In the modern world, whenever people came across something especially strange, their first instinct was to take a picture and post it on social media.
This era had neither phones nor social media, but Li Wei could still make calls!
After leaving the parliament building, Li Wei immediately returned to the Eye of the Sky and relayed his conversation with Prime Minister Carloy to the Old Butler.
After hearing it, the Old Butler was rather speechless too.
"Well... Sir Li Wei, are you sure he hasn't lost his mind or something...?"
"I'm very sure."
Li Wei nodded.
"He isn't being controlled, and there's no sign of any mysterious power. This really is what he believes, from the bottom of his heart."
"But... why?"
"That, I don't know."
Li Wei solved cases purely through evidence. As far as he was concerned, techniques like criminal profiling that involved putting yourself in a criminal's shoes belonged in the gutter-not even a dog would bother with them.
As the saying went, judge deeds, not hearts. I don't care what you think. I only care what you do.
"What do the people of Shabak think?"
"I asked a few people. They all support reducing the military, but they don't seem to know exactly what the count has planned."
Reducing the military wasn't inherently strange. Sometimes, disbanding a portion of the armed forces to cut expenses and streamline operations was perfectly normal. Li Wei had gone to sound Count Carloy out precisely because he had seen news of the reductions in the paper.
After all, something had to be behind such unusual behavior. With Shabak about to break away from the Sasha Alliance and the Empire watching hungrily from the sidelines, the prime minister had actually announced military cuts. Naturally, Li Wei had wondered whether he