"One is an ant, while the other is a dragon. Which one do you think the country would choose?" Lu Tian-He's faint laughter continued to ring in Wu Yang's ears.
Sometimes, reality was cruel like this.
It wasn't always a matter of who was right and who was wrong, but which option was more beneficial.
Wu Yang was merely a military camp commander who was old fashioned, stubborn, and nearing retirement.
Ye Fan, on the other hand, was at the prime of his youth and was a pillar of the nation. He was able to lord it over a province of the country and he had a lot more potential to offer in the future.
Anybody in such a situation would definitely choose to defend Ye Fan and sacrifice Wu Yang without any hesitation.
Besides, the mess in Jiangbei didn't start with Ye Fan either. All of this started because of Wu Yang.
If Wu Yang hadn't chosen to believe those liars and allowed his subordinates to abuse the Green Dragons and force them out along with Ye Fan, none of this would have happened.
Ye Fan might have been a little extreme in attacking the three chief military instructors so savagely and allowing the Green Dragon Force to annihilate the other four special troops. But was this really Ye Fan's fault?
The other party were the ones who provoked Ye Fan first. They were the ones who said they were going destroy the Green Dragon Force and kill Ye Fan.
One could say that Ye Fan and his team were just defending themselves.
Han Ping and the rest deserved getting thrashed, and they were killed because they weren't as powerful as their attackers.
And now, Wu Yang had even hoped to use the power of the country to kill off Ye Fan.
Even an idiot would be able to see which of the two men was more important to the nation.
Why would the country stand up for Wu Yang and end up offending a powerful martial artist who was formidable enough to become a pillar of the nation?
On the contrary, the country would stop looking into Ye Fan's wrongdoings and even deal with Wu Yang in order to ingratiate themselves to Ye Fan.
Nobody said this explicitly, but after Wu Yang heard the contents of this documents and what Lu Tian-He said, he understood what just happened.
He had already been abandoned by the country.
But he simply couldn't understand why Ye Fan could gain such recognition from the country.
"But why?! Why is this happening? No matter how formidable that Ye Fan is, he's nothing but a youngster! I'm a commander of a military camp and I can't even compare to a youngster?!" shouted Wu Yang miserably as he shook his head profusely with bloodshot eyes.
He simply couldn't accept this conclusion.
He found it even harder to accept that his lifetime of contribution to the nation was nothing compared to this young man.
"Just because he's got brute strength? Just because he knows a few martial arts moves?! I don't accept this! I refuse to!" shouted Wu Yang as he slowly descended into madness.
The man who was reading the document earlier looked up at Wu Yang and said in a deep voice, "Wu Yang, it seems like you still have no idea what sort of person you offended before doing such a thing. Never mind the fact that you were the commander of this camp - even if you added up the might and value of the 300,000 soldiers here, you would still not be Mr Chu's equal."
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