Chapter 1159 Information Exchange
". If you don’t know, then why did he mention you? More importantly, why did those people appear in front of you? If he appeared in front of me because he It's a fallen angel, so why do other people appear in front of you? I don't believe that you know nothing, Chapter Leader Soshyan."
Azrael is indeed the guardian of truth, and his thinking is great. Agility is really the only person Soshiyang has ever encountered who can be ranked in the top five, and he immediately grasped the core of the problem.
This pushed Soshyan to the edge of the cliff.
Of course, he could also just say he didn't know. He was sure that Azrael had no concrete evidence, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen this private meeting.
But if he does this, it will undoubtedly push his relationship with the other party, and the relationship between the two war groups, to a very bad point.
Soshyan’s current external purpose is to have more friends, the better, because as time goes by, he realizes that the secrets of the Legion are difficult to seal forever, and there will always be a day when the truth is revealed. At that time, he had to need a lot of external support, whether it was material or public opinion.
He himself also privately summarized the entire process of the Huron Rebellion. He realized that an important reason for the Huron Rebellion was that his relationship with the surrounding system bureaucrats and the Mechanicus was very tense, but the empire initially He should be handled with great care and caution, because he has a large number of allied war groups.
Although Soshyan has no idea of rebellion, he must consider that if he deals with the high lords of Terra in the future, he still has the Imperial Fist as a big tree to lean on, but once the matter is exposed, this big tree will The tree will not necessarily cover itself.
On the contrary, the Dark Angels seem to be a good partner, not only because of the identity of the other founding group, but also because they are not close to Terra, and they have even fought against the Inquisition and the Tribunal many times. The record of the High Lords Council, and its tighter control over the sub-groups, its potential power makes all bureaucracies in the empire reconsider any idea of it.
But the question is, what to say?
“.Actually, we have encountered fallen angels before.”
After thinking hard for a long time, Soshyan decided to tell some old stories, hoping to fool him.
Hearing what he said, Azriel suddenly became energetic and took another step forward to ask.
“When? Where?”
Soshyan waved his hand quickly.
"Brother, don't get excited, listen to me and tell me slowly."
Then, he told the incident of encountering fallen angels when attacking the Eye of Hell and finding a fallen angel beacon one by one. To be honest, the whole process didn't take long, because Soshyan didn't actually see those people with his own eyes. These were the reports he saw afterwards.
Actually, he just said this in the hope that Azrael's focus would shift from those black-armored men to the fallen angels, so that more dangerous topics would not be touched upon.
“It turned out to be like this”
After hearing what he said, Azrael frowned. He suddenly remembered that Asmodai had sent an interrogation priest to ask the Astral Knight for questioning.
Then the interrogating priest asked nothing.
Seeing the other party's expression, Soshyan knew that Azriel must have thought of what the interrogation priest came to ask before, so he explained.
“I didn’t know much about your group’s situation at the time, so I hid it out of caution, hoping not to be offended.”
Azriel looked at Soshyan and shook his head. .
"No, it's not because of this. I'm just curious, why did they appear in the Eye of Hell?"
"I don't know that either."
"They helped the Red Pirates."< br>
“It seems so.”
“But that beacon seems to imply that they also helped you?”
"This -"
Azrael took a few steps back and forth, as if he wanted to clarify all the doubts and details inside, but for a while he could not come to any conclusion.
But the conversation did not end there.
“Is that all?”
“That’s all.”
"Brother Soshyan." Azrael's title suddenly changed. He stood in front of Soshyan, looked directly into his eyes, and said word by word:
"For those people, I I think you're still hiding it."
"How could it be? I do——"
"No, the Hell Eye incident cannot explain why they appeared in your presence. In front of you, I am now sure that those who appear in front of you are definitely not those rebels, they are another group of people."
"This -"
"I have been browsing your group's combat history and combat readiness over the years. In fact, this surprised me, because when you were forced to leave your home planet, you only had one ship left. and more than twenty recruits, but look at the current Astral Knights, with so many warriors, so many battleships, and so many weapons and equipment. Your armory is even comparable to that of a giant stone. This is almost a miracle, no! It’s a miracle! Even if you let me do it, it’s impossible for me to do it, not to mention thirty years, even one hundred or two hundred years, it’s very difficult.”
Azrael took a step forward. , their breastplates almost collided together.
“Brother, do you believe in miracles?”
“No.”
"That's it. This means that someone must be helping you. Could it be the Imperial Fists? I guess not. They have long been in ruins after the Beast War, and it is impossible to give you such great assistance."
"If Did I say we were lucky?"
"Ha!"
Azriel smiled and took a step back.
Soshiyang lowered his head and thought for a while. When he looked at the Guardian of Truth again, his eyes were no longer as evasive as before.
He said very calmly:
“We all have our own secrets, brothers. Strictly speaking, our secrets may be darker and deeper than yours.”
“Sorry, I have no intention of spying on yours. Secret, I just want to know who those people are.”
“I really don’t know the details. The only thing I know is that they are an organization hidden behind the history of the empire and have existed for a very long time. , and are able to control some power departments and institutions of the empire behind the scenes. As for what they are going to do and why they are approaching us, I really don’t know.”
The Azri people crossed their arms and leaned against a container, as if. Thinking about something.
After being silent for about three minutes, he suddenly said:
"Knight Errant, I have seen this organization in the archives room."
Soshiyang's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Oh? Is it convenient for me to tell you?"
"The file records are very sloppy. It probably means that this organization was founded in the early days of the Great Rebellion and was founded by the palm bearer who was still alive at the time. He absorbed many loyalists from the traitorous legions, and was only responsible to the one holding the seal. He was very active during the Great Rebellion, but disappeared after the Great Rebellion and has not been seen since.”
"The Seal Holder. Malcador."
Somehow, Soshiyang felt that many things around him were related to the imperial prime minister, which made him slightly uneasy.
And he vaguely remembered someone telling him to be careful about the person holding the seal.
"But this is just my personal guess. After all, ten thousand years have passed. Many members of the organization have died in the great rebellion, and the person holding the seal has long passed away. They cannot still exist without a leader."
“But at least it’s an idea.”
"It seems that the problems within the empire are no smaller than the threats from the outside."
"Oh? Brothers Azrael, do you think they are a threat?"
Azrael sighed softly. , shook his head.
“I’m not sure, but if any secret is fermented for ten thousand years, no matter what the original intention is, it will deteriorate in the end. I know this very well.”
(End of Chapter)