Mingyue leaned in slightly. "So his goal is this rare soul material>"
"The material is precious, but I doubt these is the only reason," Alex replied. "To pull something like this, he will need something better."
He pulled up the last thirty days of shipment logs and compared them to production.
The numbers didn't match.
The metal ore loss could be explained by the Hive.
Cargo got intercepted, routes got cut.
The crystal loss was smaller, but it still existed.
The real problem was Spirit Ash.
The logs showed the station "produced" enough Spirit Ash for two arrays a week, yet the depot receipts showed less than half that arriving.
The missing amount were hidden in bunch of numbers.
Mingyue's eyes narrowed. "He is taking it."
"Or someone is taking it through him," Alex said.
He opened another file, this one about restricted sectors.
The refinery spine had an inner vault, sealed under a dual-key rune lock.
