After returning from the Governor's Mansion, Lyon began preparing to leave.
According to the plan he had already made, he would next notify all the investors who had been deceived and make arrangements for the first Shareholders Meeting.
That meant he would have roughly three days during which he would not appear in front of anyone.
Those three days would be the time he used to leave Peng Joe.
Based on his calculations, the Governor and the great nobles' money would enter the account he had provided within two days at most.
Therefore, he had to leave Peng Joe on the second day—not earlier and not later.
Leaving early might lead to an accident. For example, the Governor might suddenly need to find him. Once the Governor discovered that he was gone, Lyon's speed of escape certainly would not match the speed at which the Governor could hunt him down.
But he could not leave too late, either. If he waited too long, the Shareholders Meeting would begin, and his forged documents would be exposed—
Everyone else's money had been withdrawn. Why hadn't his money and his investors' money arrived yet? Therefore, he could not leave early or late.
After returning, he booked six tickets for ships to Nagaril, each on a different date and at a different time, using the telephone reservation system.
Once he reached Nagaril, he would transfer to a vehicle and flee through the southern region.
That area was still in a semi-primitive society without modern communications, so it would be difficult for anyone to discover his whereabouts.
He was packing up the things in his room. Some of them could still be useful later, such as the altered bank draft.
That bank draft had cost him ten thousand dollars, and forging the amount had cost