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Chapter 76 Talent: Mark of Loyalty (5k)

You looked at Lin Xue and didn't respond to her request immediately.

You are also very sad about the old principal's passing.

[But the old principal once said that the spark of life is more precious than the monument of death.]

Although you also want to mobilize the Red Heart Society at all costs, seek revenge on those sinister aristocratic families, and fight recklessly, you are well aware of the power gap between the two sides.

[At the same time, as the leader of the Red Heart Society, you need to be responsible for yourself and for the professionals under your command who are loyal to you.]

【Every decision you make will affect countless people. 】

Therefore, until the Red Heart Society has the strength to confront the aristocratic families, you need to proceed with caution.

【No matter what, time is on your side.】

[With the accumulation of time and the superposition of infinite time and space, the future of the Red Heart Society will surely win.]

[In other words, the current forbearance is for a complete explosion in the future! ]

[Just because you don't retaliate completely, or completely break up, doesn't mean you can't retaliate.]

[The aristocratic family used such disgusting means to backstab the Red Heart Society at the critical moment of resisting the demonic tide. Is this a move only they can use?]

【The Red Heart Society can’t use it? 】

An eye for an eye!

【An tooth for a tooth! 】

[This is what you have always done, and it is the fundamental reason why the Red Heart Society is still so passionate.]

[Even with the blessing of faith, the dark methods used by the Chixin Society will be even more extreme than those of the aristocratic families.]

You have no parents or relatives, no family ties, and no so-called lover.

【But the aristocratic family has it! 】

[They were born into noble families, enjoying countless splendors since childhood, and they have an incomparable attachment to this aristocratic family.]

[After all, life is so perfect and so blissful, how can one not be nostalgic? ]

[Even if we use the rule that the happy give in, it should be the aristocratic families who give in!]

[Will you let the aristocratic families know what kind of monster their shady backstabbing tactics have unleashed?]

【As for the person to be retaliated against? 】

It's very simple!

[Just look around the Federation and see which family, which war group, or which faction has a close relationship with the Shangdu family.]

[In this situation, there is no need for complete evidence at all! ]

[As long as you have doubts in your heart, the other party's guilt is established! ]

[They have such a good relationship with the Shangdu family. Even if they don't attack the Chixin Society now, they will definitely do so once they have some free time in the future!]

【Therefore, there is absolutely no problem with the Red Heart Society's revenge.】

[And with the Red Heart Society's current intelligence network, it would be incredibly easy to list all the forces that have close ties with the Shangdu family.]

[Under your instructions, Lin Xue began to gather the assassins and formulate various corresponding plans.]

[Although she understands your tolerance, it's to allow Chixin Club to develop better.]

[But seeing the old principal and all her comrades fall because of the betrayal of the aristocratic family, her heart seemed to bleed.]

[But in the Red Heart Society, your orders are above everything else! ]

In February of the 136th year of the Supernormal Calendar, a series of major events occurred within the Federation, causing the Federation, which had restored some order, to become chaotic once again.

[The Hua family in the Fog City was attacked with a colorless and odorless poison, causing 300 of the Hua family members to bleed to death from all seven orifices.]

The spiritual pool used by the Liu family in Licheng to cleanse their bloodline was contaminated by the aura of the abyss, causing eighty-six Liu family children to become insane and die from brain explosions.

[The direct line of the Wang family in Gray City has been subjected to more than a dozen assassination attempts, and the Wang family's overseas businesses have suffered numerous mysterious attacks.]

[The Soul Loan headquarters was blown to pieces by the psychic bomb attack.]

The chairman of the Moonlight Group was attacked by an assassin and died.

[In the Federal Central Law Enforcement Department, several law enforcement officers from prominent Shangdu families have mysteriously died.]

[Even on the front lines of the Abyss, officers and regiment management from Shangdu families were subjected to various assassinations and attacks.]

A series of explosive events occurred, and the deaths of various important figures who only existed in Zhiwang Communications plunged the entire federation into a state of anxiety.

[Especially the revenge of the mastermind against the aristocratic family, which has reached a point of madness.]

Who is it?

[Revenge on the aristocratic family in this way? ]

How great is the hatred, how great is the resentment?

Is there anything that cannot be brought to the negotiation table?

【Is it necessary to do this? 】

Just as the aristocratic families of the Federation were furious and desperate to find the culprit behind the incident, the Fog City Flower family had already begun to mobilize all the family power to comprehensively attack all assets of the Red Heart Society.

