Chapter 1530 No Authority Over 001

Landon frowned as he pondered. "There was someone, I think... He was a low-level official in charge of Hawford's economy at the time."

"Take a look. Is it him?" Wynter slid her phone forward to show Landon a picture.

Landon immediately nodded. "That's him. How did he end up looking younger with time? I'd never have recognized him from how timid he used to be."

"Power can rejuvenate a person. It's understandable that you didn't recognize him, Mr. Landon." Wynter chuckled and she tapped on the webpage. "Now, does this look more familiar to you?"

The man in the picture wore glasses and a suit, appearing scholarly and vaguely familiar. Landon froze. "He... He's..."

"He's the third-in-command in the city, Fredric Monty." Wynter compared his current image with the old one. "It's true, he looks quite different. He has a new name and a new identity.

"For someone who started as a low-level official to rise to this position, the people backing him must have put in serious effort."

idea about these complicated connections. He had never imagined

mentioned this? Instead, she had helped conceal his

pale. She knew Landon was a

"Why did you even bother

forced us into this mess and pitted us against each other! Aren't you afraid of

thoughtfully, her gaze flickering to

one watching the footage dared to speak. After all, given their level, they had no authority

aristocratic families and their crimes. She was also targeting the one

person behind the scenes often followed some semblance of the rules, and foreign infiltrations were much harder to uproot.

frontline. Their authority to investigate superseded

the fact that she was recorded. She tilted her head slightly, and

starting to realize just what she was up against. Never in all her years had she encountered such a way of handling an

was here in Hawford, did the old

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