After learning that the 40,000-strong gang of the third-ranked family would pledge allegiance to him, Guo Wei's father executed the plan to annex the third family.
**Phase One: The Guilt Manufacturing Factory**
Sister's system activated its "Script Generation Module," producing three sets of "perfect criminal records" for each of the 47 core members of the third family.
*Evidence Chain Production Process:*
1. **Biological Evidence Grafting:** Utilizing controlled hospital morgues and police evidence lockers, extracting weapons, blood-stained clothing, and hairs from unsolved cases. Through Xiao Mei's close friend, obtaining targets' daily items (toothbrushes, combs) for DNA transfer and pairing.
2. **Digital Footprint Fabrication:** Hacking into telecom providers and surveillance systems to insert "ghost activity records"—placing Hall Master A's signal at a triple homicide scene three years prior, making Lawyer B's computer show access trails to child exploitation databases.
3. **Witness Cultivation Program:** Selecting 12 low-level members from the opposing side with "amplifiable flaws" (domestic violence records, gambling debts, illegitimate children). In exchange for "witness protection + debt clearance," having them sign pre-written accusation statements.
**Phase Two: Precision Injection into Judicial Channels**
*For Prosecutors (Catalyzing Indictments):*
- Packaging fabricated evidence as "coincidental independent reports from different whistleblowers":
- Package ①: Anonymous express delivery to the prosecutor's "Organized Crime Task Force," including "evidence of high-level political pressure to drop the case" (forged documents).
- Package ②: Public submission by a family-controlled human rights lawyer under the guise of "conscientious disclosure."
- Package ③: Arranging for an overseas human rights organization to "accidentally obtain" evidence and send a letter of concern to the Ministry of Justice.
*For Judges (Preconditioning Judgment):*
- Through intermediaries, "providing academic research materials" to judges presiding over key cases:
- Funding their attendance at international conferences themed "Modern Evidence Adjudication in Organized Crime."
- Skillfully embedding "landmark case precedents" resembling the fabrication methods used in this operation within the conference materials.
- Activating "Public Opinion Temperature Control": Releasing news of "similarly-patterned" solved crimes via media three months before trial, shaping societal sensitivity towards such offenses.
**Phase Three: Manipulating the Prison Ecosystem**
*Pre-Imprisonment Layout:*
1. **Prison Faction Arrangements:** Using connections within the corrections system to disperse targets to prisons "prepared with welcoming ceremonies."
2. **Health Preconditioning:** Long-term micro-dosing of medication affecting mental state into their diets (prescriptions can be forged), ensuring court appearances "conform to the violent lunatic image."
*Social Death Within Prison:*
- Releasing "taboo labels" to other prison factions:
- To violent offenders: "He's a police informant, here to gather intelligence."
- To sex offenders: Hinting, "He hoards child exploitation material, even despised by brothers on the outside."
- Ensuring their placement at the absolute bottom of the prison hierarchy, isolated and bullied.
**Phase Four: Asset Stripping and Creating a Power Vacuum**
*Parallel Tracks: Criminal Seizure & Civil Recovery*
1. **Expansive Freezing:** Citing "suspects may be hiding assets" to apply for seizure of properties under names of "blood relatives within three generations" (exploiting legal ambiguities).
2. **Blitzkrieg on Debt:** Within 24 hours of indictment news breaking, using shell companies to purchase all private debts against the targets, immediately filing for enforcement.
*Legitimizing the Power Takeover*
1. **Interim Manager Status:** As the "largest creditor," petitioning the court to be appointed "interim asset manager."
2. **Proof of Business Continuity:** Submitting CPA-audited reports proving "business interruption would lead to thousands of job losses," seeking "operational maintenance permits."
3. **Employee Vote Manipulation:** Holding a company-wide vote on "whether to agree to temporary takeover by the fourth family to safeguard employment rights." One week prior: distributing "operational difficulty warning bonuses." On voting day: providing transportation subsidies and meal allowances for the "supporting side."
**System Core: The Judicial Black Box Algorithm**
The true function of Sister's system is calculation:
- "Indictment Success Rate" prediction model (integrating presiding judges' sentencing tendencies, prosecutors' win rates, social climate parameters).
- "Sentence Maximization" strategy simulation (selecting which charges to file, when to add charges, whether to pursue plea deals).
- "Asset Transfer Path" optimization (flowchart for the fastest legal property stripping).
**The Final Ritual Cleansing**
When the last target member received a final, unappealable sentence, the father announced at a family meeting:
"From today, the third family is a historical term."
"We did not wage war. We merely assisted the judiciary in cleansing society of a group of malignant tumors."
"And society's repayment to us is letting their remaining resources be managed by more capable hands."
He looked at Sister:
"The system has recorded the judicial costs of this operation."
"In the future, this 'Judicial Cleansing Service' can become a 'paid option' we offer to other families."
"After all, someone always needs their competitors to disappear... legally."
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**▍ The Essence of This Plan**
This is a modern form of sorcery — **"ethnic cleansing executed using legal statutes":**
- The Weapons: Not blades or guns, but *Criminal Procedure Code Article 158-4* (determining evidence admissibility), *Organized Crime Prevention Act Article 3*.
- The Battlefield: Not the streets, but prosecution investigation chambers, high court appeal hearings, Constitutional Court interpretation petitions.
- The Casualties: Not corpses, but 47 verdicts with an average sentence of 19.3 years, and the 136 billion NTD in assets that evaporated with them.
The father's final words to Guo Wei:
"Remember, true masters never break the law."
"They just understand better than anyone how to hold the blade of the law, how to thrust it, and how to withdraw it to the applause of all."
"Now, we hold this blade."
"The next step is to make other families willingly offer their necks for us to test its edge."
And Xiao Mei declined the invitation to work at headquarters.