Enforcer Manual
Chapter 687 - 686: Beware of the Mole_1

Chapter 687: Chapter 686: Beware of the Mole_1

Bob, this good-for-nothing!

Upon hearing the news brought by the staff member, the team leader immediately became irate, and many thoughts flooded his mind.

Could it be that Bob took someone’s bribe, or was he threatened by his family or company?

Based on some recent developments he heard about, due to the war in the Third Neutral Country, as well as Morger and the Iris Consortium matters, the number of councilors dissatisfied with the Chairperson of the Council had been growing. They were always secretly scheming to vent their dissatisfaction to the Chairperson himself, and these diligent workers ended up being the scapegoats for the political struggle.

But Bob wasn’t a newbie; although his job seemed trivial, he had never caused any trouble, and was known to be straightforward and honest, which made the team leader feel confident about entrusting work to him.

"You all wait here, I’ll go take a look," he said.

The team leader couldn’t help but feel compassion.

He originally intended to berate the other party and then kick him out of the company, but after calming down, he decided to talk to Bob first to see if the poor fellow had some compelling difficulty. If he could identify the Black Hand behind this, perhaps the Chairperson of the Council wouldn’t take it out on these small fry.

He walked toward the bathroom, and could hear rock music coming from inside even before reaching the door.

The music was so loud that it was jarring, and the catchy tune could be heard through several doors. The band performing this popular rock music was a newly formed virtual idol group. Their cute and coquettish image on the internet contrasted starkly with their music, and several of their new songs had become instant hits.

Their company was also planning to invite these virtual idols for an exclusive interview next month.

But none of this gave Bob the right to hide in the bathroom during an interview and blare music recklessly!

"Hey, Bob, you..."

The team leader pushed open the bathroom door and followed the source of the music to the innermost stall.

The stall door was unlocked, merely ajar, and when he swung it open, ready to rebuke Bob, all the words he had prepared got stuck in his throat.

Bob was indeed in the stall.

More precisely, he was now sitting blankly against the toilet lid, his eyes lifeless as he stared at the ceiling, just like a junkie who had overdosed on illegal drugs. His music list was playing several songs on loop, not out of love for the cutesy rock band, but to mask the eerie noises coming from an object behind him.

A type of plant like none he had ever seen before was on the wall, its tendrils opening a gap like a mouth, with the edges constantly writhing.

The scene stunned the team leader for a good few seconds, then he noticed insects crawling out slowly from the gap.

These black bugs were no bigger than a fingernail, clustered densely enough to trigger primal fears of swarming insects in anyone’s heart, yet Bob appeared oblivious as the ants crawled out of the gap and up his shoes and pant legs onto his body.

He must notify the security personnel immediately, or else...

The moment this thought surfaced in the team leader’s mind, he locked eyes with one of the bugs.

The next moment, he witnessed the bug’s body swell rapidly, then explode like a balloon right before his eyes.

"Boom!"

Meanwhile, in room 3801.

When the hidden figure in the dressing room appeared, the bodyguard who had been guarding the lounge’s door had already taken position at the door of this room. Before the intruder could get close to the Chairperson of the Council, the eye of the bodyguard sparked with red light as he raised his hand pointing it at the uninvited guest.

But then, the bodyguard dropped the thought of killing the intruder and instead picked up speed, positioning his body in front of the Chairperson of the Council. He didn’t even check to see if the Chairperson could maintain balance as he pushed him several meters away.

At the same moment, the bodyguard was swept away by the blast wave of the explosion as if he were a kite without a string, crashing through a wall and becoming buried in the rubble.

The deafening explosion engulfed the entire floor.

"Chairperson of the Council, be careful!"

A youthful female voice came through the dust, "Hurry, it’s not safe here."

The crimson cybernetic eye scanned the figure inside the room, identifying a female who, after getting up from the ground, stumbled toward where the Chairperson of the Council had fallen. Additionally, the cybernetic eye detected another sound approaching.

The built-in operating system quickly displayed the identity of the newcomer based on their psychic signature.

"Yaku Barrier," male, Six Stars rescuer candidate.

In less than a second, the bodyguard made his decision, shifting his gaze aside, because this assassination was far from over. His cybernetic eye detected a large number of lifeforms rapidly approaching them.

