Chapter 42

That night, things at Cordia were anything but calm, and of course, those who stirred up the trouble wouldn't have it easy either. Over at the Academy of Sciences, an emergency meeting was convened overnight in response to the attack on Aurora. A special investigation team was formed to look into it. Working jointly with the cops, they swiftly rounded up everyone involved in the assault. Over a dozen people were arrested overnight, all of them fans of Whitney. They were interrogated through the night, but the initial statements didn't convince the investigation team. The team had already requested the hospital to provide Aurora's medical report. Those knife wounds didn't look like something done just by some overzealous fans trying to vent their anger for an idol. The bigger concern was that the attackers might be spies disguised as fans, and they were actually targeting a key researcher. So, early in the morning, the moment Whitney arrived at the company, the cops came to take he