Huang Ji and Yu Mo Shuo talked through the night.
For the first time, both sides spoke with such openness and honesty, and suddenly discovered that some things were better said outright.
Before, they had been suspicious of each other, trading endless lies, weighed down by concerns, and probing for information...
Now that they had laid their cards on the table, their perspective and horizons opened up at once.
As their conversation deepened, Yu Mo Shuo gained a wealth of "reliable intelligence," and his thinking immediately became clearer. When he reconsidered Huang Ji and his group, he suddenly realized they were not enemies. There really was no need to guard against them as if they were.
Hua Ji did not represent the traditional Illuminati, but the Double Pupils Organization that had violently overthrown it. Yu Mo Shuo had uncovered that himself.
Because they had risen to power through rebellion, even colluding with the Lizardmen and killing Dis's favorite human, they could not gain Dis's support.
If Dis learned of these events, the new illuminati might survive, but every one of its current leaders would die.
On this expedition, they had to either gain the Nature Disruptor's support or kill the Disruptor and use the divine artifact he left behind to fight the little grey. There was no other way.
And since they were going to offend the Illuminati's lord, humanity would have to face the coming apocalypse alone.
That meant the Torch Dragon had to stay. It was their last safeguard for survival, humanity's only shelter in the coming cataclysm.
Unless the Nature Disruptor offered them more favorable assistance, the Double Pupils group's only choice was to kill him.
After learning all this, Yu Mo Shuo finally understood why Huang Ji insisted on killing the Disruptor.
They had no choice.