I went to see R5 alone, with Yan Rou accompanying me.
The reason I said I was alone was because I did not consider Yan Rou one of my own.
On the way to see R5, I asked Yan Rou what R5 had said to her. Yan Rou said he had not said much, only asked her some questions about R9. She told him everything R9 had done here truthfully.
R9 had not actually committed any violations, nor had he done anything to betray the organization. He was simply too high-profile in the way he handled things—one might even say arrogant.
Perhaps he had offended some people, deliberately or otherwise.
I actually had a somewhat favorable impression of R9. I remembered that when we first met, he had been like R15 and given himself a name: Jiang Xiaohong.
Although the name sounded a little effeminate, I knew he had been trying to get close to me as well.
He had also proposed cooperating with me, but his purpose had been to deal with the system. That was precisely why I thought he was the most likely suspect behind the destruction of the base system.
Yet he refused to admit it was his doing.
At least in my view, R9 had taken the initiative to arrange a meeting with me. Whatever his motives, he was not like R5. R5 gave me the impression of being deeply calculating. Such a huge incident had happened, yet he could still remain so composed.
In the innermost room on the second floor, R5 was sitting on a shabby sofa. The only people in the room were him and R15—my cheap eldest brother, Jiang Laohei.
Yan Rou only led me to the door and did not follow me inside.
After I entered, she gently closed the