Shen Yuanbiao stared, dumbfounded, and stammered, "B-Big Brother, what did you say?"
Looking at his expression, one could almost suspect that his wise and mighty elder brother had suffered Cultivation Deviation and gone completely mad after taking one heavy blow after another.
"I said, either don't investigate at all, or investigate everything—inside and out, from beginning to end!"
Shen Yuanbao sneered repeatedly. "You think it'll be that easy to pin every black pot on the Shen family?"
"But, this, this..."
Shen Yuanbiao was still at a loss.
Or rather, he was pretending to be at a loss.
"You still don't understand?"
Shen Yuanbao snorted coldly. "If the scope of the investigation is limited solely to the Red Creek Project, then we'll become the target of every arrow, flies beneath the spotlight. Not only will the other Eight Super Enterprises refuse to help us out of this bind, they may even kick us when we're down and stab us hard in the back.
"After all, if Cosmos Group falls, the market share and profits left vacant will be astronomical. Even if they can only get one-eighth of it, some people can't help but be tempted.
"And we can't compromise with the Blue Alliance—at the very least, we can't be the first to compromise. That would also be a sign of weakness.
"Besides, I reckon the Blue Alliance is in a difficult position now too, like riding a tiger and being unable to dismount.
"I reckon the Blue Alliance never intended to completely tear off its face with the Nine Super Enterprises in the first place. They merely wanted to use the Underground Black Market incident to display their strength, attract more supporters, get their proposals smoothly passed by the Survival Committee, greatly enhance their influence, and then, in the next Survival