It was a long story, but in reality, it had taken no more than half a minute.
In the Monitoring Room on the fifth floor, Ji Li faced seventeen computer screens. The images on them were either dark and eerie, bloody and gruesome, or steeped in deathly silence.
The final five minutes had arrived, and only fifteen clerks remained.
Nearly all the clerk-level participants had died. The number who had fallen at the entrance to the underground passage alone was staggering.
Everyone currently on the First Basement Level was a branch manager, Vice Branch Manager, or elite clerk. There was no more cannon fodder.
Ji Li watched familiar faces flash across the screens from time to time. That was absolutely not a good sign.
More than half the Commission Mission had already passed, and the clerks' casualty rate had far exceeded his expectations.
Perhaps without this sudden Special Project, the casualty rate would not have reached such a terrifying level.
But perhaps that was precisely why this Special Project existed.
Ji Li took a deep drag on his cigarette, focusing his mind even further. He could already glimpse the Commission Mission's final outcome after this project ended.
Because of his inconvenient legs, he had never participated directly in carrying out the project. After Su Chenghe left, command had fallen solely into his hands.
"This is Gu Qingyun. Who's in the Monitoring Room now? The three of us have explored a third of the First Basement Level, but there are no projections."
"This is Clyde. We found a projection, but we were too late. It disappeared less than two seconds after appearing. We're continuing to wait."
"Hou Guisheng's group has safely entered the First Basement Level. Which areas haven't been explored yet?"
"This is Huangfu Jiajia. We've joined up with Wei