For Mother's Embrace's upper management, this had originally been an ordinary night. But now, they felt as if they had fallen into a nightmare.
"What the hell is going on?"
"How could something like this happen to the company?"
Although communications with Mother's Embrace's headquarters had been cut off, the people outside were no fools. After the security forces stationed around headquarters noticed that something was wrong, they immediately notified the board of directors. When the board received the news, they were greatly shocked and promptly gathered to discuss a response.
"From the looks of it, someone has infiltrated and taken control of the headquarters' systems, but we don't even know what they're doing."
"Deploy the special response unit immediately. Protect the central control room first!"
Other than the Dawn Organization, nearly every conglomerate maintained its own team of trained Star Vein Generation members. In fact, most Star Vein Generation students who graduated from Academy City chose to work for conglomerates afterward. Of course, Star Vein Generation members could not rise to the upper ranks. At most, they could hold middle-management positions and could not enter the highest levels of the conglomerates.
But in a sense, that was not necessarily a bad thing. Although those at the top were ordinary people, they were not entirely ordinary. In fact, nearly all senior executives underwent a certain operation when they were promoted into a conglomerate's core. The operation removed their personal desires on the Mental Plane, making the conglomerate's survival their utmost priority and turning them into willing cogs serving the corporation.
That was why Fang Zheng chose assassination rather than bargaining with or threatening the conglomerates' upper management. Such methods worked on ordinary people, but these executives, who had undergone consciousness modification, were genuinely willing to sacrifice everything for the survival