hotmtlnovel Chapter 681 - 208: Questions and Answers
Chapter 681 - 208: Questions and Answers
He could only take a small notebook and speak to her point by point.Professor Zhang is suspected of knowing the plan but not reporting it. Due to insufficient evidence, he can only be temporarily detained.
However, Professor Zhang confessed to some details, "He said that all the things he knew were overheard from Zhang Jial, and there’s no one else to testify. It wasn’t until he arrived at Blue Star that he realized the overheard information was true."
Zhang Jial? Isn’t he the former admiral?
Su Xiaocai interjected, "He couldn’t possibly know nothing. If he didn’t know, he wouldn’t have led other professors to the space station."
"That’s what intelligence personnel and the investigation team think. Both Professor Zhang and Zhang Jial deny it, and similarly, there’s insufficient evidence to arrest them. Zhang Jial has a special status; if he colluded with Imperial People, the nature of the incident would be extremely bad. Moreover, he is the deputy director of the Non-human Research Institute, and his network is very complex, with many people protecting him."
The investigation requires some time, and it’s not something that can find a handle overnight, especially with someone as prominent as Zhang Jial. Even if he is to be caught, there might not be any explosive material to reveal.
Colonel Yuan continued, "Feng Ruchuan has already been sentenced to death, with a two-year reprieve. She later provided several leads regarding contacts behind the scenes and how to contact Insect Man, so her sentence was extended to a four-year reprieve. If no more information is provided, the death penalty will be executed in four years."
Feng Ruchuan’s method of contacting Insect Man was consistent with that of the spies on Huangyang Star; however, she wasn’t implanted with an Insect Man. Instead, she combined with machinery and disguised it as an earphone embedded behind her ear.
Like a small fleshy lump.
This Insect Man combined with mechanical integration doesn’t look as elegant as the Mecha created by Su Xiaocai.
It seems like a malformed product, with the Insect Man neither dead nor alive.
The host needs to peel back the skin behind the ear daily and drip a special nutrient solution to maintain normal communication.
As a result, the Huangyang Star case and the Capital Star All-Knowing Sect incident have been consolidated into one case.
It can be said that everything was caused by collusion with the Empire.
Treason, regardless of whom, if there is evidence, will result in the death penalty.
Su Xiaocai combed Huahua’s fur with her fingers. Whether it was due to the adaptation to the weather, Huahua’s fur was more fluffed up, and its body was rounder.
She absolutely refused to admit that it was because of her feeding.
While combing, she pondered.
The Superpower User who altered the video was also one of the spies. He had started setting things up many years ago, so his age must not be young.
Not young, yet acquainted with Yi Suilu.
Su Xiaocai felt she was close to the truth, yet she couldn’t pinpoint who it was.
As she thought, Colonel Yuan’s report came to her ear, "The prisoners are roughly divided into five groups for processing. The first group is impoverished ordinary people, illiterate. They are very frail and mostly engaged in manual labor, with rigid thinking. These men are not friendly to women, so they are separated by gender, with men sent to mine on uninhabited stars and women to open up wastelands."
The second group is ordinary people with some level of education, who are sent to build earthen houses for habitation. It’s arduous work, but better than for the former group. There are millions of them; they need houses too. The Ten Stars System can’t build houses for them.
The third group consists of highly educated individuals. A lenient policy is adopted for them; they are assigned to different prisons for separate detention and interrogation, compelled to divulge any knowledge they have, and given a bit of freedom to aid in construction based on their situation.
The fourth group is soldiers, with high combat capability and relatively large numbers, sent to the front lines as pioneers. Meritorious service can shorten their time at the front lines, and outstanding contributions might allow them to return to the Empire.
The reason for arranging their return to the Empire is due to the fifth group, the well-fed, ostentatious nobles, who must be sent back to the Empire. The only thing missing is for the Empire to send someone to negotiate their return.
After all, the Ten Stars System can’t escort them back.
Among the survivors of the defeated, there may indeed be some fairly important individuals to the Empire.
Soon, an "Invisibility Ship" arrived.
An Invisibility Ship is a type of small roaming ship, and there were only two diplomats on board, speaking much more politely than the few arrogant youngsters on the larger battleships.
When the diplomats saw their Empire’s people captured, they immediately humbled themselves and put away all territorial agreements and colonial division contracts.
Although they didn’t know how their side lost, nor were aware of the Empire’s strategic deployment, the two diplomats both understood the need to show respect after losing on someone else’s turf.
The people above had guaranteed a hundred percent success in taking over Blue Star, but fortunately, the two diplomats secretly held no belief in any of it and prepared a contingency plan for defeat.