Before long, at the Mechanical God Cult's request, the investigation uncovered everything Zhao Dexing had done: his attack on Zhao Wan, his subsequent deployment of private troops and death squads disguised as the Unicorn Mercenary Group, and his attempt to provoke the Free State Conglomerate into waging war against the Black Stone Kingdom, where Wang Dong was based.
Naturally, Wang Dong and the Black Stone Kingdom came under the scrutiny of the New Song Kingdom!
At first,
the New Song Kingdom had already planned to send a high-level "investigation team" to the Black Stone Kingdom.
They intended to look into whether the Black Stone Kingdom and Wang Dong had any connection to Zhao Dexing's disappearance.
Fortunately, Princess Qingluo had worked hard behind the scenes to mediate.
On top of that, Zhao Wan, who had remained in the Black Stone Kingdom, hurried back to the New Song Kingdom.
She personally visited several elders and pulled out all the stops. Only with great difficulty had she managed to persuade the New Song Kingdom to temporarily postpone forming the "investigation team."
"In that so-called BZ-0916 star system, there's a natural wormhole passage that was blown up.
Why doesn't the New Song Kingdom just conclude that Zhao Dexing fled in disgrace, taking several Star Destroyers through that wormhole passage?"
Shi Zunhou said indignantly.
"Do you think everyone is as simple-minded as you?
Given Zhao Dexing's status, why would he have run away before he was exposed?
Even if he had been fleeing in disgrace, given the circumstances at the time, he'd had more than enough time to prepare properly.
For instance, he could have taken an entire pioneer fleet, along with his family and the savings he'd accumulated over the years.
That would have been the sensible thing to do.
As it is, Zhao