761: Chapter 761 The Terror of Supreme Authority

Holding the supreme highest investigation order and possessing top-level authority to Breakthrough the Empire's Central AI, the various barriers that had troubled the Investigation Team for a long time collapsed in an instant. The progress of the entire case's investigation saw a leap-forward Breakthrough.

Classified information that previously required layers of approval and took months to retrieve could now be accessed directly and without obstacles by the Investigation Team, thanks to the highest investigation order.

Those deliberately hidden and encrypted personnel trajectories, communication records, and operation logs were no longer concealed before the top-level authority, completely exposed to the Investigation Team.

In just two short days, relying on the Empire's Global AI Monitoring Network, the Investigation Team accurately located the key technical personnel behind the automatic weapon firing program of the fleet that had been used as a pawn.

This person had luckily escaped Yale's attempt to silence them, deliberately erased their identity information, and fled under an assumed name to a remote Border Planet, hoping to evade pursuit and thinking they would be safe far away.

But in the face of the global authority of the highest investigation order, the layers of concealment and identity disguises on the Border Planet were useless. The Investigation Team easily pinpointed his exact hiding place.

To avoid alerting the target, the Investigation Team specially selected elite field personnel to conduct a silent and covert operation. Without disturbing any uninvolved parties, they successfully detained the technician and safely brought him back to the core interrogation area of the Military Department.

Inside the interrogation room, there were no intense interrogations or harsh punishments. The Investigation Team adopted a gradual "heart-to-heart" style of questioning.

After three full days of patient interrogation, he fully confessed to all criminal facts. He testified in detail that he was directly instructed by several of Yale's trusted Admirals to activate the starship weapon programs in a designated airspace according to set instructions. The purpose was to make Li Yang's troops fire on friendly forces.

As for those few Admirals who had already perished, swallowed by Spatial Turbulence along with their starships, the Investigation Team did not give up their pursuit.

Even if they were no longer in this world, all the AI records they left within the Empire's system would never disappear.

From daily encrypted communications and private instruction transmissions to written records of conspiracy planning and authority operations for deployment, all traces were completely preserved by the Empire's Central AI.

Relying on the highest investigation order, the Investigation Team Breakthrough layers of encrypted protection and retrieved all the AI background records of the deceased Admirals. They clearly found the private communication content between them and Yale, as well as the specific deployment plans for the conspiracy details.

Every record, every communication, and every instruction perfectly matched all the clues and physical evidence previously acquired.

At this point, all the evidence for the entire case finally formed an impeccable and complete closed loop.

Living witnesses, physical evidence, technical traces preserved by the AI, and the complete confessions and testimonies of technical personnel—all links in the evidence chain were interconnected. Each one clearly and definitively pointed to the mastermind, Yale, with no ambiguity or room for debate, sufficient to fully establish all his crimes.

This was the absolute power of the Empire's highest investigation order. Once activated, it could clear all investigation obstacles and uncover all hidden truths.

Before this AI system that covered all citizens and top-level legal authority, no one could escape scrutiny, and no evidence of crime could be permanently covered up.

Unless you completely broke away from the Empire's system and were no longer an Imperial Citizen. But once that happened, the Empire's laws and rules would no longer provide any protection, and what awaited would only be harsher actions; there would ultimately be nowhere to run.

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Inside the Military Law Department office, a thick stack of evidence files was neatly placed on the desk. Every page was stamped with the red seal of the Investigation Team, and the complete chain of evidence was clearly presented.

Yan Zheng and Zheng Kang stood side by side in front of the desk. After finishing reviewing every page and confirming that all the evidence was interconnected without any flaws—enough to fully establish Yale's crimes—their previously tense expressions finally relaxed completely.

Yan Zheng was the first to burst into laughter, fine lines appearing at the corners of his eyes. Holding the files in both hands, he laughed so hard he couldn't close his mouth, his tone full of satisfaction and relief.

"Hahaha, this is wonderful! In the end, it's this highest investigation order that works. With this top-level authority, the problems that troubled us for so long were all easily solved without even a hint of resistance! If we could use this authority at will whenever we investigate major cases involving high-level officials in the future, our work would be so much easier!"

His exhaustion and suppression from the past few days vanished at this moment, his heart filled with the satisfaction of the case being solved.

Hearing this, Zheng Kang rolled his eyes and reached out to pat the thick files on the desk, complaining bluntly with a tone full of helplessness.

"Keep dreaming; you're just talking nonsense!"