Wesley had to admit that Xiao Qiao was making a lot of sense. In fact, it wasn't as if he himself didn't understand what he was saying. "Self-strengthening" sounded simple enough, but doing it was exceedingly difficult. For him to become strong as an individual, no problem—he had already reached the limits of what a human could achieve; he was one of the finest Special Agents, and a rare kind of leader and Commander. But behind him stood a vast nation, the global number one power. There was too much he had to do, while his energy and time were limited. Yet if he didn't do it, then in the future they really would end up in a position of weakness, with no power to fight back at all.
