"Colonel Xavier, I've seen your file."
In the dead silence, Ye Qingxuan's fingers tapped on the empty soup bowl. The moist wind condensed into water droplets and fell on the wooden table, leaving slender wet marks.
"You have done well in Burgundy over the years, and Maxwell also appreciates you. In two years, you can be transferred to the Military Staff Office and become the youngest person with real power. The fifth department has never been sorry to you. , but your choice makes me very disappointed."
"disappointment?"
Xavier's face was twitching, perhaps because of shame, perhaps because of anger, bloodshot eyes oozed, and he squeezed out a voice from between his teeth:
"What right do you have to be disappointed with me? How much credit have I made for Angelo! Six serious injuries, on the battlefield in East Tianzhu! How many things have I sacrificed for this country? All my friends have died because of this, I’m the only one left!”
He looked at Ye Qingxuan, his eyes full of contempt and disdain: "A little brat with no hair on his head, a waste like you who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He can only point fingers in a condescending manner. Just say one word and let me Are you here like a dog, waiting to die in the sea? Because you are the only one who can save Angel? Dreaming! You are just lucky and happened to be hiding in the Holy City when Angel disappeared! In Angel Where were you when you needed saving the most? Maxwell is already dead, how many more people do you want to be buried with your so-called loyalty!"
The sharp roar echoed between the stone walls, and the soup bowl moved slightly. Xavier breathed heavily and spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on the ground with disdain.
Ye Qingxuan lowered his eyes and did not speak or refute. He just waited quietly until he felt a trace of embarrassment and panic in the long silence.
"Finished?"
Ye Qingxuan raised his eyes and looked at him, as if looking at a dead child rolling on the ground. No matter how much he screamed and cried, he remained indifferent and looked at him coldly.
He didn't make a sound until he finished crying, was tired of shouting, and stopped moving.
"Relax, Xavier. There's nothing funny about being afraid of death, and there's nothing to be ashamed of about being weak and running away. You don't have to be so indignant. But you have to understand that none of this is taken for granted, nor is it worthy of praise. .”
Ye Qingxuan's voice was gentle and slow, leisurely and without any impatience.
But the sound didn't have any warmth. It couldn't make people feel warm. Instead, it cruelly took away all the warmth and seeped into the bone marrow little by little, making it bone-piercingly cold.
"Then shut up."
"For family, for life, for enduring humiliation, for saving the country, for being able to climb mountains and come back again in the future...even for Angru. People can do wrong things for any reason, but the only thing that cannot be changed is that you have already committed it. Wrong. A 'mistake' is a 'mistake', and it cannot be changed no matter what high-sounding excuses you use to cover it up. And mistakes must also be punished. Otherwise, the meaning of the existence of 'correctness' will disappear."
In the dead silence, Xavier's lips murmured, trying to make a sound, but his throat seemed to be frozen, and the right to speak was taken away.
Ye Qingxuan reached out, opened the notebook at hand, scanned the confession records one by one, and asked casually: "When did Xavier get in touch with you?"
In the corner, Oden shivered and replied tremblingly: "Half a month ago."
"Oh? It's quite early."
Ye Qingxuan smiled, "It seems that the Kingdom of Burgundy has been coveting these things for a long time, right? Once Angele disappeared, he couldn't wait to come out and take over the inheritance. By working together, we got a lot of good things."
Xavier stared at Oden angrily, his eyes blood red.
Oden shrank back and avoided his gaze: "He took the initiative to contact us and said he was willing to cooperate with us to completely take over the entire fifth department. The Earl attaches great importance to this matter. Apart from others, In addition, he also sent me and Master Mandel here together.”
"Is it?"
Ye Qingxuan nodded clearly: "It seems that all the people in the Burgundy branch have fallen. The losses have been heavy. It is the first time in so many years that the fifth department has suffered such heavy losses. If it were normal times, Maxwell His old face is about to be wiped out, and now I’m afraid he has taken the blame and resigned. What a beautiful job.”
The last sentence was obviously a compliment, but it made Xavier's body tremble, and cold sweat seeped out of his pores and adhered to his skin, exuding the smell of fear.
After reading the confession, Ye Qingxuan raised his head, with no emotion in his eyes.
There was total indifference.
"Seventeen secret bank accounts, over millions of pounds in funds. Three tons of lapis lazuli as a national treasure, and two secret equipment caches... The entire list of members of the Southern Underground... You know where these things come from Where did you come from, Xavier?"
