An oppressive room, an oppressive atmosphere, an oppressive writer.
The pen danced like dragons and serpents, and every word it wrote would be enforced by the mighty apparatus of violence.
Now, this pen had written the latest secret order, one destined to stir up a bloody storm across all of Nie's City.
"Operation codename: White."
"Order: Secretly arrest the following targets."
The target list was long, eighty-one names from beginning to end. Once this order was issued, everyone involved understood that after the last massive purge, a new round of cleansing had begun.
Compared to the previous purge, eighty-one people did not sound like many, but that was not how it could be counted.
Everyone qualified to see the full list felt their hearts skip a beat. Those eighty-one were B-class targets, and the C-class list built around them would expand tenfold. All told, nearly a thousand targets of C-class and above in Nie's City would be swept up in this purge.
Wu Siyou, head of Internal Affairs for the Special Case Unit, drew a deep breath. He could smell from the wind the tension of a storm about to break, and the excitement restlessly stirring beneath it.
The day to sweep away the demonic miasma was almost here.
Within three days, a detailed plan had been drawn up, the target list meticulously broken down, and the entire Special Case Unit assigned its respective duties. A plan requiring such precision, difficulty, and speed of response could only be crafted by a Heart Arts Master.
Those concealing the truth, laying false trails, feinting east and striking west, Secretly Crossing the Chencang Pass—everyone had been assigned their own work. They were like warriors preparing for a decisive battle, tense yet resolute.
The mission was arduous and the enemy powerful, but they were