I looked at the guy. He was clearly a little bewildered too. "Who are you people?"
Those two had asked the same question earlier, yet now he was using it to question them.
The guy who had brought me here was about to speak when the one who had spoken earlier among the two spoke again. "You're Phantom Number One, aren't you?"
"That's right. Who exactly are you people?"
The speaker smiled. "Take a guess!"
I hadn't expected the guy who brought me here to have a codename like Phantom Number One. Then again, he was merely a projection of the system, so calling him a phantom was fitting.
"How could this happen?" Shock appeared on Phantom Number One's face as he cried out, "My highest authority has been revoked? How is that possible?"
Then I suddenly noticed that his shadow had begun to destabilize, gradually becoming illusory and blurred.
He abruptly shoved me backward. "Go! Get out of here, now!"
I didn't understand what was happening, but I knew he was about to disappear.
He had just said that his highest authority was gone, and judging by his current state, even an idiot could tell that something had happened.
Wasn't he the system? Hadn't he come on behalf of the system to discuss cooperation with me? How had things ended up like this?
But I had no time to think it over. I turned and ran.
The two men bypassed Phantom Number One and came after me.
But I was fast, and I quickly widened the distance between us.
"Mr. Jiang, why are you running?" one of them asked as he chased me.
I said nothing. Although I had no idea what was happening, Phantom Number One had told me to run, so he must have foreseen danger.
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