Chapter 20
The heated debate came to an abrupt end at this moment, leaving only the shock of astonishment that continued to burn Morris's mind.
He was speechless.
Jiang Yun suddenly felt that he should perhaps thank the Alpha in front of him.
When he actually expressed his judgment, he found that his thoughts were so clear.
It turned out that in his mind, it was already more than just a one percent possibility.
He was almost certain that the sniper who shot Wycliffe in the head was Lu Huai.
So reckless, so decisive.
No warning, no nonsense.
Apart from her "deceased husband" who died in the line of duty seventeen years ago, she couldn't think of anyone else.
But where did Lu Huai go after killing Wycliffe?
Why didn't Lu Huai come to him immediately?
Jiang Yun seemed to have thought of something and strode towards the floor-to-ceiling window.
Outside the window, the five Orin warships still surrounded the Rescue. Searchlights remained on duty, their lights constantly on. Well-equipped Orin troops took turns patrolling, following Jiang Yun wherever he went, under the guise of protection.
——The answer is self-evident.
Because Colonel Lu could not reveal his identity yet, he could not find an opportunity to approach him for the time being.
So...what if he could create an opportunity?
If he could create an environment for Colonel Lu that was beyond the Austrian side's field of vision, would Colonel Lu appear?
A quick knock on the door interrupted Jiang Yun's thoughts. Yi Laizhe and Cheng Chi walked in, both of them looking unhappy.
"Foreign Minister Jiang, ten minutes ago, a civilian spacecraft landed at the Ice Wasteland Port. The official reason for the passage was to transport supplies, but I think something is amiss," Yi Laizhe said seriously. "Two major events have occurred on Ice Wasteland, and the overwhelmed Orin authorities are desperate to completely blockade the entire planet. How could they allow an unofficial spacecraft into the blockade at this time?"
"Is Olin really that short of this batch of supplies?" Cheng Chi said, not believing it himself. "Are they out of food or clothes?"
A spacecraft that can still land on the Ice Wasteland Star during such a special period is obviously not simple, and there must be the shadow of Olin’s senior management behind it.
But if it had connections to the Orin government and could easily obtain a permit, why would it disguise itself as a civilian spacecraft?
If it's not to deceive the Olin government, then it's to deceive the alliance.
Jiang Yun came up with the answer without much thought: "Polit Lu."
Only two days had passed since Wycliffe's death, and he still hadn't forgotten the way Pollitt had looked at him.
The look was filled with hatred, as if he was willing to die with him at all costs.
Paulette Lu always believed that it was he who sent someone to blow Wycliffe's head off, and it was only natural for him to avenge his son.
The Imperial Prince had originally intended to hire a third party to reclaim his youngest son from the Alliance. Jiang Yun, certain of this, had Morris contact the military and devised a plan to assassinate Wycliffe.
For Pollitt now, his youngest son is dead, but the cost of the mercenaries has already been paid. Isn't it a waste if he doesn't use them?
"Polit is looking for an opportunity to attack me." Jiang Yun told the others, "The people on that civilian spaceship are probably the mercenaries he hired to kill me."
Morris, at least, hadn't forgotten his duties on the Rescue, and immediately said, "I will immediately request additional military support to ensure Foreign Minister Jiang's safety."
"What's the point of having more people? It's worse than..." Jiang Yun glanced at the Olin patrol team that was handing over outside the window, and suddenly changed the subject: "Lieutenant Colonel Morris, do you want to make a bet with me?"
"Bet?" Morris was stunned. "What do you want to bet?"
"Just bet my one percent."
Morris looked at Jiang Yun and felt a kind of tiredness that made it impossible to wake up someone who was pretending to be asleep.
I'm afraid Jiang Yun will only give up completely if he finds Lu Huai's body or the real mastermind behind the scenes.
"How can we bet?" Morris asked, "We still have no way of confirming the identity of the sniper."
"You have no choice. Don't take me with you." Jiang Yun walked towards the door. "I need to go out for a while. You don't have to follow me. Just stay at your posts."
"Now?" Cheng Chi was a little uneasy. "It's too chaotic outside right now. Foreign Minister Jiang is being targeted by Polit again. Isn't it too unsafe for you to go out alone at this time?"
Jiang Yun: "What I want is insecurity."
Cheng Chi: “Ah?”
Jiang Yun sneered and said, "Since the Austrian side wants to be responsible for my safety so much, I can give them a chance."
"But, Foreign Minister Jiang!" Cheng Chi hurriedly chased after him, and before leaving, he did not forget to take Jiang Yun's cloak from the hanger: "Where are you going? Do you need me to help you arrange a special car?"
As soon as Jiang Yun walked out of the office cabin, he saw the twins walking towards him, with the words "Dad, Dad, we have something to tell you" written all over their faces.
The two brothers were still wearing yesterday's shirts and trousers. Their short hair was messy and their eyes were dark blue. It was obvious that they had not slept all night.
Colonel Lu's body disappeared easily, but it left the three of them, father and son, sleepless all night.
Jiang Yun didn't want to waste time, so he gestured to the twins to talk while walking.
Lu Chao followed Jiang Yun with his long legs. "Dad, Jiang Mu and I discussed this all night last night. Jiang Mu thinks the disappearance of Colonel Dad's body is a conspiracy by Olin, but I always feel like he might be faking his death..."
Good, it doesn't seem like a big deal.
"You two," Jiang Yun continued walking, taking the cold-proof cloak handed to him by Cheng Chi, "stay on the spaceship and wait for me to come back."
Wait until I catch your Alpha dad who is pretending to be dead.
