(Late March 2027, XX Group Headquarters, Global Strategic Defense Command Center / Various locations worldwide, undercurrents surging)
When Chang Siyuan, the "Sea-Crossing Envoy" of the [Ziwei Inner Court], transmitted an S-class crisis alert to Li Banjia via an encrypted channel, the young CEO—who had just been glowing with excitement over the "epoch-making" breakthrough of the EUV light source for Project Nuwa—saw his gaze instantly turn colder than the eternal permafrost of the Arctic. The alert detailed how MIU (the Freemasonry Illuminati, now revised to the "Alliance of Top Multinational Monopoly Capital and Technology Oligarchs") intended to launch a "final elimination" of XX Group and the Kunlun Alliance (formerly the Pangu Ecological Alliance) within the next six months using unconstrained commercial methods such as "financial strangulation, technological blockades, talent dismantlement, public opinion smearing, and geopolitical pressure."
"A fine 'final elimination'! A fine 'Olympus Dusk'!" Standing inside the Global Strategic Defense Command Center—a facility rivaling the Pentagon's war room—Li Banjia looked at the holographic sandbox displaying the "saturation attack" paths that the [Grand Council (Advanced)] projected MIU might launch simultaneously from every corner of the globe against XX Group's industrial chain, capital chain, talent chain, and even brand reputation. Instead of panic, a nearly cruel, cold smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.
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