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Chapter 557 Chapter 550 · "Edward, I will kill you."

In the office, the sound of keyboard tapping can be heard endlessly.

Standing in the center is Ashkel, the chief of staff of the United Regiment who once proposed the "Hero Project".

"The information was breached from the inside? Someone among us is actually responding to the hacker..."

Ashkelle hung up the communicator.

A few days ago, the news of Edward's madness was leaked together with their resource allocation plan. They found that the source of the news came from within the United Regiment, but they didn't know which bastard did it.

At this time, a middle-aged man wearing a silver star walked in.

"...Su Mingan is here." The middle-aged man whispered.

Ashkelle was slightly taken aback.

He is in charge of many handover matters of the joint regiment, but he has never heard of an invitation to the first player recently.

So, this is the initiative of the first player?

"He came by himself?" Ashkel smiled: "Then why don't you hurry up and ask someone to meet him...you should meet someone you know, preferably someone he knows like Hubert and Aini. He is What are you here for? Cooperation? To help us mediate public opinion? Or ask for team trading, equipment supply? It doesn’t matter, everything can satisfy him, I will rush over now..."

Ashkelle and the man next to him were both middle-aged people in their fifties, and they used to look down on young people from the bottom of their hearts.

But now, most of the people standing at the top of the world are young people.The 19-year-old at the top of the list and the 25-year-old at the second are both ages where it was difficult to get a senior professional title before, but now they have become existences that strive for all mankind.

"No, he didn't come here on his own initiative. He said he was invited by the joint regiment, but we didn't issue any official invitation..." said the middle-aged man.

After hearing this, Ashkel's smile disappeared immediately:

"You mean to say that there is an inner ghost under the guise of our name?"

He knew that the joint regiment was not as united as he had imagined.

In this kind of world where everything can be robbed, except for sincere and pure people, few people are willing to be a stepping stone to maintain order.

——The people in the organization are thinking about their future after the game is over.

Now they are sacrificing time and energy to prepare for a stable order. What will they do when everything is over and they have nothing?At that time, would people still protect them by remembering the "old feelings of the United Regiment" within this year?

...Even Ashkelle himself began to worry about what would happen a year later.He is now the chief of staff of the United Regiment, with a high status, but what happens after the game is over?He is definitely not an opponent of a powerful player. At that time, what should his wife and son who did not enter the game do?
"What is the first player here for?" Ashkel asked.

"It seems that someone invited him to see Edward, and Yang Changxu went to meet him. I don't know which source it is..." the middle-aged man said.

"Ridiculous!" Ashkel roared, causing other people who were typing on the keyboard to turn their heads.

—to visit Edward?Can this be seen?

The direct cause of Edward's madness is Su Ming'an. Isn't it irritating to ask Su Ming'an to visit Edward now?Which bastard's idea was this?
Ashkel even suspected that the two would fight directly in the ward, greatly intensifying human internal friction.

He immediately put on his coat and rushed out the door, trying to stop the two of them before the situation escalated.

……

"boom."

Su Mingan closed the door of the ward and sat down on the chair beside the bed.

There are anxious medical staff outside the door, and they dare not enter even if they want to.

Su Mingan noticed that there were still fruits on Edward's bedside, so he peeled a banana and pointed at Edward.

"Come on, do you want to eat?" Su Mingan asked.

"...Are you here to see my joke?" Edward sat on the bed with a gloomy expression on his face.

Pillow hair remained in his blond hair, which fell like snowflakes on his blue-and-white hospital gown.

"If a person regards himself as a 'joke', then as long as others take a look at you, it will become a 'joke'." Su Mingan said lightly: "Unless you don't see anyone afterwards, leaving behind the progress of human beings and points, then you won't be 'looked at as a joke'."

He took a bite of the banana and stared at Edward.

Edward did look haggard, with heavy dark circles under his eyes, a thin figure, and even a bump scar could be seen on his handsome face, perhaps caused by himself when he collapsed.

Even at this moment, his fingers were unconsciously scratching the sheets, like arched eagle claws.His breathing was heavy and rapid, and his face was flushed red with anger...or maybe it was the redness caused by his mental breakdown.

His state was very similar to Su Mingan's state when he was on the verge of alienation, with vacant eyes and shortness of breath.

It's a pity that Su Ming'an got out of it, but Edward didn't.

... Such a pitiful, hateful person who is on the verge of collapse and dying, locked here for treatment like a bird with its wings bound... Is it Edward?
In Su Ming'an's memory, this person was always high-spirited. Although he was educated by the aristocrats and was not as arrogant as a nouveau riche, he always had an air of contempt for common people from his bones.

But now, this person was leaning on the bed, his whole body looked extremely fragile, his eyes were full of red threads, and he almost couldn't even speak a complete sentence.

Edward is actually not stupid. It can be seen from some clue deciphering sessions that Edward is a very smart person with a not low IQ.

But this man was raised too pure.Or rather, being brainwashed too well.As soon as he encounters the sophistication of the world, he becomes extremely stupid, as if he has been deliberately suppressed in a certain aspect of growth.

. . . that's terrible, United Corps.

Su Mingan began to peel the apples.

