Flashback:
Inside a hidden, soundproof monitoring suite, five high-tier financial analysts sat in an ergonomic semicircle, their faces illuminated by the synchronized glare of sovereign-level ledger tracking software. These weren't standard auditors; they were the ghost team tasked with keeping tabs on the capital footprints of Veyra's most massive corporate entities. And for the past forty-eight hours, their screens had been entirely locked onto the liquidity pools of Golden Investments.
Suddenly, a series of crimson alert banners slashed across the main terminal, accompanied by a sharp, high-pitched system chime.
"What just happened?" the senior analyst at the center console demanded, his fingers flying across his keyboard as he tried to force a manual override. "The domestic liquidity baseline for the primary Golden Investments vault at Sterling International just dropped a vertical cliff! Look at the aggregate indicator!"
