Chapter 133

The man by the window heard the call and turned around unhurriedly.

The man's forehead was broad, his eyebrows thick and black, and his eyes deep and bright, as if they could see through people's hearts. His nose was high and straight, with slightly flared nostrils, showing a kind of perseverance and determination. His lips were thin and tightly pressed, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned, revealing a trace of imperceptible coldness. Decades of life on the run and fighting had made his skin slightly rough, and the faint fine lines were more marks left by time and experience.

Dante Connor looked at the teenager in front of him who was already taller than himself, a hint of gratification in his eyes. But after the teenager came over with excited, long strides, he quickly returned to a serious expression.

"Fa—"

"Anubis." Dante cut him off directly and said, "Why have you repeatedly ignored the messages passed to you by the Alliance?"

Anubis's steps toward his father stopped abruptly. He lowered his head and said, "I'm sorry, Father. My injuries haven't fully healed yet, so..."

"Li showed me the surveillance of you being attacked. Do you know who that person is?"

Anubis didn't speak.

Dante stared at him and said sternly, "That person is Zong Yan's son! And you actually knelt before him so easily!"

Anubis's head lowered another inch, his lips pressed together without a word.

The atmosphere in the room was tense and oppressive. Doctor Li stood in the center to mediate, saying, "Alright, it's rare for you father and son not to see each other for years, don't talk about those things." Li's face carried a firm and cold expression, a different person from usual. "Since we have prepared enough hydrogen bombs, as long as the operation succeeds, those hypocrites in the Federation, including Zong Yan, will be completely destroyed!"

Hearing this, Anubis looked up, his brows locked, and asked, "What hydrogen bombs?"

Li patted his shoulder and said excitedly, "It's a lethal weapon with a huge destruction area. Just a tiny one can destroy the entire Lian Bang Zhong Yang Building!"

Doctor Li had been lurking in the Interstellar Strategic Academy for several years and finally developed the hydrogen bomb.

Anubis's hands clenched involuntarily. He looked at Dante and hesitated, "Father, does the operation in the message refer to blowing up the Lian Bang Zhong Yang Building?"

Dante's expression remained unchanged, his eyes deep. "This matter cannot be delayed any longer. Sivoen died to protect you, and I must make them pay in blood."

Anubis opened his mouth to say something, but his lifelong worship and obedience to his father made him waver. He knew well that such an operation would only bring more violence and hatred and could not truly solve the problem.

"Prepare yourself, you will be notified in advance when the operation begins." After Dante finished speaking, he discussed some details with Doctor Li and stopped paying attention to Anubis.

After a long while, the teenager's low voice came from the room.

"Can it be canceled? I feel that doing this will only deepen everyone's misunderstanding of us."

His voice was not loud, but it made Dante and Li quite surprised, because this was the first time Anubis had openly defied Dante's words.

Doctor Li turned his head and looked at Bi coldly, a trace of disdain and anger in his eyes.

"Do you know what you're saying? Have you forgotten what the Federation did to us?"

Bi did not retreat. He looked straight into the man's eyes and said firmly, "Of course I haven't forgotten, but what we need is the truth, not revenge. We need to find evidence and announce it to the entire interstellar, letting them know that we are not terrorists, not rebels, but wronged victims." Doctor Li's face turned gloomy, and he sneered, "Evidence? Do you think the Federation will let you find evidence? They will only continue to cover up the truth and continue to oppress us. After so many years, how have we survived? Are those brothers supposed to have died in vain?"

Bi shook his head, his voice carrying a trace of sorrow and helplessness: "If we choose violence, it will only cause more innocent people to suffer and let the descendants of the Alliance continue to live in hatred and darkness. We must find another path, a path that can truly bring peace and justice."

Doctor Li sneered at this, and Dante's face also carried disappointment. That look on Anubis made him feel worse than death.

"Bi, why are you still so naive? Peace? Justice? These are all lies the Federation uses to deceive us. Only by destroying them can we gain freedom!"

"I understand your pain and anger, but we cannot let hatred blind us. Only by uncovering the truth can we truly win the support of the entire interstellar." He stepped forward two steps and said to Doctor Li, "Uncle Sivoen said that he had already found clues back then. It was his air force brother who told him personally that there was a black box on the warship, which recorded the whole process of the Federation ordering them to drop the inducing agent. As long as we find that black box, we can prove that you were wronged back then!"

The room was silent.

Anubis didn't know that they had also once been filled with resentment and obsessed with finding the truth, but every time they got close, the clues would be suddenly cut off—the dead died, the killed were killed, the sacrificed were sacrificed, and the buried were buried. Dante knew very well that as long as that person was in power for one day, he would not let them turn the tables, because this was the biggest scandal of those in power and directly affected the interests of him and the personnel connected behind him.

A trace of wavering flashed in Doctor Li's eyes. They were all once the pride of the Federation, the elites standing at the top of the tower, and they had all chased justice with a sincere heart. But justice seemed to have forgotten them... The look in his eyes was quickly replaced by anger again.

"Bi, you are betraying us!"

Anubis shook his head, "No! Father, Li, haven't you thought about it? Blowing up the Lian Bang Zhong Yang Building will kill countless beastmen who don't know the truth at all. Some of them are even just adults like me, still having longing for the future, living their lives step by step. They are not the people who persecuted you back then; they are just the most ordinary residents. What is the difference between your indiscriminate destruction plan and what the Federation did to you back then?"

"Shut up!"

*Slap—*

A loud slap made Anubis's ears ring.

The teenager tilted his head, restraining himself from letting the hurt in his eyes show.

The man's raised hand trembled as he clenched it, as if he didn't want to see him again. He waved his hand at him and said, "You go, I still have things to discuss with Li."

Anubis turned and left without even raising his head.

After the person left, Dante's eyes were complex, staring at the direction of the door in silence.

Doctor Li sighed, "The child has grown up, we can't use the old ways to educate him anymore."

Dante pondered for a moment and said, "He looks cold on the surface, but he is actually the most emotional and righteous. I'm afraid that with a personality like his, he won't even know how he died one day." — Ka'er completed his mission and, without even resting, used a breakthrough to arrive at the Southern Battlefield.

Zongfang returns to the field tomorrow, that deserves some recommendation tickets, right?

(End of chapter)