Chapter 1425
The log was incomplete, containing only a few intercepted lines of dialogue.
[Move the assets p>
[The White Tower has prepared the drop point p>
[Chairman Sinclair will cover the books through the foundation’s channels p>
[The relief station’s accounts are clean. It won’t attract attention p>
The final line read:
[What The Overlord wants isn’t money. It’s the data in her hands p>
When the screenshot of this exchange appeared, dead silence swept through the banquet hall.
Every word was a fatal blow directed straight at Alaric.
Alaric’s face turned ghastly pale, and he blurted out instinctively, “That’s impossible. How could you have p>
The moment the words left his mouth, he realized his slip-up.
His voice came to an abrupt halt.
But it was too late.
Serena looked at him, her smile deepening. “Why so anxious, Chairman Sinclair? I haven’t even mentioned where this communication log came from p>
Cold sweat beaded on Alaric’s forehead.
He stared fixedly at the large screen, a sliver of unconcealable panic finally surfacing in his eyes.
This communication log p>
How was it in her hands?
Could it be from the residual servers at the underground base in Severia?
No.
Impossible.
They had scrubbed everything clean.
As if seeing right through him, Serena drawled, “Before the Severian underground base self-destructed, someone thought they had wiped all the transit records p>
“A pity they didn’t scrub hard enough p>
Her red lips curled into a smirk, her tone lacing with amusement. “If I have one talent, it’s that I’m exceptionally good at dumpster diving p>
Hearing this, Jasper almost burst out laughing.
Good at dumpster diving?
She had hacked into the underground base’s core servers and stripped every last encrypted fragment the Obsidian Sun left behind.
She called that dumpster diving?
Nicholas stood beside her, a hint of a smile touching his eyes.
His Serena was, as always, infuriatingly brilliant at driving people mad.
Alaric, however, felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over his head.
He finally realized he was entirely ruined tonight.
Not only did Serena know the Sinclair family had a problem.
She had obtained the evidence a long time ago.
She hadn’t moved against him; she had simply been waiting.
Waiting for him to step forward himself.
Waiting for him to actively bring up the rescue data.
Waiting for him to personally expose his unnatural obsession with the biometric data of the Severian experts.
That way, the Sinclair family could never explain any of this away as a coincidence.
He had thought himself the chess player.
But now p>
He was nothing but a pawn in Serena’s hand.
Dr. Dawson stared at the communication log on the screen, his expression terrifyingly cold. “Alaric Sinclair p>
He didn’t even use the title
evenu
‘Chairman, his voice frigid. “So,
when you demanded Miss Serena
make the rescue data public earlier, wanting the data on those experts’ altered nervous systems, organ failures, and abnormal drug
reactions p>
“It was because the Obsidian Sun wanted it p>
The name ‘Obsidian Sun’ was not unfamiliar to most of Vaelion City’s elite.
Whispers of the “Obsidian Sun organization” had circulated among the upper echelons for years.
After all, they operated under the banner of immortality.
Who in the top circles didn’t want to live forever? Who didn’t want to hold onto their wealth for eternity?
Moreover… recently, the Obsidian Sun had auctioned a serum that supposedly restored dying people to full health and youth.
Though no one present had access to such an exclusive auction, they had all heard rumors.
They also heard the so-called serum auction was a massive scam. the Obsidian Sun pocketed billions from global elites, they vanished
Those international elites still had active bounties out for them.
And after the incident in Severia, although various nations had suppressed many details e
everyone
here belonged to the highest tier of
society.