The reporters really did work fast.
Early the next morning, when Li Wei got up, a newspaper still fragrant with fresh ink was already waiting for him.
"Champion of justice or guardian of power? Who exactly is the Phantom Killer?"
Looking at the newspaper in front of him, Li Wei barely had to think to know that the other side must be fuming by now.
He had no fear that the press would ignore the story. Given their origins, the people of Mericia had an instinctive resistance to authority-which was stating the obvious, really. People who didn't resist authority generally didn't break the law, did they?
That resistance to authority was also why Mericia could currently stand united against the Empire.
But did that mean there was no resistance to authority within Mericia itself?
Of course not.
The Continental Parliament was currently representing Mericia in negotiations with the Empire, and its members were also Mericia's de facto rulers.
And Li Wei had raised a very pointed question: was the Phantom Killer the Continental Parliament's private enforcer?
He believed he wasn't the only one who had thought of that question. By now, those reporters would have thought of it too.
That was why this fresh report had come out.
If the Phantom Killer was simply an ally of justice, that was fine. But if he was the Continental Parliament's personal assassin, that was a different matter entirely.
Would anyone who opposed the Parliament end up being killed by the Phantom Killer?
If that really happened, wouldn't the Continental Parliament become just like the Empire?
How could that be acceptable?
The reporters had taken the idea even further than Li Wei. If the Phantom Killer was the Continental Parliament's private enforcer, they reasoned, the Parliament would eventually be able to do whatever