Rather, seeing someone else trip and fall was a benefit in itself to people like that.
"They won't approve the funding? That's fine. Just keep sending them reports."
It was like Andy, the protagonist of The Shawshank Redemption, who kept writing to the governor to request funding for a library at Shawshank Prison.
All Mosley could do now was keep reporting to headquarters in Britain.
Their situation wasn't quite the same as the one in The Shawshank Redemption, though.
In the film, other people saw the prison library as something they could take or leave. That was why the prison had gone without a library for so many years.
The Voodoo Boys, however, posed a very real threat to the Blackwall's security.
The colleagues and superiors who wanted to see Mosley make a fool of himself were so focused on his humiliation that they forgot they would suffer too if he screwed up.
If Mosley was fired for incompetence, someone else would be next to get "exiled" to Night City.
Would they still be laughing then?
Mosley disagreed with Su Xiao's assessment.
He felt that continuing like this would accomplish nothing.
But with the money still unavailable and Su Xiao unwilling to work, there was nothing he could do.
Since he had nothing else to do anyway, he could only follow Su Xiao's suggestion and keep trying.
What Mosley hadn't expected was that things would take a turn a few days later.
Headquarters in Britain suddenly changed its attitude.
Their Blackwall monitoring program had actually detected a rogue AI slipping past the Blackwall and entering the world on this side.
This was a major crisis. The entire British headquarters sprang into action.
Everyone pulled out all the stops, putting in far more effort than usual.
They soon identified the