"No." Chen Xinjie approached, his tone calm. Clearly, nothing major had happened.
"The Federal Parliament sent me. With the Star Luo Empire matter just wrapped up, the speaker has been losing sleep. He asked me to see what exactly you're doing."
"Oh, I can put him to sleep permanently. Get to the point. What is it?" Yin Hongye's answer was blunt.
As ever, he certainly had a way with words.
"Well, that would be because a serious theft was discovered here!" Chen Xinjie said. "More than two hundred Fixed-Installation Soul Cannon shells are missing from the warehouse. Together, they're enough to flatten a small city."
"Oh, got it." Yin Hongye glanced around, knowing perfectly well whose hands those things had ended up in.
His gaze shifted to the legion commander beside them, Shen Yue.
If he remembered correctly, when people from Shrek Academy stole aircraft from her North Sea Legion, she hadn't reported it.
She hadn't sent anyone after the Shrek Seven Monsters, either, and had even felt she had no obligation to do so.
What would it accomplish even if she captured Tang Wulin and the other six? In her view, it would only make the scandal within the North Sea Legion worse.
She believed that, as a senior military official, she had to take a longer view of many things.
His recommendation, frankly, would have been to intercept and kill them.
Someone who didn't even consider the military's interests was utterly wasted in that position.
And her own younger sister really had been stripped by people from Shrek Academy!
Although Ye Xinglan had done it while Xu Xiaoyan and Yuanen Yehui screened her from view, a fact was a fact.
Yin Hongye felt this woman had no backbone whatsoever.
She had actually let Tang Wulin board a Soul-Guided