"There's a saying that 'plans can't keep up with change'. Originally, I really intended to be a 'bystander' from beginning to end, to cooperate with you moderately, and never to participate in the internal affairs of your country, so that we just take what we need, and the others will not interfere with each other. But ......"

"But?"

"But in the past few months, even though we seem to have worked together to weaken many of Gao Liwen's hidden forces in the Banana Country, he has never made any changes. This is not normal. In this way, he made me feel that the forces that we have struck are exactly what he has prepared for us to defeat from the beginning......

This foreboding was unsettling to me.

"I suspect that the forces we have attacked are probably not the main forces in Gao Liwen's country, and what we have done in the past few months has not really hurt him. On the contrary, those forces may well have been deliberately leaked and thrown at us as a decoy to lure us into his deeper calculations, and in the end, all our efforts have fulfilled him. And he, until then, just quietly watched the show, watching how we eliminated the forces that were also his stumbling blocks, and when we were greatly damaged by this, he would appear at the right time, seize the fruits of our efforts, and annihilate us in one fell swoop by the way—just like what you did to Jiaohuang and Ji Muchen recently......"

"What are you trying to say? Could it be that the information you got is fake? However, according to my investigation, the list you gave me is not fake. And it has really helped me a lot over the past few months. - It's just that I didn't expect that when it came to a critical period, it was a big deal for you!"

At this moment, although Ji Muqing's tone was not friendly, compared to before, Gao Ran felt that he had basically dispelled his original guard against her, and she dared to say more.

So, she responded bluntly: "Alas, I understand your feelings, but you listen to me first." Maybe you'll thank me for stopping you in time for what I did today!"

But Ji Muqing just glanced at her and stopped talking.

When Gao Ran saw it, he had no choice but to restrain the somewhat arrogant aura that had just been revealed, and then continued to explain seriously:

"Don't worry, the information I gave you is absolutely true. But what I want to say is that I suspect that even if the information I received was true, it would probably not be the whole truth, or the main part of the truth, but rather the trivial details that would not hurt Gao Liwen at all. If not as a sideshow, it probably won't be important enough to really hurt him—at least for him.

"Otherwise, since he would have personally appeared to see me before, so that I could see with my own eyes a little-known side, how could he be so calm now?—— he has been so persecuted by me, and can still remain indifferent?—— is too strange? It's unconvincing......

"Therefore, I have reason to suspect that he deliberately appeared and came to meet me in person, probably only to lure me into the bait, so that I deliberately let me see his dangerous side, and then I easily became very wary of him. And this is his real purpose. He didn't really try to convince me to submit to him. - I guess even if I were willing to submit to him and listen to him, I'm afraid he wouldn't really take me seriously, right?

"Hmm...... Looking back now, the way he looked at me at the time really didn't look like he really looked up to me......"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, that's what you guessed. I've probably fallen for his tricks.

"If I'm not mistaken, then from the moment I saw him again in the Banana Country, from the moment I became wary of him that I had never been before, I had already been tricked. And every step I took after that was probably expected by him. And he can use me to provoke you and Ji Muchen, as well as the Banana Emperor, the original balance between the three of you, and exacerbate the deterioration of the contradictions between you as soon as possible, so that the political situation in the Banana Country will be turbulent as soon as possible, and it will still affect the kind of great turmoil that will affect the whole country.

"You see, isn't it because of me that Dong Tianyi wants to borrow your hand to get rid of Gao Liwen's minions secretly spread in the imperial court? He did this not so much for the Dong family as for me. - The dignified Dong family, if you really want to deal with Gao Liwen, there are many means. It's impossible that because Dong Tianyi happens to be your friend, he has to help you...... Isn't it?—— what's more, Dong Tianyi's conditions to you are obviously more beneficial to me. You, just by the way.

