At the same time, Li Qiang sat inside Golden Leaf Tea's regional office.
Several reports covered his desk.
Supply routes.
Investment records.
Logistics partnerships.
For days he had been searching for a pattern.
Now he was close.
Very close.
One thing stood out.
Several companies had received investments recently.
CloudRoute Logistics.
A transportation firm.
A regional warehouse group.
Different investors on paper.
But the timing was almost identical.
Li Qiang tapped the table slowly.
"This can't be coincidence."
Someone was influencing multiple points in the supply chain.
Quietly.
Carefully.
He circled the companies on his notebook.
Then he began checking the investor profiles again.
Small investment firms.
Private funds.
Most looked unrelated.
But Li Qiang knew something important.
Behind complicated networks…
There was usually a single strategist.
And he was getting closer to finding them.