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“No,” Carlton said “But I do have a mole inside his satellite launch operation That’s hoas able to destroy the rocket”

“A o to that trouble?”

“For months now, I’ve been annoyed by the , production hiccups, delayed schedules Nothing that would be noticeable as outright sabotage, but when added together, all of these s tactic Soress”

“Why haven’t you brought this before the entire Nine?”

“Because I didn’t knoho to trust Any one of you could have been behind it”

“How do you know these aren’t just the nor project?”

“Because I asked Colossus According to its calculations, there is a ninety-six percent probability that all of these s caused deliberately”

Gupta’s eyes ide “That’s incredible!”

“You can ask theet the same answer”

“I e’re done here It said that Mallik is the culprit?”

“No, it couldn’t know that I couldn’t be sure until the attack on the Colossus 5 When that happened, I kneas right and that I had to take action to deliver Mallik his own setback”

“But that still doesn’t prove he’s responsible,” Gupta protested

“This does,” Carlton said

He took a remote control from his pocket and cued the video

The soundless iht, docked in the Moretti Navi shipyard, which ned by Daniel Saidon, a round, and adown the stairs His face wasn’t clear from this distance When he reached the bottom, he was confronted by two dockworkers, ere ani to him Suddenly, one of them ran up the crane’s stairs while the other two men continued to talk