Edward wanted to drive people out, but he gave up when he thought that his strength points would not be as good as Su Mingan's if he pushed and shoved.

"No one invited you to see me, get out!" Edward said loudly.

"No one invited?" Su Ming'an said softly, "It seems that there are quite a few ghosts in the joint group, and this kind of invitation can be sent by mistake."

Edward's eyes were fixed on his face.

"Or..." Su Mingan threw the banana peel into the trash can, raised his eyelids, and looked into Edward's eyes: "——are you one of them?"

"you……"

Su Mingan interrupted him: "——the person who leaked 'Edward is crazy' and 'United Mission Resource Allocation Plan' is you, right?"

This kind of news can only be known by the very insiders. After ruling out all possibilities, the only one who leaked the news could be Edward himself.

Others didn't notice this because of blind spots in their thinking, but Su Mingan had already seen the truth clearly.

Edward's eyes trembled slightly.

"I thought you were stupid enough, but I didn't expect you to go one step further." Su Mingan said, "Let me guess again... You should have reached some kind of deal with the organizer and become a kind of 'special status'." ’, can push the boat on the negative condition of human beings…”

Edward's eyes trembled even more.

"This is a type of identity that I have never heard of before. Is the authority of the organizer also evolving? Earlier I discovered that their game version seems to be constantly updated, whether it is the image of a young boy named Boss Rabbit, or the image of the World Forum. The richness...is changing..." Su Mingan seems to be talking to himself: "Now that such an identity of 'inner ghost' appears, the future of mankind is really in jeopardy."

When Edward heard this, he calmed down instead.

He pinched the bed sheet with a very quiet expression.

"These are just your guesses," he said.

"Well, yes, it's just my guess." Su Mingan smiled.

In fact, when he speaks to the enemy in an affirmative tone, he is basically 90.00% sure.

Ying had already told him about Edward's behavior of begging for a special status on his knees in the Eighth World. Edward even shouted at that time, "Don't you just want a dog like Su Mingan?"

It can be seen from this that if the first attempt is unsuccessful, Edward will naturally try a second time, and this second time, he may be in touch with the organizer.

"I came here because I don't really care about any moths in your joint regiment, and I don't care about who deliberately wants me to come over." Su Mingan bit an apple: "I just want to inform you of something."

"what?"

"Edward, I will kill you." Su Mingan said.

Edward's pupils trembled.

For a moment, he even thought he had heard wrong.

——This guy who has always been tolerant to top players, and even more tolerant to players who have completed the level perfectly.How could you say such a thing?
"—Then kill it, I met you in the dungeon, do you think I will let you go?" Edward sneered suddenly.Everyone knows that if they meet in the dungeon, it will definitely be a life-or-death situation.

Su Mingan had already told him this kind of thing before, why is he threatening him again now?Interested in repeating it?

Su Mingan threw away the core.

He stood up and stared at Edward's flushed, mad face, as if he could see the collapsed soul inside those blue eyes.

There seemed to be a ray of light that disappeared in it, never to light up again.

Edward's fire had long been extinguished.

He took the initiative to provoke internal strife, leaked human intelligence, and became a dog.

Regardless of the overall situation, he wasted the rescue resources dismantled by the United Group from ordinary players, gave up on himself, and gave the human being a hard blow with his backhand.

Even from the perspective of the person in charge of the organizer, Su Ming'an should not be able to accept such a person standing beside him.

His dislike of Edward seemed reasonable and not abrupt.

Su Mingan turned around and walked towards the door.

When he pushed the door, he happened to meet Chief of Staff Ashkel who hurried over, and a few acquaintances, Aini, Hubert, Julia...

He gave Ashkelle a symbolic smile, turned around, and finally said to Edward:

"Edward, what I said is not in the copy."

He's about to relapse.

……

"Clap."

There was a slight sound of footsteps, with a wet dragging feeling.

The blond-haired boy walked on the ground covered with blood, and the blood trailed on the soles of his high-top shoes, causing waves of halos.

He picked up a golden knife and said to the child lying on the bed:

"Have you thought about it? Are you sure you want to trade with me?"

The child is very thin, but his eyes are firm.He nodded firmly to Noel:
"My mother is crazy, I want to save her! Ordinary players have very few ambulance resources... I am willing to accept transformation, I want to become stronger and become a powerful player! I want to save my mother!"

Noel sighed slightly.

The knife in his hand was on fire, and the flames danced in his eyes, and he felt a little hesitant.

Obviously, he has performed this kind of surgery countless times.

"...I'm not wrong." He muttered to himself.

He dropped the anesthetic and pushed the needle into the child's neck.

"……I am right."

The silk thread moved slightly, and the knife in his hand glowed with a layer of sharp silver light, slowly fusing the machinery with the flesh and blood.

"Su Ming'an..." He seemed to be comforting himself, muttering to himself, "I shouldn't be blamed...I'm not wrong."

"Humanity has almost no future..."

"To help these children, even if they don't have the decision-making level of adults... I'm not wrong..."

"I'm not using them, I'm helping them, giving them the strength to face difficulties..."

Bloody covered his white gloves.

Under the flames, his paper-like children were gradually transformed into human-shaped murder weapons.

Strong, strong, resolute.

Not infringed.

(End of this chapter)