Wang Dong gave a slight nod to show that he understood.
Xu Zhenzhi's meaning was clear.
Although the Sky Peng Horizontal had successfully "kidnapped" Zhao Dexing's flagship, the Wei Wu Dexin, into the Otherworldly Space battlefield and captured it without anyone noticing,
since they had failed to catch Zhao Dexing himself, the Sky Peng Horizontal would still have to spend at least twenty-four hours in the Otherworldly Space battlefield before it could return to the main universe.
That meant the Wei Wu Dexin's disappearance had inevitably alerted their enemies!
At the North State Fleet's base, no matter what had caused the Wei Wu Dexin to disappear,
Zhao Dexing would certainly be on his guard.
The Sky Peng Horizontal had already lost several hours, and it was bound to lose even more time.
Once they returned, finding Zhao Dexing's whereabouts by conventional means would be little more than wishful thinking!
For now, their only option was to get some useful intelligence from this stand-in.
After all, it was obvious that this stand-in was no ordinary man.
Judging by his bearing, and considering the likelihood that Zhao Dexing had already undergone mechanical modification,
Wang Dong could even conclude that Zhao Dexing might have had this elderly stand-in appear in his place on the few occasions he showed himself in public—for example, at the royal family's annual palace banquet!
A stand-in like this would inevitably know many of Zhao Dexing's secrets.
But Wang Dong didn't do as Xu Zhenzhi had suggested and make interrogating the elderly stand-in his priority.
There was no need.
Zhao Dexing certainly knew better than they did just how many secrets the elderly stand-in knew.
The moment the stand-in went missing, Zhao Dexing's first move would be to change his arrangements—especially the arrangements involving secrets the stand-in knew!
And