"I know. The New Human Organization now is the True Dragon Group from back then."
"What are you talking about? What True Dragon... what?"
Yuejian asked, still confused. But my right hand instantly grabbed the M500 at my waist. In the blink of an eye, I raised the muzzle and aimed it at the blacksmith.
"S-Sister Fang!?"
Yuejian froze, completely unable to make sense of what was happening. The blacksmith across from us, however, showed no surprise at all. He seemed to have expected this.
"Are you with the New Human Organization?"
With the muzzle pointed at the old man, I almost instinctively connected a few clues that hadn't seemed important before.
Tang Xintian had been with me for so long. How had she gotten in touch with the organization?
And how had this blacksmith, with nothing but a beat-up forge, managed to make an electromagnetic cannon?
What's more... could an ordinary person have gotten tungsten alloy bullets back then?
At the time, I'd been so overjoyed to get the electromagnetic cannon that I'd nearly forgotten all that... Wait!
Had Xu Wei already figured something out back then?
Was that why he later teamed up with Tang Xintian and betrayed me?
Had Tang Xintian gotten in touch with this old man at that base, only for Xu Wei to see through it? Then the two of them discussed the details and set me up when we retreated to the JN Military Region?
In an instant, a series of clues that had seemed useless, lodged away in my memories, all fell into place.
Facing me with the M500 in my hand, the blacksmith didn't change expression. He simply stared at me in silence for a long moment, then nodded.
He answered in a low voice:
"Yes."
"So Tang Xintian got in