Hou Liangbing stood frozen with the internal communicator in his hand, utterly dumbstruck.
They had resigned?
All of them had resigned?
For a defector from five years ago, [Reverse Scale], the Dragon Kingdom's most elite special operations team, had actually chosen to resign en masse?!
"Bastards! A pack of ungrateful dogs!"
Hou Liangbing snapped out of his daze, trembling with rage. He hurled the communicator to the floor, smashing it to pieces.
"Mutiny! This is outright mutiny!"
His chest heaved, his handsome face flushed crimson with anger.
Humiliation!
Humiliation unlike anything before!
He was the deputy bureau chief of Bureau 7. He had issued the order himself, only to be publicly humiliated by one member and then abandoned by the entire team!
If word got out, how could he ever show his face in Bureau 7 again?
Yet after that furious outburst, a vicious sneer crept onto Hou Liangbing's face.
Hmph!
A bunch of fools who don't know their place!
Do you really think the world will stop turning without you?
Do you really think Bureau 7 will grind to a halt without [Reverse Scale]?
Ridiculous!
He had the Zhong Family backing him and his position as deputy bureau chief.
He had all the personnel and resources he needed.
Building a new team stronger than [Reverse Scale] was only a matter of time!
When that day came, he would make those ungrateful fools crawl back on their knees and beg him!
Before the thought had even settled-
Bang!
The office door burst open.
A secretary stumbled inside, face drenched in sweat and expression stricken with panic.
"B-Bureau Chief Hou! Something terrible has happened!"
Hou Liangbing frowned, about to explode.
But the secretary cried out in a near-sob, "Bureau 7's internal network firewall... has been breached!"
"Our entire nationwide intelligence network