This Is My Planet - Chapter 120 - Chapter 120 – Top Secret File Full of Loopholes
Humans arrived at the Azure Dragon Star over 250 years ago, where they helped and cooperated with the divine descendants, repelling external enemies and sharing knowledge. The divine descendants also assisted humans in establishing nations on the ground. After decades of honeymoon period, cracks gradually emerged in their relationship.
The reasons were multifaceted. There were differences in customs, fear or discrimination by humans towards the “monstrous” attributes of the divine descendants, discrimination by the divine descendants towards the “weakness” of humans, differences in their ways of understanding the world, destruction of “paradise” and excessive mining of spiritual mines, and countless other irreconcilable differences, which became increasingly serious over time.
Such friction accumulated over time naturally led to deteriorating relations.
Even Yin Xiaoruo had said when she first met Xia Guixuan: “It’s very difficult for different ethnic groups to coexist permanently, let alone civilizations from different planets?”
Even a silly fox knew this, and there really wasn’t much need to delve deeper into it. If one were to delve deeper, it might even become a social science research monograph…
The divine descendants ceded the Northern Continent to humans to establish the Xia Dynasty, while they mainly withdrew to other continents to reside. There were still many divine descendants living in Great Xia, and humans also interacted with other continents.
But as everyone gradually became more intolerant, small-scale conflicts became more frequent, and the divine descendants gradually withdrew from Great Xia, while most humans on other continents, apart from merchants, also withdrew, forming a clear division.
It wasn’t a single battle that led to this situation, but the gradual changes over decades that led to people losing interest in each other.
Since the relationship had begun to deteriorate to this extent, it naturally gave rise to another idea: Why not conquer them?
Both sides had ambitious individuals with similar ideas beginning to grow.
If the divine descendants were still in their original disunited state, humans could easily pick them off one by one.
However, after the hundred-year war with Zerterians, under the pressure of life and death, heroes emerged among the divine descendants, and a nine-tailed celestial fox unified the various factions, becoming the recognized king of the divine descendants.
Humans called her the Demon King.
With the Demon King in power, both sides faced a stalemate.
It could be said that this period was the peak of the divine descendants, as they were at their most united; it could also be said that this period was the peak of humanity, as technology had become stronger after the fusion of new civilizations, and the upper echelons hadn’t yet been completely corrupted.
If the peak periods of both sides could cooperate, Zerterians might have been pushed back.
Unfortunately, at this time, tensions began to rise between the two sides instead.
Up to this point, the records in the secret files were merely an expected recounting of history.
The next sentence took a sharp turn.
It said that twenty-four years ago, the human’s Head of State and the Demon King met and agreed to join forces to attack Zerterians, but the Demon King secretly attacked the human leader, leading to the leader’s death.
Of course there is no problem with the logic. The Demon King of divine descendants is at least in the late stage of Wu Xiang. She is not a weakling even when traversing the heavens and myriad worlds. A face-to-face meeting would be as good as a death sentence for a human.
Humans launched an emergency counterattack, detonating fusion nuclear bombs to kill the Demon King. In the process, generals, diplomats, and others present were almost completely slaughtered by the Demon King.
It was a tragic end for both sides.
From the perspective of the divine descendants, the Demon King was lured to the meeting and killed by humans. Because even the closest confidant, Shang Zhaoye, hadn’t heard of any intentions from the Demon King to attack the human leader, and neither had the other Priests. When the remnants of the Demon King’s soul returned to Shang Zhaoye’s Soul Sea, the residual memories provided were also of being “murdered by humans.”
Humans lost their leader and many high-ranking officials, while the divine descendants lost their king, leading to an irreconcilable enmity between the two sides, which continues to this day.
The so-called top-secret files, that’s all…
It was almost identical to the rumors heard outside.
The only difference was that it explicitly stated that it was humans who invited the Demon King to the meeting—otherwise, both sides were arguing about who initiated the meeting. Humans insisted it was the Demon King’s initiative, suspecting malicious intent, which angered the divine descendants. Now that these files had been declassified, it was indeed humans who initiated the invitation.
That’s all.
A “top-secret file” that was of no help in other details.
Xia Guixuan pondered for a moment and looked up at Xiao Jiu.
