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"Captain." The voice sounded low. Hessler was in a spacious room, and the echo could be heard faintly in the communicator.

Subconsciously, he felt something was wrong. From the initiative to contact him to the tone of his voice at this moment, it was clear that what Hessler brought this time would not be good news. Cassia said "hmm" without answering, waiting quietly for Hessler to continue.

"Dielya probably hasn't contacted you in the past time, right?"

"No, what's wrong?" Cassia asked, went to sit down at the table in the living room, and poured herself a glass of water that had been boiled in the morning and let cool. "If something happened in the Tushini area, it was Waters' fault." Encountered trouble that already happened?”

There was an obvious pause over there, and Hessler was thinking about whether to tell Cassia the news he got during this time. He regretted a little, and now he thought that when he contacted her at noon, he should have given himself more time to think. Now, there seems to be no way to find a reason to pass by.

"After I returned to the empire last time, I took a large amount of money from Delya and hired several long-term intelligence dealers, with the intention of grasping the real-time intelligence leaked from Manoma. It seems that at that time The decision was correct, and it didn’t take long. Starting from the day before yesterday, several of them have provided me with information with similar core points one after another.”

It was like he sighed, and Hessler deliberately covered up the sigh, so vague that even Cassia couldn't hear it clearly. At that moment, Hessler made up his mind and thought about something.

"Is it about Ye Jielin?" This is not a keen sense of smell, because Cassia knows that apart from Ye Jielin and Atuohuan, the only people who are still in Manoma and have a clear connection with her are Shake it up. But with Haike behind him for protection, the possibility of encountering danger was very small, approaching zero.

"We don't know the reason yet. The information seems to come out of nowhere. But it may have been fermented for a long time before. We now know that it is just because of the distance and geographical relationship. It is indeed about Ye Jielin. , there is good news, but it is just contrasted with the bad news, and there is no need to say it at all.”

"Is there any information about Ye Jielin's alliance? I mean the alliance starting from her status as a knight's attendant." After leaving for more than a year and a half, thinking about that face and the things related to it, Cassia found that she could draw The few impressions turned out to be all memories that have never been forgotten in my head.

I had never had a clear feeling about this time away before, but now when Cassia wanted to know something, the air seemed to have weight, making him feel suffocated and restrained. Open your mouth and exhale gently, you can see the hot white color. Cassia breathed calmly and did not let this state continue.

In a few months it will be two years, and no matter what happens in the meantime, it will not be a surprise. Cassia comforted herself and no longer had high expectations for the allies who gathered around Ye Jielin because of her in the Knight Attendant Assessment. The positions and attitudes of their respective families are enough to create irreparable cracks in such an alliance. It's enough. What happened in the military school in the past two years has completely changed the appearance of many people. In the same time, no matter how fast Cassia's thoughts turn, she can't simulate any changes in this period of time.

There is too much missing information, and the empire is nothing more than a blank to Cassia now. It's just that I never realized that it would be the current situation before. Once I started to pay attention to it, almost everything seemed to be reborn after experiencing a dark night, and everything looked fresh.

When is the time to go back? Cassia asked herself and found that this was destined to be a question without an answer. Anytime seems okay, but no time seems appropriate either. I have never thought about this problem. I keep pushing it to the past, and then the past self pushes it to the future self. This cycle eventually becomes a rotating circle.

Getting up and going to the window, Cassia opened it a little to let in some of the warm and humid wind outside. Hessler was on the other side of the communicator, highlighting the main information compiled from intelligence over the past few days. But the suffocation almost caused Cassia to temporarily lose her ability to judge, and her brain passively recorded all this information.

After Hessler stopped, Cassia's mood finally calmed down.

"The trading network and strongholds need to be suspended for a while." After a short silence, Cassia replayed what Hessler said several times in his head and made the immediate decision, "Arrange everything in two days. things, and then return to Manoma, it will be very tight in terms of time and energy, but I still have to trouble you.”

"Since receiving the news for the first time the day before yesterday, these actions have been carried out in an orderly manner. I have also contacted Delya and Waters, asking them to pay attention to the internal trends of the empire as much as possible. I The follow-up work here will be temporarily handed over to Waters, and the business and the new factory have a good starting point here, so there will be no difficulties in the handover."

"But Captain, I think the worst news is not what I just said. Ye Jielin is surrounded by Atuo. It is impossible that his intelligence capabilities will not know this information. He will only be more detailed than us..." He Slie wanted to say more, but was interrupted by Cassia.

"With Ye Jielin's character, she will not lose to anyone in initiative." For a long time, except for appearance, Cassia seemed to have a vague feeling about everything in the empire. But for Ye Jielin, her memory is still clear. There will not be a huge change in her personality. The only change will be that her plans and actions will become more perfect and precise. "After Fatty confirms this information, Ye Jielin will find it on her own at the right time without the enemy taking the initiative." Get on these people.”

"This may be what the enemy wants to see, but..." The following words were not spoken. Cassia, who calmed down, suddenly remembered the danger signal that suddenly burst out in his body a few days ago. There is absolutely no thought in this regard subconsciously, so it can only be attributed to intuition. Relying solely on her sense of danger, Cassia seemed to have found the key point about Ye Jielin.

"Hessler, please send me a message immediately after arriving at Manoma. Now we need more detailed information to help us judge, so we need to trouble you to spend more time and experience." The topic was cut off by Cassia himself, he thought I should rest for a few hours and completely empty my mind before thinking, "In the meantime, I still have some things that I need to think about carefully for a while."