Inside FBI Headquarters, New York.
In Deputy Director Mick's office, Gerald, head of the joint investigation team for the Colombia nuclear bomb incident, and Senior Agent Sophie sat opposite Mick, sitting upright in a solemn atmosphere.
The joint investigation team had already been disbanded, bringing the entire case to a satisfactory close. Gerald and Sophie had also returned to the FBI to resume their previous work.
But Sophie understood that things could never go back to the way they had been.
Over the past few days, she had cleared every game mission in Real Doomsday Game through the virtual reality device. Though she had been tortured to death and back countless times in the Gray Tide Apocalypse, she had also been utterly shaken.
Everything was so real. Combined with all the previous news from the real world, including the Stone Statue Disease outbreak, it made her understand exactly what dangers Earth and human civilization had once faced.
The slightest mistake could have ruined everything, turning the entire world into hell!
It turned out that both the Stone Statue Disease treatment and the Evil Spirit Virus treatment had been developed by Salvation Army soldiers together, followed by the Commander's final decision.
As for averting a horrific nuclear war and preventing the Grey Tide from ravaging the world, those had been the Commander's doing as well.
When she had believed her everyday life was simply a matter of course, the Salvation Army led by the Commander had actually been silently protecting all of human civilization—and her—from the shadows.
As a recruit in the Salvation Army, Sophie had also entered certain specific scenarios from those apocalypse missions and spoken with some veteran players, learning quite a bit about the Commander.
She could tell that every player who entered Real Doomsday Game was an