Someone Who Needs a Change of Pace

The next morning, media outlets and news agencies inside and outside China all ran news about one incident at once.

An assassination in the heart of Beijing, China’s first-tier city and capital. And the targets were 14 Awakeners from C- to B-rank, led by one A-rank Awakener.

Even if they’re C-rank, once you get to B-rank or higher, even a traffic accident that totally wrecks a car won’t instantly kill you. Unless they’re a low-durability mage type, that is; body-focused tank types are different.

On top of that, by A-rank, even mage-type Awakeners can walk out of a fire on their own two feet.

[Beijing Turns Into a ‘City of Crime’? 14-Person Assassination in the Middle of the City—The Targets Were ‘Awakeners’...]

[The Shame of a First-Tier City, ‘This Isn’t an Assassination.’ The Chinese authorities state it was ‘just a vehicle accident’...]

[Experts Speak with One Voice: ‘Impossible’... Was it the work of a ghost?]

[Chinese Awakener police remain silent across the board... Netizens call it ‘proof of incompetence’...]

Since the emergence of Awakeners, China had repeatedly drawn public backlash for things like suppressing Xinjiang and Tibet, as well as censorship and dictatorship. Even amid the chaos that followed, Beijing had stubbornly maintained its dignity as both a first-tier city and the capital.

Thanks to the tens of thousands of civilian Awakeners who rose up of their own accord to curry favor with the Chinese Communist Party—so-called Awakener Red Guards—even ethnic minorities and human-rights activists who had suffered oppression for years couldn’t even cast a shadow over Beijing...