“If only it’s just as simple as a wretched bastard like Lei Cang,” said Lin An. “Enough questions, Cinnamon. The die is cast and nothing you do, even if you know what is going on, will change things. Just do as I say and report at the Phenex Cohort base camp. Stay out of trouble; this is not something you can handle.”“But what if I were to insist on going to the staging station now?” Lin Jingxin asserted, “Are you going to have me bound in chains and dragged there instead?”“What do you think?” Lin An deflected with a question of his own.“Tell me, uncle,” Lin Jingxin persuaded, “Is our family’s interest more important than justice for all mankind?”Lin An’s face shifted at that. He exhaled wearily and placed a hand on the shoulder of one of the family’s brightest young prodigies and said, “None of them are. What matters above all else is the continuity of our race.”“But Li Mu, he is a—” Lin Jingxin protested.
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