[Three hundred family members, that's the accumulation of almost a generation of the Hua family!]

[How could this not make the Hua family angry? ]

[The Hua family's frantic targeting and reckless crackdown on the economic sector also gave other aristocratic families some clues.]

After considering the close relationship between the Hua family and the Shangdu family, and the damage caused to the Red Heart Regiment's Ningcheng defense line by a surprise attack, they were able to roughly analyze the truth of the matter.

[It is obvious that the Hua family has deceived the Chixin Society, causing it to suffer heavy losses.]

【Now, this is the revenge of the Red Heart Society! 】

Since the Red Heart Society didn't know who was behind their backstabbing, they immediately launched an all-out attack.

This made the Wang family and other affected families very angry. They hadn't taken any action against the Chixin Society, so why were they also attacked?

[Wouldn't it be better for you to play with the Hua family properly, Chixinhui? ]

Why do you have to involve them?

[So, they united and once again reported the Red Heart Society to the military and the federal headquarters.]

[In these turbulent times, most of their family's strength is fighting on the front lines of the abyss, but what will Chixin do? ]

[Digging up their roots and cutting off their seedlings! ]

How can this be tolerated?

[We must not let the heroes fighting on the front lines shed blood and tears! ]

[Even this matter, with the approval of the aristocratic family, various federal media outlets began to collectively speak out.]

[For a time, public opinion began to turn against the Red Heart Society.]

Soon, the Red Heart Society responded, stating that they had been conducting operations at the Ningcheng defense line recently and would not assassinate or poison any organization or individual.

【This is a mean act! 】

【Immoral behavior! 】

[The Chixin Society is upright and honest, and has made building the Federation their lifelong goal. They would never do such a thing!]

[Besides, the war on the Abyssal Front is so critical that even for the Federation's sake, the Red Heart Society would never do such a heartless thing!]

[Any words or actions that defame or slander the Red Heart Club will be prosecuted by the Red Heart Club's legal department!]

[Everything will be revealed in court!]

[However, in response to the collective complaint from the noble families, the military and the federal headquarters expedited the handling of the matter.]

[However, when the military and the Federation General Office asked them for evidence, and asked the Aristocratic Family and the Hua Family for evidence of the Red Heart Society's crimes, they were unable to submit any valid evidence.]

[Those assassins and poisoners, after investigation, were found to have no connection to the Red Heart Society at all.]

[When a powerful force attempts to disguise themselves as assassins, ordinary means are simply impossible to detect.]

【As for soul searching or retrospection? 】

How can we find him if we can’t even catch him?

[Without evidence, how can they explain themselves?]

[Could it be that they backstabbed the Red Heart Society? Based on this incident, we can infer that this wave of assassinations and poisonings must have been initiated by the Red Heart Society.]

[This kind of thing, let it go without saying it directly.]

[If this were brought to a military court, all of the Hua family's fifth-level professionals would be sentenced to death!]

[After all, interfering with frontline military operations is a crime second only to treason under federal law.]

[Ultimately, due to a lack of evidence, the military was unable to order the arrest of the Red Heart Society.]

[Of course, the most important point is that the Red Heart Society has sufficient military forces to handle normal arrests.]

[You can't expect the Red Heart Society's top brass to surrender obediently just because the military issued an arrest warrant, right?]

[The battle on the Abyssal Front is currently intense, and they can't just send the frontline troops and battle groups back to support just because of a few aristocratic families outside the imperial capital.]

[If this were to happen, the combat enthusiasm of the army and the regiment would be greatly suppressed.]

Finally, the Federation General Office promised to arrange for a secret investigation. Once it is confirmed that the Red Heart Society is responsible, they will definitely eliminate the Red Heart Society in the shortest possible time!

[This decision made these noble families look at each other in bewilderment.]

[In all the years since the Federation was established, this is the first time they've been so helpless against a civilian organization!]

After receiving this news, the Du, Liu, and Yu families quietly withdrew the case against the Red Heart Society from the military court.

[The Red Heart Society's methods are too sinister! ]

[Once the fight starts, there's absolutely no chance of survival; everyone will be utterly annihilated.]

[And the Red Heart Society has enough supporters to easily carry out various vicious incidents such as assassination, poisoning, torture, etc.]

