Therefore, under these circumstances, a very obvious obstacle had emerged.
—Jiang Xia.
Just thinking about Jiang Xia wandering around this case made the shadowy figure uneasy, with a constant feeling that something would go wrong. He had once wondered whether this Detective had merely been propped up by the media, but now it seemed there was no watering down his abilities.
So the shadowy figure quickly came up with an idea—he was a High School Detective, after all. He had not suffered much hardship, so his mental state had to be far more fragile than that of an adult in society.
He would let the media do what they did best: write condemning reports accusing Jiang Xia of driving the murderer to death, then spread them around. Even if some people did not believe it, other passersby swayed by public opinion would attack him.
As long as Jiang Xia's attention was diverted, it would greatly weaken the Detective's role in the case and allow the matter to be wrapped up at the hacker's end.
Besides that, the shadowy figure had also used the intelligence and connections he had accumulated over the years to anonymously hire some assassins to kill President Ishimoto last night. If things went smoothly, they could also "accidentally kill" the High School Detective.
The shadowy figure: "..." Everything should have gone perfectly smoothly, but now, leaving aside the assassination of President Ishimoto... why was no one willing to publish dirt on Jiang Xia!?
Based on his experience, the media should have loved a topic like this.
Even if the major outlets did not care about this little bit of traffic, there should always be smaller outlets willing to take risks. Who cared whether his reputation was good or bad? Getting attention was what mattered. And those people