399: Comrade Wang Yuhao, please sit down.

Wang Yuhao sat back in his chair and prepared to continue sleeping.

However, having already woken up, he felt no sleepiness at all now.

Beside him, Kai Silva, who had been sitting in his chair with a dumbfounded expression after listening to everything Old Hei said, felt his pupils gradually dilate.

"Hey... Mighty Dragon, stop sleeping..."

"It seems to be true..."

Kai Silva poked Wang Yuhao a few times.

Wang Yuhao, who was slumped over the desk, also realized that what had just happened wasn't a dream.

His brows twitched and furrowed together.

The content Old Hei had just spoken of, which was as exaggerated as unofficial historical records...

...had actually, damn it, happened within the span of yesterday!

"What kind of joke is this?"

Wang Yuhao sat up abruptly, then suddenly stood up.

"Report!"

This resonant and powerful report echoed throughout the entire conference room.

For a moment, the dense whispering that had been filling the room vanished, replaced by the sound of chairs shifting as everyone turned around in unison.

Everyone's gaze converged on Wang Yuhao.

The Supreme Commander nodded at Wang Yuhao, then raised a hand to signal:

"You may state any questions you have."

This was completely different from the indifferent attitude the Supreme Commander had displayed when others asked questions earlier.

When facing Wang Yuhao, the Supreme Commander's attitude was visibly biased.

But this differential treatment did not make Wang Yuhao grateful.

"I want to see the video."

"The entire process of everything that happened in the cafeteria."

Hearing this question, the Supreme Commander's expression shifted slightly, and then it spoke with some difficulty:

"I'm sorry."

"The surveillance footage from the cafeteria that night was completely blocked."

"If you are questioning the authenticity of all this, many Operators participated that night, and each of them can testify."

After the Supreme Commander finished speaking, Wang Yuhao, who was at the back near the window, scanned the crowd.

Many of the Operators nodded at him, as if to prove to Wang Yuhao the authenticity of everything that happened last night.

"I am not questioning the authenticity of all this."

"What I am questioning is the reason behind it all."

"Did Liu Yan leave with Jacob voluntarily, or was Liu Yan forced, having no choice but to leave with Jacob?"

"There were a full 30 people who just nodded at me."

"And among them, at least 20 are peak-level Operators."

"With a formation like that, simultaneously surrounding Liu Yan and... Roy Smith."

"I want to know, in such a situation, did they have a choice?"

"And can I understand it as: before confirming the reason for Liu Yan going to Amiya Town, you had already prepared to surround Liu Yan?"

"It was only after the surrounding that the subsequent series of events was triggered."

"And to conclude that he betrayed GTI and joined Hafke just because he was forced to leave with Jacob to protect himself—isn't that a bit unreasonable?"

Wang Yuhao's voice was filled with doubt and interrogation.

Facing Wang Yuhao's reaction, the Supreme Commander frowned and looked back to exchange glances with other high-level officials.

It looked like Wang Yuhao was clearly intending to stand on Liu Yan's side.

"Comrade Wang Yuhao, you may sit down first."

"I will explain it to you slowly."

The Supreme Commander waved a hand, signaling for Wang Yuhao to sit.

But Wang Yuhao maintained a standard standing position, standing there with his gaze locked firmly onto the Supreme Commander.

If you said he didn't respect his superior, his standard standing posture compared to the others' sloppy rising made the difference clear.

But if you said he did respect them...

Since the last row was significantly higher than the other seats and the stage.

Currently, Wang Yuhao's perspective was an extremely aggressive downward gaze.

Furthermore, after the Supreme Commander suggested Wang Yuhao sit down first, the latter remained unmoved, simply waiting for an answer.

The Supreme Commander sighed helplessly.

"I will answer one by one."

"First, when the report was just made, I stated it, and you should have heard it."

"There are two reasons for surrounding Liu Yan."

"First, Liu Yan slaughtered wantonly, killed countless reporters, and had private conflicts with Hafke; these were all outside the mission."

"This point violates GTI regulations."

"We are obligated to punish him." Halfway through, the Supreme Commander saw Wang Yuhao wanting to say something and quickly raised a hand to signal, interrupting him.

"I know what you want to say; for this point alone, naturally, there is no need to deploy so many peak-level Operators to surround him."

"This is the second point that follows."

"Comrade Wang Yuhao, including you, most of the people present have not seen the video of Liu Yan fighting with Hafke in Amiya Town."

"Although later, it was determined by us to be self-directed by Liu Yan and Hafke."

"But before deducing all this, that unbelievable video..."

"...was enough to suspect that Liu Yan was an agent of another organization."

"Combining these two points, we surrounded Liu Yan."

"And it was only after the surrounding that we discovered Liu Yan had ties with Hafke."

"Thus, everything previously stated forms a closed loop."

After the Supreme Commander finished speaking, Wang Yuhao was momentarily at a loss for words.

Unlike other Operators, not only had he seen the video, he had watched it many times.

He knew for a fact that the Supreme Commander's suspicion that Liu Yan was an agent of another organization was impossible.

But how could he say that?

Say that he knew Liu Yan was actually a transmigrator?

Just then, Kai Silva, leaning back in his chair with his legs crossed, slowly raised his hand.

"I also have questions."

Before the Supreme Commander could signal for him to speak, he had already started questioning:

"If Liu Yan hadn't been taken away by Jacob at that time, how would it have ended?"

"Kill him? Interrogate him about his origins?"

"You know full well that Liu Yan's information and identity cannot be found."

"It was you who saw his potential, chose to bear this risk, and invited him to join GTI."

"And it was also Bee Doctor who extended the invitation to him."

"Therefore, in the eyes of Bee Doctor, facing your sudden surrounding, as a senior, it naturally had to take responsibility for the newly joined Liu Yan."

"But what did you take its sense of responsibility for?"

"As it favoring Liu Yan? Favoring the Liu Yan that you assumed had joined Hafke?"

"Let me ask, if such a thing happened to anyone present, who wouldn't feel disheartened?"

"You are pushing them toward Hafke!"

"Since you cannot prove the relationship between Bee Doctor and Hafke, then it is still an Operator belonging to GTI."

"Then, it cannot be considered as leaving with Jacob, but rather being held hostage by Hafke."

"In other words, when facing the situation where Bee Doctor was held hostage by Hafke, you chose to remain indifferent."

"Facing your comrade, my team member, being held hostage by Hafke, you not only chose not to rescue, but instead chose to kick it out of GTI?"

After Kai Silva finished speaking, those Operators who had participated in surrounding Liu Yan in the cafeteria hung their heads in shame one after another.

Even the Supreme Commander, on its originally calm face, showed a trace of shame.

Even when looking at Kai Silva, its gaze no longer had the previous confidence.

"This point is our problem, but I hope that as a captain, you can consider things more long-term."

"If we had rashly clashed with Jacob at that time, no one could guarantee whether headquarters would be attacked."

"They came prepared."

"Bang————!!"

Kai Silva slammed the table and stood up.

With the reinforcement of the Powered Exoskeleton on its arm, this strike slammed into everyone's ears like thunder.

"So are you telling me, damn it, that to protect the majority, you chose to watch idly as Bee Doctor was taken away by Hafke, and then kick it out of GTI?!"

This sudden outburst startled quite a few people.

Including the Supreme Commander, who was also stunned for a moment.

Immediately after, its expression turned somewhat cold, and its tone was filled with warning:

"This is a conference room."

"I hope you can maintain the most basic discipline."