Twin Stars, the Joint Council's highest-level meeting.
Chairman Kruze sat at the head of the table, with more than twenty influential council members seated on either side according to race.
If the Joint Council was the Gemini Civilization's standing administrative body, then these people were its cabinet members, wielding the highest authority in Twin Stars.
"What are your thoughts on the intelligence concerning the All Things Unity Society?" Chairman Kruze asked, looking around the room.
"I believe this is nothing more than a bluff! If such a powerful, massive organization really existed, why hadn't our intelligence agencies discovered even the slightest trace of it before?
This All Things Unity Society that suddenly appeared in the Proxima Centauri System and the Solar System may have some strength, but it certainly isn't the vast secret organization spanning multiple civilizations that it claims to be! At most, it's a small, local insurgent group!
The reason they fed us this false intelligence is to exaggerate their organization's strength while fabricating an external threat in the form of the Ante Empire. Their goal is to make us hesitate for fear of the consequences, so we won't dare move against Kara Star or the Solar System!"
An elderly Sea Race man with a half-white beard immediately slapped the table, vehemently rejecting the scenario Nie Yun had written.
Naturally, the Gemini Civilization's government also had intelligence agencies similar to the CIA and State Security, and this elderly Sea Race man was the Joint Council's Intelligence Chief.
If it turned out that such a dangerous organization really had infiltrated Twin Stars, it would undoubtedly constitute a major failure on the intelligence agencies' part. He had to speak up now to defend their authority.
Another middle-aged man, this one from the Winged Race, wore a stern, cold expression. He