I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

Hearing Kong Lu's instructions, although Nie Chengyu was somewhat unwilling, he didn't dare to express his dissatisfaction directly like Shadow. This was not only because there was a difference in status between him and Kong Lu.

More importantly, it was the difference in their identities. As a politician, Nie Chengyu had almost made it his instinct to avoid offending anyone.

To be honest, he wasn't really afraid of Kong Lu.

Just as Kong Lu knew that Shadow couldn't do anything to him, Kong Lu couldn't do anything to Nie Chengyu either.

Although it was hard to see, the Federation was actually the fairest organization in the world. Within the Federation, the promotion of any politician almost solely depended on their achievements, and theoretically, they couldn't harm each other.

This organization had an extremely complex and precise algorithm that allowed capable people to reach the positions they should be in, but although this algorithm was constantly iterating and changing, there were things that changed even faster than it.

And that was people.

Even if it was indeed perfect in allocating positions based on ability, any guy with similar abilities to him joining the Federation would reach the same position a few years later—this was mainly determined by information.

But the problem was that such people might not even have the idea of joining the Federation in the first place, and secondly, Nie Chengyu knew very well that if he hadn't been born into the Nie family, he wouldn't have the abilities he had today.

It wasn't hard to understand that his parents would cultivate him in this way. The earliest elders of the Nie family didn't initially intend to develop a group with common interests.

The earliest founders of the Nie family simply loved their children and wanted them to have a better life.

But logically, this inevitably led to the formation of interest groups around them within the Federation, and these groups would continue to proliferate and expand, eventually possessing a certain inevitable influence.

This was the inevitable result of the combination of mathematics and human nature, and the latter, to be more precise...

Was the love of parents engraved in human genes.

This was also one of the few "internal aggregation" factors that the Federation had not eliminated, and it was why almost all of the Federation's interest groups appeared in the form of families.

Historically, there had been guys with strong ambitions and abilities, as well as cold-blooded and cruel individuals, who had tried to form interest groups around themselves in other forms, but they had not succeeded.

Because the Federation directly killed "him."

It seemed that only the family form was within the Federation's acceptance range. Perhaps the cost of preventing them from forming families was higher than the harm these families themselves caused to the Federation, so it allowed them to do so.

And this was also why Nie Chengyu didn't like to cause trouble, as it would make the elders in his family angry.

"Ma En is here to see us again." Nie Chengyu said along with his inertia, "He's asking us if there's any progress on the transaction we discussed last time. Just like we thought, he really wants the Anti-Mind Medicine."

Shadow's face didn't show any expression, but his heart was slightly surprised.

According to Tang Xueluan's "confession", Ma En should have already given up on the transaction. Could there be some other conspiracy hidden inside, or did she misjudge Ma En?

Logically speaking, the answer should be the latter, but Shadow was a little unwilling to accept this answer.

This wasn't just Tang Xueluan's opinion, he himself thought so too, and it didn't quite match his guess about the attack on Alice, although he didn't tell the Federation...

But deep down, he always felt that Ma En had already obtained the Anti-Mind Medicine.

This matter seemed to secretly indicate that his deduction was wrong.

"So what did you call me here for?" Shadow didn't reveal any thoughts, "Aren't you guys eager to cooperate with him to control the gods of the Southern Federation? Just agree to it."

Kong Lu smiled:

"If only things were that simple."

Nie Chengyu explained:

"The problem lies here, the Federation doesn't intend to cooperate with Ma En anymore."

Shadow didn't think this was a problem:

"Then make some other demands to him. I don't think he necessarily has to help us control the Southern Federation, but this Secret Alliance should also have things the Federation wants, and the Anti-Mind Medicine isn't particularly precious, is it..."

His logic was reasonable.

But what happened wasn't reasonable.

Kong Lu revealed a playful expression, and Nie Chengyu immediately explained:

"That's the problem. I'm afraid we have to think of a way to reject him. An ability user found the Federation and proposed the idea of cooperating with us to control the gods, and he also told us a few things.

"First of all, the reason Ma En was able to defeat the Sun God wasn't entirely due to the Secret Alliance. He was able to win largely due to the help provided by this mysterious ability user, who also sealed the Sun God.

"In other words, if he doesn't continue to help, Ma En will no longer have the ability to fight against the gods, and this mysterious ability user also declared that he will no longer provide any help to Ma En.

"Because he was deceived by Ma En, Ma En acted as our middleman."

Nie Chengyu had already told him these things in private, but Shadow didn't think this was a reason to refuse to trade with Ma En.

Nie Chengyu continued:

"The more serious problem is that he's very angry about Ma En's actions, so he hopes that we will no longer cooperate with him. Just for this, he's willing to provide us with help to control the gods at an extremely low price.

"The Federation agreed."

Shadow closed his eyes slightly, then said with a sigh:

"I don't think this is a wise decision."

Kong Lu asked with a cheeky smile:

"Why? Because you have a personal relationship with Ma En? We've noticed that you're acting a little strangely when dealing with matters related to him? Can you explain a little?"

Shadow finally revealed a contemptuous look:

"Because I'm much smarter than you bunch of idiots. In your eyes, some of my actions may seem like I'm being too friendly to Ma En, but in my eyes, it's just the necessary caution.

"Not everyone can be provoked in the way you just did. If you had said those words to Ma En, you might 'accidentally' die in a few months."

Listening to his smile, Kong Lu smiled even more happily:

"Then I'm really glad I didn't do that."

Shadow squinted his eyes and said:

"You should have sought my opinion before making a decision, at least you should have asked Nie Chengyu, who is responsible for Ma En's affairs, for advice, instead of coming to me after making the decision."

Kong Lu said with a smile:

"Don't worry about how the Federation makes decisions. You're making it sound so serious, as if letting Ma En know that we're doing this will lead to some bad results."

Shadow said with a cold face:

"I feel his urgency. I don't doubt that he will take risks for this. You may think that the Federation is someone that no one dares to offend, but I didn't see any respect in his eyes.

"Anyway, I'm not the one who will be responsible then."

Kong Lu's smile almost stretched to the roots of his ears:

"Is that so? Since this matter is so troublesome, then leave it to you and Nie Chengyu, the two Ma En experts. We've already made a decision. If Ma En really gets angry because of our refusal.

"Then you and Nie Chengyu should think of a way to deceive him, coax him, do whatever, as long as you don't reveal the real reason we rejected him, and quell the possible danger.

"This is the Federation's order to you."