I am the Clone of a Death Row Inmate

The hallway fell silent for a moment.

Su Ze was the one who finally broke the silence. ”Mr. Gu,” he said, ”I’ve come to see you today about something important. Let’s go inside and talk.”

”Alright.” Gu Chengguang finally managed to regain his composure and nodded quickly. He was even secretly relieved. ’Good, the kid knows to respect his elders. He didn’t call me Gu.’

The three of them entered Gu Chengguang’s office. After closing the door, Gu Chengguang couldn’t wait to ask, ”Su Ze, have you become a Venerable Powerhouse?”

Even though he had already seen the flash of cyan evolutionary light from Su Ze, the whole thing still felt unreal.

Su Ze nodded. ”I was originally planning to wait another month or two before breaking through, but I ran into a powerful enemy this time, so I had no choice but to evolve a bit early.”

Gu Chengguang and Zhang Tai exchanged a look. ’Is this kid for real?’

To hear him tell it, this fifth evolution was like deciding when to eat a meal; he’d planned to eat later, but got hungry and decided to eat early instead.

”What kind of powerful enemy did you run into? You weren’t hurt, were you?” Gu Chengguang asked, changing the subject.

Su Ze had come this time intending to tell Gu Chengguang about the Evolution Divine Teachings anyway. He was certain that once Chen Suifeng and the others made the cult’s crimes public, it would cause a massive uproar throughout the entire Lin Hua Continent.

The sooner the Dongli Kingdom knew, the sooner it could prepare.

However, Dongli had long since expelled the Evolution Divine Teachings, so this event would have almost no internal impact. The main concern was the shift in the overall political landscape that needed to be watched.

The ones truly in the eye of the storm would be Mu Country and Luofan Country. These two nations had always tolerated the Evolution Divine Teachings, turning a blind eye to their activities within their borders.

When the time came, the resistance from the populace and the backlash from public opinion would surely be overwhelming.

Su Ze began his story, starting from when he accepted Chen Suifeng’s mission to when he was escorting the witness and found himself hunted down and cornered by four Venerable Powerhouses from the Evolution Divine Teachings.

Hearing this, both Gu Chengguang and Zhang Tai broke out in a cold sweat for Su Ze’s sake.

But Su Ze was sitting here perfectly fine, so they guessed that Chen Suifeng and the others must have arrived in the nick of time to save him.

But then Su Ze’s tone shifted, and he said matter-of-factly, ”At the time, I was surrounded by their four Venerable Powerhouses, so I killed them all.”

Zhang Tai and Gu Chengguang both looked as if they’d been stunned speechless, their jaws hanging open.

Su Ze felt a secret thrill but said nothing about the details of the fight. He fast-forwarded to the part after he killed the four, when he met up with Chen Suifeng’s group of three and handed over the refugees and video evidence to them.

At this, Gu Chengguang’s expression turned grave. He already knew what would happen next. ”Mr. Ke and Mr. Chen... they’re forcing the aliens’ hand, making them move against the Evolution Divine Teachings.”

Once the crimes of the Evolution Divine Teachings are exposed, there will be no place left for them on the entire Lin Hua Continent.

Faced with a tidal wave of public outrage, if the Alien Party’s leadership doesn’t want a complete falling out, if they don’t want to stand in direct opposition to the people of the Lin Hua Continent, their only choice is to follow the tide, severely punish the Evolution Divine Teachings, and expel them from the continent for good.

At the very least, they have to keep up appearances.

After all, the Nian Race doesn’t want to destroy the Blue Star Human Race; they want long-term dominion. They want humanity to thrive under their control, and they might even provide support to that end.

Su Ze even suspected that the Nian Race might have been secretly fueling the development of evolutionary science, allowing the Blue Star Human Race to reach its current level in just a few hundred years. (The Era of Evolution began a thousand years ago, but for the first two or three centuries, humanity was constantly on the losing end, and evolutionary science saw no progress.)

You fatten up cattle and sheep for a greater yield, of course.

Angering the livestock and causing them to unite and rebel against their masters was not in the Nian Race’s best interest.

This was especially true since the Nian Race members currently on Blue Star weren’t the ”farm owners” but the ”shepherd dogs.”

They were merely the dogs sent by their race to manage and guide the Blue Star Human Race.

If the shepherd dogs managed the flock well, they would be rewarded by their masters. If they made a complete mess of things, they would naturally be punished.

And as long as they could expel the Evolution Divine Teachings from the Lin Hua Continent, it would be a major victory for the Blue Star Party.

The Evolution Divine Teachings had deceived and controlled far too many of the common people through religious faith. Although four of the six nations had long ago expelled the cult, many believers still remained.

This was to say nothing of Mu Country and Luofan Country, which had always allowed them to proselytize. Luofan Country, in particular, was the hardest-hit area.

Additionally, Lin Hua Country had also always permitted the Evolution Divine Teachings to preach, but the cult had always kept a low profile there, never daring to do anything too out of line.

In other words, the Evolution Divine Teachings had deeply poisoned the entire Lin Hua Continent.

When a race’s very thoughts are enslaved, it has no hope of ever breaking free.

Therefore, even if this move would further escalate the conflict between the Blue Star Party and the Alien Party, Mr. Ke and Chen Suifeng were determined to see it through.

It would not only weaken the Alien Party’s power but also diminish the Nian Race’s control over the Blue Star Human Race, liberating more of the common people from ideological slavery.

Su Ze said, ”Mr. Chen and his people just got back to Lin Hua Country yesterday. There hasn’t been any news yet today, but I estimate it will break within a day or two at the latest.”

After all, taking statements and organizing testimony and evidence takes time. They also had to consider the Alien Party’s potential response; it wasn’t a simple matter.

Gu Chengguang said with a hint of worry, ”But this will likely escalate the conflict between the two sides, costing us a great deal of time we could have used to develop peacefully.”

Su Ze said thoughtfully, ”We still have an ace up our sleeve. If the conflict really does escalate to a certain point, we can play the Ancient An Country card to draw the Nian Race’s fire. That would buy us a good deal of time.”