Director Liu's words set Jiang Yan Hai thinking. Were all terrorists' beliefs extreme? To ordinary people, or rather, by ordinary people's understanding, they certainly were.
But in reality, Jiang Yanhai had already come into contact with many terrorists. Many of them did not hold extreme beliefs. Though their methods were extreme, that was only because they were driven by profit, or because someone else stood behind them, pushing them onward.
There were even some terrorists who had simply been pushed to the point where they could no longer survive. They were merely ordinary locals, but they could not go on living. What else could they do? They were going to die either way, so they might as well pick up a gun and fight.
And terrorists like that were often created by the aggressive wars launched by certain countries.
There were others who, if you considered things from their perspective, were not necessarily in the wrong either.
For example, Bill—the mercenary whom Jiang Yan Hai had taught chemistry to last time, and who had promptly blown up a building at the CIA's North African operations headquarters.
To ordinary Americans and the American government, he was a terrorist. But from Jiang Yan Hai's perspective, knowing the full story, was Bill really to blame for this?
Perhaps his methods had been somewhat extreme, but this matter had nothing to do with him in the first place, did it? He was merely taking revenge.
So, the reasons behind the terrorists Jiang Yan Hai knew were incredibly varied. But according to Director Liu, if all the terrorists they knew resembled paranoid lunatics obsessed with doomsday theories, then something was seriously wrong.
Those were not terrorists. They were a cult, weren't they?
"Can I see the thing that expands the Stargate?" Jiang Yan Hai raised