666 Just a Warning (2/2)

”Arrogant.”

With just one word, the person on the other side hung up.

The two sides were at an impasse; there was no need to negotiate further.

Jiang Chen immediately ordered the Ghost Agents within UA's border to trace the phone call, and it was determined to be from a public phone booth in B City.

When he obtained that information, he had to look through Matrix to determine the shareholders of the company. But since Matrix was a private company, it took some effort to acquire the information. It was Xie Lei who hacked Matrix's servers and obtained the information from an equity change agreement.

All the evidence led to one name.

The fifth largest consortium in UA – B City Consortium.

Speaking of B City Consortium, it has a rich history. As one of the top ten consortia in UA, although it is less powerful than Morgan and Rockefeller, it is certainly the oldest one. It dates back to the 19th century when the Lovell, Lawrence, Adams, and Lodge families in the Boston area formed the B City Consortium with the emerging Kennedy family, possessing almost complete control of the entire North American textile industry. Their presence could be traced to the Civil War.

Although their current influence has faded compared to before, its influence in UA can't be underestimated. The world famous Raytheon is one of its holdings. These large consorts that controlled UA are more or less inextricably linked to the interests of the Ministry of Defense.

Since it is the B City Consortium that controlled Matrix, everything made sense. The Capital wanted to use the freshwater supply project to increase their control over Saudi. Since the dollar was tied to oil, the Capital still prioritized expanding their influence in the Middle East even when oil prices were so sluggish at the moment.

And because of Future Group's intervention in the freshwater project, B City Consortium obviously wouldn't sit around with their business ruined.

Just like they said, the class action suit from ”Blue Seagull” was just a warning. B City Consortium would attack Future Group from multiple fields until Future Group could no longer withstand the losses and compromise on the not-so-profitable freshwater project.

Jiang Chen wouldn't allow their desires to come true!

Future Group would eventually be in a conflict of interest with the ”ancient consortia.” If he folded whenever there was a conflict, how could he do business in the future? Jiang Chen would not compromise, so he responded to B City Consortium's aggression with a firm stance.

Fortunately, Future Group had no subsidiary that was public, so B City Consortium's traditional financial attacks were futile against Future Group. However, they still managed to determine two attacking points, one was Future Group's most profitable tech business, and the other was marine life protection.

On October 11th, the UA Department of Justice launched an anti-trust investigation against Future Group's subsidiary.

At the same time, two ”environmental advocates” forcefully boarded Future Mining's Pacific platform by boat, but they were quickly detained by Celestial Trade's security. UA's embassy in Xin immediately responded and demanded their release.

B City Consortium started the fight with a hook and a straight punch to gain an advantage in the showdown, targeting Future Group's weaknesses.

If UA's Department of Justice ultimately determined Future Technology was guilty in the anti-trust investigation, it would be a detrimental blow to the development of Future Technology's virtual reality market. It would set a precedent for other countries.

Would Jiang Chen allow them to succeed?

The answer was an obvious no!