"Online" replied, "This doesn't seem like your style. Last time you wanted to take a gamble, you hesitated for ten years... What gave you the courage to gamble again so soon?"
"Of course, it was the Great Existence's favor." Tai Yu spoke without the slightest stumble, growing more impassioned with every word. "I have new ways and inspiration to please It. Those self-righteous fools will surely pay for the charges they casually pinned on us. What they destroyed will be repaid tenfold, a hundredfold!"
"..." There was a brief pause from The Other Side, then a laugh, as gentle as it had been for nearly a century. "So what are you going to do?"
"I need to take some risks. I'll stay in the Red Silicon Star System for now and capture that target." Tai Yu skirted pedestrians in the narrow alley, circling through the underground district. "I'm fairly confident. I want to offer the Great Existence a new devout believer, a preacher, a node embedded within those self-righteous fools. There's a considerable chance of success, but I'm not sure of the proper technique."
"An internal node?" With a trace of confusion, "Online" confirmed again, "So you want to turn an important person on their side?"
"Not yet, but I believe he will be."
"I understand what you mean."
"Online" did not probe further. He had always been like this—never digging too deeply, never involving himself in specific management, allowing Bai Jiao to run his own business while providing only technical support.
The conversation between the two sides appeared open, but both still adhered to the red line of communications security. They used "those self-righteous fools" and "they" in place of "Pantheon," and "important person" in place of "priest." That was the most basic requirement. Otherwise, a pack of secret