The Elysium Island case had been closed—the person who had proposed the Elysium Island project, built it, and successfully put it into operation.
Whether they were people pushed into the spotlight by the Duncan Family or those hidden behind the scenes, including the Duncan Family itself.
Most of them had gone where they belonged.
Federation citizens were very forgetful. Or rather, most people in this world were.
When the news first broke, they might pay close attention to those people, but once the news cycle ended, they would soon forget them.
Whether they were good people or bad people.
That was because ordinary people had only one way and channel through which to obtain information—the media.
That was why the media sometimes broadcast news that looked completely fake, yet people still believed it.
They had no way to obtain information through more channels. They could only judge the truth of the information available to them, and precisely those people lacked the ability to distinguish real news from fake news.
So when the media stopped reporting on those who had been locked up and stopped reporting on a case's aftermath, people would forget them because they could no longer learn how they were doing.
When Conner said the matter was "finished," he meant that everyone who needed to be silenced had been silenced. If "finishing" the case was all that mattered, he and many others would still be unsafe.
Only by dealing with all those who knew the truth could they guarantee their own safety.
What was even more frightening was that it was not only the "perpetrators" who had been silenced—the Duncan Family, for example, as well as the builders and operators of Elysium Island.
The "victims" had also been silenced.
They could not exactly return home, only for their