[How can you be on guard against thieves for a thousand days when you can travel a thousand miles?]

[Other noble families and factions that had been preparing to backstab the Red Heart Society also quietly put their plans aside.]

[After all, they can't stand such revenge.]

In March of the 136th year of the Transcendental Calendar, the number of vicious incidents within the Federation increased significantly, with the incidents in Fog City accounting for nearly two-thirds of them.

[All of the Wudu Hua family's businesses, including both white and black gloves, were suppressed in all directions.]

[All the talents in various fields cultivated by the Hua family were surrounded and killed.]

[When the Hua family used tactics to capture these assassins and murderers alive, they would always self-destruct and die the moment they were discovered.]

[Even this kind of self-destruction is a desperate self-destruction of the soul.]

[While using precious soul items to increase the power of the explosion, it will also destroy all of your own soul fragments.]

[Even the highest quality soul tracing item cannot reveal any useful information.]

[People with lofty beliefs are more decisive than any death warriors when faced with mission failure.]

[In April of the 136th year of the Supernormal Calendar, the Hua family members on the front lines began to encounter accidents frequently.]

[While carrying out a reconnaissance mission, the concealment props suddenly failed and were devoured by the Abyss Lord on the spot.]

[Someone was commanding a legion in battle and was caught in the abyss disaster.]

[Even worse, some people were killed by having their offspring cut off by sharp weapons while they were reproducing with their lovers.]

If the death of the Hua family's children represents the loss of the family's future generation, then the death of the Hua family members on the front lines represents the destruction of the family's backbone.

If a family has no young people or children, then this family is doomed to disappear into the long river of history in the near future.

[The Hua family's tragic fate also made the federal aristocratic families pay attention to the Red Heart Society for the first time.]

[The Chixin Society took advantage of the chaos to massacre the Shangdu aristocratic families, plundered extraordinary resources, and confiscated their cultivation techniques. For the aristocratic families of the Federation, this was largely due to luck and trickery.]

[After all, the various powerful people cultivated by the Shangdu families were not in Shangdu at that time.]

[Additionally, the spatial blockade imposed by the two empires made it impossible for them to return to provide assistance.]

[That's why the Chixin Society can act so recklessly in the Shangdu.]

[But now, they have witnessed the true power of the Red Heart Society.]

[It turns out that the Chixin Society, which boasts tens of millions of official members, is truly powerful not in direct confrontation, but in conspiracy and assassination.]

[For a large family to grow and develop, it needs to invest a huge amount of resources and energy, and even more so, it requires all kinds of good luck and a precise grasp of the current situation.]

[Even so, it is only with the concerted efforts of generations of descendants of this aristocratic family that this family can rise.]

【But it's so easy to bring down a noble family! 】

[Especially for an organization with a large staff, pure faith, and no fear of life and death, this is not a difficult task at all.]

Just when these paper tigers from the aristocratic families wanted to retreat, the radical faction in the military believed that the Chixin Society was acting recklessly!

[In a matter concerning the stability of the Federation, they actually dared to extend their hands to the front lines and act recklessly there!]

[We asked the Chixin Society to go to the front lines, but they refused!]

[Now, you're still engaging in terrorism here!]

Although they have no evidence, suspicion is sufficient when it comes to strategic issues at the national level.

[Regarding this incident, a powerful military figure stated that the Chixin Society should be labeled a terrorist organization!]

[Next, send the national team to kill all the top leaders of the Red Heart Society!]

[After the entire Red Heart Society's leadership is annihilated, the remaining Red Heart Society professionals will no longer be a threat.]

[Those who should be incorporated will be incorporated, and those who should be disbanded and assigned to other battle groups will be disbanded to strengthen the Federation's military strength.]

[For an organization like the Red Heart Society, where the leader's authority is paramount, if the leader dies, the entire organization is effectively disbanded.]

【This proposal was rejected by the Minister of Military Affairs.】

[The actions of the Red Heart Society have established a new development direction for the Federation's subsequent reform plans.]

Even without mentioning this, the Red Heart Society also made great contributions by fully defending the Ningcheng defense line.

[Most importantly, the Chixin Society will spread the techniques widely, greatly increasing the strength of the Federation Army and the War Group.]

[Perhaps this is not the original intention of the Red Heart Society, but what the Red Heart Society does is beneficial to the prosperity of the Federation.]

