Dong Hong walked straight onto the platform and stopped in front of Liu Qi.
Liu Qi and several officers behind him immediately stood straight and gave a military salute. "Greetings, sir!"
Dong Hong nodded slightly and said calmly, "You all heard the question I just asked, right."
Liu Qi was at a loss for words and stammered, unable to answer.
After quite a while, Liu Qi finally said, "Sir, it was my personal judgment that there were suspicious points about Jiang Kai, especially this matter with the Fire Tribulation Bead, which seemed even stranger, so I gave the order to investigate Jiang Kai."
Dong Hong looked at Liu Qi and smiled faintly. "Your personal judgment…" Then, Dong Hong's expression suddenly turned serious, and his tone became stern.
"As a lieutenant general, you naturally have the authority to investigate Jiang Kai. But the problem is, you just said that the military was investigating Jiang Kai. So does that mean your personal suspicion already represents the military's stance?"
"N no, I wouldn't dare!" Liu Qi hurriedly said.
Dong Hong snorted coldly. "Everyone knows that Jiang Kai took first place in the Global Championship, received the best rewards, and transferred all of them to the military. In the global nation war, he turned the tide, led Huaxia to reverse the situation, and directly expanded our Huaxia territory by ten thousand square kilometers."
"Out of the three major divine relic sites worldwide, he was the first to discover two of them, allowing Huaxia to open the Endless Abyss and the Tower of Life ahead of others."
"And most of the rewards he obtained were handed over to the military. Just a few days ago, he even promised to transfer twelve Rebirth Badges to the military!"
"Liu Qi, someone who has made such enormous contributions to Huaxia's development of Ghost Planet, and yet you investigate him in the name of the military. How do you expect the public to see our Huaxia military? Aren't you afraid of chilling the people's hearts?!"
Faced with this barrage of questions from his superior, Liu Qi immediately lost his composure and said in a panic, "This… sir, I, I was only suspicious! I was also doing it for Huaxia!"
Dong Hong's expression did not change. His face was cold. "Suspicious? The tone you used just now did not sound like simple suspicion!"
"Even taking a step back, fine, you investigated. But after all this time, you don't have a single piece of solid evidence. You take suspicion as evidence and guesses as facts!"
"Put lightly, you are overly arbitrary and domineering. Put seriously, that is trampling on human lives!"
"Let me ask you, if Jiang Kai was wronged, what will the public think? Is this what our Huaxia military is like? How terrible an impact would you cause to the Huaxia military?!"
"And you still say you're doing it for Huaxia? Then let me ask you, if you were really investigating a traitor, before you had any evidence, you openly voiced your suspicions. Were you trying to catch a traitor, or were you tipping him off? And you even did it publicly in a completely irrelevant setting! I think you've lost your mind!"
"Liu Qi, if this is how you handle things, then your days as a lieutenant general are over!"
When Liu Qi heard Dong Hong's last sentence, his legs went weak, and he staggered back two steps!
"I… sir…" "The phrase 'the military is investigating' wasn't said by me, it was said by Dongfang Canghai." Liu Qi stuttered as he tried to defend himself. Now he could only drag someone else down with him. "It was also Dongfang Canghai who told me to organize the suspicious points about Jiang Kai and bring them up during the match!"
Dong Hong suddenly roared in anger, "Liu Qi! He tells you to organize them and you just do it? Liu Qi, don't forget that you are a Huaxia lieutenant general. You are supposed to work for Huaxia, not for the Dongfang family!"
"Do you think I'm old and muddleheaded? I saw the entire process clearly! You may not have personally said you represented the military, but you also didn't deny it! Under those circumstances, your actions were equivalent to tacitly accepting that claim!"
"I…" Liu Qi became more and more flustered and no longer knew how to explain himself.
Dong Hong took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and tried to keep his tone as calm as possible.
After all, this was not a military base. Even if Liu Qi had to be dealt with, it could not be done here.
"We'll talk about your issue after we go back. First, I'll talk about something else."
"This afternoon, compile a detailed report of your covert investigation into Jiang Kai and deliver it to my office!" Dong Hong said coldly. "It must include who proposed it, who carried it out, the execution results, and whether there was any external influence. Everything must be clearly reflected in the report."
"I will personally follow up on this matter!"
Liu Qi's expression became even uglier. He knew that Marshal Dong's demand was even more severe than punishing him on the spot.
What Marshal Dong meant was that he intended to thoroughly investigate the matter, including all other people involved!
Seeing that Liu Qi still had not responded, Marshal Dong's anger flared up, and he shouted harshly, "Did you hear me?!"
Liu Qi was startled and hurriedly stood at attention and saluted. "Yes! I'll go organize it right away!"
After speaking, Liu Qi turned to the people behind him and said, "Go back and prepare the report!"
Those officers from the War God Hall followed Liu Qi off the stage in disgrace.
Seeing Liu Qi and the others leave, Dongfang Canghai felt deep regret in his heart.
Originally, he had planned to use Liu Qi's identity as a lieutenant general to guide public opinion and achieve the goal of crushing Jiang Kai. Who could have known that Jiang Kai also had helpers.
And these two helpers who stepped in, one was the titled War God Wei Ying, and the other was even a marshal of the Huaxia military!
The moment Dong Hong appeared, Liu Qi was destined to stir up no waves at all.
Not only that, Marshal Dong personally following up on this matter seemed to mean he wanted to dig out this entire group of allies within the military. If that was really the case, the outcome might be even worse than he had imagined!
Not only did he fail to achieve his goal, but under Dong Hong's pressure, Liu Qi had even implicated him.
Whether others could escape responsibility, he did not know, but the Dongfang family was no longer able to stay out of it!
The development of events had already far exceeded his expectations.
Thinking of this, Dongfang Canghai felt as if his whole body had been hollowed out. He staggered back several steps and looked from afar at Jiang Kai.
Dongfang Bai had lost to Jiang Kai, and afterward, framing Jiang Kai had also backfired!
This time, he had lost completely!
Seeing Dongfang Canghai in such a terrible state, an elder hurried to the arena and supported him. "Family head, are you alright?"
"I…" Dongfang Canghai looked helplessly at the elder. "Old Zhong, we're in trouble…"
"Family head, let's not talk about this right now. I'll help you down first."
Dongfang Canghai could only stagger along as the elder helped him off the stage.
After Liu Qi and the others left, Dong Hong walked over to Jiang Kai. The stern expression on his face finally relaxed, and he smiled slightly at Jiang Kai. "Jiang Kai, don't worry about Liu Qi's matter. I'll give you an explanation later!"
"That match just now was excellent!"
After saying that, Dong Hong glanced at Wei Ying. "Old Wei, why are you still lingering on the stage? The martial arts matchmaking hasn't ended yet."
Wei Ying froze for a moment, then remembered that they were still on the arena.
Wei Ying smiled at Jiang Kai. "Kid, you're great at fighting, but when it comes to chasing girls, sigh…" As he spoke, Wei Ying followed Marshal Dong and walked off the arena together.
Now Jiang Kai was the only one left on the stage.
"Hey, I wasn't planning to chase any girl. You two wait for me!" Jiang Kai shouted, about to chase after Dong Hong and Wei Ying.
At that moment, an angry shout came from behind Jiang Kai!
"You stop right there!"
Jiang Kai turned around in surprise and found a stunningly beautiful woman standing behind him, glaring at him fiercely.
After Hua Tianchen waited for Dong Hong and Wei Ying to come back, he hurriedly handed them a large handful of nuts and said excitedly, "Hey hey hey, something good is happening. Come on, eat while you watch!"
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