence, she often felt out of place in the world because of her exceptional intelligence.

A powerful strategist of light can see things in the future and eliminate future troubles, but other factions often cannot see that far ahead.

As a talented individual in the Chaos Faction's Dreamer Sequence, Wen Yu did not feel the need to kill Qin Xuan, nor did he understand what kind of key role Qin Xuan would play in a certain faction.

He couldn't see through it, didn't understand it, and therefore didn't care.

Only Zhu Yan could see the pros and cons of all this—yet he had no way of speaking about them.

Because if Wen Yu were to be informed of all this, this imaginative, foolish genius would surely retort, "But I don't think the development of the Fools' Society will have any impact on the Dream Pavilion."

— Answering the first question of a fool means patiently answering his countless stupid questions like a nanny.

Some wise people enjoy enlightening fools and consider it a hobby, but Zhu Yan is not one of those wise people; she is the opposite.

She despises stupidity, and every time she sees an idiot asking a stupid question, she feels like she's eating shit.

She couldn't understand why people were so short-sighted, and because she was also at the top level in the Light faction, she thought everyone else was a fool.

So she was arrogant because she genuinely believed that playing with this group of idiots would only spoil her perfectly good pot of porridge.

I never imagined that a fool's quick wit could outsmart a thousand wise men.

Her carefully planned pot of fragrant porridge was ultimately ruined by this fool in front of her.

Zhu Yan took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down. She carefully considered Wen Yu's words and suddenly asked:
"You just said you have something to ask of Jiang Jianxin, could it be that you want her to help find Lord Heping?"

The gray-robed youth blinked, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes:
"how do you know?"

Zhu Yan remained expressionless, but a dark green light flashed in his eyes.

At that moment, she really wanted to adjust her glasses, but remembering that this personality wasn't nearsighted, she just smiled regretfully.

—The personality “Xia Qizhen” once told her that Wen Yu has been focusing all his energy on finding “peace” recently, and his recent focus seems to have shifted to the War Alliance.

The super AI Ayu has successfully infiltrated the alliance, but it can only operate virtually and still needs an offline helper.

Chaotic fools don't know how to lay out strategies; the most likely way they'll seek help is by finding friends.

In the War Alliance, Wen Yu was most familiar with Jiang Jianxin. The latter had not been in the alliance for long, had never tasted the benefits of the headquarters, and did not have a strong sense of belonging to the alliance.

Therefore, the most likely explanation for Wen Yu's actions is that he sought out Jiang Jianxin to be his offline assistant.

This seemingly ingenious deduction by Wen Yu actually only required the accumulation of information and simple speculation to arrive at the result.

Following this line of thought backwards, she asked with precision and keen insight:

"Did someone tell you that peace is in the War Alliance?"

Wen Yu's intelligence alone, along with the mixed information A Yu gleaned in the virtual world, wasn't enough for this person to accurately target the War Alliance. There must be a master guiding him, and that master is most likely a benevolent one. Sure enough, the gray-robed youth said slowly:
"It was a letter sent by someone who could foresee the powerful."

After saying this, the gray-robed youth pursed his lips, a strange sense of unease and grievance rising in his throat.

He instinctively resisted continuing the conversation; beneath the seemingly gentle and refined exterior of the person before him lurked a certain arrogance that made him feel uneasy.

That condescending, scrutinizing feeling was subtly piercing through the other person's smiling eyes.

His knuckles silently tightened inside his sleeve as he barely maintained a semblance of politeness. If it weren't for the fact that she was indeed very capable and had greatly helped the Dream Pavilion, he wouldn't want to talk to her about this at all.

Zhu Yan could tell what the gray-robed youth was aggrieved about with just a glance.

She didn't ask any more questions.

Because of that one sentence, she understood everything.

A wise person only needs the appearance of one key node to untangle the whole situation.

Zhu Yan realized that she had been outmaneuvered.

That person understood her arrogance and knew her plans. She took advantage of the information gap, thus easily ruining one of her moves.

And most importantly, even if she's ruined, she can only suffer in silence and swallow the bitter pill.

The woman in the military uniform with her high ponytail suddenly calmed down and just smiled silently.

Why only ruin her move?

Someone who can precisely control the situation and rescue Qin Xuan without affecting her entire plan would also find it easy to ruin her whole scheme.

If they don't do this, is it because they've also seen the chaos within the War Alliance, so they're going along with her scheme, using one faction as a shield, and waiting to reap the benefits?
Zhu Yan was rapidly considering the man's purpose.

As for who that person was, she didn't think much about it—because she already had the answer.

With the precognitive sequence now so dwindling, those of lower rank can only glimpse it for a few seconds, revealing them to be mediocre talents utterly useless. The only one capable of such large-scale precognition is that exceptionally brilliant individual from ten years ago.

At that time, she was still a naive omniscient person, and she would inevitably overlook some things when making plans, but that person could already calculate the secrets of heaven with every move he made.

The "sage" of that time was like the bright moon hanging over the heads of the camp of light; wherever its clear light shone, all the stars paled in comparison.

The ability to foresee decades into the future creates an overwhelming sense of dread, making all other strategists of the time mere supporting fireflies or clowns on a chessboard.

She still remembers the tremor of being stared at by fate—when the other party lowered their eyes to deduce the outcome, years of rise and fall, glory and disgrace, were nothing more than dust that could be easily brushed away on a chessboard.

Zhu Yan's initial anger at the fool's meddling transformed into a shivering, tingling sensation that crept up her spine the moment she realized who was on the other side of the chessboard. A subtle excitement welled up inside her.

Ten years ago, she could only shrink in a corner and look up at that person's glory. Ten years later, she was finally able to sit at the table and play chess, but that person died tragically, and the whole world was full of fools.

Now, at the other end of the chessboard, a wise man, as radiant as the bright moon, sits cross-legged with a detached expression.

If you're evenly matched, what does it matter if you lose a move?

Since the black player went first, we should yield a step.

Zhu Yan lowered his eyes slightly.

She also needs to make a move for herself.

Today's update will be tomorrow~