The Taitu Code

Recently, Yendeng & Xei was caught in a scandal as one of it's brokers, the now infamous Sang Taitu, cheated on nine elite Corvo businessfolk - identities withheld by request - into a pyramid scheme disguised as a sound investment plan. When he was found out, Sang Taitu became a fugitive of justice and all his assets were frozen he escaped Wei never to return, and the lost money was never recovered.
In truth, Taitu was killed by the Hwang Tong barely a few hours after he went missing - but the con-man died without giving anyone the codes to access his ill-gained stash.
The investigation would have died there, but recently, two of Taitu's victims discovered they shared a so-far unidentified piece of malware: their IT specialists determined they were two pieces of a code. Then they understood - besides conning them, Taitu had laughed under their noses. Access to the cheated investors lost money was hidden in a code scattered and hidden across all their digital accounts. However, these two investors had found each other by chance - they have no idea of the other seven victim's identities, who remain hidden from the general public, and don't want to make an open call so as not to draw attention to the search.
They have turned to private investigation firms and freelance agents - if a discreet, capable trouble-shooter can identify the other seven investors, tactfully secure their cooperation and encourage the joining of the codes, they could recover their money and the agent would be amply rewarded.
Conversely, the agent could alert hackers or mobs to the lost code for a potentially largest reward… or even conduct an independent operation. Whatever the case, whoever owns the nine pieces of the lost code will have access to an unimaginable stash, the size of nine fortunes.
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