"Leave? I don't think any of you can leave today."

The discordant sounds outside the tent stopped Nicholas and Ito, who were about to move.

[This voice... why does it sound familiar?] Nicholas was quite puzzled.

I feel like I've heard it somewhere, but I can't remember who it was.

While he was thinking, a smoking object flew into the tent.

"Danger!"

The debt handler next to Nicholas didn't even think twice and flew over and knocked him out of the tent.

The hand grenade, a powerful weapon of destruction, was already included in the Fatui's illustrated manual after the first battle, and all the Fatui in Inazuma were forced to learn about it and how to deal with it.

I suffered losses before due to my lack of knowledge, but I won’t do that again now.

"boom--"

The grenade exploded in mid-air, and the shock wave caused by the explosion made everyone in the tent feel a little unsteady on their feet.

"Bang bang bang..."

Before they could react, dense gunfire rang out.

The senior officers in the tent were all hit, and without exception, all were shot in the center of their eyebrows.

"who is it?!"

Nicholas shouted angrily outside the tent.

Those guns were not just aimed at the senior rebel officers, he was also among the targets.

Although he also has the power of the evil eye, ordinary 9mm pistol bullets cannot cause any harm to him, but the pain is real.

And the old man Ito was almost shot. If he hadn't pushed Ito, Ito would probably have been shot in the middle of the eyebrows and died like those officers. This scared him a lot.

This is related to Lord Sanbing’s next move. If he encounters another accident, he will really have no way to survive.

At this moment, Nicholas was extremely angry about this act of sending him to death, and waved his hand to signal his debt handler to go up and deal with it.

However, not long after the debt collector went up, a body was thrown back.

At this time, there were only Nicholas and Ito in the tent. Nicholas had mobilized the power of the evil eye to protect himself, while Ito was standing guard with a samurai sword in his hand.

The other party did not shoot again, maybe he ran out of bullets? Or realized that it would not do anything to him?

Damn it, where are all the soldiers in the camp? Are they all dead? Why hasn't anyone come to help?

Heavy footsteps, one step at a time, sounded outside the tent.

"Don't you remember me, Nikolai?"

"It's you! Kentucky!"

Nicholas widened his eyes and looked at the figure that appeared at the door of the tent.

"I could smell your stench outside the tent. What a coincidence. To use Liyue's words, we are enemies who meet on a narrow road."

"What, are you surprised?"

"Unexpected, of course it's unexpected. I really didn't expect you to be so lingering. Isn't it better to be alive?"

Nicholas' tone at this moment could be described as gritting his teeth.

This shadow hunter had been chasing him since they were in Fontaine, and he was the same person when he came to Kaigi Island. He had tried twice but failed to kill him, and now, he was standing in front of him again.

"Of course it's good to be alive, but it's not good to bear the stigma. Nicola, you used the same trick on Fontaine once, and you used it again on Haiji Island this time. I wonder why it looks so familiar. Do you really think I'm easy to bully?"

"Bullying? We each have our own master. Who told you to keep biting me?" Nicholas stared at Kentucky's movements and quietly adjusted the elemental power around him.

"Are you ready to be loyal to your master?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Kentucky took a step forward and rushed forward with a dagger in his hand.

Nicholas was equally unwilling to be outdone, and took out his own Inspector General's sword to fight back.

The two men were fighting, and neither paid attention to Sato who was standing by with a knife on guard.

During the fight, Kentucky was seized by Sato.

"Let me try the knife!"

Chapter 90: Charity and Being the Master

"So, you were seriously injured by a sneak attack, which is why you are like this?"

The look on the team leader's face was one of admiration.

This is a real boss!

The guns in their hands are for protecting themselves and killing enemies, but in the hands of other big guys, the guns become for protecting the enemies.

Not only did a man kill his way through the camp silently with cold weapons, but he also fought evenly with the veteran debt collector who was the inspector general and possessed the evil eye with just a dagger.

Although Ito cannot compare with these two brothers, he is from a samurai family after all, so his strength cannot be too bad.

If it weren't for Ito's final unsportsmanlike sneak attack, the outcome of this battle would be unpredictable.

"That's right, yes."

Kentucky nodded.

He looked at the team's fully armed state, and then asked: "Are you here to find Ito?"

"Yes, that's right. We are here to decapitate Ito under the joint orders of Lord Xinhai, Lord Jiangming, and Lord Goro. But now it seems that we are too late."

"Yes, you are late."

Kentucky took a deep breath and let it out, turning it into a sigh.

"At the last moment, they left directly through the Fatui's teleportation. I'm afraid you can't catch up with them even if you want to."

"Teleportation again!" The team leader frowned tightly.

The Fatui had previously relied on this thing to send a large number of troops to the Coral Palace in a short period of time, and now they were relying on the portal to take their targets away.

"I think their original plan was to take a boat. The Fatui's teleportation technology is not perfect. It consumes a lot of resources to use it once. Even with the Fatui's financial resources, they can't use it frequently. Perhaps if they choose to take a boat, you can still catch up."

