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Tang Xiao's words ignited a firestorm in the conference room. The reporters couldn't wait to go back and edit the news. They immediately logged onto ChainCrystal Network and published the first-hand information in their own newspapers.

Shocking! Supreme Court Justice Avery embroiled in Winona Ryder kidnapping case

Exposing the shady dealings between the Supreme Court Justice and the Taiyang Group

Damian sighed, wearily closing his eyes, leaving others unable to guess what he was thinking. This evasive posture undoubtedly confirmed Tang Xiao's guess, who looked at Deng Hongquan, the Chief Superintendent, who naturally understood his meaning.

Tang Xiao's ultimate goal has always been the Siren Queen's bloodline in the secret chamber!

After all, the central faction is not just Justice Avery alone. Such a large interest group will not lack a representative in the police force, so simply forcing Avery out is useless.

The only way to fundamentally solve the problem is to seize the Siren Queen's bloodline. Without a channel to communicate with the Sea King's Crown, the initiative will eventually return to the Imperial faction.

Just as Deng Hongquan was about to order a search of Damian's private residence, the latter slowly opened his eyes.

Seemingly having guessed Tang Xiao's thoughts, he revealed a victorious smile and whispered amidst the reporters' clamor:

"Then let's die together."

Tang Xiao's eyes widened, filled with shock and anger.

"How dare you, you brat!!"

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Just as Tang Xiao and Damian were confronting each other in front of the media, his young secretary took the opportunity to come to Prison No. 14. According to "that person's" instructions, Wen Qing would be a key step in the plan.

His special status allowed him unimpeded access to Prison No. 14. During this special period, he represented Tang Xiao, and Tang Xiao represented the Imperial faction.

In the isolation meeting room, the secretary chuckled softly:

"Warden Hong, may I speak with Wen Qing alone?"

Hong Ji said expressionlessly, "Please don't make things difficult for me."

This is undoubtedly against the rules.

"I don't mind if you stay and supervise, but what I'm about to discuss with Wen Qing involves confidential information within the Imperial system. Are you sure you want to hear it, Warden?"

Without saying a word, Hong Ji turned around and left, thoughtfully closing the door behind him.

The secretary smiled slightly, took out a crystal engraved with inscriptions, and a dark blue light filled the small room, causing the prison's surveillance equipment to malfunction instantly.

Only then did he utter his first words to Wen Qing: "Idiot!"

Yue Lai didn't know why this guy was cursing him, so he could only lower his head slightly.

The secretary's expression softened somewhat upon seeing this:

"Tell me, what exactly happened, and why did it have to be this way?"

Yue Lai finally understood. The other party thought he was trying to avoid some kind of threat by defaming himself. After all, what Wen Qing did was so stupid that it made people suspect he had ulterior motives.

He then said:

"It was someone from the Central Committee. They coerced me into participating in the assassination attempt against Yue Lai. That person had my whistleblower letter and materials related to my disciplinary violations."

"Just now, they even tried to warn me by possessing other people."

"Foolish! If you didn't want to do things for them, couldn't you have just told the principal? Why did you have to resort to such extreme measures!"

Yue Lai felt extremely ashamed:

"I caused this myself, and I don't dare to trouble the principal."

"So now, isn't cleaning up your mess a hassle?"

He lowered his head even further.

The secretary sighed: "Forget it, there's no point in criticizing now. The Empire needs you to do something."

Yue Lai immediately feigned an expression of "I never thought I'd still be of use" and "I'm willing to die for the empire if I can still be of use," excitedly saying, "At your command!"

The other party nodded in satisfaction and leaned forward, saying:

"The principal is about to target the Central Department. You need to act as a witness and report Avery."

"The Supreme Court Justice?!"

"W-what...is there any evidence?"

"You can't bring him down with just this one thing, so you just need to stick to your guns and not give up. After all, your unusual behavior during the prison riot is the best evidence."

This is like deliberately throwing dirty water on someone.

It's like a war in ancient times, with one main attack and two feints. If even one piece of evidence is true, the attacker can be convicted, while a feint with a gentle touch can maximize the strength of the main attacker.

Imperials always liked to use "power" in this way.

"After that..."

"Your sentence won't be too long. As for your release... when has the Empire ever mistreated its own people?"

They didn't even add the word "system," which means they're not even pretending anymore.

Yue Zi was moved to tears: "I would die without hesitation!"

After a brief visit, Yue Lai returned to his cell on the third floor. Just as he was about to have a brief conversation with Cavendish, a wave of dizziness suddenly washed over him.

