Chapter 86, Twentieth Round (5)
The pressure on the snipers eased after a few months.
It wasn't because Gin realized that such pressure would only cause others to have a more broken mentality and worsen their performance that he kicked Bourbon out.
Gin would only think they were all trash, and then he would demand more from the other snipers by comparing them to himself, Rye, and Scotland, who were doing better.
The reason their stress was relieved was because the person who created the stress left.
Yes, after Bourbon improved his record to fourth place, he stopped coming to the training ground frequently. He would only come once every ten days or so to practice and mock them for not being able to surpass his record.
Honestly, if he hadn't been strong enough, Bourbon would have been assassinated long ago, wouldn't he?
But anyway, Bourbon is gone, and everyone's happy.
At first, they wondered with mixed feelings whether Bourbon stopped challenging and provoking Scotland because he didn't want to defeat Scotland and make Scotland lose face in front of everyone.
Bourbon actually went to this extent for Scotland? Disgusting! This level of honey trap is truly terrifying! It's no wonder Scotland got targeted!
Not long after they received news that Bourbon had gone to the research group, they understood the real reason.
Okay, so that guy had had his fill of sniping and could foresee that he wouldn't be able to surpass Lai in the short term and would be ridiculed in return. So, after discovering a new toy, he immediately went to recruit researchers in the research group.
After all, Sherry from the research team is the younger sister of Ray's ex-girlfriend, and they now maintain a fairly good friendly relationship.
There were only a few people in the organization who were close to Ray: Akemi Miyano, Scotland, and Sherry.
It's not surprising at all that Bourbon has his eye on Sherry.
The pressure is now on the researchers.
This was a huge blow to the members of the research team. Their existence was rather special; they rarely came into contact with the members of the terrifying organization. They were both confined and protected in the laboratory, focusing on researching things unknown to others.
Bourbon has been a member of the organization for almost three years, but they have never seen him, only heard some demonized rumors about him.
They initially thought the rumors were exaggerated, but when Bourbon brought the researchers selected by that gentleman according to his requirements to the research institute under Shirley's management, all the researchers spent some time with him and found that he was even more terrifying than the rumors suggested.
The institute is now divided into two major projects: APTX4869 and Pandora.
Sherry is the main person in charge of APTX4869, and Bourbon is the main person in charge of Pandora.
However, since the experimental project Bourbon was in charge of had just started, and some data research overlapped with APTX4869, Bourbon also participated in the intelligence research related to APTX4869. He could even run all over the research institute, say a few words about anything, and could easily influence the direction and progress of their research work with a single sentence.
Although the researchers have always thought APTX4869 was nonsense, and it's been almost two years since Sherry came back to restart the project, they still haven't made any progress. The idea of reversing aging and achieving immortality is really outrageous.
But the Pandora project is even more outrageous.
APTX4869 was at least within the realm of science they could somewhat understand, but what were those thick stacks of documents Bourbon kept throwing at them? How could something like magic possibly exist?!
Has the boss really gotten crazier with age? He even believes in this kind of thing? Is the boss's next step to learn ancient Eastern legends and start cultivating immortality and refining elixirs?
Researchers who had believed in science their whole lives were driven to despair by Bourbon's intelligence and research direction, losing clumps of hair, but they couldn't produce any results. Instead, their worldviews were crumbling from reading all sorts of strange rumors and information from around the world, and they were on the verge of going insane.
In particular, under the inexplicable urging of that gentleman, Bourbon was also actively traveling all over the world to collect information on Pandora and that mysterious organization codenamed Animal, and spent a lot of organizational funds to bring back countless pieces of true and false information and gems.
Bourbon was only responsible for gathering intelligence and deciding on research directions, but it was they who actually sifted through the intelligence bit by bit, verified it, and were overwhelmed by the outrageous experiments and gems, and were scolded by that man!
Of all the people in the research institute, Shirley was probably the only one who was happy.
Shirley was in charge of two projects at the same time. After all, she was a minor, so she quite enjoyed studying those beautiful gemstones.
Furthermore, it's generally known that Sherry doesn't enjoy researching APTX4869; in fact, she despises it. She only complied with the research because the organization threatened her sister's safety. Now that there's another gem observation and research project that seems almost comical, she'll naturally be happier and more relaxed.
Another point is that not only that gentleman, but even Bourbon was exceptionally tolerant of Shirley, not scolding or urging her, giving her the greatest freedom of movement.
Bourbon even cared deeply for Sherry, leading them to suspect that he was using a honey trap on Sherry to get something from her, especially since Sherry and Bourbon also had another strange relationship because of Akemi Miyano and Ray.
Just like how the action team made everyone else suffer but treated Scotland very well.
In the research group, although Bourbon tormented the other researchers to the point of questioning their existence, he was particularly kind to Sherry, who seemed even more relaxed and happy than before.
Bourbon would even frequently bring Sherry all sorts of delicious bento boxes! He made them himself! They looked so good and smelled so good, they almost made them drool!
The researchers who were squatting in the dark lab growing mushrooms, practically eating nutrient solutions, had never seen anything like this before!
However, they were not envious.
Everyone knows that being ignored by Bourbon is the best outcome. Being mocked and targeted by Bourbon is also acceptable, but being treated gently by Bourbon is truly dangerous.
If you are deceived by him, you will definitely be ripped off and left with nothing but bones.
While they didn't envy Sherry's carefree life, they were also extremely frustrated with the current crazy and meaningless situation.
The researchers on Project APTX4869 were annoyed that Pandora's outrageous project had stolen so many resources and even caused Sherry to leave, leaving them to continue researching something fruitless. They could only try harder to produce research to bring Sherry's attention back and stop putting so much pressure on them from the boss.
The researchers on Project Pandora were also annoyed by the disdain shown to them by the researchers on Project APTX4869. What's wrong with your research? It's just as absurd as they thought! So they worked even harder on their research and analysis, always coming up with new experiments and ideas to keep Shirley's attention and keep her in the lab.
Even though their efforts are mostly meaningless involution with no real results, no one can stop them.
If their experiments are proven to be useless, then they will also be useless; knowing so many secrets, they cannot possibly be released alive.
In order to survive, they have no choice but to continue to work desperately.
The intelligence team was certainly aware of the immense pressure that Bourbon had put on the action and research teams, driving them to the brink of madness.
They excitedly huddled together in that chat room without Bourbon, gloating and mocking others for finally experiencing that feeling.
After all, their intelligence team was the first to be recruited by Bourbon.
At that time, Bourbon was still Amuro Tooru. In just three months, he transformed into Bourbon, shocking countless people.
At that time, they realized that Bourbon was definitely different from all the members they had encountered before. Intelligence agents who weren't shrewd and perceptive wouldn't have survived this long. So they quickly chose to lie low, show goodwill, and cooperate.
In short, working multiple jobs simultaneously, using different identities, handling different intelligence, and completing different missions like Bourbon does—that's absolutely not something a normal person could do! He's even skilled enough to easily take down the thugs in the action team! Who the hell can do that?!
The people in the organization genuinely didn't know just how outrageous Bourbon was; their intelligence team had long since stopped treating Bourbon as a human being.
Otherwise, why did Bourbon get promoted so quickly? Why did that gentleman, Rum, and even Gin appreciate and tolerate his various crazy behaviors so much?
However, since they had all joined the organization, and none of them were normal people with good tempers, many of them initially underestimated Bourbon and were deceived by his appearance, thus becoming his free intelligence providers.
Now, seeing the action team and the research team follow in their footsteps, they actually feel happy.
They are happy as long as someone is suffering more than them.
Hehehe, let's all roll them up, we can't let them be the only ones going crazy!
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