The summer heat had begun to rise in intensity, mirroring the pulse of tension within Lin Feng's steadily evolving world. Inside the modern, glass-paneled conference room atop the Apex Council headquarters, the mood was anything but casual. Though the wide city skyline glittered in the late afternoon light beyond the windows, Lin Feng's attention was locked on the shifting power dynamics—on paper, in media, in alliances, and most worryingly, in perception.
"Asher Keller is not just a name," Xu Jiahao said, arms crossed, eyes locked on a projected dossier on the smart-glass wall. "He's the precision edge of Western venture aggression. They don't send him unless they want something disrupted—fast."
The dossier highlighted Keller's last five corporate incursions: South American decentralized energy networks, a Southeast Asian AI-research consortium, and two East European bio-informatics startups. All ended in one of three ways—absorption, implosion, or obsolescence.
