Starting Cultivation in Wasteland-Chapter 665 - 535: The Last Stubborn Resistance

Bellini, although she received Xiang Xue's promise, was still a bit anxious at heart.

As a support teacher at Green Water Academy, being questioned by the City Guard of the place she's supporting was really embarrassing.

She didn't have classes in the morning the next day, but she proactively found two teachers to help her through the morning with a worried mind.

Finally, she made it to noon, went to the cafeteria to get food, and saw Zi Jiu Immortal, Xiang Xue, and Aunt Liu.

The three ate calmly, as Qu Jianlei had left the campus, leaving an empty seat at the four-person table. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

The tomboy sat down after getting her meal, distractedly ate a couple of bites, and started asking, "That inquiry by the City Guard?"

Xiang Xue and Aunt Liu ignored her, but Zi Jiu Immortal, after swallowing the food in his mouth, asked, "Did they find you?"

Bellini shook her head, "Not for the time being."

"Then that's settled," Zi Jiu Immortal lowered his head and continued to eat slowly.

"But..." The tomboy was worried that she'd be called away after finishing her meal.

However, seeing the other three so calm, she hardened her heart and buried herself in eating too.

At this time, in the Customs Enforcement Division on Star No. 4, the executives were gathered in the meeting room, discussing with serious expressions.

The meeting had been going on for more than two hours, and the atmosphere in the meeting room was very oppressive.

The public sentiment on Star No. 4 was under control, but the other three planets were extremely poor!

Star No. 3 didn't even need mentioning, as the AI withdrew, public opinion exploded all over.

Star One and Star No. 2 were the same, with posts exposing Elvin flooding continually.

The posts on these two planets were a little different from Star No. 3; they were sent wave after wave, some even by real-name sharing.

That is to say, the organizers in these two places operated differently from the other two planets.

On Star No. 2, the Customs Enforcement Division's pressure was completely ineffective; the AI had just moved and got a severe warning from the government.

It wasn't Granny Jia taking action, but rather the influence exerted by Green Water Academy.

The teachers supporting the school, aren't just Zi Jiu Immortal and Bellini.

Zi Jiu Immortal's team suffered targeting from some unfriendly forces on Star No. 4, everyone knows this and feelings ran high.

The government would definitely be influenced, even if some Customs Enforcement Division members were graduates of Green Water Academy, it didn't matter!

The AI in the Customs Enforcement Division on Star No. 2 could only quietly delete posts and block, avoiding all monitoring.

When something happened on Star No. 3, it withdrew voluntarily, otherwise, if it affected the main body, the guilt would be severe.

The struggle on Star One was even fiercer, with the division's branch located on the Central Star.

But here, the factions are more and more complex, with many people with ulterior motives.

What is especially critical is that Elvin's predecessor, Basam, originated from Star One.

This should be a Star One scandal, but Basam had many enemies and former competitors here.

When these people saw it, they went, damn, no wonder we suffered back then, turns out this guy was colluding with Star Thieves!

There were even many posting, saying they had suspected this person was colluding with Star Thieves back then, just without evidence!

Moreover, Star One not only has the division's branch, but the entire star realm's central government and military are also here.

Combating Star Thieves is politically correct, colluding with Star Thieves is an intolerable action!

The government on Star One doesn't think this is a scandal of its own planet.

Although Basam is local, they might have neglected their inspection, but it was the Customs Enforcement Division on Star No. 4 that employed Basam heavily!

A relative oversight, or hiring a Star Thief spy into the government system, which mistake is greater?

The division wants to calm public opinion, but it's useless!

In fact, more revelations from Star One, far beyond the information provided by Qu Jianlei, and some information looks outright fabricated.

In this situation, the Customs Enforcement Division on Star No. 4 still wants to control public sentiment, which is just too absurd.

The situation on Star No. 4 isn't severe, unable to withstand the exploding public opinion on the other three planets.

The division was also annoyed and contacted Star No. 4, urging them to calm the situation as soon as possible.

The most crucial point is that they vaguely indicated something: Panda's faction merely killed and exposed a singular case!

True, Elvin, although he colluded with Star Thieves, it was only his personal behavior.

The exposure focused on when he was the starship captain, not involving situations after entering the Customs Enforcement Division.

The division also knows that the Customs system isn't that clean, not to say most are colluding with Star Thieves, but many people are!

Of course, the degree of collusion might be lighter, most play it with tacit understanding.

Even so, the Customs Enforcement Division often handles similar cases internally.

And this is only what was exposed, who knows how much remains uncovered!

The division's meaning is clear, if they've uncovered one Elvin, they might expose many tumors in the Customs Enforcement Division!

Therefore, this reality must be handled well, keep the Customs Division's matters internal, it absolutely cannot let the public find out!

The people in the Customs Enforcement Division on Star No. 4 were quite resistant to this directive, what's the joke, asking us to calm the situation?

