Poisoning, Success!

Varian woke up at 2'O'clock from meditation and freshened up. 

Before their little party was over, Micheal received a message. 

The meeting was advanced and it'd start at midnight. Micheal left hurriedly for a place and asked Varian to meet him by 3. 

The rest were asked to start preparations for the meeting immediately. 

Varian could guess the reason from the holograms Boo found. 

(George Astor, the mayor of Yan City was found to be artificially inflating the prices of the beast cores he stockpiled. He embezzled at least 20 million karma points.)

Mayors were in the bottom-upper cadre of officialdom. Above them, there were officials at cluster level and officials at planetary level. 

The top most were the Federation level officers. Of course, Astor family had none at such level. 

So just a Mayor's scam wouldn't have troubled them. 

But—

(Vincent Astor, Mayor of …)

(Ayden Astor, Mayor of…)