Assassins...

They weren’t human!

They were a swarm of bugs no bigger than a fingernail.

The severe explosion just now seemed to have been triggered by these bugs. He sprang to his feet, aiming his right hand’s installed laser weapon at the dense swarm of bugs. However, this time the built-in system didn’t display any targeting information.

A feeling of emptiness came over him.

As he looked at his right hand in confusion, he realized that his palm had vanished without a trace. There was no pain, not even a system alert indicating that he had been attacked. It was only when he glanced at the wreckage he had created that he noticed a type of plant he had never seen before now growing on the floor.

These plants swallowed everything they touched.

More of the same insects relentlessly crawled out of these gaping maws.

"No time to hesitate!"

The bodyguard heard the urging from Yaku on the other end of the line. He and the unidentified woman had already brought the Chairperson of the Council to the edge of the building, and upon this prompt, Yaku recklessly pushed the elderly Chairperson out through the broken window.

In normal times, he would have smashed Yaku’s head in.

But now, he clearly recognized that he had to buy enough time for their escape.

He stared at the black insects drawing closer. His face, half-corroded by the first explosion, was expressionless. As his crimson gaze swept over the bug swarm, the crawling insects suddenly stopped in their tracks. They brandished their claws at the bodyguard but were crushed by an invisible force, their bellies pinned to the ground, and even the plants stopped swaying.

Gravity Field.

But this could only delay the insects temporarily, and he needed to strictly control the range of the Gravity Field to ensure the Chairperson’s evacuation was not affected.

The ability that triggered the explosion belonged to a Psychic named "Dominate."

She topped the list of most-wanted criminals of the United Government; describing her as the most vicious criminal in its history was not an exaggeration.

In her last operation, a storm sparked by her psychic explosion destroyed an entire block, turning both the street and the Six Stars rescuers pursuing her to ashes. Another Psychic suspected of spatial transfer through plants had never been recorded before.

During the standoff, he had already uploaded the intelligence he had gathered to the Review Meeting, along with the current situation.

They needed a hovercar on site as soon as possible.

The dense swarm of insects was bound to unleash an unprecedented Psychic storm, and legs alone wouldn’t be enough to escape the storm’s reach.

While meticulously controlling the Gravity Field, the bodyguard calmly directed the surrounding security personnel to carry out evacuation work on the perimeter.

If this district was doomed to destruction, at least the number of casualties should be minimized—even more so at this critical juncture...

"Zzzzzap."

The faint sound of an electric arc broke his train of thought. The insects, once suppressed by the Gravity Field, began to advance once more.

The bodyguard experienced a brief moment of blankness as his operating system instantly popped up a barrage of error messages.

Someone... had used his backend privileges.

Then a terrible thought struck him—that the mastermind behind this assassination was not an "external" enemy force, but an insider from the Council itself, or more precisely, the Secretary-General himself had taken part in the assassination plot.

Only the Secretary-General held the backend privileges to his system, a measure intended to prevent him from harming the Chairperson of the Council or succumbing to cybernetic psychosis.

He must get this message out!

Checking all possible communication methods, the bodyguard found that his connection to the outside world had been completely severed the moment the adversary remotely accessed the system, even the communication with the security team was cut off.

He hesitated for a moment.

If he chose to evacuate now, he could throw himself out of the building before the operating system shut down completely, but the end result would be every person in the district turning to dust along with the Psychic storm.

Thus, there was only one thing he could do.

"Secretary-General."

He activated his phone’s recording device, left these three words, and threw it out the window, hoping someone would catch it before it shattered, thus learning of this critical message. Then he turned around and faced the dense black insects without looking back.

Even though the bodyguard knew it was pointless, he still attempted to crush and smash the insects as much as possible.

Just as his consciousness was about to shut down along with the operating system, he thought he heard a voice behind him.

"The traitor is the Secretary-General, your message has been received."

His consciousness seemed frozen for a brief eternity, and when he came to, everything in the room had changed dramatically. The insects had already covered his body.

They were on his torso, arms, and legs, and one had even crawled into his cybernetic eye, allowing him to see even more clearly as the insect’s body swelled and then exploded.

"Boom—"