Vault 404, B4 level.
Sitting on the sofa in the reading room, Chu Guang browsed through the intelligence Xiao Qi had compiled and organized for him on his laptop.
Based on the intelligence the players had gathered, he could more or less confirm that the arson attack last night and the siege of City Hall during the day had both been orchestrated by Boulder City's largest food supplier—the Vega Trading Firm.
The photos Fang Chang had taken and the excerpts from his recordings would become crucial evidence.
As for when to play that card, he needed to choose the timing carefully.
Boulder City's television and radio stations would never report these matters, and reporting them now would not earn the new Alliance much sympathy anyway.
At a time like this, even if Dulong knew Vega had set him up and incited those residents to surround City Hall, he could not say much.
After all, they had a common threat to face right now.
However, things would be different once the friendly cooperation agreement had been signed.
Once the two hundred million chips arrived, the relationship between the new Alliance and both the public and government of Boulder City would gradually mend as jobs surged. The new Alliance would become an honored guest of Boulder City's City Hall, and anyone who damaged the relationship between the two sides would become a public enemy.
Chu Guang would pick a less sensitive moment to have the new Alliance's newspaper establish a branch in Boulder City, then publish that material as the front-page headline.
By then, he could go with the flow and have the diplomats throw a fit, reasonably and justifiably excluding the Vega Trading Firm from the procurement list. None of Boulder City's factions would have much to say about it.
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