Xia Family of Canglong Star (4)
The video is real, and Shi Jianxia can be sure that it was sent to Zhuang Mingyue by the cross-dressing man.
She didn't have time to think about the purpose of the cross-dressing man's behavior, but it did not prevent her from completely blacklisting that guy.
She had originally thought of contacting the other party to learn more about the Fusion Faction so as to restrain the Doctor. But now it seems that this matter needs to be considered carefully. The enemy of her enemy may not be her friend, and may also be the guillotine that sends her to hell.
Shi Jianxia slightly pulled the corners of his mouth, raised his hands and leaned back. Compared with his previous well-behaved and innocent behavior, this action undoubtedly seemed wild and unruly.
She raised her head and said casually, "Director Zhuang, you're the deputy director of the Zerg Investigations Headquarters and the leader of the special operations team. When it comes to investigating the truth of incidents and apprehending criminals, you're a professional."
She paused, a slight sneer forming at the corner of her lips. "I could forge a thousand copies of the same video for you, but you're using it as evidence to convict me. How ridiculous."
In the interstellar age, technology has developed rapidly, the difficulty of committing crimes has greatly increased, and the difficulty of verification is also not small. Videos cannot be the key evidence to determine whether a person has committed a crime, especially videos of unknown origin.
For things like realistic masks, even ordinary people can make them well as long as they know the production principles and have the raw materials.
Shi Jianxia knew this, and Zhuang Mingyue, as the leader of the special operations team, should know it even better.
Faced with her attack, Zhuang Mingyue remained calm. "The video shows no signs of fabrication. Even if I can't prove you are Bianhua's number nine, it's enough for me to arrest you and interrogate you strictly."
"To be frank, you're just a slightly more outstanding military academy student. Compared to a truly powerful person, you're nothing. Who would frame you for no reason? Is it Xia Shuxing, who previously had a bad relationship with you? Or is it the Xia family who wants to gain something from you?"
Obviously, both of the above are impossible. If Shi Jianxia was as ordinary and harmless as she appeared, this video would not have been sent to Zhuang Mingyue.
Seeing that Xia's expression remained the same, Zhuang Mingyue did not intend to use this reason to make her confess her identity as the holder of the Higanbana Jade Token.
She said calmly, "I just told you that my mimicry can detect lies. Do you know what level my mimicry is?"
Are you going to chat again?
That’s right, Zhuang Mingyue hasn’t said what kind of preconceived notion she has about her.
"S-level?" Shi Jianxia guessed.
Zhuang Mingyue nodded. "But there's a significant limitation. I can't tell if someone with a higher level of mimicry potential than me is lying."
Shi Jianxia raised her eyebrows in surprise. She didn't expect that she would tell her such an important thing.
This restriction must never be disclosed to anyone, otherwise the criminals tried by Zhuang Mingyue will find loopholes to exploit, especially those who are good at exploiting loopholes in the rules. Exposing it will be very disadvantageous to her.
Seeing her surprised expression, Zhuang Mingyue didn't think there was anything wrong with revealing her trump card. She added, "On Shuiyuan Star, I thought your mimicry talent was only C-level, so I didn't think you could lie to me. Even though I still felt there were some inexplicable doubts about you, I didn't consider you a person who needed special attention."
As long as she could determine that the person being interrogated had a much lower mimicry level than herself, Zhuang Mingyue would rarely encounter any problems during the trial.
It was this excessive trust in the mimicry ability that caused her to ignore some details, and she naturally believed that Shi Jianxia, who had a mimicry potential level of only C and was an orphan with no one to rely on, was not threatening.
"I've researched your mimicry. I found a very old, unverifiable file that mentioned the Classic of Mountains and Seas. It explained that the mimicry of the Classic of Mountains and Seas dates back to the ancient times of the mother planet and is a very mysterious and powerful mimicry."
Sometimes Xia's eyelashes tremble slightly.
