Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 52 NO.0034: Conditions that cannot be refused

The atmosphere in the corporate liaison room is very dignified.

This is actually quite normal—sitting in the same room and breathing with a family member of a 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 Icarus would come later due to urgent matters, she put the pocket watch on the table and told the person in charge that she had to wait patiently for ten minutes.

That was all she had said since entering the room.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the atmosphere in the meeting room became more and more dignified.

"One minute left."

At some point, Perse Fanny picked up the pocket watch on the table, and said indifferently.

"snort……"

It was said that some people present expressed dissatisfaction with her arrogant attitude.

But to this, she did not have any reaction.

"Ms. Fanny..."

At this time, the person in charge of the liaison room hurried up, he couldn't hold back his nervousness and said:

"Even if the team leader doesn't arrive, we can start negotiations ahead of time. After all, the final decision is voted together..."

"It's not necessary."

Fanny stared intently at the rotating second hand on the pocket watch and said:

"If Irwin hadn't come, we wouldn't be able to talk about cooperation anyway."

As she spoke, she covered the pocket watch and put it in the pocket of the brick-red checkered coat with a stand-up collar.

"But I can't wait forever, so... the time has come."

As she spoke, she stood up, the watch chain dangling slightly in the small space outside the pocket.

The masked man standing behind her like two mountains moved her chair back immediately.

The movements were uniform, and the whole process did not even move the head, as if it had been trained countless times.

But in an instant, she sat down again. At the same time, the two masked men behind her, who looked like bodyguards, seemed to have predicted this, and before she sat down, they pushed the chair back 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—Book Irwin and Liao Qi rushed in with afterimages.

"There's something on the way that's delayed."

Booker didn't explain what happened, and there was no apology in his voice.

As he spoke, he sat down directly opposite the woman.

On the other hand, Jiang Zhou glanced at the meeting room and found that there was no other seat except for the assistant seat next to Booker, so he had to sit down too.

Then he turned his attention to the company executive who almost took his frontal lobe off.

Compared with the middle-aged people in the Icarus Liberation Front wearing solemn formal clothes and constantly smoking nicotine atomizers, Perse Fanny, who is an executive of the Pluto Deep Diving Company, seems to have strayed into the It's the same as the student girls who go to institutions.

Her appearance looks like she is only sixteen or seventeen years old—of course, this is definitely not her actual age, after all, she once worked in Apollo Biology, and there is the world's best life extension and rejuvenation technology there.

She has wavy long hair with fluorescent light green, and her eyes are amber with shimmering light. His skin was so pale that it was almost transparent, as if he had been locked in a basement for a long time and hadn't seen much sunlight.

As for her clothes, both from the aesthetics of this era and from Jiang Zhou's point of view, they are very classic. A very well-tailored British-style brick-red checked jacket with a stand-up collar, and a long green scarf around it. There are no extra ornaments on her body, but a pomegranate seed-shaped stud is dotted on the earlobe of her right ear.

Anyway, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like what a company executive should look like in the stereotype.

"Whatever you think, don't try to do it here."

At this time, Jiang Zhou received a reminder from Booker in the communication channel.

"The two bodyguards behind her are zombies. After activation, 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.

Both of them put their hands behind their backs, motionless like models.

Except for their eyes that were exposed outside the mask - their eyes were like sleepwalkers, shaking rapidly in their eye sockets.

"Military zombies completely cut off self-awareness. One command can enter the indiscriminate killing mode. Except for the people they want to protect, they will tear everything around them to pieces before stopping... Although I understand Not too complicated orders, but things with clear goals, they can achieve the ultimate in the ultimate."

The so-called zombie slave labor...

Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

It was clear that this communication was not sent to him alone. Jiang Zhou noticed that the atmosphere in the meeting room became more dignified, and several people couldn't help but look at the two silent bodyguards behind Fanny.

"First of all, I would like to express my regret for the meaningless waste caused by the former head of the company on the ground floor of the resettlement area, and for the loss of your organization."

After Booker took his seat, Perse Fanny's first speech directly hit the minefield of most of the people present.

The plan to shut down the sewage purification plant and cut off the domestic water of millions of residents in the underground area is called "meaningless waste".

Call the massacre of half of the core members of the organization a "loss" and express "regret" about it.

As Jiang Zhou thought, this woman is a cold-blooded and heartless bitch.

However, before anyone on the scene broke out, she continued in a tone that could not be interrupted:

"The following words are spoken in my personal capacity. As a manager who came out of the bottom of the Avalon resettlement area, I do not have the slightest sympathy for your cause. In fact, many of the company's decisions , I don’t agree with that either.”

Although these words are beautiful, if one looks up at the two military zombies behind her, one can know who the person in front of her is.

"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 so.

