Retreat a Step

The public outcry that had ignited towering fury across European nations spread just as wildly within the United States. The US Government was shocked by the findings of this investigation. They had never imagined that the flu could be linked to a Chemical Plant leak—and that the people of European nations would believe it so completely.

One had to know that in the US Government's own previous investigation into the cause of the flu outbreak, there had been no evidence whatsoever pointing to the flu having been caused by human actions.

So how had the flu become connected to a Chemical Plant leak after the League of Nations investigation?

The one most puzzled by this was perhaps US President Wilson. At the time, President Wilson had ordered the US Government to thoroughly investigate the cause of the flu outbreak and not overlook the slightest clue.

There had indeed been no news whatsoever of a Chemical Plant leak in the report the government submitted to President Wilson. This was also why President Wilson had concluded that the flu was merely a simple accident.

Now, the League of Nations investigative team had produced evidence of a Chemical Plant leak, and that evidence directly pointed to a leak from US biological experiments as the cause of the flu outbreak. What was President Wilson supposed to think?

Was he to rage at his subordinates' incompetence and audacity in daring to deceive him, or rage at the League of Nations investigative team for suspecting the United States without sufficient evidence and even exposing all this information outright?

November 12, 1918, inside US President Wilson's office.

This American ruler, who possessed towering ambitions, looked at this moment like an old man in the twilight of his years. His eyes were red and swollen, and he looked