Chapter 1999 - 1993: Darkness

"So, Xiaojian really has that much legal power, right?"

"That’s right. But it’s not like there’s no way to ease things. You know how he got all these powers?"

"Wasn’t it himself?"

"Yes, it was him. But if he hadn’t had someone backing him, actually, when he first took the throne he was still young. A lot of people suggested several Secretaries of State assist him from the side. But in the end someone stirred things up, and the final vote came out that His Majesty would rule alone. All power was集中到了陛下的手中."

Ye Ning looked at him. "You mean, someone is backing Xiaojian from behind the scenes? And you know who this person is?"

Zuo Qirui said, "In M Country this is basically an open secret. Many in Congress know about it."

"So why are you coming to me? You want me to push Xiaojian down from that position? Then you’re miscalculating."

"How could that be? In our country there’s no such thing as overthrowing the monarch. It’s him alone for life; there’s absolutely no concept of abdication. If the old King hadn’t died, it wouldn’t have been His Majesty’s turn to ascend the throne. That’s precisely to prevent anyone from trying to usurp power. I’m just worried these people are deliberately manipulating His Majesty, which is why his personality has become so... manic."

Ye Ning looked at him. "Tell me first—who are these people?"

"All I know is, they’re a dark Organization. Different from your GT. The things they study and develop are inherently lethal, rejected by humanity, with anti-human tendencies. But all these years they’ve never stopped their experiments, and they’ve rapidly expanded their influence because they have a steady stream of funding behind them—probably multiple sponsors. This Organization has grown more and more brazen. We call this Organization ’An’, ’Dark’. Their people we call Dark Energy, because they don’t have any formal designation. We only know their leader is extremely secretive; no one knows who this person is, no one has ever seen them. No one knows their motive, why they keep researching these anti-human projects, how powerful they really are, or even... whether they’re male or female, how old, Black, Asian—no one knows anything."

Ye Ning had never heard of this Organization either.

She looked at him. "Then how do you even know they exist?"

Since they’ve never shown themselves, and no one knows what they’re really doing, how can they be sure this person exists?

"Lately, people outside have been saying there are America Special Agents and special forces operating, hunting down a woman—a woman from Z Country, her name is... something Wen..."

Ye Ning’s eyes flickered. Si Wen.

She said, "What does that have to do with this?"

"This incident has drawn a lot of attention. Your GT and QM should both be involved, right?"

Ye Ning raised an eyebrow. "Yeah."

"In fact, they’re impersonating America Special Agents and special forces. America has no idea this is happening. Lately their experiments have a lot of secret bases in California. What kind of experiments exactly, nobody knows. All we know is, it’s extremely covert."

Ye Ning’s eyes moved slightly.

These people were also researching Clone humans and soul transfer.

Which made things... tricky.

Ye Ning looked at him. "You said you had a way—is this what you wanted to tell me?"