Before Letedoz, two burly stone people were arguing.
"Kelian, didn't you say the intelligent machines were attacking?"
The speaker was the Second Elder of the Senate. The "Kelian" it referred to was Letedoz's personal guard, one of the two guards who had witnessed Letedoz leaving.
Kelian was trembling with anger as well. He shouted, "I'll say it one more time: what I reported was that the clan leader left hastily while injured, and that it might have been because of the intelligent machines. I said might."
He emphasized both instances of "might."
But Letedoz's expression had already turned utterly grim.
He finally understood. This had been one huge Oolong Incident!
Kelian had seen him leave and guessed that the intelligent machines might have invaded, then reported it to the Senate. Unexpectedly, the Senate had treated it as reliable intelligence!
And that was not even the main problem.
If it had merely been an Oolong Incident, he could have just returned and explained everything. But Su Yu had brought so many Blue Star High-tier Experts here, and they had witnessed them making such an enormous joke of themselves!
"This is truly humiliating!" Seeing the Blue Star experts around him wanting to laugh but not daring to, Letedoz practically wanted to die of embarrassment!
Still, he did not want to reprimand his two subordinates too harshly in front of outsiders. Lowering his voice, he growled, "Could you two think things through before you act?
Our stone people already rank at the bottom of the Hub in terms of intelligence. After what you've done, won't it only reinforce everyone's stereotypes if word gets out?"
"Clan Leader, I was wrong." Kelian hurriedly lowered his head and admitted his mistake.
"No, it was our fault." The Second Elder quickly added, "Our Senate was negligent and