From Xiao Ran's ambiguous words, Ian Lee seemed to have gathered that the intelligence Xiao Ran had obtained might be connected to some important figure in the upper ranks, perhaps even involving some kind of scandal. Since Xiao Ran was unwilling to say more, Ian Lee did not pry. Little did he know that there had never been any intelligence to begin with.
What Xiao Ran had actually meant was that this operation had been staged by someone within ZAFT, turning others into tools to be exploited. Even the people who had sent them to handle this matter had been treated like fools by that person, naturally provoking the self-righteous anger of certain individuals. Of course, it was all true anyway. If those lofty people in LOGOS learned that they had been used, there was an eighty percent chance they would fly into a rage out of humiliation. It was not as though Xiao Ran had fabricated anything.
However, Xiao Ran could not care less what Ian Lee thought. Once he completed Main Mission One, he would begin preparing to switch sides, seek out the trigger conditions that would allow him to change factions, then aggressively poach from Phantom Pain and Earth Force to strengthen his own forces before crushing both Earth Force and ZAFT completely. For now, the most important thing was ensuring the completion of Main Mission One. Everything else was meaningless. As long as Main Mission One was complete, even reporting this matter to Earth Force high command would not create extra complications when he changed factions.
The Gadi Ru appeared to have broken away from the Minerva and ZAFT's pursuit and was heading toward the Moon. Yet before long, someone hurriedly knocked on Xiao Ran's door again. When he opened it, he saw Ian Lee approaching