Based from Ji Xiuran's observation, it seemed that MAU was just faking its allegiance with the Direct Line. Maybe according to their plan, they would be abducting all the leaders to cripple these factions. And since their leaders were not around, it would highly likely create chaos internally. But I guessed, MAU suggested that they would be the one to abduct these leaders because if it was the Direct Line, the possibility of killing these leaders was high, so in the end, MAU imprisoned these leaders to show to Direct Line that they were following what was on their plan. But the question was, why would MAU allied themselves to Direct Line? Was Direct Line that powerful enough that they could not be defeated? I was puzzled by MAU's real intention with this incident.🤔🤔🤔