NOVEL NEXT Chapter 3 Speech_2
In the surveillance footage, it was indeed this man named Pei Zhengchang who was currently sneaking around in the archive room, making his way to the No. 4 file cabinet that Lin Yun had mentioned and then rummaging through it.
The man below saw this segment of the video and his face turned deathly pale instantly.
"How is it possible..."
He murmured to himself, "I checked everything clearly, and had made preparations. All the surveillance in the archive room should have been replaced, all fake… This can't be possible..."
However, his behavior clearly won't win anyone's forgiveness.
If the gazes around him initially held suspicion and scrutiny, they now bore hatred and disdain.
"I am not your old bureau chief. She might have turned a blind eye to your actions, but I will not." Lin Yun said with intent, "Security department, send two people to take him to the interrogation room."
As his words fell, several young men suddenly emerged from the restless crowd, their faces filled with anger as they walked toward the middle-aged man.
"Don't even think about it!"
The exposed middle-aged man no longer looked for excuses. With a shout, he suddenly raised his hand, revealing a medium that had been prepared in advance, which now flickered with the light of magic power. He aimed the palm of his hand at the podium, his face turning red, "You forced me into this!"
With that said, he activated his magic power, and several magic bullets shot out at a velocity not inferior to that of firearms, directed fiercely at Lin Yun who was on the podium.
"Stop him!" "Protect the bureau chief!"
The crowd around exclaimed, some reacting quickly, instinctively trying to rush onto the podium. But what nobody anticipated was that the magic bullets the man released did not even get close to the podium, being dissipated by some unknown force.
The man's attack was ineffective.
In a location not visible to the audience, behind the podium, Lin Yun's hand was resting on the Heart's Gem. Numerous slender threads of magic silk extended from the Heart's Gem in all directions, turning into sharp blades in front of the podium, effortlessly nullifying the man's offensive.
Almost no one noticed what he had done, not even the staff closest to the podium, who could only sense a faint fluctuation of magic power.
On the other side, the man whose sneak attack failed wore a look of defeat and thus was taken away by the security department.
Watching the man be escorted away with a calm expression, Lin Yun was not planning to stop there. His gaze swept across the audience below as he unmercifully continued, this time calling out another name:
"Lu Yan, can you explain why, as a member of the finance department, you have been repeatedly running to the special operations department over the past week? You don't seem to have been assigned any tasks that require liaising with their department, and moreover, you've entered the operations conference room several times privately. What have you done?"
His gaze was directed at a female staff member in the front row below the podium. This time, before the woman could speak, several young members of the security sector stepped out of the crowd and aggressively approached the woman.
The female employee named Lu Yan looked around and saw that everyone's expressions were filled with suspicion and they were distancing themselves from her. She clicked her tongue and, without bothering with an excuse, activated the spell technique medium concealed in her hand.
Unlike the man, she employed a flying spell technique and rose in place, flying rapidly toward the doors of the conference hall.
"She's running away!" "Catch her!"
The surrounding employees immediately started creating a commotion, grabbing ankles, throwing objects, using spell techniques... The interference from all directions made it impossible for the woman to proceed, and halfway through her flight, she was dragged down from the air by a tall employee.
Then, the pursuing security staff swarmed in and escorted the woman away as well.
Without further comment, Lin Yun opened his mouth and named another person. This time, without even bothering to list crimes or ask questions, the employee named immediately turned to run but was promptly restrained by angry colleagues.
In this way, Lin Yun consecutively named six people, and the staff below went from initial suspicion to unconditional belief, acting more swiftly each time. The traitors from Black Ash Dawn were thus exposed one after another and taken to the interrogation room.
After all the traitors were escorted away, Lin Yun finally released his hand from the Heart's Gem behind the podium and began to speak slowly:
"I don't know if there are other traitors within the Abnormal Strategy Bureau. After all, I haven't been here long enough to conduct a thorough investigation. However, I believe it's only a matter of time."
"If there are still such individuals among you, you now have two choices: the first is to leave after work today and never come back to the Abnormal Strategy Bureau; the second is to come to me voluntarily and give up your accomplices, to strive for lenient treatment."
"Now that those posing a threat have been dismissed, let's talk about the next issue. It's about external combat ability, our lethal power against outsiders."
"The Abnormal Strategy Bureau has suffered more than once at the hands of Black Ash Dawn. I'm sure the humiliation from two weeks ago has not been forgotten by all of you, and you would like to find them and avenge that disgrace."
"However, Black Ash Dawn has mastered the technology of beast transformation, and their beast-transformed warriors possess strength close to that of the Remnant Beasts, far beyond what ordinary people can handle."
"For this reason, I have brought a new batch of equipment."