Chapter 1159

Keith nodded. He took the documents from Elena's hands and turned around to leave.

Jordan looked at me and said, "You'll be in charge of this."

He then looked at Cally and reminded her." You need to be constantly on your toes for this project

from now on."

Cally and I nodded. When we saw him and Theo discussing the follow-up plans, Cally and I went

into the research institute to check the situation.

"The losses are at least hundreds of millions. I have no idea how much I have to pay for the final

amount," Cally said with a sigh.

After all, this incident was caused by personal negligence. According to the agreement, she had to

bear 30 percent of the loss, while another 20 percent was to b e borne by the project leader. The

remaining 50 percent would be borne by the company.

Bearing the losses for such a huge project required a lot of money, and the final draw was

equivalent to not getting a single penny. Those who were less optimistic might even suffer a mental

breakdown.

I sighed gently. "Let's go in and take a look first. Right now, I hope that the police can find the

culprits as soon as possible and recover the stolen items so that we can reduce the losses as much

as possible."

Lally nodded. "Hopefully, they’ll find them soon.

After something like this happened, our workload was bound to increase. Everyone worked till late

at night without breaks in between. When the damage report came out, we had a meeting in the

office.

Keith gave a copy of the report to everybody present. "This is the damage report. Please have a

look."

Lally only cared about the losses incurred and flipped straight to the last page. Her gaze fell on the

string of numbers and gasped. "500 million?"

Keith looked at her and said blandly, "Most of what was taken away from the institute are core

technologies. We can't rule out the possibility that the other party is here for our R&D technology

and may release these smart products themselves. The conservative estimation of our initial

investment and later gains will amount to this figure.

"If the criminals sell our R&D technology to other companies, then Grant Corporation's efforts in

intelligence for the past two years will be all for naught."

Elena said, sounding a little sarcastic, "You don’t know anything about this field, Ms. Cally. That’s

why you didn't know how big o f a loss this would be, right? I believe you know how much debt you’ll

ultimately have to bear. I hope you can afford to pay the compensation."

All color drained from Cally’s face. This meant that her hard work over the years had gone up in

flames.

Jordan scanned through the damage report and said, "Since the amount of damages has been

calculated, I'll make an appointment with a lawyer to get this matter taken care of as soon as

possible." Elena looked at me and said a little sarcastically, "You agreed so readily, Mr. Fredericks.”

I was in no mood to entertain her. After the meeting, I followed Theo straight away.

Little did I expect Elena to deliberately trip me when I passed by her side.

Fortunately, Theo was near to me and I fell onto him instead of falling to the floor.

It was hard not to feel awkward when so many people were around.

After standing firmly, I quickly apologized.' I'm sorry, Mr. Grant."

Theo glanced at Elena with a slightly grim gaze.

Elena shuddered and quickly lowered her head before standing up to leave.

When she had left the conference room, Theo asked blandly, "How can I help you?”

“Are you free now? I need to talk to you about something," I said, my breathing a little unstable.

"Sure."

After saying that, he turned around and walked out of the conference room.

I followed behind him, and when there was no one around us, I said, "The lost items have not been

found and the police are still investigating. Can we talk about the compensation after the police give

us the final report?"

Theo did not reply and continued walking forward.