Blimey, My Kid's the Heir to the Billionaire Boss!
Chapter 149 Mr. Clemens' Authority

Mr. Wood closed his eyes and downed the small half-bottle in one gulp.

Sadie quickly brought some warm water for him to rinse his mouth.

"What is this stuff? It's bitter, stinks, and astringent!" Mr. Wood grimaced, his face twisting grotesquely.

"It's just a medicine for treating constipation..."

Before Sadie could finish, Mr. Wood's complexion changed, and he shouted, "Quick, help me to the restroom." "Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Dahlia urgently informed the male doctors outside.

Several male doctors came in to handle the situation, while Dahlia pulled Sadie out to wait.

Sadie paced back and forth in the corridor, anxious like a husband waiting for his wife to deliver a baby.

Half an hour later, one of the male doctors came out excitedly and announced, "It's out!"

"Ah? The chip came out?" Sadie asked excitedly.

"Yes..." the doctor, holding the chip with tweezers and raising it high, proclaimed, "It finally came out!"

"Fantastic!" Sadie was so thrilled she almost jumped.

Forty minutes later, Sadie, holding the chip, went to the President's office on the 68th floor...

Never had Sadie felt such joy as she did now. Thinking about the imminent million-dollar deposit, she almost laughed out loud. "Mr. Clemens, I've got the chip back!"

Sadie stood before the desk, delivering the box with a sense of ceremony.

Inside the box lay the gleaming chip, the one lost for so long, costing billions in search expenses, now finally found...

It took a while before Micah shifted his gaze from the tablet and looked up at Sadie.

His look wasn't filled with the expected surprise or appreciation, but rather was as cold as ice.

"What's wrong?" Sadie felt uneasy.

Micah didn't speak, just gave a cool gesture.

Andrew stepped forward to take the chip, skillfully inserted it into a connector, and connected it to a computer.

The white wall behind Micah suddenly turned into a projection screen, proudly flashing the VIC Group's 'S' logo, followed by a revolving circle...

Peering forward with a stretched neck, Sadie was incredibly curious. What could possibly be inside this priceless chip?

However, after much spinning, the circle remained unresponsive.

Following a burst of static, the screen flickered and with a loud "bang," smoke began to billow from the computer. Startled, Sadie stumbled backward.

Andrew stepped forward, switched off the power, and removed the chip, now charred and distorted.

"What... what happened?" Sadie asked in shock.

Looking towards Micah for approval, Andrew explained, "To prevent the theft of the chip's confidential information, we equipped it with a self-destruct device. Once stolen and inserted into another computer, it will automatically destroy itself." "Huh?" Sadie's eyes widened, and it took her a moment to regain her composure. "The chip has been missing for nearly a month now. Then... you knew all along that retrieving the chip would be pointless, so why go to such lengths to recover it?"

"How else would our adversaries let down their guard unless we continue the search?" Andrew countered.

"Just for that?" Sadie couldn't understand. "Then why send me to replace Mr. Wood..."

"As long as Mr. Wood hasn't passed the chip, he'll be watched," Andrew explained. "Mr. Clemens did it all to protect him."

"But; the press conference is tomorrow..." Sadie asked, flustered and anxious, "Now that the chip is destroyed, what are you going to do?"

"By the third day after the chip was stolen, I had already created a new one to replace it," Micah said, producing a new chip from his phone, identical to the first...

"So, at the meeting on Wednesday, when you firmly said that the chip would certainly return before dark..." Sadie realized, "the new chip was already in your hands!"