Lin Qingliu actually has a high tolerance for nutritional paste. Even though it really doesn't taste good, he can cheat and temporarily disable his sense of taste.
Therefore, he quickly finished the nutritional paste on the plate in front of him. As for the tableware that was originally prepared, he did not even touch it. After all, it felt a bit redundant to use a knife and fork to operate the paste packaged in the bag.
As for the members of the first team, although they had all experienced hard times before, those were decades ago.
Although the parliament had failed them many times, their food and medical care were still acceptable.
After decades, the expressions on everyone's faces were truly wonderful when they tasted this familiar flavor again.
"Everyone, I'm done eating and I'm leaving first. You guys can just take your time here."
After squeezing out the last bit of nutrient paste from the packaging bag, Arthur stood up and said this, and then added meaningfully:
"This conference room will be blocked 'all day' today, and anyone not present will not be aware of the content of the conversation."
He emphasized the words "all day". It was lunch time and there were still eleven hours until midnight. His words were almost as if "you guys discuss it and give me a final answer" were written on his face.
After making sure that everyone had heard his almost explicit hint, Arthur strode straight towards the door of the conference room and used body language to decline the attempts of several members of the first team who were about to stand up and see him off.
The door closed and Arthur's footsteps disappeared at the end of the corridor. The team members who were forcing themselves to stuff the nutritional paste into their stomachs stopped what they were doing tacitly.
They exchanged glances with each other, as if trying to confirm each other's inner thoughts.
"Stop for a moment."
After Lucas's death, the oldest member of Team One became the "Disaster Core".
At this moment, he put down the half-eaten food in his hand, and there seemed to be a gleam of light in his thin and sunken eye sockets.
“As the Speaker said, we are the only ones here now, so you might as well speak your mind.
"What do you think of the Speaker's plan?"
"Disaster Core" looked at his teammates around him, including "Holy Shield" who had joined not long ago and "Manjuan" who had the same expressionless face as always.
"What do you mean by how do you see it? Didn't everyone just agree?"
"Jiancheng" asked first.
"I agree, but..."
The Disaster Core paused and said meaningfully:
“If this plan succeeds, it goes without saying that we will retire with honor, but if it fails… everyone should know what will happen to us.
"I believe that everyone present, including myself, just agreed to do so in accordance with the circumstances. The Speaker also understands this, so he let us discuss it on our own. Otherwise...
“If there is an informer, the Speaker is very capable and may be able to protect himself, but there is no need for everyone here to talk about the future.
"So, if you have anything you're worried about, concerned about, or can't let go of, you've all been partners and friends for many years, so there's nothing you can't talk about."
The "Disaster Core" finally revealed his true colors. He looked at his friends and comrades around him and said:
"I'll do it myself first:
"To be honest, I still mind Lucas's matter. Is there anyone who feels the same way as me?"
He looked around and boldly said what he had not been able to say in front of Arthur just now.
It's not because he is a coward, but because something like this has already happened and it is useless to tell it to the Speaker.
Under the gaze of "Disaster Core", "Starfall" and "Fortune" nodded, "Wanjuan" was expressionless as usual, and as for the new "Holy Shield", he had a complicated look. After all, he was the other party's successor, and his feelings towards Lucas could be described as love and hate.
On the one hand, he was one of the unsuccessful candidates that year and was somewhat jealous of those who were selected, but on the other hand, after undergoing the surgery, he understood the pressure Lucas had been under over the years and respected him even more.
But objectively speaking, he was the beneficiary of Lucas' death, so the new "Shield" finally chose to avoid this issue. He believed that others could understand his embarrassing situation.
The silence lasted for half a minute, and then "Jiancheng" suddenly spoke, with a faint cry in his tone:
"I can understand it rationally, but emotionally I still feel that he killed Lucas. As for forgiveness... none of us are qualified, not even Luke."
The Disaster Core nodded in agreement:
"I thought so before, but..."
There was some hesitation in his tone, as if he was trying to convince himself:
“Think about it, it was the congressman who installed the self-destruct device to control us, but we don’t think they are the real murderers?
"Isn't it because the hunter set the trap that the prey fell into?"
After saying "disaster core", the conference room fell silent again.
After an unknown amount of time, the "Fortune" said:
“What you said makes sense, maybe we should indeed withdraw.
“I cannot attack the speaker out of personal hatred, as everyone can see that he is our hope.
"But I can't just let go of my hatred and work for him.
“If you think about it carefully, the speaker may have thought of all this a long time ago, so he said to give us freedom.
"That's fine. After all, I've been working for so many years and I've never seen anyone truly retire. Let me experience that feeling for a while."
After saying this, his body shook slightly, as if he had exhaled a breath of foul air, and as if he had finally let go of something.
The Disaster Core nodded and said:
"I thought so too, so, does anyone else want to say anything?"
Everyone was silent. The "Disaster Core" looked around again, with a slightly inquiring tone:
"Do you remember... there was a symbol made of broken glass at Lucas' death scene?"
His question was like a thunderbolt, reminding everyone present of this incident.
Everyone was just immersed in the fact that Lucas' death was directly caused by Arthur, and no one remembered the mysterious symbol that appeared at the scene. It represented an organization hidden deeply in Hope City - "The Believers".
The "believer" officially appeared in Hope City near the middle of the year. So far, the mysterious mark has only appeared a few times, but each time it has been no small matter...
Whether it was the out-of-control experiment at the institute that killed dozens of researchers, or the bloody rain that resolved the riot afterwards, this mark was left at the scene, and...
All investigations into the "believers" ultimately came to nothing. If it weren't for the fact that this organization showed its closeness to humans, the congressmen would probably have been uneasy a long time ago.
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