Hollywood Zenith

" You don't have to worry about me. How about your end? Is the matter resolved?" Nicole chnaged the subject decisively. She was embarrassed to be caught ' lazing' off by the other party.

Lucie was amused to see Nicole put up a strong front in such a situation. Who didn't know that she was working tirelessly ever since Samuel left?

She admired the little maid, thinking she was able to stabilize the situation without much prior experience. They both knew her background, so most of it was because Nicole was competent.

" It's nothing. The matter is just about throwing more money at them, boss already told me not to worry about capital so I decided to go the quick route." Lucie downplayed the situation.

It took her to overtly threaten the other party not to jump around excessively. With Samuel investing so much, there were many people vying to get the piece of the pie.

Even if their superior green lit the whole project, they could still make some small moves trying to squeeze more money out of Samuel thinking that he was just a fat sheep.

Many of them were aware of the horror of his background especially these local authorities. Now that Lucie had reminded them again not to delay work and always do their best at the job, they were obedient like a little puppy!

Who told them to reach for the sky using such dubious methods? When their higher up learned about it they were so angry that they laughed. What followed was monumental scolding that they wouldn't forget for years!

" Well, why are you here then?"

" Why can't I be here? Where else would I find good food and good environment to relax after such a tiring job?"

" Shouldn't you go home? I believed you said you have a boyfriend, right?" Nicole asked casually trying to appear as ambiguous as possible.
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Lucie didn't think much of it. She knew her boyfriend always been a mysterious existence in front of everyone. Whenever she was drunk she had a tendency to boast about him but she never given others any details only commenting on his appearance and his attitude.

No one had seen him which made everyone believe that she was just pretending including Nicole!

" We had a big fight few days ago when I told him that I will be busy for next few week. Ever since boss came here, I have been here all the time so he was worried that I would overwork." She shook her head before continuing," I know he is just a softie not wanting to see me suffer. Even if I show him where I live and how I live, he still told me to take it easy. We have a lot of savings so we can retire but I want to go further and do some things, I believe it could only be achieved by following our little boss!"

Lucie stance was firm on the matter. When she first earned money through buying the castle for him, she was excited but after coming in contact with Samuel she felt like money was just numbers on screen.

She had always been ambitious, if not she wouldn't be able to reach where she was right now surrounded by strong players and even dealing directly with local bodies.

Most people would spend their life away exchanging it for money but the deeper one understand the world, the further their thought would be away from materialistic thing. In the end, power and prestige was something that capital wouldn't be able to defeat not to mention someone like her boss who had both and was born with diamond spoon!

What's more he was generous and extremely intelligent, she learned a lot how behind the scene worked and what were people's interest. Her only wish was to help him further and see what type of miracle her little boss would create in the future.

One had to remember, he wasn't even twenty years old yet! What kind of concept was this? Such a unique existence had natural charm that drew people to follow him, her was one such case.

" Are you not worried? Why don't you call me for a visit? He would be worried about you right?" Nicole tried hard not to be sarcastic. Obviously, she didn't believe her!

" Why? Are you worried about my relationship? Little girl did you forget that unlike you, I am an experienced person. Beside our relationship is not that fragile. Even if I bring him here, would I have time to accompany him? Wouldn't it just add to my burden?" Lucie was speechless. She didn't know what the other party was thinking about but she could tell that something was wrong.

" Well...you are right. It's just I never met him so I was just curious." Nicole said sheepishly. She knew she was wrong to make assumptions beside her master trusted her.

If she made some baseless accusations, wouldn't it be going against his original intentions?

" We have plenty of time for that in the future. For now, I am here because of an important matter. The city officials called asking me whether we are doing something shady here? They seem to think we are operating some illegal factory or something." Lucie suddenly chnaged the subject and told her the reason why she was here.

These people were too embarrassed to speak about this matter but they had to investigate, after all it would be a big deal if something happened under their nose.

The whole place was being stared at by god knows how many people. If something bad happens, it would not only implicated the local government but even Samuel and the national body. After all, there was a right to journalism and there were many people who didn't care about what other party's background was.

It might not make huge wave in public but this situation was especial. With right ammunition, those that wanted to harm Samuel could easily use this situation to smear his name. This was why they were so worried about it.

" I don't understand. What happened?" Nicole's brow furrowed when she heard it. Shady? Illegal? What was the basis of such accusations?

" It's about the compound's electricity consumption. There had been some abnormalities. They said it wouldn't be possible because the system is highest that the provider could provide. Even if we use high intensity appliance it wouldn't be able to burn through so much energy so quickly." Lucie sighed.

" You know what happened with the Rockefeller family did leave a huge shadow in these people's heart. They also had many abnormalities but for some reason, the broken warehouse was able to get a commercial licence and also shut up people with money. Now, the government and the intelligence agency are following such behaviour which could crack several more cases throughout the country. They could bring down more such people which was why they are alert by our behaviour." She told her all the points.

Lucie knew the other party was still very accommodating to them because they didn't initiate any investigation. If it were someone else they might have already got raided by now.

Nicole heard the compliants and was dumbfounded. She knew why it happened, she kept receiving various equipments atleast three times a day.

It were some intricate machines that she never heard of, she only of servers some high end tech that casted tens of millions. Lihn and others didn't treat these things as much, Samuel hadn't limit their consumption making it easier for them to do whatever they wanted.

Many such machines weren't available for public which meant the team had to use some back channels and pay exorbitant prices but it didn't matter to them. They were fully focused on research and studying his notes.

These things required a lot of manpower, they needed to constantly adjust and test new programs and come up with solutions to emerging problems but it meant these things were running constantly consuming more and more energy.

Nicole didn't know such a problem would occue but she really couldn't think of a solution. She had task to hide Linh and other's existence.

If they really applied for new lisence, it would definitely alert several parties. Most of them were aware that such situations was definitely caused by these groups after all it was same when they were at the warehouse.

" What do you think we should do?" She turned and asked Lucie.

" Are you stumped? Can you first tell me what is going on?" Lucie asked.

Nicole didn't hide anything and told her everything. Lucie wasn't here most of the time so she didn't know what these people were uo to, still it made her speechless. Weren't these people just spending her boss money like water? Didn't he tell them to lay low?

" Don't worry. I have a plan. If the town wouldn't provide us energy we can look for other places. I will first try to talk to them and make some excuses." Lucie knew what she needed to do but it would take atleast a week.

Just like that both of them got busy again, they never thought about reporting it back to their boss. Both had same ideas, if they couldn't even solve such a small problem, they were not worthy of his trust!