CHAPTER 120: CHAPTER 42 BAD NEWS_3

Although she didn’t want to admit it, Du Xixi knew she was very afraid. She was terrified that Ke Lian would leave her; she couldn’t imagine what it would be like to lose Ke Lian, what it would be like for their child to lose a father.

"Ke Lian..." Please, take care of yourself.

Du Xixi softly murmured Ke Lian’s name, then closed her eyes for a moment, signaled Chen Yin and the others, and took Miao Miao’s hand, walking out of the ward.

Miao Miao wore a hooded dress prepared by Rob, her long black tail and ears hidden under the long skirt and hood. She kept her head down without speaking, her presence barely noticeable, though Chen Yin glanced at her several times, feeling curious about this girl whose face he couldn’t see.

Rob and 2569 had been waiting outside the ward and hadn’t gone in earlier. When they saw Du Xixi and the others come out, they quickly went up but didn’t rashly ask any questions.

That’s because, apart from Miao Miao, who was out of the loop, everyone’s faces, including Du Xixi’s, looked grim.

In the ward lay one of the Empire’s three Grand Marshals and a rising star of the Military Department. For safety reasons, the surrounding wards were empty, and doctors and nurses were on standby around the clock at a distant nurse station.

Du Xixi knew her expression must look awful, but she couldn’t worry about that now. Seeing the ward door closed and no eavesdroppers around, Du Xixi asked in a deep voice, "What’s going on exactly? Who is the traitor?"

Her anger was almost palpable in her words, spilling over despite her restraint, but everyone understood. It was Chen Yin who responded, "The Insect Clan bribed an officer from the Military Department, and that traitor revealed the whereabouts of Ke Lian and Mo Feng to the Insect Clan, leading the mission to gather intelligence on the Insect Clan..."

Chen Yin briefly recounted the chain of events, and by the end, not only did Du Xixi and the others look bad, but even Miao Miao, who only had a vague grasp of the situation, was a bit angry.

The survival of the fittest is the norm in nature, but nature isn’t always cruel. At least among some animals Miao Miao knew, there were many social creatures who lived in groups, relying on each other for survival.

Social creatures generally do not betray their groups because their survival depends on it. If they betray their group, they won’t be accepted by other groups either, eventually living alone and perishing back to nature for lack of survival.

From that man’s words, someone betrayed the group, causing the leader and the assistant to nearly die. How could Miao Miao, who despises such beings, not be angry?

"How did you deal with it?"

"We were waiting for you to come back." Chen Yin said seriously, "According to Military Department regulations, if a traitor leads to casualties, the traitor is handed over to the families of the casualties for punishment."

Du Xixi raised her eyes, her gaze meeting Chen Yin’s, showing rare cold hatred: "Life or death?"

Chen Yin shrugged, sneering, "The traitor deserves to die."

Implying that even if Du Xixi killed the traitor, it wouldn’t violate any laws. On the contrary, it was within regulations.

"Then let him die!"

This was almost what Du Xixi blurted out, but her rational mind told her not to. Not only because Du Xixi couldn’t bring herself to say such cruel words, but also because death was too easy for that traitor.

Because of his greed, Ke Lian and Mo Feng, two military generals, almost died, saved just in time by soldiers from the hands of the Insect Clan.

Why should a mere death suffice to compensate for his actions? Because of him alone, Ke Lian and Mo Feng were severely injured, the Military Department suffered a defeat in this war, and instability grew due to rumors on the Star Network...

Even life worse than death seemed like mercy to him.

Du Xixi tightened her grip on Miao Miao’s hand, then relaxed it, then tightened and relaxed again, finally saying, "Leave it to the Mo Family and the Military Department to handle."

Not only was Ke Lian injured, but Mo Feng was also hurt, and not lightly. Comparatively, Ke Lian’s injuries were more fatal, so the traitor’s punishment was left to Du Xixi, the Marshal’s Wife.

But if Du Xixi handed it over to the Mo Family and the Military Department, that was fine too.

Du Xixi wasn’t giving it to the Mo Family and the Military Department out of kindness. She believed that in their hands, the traitor would receive the punishment he deserved.

Having harmed the Mo Family’s young master and the Military Department’s war god, the traitor wouldn’t have a good end.

Mo Ying was standing nearby and laughed, "Father and Mother anticipated this possibility. They said if you didn’t want to deal with it, our Mo Family wouldn’t intervene and would leave the punishment entirely to the Military Department."

Ke Xing then said sternly, "The Military Department has contingency plans for when the families don’t want to handle it; the traitor will be executed by lingchi (death by a thousand cuts)."