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Causal Chain

Words: 3247 · Source Novel:: Blood Ink

Dominic’s legal team battles the parallel siege: Interpol seizes $200 million in crypto assets linked to AntiquityX, while the US Department of Justice unseals a RICO indictment naming the Serpent Banner Society as a criminal enterprise. An elder enforcer, Old Chen, betrays Dominic after Dominic refuses to pay blood money for a wounded foot soldier in a Triad conflict, citing new “corporate compliance” protocols. Léa’s investigation physically intersects with the triad war during a raid on a Bangkok safe house, where she recovers a 17th-century woodblock printing plate—one of the actual plates used to produce the “Bianji” text, which Wu Zhirong stole as a trophy after the executions. The physical artifact directly links the historical cultural atrocity to the current financial crime, collapsing the temporal distance.