I would, yes, but if the thefts are carried out by the same person who engineered the Dust outbreak, I'd hardly call that a subtle avenue.

[Not anger, then - or at least not hot anger. China's right. Whoever it is, they need something, and they need it before they're discovered. But there's definitely an element of bitter revenge attached to the whole thing. Skulduggery might even have called it the human element, if humans were involved.]

Abandoned factories and pointless thefts. You're fast becoming reliable again.