Things had reached this point, and there was really no more "bargaining" to be done.
If you said the man wasn't dead, then bring him out and let everyone see him. Any rumors would collapse on their own.
If you couldn't do that, then it proved this wasn't a rumor—a senior figure in the Federal Military, an Army Admiral who had once made outstanding contributions during the war,
had died at the Investigation Team's office without being tried or sentenced by either the Military Court or the Federal Supreme Court.
He might even have died from excessive torture!
Even if people hadn't been particularly friendly toward the Pelius family, they now stood on the side of mainstream public opinion.
It wasn't that the media had lost control of public opinion's direction. It was that this matter had erupted too quickly, while the capital interest groups with deep ties to the Pelius family were also exerting their influence.
They controlled some of the media as well. In many situations, the media and the public were more inclined to side with the "tragic" and the "weak."
Without a doubt, in this case, the Army Admiral was not only "tragic," but also belonged to the "weak." At least in the face of the Federal Government and the hard-line Investigation Team, he was weak.
Hadn't he already been placed under isolated investigation?
It was said that he had died from excessive torture. If he really had been "strong," would anyone have dared torture him?
In any world, so long as true equality had not been achieved, the people would always favor the more seriously injured side! There was nothing anyone could do about it. Conner appeared on the Evening News and announced that he would suspend the Investigation Team's work and conduct a careful