"The reason I told you all this—do you understand what I mean?"
The Chief Steward's voice rang out again.
"Th-this..."
Morris had no answer.
His head was spinning. One piece of news after another had slammed into him until he was dizzy and disoriented. How could he possibly know what other meaning lay behind the Chief Steward's words?
"Since the upper echelon of the Human Federation bought you off in advance, they naturally also wanted to control that Supreme Expert of the Human Race, and seize control over the Human Race's rule."
The Chief Steward said irritably, "The Supreme Expert of the Human Race did not sign the contract and made a fool of our Earth Tree Race. The entire Human Race should be implicated for this. The only reason we are giving the Human Federation another chance is because our Earth Tree Race is generous and merciful."
"In fact, our Earth Tree Race is so generous and merciful that we are not only willing to forgive the Human Federation's mistakes, we are even willing to give the Human Federation another opportunity in return, as well as sufficient resources and materials to help them increase their strength and unify the entire Local Galaxy Cluster!"
"If the Human Federation still fails to seize this chance and properly complete the task we assign them, they should know what consequences await."
"I understand. I understand now!"
Morris suddenly saw the light.
The Chief Steward was teaching him how to use the information gap to control the Human Federation.
The reason the Earth Tree Race did not plan to wipe out the entire Human Race was because the Supercluster was in turmoil, and the Earth Tree Race needed the Human Race's Large Warships.
But the Human Federation did not know that.
All they knew