Chapter 1828

If people had grown bored of the black market, they might not rush to visit it even when it reopened. However, the circumstances were different now. The black market had vanished during the height of the hallucinogen crisis, and now that the situation had calmed down and it was reemerging, people might find this suspicious. They could start speculating and creating their own scenarios about what had occurred. Hesper began sending out invitations, including all the families that were originally on Cheney's list. Some regular individuals also received invites. The intention was to make them drop their guard, causing people to attempt to snatch the invites from those without special markers. If the regular invites were taken, and they had distinguishing markers on them, those individuals would not be allowed to board the ship. Hesper had conducted extensive research on this plan and had discussed it thoroughly with Rickard. The likelihood of people being caught in this trap was relativ