Ronan couldn't be blamed for thinking of the Martial Emperor. Encountering this group of people and these elements, several contacts who could help him gain a deeper understanding immediately came to mind. But he didn't even need to check his address book; after running through them in his head, he felt there was something seriously wrong.
He thought of Sun Jiayi because he knew that last year in Xia City, Fei Jin had been Sun Jiayi's subordinate. Although it was part of the LCRF System and had nothing to do with the Starry Sky Club... the problem was that the Martial Emperor also had major investments in LCRF.
Then there was Bai Xinyan. Back in Ban City, she had followed the whole "Neo" matter from beginning to end, so he had a perfectly legitimate reason to contact her.
Yet after choosing those two, something still felt off.
Hmm, and there was Barty, the Martial Emperor's senior manager in LCRF—the fat pancreatic cancer patient. If he went to Barty over LCRF matters, he would have to give a proper explanation.
If he wanted to dig even deeper, Ronan could find someone from the perspectives of geography and scientific research: Peony.
For nearly a year, she had been conducting research here in Spring City. Even though she and her team studied Aberration Ecology, their previous conclusions had involved the structural relationship between unknown Plane-Time and Earth Local Time-Space.
See? Sun Jiayi, Bai Xinyan, Barty, Peony—pick any one of them, and they could be linked to the Martial Emperor. Not just linked, either, but directly and closely, with substantial exchanges of interests. That made Her Majesty's involvement far too suspicious.
She and her subordinates almost corresponded one-to-one with the people and elements at the scene. There wasn't the slightest attempt at concealment.
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