"And you, isn't it because of my relationship that you were able to grasp the specific list of those spies so quickly, and then you would think of using them to stir up the balance between Jiaohuang and Ji Muchen, trying to take the opportunity to seize power when they both lose?—— don't say that you don't plan to do so.

"In my opinion, the tricks you have been playing lately are almost the same as the tricks that Gao Liwen used to calculate me, and there is no essential difference. ”

But Ji Muqing didn't respond to her temptation head-on, but just followed Gao Ran's words and finished speaking for her: "So, you just just plan and deliberately make the situation more chaotic, so as to attract more new forces that want to take advantage of it and can more or less balance Gao Liwen's new forces to participate in it?—— such as your Gao family, and Gao Liwen's wife's family, the Fu family, or even the Yun family?"

At this moment, Ji Muqing basically understood Gao Ran's intentions. And if the speculation she just said was the truth, then she didn't choose to betray him, on the contrary, she did so, but it really stopped him from continuing to sink in time, and stopped the price he would have to pay for the enemies who would also hinder him by Gao Liwen who might be used by Gao Liwen to "do it for him". may even help him avoid the doom of becoming a substitute for Gao Liwen in the future.

"Well, exactly. But you're only half right. The reason why I did this is actually another consideration......"

"Oh?"

"I suspect that even the choice I make now is likely to have been anticipated by Gao Liwen. Rather, even though I knew that I might as well have done what he wanted, I still had to do it. ”

"What?, what did you say?!"

"I hope it's just my whims, but I've met him twice, and I've been impressed on both occasions – he's not that simple! and if he wouldn't have expected the choices I've made, it's not like the low-level mistakes of someone like him who would make me feel 'dangerous'......

"It's not so much that I believe that his calculations are far beyond my reach, but rather that I believe in the 'danger' that I feel in him again and again. – I'm confident in how I feel. And in this world, it can make me feel like this in an instant, and it makes me feel more or less every time I meet it, among the people I meet, except for Qiu Yueze, only Gao Liwen can make me feel this way. So, I am sure that my judgment will never be wrong.

"But no matter what, whether you believe my judgment or not, now I have done what I shouldn't have done, and you can only accept the reality. Be cautious in the future, don't let people get caught easily. If any of the pieces you have in your hands may become a hidden danger to you after this change, then you better get rid of them as soon as possible and don't keep them anymore.

"In addition, you can rest assured that those rumors that I let Tiange spread, if necessary, I will take the initiative to bear the consequences and will not escape. I won't let anyone with a heart take advantage of the topic and doubt you who have been in contact with me. - Especially not to let Ji Muchen have such an opportunity. ”

"Really, why should I trust you?"

"Just because I'm so troubled, you have to make your choice. ”

"What choice?"

"Do you choose to believe me, and then cooperate with me to finally win the throne and protect yourself?Or choose not to believe me, so you can't get the full assistance of me and Dong Tianyi, you can only act alone, and in the end, you will be swallowed up by Yunxiang Kingdom, which is slightly stronger than you, and in the end, let alone the throne, I am afraid that even your own life will be lost." And in the end, the one who can become the founding emperor of this unprecedented unification, even if it is not Gao Liwen, most likely will not be the descendants of your Ji clan......"

Ji Muqing looked at Gao Ran quietly for a while, and then whispered without hearing any emotion: "Those are just your own conjectures. Even if I take a step back, even if I choose to go it alone, the final consequences will indeed be as you say...... But why should I believe that if I choose to cooperate with you, I will get my wish? Don't forget, you have already betrayed me once. If there is a first time, won't there be a second time?"

"Hmm. I understand. Indeed, even if it turns out later that what I am doing today is actually helping you, my original motivation for choosing to do so was definitely not for you, but for myself. So, from your point of view, I did betray you. Still, you can trust me. - That's it. ”

As he spoke, Gao Ran took out a delicate and small white porcelain bottle from his arms, and then poured out the only two pills that looked almost transparent, with only a conspicuous red spot in the center of the pill.