Chapter 1004: 1019, tit for tat Chapter 1004: 1019, tit for tat The Sea Giant King’s move was to pass the ball to the Skrull people.

“You don’t get along with the Blue Star People, so I might as well directly ask for your opinion. If you tell me to collect it, I’ll collect it; if not, I can give the Blue Star People an explanation. That way, I offend neither party.”

Pu Langte and Manina III immediately understood the Sea Giant King’s intentions.

Pu Langte stood up, smiled at Prime Minister Cao Cao and the Sea Giant King, and said:
“The Blue Star People have come from afar, crossing such a vast distance using interstellar teleportation to visit our Skru Star, inciting internal strife within our Skru Star. That’s certainly no easy feat.

Since they sincerely brought a gift for this meeting, Your Excellency Tuskal, you might as well accept it.

However, Your Excellency Tuskal, you must know that the Blue Star People wouldn’t offer a meeting gift without an ulterior motive–they must be plotting something!”

“Ah, you are mistaken,” Prime Minister Cao Cao shook his head and interrupted him: “We, the people of China on Blue Star, have always been a land of propriety, advocating peace, equality, and mutual trust.”

Prime Minister Cao Cao then turned his gaze to the Sea Giant King: “Your Excellency Tuskal, my visit this time is merely a normal peaceful exchange between intelligent species, without any strong purpose, and certainly not like the Sea Sand War 1251 years ago, where nobles were forced to leave their ancestral lands and migrate elsewhere.”

The Sea Giant King: “…”

At Prime Minister Cao Cao’s words, his heart felt as if it were suddenly pricked by a thorn, excruciatingly painful.

He had lived through the “Sea Sand War” 1251 years ago when he was very young and had little memory of it.

The cause and details of that war had now escaped his memory.

However, he clearly remembered that it was a war initiated by the Skrull people to compete for a sacred item–“the Geknatite Pearl”.

The war ended in a tragic defeat for the Sea Giants.

Afterward, the sacred item was taken, their land was occupied by the Skrull people, and his people were forced to migrate to this godforsaken place.

Cao Cao had obviously done his homework well; his speech invoked long-buried memories, stirring up the Sea Giant King’s hatred toward the Skrull clan once again.

…

Pu Langte and Manina III were shocked; they exchanged glances, sensing trouble!

What he had just mentioned, “the Blue Star People coming from so far to stir up strife on our Skru Star,” was meant to remind the Sea Giant King they were allies and not to take the words of these two aliens at face value.

But now, with Prime Minister Cao Cao bringing up the Sea Sand War, even though it was not led by the Raging Sun Empire, they as Raging Sun people had participated in the war, gaining substantial territory from it.

It was obvious that the Sea Giant King’s attitude toward them had soured considerably.

…

Pu Langte couldn’t let Prime Minister Cao Cao continue, so he promptly changed the subject:
“Cao Cao, you say your visit is for peace, but I doubt it!

Are you saying that you really have no purpose this time? Not the slightest request from Your Excellency Tuskal?”

“Of course, it’s not that there’s no purpose,” Prime Minister Cao Cao didn’t show a hint of embarrassment, but carefreely stated: “I’m here to visit Your Excellency Tuskal primarily for two matters. Of course, both are in favor of the Sea Giant race.”

“Oh?” The Sea Giant King glanced sideways at Pu Langte, then turned to face Prime Minister Cao Cao: “Please, go on.”

“These two matters are as follows,” said Prime Minister Cao Cao, as he stroked his beard with gravity:
“First, you must be aware of the recent Skrull propaganda–‘The Holy Silver Federation dispatched a God-Level peak mercenary to join the Skrull ranks.’ You know about it, right?”

“Of course, I do,” the Sea Giant King nodded: “The Skrull’s propaganda is everywhere on the planet.”

But he quickly sensed something incorrect: “Wait, you said that God-Level peak is a mercenary!”

The Sea Giant King looked incredulous.

The Holy Silver person Mona a mercenary?!

Didn’t the Skrull say that Mona was specially sent by the Holy Silver Federation to support them? How could someone sent on purpose be called “a mercenary” rather than “reinforcements”?

Prime Minister Cao Cao nodded: “Yes, the Holy Silver person Mona is indeed a mercenary. Moreover, she was not sent by the Holy Silver Federation to support the Skrull, but by the hymn under the ‘War Fairness Principle’, to be dispatched to the Skrull as a mercenary.”

While speaking, Prime Minister Cao Cao transmitted a small stream of spiritual power to the Sea Giant King.

This stream of spiritual power contained the entire sequence of events, making the cause and effect of Mona’s arrival crystal clear.

Upon receiving this burst of spiritual power, the Sea Giant King immediately understood what was going on.

“Oh, so that’s how it is!” The Sea Giant King clenched his left fist and gently struck his right palm, a look of realization on his face.

So it was because Cao Cao obtained “the hilt of the Sword of Many Proverbs” and the beneficial conditions for Blue Star Humans in the final secret realm that the hymn decided to send Mona.

This meant that the Holy Silver Federation hadn’t supported the Skrull at all; the Skrull had been spreading falsehoods these past few days!

Luckily he hadn’t trusted the Skrull; these curs truly weren’t trustworthy.

The Sea Giant King nodded solemnly at Prime Minister Cao Cao, signaling that he had understood everything.

Seeing the Sea Giant King’s reaction, Prime Minister Cao Cao smiled and said: “Your Excellency Tuskal, my first task in visiting your noble territories with Taoist Ying Zheng is to expose the lies of the Skrull.

We hope that in the coming time, the Sea Giant race won’t rashly take sides, won’t be easily deceived by the Skrull or be dragged into their chariots, and that you’ll more discerningly separate truth from falsehood.”