In Kessel's room, Qin Ran sat upright in a chair, rubbing his throbbing temples with both hands. At his feet lay a stack of documents half as tall as a person.
The documents contained detailed information on Mayor Slo Deer, Upper House Speaker Hardy Lin, Upper House member Mor, and the wealthy businessman Webster.
Among them were numerous shady dealings.
Qin Ran was not surprised.
In his view, it was only natural for people who had risen as far as those four to have a dark side to some degree.
All the more so when they were politicians and businessmen, professions that demanded countless lies and the abandonment of one's conscience.
Of all their disgraceful affairs, the one that concerned Qin Ran most was the "ogre incident."
Not the ogres that had recently reappeared, but those that had first emerged from legend in Edshire thirty years ago.
According to these documents, those "ogres" had apparently been created by humans, with members of Edshire's military and senior government officials involved.
The wording was vague, the descriptions sketchy.
Clearly, someone did not want the events of that year brought back into the light.
Yet the contents of the brown paper envelope Qin Ran had retrieved from beneath Quick Webster's gravestone in the cemetery had recorded those events in detail.
The "ogre incident" had not originally gone by that name. It should have been called the "warrior project," a measure adopted by Edshire's military and senior government officials to counter the ever-growing forces of darkness.
Their intentions had naturally been good, but the final outcome had been tragic.
Not a single test subject had survived in a normal state.
They had even attacked civilians, in direct violation of the project's original purpose.
Yet Hardy Lin, who had spearheaded the experiment, and Mor, who