Neo struggled as two burly men carried him into Xu Yue's office. Before leaving, Stephanie thoughtfully closed and locked the door.
Only Xu Yue and Neo remained in the office.
"Neo, nice to meet you. You can call me Xu."
Xu Yue turned his chair to face Neo and gestured for him to sit.
With Xu Yue calling out his identity, Neo could not help but feel alarmed. He had not expected someone so influential to know about his other, secret identity!
Neo the hacker!
The identity he had always tried so hard to hide, the identity hidden beneath Thomas Anderson, the engineer—one that could never see the light of day.
At the same time, Neo vaguely formed a guess about the man before him.
As a top hacker, he naturally knew something about the colossal entity lurking behind the scenes. Other than that, he truly could not imagine who else could send a mere secretary and scare the head of a top software company so badly.
"The Financial Emperor?"
Since his identity had already been exposed, Neo knew there was no point in denying it. As he sat down, he countered by naming Xu Yue's identity as well.
"I don't particularly like that title, but call me whatever you want. I asked you here because I discovered something interesting. It seems that, like me, you have sensed the false side of this world."
Telling Morpheus and the others directly would naturally put them on high alert. What if they decided not to save his body afterward?
But while Neo was still in the dark, resonating with him was undoubtedly a far more cost-effective move.
Xu Yue's words startled Neo inwardly as well.
He had suffered from insomnia for so long, drifting through the online world like a ghost, all