Chapter 504

As she spoke, Valerie raised her hand and snapped her fingers again in front of William, putting him under a second hypnosis. Lucinda panicked. "Valerie, hypnotizing him consecutively like this will have side effects." Valerie sneered. "What kind of side effects could be worse than losing Graham?" Ignoring Lucinda's warning, she pressed William further. "Who's the one backing Caius?" William, once again in a hypnotized state, answered mechanically, "The Lynch Group, Lightpeak Group, Cosmos Group, Guldner Group…" William rattled off the names of several companies. Behind each company stood a power bloc. Every one of them was, to varying degrees, tied to the medical industry. Except for the Guldner Group, whose headquarters were located in Windmere, the other companies all fell under Wavecrest's jurisdiction. After hearing William's confession, Lucinda sucked in a sharp breath. "Lynch Group, Lightpeak Group, and Cosmos Group all declared bankruptcy and shut down a year ago." Wh