Jiang Yun walked into the elevator and said to the group of people following him, "While I'm gone, Senior Yi Lai will serve as the temporary commander of the Rescue. Also," before the elevator door closed, Jiang Yun said one last thing to Cheng Chi, "Keep an eye on the twins. They need to go to bed on time tonight."
Jiang Mu: "..."
Lu Chao: “???”
The hatch of the Rescue slowly opened under the command of the highest authority.
The rare clear sky on the Ice Planet only lasted for one day, and it started snowing heavily again today.
Lieutenant Olin, who was on duty, saw the hatch of the Rescue open and immediately reported the news to the command center.
"...The person who came out was the Alliance's Foreign Minister, Jiang Yun. You asked who else was there?" The second lieutenant looked surprised. "It seems there was no one else but him."
"How is that possible?" A questioning voice came from the command center. "How could there be no one around Jiang Yun?"
"He's really alone." The lieutenant said, and suddenly became nervous: "Wait, he... he's walking towards me now!"
The high-ranking diplomat seemed to have no habit of carrying an umbrella. In just a few steps, the snowflakes dotted his black cloak into a silver-white galaxy.
The lieutenant suddenly felt the urge to hold an umbrella for him.
Jiang Yun stopped in front of the second lieutenant and asked politely, "What's your name?"
The lieutenant managed to maintain his composure: "Liu, Lewis."
Jiang Yun nodded and said, “Okay, Lewis. I’m in a bad mood today and want to go out for a walk. Can you arrange it for me?”
The command center issued an order through Lewis's headset: "Promise him first and send more people to follow him."
"Of course, it's our honor." Lewis tried to force a smile. "Excuse me, where would Foreign Minister Jiang like to go?"
Jiang Yun lowered his eyes, as if deep in thought. Then, on a whim, he said, "How about going to investigate the lives of the Olin miners?"
If the research institute is the most modern area on the entire Ice Wasteland Planet, then the miners' living area is undoubtedly the most backward area.
It was a densely packed area consisting of simple tents and wooden houses, similar to the shanty towns of the old times.
Dense and dark, huge and chaotic.
Without the widespread surveillance from the sky, even the most basic electricity cannot be guaranteed.
When night falls, only sporadic lights will be lit there, and countless blind spots for surveillance will appear in the dim corners.
A hotbed of evil and a paradise for crime.
If he were a mercenary hired by Pollitt, he would also choose to take action there.
By then——
Jiang Yun got into the car Lewis had prepared for him, and looked through the window at the shantytown that was getting closer and closer to him. His right hand unconsciously rubbed the ring finger of his left hand through his glove.
By then, you...are you willing to let me win, Colonel Lu?
——
This is a small tavern in the heart of a shanty town.
Oil stains everywhere, low-quality and cheap tobacco, and hard-to-swallow liquor.
The cold wind whistled through the dilapidated wooden door, the windows were covered with old newspapers to cover the cracks, and the only way to keep warm was a fire that only appeared in medieval novels.
Lewis really couldn't understand why the Alliance Foreign Minister would come to such a place for inspection.
However, he got what he wanted and finally got the chance to hold an umbrella for the beauty.
Lewis folded up his snow-covered umbrella and pushed open the door of the tavern. The previously vague noise immediately became clear.
But this clarity only lasted for a brief second. As Jiang Yun leaned in, the tavern gradually became silent.
In the Olin Empire, Omegas rarely go out to work. Most of the important positions are occupied by Alphas, and positions like miners are basically done by Betas.
Although Beta does not have an innate desire for Omega like Alpha, gender is never an issue in the face of absolute beauty.
Under the attention they were already accustomed to, Jiang Yun took Lewis to sit at the bar.
Lewis showed a disgusted expression towards the greasy wooden table, but Jiang Yun didn't seem to mind for a moment, and even asked the boss for a glass of mead.
The taste of the mead was much better than Jiang Yun had imagined. The aroma of the stamens and the sweetness of the honey blended perfectly. Just one sip and the honey-like warmth flowed into his heart.
Jiang Yun rarely took two more sips.
The light from the oil lamp was dim, and the fire next to it crackled non-stop, but it could not cover up the miners' whispers.
"Who is this person? What a beautiful face..."
"I know him! He's the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Interstellar Alliance. He came to Ice Wasteland Planet to trade with us."
"I heard he's a widow. Online, it says his Alpha has been dead for years."
"Who's sitting next to him? It can't be his new Alpha, that's too out of place."
"Hey, hey, hey, it's not nice for you to talk about an Omega like that, is it?" A man sitting in a shadowy corner seemed to be unable to bear it any longer. "If you really have so much free time, just mop the floor here. Who vomited so much?"
…
Jiang Yun seemed to hear nothing and just savored the mead.
Lewis was very angry, but he managed to hold it back.
If the Alliance Foreign Minister had not asked him to take off his imperial military uniform on the grounds of not wanting to be too high-profile, these people would probably not dare to say a word in front of him.
"Foreign Minister Jiang, please don't mind," Lewis said. "These low-level Betas don't understand anything at all."
"Mind? What do you mind?" Jiang Yun looked like he wanted to laugh. "Do you mind if they say I'm a widow?"
Lewis quickly explained: “That’s not what I meant, Foreign Minister Jiang.”
Jiang Yun held the worn and chipped wine glass in his hand and said in a voice only he could hear: "I am not."
Lewis wanted to say something, but suddenly his expression paused.
The intuition developed by Lewis over the years in the army told him that something was wrong and there was danger.
Lewis subconsciously pulled out his pistol and quickly turned the muzzle in the direction his intuition told him to go - it was the man who had just stopped the other Betas from talking about Jiang Yun!
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