Kentucky's tone sounded a little embarrassed.

"Mr. Kentkey, you don't have to blame yourself. This has nothing to do with you. After all, even if you don't take action, Ito will still evacuate. After being attacked by us, Nikolai can still use the teleportation technology to escape."

"From the results point of view, there is no difference. In fact, since we do not have the same professional qualities as you, we may not be able to do as well as you."

Kentucky nodded slightly and didn't say much.

Perhaps in his heart, he was still the one who caused the impact.

However, they finally chose to leave in a hurry by teleporting... Was the whereabouts of this team exposed, or... was Nicholas afraid?

If it was the latter, what was he afraid of?

Someone came to kill him? Or someone came to kill Ito? Or something else?

Or did he receive some orders?

Nicholas' status in the Fatui is not low, and he can be considered to be in a high position of power. To be able to give orders to people of Nicholas's level, he must be an executive officer of the Fatui, right?

I heard that those executive officers are very powerful, and the chief ones have authority granted by the Queen of Winter, and possess power comparable to that of demons.

If the Fatui's executive officers were targeting them... that would be a real problem.

It is necessary to pay attention to it.

Kentucky shared his guess with the team leader.

"Well... We will report your ideas to our superiors immediately after returning to Coral Palace."

Kentucky's idea makes sense, but it's not something they can figure out with the limited information they have now.

Anyway, their mission has failed, so let the people above deal with these things.

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On the other side, inside the Coral Palace.

Previous discussions on further reforming the 101st Division have gone into depth.

Without the obstruction of these extreme snake-god elements, the power of the entire Haiji Island is in fact firmly in the hands of the Coral Palace.

Xinhai, Wulang, and Jiang Ming are the three giants who are the real people in power.

Speaking of which, we have to thank these people. It would have been difficult to find them if we looked for them one by one, and it would have been difficult to take action even if we found them. Now these people just jumped out on their own, gathered together, and even came to deliver the declaration to them.

It was just right for them to catch them all at once.

What a good man!

Jiang Ming couldn't help but sigh.

Thanks to advanced technology and quick response, the impact of these extremist rebellions was confined to a limited scope.

At least it has not caused much impact on the current key research and development, production, and front-line security.

Although the rebels are powerful, overall, the impact they cause may only be similar to that of a palace coup, and the impact on society will be quite limited.

The benefit is that the Coral Palace is completely clear this time.

Allowing these people with all kinds of ulterior motives to continue, compared to the impact of a "palace coup", this is a question.

At least in Jiang Ming's opinion, the current situation is obviously worth it.

It's like the Great Purge.

There are certainly pains in the process of cleaning, and it may even be a self-destructive process, but after the cleaning, when those maggots in the tarsal bones have been removed, you can go into battle again with a light load and run at full speed.

Now, taking advantage of the clear situation after the "cleansing" and the absence of these obstacles, Jiang Ming felt that he had to seize this opportunity to do as much work as possible, especially to set the tone.

Who are the members of the Coral Palace? Whose interests will it protect? How will it treat the various groups, institutions, and people on Kaigi Island? How will the new governments at all levels operate? How will it deal with the worship of the Narukami and the Snake God? What about the relationship with the shogunate?

We need to take this opportunity to set the tone for these issues.

This will become a bottom line in the future, a bottom line that no one can violate, and it is also the legal justice.

No matter how great your abilities are, no matter what methods you come up with, no matter how you try to save the country in a roundabout way, there is a bottom line that you cannot get around.

Anyone who dares to cross the line will be condemned by thousands of people. The party that does not cross the line will naturally be declared to be condemned and have the support of the people.

If we miss this opportunity, once new and various interest groups are formed, we may not know when we will have such an opportunity again.

Things that we didn’t dare to do before must now be done; things that we couldn’t implement before must now be implemented.

It was with this mentality that Jiang Ming began to fully reveal some of his thoughts to Xinhai and Wulang.

It was not some of the emasculated things he had published before, which clearly did not shake the rule of the Raiden Shogun and the shogunate.

At best, those things can help the grassroots people gain some rights and interests as much as possible within the old framework.

This is ultimately a form of "charity".

The charity given by those high and mighty people to the people at the bottom.

If I'm happy today, I'll reward you with two bones.

It is undeniable that outstanding shogunate bureaucrats such as Kamisato Ayato were very concerned about the lives of the Inazuma people.

But alms are alms, and this nature will not change.

This is not what Jiang Ming wants.

Moreover, this kind of superstructure is simply not adapted to the development of productivity. Under poor productivity, the lives of the Inazuma people will not be much better.

Therefore, what he revealed to Xinhai and Goro was that although the local characteristics of Teyvat were combined, the concept was serious and let the people be the masters of their own destiny.

These things must not be made public at the moment, but there is always room for proper discussion within the Coral Palace.

Chapter 91 A Ghost

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