: 135. Cross-Boundary Cooperation_4<div>
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“After deducting the production and trading costs, the remaining profit out of the 3 billion is 2.5 billion. Out of the 2.5 billion profit, more than 2 billion ends up in the pockets of the local salespany’s staff, or more precisely, into the pockets of the Alchemist Faction behind these staff members. I have outlined the factions benefitting from this activity in the document. You can look them up in the index,” she exined.
Nnd Lee had a quick look at the document, extracting a bunch of papers bound together with a stapler.<div>
He nced over the list of factions and raised an eyebrow, noticing something potentially coincidental.
A few days ago, during spray powder day, Fars Scott had used an Alchemical Mechanical Spider to prate through to the third underground level, intending to test itsbat capabilities.
The spider was ambushed and dismantled into mechanical parts, with the vital Alchemical Cube being taken away by the attacker.
Fars had suspected that apetitor who had got the same research task had secretly nned this attack to eliminate him from thepetition.
Lee followed Fars’s clues and conducted an investigation into thepetitors who had taken the same research task as him.
At first, Lee selected eight suspects.
After extensive discussion with Betty Davis, the list of suspects was narrowed down to five.
All five individuals were backed by the same faction, the Razor Gang.
The Razor Gang had control of No.11, making them the best mid-level Alchemist Faction in their locality and backed by the Life Essence Society’s Stone Mining Society.
The faction had one Fifth-order Alchemist, four Fourth-rank Alchemists, and not less than thirty Alchemists ranging from the first to third order.
As a gang that thrived on thrill and bloodshed, the Razor Gang had a notorious reputation.<div>
Due to their fearless andbative nature, they stood out amongst all the small factions.
However, they had offended numerous individuals and factions in the process and remained stuck at the mid-level alchemist hierarchy.
Now, this mid-level faction known as the Razor Gang had appeared on the list provided by Cindy. They topped the list, taking away 50% of the profit of the ckwater Winery Sales Company for the year.
Lee thought about the operations of the ckwater Winery Company, exporting local wine to Tatis inrge quantities, and smelled the faint scent of conspiracy.
There are no long-distance instantmunication means in this world.
In Nnd Lee’s world before crossing, to transfer funds on arge scale through international trade, one cannot do without fictitious trade scenarios, false trade goods, legal trade backgrounds, and the most crucial thing—the means of payment.
With developedmunication and rapid currency cirction in the world before crossing, fund payment can bepleted using telegraphic transfer.
However, in this world, an exportpany must first get the money paid by the trade object, bring it to the local area and exchange it to local currency to ount for it.
Meaning, the local ckwater Winery Sales Company would have to aplish the following steps:
Sail to the empire, sell their wine, exchange it for New Solon Currency, take them back to Union City, convert them to Union Coin and distribute it to thepany staff.
But herees the problem.<div>
It is known that the Tatis Empire is extremely closed, and its New Solon Currency doesn’t meet the requirements for international cirction. The local Alchemist Factions in Union City do not recognise the New Solon Currency.
In this situation, how is the ckwater Winery Sales Company supposed to exchange the New Solon Coins they have earned for Union Coins?
Isn’t this like exchanging solid gold and silver for waste paper?
The profit of 2.5 billion mentioned by Cindy is calcted in Union Coins. The sries that are paid out are also in Union Coins, not in New Solon Coins.
Anyone who helps the ckwater Winery Sales Company exchange New Solon Coins for Union Coins would have to pay out a real 2.5 billion Union Coins.
Who has such financial strength?
Lee slightly inhaled and looked at the morousdy opposite to him, asking:
“Tell me honestly, Cindy. Who helped the ckwater Winery Sales Company exchange the coins? Could it be your Golden Commerce Guild?”
Cindy, holding her thin smoke, waved her hand, and said:
“No, Ray Lee, our Golden Commerce Guild would not make such a loss-making deal. It was the doing of the Re-forged Alchemist Association.”
“The Re-forged Alchemist Association…” Lee was silent for two seconds and thenughed lightly:<div>
“This adds up now…”
“What? What adds up?” Cindy blinked her eyes curiously, looking at the man across from her hiding his face behind a face towel and sunsses.
Lee shook his head, not answering her question.
He leaned back on his chair and pulled up the “Third-order ckbone Warlock· Taludo” panel information in his mind.
[Identity 1] Supervisor of the ckbone Secret Society’s Machinery Factory
[Identity 2] Expert at the Re-forged Alchemist Association’s Alchemy Workshop
When Lee had first seen the delicateyout of the mechanical factory, he began to wonder:
Who had designed the blueprint of the mechanical factory?
Who had supervised the construction of the factory?
Who was operating it?
It could not have been Samuelson. Just because he was skilled in mental magic doesn’t mean he was talented in construction.
It also could not have been the ckbone hermit of the ckbone Secret Society. Just looking at the Alchemy ves they had created, one could see that they were dirty and messy, filled with a patchy atmosphere, and they could not possibly be the designer of the mechanical factory.
When reviewing the results of the deconstruction process, Lee came across Taludo’s identity information and immediately figured that he was the one who had helped the ckbone Secret Society design the mechanical factory.
Taludo surely had the ability to design, construct, and operate a mechanical factory; otherwise, his identity as an “Alchemy Workshop specialist” would bepromised.