Suddenly pausing the interrogation of Belrosi wasn't to avoid Ji Xinghe. In the meeting held later, the commander even invited him, but he chose not to go.
Whether he listened or not was inconsequential. Ji Xinghe was very clear that the decision-making power for this matter was not with Base 6, nor even with the command center of this alien battlefield, the South Sky Gate Space Station. It was with the Federation.
It was with the handful of people at the very top of the Federation pyramid.
Ji Xinghe, who had become the tenth active ace mech warrior of the Federation, had not yet reached the peak in practical terms.
It ultimately came down to a single word— resources.
The more resources one controlled, the higher one's position in the pyramid. Talent, fame, combat power, and so on, if they cannot be converted into resources, they would become resources in the hands of those few people.
Ji Xinghe was still a resource in the hands of others, not someone who controlled resources.