The Military Department leaders thought over and over again, and there was only one possibility: the Emperor's "countermeasure" plan.

But if that were true, the Emperor would have been ready to respond in various ways, and by now he would have used his anger to arrest the Elders of the Elder Court in a massive sweep...

Strangely, the Emperor was very restrained and had not prepared to move against the Elders.

Everyone could feel that the Emperor was struggling to contain his own anger, and this anger did not seem like an act or pretense.

Because the Emperor had no need to put on an act for anyone, so the Old Emperor's acting skills were far less than theirs.

Then came the question,

It didn't seem like something the Emperor would do;

Nor was it likely the Elder Court would have done it;

Of course, it was even less likely that the Military Department would have done it, as the Military Department directly reported to the Emperor, and the fleets directly controlled by the Emperor were equally powerful. Whoever the Emperor ordered them to strike, they would strike without any conflict of interest or power.

Who could the culprit be?

"Investigate!"

The Emperor took a deep breath,

"Military Department, Elder Court, Judicial Department, I don't care who you are, everyone must investigate! Give me an answer within three Emperor Star rotational cycles! The Empire's hero must not die in vain!

"Whoever did this, I will skin them alive! I will reduce their family to Slave Status!"

A group of elders bowed their heads even lower, and with the Emperor's wave, some anxiously hurried out of the great hall.

The appearance of a floating car bomb near the Imperial Palace was a huge event that hadn't happened in thousands of years.

In front of the elevator leading to the Imperial Palace module, three leaders from the Military Department frowned as they approached the Great Elder, whispering a few words, to which the Great Elder shook his head repeatedly, smiling wryly as he explained.

Those bombs were definitely not planted by their Elder Court.

But earlier the White Ghost had just arrested three Elders from the Elder Court's tribunal, making these Elders the biggest suspects now.

Even if an Elder had acted of his own accord, the entire group of elders in the Elder Court was bound to be implicated.

Although these events didn't seem like something the Emperor would orchestrate,

The Emperor now held complete initiative.

...

"Damn it!

Which bastard is behind this!"

Not far from the crime scene, in a private room of a hotel, Yang Ming kept pulling at the gauze bandages on his body. The bandages peeled off patches of charred skin, revealing the tender new skin beneath.

He was practically blown out of his shell!

The pain was real, but his life was not in jeopardy, and Yang Ming turned his head to look at the beautiful woman standing quietly by the window, who had found the injured him at lightning speed and brought him to this hotel.

A maid of the Emperor.

"Was everything arranged by His Majesty?" Yang Ming frowned and asked.

"No," the maid lightly shook her head and turned to look at Yang Ming, "Actually, the news of me being with you just reached His Majesty's ears half an hour ago."

Yang Ming was taken aback: "Why?"

"I can't explain it either," the maid pulled a pendant from her chest and whispered, "About ten minutes before the explosion occurred, I was on my way back to the Imperial Palace when I suddenly received an anonymous message telling me to wait for you in a certain area."

Yang Ming: ...

The maid said, "His Majesty doesn't like to oversee our specific activities outside the Imperial Palace; he only likes to hear the results. I don't have to report every detail to His Majesty, so I made a temporary decision to go to the marked area. Barely two minutes after I arrived, the explosion happened, and soon you emerged from the blast area."

Yang Ming suddenly asked, "Are you the Emperor's Intelligence Officer?"

"Sort of," the maid crossed her arms, "I just handle some minor matters for His Majesty that are inconvenient to entrust to others."

"What's your name?"

"Han Yin, don't get any ideas about me. His Majesty cares a lot about people around him betraying him," the maid Han Yin said calmly, "Everything about me belongs to His Majesty, his personal property."

Yang Ming nodded, continuing to unwrap the bandages and smiled, "Um, could you step aside? I'm about to unwrap from a critical area."

Maid Han Yin's mouth twitched a few times, and she turned her back to Yang Ming.

"Before His Majesty gives any orders, I must stay with you... With an explosion this severe only causing full-body burns, and with your burns healing this fast..."

She whispered,

"You really are a monster."

"Watch your words," Yang Ming warned aggressively, "if I killed you right now, no one would know."

"The Emperor Star module records everything," the maid replied slowly, "rest assured, His Majesty will soon find out everything. Such a severe attack outside the Imperial Palace is already a direct provocation to the Sherman's imperial authority."

Yang Ming was speechless and simply bowed his head to continue unwrapping the bandages.

He actually wanted to message Catherine, but his communicator and the watch Lyu gave him were already destroyed in the explosion.

Fortunately, they used Energy-Gathering Bombs and not true large-yield Nuclear Bombs, or he would indeed have relied on cellular regeneration.

Speaking of which, the security level on the Emperor Star seemed to have issues.

An Energy-Gathering Bomb appeared near the Imperial Palace...

Yang Ming looked at the silhouette of the maid, always feeling that this could be a scheme by the Old Emperor, yet also thinking that if the Old Emperor wanted to scheme, there was no need for it to be so sudden.

Every step was filled with doubt.

He better not let him find out who planted the bomb.

Otherwise, no matter who they were, be they of royal or noble descent, he would make them understand the true wrath of an average man!

"Hiss—"

Yang Ming drew a sharp breath, and his movement in peeling away the dead skin became much gentler.

...

In the module of the Divine Sect on the Emperor Star, in the great hall where the last Archbishop was hanged.

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