Chapter 1584: A Rabble
This lengthy speech made every heir look at Shen Yuhe in a markedly different light.
It was not that they could not see the logic behind it.
In truth, every heir qualified to stand in this grand Council Hall was among the finest of the hundreds of Shen family members.
Even those who appeared brawny and simple-minded were merely cultivating the image of reckless fools, so their rivals would lower their guard.
To varying degrees, these heirs had all sensed that, as the Superhuman Tower and the Survival Committee continued to expand, these two organizations—originally existing as puppets of the Nine Corporations—had gradually developed wills of their own. More and more friction and conflict had emerged when they carried out the Nine Corporations' orders.
Especially during the year of the Monster War's resounding victory, a tide opposing the Nine Corporations and the Nine Great Families had gradually risen across Dragon City.
A storm that might determine Dragon City's future fate was about to descend upon everyone's heads.
It was simply that the old man's assassination had come far too suddenly.
Unlike Shen Yuhe, they had not sorted through every clue and struck the bullseye with a single arrow within just a few hours.
Only when Shen Yuhe laid The Great Game bare did the many heirs feel deep regret.
They understood perfectly well that the purpose of today's council meeting was not merely to uncover the true culprit behind the old man's assassination.
More likely, the old man was selecting the future helmsman of the Shen family and the Cosmos Group.
Regardless of whether the old man had suffered fatal injuries in today's earth-shaking assassination attempt.
He was already advanced in years, a candle guttering in the wind.
Decades of accumulated old wounds, coupled with the