Before the abnormal manifestation of claims in the early hours of yesterday morning, one fortress that should have been impregnable compared to the other institutions had been breached first.
The Confidentiality Administration Bureau.
The agent's removal not only gave Solomon the list of every participant, but also left Ai Qing in an extremely passive position.
While everyone was shocked by Solomon's speed and power, they also had to face the consequences that followed.
Yet out of professional habit and personal inclination, Ai Qing could not help questioning the process that had led to this outcome.
Why?
Why had the most secretive Confidentiality Administration Bureau been the first?
And how had he done it?
The Confidentiality Administration Bureau was responsible for storing and safeguarding major hazardous items and classified secrets. At the cost of every member being condemned to become a living corpse in some isolated, sealed-off location, it contained threats, sealed away poisons, safeguarded secrets... Inhumane procedures and management were as commonplace as air.
So how had Solomon found that man, and how had he pried that list from his mouth?
What exactly was Solomon hiding?
Or rather, what had he done?
Ai Qing was intensely curious about this. She had even instinctively caught the scent of something crucial, enough that she was willing to use her current captives as bargaining chips for negotiations.
More precisely, a probe.
The moment it became a choice between two options, it had already become a trap.
One was Archive Administration Bureau authority that was of little use to him, while the other was an answer that might involve his own secrets. Solomon's choice itself would expose more details.
The longer the negotiation dragged on, the more information she could extract from his considerations and deliberations.
Unfortunately... her enemy had not given her that