"An illusion? So what you just saw was different from what I saw. You saw me joining forces with the Serpent's Head?" Yu Lian blinked, looking at the other man in some confusion.
The Knight Commander nodded and walked over to the enemy, who was still lying there like a dying fish. "That's right. He explained your dealings with the Serpent in great detail, and made clear how highly they value you. He even had me convinced that they were genuinely grooming you to be the next Alliance leader."
In a way, that wasn't exactly a lie. But I'm not grateful for it. Yu Lian thought.
"And besides, the Serpent Around the World originated in the Alliance. We can't rule out the possibility that the Alliance and the Serpent have joined forces to undermine the Empire's interests," the Knight Commander said with a smile. "At the very least, if you really had done that, the hundreds of thousands of our soldiers in the Spiral Cross Nebula would be in grave danger."
Yu Lian nodded in agreement. "I understand. But to be fair, although the Serpent Around the World originated in the Alliance, it has survived to this day, more than three thousand years into the age of interstellar exploration. It wouldn't be very objective to say it's merely the Alliance's black glove."
The Knight Commander smiled faintly. "Young man, why don't you speak more plainly?"
"I already said it just now... Oh, right. We saw different things."
Yu Lian glanced at the Knight Commander, who wore a reserved smile and carried himself like a sage, then said with a smile, "Yani told me that the spatial passage here is very stable, so in theory, no one should be able to tamper with the laws of space. But we still saw