It was here. The same thought surfaced in every investigator's mind.
All the previous doubts had been nothing but baseless speculation; no amount of eloquence could serve as proof. But Fu Jue's connections to the Unnamed Guild and Qi Si were undeniable, witnessed by many both inside and outside the Eerie Game.
A month ago, Chang Xu and Qi Si had planned to reveal the truth at the end of the Red Maple Leaf Boarding School Instance.
Soon afterward, an inexplicable fire broke out at the Indigenous Victims Memorial Hall in Maple Leaf County in reality, dredging up events from two hundred years ago and exposing The Foundation's sordid dealings. Public opinion had been in turmoil for quite some time, even triggering a shift in power.
The major interest groups could do nothing to one another, but dealing with a minor investigator from the Jiang City branch was easy enough.
Thus, Chang Xu had been locked in the confinement room for a while. If Fu Jue had not borne the pressure from above, he would probably have been sent not to the confinement room, but to a containment chamber.
As Qi Si was not a member of the Eerie Investigation Bureau, was an unemployed drifter with elusive whereabouts, and had made decisions in the Red Maple Leaf Boarding School Instance that conformed to public morality and order, those above naturally had no grounds to move against him. They could only put the debt on Fu Jue, who had several connections to him.
Then a series of events occurred after the Beast Arena Instance, and public opinion on the forums became uproarious. Though collective punishment was no longer fashionable in this era, Fu Jue, as the guarantor, had no reason to emerge unscathed.
Moreover, Qi Si was a Slaughter Style player,