He said softly: "For more than a hundred years, hundreds of commissioners died in order to protect these things, and countless people died for this. The Royal Knights held a secret state funeral for them, with a total of two boxes filled with In this cemetery, on an uninhabited island, what you can see are tombstones all over the mountains and plains. More than half of the coffins are empty, and some even have incomplete corpses. What they died in exchange for is more people. Life. Maxwell once ordered me to swear to them that one day, after taking over all this, their sacrifices will not be meaningless and their deaths will not be worthless. This is the result of all their hard work and exhaustion of their lives. .Now, everything is destroyed in your hands, everything."
Ye Qingxuan closed his eyes and suppressed his anger.
"-all."
Xavier used all his strength to open his mouth and made a sound: "I don't..."
boom!
Hurricanes burst out of thin air.
In the loud noise, the fragile tables and chairs were destroyed. The soup bowl fell to the ground and was trampled to pieces. Dust rose from the corner and fell again.
Xavier's voice stopped suddenly, and a hand strangled his neck, pressing him against the wall.
Then, he saw those dark eyes.
"I told you, shut up!"
But a mocking smile appeared on Xavier's face: "Look at your confident look... You still don't know anything, Ye Qingxuan. You have no idea what happened in that fog!"
Ignoring the tightening of his palms, he made a sharp voice and used all his strength: "Angelou is finished! There is no hope! At that moment, I saw clearly through the telescope! That monster will destroy everything. Of! Including you!"
"Monster?" Ye Qingxuan frowned.
"Do you want to know? Hehehehehe..."
Xavier smiled strangely: "I won't tell, Ye Qingxuan, I have already lost. You can use any method to torture me and kill me, but I will not tell you anything. One day, you will realize As desperate as I am, when the time comes, you will find that you have no way out... Hehehehe... Hehehehehe!"
Bang!
Ye Qingxuan let go and let him fall, kneeling on the ground, panting hard, coughing, wiping away his nose and tears, his eyes full of provocation and ridicule:
"Come on, Ye Qingxuan, what do you want to do? Let me see your methods, let me see how many of Maxwell's skills you have learned."
"You want me to kill you?"
Ye Qingxuan looked down at him with indifferent eyes: "Don't worry, I won't do it."
He reached out and touched Xavier's hair, and his eyes turned pitiful: "I promise, you will get the end you deserve, in the right place. But before that, I will let you witness all this."
Ye Qingxuan paused and smiled:
"—in the best position."
Xavier was stunned, not knowing what Ye Qingxuan wanted to do, and opened his mouth to speak. But the man who came behind him was rude and hit him on the back of the head with a stick, causing his vision to go dark and he fell to the ground and fainted.
Soon, he was dragged down.
Ye Qingxuan sat back in his seat, looked at the mess on the ground, and waited quietly.
After a long time, a middle-aged man named Naven appeared at the door and knocked on the door.
"Mr. Ye, according to your instructions, the ship has been repaired."
"very good."
Ye Qingxuan nodded: "Has the potion been distributed to everyone? If it's not enough, I'll make another one."
"The doctors are giving them injections."
Naven replied: "Most of the people have recovered. After the musician checked, they said that the parasitic thing has lost its activity and they will be fine after a sleep. There are still four people... who are hopeless."
Ye Qingxuan was silent.
The fifth department currently remaining in the outside world has entered a period of silence under Ye Qingxuan's order. All activities have stopped. Unless orders are received from the headquarters, there will be no activities or responses.
In other words, it entered a state of suspended animation.
Although this would cause considerable losses, and over time, it might turn from fake death to real death, but at least it would avoid further loss of power in the chaos.
Because of Xavier's betrayal, most of the losses were materials and reserves in the bank. But the truly precious talents and channels are hidden in the dark and have not been greatly implicated.
Therefore, Xavier made his plan here.
There are nearly 400 special operations personnel here, which is the essence of the fifth department after the headquarters fell silent.
These operations specialists from each branch specialize in force and destruction. Most have basic musician qualifications and have undergone special training, including assassination, poison, mechanical engineering, first aid, etc.
Each of them was carefully selected from the Anglo by Maxwell, ensuring absolute loyalty. They were the army within the Fifth Division, the "Organists" whose badges were awarded by Maxwell himself.
In addition to his own abilities, the secrets kept in his mind are even more valuable than himself.
In order to fully obtain this power, Xavier had to control it through slow transformation and penetration, relying on the strange things summoned by Mandel, parasitizing without trace.
Weaken their defenses bit by bit, and then control them all.
The consequence is that some people cannot bear the transformation, lose control of their spirits, and become lunatics. Those who noticed his plot through clues have been isolated on the pretext of mental disorder, or even killed after interrogation and thrown into the sea.
The cave monastery, closed by the sea, has become a prison.
If Ye Qingxuan had come half a month later, I'm afraid all the operations specialists here would have been brainwashed and become Burgundy's puppets.
At that time, it will be time for the fifth sector to fall across the board.
Even now, some people are too late.