"How could something like this have happened?"
Minister Shen hurried into another office.
His face was ashen. While he had been busy handling security for the Sea Nation expert team's visit, another urgent matter had suddenly arisen and required him to come deal with it. That was extremely unusual, and the more unusual it was, the more urgent the situation clearly had to be.
This office had obviously been prepared temporarily.
Yet the liquid-crystal display screens hanging on the walls were even more numerous than those at the steel drawbridge by Qinggang City's east gate.
They were filled with densely packed footage. Some showed armed personnel in protective suits sealing off a building. Others showed captured people struggling and shouting in terror. Still others showed captives crying in the various interrogation rooms.
Seeing all those images arranged together created an extremely oppressive feeling.
"It's Colonel Chen from the Special Purity Department..."
The staff member who had been waiting in the room immediately reported, "In just one hour, she has issued arrest orders for nearly a hundred Main City citizens. She has also sealed off three buildings, two shopping malls, and one Administrative Hall..."
At this point, he could not help pausing. After swallowing, he continued, "And this still isn't over."
"Right now, all the armed personnel directly mobilized by the Special Purity Department, along with the Guard Department officers ordered to assist them, have received orders from the Special Purity Department. They have joined in arresting, interrogating, detaining, and isolating the targets. We're severely short-handed."
"She has now submitted a report on this abnormal incident to her superiors and requested support from the City Defense Department."
"..."
"She arrested so many people..."
Minister Shen was as hot-tempered as fire, but at this moment, his temper was strangely restrained. He asked,