Stronghold Elimination!

Qiu Tu's idea was simple, but bold.

Wasn't Yan Chen planning to say that Scarlet Widow was an assassin sent by the Alliance?

Then Qiu Tu would go along with that "setup," accept it, and take it even further.

It made perfect sense for the Alliance to want to throw New Realm City into chaos and send an assassin after Qiu Tu, the Minister of the Political Department.

But then again, if the Alliance could be so utterly ruthless as to assassinate Qiu Tu inside the New Realm City Investigation Department—

Then after failing to kill Qiu Tu and having their stronghold destroyed by Yan Chen's men, wouldn't it also be perfectly reasonable for them to lash out the next day and send an elite special operations squad to assassinate Yan Chen?

Yan Chen had declared before everyone the day before that the assassin had been sent by the Alliance.

So if the Alliance attacked him the next day, and the assassins he captured all turned out to be Alliance members, what right did anyone else have to question it?

After all, the victim himself had confirmed that those assassins belonged to the Alliance.

And precisely because of Yan Chen's framing, the entire incident formed a perfect closed loop.

—To prove that the Alliance Special Operations Team had been acting under Qiu Tu's orders, they would have to prove that the two assassination attempts had not been ordered by the same organization or person. To do that, they first had to prove that Scarlet Widow had not been sent by the Alliance.

To prove that Scarlet Widow had not been sent by the Alliance, they first had to uncover that she had been sent by Yan Chen and Lai Shun.

And once they found out that Scarlet Widow had been