Only after the meeting room had fallen completely silent did the director, seated at the head of the table, look around at everyone gathered there and slowly speak. "In that case, let's begin..."
The young man standing behind him, who appeared to be his assistant, stepped forward. "I assume everyone already knows the purpose of today's meeting..."
"Several documents belonging to the Human Body Project Team went missing from the facility a few days ago."
"These documents contain detailed records of the procedures and specific data from some of our... experiments. If they become public... I don't need to tell you how much trouble that would cause our Scientific Research Institute..."
"After all, what happened back then... is the best example."
His words seemed to remind everyone seated below him of something, and they all nodded, still shaken by the memory. After all, almost every one of these middle-aged people, all over fifty, had personally experienced that incident. Or rather, they were the "survivors" of its aftermath.
Once everyone had grown serious, the young assistant continued, "After that incident, our Scientific Research Institute's reputation plummeted."
"Over the years, we've only managed to rebuild it little by little by studying anomalies and inventing weapons, specialized drugs, and other things to counter them."
"So..." The director took over, his expression grave. "We absolutely cannot let those documents get out!"
"And we already have a preliminary suspect for who stole them." The young assistant operated the remote in his hand, projecting a photograph onto the white wall-
Bo Yi's beautiful face appeared vividly on the "wall."
"However..." The young assistant bowed slightly to the director. "I've sent several groups of people, but none of them have found those documents inside the Research Institute."
"And..." He lowered his head and pressed his lips together.