The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and the four divine beasts have been passed down to this day, and it is impossible that no traces were left. Perhaps some people saw these five earliest awakened mimics by chance, and told others about them or recorded them in writing.
Seeing her lowered eyes, Zhuang Mingyue repeated, "The original description in the dossier was 'very, very, very mysterious and powerful mimicry.' The recorder used three 'very's."
"Do you remember those carvings in the observation pavilion at Hot Spring Villa? I guess the book in the middle is the Classic of Mountains and Seas, right? Jun Xiaoyi is from the Xuanwu family, but he refused to tell me the meaning of the other four carvings. He's quite loyal to you."
She bit on the four words "loyalty", obviously she already knew the primary and secondary relationship between "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and the four divine beast families.
"I guess you wanted to destroy those carvings, but you didn't find the opportunity. And I found out that the necklace worn by the manor owner's wife was missing. If it wasn't Jun Xiaoyi who took it, who could it be? Wen Qiuqiu? Yuan Huai?" Zhuang Mingyue crossed his arms, his expression full of confidence.
From what she said, it was clear that she had already suspected Shi Jianxia, but she had no evidence and didn't want to alert the enemy, so she pretended to know nothing.
Shi Jianxia had a smile in her eyes and was not at all panicked by her words.
Seeing that she could still remain calm, Zhuang Mingyue sighed in her heart that she was worthy of being the holder of the Jade Card of the Red Spider Lily. She almost put the knife to her neck, but she could still act as if nothing happened, neither panicked nor angry, as if she was listening to an insignificant story.
He can be so calm at such a young age. It would be wonderful if he could turn from evil to good.
When Shi Jianxia remained silent, Zhuang Mingyue continued, "You took the star core fragment from her. Not long after, the Nanteng Military Academy exploded, and the star core stored in the secret vault was lost. If there's no connection, I'd be resigned as the leader of the special operations team."
Her tone became a little nonchalant. "And the night before this incident, a mysterious person approached me and said he wanted to do a big deal with me. But he ended up using me as a pawn, not only swindling me out of 1.1 billion star coins, but also playing my people like fools."
"That mysterious person, is that you?"
"You also deliberately dropped the jade token in Jun Xiaoyi's hand at the murder scene in order to shift the blame for Number Five's death onto the Zerg Investigation Department. You managed to remain completely invisible in this matter."
Her inference was not far from the facts.
Shi Jianxia listened to her analysis and changed the subject, "You haven't explained how the above has anything to do with the limitations on your mimicry level?"
Zhuang Mingyue suddenly realized, "Sorry, I got off topic."
"Based on this limitation, coupled with my suspicions about you, your rocket-like progress since enrolling at the Nandou Military Academy, and the dossier's description of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, it should be easy to guess that your mimicry level isn't C, right?"
"The reason I can't tell if you're lying is because your mimicry potential is much higher than mine. So even though my mimicry combat level is much higher than yours, I can't tell if what you're saying is a lie."
She had indeed been pretending to meet Xia just now. If she had lost her composure and confessed on her own initiative, there would be no need for her to go to the trouble of presenting more evidence.
Shi Jianxia shrugged. "Why? You still don't allow me to have a little secret for self-protection? You didn't tell me at the time that my mimicry level would affect your ability to detect lies."
This was pure cheating, but she felt comfortable doing it, and Zhuang Mingyue even sensed a hint of giving up in it.
She clicked her tongue and started to feel a little competitive. She insisted that Shi Jianxia admit his identity, so she revealed her last trump card.
"The reason I'm so certain of your suspicion isn't because of the video or the missing fragment of the star core, but rather a common thread between the insect plague incident in Minghua Community on Shuiyuan Star and the Junlin City incident on Baipu Star."
The words stopped here, and Shi Jianxia's fingers pressed in his arms slowly tightened.
She had a feeling that her biggest secret was about to be exposed.
As expected, Zhuang Mingyue's next words made her almost unable to suppress the urge to run away immediately.
"We didn't find any insect vortexes formed after the death of the queen insect in Minghua Community."
