Chapter 676 - 2: How Could They Possibly Win!? (2)
Now that Xia Yue is gone... Chen Lusi doesn’t have Xia Yue’s immense strength, so she probably can’t completely turn the tide of the battle.
She can only serve as an assistant.
To put it bluntly, it’s because they believe Chen Lusi doesn’t have the capability to save the day.
This post still hangs high, and many who haven’t received the news are still discussing the outcome below.
And right below this post...
[Impossible! Absolutely impossible!!!]
[... Celestial Strategy Mansion won!? Really won? The Celestial Punishment Weapon has iterated again!?]
[Is that list really not exaggerated? Qi Peng, Wu Bin, they’ve all come out, doesn’t that mean their country has completely exploded? And they can still win???]
[I don’t believe it! How is it possible! The Celestial Strategy Mansion is beset with internal and external troubles, how could they win!]
[...]
Countless new posts emerged like mushrooms after the rain.
Faced with this sudden news, most people are skeptical, incredulous, or more accurately, unwilling to believe.
Because when it comes down to it.
When they first learned that the Celestial Strategy Mansion was going to file a public lawsuit, they were gloating, believing something big and entertaining was coming!
They thought the Celestial Strategy Mansion was too overconfident, Ji Xin too overconfident, that they would provoke the giant Roman Catholic Church in the West right after Xia Yue’s death without any room for maneuvering.
And doing so was merely because they couldn’t suppress their internal strategy and wanted to assert power through external conflicts... at least that’s what they thought.
They thought, for sure, this would lead to problems! Especially given that Xia Yue had already passed away!
And indeed, as they anticipated, problems did arise!
The old forces within their country also emerged! Starting to challenge the Celestial Strategy Mansion!
But the problem is... the Celestial Strategy Mansion actually won!
How could they possibly win!?
How did they... manage to win!?
Not long ago, Xia Yue and Chen Lusi undertook a thousand-mile raid! Traversing great distances! Directly into another nation’s heartland! And they smote the Shepherd Leader from the Russian Orthodox Church, so domineering! It frightened everyone!
They possess such a devastating weapon as the Celestial Punishment Weapon! It gave them enough breathing space! They truly scaled it up! It frightened everyone!
Xia Yue died!
The Celestial Strategy Mansion was half-dead!
Ideally, the Celestial Punishment Weapon would also be seized! Then the relevant blueprints leaked! That would be the best outcome!
That would be the result beneficial for everyone!
Even if the weapon’s blueprints of the Celestial Strategy Mansion weren’t leaked, letting the Roman Catholic Church gain them would still be a good outcome for everyone!
After all, the Roman Catholic Church is far away, and in the short term, it wouldn’t pose a significant threat to other empowerer organizations in the East, but the Celestial Strategy Mansion is right next to them!
Later, the Roman Catholic Church might even provide aid to them with that powerful Celestial Punishment Weapon to deal with the Celestial Strategy Mansion!
But a strong Celestial Strategy Mansion wouldn’t!
Clearly, after Xia Yue’s death, the Celestial Strategy Mansion started to act foolishly, daring to provoke the Roman Catholic Church. Everyone couldn’t understand their reasons, thinking they were too reckless.
But secretly, everyone was quite pleased!
But now you’re saying... the Celestial Strategy Mansion won!? They actually won!?
On what basis did they win!?
We were all ready for them to possess the Celestial Punishment Weapon!!!
Under these never-spoken dark thoughts, countless skeptical posts appeared on the black market forum.
At this moment.
They hoped more than anyone that this was false, that the Celestial Strategy Mansion was bluffing.
However, considering that the Celestial Strategy Mansion had almost no history of bluffing in this area.
Very soon.
After the initial outburst, users on the black market forum began to discuss another possibility.
"Do you think... could it be ’driving a wolf to eat a tiger’? The Celestial Strategy Mansion first tricked their own country’s old-era high-level empowerers to deal with the Holy Coffin Knights of the Roman Catholic Church? Then, once both sides were exhausted, they swooped in to pick up the pieces? Is that how they won?"
"...Yes! It’s possible! If they contacted their old-era high-level empowerers in advance, promising them control of the Celestial Strategy Mansion afterward, those people would be tempted! And once there’s temptation, it’s just a matter of backstabbing at the crucial moment... This could be said to kill two birds with one stone!"
"Are they using their domestic advanced combat power as disposable goods? That’s brutal."
"But we must admit, the Celestial Strategy Mansion’s tactics are brilliant."
"Is this... really possible? Wouldn’t their domestic old-era high-level empowerers be on guard?"
"They’ll definitely be on guard, but don’t forget there’s still the matter of the Holy Relics... Most of their Holy Relics are strong and mostly controlled by the Celestial Strategy Mansion. Combined with the Celestial Punishment Weapon, it’s not impossible to finish with a backstab."
"Right! The Holy Relics! But this would completely bankrupt the Celestial Strategy Mansion’s credibility domestically."
"Ji Xin dared to provoke the Roman Catholic Church to control the entire Celestial Strategy Mansion, so I guess he doesn’t care about things like this... But to be able to do such things, they are truly insane, their originally neutral old-era high-level empowerers at home might become disheartened... Originally, those neutral old-era high-level empowerers might have stood by the Celestial Strategy Mansion on matters of national justice, but now it seems doubtful."
"Such a despicable victory!"
"..."
When faced with things they can’t understand,
people always tend to believe what they want to believe.
At first, it might have been to make themselves less fearful of this ’neighbor’, to dispel that fear hidden deep in their hearts.
But as time went by, these discussions grew deeper, increasingly taking shape.