"Just you?"
Marshal Zhao looked at Gandalf with so surprise.
"Could it be that your identity already gives you the power to deal with the entire Sakura Country?"
Zhou Huai shook his head.
"Not at all."
"I just want to send my Clone to infiltrate the Sakura Country and give ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) it a try."
After speaking, he looked at Marshal Zhao with bright, piercing eyes.
"Marshal Zhao should have a channel to secretly send people into the Sakura Country, right?"
Marshal Zhao's brow furrowed into a knot.
He didn't answer imdiately, but instead asked, "What Rank are your Clones, specifically?"
"And how confident are you?"
Zhou Huai shook his head decisively.
"No confidence at all."
He paused, a nonchalant smile appearing on his face.
"However, the ones I'm sending are just my Clones."
"Even if they're discovered and the Clones die, there's no loss."
"If I can really snatch back the pendulum of life, then it's a huge profit."
Zhou Huai, controlling Gandalf, slowly leaned back on the sofa.
"Anyway, I'm already not far from death."
"Rather than sit and wait for death, it's better to fight with all my might."
The office fell into a long silence.
Marshal Zhao looked at the young man before him, a mix of emotions in his heart.
He could feel the determination in the other party's words, that madness of being pushed to the brink of death and then finding a way to survive.
This was a gambler.
A madman betting his own life, betting the national destiny of the Great Xia Country, on a slim future.
But, he could afford to bet.
Marshal Zhao slowly stood up, walked to the large French window, and stood with his hands behind his back.
Outside the window were the myriad lights of the imperial capital, sparkling like a galaxy.
But his mood was as heavy as a mountain.
After a long while, he slowly turned around, his deep, tiger-like eyes fixed on Zhou Huai.
"If you can truly succeed, it would indeed solve the urgent crisis of my Great Xia."
"My Great Xia Military Departnt will fully support you."
As his voice fell, Marshal Zhao no longer hesitated.
He turned and returned to his desk, picking up the red, buttonless special phone on it.
The call connected.
He only said one sentence.
"Co to my office."
After speaking, he hung up the phone.
Silence returned to the office.
Zhou Huai didn't rush, just waited quietly.
About five minutes later.
The heavy solid wood door of the office was silently pushed open.
A figure walked in.
Zhou Huai's gaze subconsciously fell upon him, then he was slightly startled.
The newcor appeared to be in his early forties, of dium build, with an ordinary, even sowhat plain, appearance.
He wore a faded old military uniform and black-rimd glasses, behind which his eyes were calm and unperturbed.
Marshal Zhao pointed at the newcor and introduced him to Zhou Huai.
"His na is Wei Liao."
"He is the general head of our Military Departnt's intelligence departnt."
Marshal Zhao's tone carried a hint of undisguised admiration and trust.
"He has been specifically responsible for foreign intelligence work for over twenty years."
"You can trust him completely."
Upon hearing this, Wei Liao rely nodded slightly to Zhou Huai, as a greeting.
Then he looked at Marshal Zhao.
"Marshal Zhao, why have you called here? What are your arrangents?"
Marshal Zhao didn't explain much, just spoke in a deep voice.
"Tell this young man about the current situation regarding the Sakura Country and the pendulum of life that you currently possess."
Wei Liao was sowhat puzzled.
He carefully scrutinized Gandalf once more.
Why would the Marshal ask him to report such top-secret military intelligence to him?
But he didn't ask further.
As the highest person in charge of the Military Departnt's intelligence departnt, he was already accustod to obeying orders.
Wei Liao walked to a nearby sofa and sat down, his movents swift and efficient, without any hesitation.
He organized his thoughts and slowly began to speak.
"Current intelligence confirms that the pendulum of life has been stored in Ise Grand Shrine."
Zhou Huai's consciousness, within Gandalf's body, listened quietly.
Ise Grand Shrine, the most sacred and heavily guarded place in the Sakura Country.
The difficulty of snatching sothing from there was imaginable.
Wei Liao pushed up his black-rimd glasses; a hint of playfulness flashed in his eyes behind the lenses.
"However, I now feel that the appearance of the pendulum of life in the Sakura Country might not be a bad thing for our Great Xia Country."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Huai raised an eyebrow.
Even Marshal Zhao, whose face had been as still as water, showed a hint of surprise in his eyes.
Zhou Huai, controlling Gandalf, opened his mouth and asked, "What do you an?"
Wei Liao smiled.
A sharpness, utterly incongruous with his unremarkable face, erged.
"They obtained the pendulum of life, but they didn't rush to revive their forr SSS-Class Professional."
"Instead, they stored it in Ise Grand Shrine."
"This clearly indicates a problem."
Marshal Zhao, being a Marshal who had led the Military Departnt for many years, instantly understood.
His eyes lit up.
"You an, it seems like they themselves are sowhat unwilling to revive an SSS-Class Professional internally?"
Wei Liao smiled and nodded.
"Marshal, you are brilliant."
He looked at Zhou Huai and continued to explain, "Reviving an SSS-Class Professional is simple, but how to handle them after revival is a big problem."
"Currently, the Sakura Country is firmly controlled by two top Families."
"They already stand at the pinnacle of the Sakura Country's power pyramid, enjoying supre authority."
"Reviving an SSS-Class Professional at this ti would be like finding an Old Ancestor to place above themselves, to lord over the current administrators."
"If it were you, would you be willing?"
Zhou Huai understood upon hearing this.
Once the taste of power is experienced, it's hard to let go.
The people of those two Families had long been accustod to giving orders; how could they willingly surrender the power in their hands?
Wei Liao's voice rang out again, with a hint of subtle sarcasm.
"So, there is also hesitation within the Sakura Country."
"I think this might also be one of the reasons why the Free Federation didn't try to snatch the pendulum of life."
"They already have an SSS-Class Professional guarding them; if they were to revive another, it could easily intensify internal conflicts and disrupt the existing balance of power."
"Furthermore, there's another point."
Wei Liao paused, then dropped an even more crucial piece of information.
"These two Families in the Sakura Country also have significant internal conflicts over the question of who to revive."
"What kind of conflict?"
Zhou Huai pressed.
Wei Liao said unhurriedly, "Historically, the Sakura Country once had two SSS-Class Professionals."
"One was born five hundred years ago, nad Kujō Naruya, an SSS-Class Profession 【Amaterasu Ōmikami】. He founded the current Kujō Family."
"The other was born three hundred years ago, nad Ōmiya Sōshi, an SSS-Class Profession 【Susanoo-no-Mikoto】. He also founded the Ōmiya Family, one of the two top Families in the Sakura Country today."
Marshal Zhao's brows furrowed tightly.
"You an, both of these Families want to revive their own Old Ancestor?"
Wei Liao nodded again.
"Exactly. If one must be revived, who wouldn't want to revive soone beneficial to their own side?"
"The Kujō Family naturally wants to revive Kujō Naruya, to restore the Kujō Family's glory of five hundred years ago and completely suppress the Ōmiya Family."
"But how could the Ōmiya Family agree?"
"They also want to revive their own Old Ancestor, Ōmiya Sōshi, to make the Ōmiya Family the sole ruler of the Sakura Country."
"Therefore, these two Families also have irreconcilable disputes over which SSS-Class Professional to revive."
Wei Liao chuckled softly as he spoke.
"I can even assert that this dispute is very likely to escalate into an internal struggle that will sweep across the entire Sakura Country in the near future."
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