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

Zhang Erhe's words were forceful and resonant, as if he were giving a speech on the front lines.

The civil officials present were completely speechless, and some even dared not meet his gaze.

Du Minghui looked directly into Zhang Erhe's eyes, stood up, met his gaze, and spoke neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"Commander Zhang, please let me finish speaking."

Du Minghui today is a completely different person from before.

He is a pseudo-psychic!

Moreover, he fused with an A-level illusionist!

In other words, as long as his source energy is sufficient, he can match Zhang Erhe when he goes all out.

Whether we can win is hard to say, but at least we have more confidence now.

Naturally, when speaking to Zhang Erhe, there's no need to worry about his expression anymore.

"The current situation is that the Allied Forces have completely withdrawn from the moon, but the Dark Star forces have not retreated. No one knows what they are doing, but you and I both know that they cannot do nothing."

At the celestial beings' forward base in Earth's geosynchronous orbit, our negotiation team is running out of steam. Sooner or later, the celestial beings will discover that we have no sincerity in negotiating peace, and a war will be inevitable.

On Blue Star, a snap of the Dark Emperor's fingers brought forth tens of thousands of Illusionary Beings!

They are single-mindedly focused on reviving their own world, fighting everywhere, regardless of the damage and impact they are causing to our world.

Among them are even terrifying beings of planet-destroying power, whose whereabouts remain unknown to this day!

The Rebel Alliance, the Avengers, Night Owl, Xuanwu, Wan Gong, and various cults... these anti-Federal and anti-social organizations are also taking advantage of the chaos and causing trouble everywhere.

On the other hand, what about the bandits?

I investigated and investigated, and I really couldn't find out what bad things they had done.

It seems that aside from robbing some tycoons' warehouses, settling some personal scores, teaching a bunch of thugs a lesson, and killing some people from the illusionary realm, that's about it.

If we absolutely had to name something else they did besides these, I'm afraid even we officials would be ashamed to admit it.

The people in the office fell silent.

Du Minghui paused for a moment, calmed down, and continued.

"Indeed, I also think that the bandits are very abnormal and the Federation cannot control them."

Their refusal to reveal their true identities, even at the cost of self-destruction on multiple occasions, remains a major point of suspicion.

Even if we suspect that the bandits are another kind of extraterrestrial life form, that's perfectly acceptable!

But let's consider the current situation. Do we really want to make another enemy?

Wouldn't it be better to wait until this immediate crisis is over before focusing our efforts on uncovering the truth about the bandits?

All eyes turned to Zhang Erhe.

Undoubtedly, everyone present supported Du Minghui's viewpoint.

An organization that appears much milder than other troublesome ones, and one that, aside from its penchant for vying for resources, often benefits the people.

In these turbulent times, instead of fighting with them, it's better to focus our energy on more troublesome matters.

From their perspective, settling scores later and discarding them after they've served their purpose is also a good option.

Huaxia District is the largest of the six major administrative regions.

If an agreement is reached here to cease hostilities with the bandits, this application will likely be submitted to the federal government and approved almost immediately.

The biggest obstacle is right in front of us.

Zhang Erhe smiled faintly.

"Today's meeting is a pretext; the real purpose is to use the matter of the three bandits to persuade me to stop the manhunt for them."

Zhang Beihai tried to persuade him.

"Second Uncle, why be so persistent..."

Zhang Erhe turned around and walked towards the door, talking as he went.

"District Chief Du, the 'situation' and 'trouble' you mentioned today will all be resolved after Project Stars succeeds! Perhaps you should wait a few more days before submitting this application, although by then the bandits may no longer exist!"

Zhang Erhe laughed loudly as he walked out the door, his voice brimming with confidence.

Zhang Beihai frowned, deep in thought.

Is there another layer to Project Stars?

No one present could answer Zhang Beihai's question.

Even Du Minghui.

Qian Lingfeng looked at Du Minghui, "District Chief, should we still submit the application?"

Du Minghui sighed, "Forget it. Project Star is next month. Even if we submit the application, it will take more than this long for the Federation to complete the process. Besides, Zhang Erhe will make the process even slower. Let's see if what he just said is just empty talk."

Qian Lingfeng said, "Actually, when it comes to bandits, it was our Special Bureau that first discovered these strange people. Recently, I've also thought about their problems, and I also feel that we shouldn't be enemies with them. Bandits are useful to us."

Qian Chongxue said unhappily.

"Father, you haven't changed your tune because you've seen how powerful the bandits have become after the third transformation, have you? You didn't say that before."

Qian Lingfeng smiled at everyone present and said.

"My daughter is talking nonsense; please excuse her."

He then got back to the main topic.

"We never dared to reveal the existence of the mutant beasts before, using the River of Oblivion and the Great Filter to cover it up and patch it up everywhere."

To be honest, according to ancient legal standards, this would be called substantive justice, but procedural injustice.

After all, we've disturbed the memories of many people, which is wrong.

But later, the bandits revealed the mutant beasts, and we had to reveal many things as well.

The reason we didn't dare to make it public at the time was because we were worried about global panic, which would cause widespread evolution of the mutant beasts and lead to a major disaster.

The deductions of the Tianyan system also yielded this result, so it's best not to disclose it.

However, recently, I had the Evolution System recalculate the consequences of revealing the mutant beasts, and the answer was that there was no difference between revealing them and not revealing them.

Indeed, the small gaps in Dark Star still exist, and sporadic aberrations are still being released.

Colleagues from the Special Affairs Bureau in various locations were not short of work; in fact, bandits were robbing people from the Illusionary Realm while also robbing mutant beasts.

However, as long as people don't directly interact with the mutant beasts, their lives remain completely unaffected, and they continue as usual.

The scenario we envisioned, including previous simulations by the Tianyan system, where global panic and the evolution of aberrant beasts into a situation we couldn't handle after the public announcement, never materialized.

Qian Chongxue doesn't give her father much face.

"That means the AI ​​system is unreliable and its predictions are wrong."

"No, it's because I added a new variable in a recent simulation."

"What?"

"bandits".

"You're not suggesting that the absence of global panic was due to the bandits, are you?"

"I'm afraid that's really the case. You've met them. To put it nicely, they're optimistic; to put it bluntly, they're crazy. They do things completely unpredictably. They have a kind of nonsensical, deconstructive, and abstract spirit, and this spirit can dispel fear."

Du Minghui understood.

"What Director Qian means is that the appearance of the bandits prevented the mutated beast from being exposed and caused the most serious consequences."

They are active in this world, spreading information through the internet, and subtly dispelling people's fears of the unknown.

Zhang Beihai said this, not without a hint of joking.

"If that's the case, then the bandits have truly done a great service. After all, our River of Oblivion will eventually run out, and if the mutant beasts are still being released then, we will inevitably be unable to keep it a secret."

The bandits revealing the mutated beast only made it clear to us that we had revealed everything ahead of time.