Michael showed genuine surprise. He thought that he was the only one in the entire region making a Golden Road. After all, the original one had been abandoned and left in the dust all those years ago.
"They're building their own Golden Roads?" he asked, incredulous at the coincidence. Who would have thought that people would start their own projects just as he started his.
"Yes," Trakius confirmed, moving his Bishop piece to the corner. "It has been an open secret to leaders like us that a competition has started between the up and coming companies in the Queens region.
At first, we thought that they were simply having a friendly rivalry among them with no specific goal in mind other than profit. But then, we noticed that all of those companies were connected to the main conglomerates controlling the global market today. That is no coincidence.
What's weird about it is that the conglomerates themselves aren't the one making the moves. It's their sub companies.
