Li Fang exchanged a grim look with Xie Ruolan.
"An Auditor. Miss Xie, how did you think they found us so fast? The debt payment? The Radiant Fist trade? Or maybe our Ascension Spark Loan?"
"Potentially all of the above and none of them specifically," Xie replied as her brows curled further.
She was already moving, her personal comm unit projecting a localized, encrypted diagnostic of Lilypad-01's sensor logs.
"A Tier-3 Auditor-class Agent of the bureau will never be dispatched for minor discrepancies or routine follow-ups on debt settlements, even suspicious ones. They are only deployed when multiple anomaly flags converge. When complex algorithms detect patterns suggesting significant, systemic manipulation or high-level illicit activity that threatens the integrity of the city's karmic balance and financial stability."
