Chapter 1532: The Core Members of the Blue Blood Alliance

The Blue Blood Alliance is an underground organization. The intelligence Xia Qing had gathered from Yang Jin, Xin Yu, Xu Juan, and others about this alliance was all scraps — she couldn't piece together a complete picture of it at all.

The more she investigated, the more Xia Qing felt this alliance was like a ghost shadow — try to grab it and you can't, try to find it and you can't — yet it truly exists and is everywhere.

Enemies hidden in the dark are harder to deal with than enemies in the open like Sufen and Liehuo, leaving Xia Qing at a loss for where to start.

Zhang San didn't directly answer Xia Qing's question, but asked, "What did Yang Jin tell you?"

Xia Qing replied, "He said the structure of the Blue Blood Alliance is like a tightly organized large company."

"Yang Jin's analogy is very apt."

Zhang San pulled out a sheet of A4 paper and, through drawing, vividly showed Xia Qing the outline and operating methods of the Blue Blood Alliance.

"The core members of the Blue Blood Alliance are the board of directors and core shareholders of this company. They are the behind-the-scenes operators of the Blue Blood Alliance, manipulating the entire company's operations through resource allocation."

"Most of these core members are not evolvers, but ordinary people or ordinary evolvers who hold power and force. They wear a hypocritical cloak and hide among the upper echelons of all walks of life, even the official ones. They fear being eliminated by the evolving Blue Star, fear losing power, crave evolution, and hope to extend their lifespans to the maximum. But they themselves don't want to bear the risk, so driven by the same desires, they set up this illegal company."

"Influential radical scholars are the managers of this company. They use their glossy academic backgrounds and theories that stir hearts or create a sense of urgency to package concepts for the company and boost its 'stock price,' attracting more followers and resources."

"The form product this company promotes externally is 'the future of humanity,' but the real product is the 'ship ticket' to that future, namely: evolution qualifications and certain special-effect serums. This product is researched and produced by 'underground R&D departments' scattered across Blue Star that are invested in or protected by the company. This company doesn't care about ethics or human life — it only wants to develop products as fast as possible."

"To gain public support, this company also does some charity, such as the Evolver Assistance Program, the Fire Seed Support Program, etc., thereby absorbing more employees."

"Some of this company's employees think they are fighting for a great cause; some are there to obtain the company's research results. And in the end, only the company's board members and the very few people they select can enjoy the company's products."

Zhang San stopped his pen and tapped it heavily on the tip of the pyramid he had drawn. "The state promotes the territory policy, and lords work hard farming their fields to expand food production and let more people survive. But what this Blue Blood company is doing is treating people as costs and fuel that can be consumed and discarded!"

Xia Qing's eyes moved from the tip of the pyramid to the idol's skull, waiting eagerly.

So then, who are the core members of the Blue Blood Alliance, who is the alliance leader, or rather, who is the chairman, CEO, and CFO of this company?

Zhang San calmed his emotions before continuing his introduction. "The Blue Blood Alliance is an illegal organization with very clever concealment methods. Within the scope of Hui City, the Blue Blood Alliance members I know of are: Guo Hanmo, the host of the Hui-1 underground experiment, and the core members of his team; Tang Zhengrong, the former deputy base commander of Hui-3 who fell from power this spring; and Chen Dianming, the former base commander of Hui-1 who fell from power in autumn."

Xia Qing was shocked. "Chen Dianming and Tang Zhengrong are actually Blue Blood members?!"

This was something neither Yang Jin nor Xin Yu knew.

"Tang Zhengrong joined proactively early on; Chen Dianming was lured onto the pirate ship step by step." Zhang San paused, then continued his introduction:

"Before the Hui-1 underground illegal experiment project was exposed, the Blue Blood Alliance acted more openly than now. Many people who believed in radical views took the initiative to join the alliance, trying to obtain a 'ship ticket.'"

"It's easy to become an outer member of the alliance, but to exchange for the alliance's precious serums and supplies, one needs to make substantial contributions to the alliance's 'great plan.' Tang Zhengrong delivered forty-three experimental subjects to Guo Hanmo's underground laboratory in exchange for the alliance's support in suppressing Qi Zhongye, the base commander of Hui-3. Chen Dianming, on the other hand, was lured onto the pirate ship by Blue Blood Alliance members using special-effect serums, and only afterward learned what organization he had joined."

So that's how it is!!! Xia Qing continued to press, "Third Brother, they aren't core members of the alliance, are they?"

"No. At most they're mid-level. Guo Hanmo's team is a research team that receives the Blue Blood Alliance's protection and financial support — there are many such teams."

Xia Qing pressed, "After all these years, hasn't the state ever caught any core members of the Blue Blood Alliance?"

Zhang San was silent for a moment. "They caught one. Very few people know about this — it's top secret. I can tell you, but you can't tell anyone, or wolves, sheep, monkeys, bears, wolfhounds, jackals…"

As he spoke, Zhang San grew impatient and coldly warned the newcomer across from him, "You can't tell any living creature!"

Xia Qing immediately promised, "Understood. You say it, I listen. The moment I walk out this door, I'll act as if I don't know anything."

Only then did Zhang San say, "Zhang Tao, the former chief base commander of Hui City, was a core member of the Blue Blood Alliance."

Hiss—

Xia Qing drew a sharp breath of cold air and was stunned for several seconds before she found her tongue.

"That's also… reasonable. If he weren't, Guo Hanmo and his people wouldn't have been able to build an underground laboratory within the Hui-1 safe zone, and the Blue Blood Alliance wouldn't have been able to help Tang Zhengrong suppress our base commander. Third Brother, your situation at the time was truly perilous! Didn't the interrogators manage to pry open Zhang Tao's mouth?"

Zhang San explained, "Before there was time to interrogate him, he was killed by the very person sent to interrogate him, using a super evolution fungus. The Red-1 Supervision Group urgently transferred me over to command disaster containment, which is how I came to master some classified information and analyze the fact that Zhang Tao was a core member of the Blue Blood Alliance."

Zhang San leaned back in his chair, and the horrific scene of the casualties caused by that super evolution fungus once again appeared before his eyes.

Xia Qing lowered her voice. "Third Brother, the one interrogating Zhang Tao was also someone from the Supervision Group, right?"

Zhang San nodded heavily. "After that, a purge was carried out. After the purge, this alliance became even more concealed, and the core members are hidden very deep. I don't know who they are either."

This…

An alliance of this scale — how is she, a small farming lord, supposed to deal with it?

After a few seconds of silence, Xia Qing asked, "Third Brother, among the Red City research group coming next month, will there be any Blue Blood Alliance members?"

Zhang San said, "Possibly. Anyone who takes the initiative to find you and chat with you about radical views like the Pure Humanity Plan or the Elite Evolution Route — treat them all as Blue Blood Alliance members. Never think along their lines; their rhetoric is extremely deceptive."

Xia Qing solemnly stated her position. "Understood. No matter what they prattle on about in front of me, I'll act as if I didn't hear it. Even if they say something I'm very interested in, I won't ask them. Once they leave, I'll call you and ask you directly. Third Brother, is Fire Phoenix a member of the Blue Blood Alliance?"

Zhang San shook his head. "She's not. Blue Blood is her enemy — the culprit and target of revenge that drove her to constantly inject toxins into her own blood and become increasingly insane. But in the process of revenge, the Liehuo she leads has gradually become an evil group whose operating mechanism is very similar to that of the Blue Blood Alliance."

Xia Qing nodded. Being watched by such a powerful enemy at all times, Fire Phoenix would have been strange not to go mad.