The New Target - Thomas Kraus!

"The tire factory's owner's name is Thomas Kraus, and he is still pretty young, 29 years old. He is pretty famous throughout the city for all the wrong reasons you can think of. He is obnoxious, loud, arrogant, has a lavish style, a playboy, well, you know, that kind of scandal. However, no one doubts his skill in handling business, as he himself has already proven to the world that he could his tire factory into one of the biggest factories in the automotive industry in this country."

"So, just a young, rich businessman?" Ursa frowned after hearing Bai's explanation, not finding anything wrong with it.

"Oh, I hope it would be that simple. Unfortunately, since I know his tire factory is linked with one of Golak Mayar's cases about bribery and intimidation just to build the factory in that area, I decided to dive a bit deeper, and what I found is outrageous."

Ursa straightened his back a little, ready to pay attention to what Bai said.

"From the outside perspective, it looks like there is no connection between those two. Hell, their names have never appeared in the same news at all. However, this man is full of scandals, and when I checked it by myself, I found something suspicious. Hell, I am sure you will find out about it too. Wait for a second, I will attach my investigation into your phone."

Ursa waited for a moment before his phone rang once again. This time, he could see a small txt file with the size of only 80 kilobytes. It didn't even take a full second for him to download it. As he read the content inside, Ursa couldn't help but frown once again at what he saw.

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18 / 09 / 2018 – Getting involved in an affair case with a national actress Ivanka who has been married for 3 years. The news of the scandal spread widely and even was covered in the newspaper headlines for 3 straight days. The case disappeared instantly a week later with the rumor said this case was solved internally by both parties.

03 / 10 / 2018 – One of the suspects in a violence case. He beat a little kid who accidentally bruised his car. The news once again occupied the front page of the local newspaper. The case was solved after the man apologized and paid about 7500 Gold Sham for the hospital bill and compensation for the psychological damage he caused.

29 / 10 / 2018 – Being the most vocal public figure who criticized the activists for causing more harm than doing good. The activists he criticized are those who Golak Mayar secretly sent an intruder to create chaos and clash with the cops deliberately.

14 / 11 / 2018 – Giving a controversial confession to the media that he saw Lawyer Hasan a few times in the local nightclub, but since he didn't want to disturb the lawyer from having fun, he decided to not greet him. This was made in response to the article that accused Lawyer Hasan of having 5 secret girlfriends, and this also made Lawyer Hasan's reputation go downhill and it is still in a recovery process right now.

There was still a lot of cases involving this Thomas Kraus in the investigation report sent by Bai. However, Ursa narrowed the timeframe into the last two months since somehow, he was familiar with the dates. He furrowed his brows a little, trying to think of why the date was so familiar. It didn't take more than three seconds before he realized something and checked the note he made for the last operation.

"The date of this Thomas Kraus's cases intertwined with Golak Mayar's cases!" He gasped. "The gaps between their cases are always between one to three days!"

"So, you are seeing that too, right?" Bai's voice from his phone was solemn. "One is a coincidence, but twice, or hell, even three times? This is a pattern already. I am sure as hell there is a foul play here. They both colluded with each other in their escapades, making sure they covered each other's back."

Well, Ursa couldn't blame Bai for thinking like that. If not for the system, he himself would also find this suspicious. Still, this information at least confirmed the system's mission that the one he was going to expose next was still Golak Mayar's acquaintance.

"So, with this kind of information, what can we do?" Bai asked from the phone.

Ursa pondered for a moment, thinking of how to answer it. Yes, this information alone was enough to drag Thomas Kraus into the same mud Golak Mayar was currently in. However, everything was still based on circumstantial evidence. They didn't have concrete proof that could connect the politician and the businessman, and if they insisted on exposing Thomas Kraus based on their current evidence, it wouldn't be able to move people's hearts.

"Well, it seems like we need to find something that could prove the connection between those two. It means we are going to do an infiltration operation, Bai." He said after thinking for a while.

The hacker just groaned when he heard that, not liking the decision at all. "Don't you think it is dangerous after what you've experienced a few days ago? Don't tell me you've forgotten how you were chased madly by Vahd Diran?!"

"Eh, I didn't forget about that, don't worry." Ursa couldn't help but chuckle at the reminder of his first mission. "Still, I have you right now. Don't you think that it is enough?"

There was a pin-drop silence among those two for a moment before the boy on the other side of the phone sighed. "First of all, mind your phrase. I am not gay, sorry." Ursa laughed harder at that. "Secondly, fine, you win! I don't know how you can trust someone you've just met a few days ago so easily, but since you have already made your decision, I will help you."

"Thanks, Bai!"

"But if I think this is too dangerous, you will follow my lead without complaining, understand?!"

"Sure, sure!"

The tension among those two started to ebb away as they talked about the operation they were going to do. Fifteen minutes later, the bell on the door rang, signaling someone just entered the building. When Ursa turned around, he couldn't help but have his jaws dropped at the sight in front of him.

"So, what did I miss here?"