Lian had names in two hours.
Council Member Teng. Council Member Wu. Council Member Hao.
Teng controlled Bureau funding allocation. Wu chaired the security committee that gave Bureau Direct Action its operational authority. Hao was the legal architect of the anomalous cultivation detention statutes that had put Lin in a cell for sixteen days.
Not coincidence. Architecture.
"They built the system together," Ren said, reading through Lian's information at the table. "Teng funds it. Wu authorizes operations. Hao writes the legal cover." He looked up. "Cai executes. Four people built the entire Bureau detention apparatus specifically targeting cultivation anomalies."
"Sixty years ago Liang expelled Dragon Order practitioners," Xin said. "These four are the institutional continuation of th