Xiao Jiu smiled. “Do you think it sounds a bit fake?”
“Well… First of all, if everyone present was killed, who recorded this file? It’s probably just compiled and summarized by outsiders who weren’t participants and may not even understand the full story.”
“True.”
“Secondly, forgive me for being blunt, but human fusion nuclear bombs… Can they precisely strike the Demon King while avoiding other high-ranking humans present? If not, wouldn’t it be suicide?”
Xiao Jiu felt somewhat embarrassed. “In theory, they could, but in practice, the strength of the Demon King is unpredictable. Such an operation would indeed be suicidal, and it doesn’t seem like something that actually happened.”
Xia Guixuan added, “Thirdly, it’s not that I underestimate human nuclear bombs… but honestly, there’s no way they could have blown the Demon King in the Wu Xiang realm to pieces like that. There’s something fishy here.”
Xiao Jiu nodded. “I feel the same way. When our galactic warships fired at the Divine Creator Azure Dragon of divine descendants, they were all blocked. How could they have completely obliterated a late-stage Wu Xiang Demon King? I even suspected at one point that the Demon King never died and was just acting, but her absence over the past twenty-plus years seems to confirm her death, which is puzzling.”
Xia Guixuan agreed.
Although the bombardment from the galactic warships this time was somewhat restrained, it still provided some insights.
The energy he could disperse with a wave of his hand could be judged as, even with a full-force attack, at most it could injure or scare away a late-stage Wu Xiang, but obliterate them to the extent of leaving no remains? How could that be possible?
The reason it became a “top-secret file” was probably because there were some loopholes here that the human high command didn’t know how to explain, so they classified it as top-secret. Otherwise, if it leaked out, both human and divine descendant authorities would be in an uproar.
Humans would wonder what kind of nonsense you carnivores were up to, launching nuclear bombs without caring about your own generals’ lives?
The divine descendants would also be in an uproar—just a nuclear bomb trying to kill our king. What other conspiracies were hidden behind this? Was our king really dead or being held captive?
That would make things even more troublesome.
“But it’s true that the Head of State and many generals did die in this battle,” Xiao Jiu sighed. “This isn’t something fabricated to smear the divine descendants, because among them, three were ancestors of the Gongsun family, who did indeed pass away. In fact, the decline of the Gongsun family is related to this. The deaths of three elite members of the family are not something an ordinary family can bear, but the Gongsun family has a deep heritage. This top-secret file wasn’t shown to us probably because of this…”
Xia Guixuan asked, “How did Gongsun Jiu get hold of this file this time?”
Xiao Jiu replied, “Gongsun Jiu… has been doing things in a way that doesn’t adhere to the rules and has received a lot of criticism. So unless it’s necessary, he generally won’t go overboard in unimportant matters. But that doesn’t mean he’s incapable of getting these things; if he wants to, he can. The commander of the Galactic Fleet isn’t just good at fighting.”
Xia Guixuan chuckled. “So, did he get this file because of my request?”
“This time…” Xiao Jiu paused and sneered, “He doesn’t even trust the Head of State anymore, so why would he care about this?”
Xia Guixuan nodded slowly and said, “So, is the current Head of State the one who took over after the previous leader died twenty-four years ago? Has there been a change in leadership in the past twenty-plus years?”
Xiao Jiu understood his meaning and replied calmly, “Because the war has been ongoing for the past twenty-plus years… there hasn’t been a change in leadership.”
They exchanged a glance, understanding each other’s thoughts.
Xia Guixuan also understood Gongsun Jiu’s intentions.
Gongsun Jiu’s imagined enemy was now their own leader, the Head of State.
Because at the time of the assassination attempt, he was summoned by the Head of State to report. If there was one person in the world who could clearly know his whereabouts at that time, it was the Head of State.
Shang Zhaoye’s estimation was correct…
At this point in time, humans wouldn’t have the leisure to go after the divine descendants…
Xiao Jiu asked softly, “Why do you want to investigate this matter?”
Implicitly, is it because you are the father of the divine descendants?
Xia Guixuan thought of Yin Xiaoruo’s smiling face and shook his head slightly. “I just want to understand the ins and outs of the matter to avoid making wrong judgments and choices. But regardless, about cooperating with Gongsun Jiu on this matter, I’ve promised.”