He wasn't the only one who felt this way; rather, it was... the dark side of the entire police headquarters!

In order not to disturb the planet's original natural order, the high-hanging Red Heart is always synchronized with the stars. But at this moment, on the back of the planet where the light cannot reach, a continuously spreading crack has "peeled" half of the planet out.

The planet continues to rotate, but that space remains forever shrouded in darkness, untouched even by the light of a pure heart.

Light and darkness, chaos and order, have never been so clearly divided as they are now, each going its own way, like two parallel lines that never interact.

For the interstellar travelers gazing at the police headquarters, this was undoubtedly a rare cosmic spectacle, but for the people of the university town, the situation was far less pleasant…

After a brief moment of dizziness, a torrential downpour descended like a counter-current, each drop carrying the lament of history. Reality constantly clashed with falsehood, and the chaotic past plunged all ordinary people into a reality that resembled a dream.

In contrast, the last intrusion seemed more like a "gentle rehearsal".

In the University City branch, the once bustling conference room became deathly silent. The talented individuals struggled to resist the corrosive influence of reality, while only the skilled workers could barely move freely in this environment.

What Tang Xiao didn't tell Yue Hao was that the Grand Preceptor's choice to seal that period of history was not only to limit the Sea King's activity space, but also because of the inherent pollution of the real history!

In fact, every single history of humankind seizing the authority of the twelve gods has been altered by archaeologists, and some have even been transformed from falsehoods to truth; the only difference lies in the degree of alteration!

The headmaster, no longer composed, grabbed Damian by the collar and roared:

"Your Taiyang Group is courting death!"

Even without using his brain, he could guess that the Sea King's Crown had broken free of its seal again because the Taiyang Group had used the Sea Queen's bloodline to tamper with it. These guys actually chose to fight to the death!

Is this really necessary? Even if Taiyang Group fails in this cooperation with the Central Group, it is still a conglomerate. But now that half of the police force has fallen, only destruction awaits them!

Damian didn't try to struggle, but instead sneered, "This is my personal action, what does it have to do with the Taiyang Group!"

A bitter smile shone deep in his eyes. After the existence of the Siren Queen's bloodline was revealed, all that awaited him was the fate of being abandoned, even though his father was a high-ranking executive in the group, even though... he had volunteered to come to the police headquarters just to attend a concert.

He had to provide the compensation that "that person" demanded; that was the price of his choice.

He glanced at Winona again. The battle songstress still looked dazed. Apart from him, and the feigning idiocy of Butterfly and Qiqi, no one present knew that this was the real Winona, the Winona who was not modified or defined by anyone.

"Perhaps what I liked was never her... but the rebelliousness she represented."

"I only wish that beneath the spring cherry blossoms, like the moon gazing upon the earth, I might depart from this world."

Just then, a reporter with only a novice level of cultivation could no longer hold on. He knelt on the ground, almost sinking into the illusionary sea, and struggled to look at Tang Xiao one last time:

"Principal, where is the Zhenhai Sword?!"

He voiced the thoughts of everyone present.

Tang Xiao listlessly tossed Damian to the ground; he had lost interest in this pawn.

"Objects can only fight against objects. That fool Avery tried to use the bloodline of the Siren Queen to forcibly communicate with the Sea King's Crown, but he brought that divine relic to life. Without a wielder, the Sea-Suppressing Sword is powerless to maintain its seal."

If those present had previously viewed the Supreme Court justice's scandal with amusement, they now practically wanted to tear him apart!

A reporter seemed to suddenly remember something: "That goddess general from Zhenhai Pass before..."

Deng Hongquan attempted to connect to the ChainCrystal network, but unsurprisingly failed. He said bitterly:

"That policewoman has a special identity; she is probably one of only two people who can wield the Zhenhai Sword. However, she is currently in the Ninth Starport, within the area illuminated by the Red Heart... and is no longer in the same space as us."

The despair deepened even further.

Someone voiced their last hope: "The director must be watching all of this."

The Neptune Crown is merely a relic of the gods, but the Director is a living god!

Tang Xiao sighed and revealed a secret known only to the higher-ups:

"The Director is still in the Dao Court, tens of thousands of light-years away. Based solely on Chi Xin's words... we are no longer in the same space. The only moment for it to shine is when the Neptune's Crown explodes, but it's already... too late."

Tang Xiao didn't say something: ultimately, it was the factional strife that affected Chi Xin.

As the Imperial faction's "private territory," the University City has long been tacitly accepted by Redheart as a lawless area. Due to the neutral nature of the Police Hub, it cannot interfere arbitrarily.

