Under the Heiress' Facade

Chapter 114

At Gaskell Corporation, a group of young people sat in the conference room staring at their computers.

Seven or eight were yawning, while another four or five were struggling to keep their eyes open. None dared to succumb to sleep, not with Queenie casting her ominous presence at the front of the room.

At noon, Queenie got a reply from Raven that made her forehead vein pop. It was a deal worth six hundred million, yet they were being so casual about it.

But with the company's firewall system at stake, Queenie rushed to the office. She had to prepare and gather all the computer experts in the company into the conference room.

"I need you all to track down the other party's location through the network."

The computer experts could only respond in unison, "Yes."

After Queenie sent the task request, they waited for hours in the meeting room until they finally received a reply at 10:00 pm.

Raven replied, "Task accepted. 1.05 billion. Get ready and transfer the funds to this account within half an hour. No delays."

Queenie had skipped going to the Astral Nova Auction. She had waited anxiously for the entire day, only to receive a shock when she finally saw the figure—1.05 billion.

In just a few days, Raven's price had skyrocketed from 300 million to 1.05 billion. Queenie suddenly realized she might have been scammed.

Ever since the surveillance footage was leaked, it seemed like she had been lured into a trap.

"Find their location now!"

Queenie slammed her hand on the table and stood up.

The hackers sprang into action and swiftly tracked down the coordinates.

After a flurry of keystrokes, one of them reported, "Found them. 66°34' S, 160° E."

"30° N, 20° E"

"34° S, 151° E"

As everyone reported their findings, they looked at each other and finally came to one conclusion— they had been counter-surveilled.

"We've traced the bank card information. It's the account used for payments at the Astral Nova Auction," someone said.

"Immediately find out what was auctioned tonight at Astral Nova for 1.05 billion and who the buyer was," Queenie ordered.

Then, she turned to her secretary.

"Prepare the car, we're heading to Astral Nova!"

"Got it."

The secretary hurried to catch up with her.

"Do we need to settle the payment for the request?"

Queenie wanted to refuse, but the saying "time waits for no one" made her hesitate. After all the trouble, they couldn't just give up.

Their company's firewall system couldn't afford to wait for them to find someone else. They also considered the transaction's legitimacy since the account belonged to Astral Nova.

"Pay it! But only at the last minute, and keep a record of the transfer," she said with a sly smirk.

The secretary responded, "Got it."

Half an hour later, Queenie arrived at Astral Nova. By the time she showed up, most of the auction attendees had already left, and the security guard at the entrance stopped them.

"I'm sorry, but the auction is over. No one else may enter."

"What?"

If this were any other place, Queenie would have barged in. But this was Astral Nova, so she held back.

She opened WhatsApp and sent a message to Raven.

"Are you at Astral Nova? I happen to be here, too. Do you want to meet up?" This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.

There was no reply.

"Madam, the payment has been made," the secretary said whilst on the phone.

She hung up the call she was on and continued, "Also, I discovered that tonight's auction highlight was the Eclipse Stone. It was auctioned off with the highest bid at 880 million, and Dr. Shadow purchased it."