In my memories from my previous life, the big shot named Trende had been Mr. Nair's most prized student. He later became one of the leaders of the Machine Brotherhood, and was a ruthless man who had replaced more than seventy percent of his organs with mechanical parts. He was even more heretical than his teacher, Mr. Nair.
At this point, Yu Lian hesitated before asking, "Um, Teacher Yang, do you happen to know..."
"Both machine intelligences and cyborgs are banned by the Void Spirit Temple, right? Heh, so what? As far as I know, there's an organization called the Fourteenth Workshop that has plenty of cyborgs. Its main industries are all focused on researching various types of robots. They broke through the ban ages ago, and yet they're still treated as honored guests by the Alliance."
"...Aren't you a little out of date? The Fourteenth Workshop is a subsidiary of that transcendent terrorist organization. The Empire has already presented a very substantial chain of evidence. The Alliance has also started seizing their assets and issuing warrants for their key personnel."
Of course, in another timeline, the Fourteenth Workshop wasn't confirmed to be one of the snakeheads until thirty years later.
But for it to be exposed this quickly this time, there was only one explanation. It was yours truly's fault again. I'm terribly sorry, Professor!
Yu Lian really wanted to bask in his triumph for a while. Unfortunately, he was the only one who could appreciate his achievement, which left him feeling a little disappointed. So this was what they meant by "showing off to no one" and "wearing fine clothes at night."
Yang Xiyi continued, "I know. The Fourteenth Workshop was exposed because of last year's Heavenly Domain terrorist incident, right? Heh, whoever was behind that, I really