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"There is a traitor among us!"
"The traitor has betrayed the Firemoth and sided with Anti-Entropy!"
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102. Roland: Joy, the Moth of Fire lets me catch the anti-entropy traitor.
Do you have any evidence to support your claim?
As Roland raised his issue, the parliament quickly erupted in discussion, followed by a question from a member of parliament representing a major power. Everyone else stopped their discussion and looked over.
Roland was naturally prepared for this situation—he even printed out a stack of documents recording various events.
"of course."
"First of all, after we first discovered Anti-Entropy, people from Anti-Entropy had already infiltrated our ranks and even climbed into the council... Regarding this, I actually think that Roland from Anti-Entropy might just be a scapegoat. As you all know, this tactic is quite common. It's possible that Anti-Entropy is one of us or some of us who have secretly established ourselves."
"Now let's get back to the main point—when we discovered Anti-Entropy, its people had already infiltrated our ranks. This shows that Anti-Entropy had been watching us for a long time and had made very thorough preparations against us. The mole at the time even stole all the Herrscher Cores we had, went to the Honkai Beast Factor database, and contacted some people, which indirectly led to a series of problems later on."
"This is the first piece of evidence."
Upon hearing Roland's words, the members of parliament present pondered for a moment, then nodded in agreement and gestured for Roland to continue. Roland flipped through a few pages of the documents in front of him before speaking.
"Then there are the Herrschers. The Fifth Herrscher was initially defined as having died at the hands of a mysterious organization, and this has now been confirmed. The one who killed the Fifth Herrscher and the Sixth Herrscher was the Operations Director of Anti-Entropy, the guy called Thousand 10 Calamity, who seems like a madman on the battlefield."
"From the first piece of evidence I presented, it's clear that Anti-Entropy isn't uninterested in the Herrscher cores; in fact, they're so interested that they've come to steal them from us."
"So the core and corpse of the Fifth Herrscher were left behind. My first thought about this is that Anti-Entropy suffered too much damage when facing the Herrscher, which is why they didn't have time to retrieve them after the battle—but obviously, this is not very convincing."
"As you all know, Anti-Entropy arrived at the battlefield before us, and before we even got there, the Sixth Great Honkai Impact was over. The Herrscher's corpse and core were taken away by them."
"Therefore, Anti-Entropy's combat power is stronger than we imagined. Such a scale of combat power could not have been built in a short period of time, especially Anti-Entropy's most representative fusion warriors. Dr. Mebius has said this many times recently. Even though she and Dr. Mei have been making improvements, the mortality rate is still high. Anti-Entropy's many fusion warriors could not have been created in a short period of time. They must have been a team that was gradually accumulated over a long period of time in our fight against the Honkai. Every one that dies is one less."
At this point, Roland looked at Mebius, who was sitting in a secluded corner. Seeing that she readily agreed, Roland continued.
"So during the Fifth Honkai Impact, it's unlikely that Anti-Entropy lacked combat power. In addition, in the first piece of evidence, Anti-Entropy's attempt to steal from us was based on the premise that we had already discovered them. Therefore, during the Fifth Honkai Impact, the Herrscher of Ice's core and corpse were likely left there because our people arrived. At that time, they didn't want to be discovered by us and were confident that they could steal the Herrscher's core from us."
"And as it turns out, because of their concealment and our lack of attention, we were indeed taken advantage of."
"If we extrapolate from this possibility, and Anti-Entropy is so confident that it can let us obtain the core of the Fifth Herrscher first, do you think there isn't a traitor among us? Is that even possible?"
"This is the second piece of evidence."
Unlike the first piece of evidence, the second piece of evidence was based on several conjectures, so the members of parliament discussed it for a while before nodding thoughtfully and signaling Roland to continue.
"Finally, and this is the third piece of evidence, which is actually not easy to state publicly, but I believe almost everyone here should know that when we fought against Anti-Entropy, we lost not just once, but twice. The first time was in a direct battle, where we were defeated by their fusion warrior force, and the second time was that night... No one can deny that, right?"
Many of the members of parliament were puzzled by Roland's statement, but many more immediately turned pale.
Yes, they did lose twice!
That night, they managed to reach a rare consensus and sent a large number of poison pupa assassins to kill Roland, but unexpectedly, the other side simply hollowed out the poison pupa!
They even figured this out just two days ago by noticing that their methods of controlling the poisonous pupae had completely failed.
This was undoubtedly a huge defeat, no less than losing the fight head-on!
Seeing their reaction, Roland stopped looking at the documents in his hand and instead shrugged at everyone.
"Needless to say, this second failure was inevitable. If Anti-Entropy didn't have an inside man, would we have failed so decisively this time?"
“I don’t know about you guys, I only found out this morning, and we all found out so late, but Anti-Entropy was able to do it so quickly, isn’t that suspicious?”
As he said this, Roland looked at a middle-aged man sitting in the council.
This guy was his second symbiotic target before he changed his symbiotic partner today, and also the person in charge of the poisonous pupa—Kark.
Although the poisonous pupae are controlled by various factions within the upper echelons of the Firemoth, this is precisely why Roland, when presenting the first piece of evidence, said that the Firemoth people like to put forward a puppet and then hide behind the scenes to cause trouble.
