The City Lord's Mansion had been blown apart. Law Enforcement Teams converged from every direction and arrested hundreds of government employees, drawing widespread attention.
As scandal after scandal broke, the public and the media were stunned.
It had been a long time since a case this big had surfaced. The man at its center was the city lord, a senior official in charge of an entire city.
Han Bi dug deep, uncovering more crimes and implicating more people.
Hei Cha had committed more than forty offenses, large and small. He had plotted murder ten times alone! His targets included merchants, councilors, mechanics, scientists, athletes, law enforcement officers, and journalists.
Hei Cha admitted to every one of them and gave his motives.
Some motives were clear enough. He had killed one councilor to advance his career, a merchant for money, and law enforcement officers and journalists to cover up his crimes and obstruct investigations.
But the motives behind other murders were murky. Some victims had no connection to Hei Cha at all, yet he had gone to great lengths to kill them. His explanations were painfully contrived.
He had clearly been working for someone else. Han Bi could see that he had been working for the Thousand Currents Conglomerate.
A close look at those forty-odd offenses showed that every one of them was connected to the Thousand Currents Conglomerate.
Replace every motive with "to serve the interests of the Thousand Currents Conglomerate," and it all made sense! Unfortunately, a theory was still a theory. The evidence pointed to Hei Cha, and he had confessed. Han Bi could do nothing about it.
"Hei Cha, I know you're working for someone else. The Thousand Currents Conglomerate helped you become city lord. Can you honestly say none of these crimes had anything to do