Qu Jianlei already knew that the Federation was likely ahead of the Empire in its research into Divine Script talismans.
Earlier, when more than a hundred people had donned armor simultaneously, quite a few of the Federation arrivals had activated talismans.
So the supposed surrender had been nothing more than a trap... Well, that was not important. What mattered was that there really were so many talismans.
Qu Jianlei was naturally tempted. His own talisman research had long since hit a bottleneck.
But he had not lost his head. Could these Federation people who had infiltrated with a mission really be carrying inherited knowledge on them?
Yet the world was strange like that. He had held out no hope, but someone really had brought inherited knowledge with them!
The one who revealed this was another Federation arrival—yes, more than one Federation member had not killed themselves with poison.
What was especially interesting was that this person, who had initially risked sneaking across with her companions, had ultimately come because she wanted to settle in the Empire!
That was right, the world could be this absurd. The Empire believed this was an invasion, yet someone had come to defect! This defector... surely had her own difficulties, and that went without saying.
And it was not a trap, either. She had specifically brought the inherited knowledge with her. Once it was proven false, would she not simply be asking for trouble?
Xiao Moshan had uncovered this as well—everyone was responsible for different areas, and this had happened within his territory.
But what made people laugh and cry was that his area overlapped with Tian Yin's, yet the defector had not contacted Tian Yin.
The reason was simple. Tian Yin was a woman, and so was the defector. Perhaps she felt that women