Seeing her eyes downcast, wondering what she was thinking, Zhuang Mingyue raised the corners of her lips. "If the mother insect is handled properly after its death, it doesn't necessarily form a vortex. But none of the investigators who participated in the operation that day had seen the mother insect, and you are the only survivor in the community."
"You killed the queen, but I can't tell whether you handled it properly and prevented the vortex from forming, or whether you have other means to make the vortex disappear from this world."
"The SS-level worm vortex sealed by the star core in King's Landing has disappeared, but I didn't think of you at the time."
"It wasn't until I saw your flight information that I suddenly realized you were part of the trap I set to eliminate important members of Higanbana."
"Jun Xiaoyi is a very loyal boy. He never leaks a word." Zhuang Mingyue commented with an ambiguous tone.
But even if he doesn't say it, the objective facts are there.
The cattail fly that lives in symbiosis with him is an SS-level queen insect. Its power comes from the SS-level insect vortex. However, after the insect vortex was sealed in the core of the star by an unknown person, its power was greatly weakened and was restricted by the core of the star.
But after the incident in King's Landing, it seemed to have suddenly disappeared, and its power was shattered in Jun Xiaoyi's body. If the vortex was still sealed by the star core and was just moved to another place, it would definitely not have suffered such a heavy blow.
Then the answer is obvious. The insect vortex disappeared, just like the situation in Minghua Community at that time.
After Zhuang Mingyue finished speaking, the carriage fell into a long silence.
The hovercraft sped along the low-altitude waterway, guarded by several hovercrafts in front, behind, left, right, and above, surrounding them tightly. Traffic control was even implemented nearby, and they were the only ones moving forward on the entire waterway.
Shi Jianxia couldn't escape.
Of course, she didn't want to run away, nor did she need to run away. The chips in her hand were enough to drive all the forces in the federation crazy. As long as she wanted, she could reach cooperation with anyone.
But in the final analysis, if she hadn't been at her wit's end, she wouldn't want to be such a popular person.
Seeing that she remained silent for a long time, Zhuang Mingyue got straight to the point and asked, "Tell me, how did you get rid of the insect vortex?"
She emphasized the word "take it away", and it was obvious that these two words had more than just the literal meaning.
The reason why I said so much is because Zhuang Mingyue wanted to incite Shi Jianxia to rebel from the very beginning, and her behavior of deliberately leaving behind the No. 5 jade card and providing the distribution map of the Red Spider Lily's forces has already implicitly shown that she is not that loyal to the Red Spider Lily.
At this point, she has no more choices.
After weighing the pros and cons, Shi Jianxia made a decision. She suddenly raised her eyes, leaned back comfortably, and revealed a sharpness she had never had before. "You are not qualified to negotiate with me. I want to see the head of state."
Head of state Ji Yang is a legendary woman in the Federation.
She was born on a poor planet and entered the Nandou Military Academy at the age of 22. She was unknown before, but in just one year she became an unrivaled top tactician.
At that time, she personally pushed the Nan Teng Military Academy, which was at the bottom of the fifth place, to its peak period, and it was ranked first among the five major military academies in the federation for a full ten years.
Everyone thought she would join the military after graduation, but she transformed herself into a rising star in the political arena. In just twenty years, she reached the pinnacle of federal power and became the youngest head of state in the history of the federation.
This year marks her fifth year as head of state.
Shi Jianxia had read the resume of this leader carefully more than once, and was always amazed at her unexpected choices and political decisions that turned the tide.
Ever since her identity was discovered by Jun Xiaoyi, she knew that she could not hide for long. Zhuang Mingyue would find out about her sooner or later, and Zhuang Mingyue could not protect her.
She needs to seek a stronger partner, and President Ji Yang is the best solution.
Zhuang Mingyue hadn't expected her to be so arrogant. After a brief moment of shock, she didn't feel offended by her words "not qualified". Instead, she showed a delighted expression and said decisively, "No problem!"
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