[That malicious probe targeting Great Sage had indeed stirred dark ripples within an extremely small area.]
[However, those masterminds hiding overseas and manipulating everything had ultimately taken far too much for granted.]
[They simply did not understand, nor had they ever experienced, the suffocating degree of control you now held over Japan, especially over Jujutsu Society and the upper ranks of the Secular Government.]
[Less than a week after the incident began to spread, all related negative news, and even those veiled discussion threads online, were thoroughly and forcefully suppressed, as though an invisible, sky-blotting hand had clamped down on them.]
[No matter how the foreign spies and paid trolls, enticed by hefty sums, scrambled to leverage public opinion through this, they ultimately had no ground on which to survive, and the whole affair fizzled out like a silent farce.]
[After calming the situation, you did not leave matters there. Instead, you immediately had Mei Mei conduct an in-depth investigation, following the fanatics burned to death in the fire and the flow of funds secretly manipulating public opinion.]
[Those rats lurking in the shadows were extremely cunning. Their funds and instructions had been subcontracted and laundered through countless layers of shell companies, leaving no concrete trail that could directly establish guilt.]
[But after an extensive investigation through Mei Mei's terrifying financial network, it was essentially possible to conclude that this deeply malicious probe had come from certain foreign extremist forces.]
[Knowing that was enough for you.]
[Afterward, you devoted little more energy or attention to them.]
[Once you had seen through and experienced such a plot and its methods once, they had already lost their intended significance.]
[If those people were smart enough, they would not dare play such clumsy tricks under your nose again anytime soon.]
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