"You need to prepare for the worst, Huai Shi."
When they were deciding on the plan, Ai Qing gave him a warning.
"Hm?" Huai Shi did not understand. "Isn't the current situation bad enough already? No matter what, it has to be better than the Land of Nothingness or Eternal Paradise, right?"
"If things go badly, it could be about the same."
Ai Qing asked, "Solomon understood where his weaknesses lay, and he would never give us an opportunity—once all the participants joined forces, the elite power in our hands would already be enough to shake his advantage."
"He would not easily expose his location, nor would he give anyone an opening."
"Even if we found him, we might still have to face unexpected circumstances."
"Taking hostages?" Huai Shi frowned. "That would indeed be troublesome."
If Solomon truly went all out, planting bombs in every school or public area to threaten his opponents and ensure his own safety, then it would indeed be difficult to make a move.
Or he could go even further and tie his personal safety to some public safety facility, so that the moment he died, chemical or biological weapons would immediately be unleashed upon London.
"No, if we think about it that way—the thing we should be most worried about is him launching an attack on the Astronomical Society, isn't it?"
Huai Shi froze, then suddenly became alert. "No one should be guarding against the participants in the Regeneration Plan right now, should they? With the forces Solomon has at hand, he could absolutely breach the outer defenses of the Astronomical Society headquarters for a while and use his authority to completely hijack the Decision Room... I get it. It's a coup!"
His eyes lit up. "We have to stop him, Ai Qing!"
"..."
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