Head Xie immediately submitted the request for action and asked the Federation to investigate the matter itself.
The Federation government responded quickly, saying it took the matter extremely seriously and would send personnel to conduct a thorough investigation. It also declared that this was an internal Federation affair, which it would handle itself without outside interference.
Unsurprisingly, an insider promptly leaked the news to the Primitive Sect.
Once the Primitive Sect learned of this, it finally knew who was targeting it this time. Its members immediately concluded that the General Affairs Bureau of Great Shun must have planned and arranged this at the Visiting Delegation's suggestion.
This actually put them at ease, because procedural measures were what they feared least.
Judging by the earlier events, this was likely the Visiting Delegation's retaliation and warning over the spying incident. Indeed, under the Federation's numerous restrictions, this was the strongest response the Visiting Delegation could make.
With that understanding, they relaxed.
You're on my turf, and you're using my people to investigate me. Obviously, that won't get you anywhere, and I won't let you investigate me either. Although they had enemies within the Federation, the Visiting Delegation was ultimately an outsider. The forces they could draw upon were far greater, and suppressing the impact of the affair would be easy.
Over the next few days, several members of Congress from the West Coast did indeed seize on the matter and refuse to let it go.
But that was as far as it went. Anything involving a rift obviously could not be made public, so there was no way to stir up public opinion. The discussion remained confined to the upper levels of government, greatly limiting its impact. Afterward, they could keep introducing other issues to gradually erode and reduce the attention paid