Gladstone looked at the newspaper in his hands. He wanted to laugh, but he could not.
The portraits of the Progressive Party Elder and the Conservative Party Elder were displayed side by side on the front page of the Federal Daily.
It was an important obituary. With grief and indignation, the writer told every reader this terrible news.
The reason it was "indignation" rather than "sorrow" was that, according to the newspaper, the two had not died naturally due to health problems or some accident.
They had been murdered in a premeditated attack!
And so far, neither of the two killers had been found!
The Federal Government would do everything in its power to find the two assassins and the masterminds behind them throughout the world.
The article never reached a definite conclusion. It did not say who had actually done this.
But the writer had his own guesses.
He suspected the Peng Joe People, as well as some people who opposed—or had at least once opposed—the Federal position! The writer did not speculate that it was political persecution, nor did he dare to.
And even if he had actually written that, the newspaper office might not have published it.
Although this was not a secret to many people, the public needed the "truth"! Sometimes, whether the "truth" was the real truth did not matter at all. What mattered was what this "truth" could bring to "us." Obviously, it could bring many benefits. Otherwise, it would not have been published in such an influential medium as the Federal Daily!
The newspaper, printed at 4:30 in the morning, was delivered to the Peng Joe Diplomatic Ambassador's breakfast table at 7:20. At 7:27, he abandoned his breakfast and called the Minister of International Affairs Department.
Over the phone, he repeatedly reiterated his