Lady Fei Jin's attitude was clear. She then typed another message in the comm channel: "We only need to gather information and collect the relevant data. We're not trying to take anything away or change anything. In fact, once the collection node has passed, whether we succeed or not, the one in the case will be disposed of promptly. Captain Xu, you installed the implosion device yourself, didn't you? We can still turn ourselves in to the Close Defense Force afterward."
The argument ended there. At least among these people, the option of "retreat" had been completely ruled out. They continued onward beneath the gradually darkening sky, selecting a place to set up the equipment.
Ronan watched coldly from the sidelines, confirming that one of them was indeed an old acquaintance.
He remembered Lady Fei Jin. He had met her last year while attending an event held by the Mystic Studies Society at Zhi Xing Institute. She was one of the God Research Society's investors, as well as a secret observer for that old LCRF foundation. She had been Sun Jiayi's superior, that "Many-Faced" woman, and had deliberately approached Ronan to probe for intelligence—perhaps with other motives as well.
But before she had accomplished much, Sun Jiayi had set her up, turning her into a vessel for Madam Harold and Yin Le's Soul Hosting.
The funny part was that those two had also wanted to get close enough to "observe" Ronan and gather information. Yet Ronan had used a Demon Rune to track them in reverse, directly capturing the entire Abyss Zone Blood Soul Temple and completely changing his relationship with the Blood Flame Order.
That incident had likely caused irreversible damage to Fei Jin's physical and spiritual structure. Likely, anyway. Ronan had not cared how things ended afterward, never