"Right now, I didn't dare tell those twenty thousand people. I had R305 gather everyone outside and forbade them from entering that space again. But you know as well as I do that this can be hidden for a while, not forever. We had to find R5 as soon as possible, or the consequences would be severe."
I said calmly, "How severe could the consequences be? With R5 gone, you're the next in line. Just take over those people. I understand your organization's structure. As long as R5's disappearance had nothing to do with you, your organization wouldn't hold you accountable."
R15 lowered his head and sighed.
He slowly said, "It isn't as simple as you think. R5 isn't an ordinary R-class. He's one of the most influential decision-makers in our organization. If anything really happened to him, the entire organization would fall into turmoil. This isn't about whether I take over those twenty thousand people. It's about the possibility of internal conflict within the organization."
I seemed to understand a little.
R5 was an important member of their organization's decision-making level. Yan Rou had said that R1 through R9 formed that level, and R9 had already met with disaster. R5 occupied a central position among those nine people, so his status was naturally extremely prominent. Put bluntly, he was someone who could speak on behalf of the organization.
If something had really happened to him, especially if he had been kidnapped, then as long as the other side used him as leverage, their organization might have no choice but to compromise for his sake.
R5 certainly knew many of the organization's secrets, even the organization's mission in coming to this world.
I lit a cigarette and noticed that R15 was watching me as well.
I asked, "You aren't suspecting