Free Web NovelChapter 613: Chapter 67: Moonlight
Why did Chen Lusi ultimately replace Si Yujie to become the Celestial Strategy of the Third Battalion?
Xiang Yi considered many possibilities.
The intention of Shang Huan and Sun Xun.
The intention of Ji Xin.
A pawn arranged by the top echelon.
The Security Army’s preliminary preparation to take over the Celestial Strategy Mansion.
The Celestial Punishment Weapon breaks through again, completes iteration.
She even considered the possibility of Si Yujie wanting to remotely command.
Except.
She never thought of this possibility right in front of her.
Just like she never thought that the new Celestial Strategy of the Third Battalion... would assert authority in this manner.
No matter if Chen Lusi is leveraging, relying on the Security Army.
Or using the large-scale deployment of the Celestial Punishment Weapon as a bargaining chip.
Or even if Chen Lusi takes out the specially made Celestial Punishment Weapon rumored to have elevated the Pope of the Russian Orthodox Church to threaten everyone.
She could understand.
But everything happening right now.
She cannot understand.
... Asserting authority through force.
And it’s the simplest, most direct, most brutal method of asserting authority.
In a way, it’s even simpler and more brutal than Xia Yue!
If it were just this, it would be fine.
But.
Chen Lusi’s Tier...
Even after the recent action, the Spiritual Fluctuation of Chen Lusi, the new Celestial Strategy of the Third Battalion, hasn’t changed, still remains calm in the Bleeding Stage.
It neither suddenly surged nor dropped abruptly.
It’s as if... he just used the power of Bleeding, took only four seconds to pin Hu Shengping to the ground and rubbed him.
But this is completely impossible!
Because the intense feeling, like being unarmed and suddenly encountering a beast in the wilderness.
The fear of facing the opponent, hairs standing on end with terror rising... all reminding Xiang Yi that this person is dangerous.
Very dangerous.
Absolutely not an Empowerer in the Bleeding Stage.
But Xiang Yi has no idea how this person achieved it.
Chen Lusi’s Authority Ability, true Tier, even his recent moves... Xiang Yi didn’t see clearly at all.
... She couldn’t even understand why he was so powerful.
Just a moment ago, a similar thought arose within her... when she heard Xia Yue facing the entire Kunlun Pantheon.
So it’s no wonder Sima Zhi feels that Xia Yue stood before him.
Because he really seems too much like him, almost identical.
In some ways, he even surpasses him.
So... what’s going on with this person?
Isn’t he the creator of the Celestial Punishment Weapon!?
Xiang Yi slowly turned to Yu Zhou.
Yu Zhou gazed at Chen Lusi, with a look of astonishment, but also some understanding, as if he’s figured something out.
She then turned to Tang Language.
Tang Language looked at Chen Lusi, shrinking her neck, seemingly a bit scared.
And it’s a familiar fear.
Xiang Yi knows this colleague Tang Language very well; her courage is neither too big nor too small. For her to show such an expression, curling up like her animal instincts are taking over... must be a deep impression from the past that makes her instinctively afraid.
Because every time Xia Yue acts, she behaves like this.
The past... Xia Yue...
Xiang Yi’s body stiffened, turned her head rigidly, and looked at Chen Lusi’s back again.
So previously... what’s going on with this person!?
At this moment.
Not only Xiang Yi, but all the Celestial Strategies were pondering this question.
The entire conference room... even the sound of breathing faded away.
Everything was silent.
Until.
Chen Lusi slowly walked towards Sima Zhi, stood before him, and calmly asked again: "I ask... what were you about to say just now? You too think I can’t make decisions?"
Sima Zhi shivered and snapped back to reality.
Upon realizing that Chen Lusi stood before him... his body suddenly tensed up, as if stripped bare, unarmed in the wild, witnessing a beast gradually approaching, stepping right in front of him, bowing down and looking directly at him.
... Though he himself is an Empowerer, an Advanced Empowerer.
But the horror felt like a bone-deep affliction.
He bit down hard, trying to suppress the trembling in his voice, hoarsely said: "... I didn’t mean that."
"That’s good."
After hearing his words, Chen Lusi didn’t look at Xu Zi, whose body was also tensed up beside him, but calmly said: "I thought you agreed with Hu Shengping’s words, I remember very clearly... the purpose of this meeting is to maintain stability, not to disrupt it.
So I don’t understand why Hu Shengping suddenly brought up Si Jiayan and the Celestial Punishment Weapon a moment ago.
Today’s agenda should not include these two.
Even if it did, I don’t think it’s necessary to discuss anymore.
The girl now has a good life, her mother can guarantee her safety, she is fourteen this year, at this age, she’s supposed to stay by her mother’s side, go to school, carry no great burden, let alone return to the Celestial Strategy Mansion headquarters.
This matter should not be brought up again in the future.
As for the Celestial Punishment Weapon, strictly speaking, it belongs to the national defense asset, whether the Celestial Strategy Mansion should equip it, when to equip it, how to equip it, are not decisions to be made from big-voiced statements about not keeping private interests, all for the sake of the whole Celestial Strategy Mansion.
Don’t put on a high-sounding attitude."
Chen Lusi looked at Sima Zhi, speaking like he was addressing him personally, but also as if addressing all the Celestial Strategies present, representing the Third Battalion to express his thoughts.
And this time.
No one interrupted him.
Sima Zhi’s body remained tensed.
"Moreover..."
Chen Lusi paused, about to continue.
But suddenly.
"You brat——"
From the center depression of the meeting table.
Hu Shengping sat up somewhat awkwardly, his eyes bloodshot, glared at Chen Lusi, issuing a deafening rage-filled roar, with towering fury, directly raising his hand and aiming at his back.
