The atmosphere in the corporate liaison room was very solemn.
This is actually quite normal - sitting in the same room breathing with the family members of the person who killed half of your family not long ago, just the solemn atmosphere is already very restrained.
After the person in charge of the liaison room explained to Perse Fanny that the leader of the Icarus team would be here later due to urgent matters, she put her pocket watch on the table and told the person in charge that she only had the patience to wait for ten minutes.
This was all she said since entering the room.
Time passed by, and the atmosphere in the conference room became more and more solemn.
"One minute left."
At some point, Purse Fanny picked up the pocket watch from the table and said nonchalantly.
"snort……"
Hearing this, some people present were already dissatisfied with her arrogant attitude.
But she didn't react at all.
"Ms. Fannie..."
At this time, the person in charge of the liaison room hurriedly walked up. He couldn't restrain his nervousness and said:
"Even if the team leader does not arrive, we can still start negotiations in advance. After all, the final decision is voted on together..."
"It's not necessary."
Fanny stared at the rotating second hand on the pocket watch and said:
"If Erwin hadn't come, we wouldn't have been able to discuss cooperation anyway."
As she spoke, she covered her pocket watch and put it into the pocket of her brick-red plaid stand-collar coat.
"But I can't wait forever, so... the time has come."
She stood up as she spoke, her watch chain dangling slightly in the air outside her pocket.
The masked man who stood behind her like two mountains immediately moved her chair back.
The movements were neat and uniform, without even moving the head during the whole process, as if they had been trained countless times.
But in an instant, she sat down again. At the same time, the two masked men who looked like bodyguards behind her seemed to have predicted this. Before she sat down, they pushed the chair in to the right position.
"you are late."
Fanny said, but there seemed to be no complaint in her voice.
In the conference room, except for the two masked men, everyone's eyes turned to the door - Booker Erwin and Liao Qi rushed in with their afterimages.
"Something delayed me on the way."
Booker didn't explain what happened, and there was no apology in his voice.
He said, sitting directly opposite the woman.
Jiang Zhou glanced at the conference room and found that there were no other seats except the passenger seat next to Booker, so he had to sit down.
Then he focused on the company executive who almost removed his frontal lobe.
Compared with the middle-aged men of the Icarus Liberation Front who wore solemn formal suits and kept smoking nicotine atomizers, Perse Fanny, an executive of Pluto Deep Diving Company, looked as if she had entered the Icarus Liberation Front by mistake. The same goes for students and girls who go to government agencies.
She looks like she is only sixteen or seventeen years old - of course, this is definitely not her actual age. After all, she once worked at Apollo Biology, which has the best life extension and rejuvenation technology in the world.
She has long, fluorescent light green wavy hair, and her eyes are amber that sparkles slightly. The skin was so pale that it was almost transparent, and it looked like he had been locked up in the basement for a long time and had not seen much sunlight.
As for her dress, both in terms of the aesthetics of this era and in Jiang Zhou's opinion, it was very classical. A very well-tailored British-style brick red plaid stand-collar jacket, wrapped with a long green scarf. There are no extra accessories on her body, except for a pomegranate seed-shaped earring dotted on the earlobe of her right ear.
Anyway, it doesn’t look like the stereotype of what a company executive should look like.
"Whatever you think, don't try to do it here."
At this time, Jiang Zhou received a reminder from Booker on his communication channel.
"The two bodyguards behind her are zombies. When activated, they can kill everyone except the two of us... maybe even the two of us."
"Zombie?"
Asking questions, Jiang Zhou's eyes suddenly shifted to the two masked bodyguards behind Fanny.
The two of them had their hands behind their backs, motionless like models.
Except for their eyes exposed outside the masks - their eyes were shaking rapidly in their sockets like sleepwalkers.
"Military zombies have completely cut off their self-awareness. With a single command, they can enter the indiscriminate killing mode. Except for the people they want to protect, they will tear everything around them into pieces before stopping... Although I understand There are not too complex orders, but things with clear goals, they can achieve the ultimate in perfection.”
Also known as zombie slave workers...
Jiang Zhou thought.
It was obvious that this communication was not addressed to him alone. Jiang Zhou noticed that the atmosphere in the conference room had become more solemn, and several people couldn't help but take a few more glances at the two silent bodyguards behind Fanny.
"First of all, I would like to express my regret for the senseless waste caused by the previous head of the company on the ground floor of the resettlement area and for the loss to your organization."
After Booker took his seat, Perse Fanny's first statement directly hit the minefield of most people present.
He called the plan to shut down the sewage purification plant and cut off the domestic water supply to millions of residents in the underground area a "pointless waste."
He called the massacre of half of the core members of the organization a "loss" and then expressed "regret" about it.
As Jiang Zhou thought, this woman was a cold-blooded and ruthless bitch.
However, before anyone at the scene had an attack, she continued in a tone that could not be interrupted:
"The following words are spoken by me in a personal capacity. As a manager who has worked his way up from the bottom of the Avalon resettlement area, I have no sympathy for your cause. In fact, many of the company's decisions , I don’t agree with it that much.”
Although this was a beautiful statement, as long as she raised her head and looked at the two military zombies behind her, she would know who the person in front of her was.
"I don't agree, but I will still carry out the order to the letter, right?"
The new intelligence team leader who replaced Booker asked.
