327 Look, He Still Has to Clean Up After Us

Andrew Verrazzi over 1.9 meters tall, with a handsome appearance and elegant demeanor. Even among the young talents in the group, there are not many who can meet the conditions of being ' Red King’s Chosen ', 'Company Crown Prince', and 'reaching Zeta-rank (6) at a young age'.

Almost everyone believed that he would become a pivotal figure in the group in the future. He was destined to be the kind of person who frequented high society, discussed the development of Star Abyss with top financial magnates, and chatted with securities tycoons about ascending to higher levels of power—in other words, those 'officials' in ordinary civilizations.

The group's narrative lacks a bureaucratic system; everything in its social operations is handled by outsourced companies.

However, this future "official" was now huddled in his office with a gloomy expression. He had his eyes closed and was leaning back in his executive chair. The air was filled with top-quality incense imported from Yanmiao, which kept his mind calm and rational.

The group's members are driven by a belief in making money and investing, and to maintain a peaceful state of mind, they have all cultivated the habit of burning incense. As a result, all the group's top executives maintain a cold, inhuman, and extremely rational demeanor.

This isn't all good.

Just like now, Andrew Verrazzi is constantly reviewing the process of this ' ‘Star Hunt’ ' project in his mind.

The public relations department has been activated and is beginning to address various issues. The hijacked Kaitai Civil Aviation, having received their money, has chosen to remain silent. Meanwhile, passengers from White Candle Star have revealed information to the media regarding the actions of Verrazzi Company.

However, none of this mattered. Verrazzi's public relations team skillfully removed media outlets that were unfavorable to him. At the same time, he ordered the research department to launch a massive campaign, hiring people to buy sensational news stories to make headlines and trend on social media in order to cover up the truth.

As for Lioz... Lioz was, to be fair, a sensible person.

Instead of directly confronting the Narrative-level Civilization, he quietly took away Nalia's legacy, which could be considered hush money.

Since Li Aoz so smart, Andrew doesn't want to continue opposing him at this critical juncture.

With Nalia Verrazzi's death, her family's power collapsed overnight. Andrew quietly recruited her former subordinates and talents. As for her native who had married into the Crystal Tower Civilization, Andrew did not waste him. He gave him a place to stay and made him his eyes and ears to monitor the situation of the Crystal Tower Civilization.

In reality, this was also a form of surveillance against Li Aoz. Currently, the Crystal Tower Civilization and the White Candle Autonomous State are military allies, Li Aoz's subordinates will inevitably have to travel and communicate with their ally, which will inevitably lead to the leakage of a lot of information.

That's why... it seems a bit strange.

Lioz was their target, they now had to clean up the mess left by the Tomb Stars that the other side had conveniently destroyed.

What's so bad about that... Andrew shrugged.

Let's just say this kid's luck has just exploded.

Andrew handled all of this skillfully.

As for losing money? Don't be ridiculous. How can you do business without losing money? Complaining and blaming yourself won't help. Review the situation, find the problems, avoid making the same mistakes next time, and then make the money back. It's that simple.

This operation was indeed a complete failure, not only in terms of economic losses, but also in terms of stock price fluctuations of up to 3.8%. If it weren't for the fact that Nalia was confirmed dead and her remains were never found, she would have been brought out to be held accountable by the shareholders.

Experts may offer various reasons, but for Andrew, he only saw the most crucial one.

"Emotional breakdown."

Nalia's emotions gradually crumbled as she acted.

The report presented revealed many issues, among which Nalia's emotional changes particularly caught Andrew's attention.

To be honest, he simply couldn't understand it.

How could Nalia Verrazzi, a ruthless businesswoman who could kill her own siblings to seize power and use her body as a bargaining chip, make such a mistake?

It's just capturing a Zeta-rank enemy. Although Lioz is powerful, as long as we proceed step by step according to plan, there will be absolutely no problems. Even the prophecy says so. He even specifically sought out the Light Gold Priest to ask him to pray for revelation from the noble deity.

The revelation is that Lioz will eventually come here.

Putting aside subjective factors, objectively speaking, Nalia's prepared strength was far from sufficient; in the eyes of others, it was like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

A Gabros was in charge of execution, an intelligent warship served as the rearguard, and a Zeta-rank [Gambler] was responsible for divination and improving fault tolerance.

Andrew knew very well that such preparations were thorough, and even if an ordinary commander were sent in, the complete annihilation of a planetary civilization would be a piece of cake.

However, even so, Nalia still failed.

Not only was the operation a failure, but the fact that Gabros, a key asset of the company, was turned and taken away by Lioz was not necessarily a bad thing, as it at least revealed some shortcomings in the modification of the fifth-generation Gabros.

I originally thought that the Loyalty Agreement would be enough to suppress Gabros's personality and ego after the gland removal, but now it seems that it is still impossible without using the soul.

However, this cannot cover up the fact that Gabros murdered his lord and fled.

This is really strange. Gabros is perfectly fine. Five years ago, he was even specifically sent to hunt down Lioz. This kind of problem shouldn't be happening.

In that case, it seems necessary to bring Gabros back and investigate what caused it to turn against us at the last minute.

With that thought in mind, he summoned his men and ordered, "Put a bounty on Valkyrie Fortress; I want ' Nefthys Cleopatra ' wanted."

The subordinate quickly jotted it down, then asked, "Agent Verrazzi, we've contacted Mr. Olavier, and he asked about your offer..."

"Forty million Ammonium Gold," Andrew said. "Dead or alive, but if we can capture him alive and intact, we'll add an extra sixty percent... no, eighty percent."

"Young master, isn't the price a bit too high? The construction cost of Gabros was only 34 million, wasn't it?"

"You don't understand."

Andrew smiled, "Gabros is definitely homeless now, and his only option is to go with Lioz. Lioz has already cost us a whopping 95.37 million Ammonium Gold in operations, personnel, procurement, intelligence, and public relations for this operation alone. Dealing with Gabros will definitely require a few legendary mercenaries at the near-Italian level... Either Lioz abandons Gabros, or he clashes with them. It's that simple."

"I see. Your ultimate goal is still Lioz."

The subordinate suddenly realized:

"In recent years, Valkyrie Fortress has also begun to subtly try to break free from the control of our narrative, letting Lioz fight them like dogs, and appropriately weakening their strength."

"The Valkyrie Fortress has been a cosmic tollbooth for too long. As a no-man's-land in the Abyss, leaving a buffer zone is actually necessary for our three narratives. However, they've been a bit too hard-line these past few years."

Andrew spun around in his chair.