After leaving the conference room, which had already erupted into chaos, Huai Shi remained calm the entire way.
Only the adjutant waiting at the entrance came up to him, eyes wide. She had clearly received the news from somewhere and was brimming with astonishment. "Sir, sir, are you serious?"
"Why wouldn't I be? Do I look like I'm joking?"
Huai Shi asked in confusion, "I didn't come here for a vacation or sightseeing. If I were going to drink tea and read the papers every day, why wouldn't I just stay at the school?"
"Wow—"
As though she were meeting him for the first time, the adjutant exclaimed in amazement, "You're so brave!"
What inspired awe was not merely the boldness and decisiveness of pushing the Tower of Glory straight to the front lines, but also the arrogance of showing no restraint even in front of Feathered Serpent.
Please don't misunderstand. The Heavenly Kingdom Lineage had come here to find a place to fight Hell.
It just so happened that this was American Lineage territory.
That matter-of-fact attitude was enough to make anyone's blood boil.
That resounding "Do as you please" in the conference room had practically been a direct taunt to everyone present.
The crowd was fired up.
More than one or two people had slammed their hands on the table in rage.
Being spoken to like that by an outside reinforcement, anyone with even a shred of spirit would find it unbearable.
It was not that they wanted to stick a white knife in and pull a red knife out in front of Feathered Serpent and Richard—anyone still thinking about infighting at a time like this either had something wrong with their head or was a traitor—but rather that they issued an even fiercer challenge.
Were they saying