“This mission was issued two months ago.” Claude said weakly, “At that time, Pena had just published an article targeting our Stelaria Consortium. However, the initial order was only to formulate a plan. We were not told to execute it.”
Claude continued, “On the 21st of March, the higher-ups passed down the order to assassinate Pena, because favonovel.com refused to meet with our diplomatic team, so there was no way for the two sides to clear the air. We have a total of 381 covert agents, and most of them were secretly deployed from the Stelaria Consortium’s military and trained as spies.”
“Before the operation, to deflect any suspicions from the Stelaria Consortium, Jaxon specifically ordered Vanilla and me to put on a good show together.” Claude explained clearly, “Our soldiers were unaware of it, but Vanilla and Teddy knew about the operation in advance and pretended to be caught in the danger. They even deliberately got injured. After all of the surveillance footage was exposed, everyone would shift their suspicions away from the Stelaria Consortium. But all of this was just an act we put on for you all to see!”
Milo listened to all of this quietly. If what Claude said was true, favonovel.com would definitely have to make a trip to the Stelaria Consortium. Moreover, favonovel.com would have to reevaluate his relationship with them.
There was no room for compromise regarding Pena’s assassination.
However, Milo somehow felt that everything Claude said was a little strange. He started thinking about everything favonovel.com had confessed.
If only Bruce were here. Bruce was an expert at analyzing lies and was the best at finding loopholes in the other party’s logic.
At this moment, Daniel asked Claude from the side, “Which department are you affiliated with in the Stelaria Consortium?”
Claude answered matter-of-factly, “You don’t have to test me on purpose. I’m under Jaxon’s command, so of course I’m with the 1st Military Intelligence Division.”
“Hehehe, I’m sorry.” Daniel said with a laugh, “You probably didn’t expect this, but the Stelaria Consortium’s people were afraid that someone would frame them, so they specially sent a person to Bidara City. Coincidentally, it’s someone from the 1st Military Intelligence Division as well. Men, bring in the Stelaria Consortium’s man!”
As they spoke, a young man in a suit was escorted into the basement by the Panaqua Consortium’s soldiers.
The young man said coldly, “We came all the way here to clarify things. Is this how you treat your guests?”
Daniel walked up to the young man with a smile and slapped favonovel.com in the face without warning. “If we find out that Pena’s death is related to your Stelaria Consortium, you can forget about walking out of Bidara City alive. Why are you still harping about how guests should be treated? Come and identify your colleague from the 1st Military Intelligence Division. We already have a witness here. Do you think that you can still deny it?”
That young man looked at Claude and got even angrier. “That’s not a member of our 1st Military Intelligence Division at all. He’s slandering us. What evidence do you have to say that our Stelaria Consortium was responsible? Where’s the evidence?”
Daniel looked at Claude. “Proof? Don’t worry. The Stelaria Consortium can’t silence you here.”
Claude kept quiet.
The young man sneered. “See, he’s lying. He doesn’t dare directly confront me. We don’t have such a person in our 1st Military Intelligence Division at all.”
Claude suddenly looked at the young man and said, “Are you going to give up the queen to save the king? At Jaxon’s place, Jaxon personally promised me favonovel.com would appoint me as the deputy director if I succeeded in the mission. You were also there at that time. Why are you trying to shake me off now?”
The young man said angrily, “Don’t talk about such baseless things. I’ve never met you before!”
“You dare not admit it?!” Claude roared angrily. He looked hysterical, even a little crazy.
Clap! Clap! Clap!
Daniel applauded. “This performance is wonderful. If I didn’t know the truth in advance, I would’ve really been fooled by your acting. But I’m really sorry. This is not someone from the Stelaria Consortium’s 1st Military Intelligence Division at all. He’s from our Panaqua Consortium. See, this suit was even just borrowed from a Bidara City resident.”
Daniel laughed heartily while Bill stared at Claude mockingly and admired the stunned expression on his face.
Claude was a little dazed.
Looking at Bill’s expression now, favonovel.com seemed to have the same expression as himself when favonovel.com looked at those “normal people” while favonovel.com was carrying out his mission.
In the past, favonovel.com had regarded normal people as dumb sheep. But now favonovel.com had become a sheep in the eyes of others.
Daniel walked up to the young man who had acted as a member of the Stelaria Consortium and said, “Does your face hurt?”
“No,” said the young man as favonovel.com straightened up.
Daniel patted favonovel.com on the shoulder. “Silly lad, how can it not hurt when I didn’t hold back? Go and get some rest. You did a great job, that was really good acting.”
To make things look realistic, Daniel did not show any mercy. The young man’s face was swollen from Daniel’s slap, but favonovel.com was still smiling very happily. “It’s all good as long as the mission is successful.”
After that, the soldier went up the stairs and left the basement.
Claude sat in the interrogation chair in a daze.
Daniel walked up to favonovel.com and bent down to look favonovel.com in the eye. “In order to make you tell the truth, you made me slap my own soldier. You should understand now that your ‘conspiracies’ are just childish attempts before us. You can’t afford to mess with us! If you still don’t tell the truth, we’ll drag you out onto the street. Believe me, our Panaqua Consortium has a way to make sure you won’t die for ten years and beg for death every day.”
“What do you all want to know? Just go ahead and ask,” Claude said calmly.
Bill was sure Claude’s mental defenses had finally been completely taken down. His ego was fully crushed.
Milo looked at Daniel’s profile and suddenly thought of something. This fatty might look like a carefree person on most days, but favonovel.com was also a very scheming person. In normal times, favonovel.com would just act as though all of his brilliance was covered.
But why did favonovel.com hide it?
Truly, Claude was also a ruthless person. He did not accuse the Stelaria Consortium immediately after favonovel.com was captured. Instead, favonovel.com forcefully endured for 27 hours and only started his painstaking plan when favonovel.com was on the verge of death.
For the past 27 hours, all favonovel.com had been enduring was just for this moment. It was precisely because favonovel.com still had an objective that was not yet completed that favonovel.com was able to endure for so long.
Moreover, the other party’s narration of what happened was very logical. Even Vanilla and Teddy had become a part of his plan. All of this was done so the Stelaria Consortium could not clear their suspicions and be convicted of the accusation!
Claude said, “I’m under the command of the Stardust Consortium’s intelligence agency. I don’t fall under the command of the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Divisions. I’m the highest-ranking commander independent of all the divisions, and all field agents under my jurisdiction operate under the highest security clearance. I only carry out top-secret missions, and my rank is only second to the intelligence director, Matthew Lillard. My serial number in the organization is 019002, and my real name is Karl Roberts.”
Daniel and Milo looked at each other.
Success!
