The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

Du Minghui lowered his head and sighed.

Zhang Erhe completely ignored his advice and defied the Federation's wishes by publicly revealing the existence of celestial beings and the lunar battlefield to a global audience.

Although the Federation no longer intends to conceal it, it has its own public disclosure plan.

Saying all this at once will only plunge Earth, which has just experienced the turmoil of a global abyss invasion, into inexplicable panic once again.

Zhang Erhe was eager for quick success. He wanted to defeat the Celestials and Dark Stars as soon as possible, so he hated traitors and insiders who were destabilizing elements within the organization that interfered with his great endeavors.

Du Minghui could understand his series of actions. From the perspective of a marshal, it was perfectly reasonable to purge traitors.

However, the situation with the bandits was indeed quite complicated.

We cannot generalize based on past experience.

Du Minghui, a seasoned official, was more meticulous in his considerations, while Zhang Erhe only thought about eliminating, eliminating, eliminating.

After embellishing and concealing the facts, Zhang Erhe's words indeed quieted the room considerably.

"The bandits helped the Celestials and even gained the power of the Dark Star. Are they really not on our Blue Star's side?"

"Then why do they have to protect the main city, rescue people everywhere, and serve as vigilantes to maintain social order?"

"It's probably just as Commander Zhang said; they're acting like good guys to cover up their inside work."

"That makes sense. If they're truly good people, is it necessary for them to worry about others seeing their faces?"

"Moreover, some people have already noticed that the bandits' strength has increased abnormally, and their numbers have expanded rapidly. Maybe they really are robots created by the heavens!"

"Yes, it's so similar! The robots produced on the assembly line are upgraded generation after generation, becoming more and more powerful. At the same time, the assembly line becomes more and more sophisticated, and the production speed becomes faster and faster, so the number of people is expanding faster and faster!"

Zhang Erhe then shifted these people's impressions of bandits to things like robots and biological weapons.

The empathy I had previously felt for the bandits gradually crumbled.

Leaders of protests in various cities, while still resolute in their convictions, are worried that broadcasting such scenes live might shake the resolve of those who originally supported the bandits.

Zhang Erhe was very satisfied and decided to play another trump card.

He invited several high-ranking members of the Shi family out.

"In the recently concluded invasion of Glory City into the Abyss, the city with the heaviest casualties among the four guard cities was the No. 3 Guard City, which was under the jurisdiction of the Shi family's garrison."

They could have held out until reinforcements arrived.

However, bandits appeared.

The bandits dismantled the outer barrier, released the abyssal creatures inside, and then personally slaughtered the members of the Shi family's garrison.

The city was filled with corpses, rivers of blood flowed, and the entire army was wiped out!

However, even facing both external enemies and internal traitors, the Shi family persisted in their bloody battle, fighting until the last man perished!

Shi Jian, the head of the Shi family, looked grief-stricken, his voice choked with sobs.

"The warriors of the Shi family are all valiant. They died protecting Blue Star, and their deaths were worthy of their cause! However, the bandits' act of turning their blades against their own troops is absolutely unacceptable. My Shi family will avenge this!"

Du Minghui sat beside him, looking helpless, and whispered a reminder.

"Master Shi, please watch your words. Our Huaxia region is a society governed by the rule of law, and we do not advocate settling personal scores."

Shi Jian then noticed that the district head was still there.

He immediately bowed humbly and said.

"I... I misspoke. I was overwhelmed with grief thinking about their sacrifice, so..."

Du Minghui was too lazy to watch his performance and just waved his hand.

"Forget it, it's not illegal to talk about it, just don't actually do it."

Shi Jian nodded repeatedly, then glanced at Zhang Erhe and continued with the process.

He led a man with a face covered in burns and his body wrapped in bandages, who was sitting in a wheelchair, to the back of the podium.

"His name is Shi Yunqiang, and he is my nephew! He was in the city when the bandits led the abyss creatures into the Third Guard City!"

Yun Qiang witnessed the horrific scene firsthand. If he hadn't been burned to a crisp and pretended to be dead while lying among the corpses, he wouldn't have survived by sheer luck!

Of the five thousand heroes of the Shi family who perished in the entire Third Guard City, only he... miraculously survived!

When the media reporters at the scene saw Shi Yunqiang's still-bleeding gauze, many of them had tears in their eyes.

Just a moment ago I was empathizing with the bandits, and now I'm starting to empathize with the Shi family.

Shi Yunqiang spoke with difficulty, pointing upwards with a trembling finger.

"My family...though we die, we are honored...I, Shi Yunqiang, will definitely...seek justice from the bandits for all those who died unjustly! My loved ones, my comrades...watch from heaven...protect me...I will definitely avenge you!"

The entire audience stood up.

Thunderous applause!

Seeing this, Song Gua rolled his eyes to the sky.

"As expected, history is written by the victors, and whatever they say goes."

"Great Wisdom" said from the side.

"Zhang Erhe didn't make up the whole story. We did help the Heavenly People, we did use the Dark Artifacts, and we did kill many members of the Shi family. It's just that he put it in a different way."

Song Gua smiled.

"Did I say he compiled the entire thing? But wouldn't it be better if the history book could be compiled according to our wishes?"

"Boss, do you want to clear our name?"

"We are the fourth party, uninvolved in right and wrong, so how can we claim to be whitewashing him? However, Zhang Erhe is now trying to exploit public opinion, and if we want to fight him, we cannot lose this ground. If he can fabricate stories, so can I!"

"You have another plan?"

"It's still the same plan we had before, but we can make an appearance first! There are people from the plastic surgery team here on this live stream, right?"

"Yes, Nicholas Tse, he's now working as a field photographer for state media."

"Let's make this live stream even more exciting!"

During the live broadcast, Zhang Erhe expressed great satisfaction with regaining control of public opinion.

The second half of the event began with answering reporters' questions about the coalition's next move.

"Our Federation forces are an invincible and powerful army! The complete victory on the lunar battlefield has proven this. The next step for the Federation is to further expand its ranks, and we will head straight for the Celestials' lair..."

As Zhang Erhe finished speaking, a piercing whistling sound suddenly came from the speakers.

Everyone had to cover their ears.

Immediately afterwards, loud laughter came from the speakers.

"Hahaha! Zhang Erlengzi! I think the oxen on the moon are so small they can barely stand up; you must have blown them up there!"

The entire audience erupted in uproar, looking around in confusion.

Zhang Erhe slammed his fist on the table and stood up.

"Bandits!"

Although the bandit who was speaking was obviously using a voice changer, Zhang Erhe could still tell from the unique bandit tone that he was definitely a bandit, no doubt about it!

"Hahaha! That's right! It's us! Zhang Erlengzi, your sob story performance today was really good. It was enough to make men speechless and women weep. I even had tears in my eyes watching the live stream!"

Zhang Erhe shouted to his assistant behind him.

"What are you all standing there for! Go check the server room equipment! The bandits are definitely there!"