"Yes, the company's deployment is unquestionable. The new intelligent control center will inevitably be rebuilt, and the car 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 the previous hatred. On this most fundamental issue, we will not compromise. We will continue to blow up the intelligence control center you built, and if you dare to step here next time If so, we will also..."

The newly appointed leader of the action team suppressed his anger.

"You may try, but I say it's a waste of effort."

Not provocative, her tone of voice was more like a statement of fact.

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, there will be no change. There is someone to replace me. In the whole thing, you are not important, and I am not important, only the will of the company is important."

"Ms. Fanny."

At this time, Booker finally spoke.

"If you condescend to come down this time just to persuade you to surrender, then I advise you to go back and don't waste time."

The other party nodded slightly to Booker, and then said:

"Of course I didn't come here to persuade you to surrender, and I don't think you will be moved by such words. It's just that 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?"

The leader of the intelligence team on the side asked.

"There is only one task assigned to me by the company, and that is to ensure that the automobile factory in the Nord resettlement area can start operation before July. In other words, as long as the task can be completed, there is no life-and-death conflict between us."

"How can there be no conflicts? In order to meet the energy supply needs of the factory, you will demolish the last sewage purification plant underground in the resettlement area. Can't you guess what price the entire underground of the resettlement area will pay for it?"

The leader of the hacker group who had been silent before spoke up.

"So, do you have a solution to this problem?"

Hearing this, Booker stared at Fanny and asked.

The latter shook his head, then said:

"Of course I don't."

"but?"

Jiang Zhou, who had already guessed the routine, said softly.

"But you have a solution to this problem."

Sure enough, Fanny said so.

"us?"

Booker pointed to himself suspiciously.

"In addition to the energy supply of the Fusion Bureau, there is another energy source underground in the resettlement area, which is the originally planned geothermal power station."

"But it was demolished decades ago."

said Booker.

Otherwise, today's underground residents don't need to use the expensive energy from the Fusion Bureau.

"That universal printer you have."

said Fanny.

"It was one of the three universal printers deployed by the old world government to maintain the underground facility matrix in the Nord resettlement area. It only takes half a month, and it can be restored on the site of the original geothermal power plant. operate."

Of course, the premise is that there must be sufficient energy, materials, and printing permissions for geothermal power plants.

And most importantly...the inhabitants of the power plant site need to be relocated.

God knows how many.

"Starting from today, I can give you two months to solve this problem. But if I can't do it by then, then I will continue the plan of the former person in charge."

In the end, the Pluto Deep Dive executive summed it up like this:

"That's the best deal I can get."

When Booker heard this, he looked around the meeting room for a week, and before he was about to stand up to speak, the new leader of the action team stood up first.

"Please wait a moment, everyone, regardless of whether we can achieve this plan, or whether you have ulterior motives when you come here today to discuss cooperation... But the blood feud between your company and us in the 'Theseus Warehouse' before, can it be so Forget it?"

As if he finally couldn't hold back his emotions, the man stood up and said to Fanny excitedly.

"Sit down first, Shen L, we can discuss these things later."

Booker said in a deep voice.

"I'm sorry, leader Erwin, but I think this matter must be made clear now. The people we died and the blood we shed must not be simply counted as that..."

The action team leader named Shen L walked up to Jiang Zhou and pulled him by the arm to lift him up.

Afterwards, he pointed at Liao Qi, fixed his eyes on Fanny and said:

"This child is the only survivor of the previous atrocity in your company. You can ask him if he would like to leave it alone? If he can accept it after going through that tragic massacre, then I agree cooperate."

Regarding this, Fanny still spoke very calmly:

"I understand that these emotional issues are very important to you, even if they will affect your efficiency. In addition, although I want to emphasize that the previous disciplinary action has nothing to do with me, I believe that you do not will believe it."

"Since you are also a member of Pluto's deep dive, then don't try to get yourself out."

Shen L nodded and replied.

For the first time, Jiang Zhou saw helplessness in the executive's eyes.

"Well," she said, "in other words, if the last survivor can accept my terms, so can you, right?"

Shen L looked around and saw that no one had any objection, so he nodded.

Jiang Zhou's communication channel received Booker's private message.

"Think about it seriously, Liao Qi, don't be too impulsive."

His tone was almost pleading when he spoke.

I'm sorry, Booker...

Jiang Zhou said silently in his heart.

He had already made up his mind before - no matter what conditions the other party proposed, he would never agree!

"Your name is... Liao Qi, right?"

Perse Fanny's eyes turned to Jiang Zhou, and several amber lights flashed in her eyes.

Jiang Zhou nodded.

"Then, before you say your choice, I have one last thing to say. Please judge after I finish."

Fanny said so.

No matter what favorable terms you offer, I can't possibly agree.

Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

Immediately, she paused for a few seconds, then continued:

"I will release all the captured members of your organization in the previous operations in batches in the future... Although this is not compensation, you can take it as my sincerity."

"I accept the condition."

Jiang Zhou replied immediately.