From the moment he received the Chairman of the Truth Society's reply, Bernardo stopped in his tracks.
He had served the Chairman for many years. He couldn't claim to know him inside out, but he understood at least seventy or eighty percent of his personality.
Normally, after learning that Bai Fu had turned the base upside down, the Chairman should have been furious, cursing Bai Fu and criticizing him for good measure.
But the Chairman had been acting very strangely just now.
[Wait for me to return]
The reply was too brief and too calm. It simply wasn't the Chairman's usual style.
Had the Chairman's terminal fallen into someone else's hands? Or was the situation even worse, and had something happened on the Chairman's end that was enough to shake him to his core?
Bernardo's scalp prickled.
"I must be overthinking it. Yes, that has to be it."
He tried messaging the Chairman, hoping he would explain a little more. But even after sending more than a dozen messages and waiting three or four minutes, he still hadn't received a reply. Instead, his assistant called him first, bringing bad news.
"Director, I managed to stall Bai Fu for ten minutes, as you instructed, but she's simply too strong. We don't have enough people. Even though we've given it everything we've got, she still made it to the freight elevator leading from Zone C to the surface. To keep stalling her, we'll need to send in more people. Otherwise, we can either watch her escape or detonate the base right now."
The assistant was starting to panic.
Bernardo was no better off.
Should they blow it up or not?
He couldn't decide.
With the Chairman still not replying, he felt like his own head might explode before the base did.
"Give