Chapter 1206: Assassinating the Administrators of Various Fields

As the task was issued, Alan closed the communication and looked at Yingzhou.

"Your Majesty, the network has been activated. From now on, we only need to wait."

Yingzhou nodded.

He walked to the window and looked at the street outside the official residence.

"The Saladin Family."

He said.

Alan's expression did not change at all.

"Yes. We need to start preparing."

"Not now."

Yingzhou walked back to the sofa and sat down.

"Valken is the primary threat, and the administrators of various fields are the urgent threat. The Saladin Family... is a medium-to-long-term threat. The order cannot be disrupted."

"But we need a plan."

Alan also sat down, picked up a water glass, but did not drink.

"Once the 'Harvest' operation is exposed, or if Valken counterattacks, the Saladin Family will become the most dangerous variable. They have resources, connections, and armed forces. Moreover, Lina just died, and the family is currently in a sensitive emotional state."

"Are you worried they will discover something?"

"It is... a guess. After Lina died, small-scale discussions began within the family. Some believe the attack was too coincidental, some question why she, of all people in the Intelligence Department, became the target, and others... others noticed my route choice when returning from the banquet that night."

Yingzhou looked at him.

"Do you have a solution?"

"I have a framework."

Alan pulled up a new document; the title was blank, containing only a string of encrypted code.

"There are eleven people in the core power layer of the Saladin Family. The Patriarch is already critically ill and has limited actual influence; Karl Saladin controls the family business and parliamentary relations and is first in line; the other nine Elders oversee nine fields: military, intelligence, diplomacy, justice, mining, trade, transportation, education, and medical."

He pulled up Karl Saladin's file.

The uncle who had hosted a banquet to welcome Alan on his first day of return and had sent people to try to "control" Corporal Kelan on the second day.

"Karl's security level is A-3, he has twelve personal guards, three permanent workplaces, and his daily route is relatively fixed but changes randomly. He must take specific medication every night at eleven o'clock to control the pain from an old injury, and the one who delivers the medicine is his personal medical assistant..."

"When is the family funeral scheduled?"

Yingzhou asked.

"The day after tomorrow morning. Lina's remains have finished the embalming process, and the mourning hall is set up in the east hall of the main residence."

Alan replied.

"All core family members will attend at that time. That is... an ideal occasion for execution."

"Hmm, then let's do that."

Selina.

Yingzhou activated the communication, and a holographic projection formed on the tabletop, but only he could see it.

"Your Majesty. Urgent intelligence."

"Speak."

"Valken's public dissemination strategy is working. Seventeen minutes ago, the Canaan Star Alliance officially announced that it would establish an 'Unconventional Technology Assessment Committee' to study the technical data received from the Feng Qi Xing Alliance.

Nine minutes ago, three major research institutes of the Ash Star Alliance simultaneously submitted applications for feasibility verification regarding the Mirror Rift Theory."

"It is not that they do not know the risks."

"They know. But the risks are distant and uncertain, while the military pressure from the Xiuluo Holy Star Alliance is immediate and concrete.

To Canaan, Daikong, and Ashes, the collapse of the Feng Qi Xing Alliance is a cautionary tale. If there is a technology that can make the Human Empire 'wary,' they naturally want to seize it."

"This is Valken's plan. It is not to have his allies save him, but to make everyone his accomplice."

"There is one more thing. Primarch Horus sent an encrypted inquiry. He monitored abnormal electromagnetic spectrum fluctuations within the Feng Qi Xing Alliance in the battle reports and asked if he should adjust the pace of the offensive."

Yingzhou was silent for two seconds.

Horus.

"Reply to Horus."

Yingzhou said.

"The offensive is to proceed according to the original plan; there is no need to coordinate with any ground operations."

"Yes."

The connection disconnected.

Twenty-three minutes and fourteen seconds later.

The Director of the Energy Administration of the Capital Star, Villar Ke'en, collapsed at the door of his private lounge in his office.

A Kalidusi disguised as a night janitor for the Energy Administration completed the assassination while the target was returning to his office from the restroom.

The entire process took 0.7 seconds, with no witnesses, no evidence left behind, and no surveillance records.

The camera in the lounge corridor had malfunctioned three hours earlier due to "aged wiring," and the maintenance request had been submitted but not yet processed.

When Villar Ke'en died, his third eye was opened to its widest, and the pale light of the ceiling was reflected in his pupils.

Seven minutes later, a cleaning vehicle transported his body out of the building, disguised as a medical transfer.

Seventeen minutes and thirty-nine seconds later.

The Director of the Communication Division of the Central Military Command Center, Crassus Vita, collapsed at the security checkpoint outside the encrypted Communication Room.

Crassus Vita's third eye erupted with a look of terror at the moment of death, then quickly dimmed.

Emergency personnel arrived within four minutes, but the pacemaker had completely failed.

Thirty-one minutes and forty-seven seconds later.

The Deputy Head of Security of the Parliament Building, Mars Villani, went missing during a routine patrol.

His corpse was discovered by a cleaner forty minutes later, stuffed into an abandoned equipment room on the third basement level.

The time of death basically matched the time of his disappearance, but the recording from the camera at the entrance of the equipment room had been completely overwritten, and the login account of the person who overwrote it belonged to... the Deputy Head of Security of the Parliament Building himself.

Forty minutes and eleven seconds later.

The Director of the Traffic Control General Administration, Las Norn, encountered a "traffic accident" while on the way back to his official residence.

His hovercar collided with another Out of Control cargo vehicle at a flight path intersection.

The cargo vehicle driver died on the spot, Sailasi was severely injured, and he succumbed to his injuries while being transported to the hospital.

Forty-six minutes.

Fifty-two minutes.

Sixty-eight minutes.

Seventy-three minutes.

One hundred and four minutes.

The slaughter continued in every corner, every social stratum, and every system of the Capital Star.

The first confirmed news came from Captain Ketuo.

"Major. The Director of the Energy Administration of the Capital Star... passed away from a sudden illness. The obituary was just released."

The second came from a news channel monitored by Alan himself.

"Breaking news: The Chief of the Communications Division of the Central Army Command Center has unfortunately passed away due to a medical equipment malfunction."

The third came from an encrypted communication from General Geke.

"Alan, have you received the news on your end? An accident occurred at the Parliament Building, the Deputy Head of Security... is dead."

The fourth confirmation arrived, this time from a public news channel, where the "sudden illnesses" and "accidental incidents" of three high-ranking officials were already being reported side-by-side.