"They all deserved to die."
Lu Zheng looked over the information on the people who had placed the order, then compared it with the materials Lin Wan had given him.
Five people had entered the country. All were ethnic Chinese from Southeast Asia, the kind who would vanish into a crowd without anyone recognizing them.
If this had been ten or twenty years ago, they might have completed their mission and left safely, leaving behind an unsolved case.
But... times had changed!
This was the age of big data. As long as someone left any real information online, big data would mark them with a label.
What was more, these people themselves were far from clean.
They had accepted the job on the Dark Web, and the instant they entered the country, they had been analyzed and pinpointed. Although they had not triggered a customs alarm, the relevant information had been sent to the appropriate domestic departments long ago.
Even if Lu Zheng had not acted, they would not have had the slightest chance of succeeding.
Except...
Lu Zheng still decided to act personally.
Thus, before noon, the five people at a hotel in Sea City disappeared together.
Before dinner that afternoon, the core leadership of the military group that had accepted the mission was dead.
That night, the private estate of the Harry Lineage was swallowed by blazing flames. When the police inspected the burned-out manor the next day, they discovered that more than twenty members of the Harry Lineage with inheritance rights had all been inside. Not one had escaped.
In just one day and one night, a local armed force that had dominated part of Southeast Asia and a prominent commercial Lineage from Lighthouse Country had been erased from Blue Star.
However, Lu Zheng had acted a