Chapter 49 (1/2)

“David, did you really have nothing to do with the sudden firing of that long-range sniper cannon?” Maron asked David solemnly on the way back, after switching on the autopilot mode of the car.

“Maron, you were standing next to me the whole time. How could you not know if I had done it?” David retorted as he crossed his arms.

“I know that, it’s just so coincidental!” Maron exclaimed as he shook his head.

“I also think it’s too coincidental!” David chuckled.

“David, you didn’t hack the city defense system to activate that long-range sniper cannon, did you?” Maron asked again, suddenly getting the idea.

He knew that David had a good foundation in electronics, and he had also seen the medium-sized server that had been delivered to him by Leeson Security. That was a professional server, one that ordinary people could not play with.

“That’s a military city defense system, not the civilian-use security system that I have in my residence, which can be hacked into by a few mercenaries,” David said helplessly as he looked at Maron.

At this moment, Maron received a prompt on his identity bracelet. He switched on his identity bracelet, dumbfounded when he saw the information on it.

“David, things have gone out of hand! The long-range sniper cannon seemed to have shot Mr. Strat!” Maron exclaimed, his mouth wide open as he looked at David. Then, he was suddenly reminded of something.

“Maron, how is Mr. Strat?” David asked, pretending to be shocked.

Seeing David’s behavior, Maron gave it some thought and concluded that although David’s relationship with Mr. Strat was extremely awkward, he would have to be extremely psychologically abnormal to kill Mr. Strat just for that.

After interacting with David, Maron felt that he was not mentally unsound. Instead, David was very easy to get along with, and despite being a genius, he was not arrogant at all.

In the beginning, Maron only started getting close to David because he wanted to be mentored by Galen. However, after spending time with David, he thought that having a friend like David was worth it.

In fact, even his father, Mayor Bernard, thought the same. Investing in a genius was something many people chose to do.

How could they have managed to contact the military and go on a tour around the city walls so smoothly without Mayor Bernard’s involvement?

“Mr. Strat is dead!” Maron exclaimed. He had also lost the desire to pursue the matter, instead deciding to go back and ask his father how things were going to develop. At the end of the day, he and David were both present at the scene and it would more or less implicate them both.

The two of them remained silent and Maron left in a hurry after dropping David off at his house.

David watched Maron’s car leave apologetically and thought to himself that he should make it up to Myron when he could.

Upon returning home, he headed straight to the security. However, this time, he did not enter the virtual world and instead logged into the optical computer of Strat Hotel.

When he heard the conversation between Mr. Strat and Jeremy long ago, David had already noticed that the company they mentioned during the conversation was being run under an anonymous identity.

He found the small, unassuming company in the security optical computer. It was named Mountain-River Investments Firm, and its corporate entity was a code generated by special authentication software.

Such an anonymous business was unique to the Star Federation. Anonymity was meant to conceal one’s actions.

An anonymous corporation could only be anonymous when it was not in business. Once the anonymous corporation began to generate profit, there would definitely have to be a legal owner.

For instance, Mr. Strat had purchased the Central Hotel and West City Hotel under the name of the anonymous company. It was presumed that the owners of the two hotels were caught off guard because they did not expect anyone to acquire their hotels.

A hotel in a small city may be considered large to ordinary people but to those who were truly wealthy, or to large companies, it would be of no benefit to their interests.

The organization had merely invested credit points into Mr. Strat because they wanted to increase his influence. Only then did Mr. Strat have the financial resources to complete the plan.

David transferred the hidden authentication software to his own medium-sized server and the Mountain-River Investments Firm became his private property.