In the office, the sound of keyboard typing can be heard constantly.
Standing in the center was the Chief of Staff of the United Nations Corps, Eshkol, who had proposed the "Hero Plan".
"The information was really breached from the inside? Someone among us was actually helping the hackers..."
Eshkol hung up the communicator.
A few days ago, the news that Edward had gone mad was leaked along with their resource allocation plan. They discovered that the source of the news came from within the United Group, but they didn't know which bastard did it.
At this time, a middle-aged man wearing a silver star walked in.
"...Su Mingan is here." The middle-aged man said in a low voice.
Eshkol was slightly stunned.
He was in charge of many of the joint group's handover matters, but he hadn't heard of any invitation to the first player recently.
So, the first player came here on his own initiative?
"He came by himself?" Eshkol smiled. "Why don't we quickly send someone to greet him... Let's send someone familiar to greet him, preferably someone he knows, like Hubert or Aini. What is he here for? To cooperate? To help us mediate public opinion? Or to request a team transaction or equipment supply? It doesn't matter. We can satisfy him in any way. I'll rush over now..."
Eshkol and the man next to him were both middle-aged men in their fifties, and they used to look down on young people from the bottom of their hearts.
But now, most of the people standing at the top of the world are young people. The first one is 19 years old, and the second one is 25 years old. They were both at an age that was difficult to get a senior title in the past, but now they have become people who fight for all mankind.
"No, he didn't come here on his own initiative. He said that the United Group invited him, but we didn't issue any official invitation..." said the middle-aged man.
After hearing this, Eshkol's smile disappeared immediately:
"You mean to say that there is a traitor pretending to be us?"
He knew that the United Group was not as united as he had imagined.
In this world where everything can be snatched away, apart from those who are truly kind-hearted, few people are willing to be stepping stones to maintain order.
——People in the organization are considering their future after the game ends.
Now they sacrificed time and energy to prepare for a stable order. What would they do when everything was over and they had nothing? Would people at that time still protect them because of the "old friendship of the United Group" during the past year?
...Even Eshkol himself began to worry about what would happen a year later. He was now the chief of staff of the United Corps, a high position, but what would happen after the game was over? He would definitely not be a match for the powerful players. What would happen to his wife and son who had not entered the game?
"What is Player One here for?" asked Eshkol.
"It seems that someone invited him to see Edward, and Yang Changxu went to greet him. I don't know where the information came from..." said the middle-aged man.
"Ridiculous!" Eshkol roared, causing the others who were typing on the keyboard to turn around.
—Visiting Edward? Is this something you can see?
The direct cause of Edward's madness was Su Ming'an. Now asking Su Ming'an to visit Edward, isn't this irritating? Which bastard came up with this idea?
Eshkol even suspected that the two would fight directly in the ward, greatly exacerbating the internal friction among humans.
He immediately put on his coat and rushed out the door, wanting to stop the two before the situation escalated.
…
"Bang."
Su Mingan closed the door of the ward and sat down on the chair beside the bed.
Outside the door were anxious medical staff who wanted to go in but didn't dare.
Su Mingan noticed that there were some fruits on Edward's bedside. He peeled a banana and pointed it at Edward.
"Come, do you want to eat?" Su Mingan asked.
"...Are you here to laugh at me?" Edward sat on the bed, his face as gloomy as water.
There were still traces of pillow hair in his blond hair, which fell like snowflakes on his blue and white hospital gown.
"If a person considers himself a 'joke', then others will be 'looking at you as a joke' as long as they look at you." Su Mingan said calmly: "Unless you don't see anyone from now on, and abandon the progress and points of mankind, then you will not be 'looked at as a joke'."
He took a bite of his banana and stared at Edward.
Edward did look very haggard, with dark circles under his eyes and a thin body. One could even see the scars of an impact on his handsome face, perhaps caused by himself when he collapsed.
Even at this moment, his fingers were scratching the bed sheets unconsciously, like an eagle's claws. His breathing was heavy and rapid, and his face was red with anger... or perhaps it was the redness caused by his mental breakdown.
His condition was very similar to Su Mingan's when he was on the verge of alienation, with a vague look in his eyes and rapid breathing.
Unfortunately, Su Mingan came out of it, but Edward did not.
...This pitiful, hateful person, on the verge of collapse and struggling to death, being locked up here for treatment like a bird with its wings tied...is Edward?
In Su Mingan's memory, this man always looked high-spirited. Although he received an aristocratic education and was not as arrogant as a nouveau riche, he always had a sense of arrogance in his bones that looked down on the common people.
But now, this person was leaning on the bed, looking extremely fragile all over, his eyes were full of red veins, and he could hardly speak complete sentences.
Edward is actually not stupid. From some clue decryption links, we can see that Edward is a very smart person and his IQ is not low.
But this person was raised too pure. Or, in other words, he was brainwashed too well. Once he encountered the ways of the world, he became extremely stupid, as if his growth in a certain aspect was deliberately suppressed.
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