133: Chapter 133 The Envoy's Secret Letter

Everyone stood in a circle around Soul Blade, exchanging opinions on today's sudden incident. Everyone agreed with Chu Ge's thoughts; the finger of blame pointed directly at a certain rogue state. Only they were capable of such despicable tactics.

However, Chu Ge also knew that finding actual evidence for this kind of thing was difficult.

Even if it were found, given that country's character, when dealing with major powers, they would offer a perfunctory apology, and when dealing with smaller nations, they would simply deny everything—the standard operating procedure of a rogue state.

Chu Ge recalled Deputy Commander Ran's remark about "testing the waters." He believed the leaders already had a corresponding strategy, so he stopped discussing it, checked the time, and called everyone to go eat.

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Late at night, at the backup airport base, a few offices had been temporarily cleared for the joint investigation team to use.

The search and rescue team had also returned. Arafat had been found alive. Aside from a few minor abrasions, the shrewd fellow could be said to be completely unscathed.

His wingman was not so fortunate; he had been burned half to death in the air, then fell in freefall and was smashed to pieces. After searching for a long time, the rescue team couldn't even gather enough remains to resemble a human.

After Arafat returned, he was invited into a room by the Chinese experts for a detailed two-hour interrogation. He was quite cooperative, even describing the specific steps of the fighter jet from the hangar in G Istanbul to the point of handover.

Once the questioning ended, Arafat was led into another room by the high-ranking officials of G Istanbul.

"Old Zheng, what do you think?" Deputy Commander Ran said as he looked at a white-haired elder in the expert group.

"In my many years of experience, this person is not lying. It seems this incident was not accidental but orchestrated in secret by certain people or a nation. I just can't be sure how they pulled off this 'swapping the civet cat for the prince' trick." Old Zheng frowned, unable to puzzle it out.

"If the fighter jet's computer system had a backdoor, it would be simple; a small program virus could do it. I think we should focus on how they swapped the training ammunition for live ammunition; there is a lot of room for speculation there." Another expert voiced a possibility, awakening the others with a single remark.

If it were truly as he said, that would basically lock onto the suspect nation.

"Little Wang makes sense. Regarding the computer system backdoor, it may be difficult for us to obtain evidence, but for the second point, we might still find some clues. I suggest immediately establishing an overseas investigation team to head to G Istanbul and coordinate with them to investigate and collect evidence in this regard."

"Agreed."

"Agreed."

"Good. In a moment, I will report our preliminary investigation report to the top leaders and submit the proposal for the overseas investigation team at the same time. Everyone, wait patiently for a while."

After several experts raised their hands in agreement, Deputy Commander Ran made the final decision.

"By the way, Old Zheng, there is one more question. Regarding the overseas investigation team and our request for G Istanbul to cooperate with our press release, do you think they will agree?" Deputy Commander Ran asked after standing up to leave, suddenly turning back.

"Before, they might have prevaricated, but after Soul Blade's swift and decisive revenge operation was recounted to them verbatim by that pilot just now, I think they will be very happy to cooperate with us." Old Zheng replied with confidence. Deputy Commander Ran nodded after a moment of thought and then walked out excitedly.

In another room, Arafat was vividly describing the cruelty of Soul Blade.

He managed to describe Soul Blade's work, which took less than a minute from start to finish, as if it were a sci-fi blockbuster. About half an hour later, Arafat finally stopped talking, unscrewed a bottle of mineral water on the table, and took a huge gulp.

After sending Arafat out of the room, several G Istanbul investigators looked at each other.

"Do you believe what he said? Is he a bit mentally unstable from being scared?" One G Istanbul expert pointed at his head while speaking.

"I think his train of thought is very clear, and he is not lying. You experts rushed over overnight, so there may be some situations you are not yet aware of. I have a video here; please watch it before commenting." A military-looking investigation team member took out a mobile phone, found a video, and handed it to the experts.

A few minutes later, the video finished playing, and there was dead silence at the scene.

"This is a Mecha Warrior? It took a high-explosive surface-to-air missile head-on? That is the missile with the highest TNT equivalent in our country! Heavens!" The previously skeptical expert held the phone, trembling as he spoke. He couldn't quite believe his eyes and re-watched the video.

"According to what the pilot said just now, this Mecha Warrior must be as tall as a 20-story building, huge in stature, and fast as lightning. So far, it has only revealed the weapon in its left hand, and it has already beaten them soundly; they didn't even have a chance to escape in their planes, they could only eject! And they had to eject the moment they saw it to have any chance of saving their lives."

"Combined with this video, its terrifying defensive power and agile evasion ability make missiles look like toys to it! I suspect its weaponry is definitely not limited to what was in its left hand. I suddenly feel that perhaps it only used the weakest one in its arsenal."

"Are these the conclusions we have reached today?" A person who looked like a leader stood up, finished flipping through the records in his hand, and asked after looking around.

"Yes, Special Envoy!" Everyone replied respectfully.

"Good. I will transmit this information to the Prime Minister overnight. Everyone, go back and rest. It is already early morning; there should be news from the country tomorrow. Thank you all for your hard work."

"Yes!" The G Istanbul investigation team experts stood up one after another, nodded to the Special Envoy, and walked out one by one.

After everyone left, the Special Envoy sat back down and carefully examined the documents in his hand.

After deep thought, he quickly picked up the fountain pen on the table, scribbled a few sentences, and immediately called the guard in.

"Send this back to the Prime Minister's office overnight!"

"Yes, Special Envoy!"

After the guard left, the Special Envoy stood in front of the window, looking at the night sky outside for a long time, then turned off the room's lights and walked out as well.

For him and his country, after this night, a brand new tomorrow would begin.

Today was destined to be a sleepless night for Abdul Nasser.

As the Prime Minister of G Istanbul, he had received two pieces of terrible news today. Although he had immediately dispatched his special envoy to China to handle the matter, he was still uneasy, so he decided to stay in this office until news came from there.

"Knock, knock, knock." There was an urgent knocking at the door. Nasser composed himself before telling them to come in.

"Prime Minister, a secret letter sent back from China."

"Hmm." After the guard left, Nasser hurriedly opened the folder and read it carefully. The content was not long, but he still read it over and over many times before putting the document down.

At this moment, only the last few sentences remained in his mind.

"China's military technology is already on another level. I believe their Interstellar Fleet will also take shape very soon. Given that other countries have not yet realized this, the Prime Minister should decisively abandon the strategy of hedging bets, fully embrace China, agree to all their demands, and align with them against outside threats. Only by gaining China's trust can we ensure long-term peace and stability!"