"Yes, there is no doubt about the company's deployment. The new intelligent control center will inevitably be rebuilt, and the automobile factory in the resettlement area will also be built according to the plan."
Fanny answered calmly.
"In this case, even if we can let go of our previous hatred. On this most fundamental issue, we will not compromise. We will continue to blow up the intelligent control center you built, and if you dare to step here again next time If so, we will also..."
The newly appointed leader of the action team suppressed his anger.
"You can give it a try, but I'd say it's all in vain."
It wasn't a provocation, it was more like stating the facts when she spoke.
Then she continued:
"And, even if you miraculously succeed again, so what? The company will have another time, and another time, until it succeeds. And even if you kill me, nothing will change. There is someone who will succeed me. In this whole thing, you are not important, and neither am I. Only the will of the company is important."
"Ms. Fannie."
At this time, Booker finally spoke.
"If you deigned to go underground this time just to persuade me to surrender, then I advise you to go back and don't waste time."
The other party nodded slightly towards Booker, and then said:
"Of course I'm not here to persuade you to surrender, and I don't think you will be moved by such words. But on the other hand, compared to the previous person in charge, I don't enjoy my job. Therefore, I would be more willing to think about one, except A more cost-effective solution than killing you all."
"What plan?"
asked the leader of the intelligence team on the side.
"The company has only one task for me, and that is to ensure that the automobile factory in the Nord Resettlement Area can start operations before July. In other words, as long as the task can be completed, there is no life-or-death conflict between us."
"How can there be no contradiction? In order to meet the energy supply required by the factory, you are going to demolish the last sewage purification plant underground in the resettlement area. Can't you guess what price the entire resettlement area will have to pay for it?"
The leader of the hacker team, who had been silent before, spoke.
"So, do you have a way to solve this problem?"
Hearing this, Booker stared at Fanny and asked.
The latter shook his head and said:
"Of course I don't."
"but……"
Jiang Zhou, who had already guessed the trick, said softly.
"But you have a way around this."
Sure enough, Fanny said so.
"us?"
Booker pointed at himself suspiciously.
"In addition to the energy supply from the Fusion Bureau, there is another energy source underground in the resettlement area, which is the originally planned geothermal power station."
“But it was torn down decades ago.”
Booker said.
Otherwise, today's underground residents would not need to use the Fusion Bureau's expensive energy.
"That universal printer you have."
Fanny said:
"It was one of the three multi-purpose printer matrices deployed by the international government at that time to maintain underground facilities in the Nord resettlement area. It only took half a month to resume operations on the site of the original geothermal power plant. .”
Of course, the premise is that you must have sufficient printing permissions for energy, materials, and geothermal power plants.
And most importantly... the residents of the power plant site need to be relocated.
God knows how many people.
"Starting from today, I can give you two months to solve this problem. But if you fail to do so, then I will continue the plan of the previous person in charge."
Finally, the Pluto Deep Dive executive concluded:
"This is the best solution I can get."
When Booker heard this, he looked around at the people in the conference room. Then just before he was about to stand up and speak, the new leader of the action team stood up first.
"Please wait a moment. Regardless of whether we can implement this plan or not, and regardless of whether you have ulterior motives for coming here to discuss cooperation today... But the blood feud between your company and us at the 'Theseus Warehouse', can it be like this?" Forget it?"
As if he could finally control his emotions, the man stood up and said excitedly to Fanny.
"Sit down first, Shen L. We can discuss these things later."
Booker said quickly.
"I'm sorry, Captain Erwin, but I think this matter must be made clear now. The people we die and the blood we shed must not just be like this..."
The leader of the action team named Shen L said as he walked up to Jiang Zhou, grabbed his arm and lifted him up.
Then he pointed at Liao Qi, stared at Fanny and said:
"This child is the only survivor of your company's previous atrocity. Ask him if he is willing to let this matter go. If he can accept it after experiencing that massacre, then I will agree to cooperate. .”
In response to this, Fanny still spoke very calmly:
"I understand that this emotional issue is very important to you. Although I would like to emphasize that the previous disciplinary action had nothing to do with me, I believe you would not believe it."
"Since you are also a member of Pluto's deep dive, then don't expect to be able to pick yourself out."
Shen L replied.
For the first time, Jiang Zhou saw a look of helplessness in the executive's eyes.
"Okay," she said, "In other words, as long as this last survivor can accept my terms, right?"
Shen L looked around and saw no one had objections, so he nodded.
Jiangzhou's communication channel received Booker's private message.
"Think about it seriously, Liao Qi, don't act on impulse."
His tone when he spoke was almost pleading.
So, sorry, Booker...
Jiang Zhou said silently in his heart.
I have made up my mind before - no matter what conditions the other party proposes, I will never agree!
"Your name is...Liao Qi, right?"
Perse Fanny asked with a few flashes of amber light in her eyes.
Jiang Zhou nodded.
"Then, before you finally come to your conclusion, I have one last thing to say. Please wait until I finish speaking before making any judgment."
Fanny said so.
No matter what favorable conditions you offer, I will never agree to them.
Jiang Zhou thought.
Then, she paused for a few seconds, and then continued:
"I will release all the members of your organization who were captured in previous operations in batches in the future... Although this cannot be said to be compensation, you can regard it as my sincerity."
"I accept this condition."
Jiang Zhou replied immediately.