Pru and Ok are such puppets.
Kalk was also a puppet in the matter of the poisonous pupae.
It was thanks to this puppet that Roland was able to access all the information about the members of the Poison Chrysalis and even go beyond his authority to access some secrets, which allowed him to extract the Poison Chrysalis from the Fire Moth in such a short time.
“I have investigated this matter in detail. Before this incident, Mr. Kalk, it seems that you overstepped your authority in some ways, didn’t you?”
"For example, you used your own people to forcibly obtain personal information and background details of some special forces members, and then did some slightly outrageous things!"
Roland walked toward Kalk, speaking as he went.
Then the rest of the council looked at Kalk.
Kalk was completely terrified.
Although he himself did not know why he dared to do this, or why he wanted to do it, in his memory... he did seem to be an inside agent for Anti-Entropy!
However, he knew that if he confessed, he would be doomed, so he wanted to deny it.
Seeing his reaction, Roland spoke up first.
“Kalk, before I discovered you, I, like everyone else, thought it was unlikely that Anti-Entropy had a mole among us. Even if there was one before, it should have been an accident. After all, the identity of that mole was indeed somewhat ambiguous. It was possible that he was an Anti-Entropy mole. Apart from him, the identities of the others here are very clear. There is absolutely no way there could be a second mole. So, although I had some thoughts before, I didn't bring them up. It wasn't until I discovered you that I felt a huge sense of crisis!”
"After all, I never imagined that the knives in the hands of our councilors, and our special forces, had all been controlled by a mole from a hostile organization!"
Roland had already walked up to Kark and suddenly raised his voice, startling Kark so much that he swallowed back what he was about to say.
"Kalk, you are the spy sent by Anti-Entropy!"
As Roland said this, he activated his dominion.
So Kark, who had been thinking of explaining, paused for a moment, then burst into maniacal laughter, his eyes burning with fanatical fervor under the gaze of all the councilors.
"Yes, you guessed it, I am Anti-Entropy, long live Anti-Entropy!"
"Anti-entropy is the only hope against the Honkai, the future of humanity. How can we possibly fight against the Honkai together with you insects!"
"You are the sinners who helped the Honkai destroy the world, the murderers who destroyed humanity, you are all sinners, sinners..."
The surrounding councilors were terrified by Kalk. They could also tell that something was wrong with him, so they kept some distance from him and secretly began to contact the guards.
Roland seized the opportunity, using his earlier proximity to kick Kalk away and inject magic into him.
then
boom!
Like a human bomb, Kalk was kicked far away and exploded on the spot!
Although some members of parliament were affected by the shockwave of the explosion, no one died because Roland kicked him away – that's the reality the other members of parliament witnessed.
Having witnessed this reality firsthand, Roland later returned and suggested that there might be traitors among them. He then proposed the establishment of an internal department to purge these traitors, which was immediately approved.
Roland's plan was essentially over at this point.
Because from the moment he started speaking until he brought up this matter, he was actually observing the micro-information of everyone present.
For example, micro-expressions, instinctive reactions, heart rate, blood pressure, biomagnetic fields, etc...
To these lawmakers, this was just a meeting to deal with the traitor within Anti-Entropy, but to Roland, it was actually an interrogation of these lawmakers!
The raising of several related topics has made Roland realize who the mastermind behind Oak and Pru is.
Now, knowing who it is is enough; as for who controls this internal department... it doesn't matter.
That's what Roland thought, so he didn't say much about the department's problems.
After all, this is the time for the moths to chase the flame, the performance of vying for power and profit.
But even without Roland saying a word, these members of parliament spontaneously pushed the position of minister of the internal affairs department to Roland.
Roland was aware of this as well. He knew that the explosion at Kalk had frightened them, and that they were doing what they always did: they planned to put forward a puppet and then hide themselves in the shadows.
The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
Even though Roland knew, he still secretly complained to himself.
Sending him, the leader of Anti-Entropy, to catch a traitor in the high-level council of the Flame Chaser... You guys are pretty clever!
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103. The White Rabbit and the Poisonous Snake
"Do you have something to say, or do you think I'm the mole?"
After the meeting ended, Roland stopped Mebius.
Mebius was still a little panicked—because she had indeed begun to consider the issue of defecting to anti-entropy.
After all, Anti-Entropy already has a Fusion Warrior force, while even if Flamemoth can't defeat Anti-Entropy, it's still holding back its Fusion Warrior plan... The factional infighting among the higher-ups has reached a point where it can be ignored as long as the enemy doesn't attack first...
Staying here any longer would be detrimental to her research.
However, Mebius was, after all, a veteran of the Firemoth. Although she didn't know why Alicia had defected, she still held some hope for the Firemoth—that hope was the second-generation Fusion Warrior project.
This is an improved version based on the Entropy Fusion Warrior and her first version of the Fusion Warrior project.
The mortality rate of this version of the Fusion Warrior surgery will be lower, and compared to the Fusion Warriors of Anti-Entropy who have initially mastered the power of Honkai Beasts, the second-generation Fusion Warriors will gain stronger and more advanced power.
During this time, Mebius and Mei worked together to study the plan.
So when Mebius sees Roland now, he feels flustered, but he is very confident.
Because she hasn't betrayed the Firemoth yet.