...to protect my own safety.
Of course, another possibility was that Ning Jing wouldn't go crazy, and I wouldn't make a move either.
But... was that even possible?
Ning Jing had risked her life to come to the XZ Military Region. That alone was enough to prove how much she valued this friend. Secretary Liao had also
heard about me from Gao Song and Pang De,
and then there was the impulsive display of my power.
All of that was enough to prove that Secretary Liao was more than ninety percent certain he could make Ning Jing and me follow the plan he'd laid out to the letter.
Minister Song had seen me fire that plasma cannon. Did he really not know I was strong enough to crush him? No, he knew. But his personality made him risk everything and fight to the bitter end, even though he knew it was a trap and his chances of winning were slim.
He couldn't run, and he wouldn't run.
The XZ Military Region must have completely sealed off the city gates by now.
What Minister Song had said just before he died didn't sound like a lie, and the drug he'd tried to use in his final moments must have been real too.
He must have been deeply unwilling to accept how things had turned out, right?
I didn't know much about Minister Song, but if I guessed based on human nature, then at the beginning of the apocalypse, he must truly have fought to bring it to an end. But somewhere along the way, he changed.
Wasn't there a saying?
The bigger the seat, the grander the plans.
Sitting on the emperor's throne, you were bound to think about matters of state.
Sitting in a butcher's shop, you were bound to