The division people, high and mighty, do they know how many personnel we've lost?

The loss of B-level warriors alone exceeded half, and morale also took a significant hit.

Not to mention the material losses; the main base at Star No. 4 was attacked, losing over a billion, and there were people at the branch present at the time!

Under such circumstances, the branch wants us to withdraw?

The Star No. 4 branch stated, we know there might be one or two bad apples internally, but we truly don't believe... they dare to make it public!

Everyone is well aware that the internal bad apples are far more than a few, and the dirty dealings are countless.

However, they know even better that because there are so many dirty dealings, they've become unwritten rules. Let alone insiders, even outsiders wouldn't dare to easily expose them!

Once that gigantic thunderstorm explodes, it's definitely not something a Planet Governor level can withstand!

It must be acknowledged, their understanding is very accurate, Hertman even told Qu Jianlei: This lid cannot be lifted!

But the branch has its considerations: The opposing organization has audacity beyond measure, daring to openly destroy the branch, are you sure they don't have the courage to expose it?

Who dares to give a guarantee, step forward and let us see!

Truly, no one dares to give a guarantee, originally it was a situation of a reed hitting a wolf, where both sides are afraid.

You think you have something so significant that it can make people hesitate, but the premise is, the opponent must also be normal people.

So, is the opposing organization truly composed of normal people? Look at how many crazy things they've already done!

Star No. 4 argued back, saying we targeted the opponent's AI, which was originally the intention of the branch data center.

People from the branch got angry: Damn it, that was entirely Desis' greed and arbitrary decision that led to subsequent events.

Now you're pushing responsibility to the data center, shifting blame onto something non-human, can you have some decency?

Star No. 4 accepted defeat, and could only complain: Such a massive customs enforcement system, are we to bow to an unknown power?

The branch answered straightforwardly: While the system is massive, in the entire Hope Star Realm, we have only one Supreme!

But the opposing side not only killed Kushnier, yesterday they also maliciously finished off Fahim, two Supremes are already dead!

If you insist on dragging our Supreme into this, we won't mind helping you convey this message!

The people at Star No. 4 finally realized: Their own Supreme has lost confidence!

The official reasons presented are merely justifiable reasons, the objective fact is their own Supreme is anxious!

Seeing the situation escalating, for the Supreme not to participate seemed a bit inappropriate, but once involved... how to guarantee safety?

It's important to know that the opposing force has already killed two enemy Supremes, and even the Supreme from Star One is injured!

Kushnier, who was responsible for military reserves affairs, was dared to be killed. What is a mere customs enforcement Supreme?

Star No. 4 branch felt a bit aggrieved: Then what about our losses?

Find a way yourself! The branch's reply was exceptionally heartless; this originally wasn't the branch's blame!

We can consider assisting a bit, but that's just a collegial aid unrelated to the actual matter!

The branch asked again: Then this warrant, should it be withdrawn?

The branch replied that the warrant would not be withdrawn, but considering it was under your deception, it's revised to an internal system warrant!

This was also the last stubbornness of customs enforcement branch; the warrant remains but is no longer public.

Meanwhile, the target "Panda and its gang" was revised to only warrant Panda personally.

We don't want to offend your entire organization, just targeting a Modified Warrior, isn't that reasonable?

Star No. 4 branch proposed one last demand: We hope under future conditions, the case can be re-investigated!

Ultimately, this still concerns the reputation of the customs enforcement division.

There's no way to handle it now, but settling accounts later is still possible, right?

This shows that the branch feels the branch's displeasure—since the warrant wasn't revoked, there's still room for manoeuvre.

Forget about reputation! The branch people are fully aware: You're worried about being made ironclad, potentially being held accountable for the leadership in the future!

But the branch also holds grievances internally, after all, being smacked in the face like that, who can calmly swallow this?

So they can only ambiguously state: No consideration for defining it yet, let's see how the situation develops in the future.

If in the future the customs enforcement division can have an advanced inspection unit arrive at the Hope Star Realm... In short, it depends on its future strength.

Anyway, amidst the numerous issues, plus countless bargaining, the meeting dragged on until now.

As for pressuring the City Guard against the Zi Jiu Immortal four... where does customs enforcement still have the time for that?

Bellini indeed unnecessarily worries.

The customs enforcement division's changes were immediately observed by Little Lake, "Boss, they've revised their warrant!"

The revised warrant was only posted on the internal network of customs enforcement.

However, Little Lake had swelled greatly, even managed to wander to the internal network on the other side.

Qu Jianlei checked it, let out a snort, "Still holding on, it seems killing Fahim still falls slightly short in deterrence!"

"But the Earth Scholar team handled things reliably this time."

The next moment, he instructed, "Little Lake, contact Xiang Xue, check the situation on other planets."

Two hours later, Xiang Xue replied, "The injured Supreme in Bida is scared and hiding."

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