The Levi Conglomerate.
Standing before a panoramic floor-to-ceiling window, a middle-aged man in a white suit frowned at the intelligence before him.
His name was Gracie Roderick, and he was the man at the helm of the Levi Conglomerate.
The plan to seize the Nathen II Tactical Chip had, in fact, been orchestrated entirely by him.
He had expected to make the Nathen Conglomerate swallow the loss in silence and fleece them for a hefty sum.
Instead, an unknown third party had blindsided him midway through. Not only had they stolen the fruits of his labor, he did not even know who they really were.
Fortunately, those lowlifes in the Madfire Gang had been clever enough to provide him with the leads he needed...
Gracie studied the intelligence the Madfire Gang had sent him about [Black Valkyrie] Esnie and sank into thought.
According to the report, [Black Valkyrie] Esnie appeared to be a subordinate of Jonas Wetting, the heir to the Wetting Conglomerate. That made the Wetting Conglomerate a likely candidate for the third party that had interfered in the previous incident.
That would explain all the earlier unanswered questions.
The information had leaked because the Wetting Conglomerate had planted its own people inside the Levi Conglomerate. Those old bastards on the Wetting Conglomerate's board had planned this whole affair well in advance. They knew perfectly well that he would not deploy too large an armed force to seize the chip, and had simply waited for him to swallow the loss.
As for the possibility that Jonas had orchestrated the incident on his own initiative, Gracie had never even considered it.
Leaving aside whether Jonas had the nerve to strike at two fellow top-tier conglomerates without his own conglomerate's backing, the intelligence alone would be difficult to explain.
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