Patterns of shadow and radiance fell across He Ao's calm face.
He paused at the entrance to the corridor, quietly scrolling through the report on his wristband.
In the entire report, the "investigation" into those wilderness attackers accounted for only a small part.
Most of the report consisted of the various "transactions" Eve had collected between Mint City's two major conglomerates and the Evil God churches.
When it came to dealings with cults, the two conglomerates had been quite "forthright."
These materials had been stored in the database with almost no attempt at concealment, though access permissions had been set.
Of course, breaking into this database from outside and directly obtaining its data was difficult. The two conglomerates' encryption systems and firewalls had both been designed to be exceptionally robust.
And according to Eve's feedback, the data seemed to have been fitted with an automatic self-destruction function in case of leaks.
Solid "defenses" and meticulous "design"—that was indeed enough to support their "confidence" in storing the data here.
Unfortunately, He Ao had no intention of confronting them head-on. He had directly obtained the database's "key" from the highest-ranking members of the two conglomerates.
Of course, given Weiken and Lumbert's authority, they could only access materials related to the two major conglomerates in Mint City.
The only materials Eve could copy were those connected to the Evil God churches.
The information Eve had copied back was mainly divided into two parts.
The first part concerned the cooperation between Mint City's two major conglomerates and the Evil God churches—for example, hiring Chaos believers to assassinate legislators and senior officials who opposed the conglomerates, working with the Desire Witch Church to "sleep their way into persuading" certain competitors, extracting classified intelligence, and so on.
The second part consisted of orders issued directly by