The Hegel Family believed that Digital Phantom had originally been targeting the Mining Management Department, and they were clearly still angry.
If the family showed itself at a time like this, wouldn't it be volunteering to be slaughtered? So they rejected the other party's demand while politely stating, "This has nothing to do with us! We merely discovered a site suspected of illegal mining and reported it to the relevant authorities. We did nothing else."
Moreover, the mining rights for this Mineral Star had not yet been put up for sale, and the Hegel Family had not benefited from it.
They had previously let the Mining Management Department stand at the forefront. That was the advantage of doing so—able to advance or retreat as needed, while also giving the Mining Management Department some face.
However, those hastily concocted excuses could not make them lower their guard.
So their decision was to wait and watch while secretly coordinating the various powers.
Yet that very night, three Hegel Family offices and five Settlements came under attack at the same time.
The attackers easily bypassed the surveillance systems. Even the intelligent access controls, whose security level had been raised to the maximum, proved useless.
One Above Supreme and seven A-rankers died. Personnel at B-rank and below were spared.
One A-ranker had gone out on business and failed to return that night, narrowly escaping disaster.
Another B-ranker seemed to have gotten up in the middle of the night and seen something he should not have seen. He was executed on the spot as well.
After one night, the Hegel Family's high-end combat power on Kunhai Star had been wiped out.
The sudden blow left the survivors trembling in fear.
The A-ranker who had survived by chance fled straight into Kunhai's most luxurious state-run hotel,