One Seeking to Recruit, the Other Seeking to Fob Him Off

"So you're saying the Destiny Ghosts were plotting some conspiracy capable of overturning the Federation, and humans had already defected to their side?" Lu Xingshi looked at Ke Lan as though asking whether he was pulling his leg.

After dealing with that traitor, Ke Lan had contacted Lu Xingshi and revealed part of the truth.

Seeing Lu Xingshi's expression, Ke Lan was helpless as well. This kind of thing sounded fake the moment one heard it.

Everyone knew what status Destiny Ghosts held within the Federation.

Anyone with eyes could hear how absurd Ke Lan's words were.

"That's right. The Federation is already hanging by a thread," Ke Lan said earnestly.

"I can understand the first half. Destiny Ghosts have low status in the Federation, so I can believe they'd want to resist and overturn the Federation."

"But the second half—humans defecting to Destiny Ghosts... Do you believe that yourself?" Lu Xingshi said with a speechless look. "That's like a Grand Arcane Treasure Master defecting to an Arcane Treasure Master Apprentice. Are you sure you haven't got it backwards?"

"For example, these Destiny Ghosts might actually be the white gloves of some Federation senator, carrying out all sorts of dirty work that cannot see the light of day for him."

Lu Xingshi's thinking was perfectly normal. If he accepted it the instant the other man said it, wouldn't that seem strange?

Anyone with a functioning brain would have to question words whose logic was so plainly abnormal.

Ke Lan was rendered silent by Lu Xingshi's words. Mainly because what Lu Xingshi said truly made sense.

Given the state Destiny Ghosts were in, how could any humans possibly defect to them? Having Destiny Ghosts defect to humans and do their dirty work was the normal logic.

"But... that is the truth.