Therefore, in the absence of direct evidence, extreme measures should not be taken unless necessary.

[In June of the 136st year of the Supernatural Calendar, you reached level 31.]

[In the same month, the Red Heart Society discovered a talent star-raising stone during their battle with the Abyssal Terror Beast.]

[Counting the two sent by the Federation, you now have three talent star upgrade stones.]

[Normally, to upgrade a Bronze-level talent to Silver, three Talent Star Ascension Stones are required.]

[However, when you choose to advance, the Silver-rank talent on the professional panel requires the condensation of the power of rotation, so a piece of Rotation Jade is also required as an auxiliary material.]

[Otherwise, the power of the innate star-raising stone will not be able to act on the depths of your soul. ]

【Fortunately, the whereabouts of the Rotating Jade are known in the national treasury.】

[So, you used the combat merits accumulated by the Red Heart Society during this period to exchange for a precious rotating jade.]

[Under the power of the Talent Star Stone and the Rotating Jade, your talent begins to improve.]

【Talent: Loyal → Mark of Loyalty.】

[Rank: Bronze → Silver.]

[Ability ①: When someone offers their loyalty to you, reaching the level of fanaticism, your emotionally agitated mental fluctuations will ferment for a period of time, solidifying a mark of loyalty in their heart, significantly increasing the stability of their loyalty index.]

[Ability ②: Within a range of 50,000 meters, the opponent can listen to your teachings in their hearts, and you can also sense their loyalty through your mind.]

You look at your new talent, your eyes sparkling.

[The emergence of new talents further enhances the purity of the Red Heart Society.]

[From now on, once your followers who fanatically worship you form a loyalty mark, their loyalty will be effectively guaranteed.]

[Even as time passes, even if things change, the other person's loyalty can still be trusted.]

[Of course, from the current perspective, the conditions for forming this loyalty mark are somewhat harsh.]

[However, compared to the bronze-tier Loyalist talent, the silver-tier Mark of Loyalty talent is still more than a level stronger.]

[This is the talent that has the greatest impact on a professional's combat power. The blessing of the Silver Talent can completely crush the Bronze Talent.]

[The higher the gold talent, the more terrifying the all-round blessing it brings to the professional.]

[In short, no matter what, you are very satisfied with your current silver talent.]

In August of the 136th year of the Transcendent Calendar, with the Hua family pushed to their limit by the Chixin Society, they had no choice but to use their family's wealth and hire a high-level soul mage to investigate and collect evidence.

[A mages skilled in soul magic is inherently treacherous, and if their level is high enough, they can almost monitor an entire city with their powerful mental power.]

[So, the moment the assassin reveals his true colors and behaves strangely, the Soul Mage can arrive instantly.]

[In front of a high-level soul mage, low-level professionals don't even have the ability to commit suicide.]

[Or rather, from the moment they realized something was wrong, their souls had already been controlled.]

Even if Lin Xue had considered this extreme situation, adhering to the Red Heart Society's principle of revenge, from open to covert, the assassins she selected were all extremely loyal and steadfast supporters of the Red Heart Society, fanatical enough to give everything for them.

After learning the consequences, these professionals even proactively requested that their memories be obscured, even resorting to a destructive method of destroying their souls and then rebuilding them, completely destroying everything related to the Red Heart Society.

[But the tiny fragments of the dust hidden deep in the soul can still be found by the soul mage.]

[In February of the 137th year of the Transcendental Calendar, after six months, thanks to the Soul Mage's impeccable soul healing technique, these crushed and pulverized memory fragments were restored and solidified.]

[And so, a perfect chain of evidence that the Chixin Society was the mastermind behind assassinations, poisonings, and other vicious incidents was sent by the Hua family to the military and the federal headquarters.]

After learning about this, the other noble families in the Federation immediately mobilized their forces and expressed their support without hesitation.

[After all, the extremist organization, the Red Heart Society, is too dangerous! ]

[If they can make the Hua family exist in name only today, then we can wipe them out tomorrow!]

[So, if there is evidence, we must urge the military to take action.]

[Even if there are some losses on the Abyss Front, it is worth it!]

PS: The author has seen some friends discussing whether the protagonist should go to the War College in the next simulation. The author's original intention was to add diversity to the plot. After all, the relevant plot of Yuncheng University has been almost written.

But the author also respects the opinions of friends. Friends can leave a message here and we can discuss it together.

(End of this chapter)