It remained silent during the last Neptune Crown outbreak, and the matter was resolved satisfactorily in the end. As a result, it once again chose to stand by and watch this time, which led to a major disaster.

Despair gripped everyone. Who would have thought that a group of Federation elites would be on the verge of death so close to the capital planet, a place with the strongest defenses!

"Can we talk to Neptune's Crown?"

"The truth is unstoppable; get ready for madness."

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Half an hour later, all the extraordinary powers of the university town converged in the sky.

The gale tore through the clouds, and the inky sky boiled. Countless sails, like pale wings, covered the sky, and masts were layered like a forest. Ancient warships shimmered with all sorts of fantastical colors. This floating fleet was enough to obscure the entire city.

But at this moment, they are being kneaded by an unseen force.

The ship tilted like a leaf in the turbulent currents of history, the sound of tearing canvas merging into a series of dying sighs. The entire fleet was nothing more than a piece of wood about to be crushed into dust in the hand of a wrathful god, silently and slowly disintegrating amidst the boundless torrential rain and thunder.

As for the destroyers built by the police using tearstone technology, they are far from military-grade. They are fine for dealing with ordinary criminals, but when faced with near-god-level power, they can only protect civilians at low altitudes.

Talented individuals and extraordinary individuals emerged in droves, and the anchormen began to burn their lifeblood with the help of the blood priests. No one expected that such a brutal scene would reappear in peacetime.

Even so, their efforts were in vain. The heavy anchors, attempting to anchor in space, could not reach the "seabed" at all after being cast down. This was because space was infinitely extended by the Neptune's crown, and the anchormen could only do useless work in vain.

The culprit, Avery, did not appear. Hou Fan and Tang Xiao took up the banner of resistance. Taking advantage of their remaining fighting strength, Hou Fan gave the order:

"attack--!"

Thousands of cannons roared simultaneously, spraying out a dreamlike cloud of stardust. Even the Grand Duke would have to think twice before unleashing such power!

But all it brought was ridicule.

While battling the Sea-Suppressing Sword and expanding the Dark Space, Neptune's Crown only diverted a negligible amount of power to transfer stardust into the distant void.

No matter how great the power that does not involve authority, it is nothing more than a child with strength but no power!

"puff!"

Above the museum ruins, Deng Hongquan's figure emerged, bleeding profusely. This flower-adorned guest was discarded like a tattered rag—the Zhenhai Sword had indeed rejected him!

That's right, the fleet's attack just now was just to attract the attention of the Sea King's Crown. Their real trump card was Deng Hongquan, who secretly infiltrated the History Museum, but the Zhenhai Sword did not choose him as its wielder.

"Why!" The old ship slammed its fist against the mast. "It's resisting the Sea King's Crown too, yet it refuses our help!"

"You can't judge an object by human standards," Hou Fan said coldly, his hair soaked by the heavy rain, which streamed down his stern face. "It resisted the Neptune Crown simply because it was following its master's orders, and it didn't readily hand it over to others either. So, to it, there's no difference between the two."

"hateful!"

"That coward, he doesn't even have the courage to fight!"

The once respected Supreme Court Justice is now universally condemned.

"Are there any other methods we can use?"

Everyone remained silent. The last attempt had failed. Was half of the police headquarters doomed to destruction today?

The battle-hardened old ship collapsed beside the rudder, and the warriors were no longer able to launch the attack they had just delivered. Tang Xiao didn't even care about his own fate. If the truth here couldn't be brought out, the blame for the fall of the police headquarters would definitely fall on him, and the entire Imperial faction would be severely damaged as a result!

Just then, a sharp-eyed person suddenly pointed to the sky: "Look! What's that?"

Everyone on the flagship looked in the direction he pointed, and a figure was staggering through the wind and rain. Tang Xiao rubbed his eyes—he had seen this person in the files before; it was Yue Lai!

That's right, Yue Lai has removed the disguise placed on him by the Skin Painter and is holding a paper airplane, flying straight towards the Zhenhai Sword!

Many reporters, who had transformed into warriors, recognized this figure who had briefly dominated the headlines, and their hopes, which had just been ignited, were dashed once again.

The Zhenhai Sword Society will reject everyone equally, so what's the use of him flying over there?

Only Tang Xiao stared wide-eyed. This was the number 199, an extraordinary person. If everything was measured by the abilities of ordinary people, could he still be called an extraordinary person?

The fate of the police force rests on his shoulders!