Chapter 39: The hard work
"Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to send my sincere greetings to all the guests attending the hearing today. I think today is special. This hearing is conducted on live television and jointly. This is
This is the first time in the world and has extraordinary historical significance."
On the rostrum, a polite, middle-aged white man wearing gold-rimmed glasses used a calm tone to draw the venue into a serious atmosphere.
Next, there is a series of character introductions.
Among the seats in the front row were financial experts from Wall Street, former senior military officers from the US military, public health experts from the United States, lawyers from Baguette, and even a well-known science fiction novelist.
The place where Susan and others were sitting was like a dock. Before they could speak, they could only wait in agony.
"The experts present and everyone watching this hearing will give the meeting fairness. Now I announce that the meeting on the 'Umbrella Company's security crisis incident a few months ago' has officially begun!" After the meeting chairman finished reading,
Begin to explain the previous Raccoon City crisis to some people who don't know the truth.
Combining the evidence provided by the umbrella company and the information they investigated, and then modifying it, a five-minute video was played.
The content of the video is not much different from Duncan's desire to distance himself from the umbrella relationship, but it is told in a strange tone, which makes people instinctively feel that something is wrong after watching it.
Especially the ending part, "Umbrella Corporation provides hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the victims out of humanitarianism." When reading hundreds of millions of dollars, the female narrator's voice obviously increased a few decibels, full of malice.
After the video playback ended, the camera suspended by the robotic arm immediately moved in front of the umbrella team, as if to capture the guilty expressions on each of their faces.
Fortunately, the people who attended the meeting of the umbrella were all professionals, and Susan remained calm because she had made up her mind to resign. Whether the umbrella fell or not had nothing to do with her as a runner, as long as she followed the process.
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After the video was played, the chairman on the stage looked down at the manuscript paper and said: "As a multinational giant, Umbrella has important responsibilities that it cannot shirk. In the Raccoon City incident, we saw that Umbrella is a multinational giant.
His sense of responsibility also saw Umbrella's efforts to make up for the lost lives. Therefore, the first question of the meeting was: 'Safety'!
Next, I would like to give the floor to Mr. Lowell Leonard."
From this sentence onwards, the style of the hearing began to go awry.
Lowell Leonard, who spoke on the stage, is a leading public health expert. Because he only has the title of expert and a list of academic achievements behind it, and has no official position, this expert can speak freely.
As soon as he spoke out, he gave everyone a slap in the face.
"How dare you! (How dare you!)" The slightly bloated health expert stood up, pointed at Susan and started outputting, "Umbrella Company secretly possesses extremely dangerous biological weapons. Not only does it secretly research,
It also caused leaks. What a terrible and irresponsible thing! Not only did you fail to submit a joint declaration, but you also failed to invite soldiers from various countries to station in the research institute to provide security and conduct research indiscriminately. How dare you!...
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Didi!
Susan's cell phone placed on the table vibrated slightly, and the Red Queen gave an action prompt: interrupt her speech to clarify that the T-virus is not a biological weapon, and reiterated the Umbrella Company's people-oriented stance, asking everyone to check the virus on the official website
Comparison between the institute and institutes in various countries.
Knowing what to do, Susan pressed the microphone and tried to interrupt the health expert's spat.
The button was pressed, but the sound did not spread through the loudspeaker throughout the venue. No matter how I called, there was no way to activate the microphone connection.
Even the surrounding cameras were not on the side of the protective umbrella, and all fell on the expressive face of the health expert.
After trying several times to no avail, a new prompt popped up on the phone: Keep silent.
The Red Queen has already obtained the analysis results, and almost everyone is targeting them. If they can't speak, they will continue to remain silent. If they wait until the speaking stage to refute, they can't reach the speaking stage and still be unable to speak!
It’s really ok!
"Representative of Umbrella Corporation, please answer the question: Does Umbrella possess biological and chemical weapons?"
After half an hour of spitting among the health experts, the representative in charge gave a summary and asked corresponding questions.
"Cough..." Susan pressed the button of the microphone and coughed tentatively. This time her voice successfully spread through the conference hall through the loudspeaker, "The T virus is not a biological weapon. The results of our research on it have been transformed into
…”
"Then why does the T virus kill people, and also has serious consequences in Raccoon City!" Representative Dai Ying did not give Susan a chance to continue speaking, and raised her voice several times to interrupt her speech.
Choking, Susan looked at the phone screen and replied: "The T virus is not highly pathogenic after being processed. The Raccoon City incident..."
"It is not highly pathogenic, which means it is still harmful to the human body, right?"
"Yeah...but anything..."
"Okay! Highly pathogenic biochemical weapons are still harmful to the human body after being processed. What is the purpose of Umbrella Company to research such dangerous biochemical weapons alone?" Representative Dai Ying slapped the wooden table and stared at Susan with his small eyes.
, words cannot be described as sharp, only outrageous.
Even Susan, who was almost driven to the point of wanting nothing, was so angry that she clenched her teeth.
Even the Red Queen was silenced. The person who made the rules did not follow the rules. This made it seem that this artificial intelligence that followed the rules was stupid.
Everyone at the scene was pretending to be crazy. Even the people on the umbrella team were raising their hands and asking to speak. Even the head of the publicity department asked the staff to check whether the speaker equipment was operating normally. If there was clearly a problem, he had to say it was fine.
The last group of people were all holding back their anger, but they still couldn't lose their image and do some "disrespectful" behavior, otherwise they would be maliciously smeared.
Anyway, when they stay in this conference hall, they are neither left nor right. They will be interrupted when they speak, ignored when they raise their hands, and criticized when they leave. It seems that they can only silently endure the random fabrications of these people.
"The meeting is suspended. Please turn off the microphone, Mr. Donald."
When a group of people were performing hard and excitedly, the chairman sitting at the head of the table suddenly spoke and interrupted the financial expert who was casting a spell.
Suddenly, there was a loud sound of shutters outside the conference hall, and the door was pushed open. A young man surrounded by several middle-aged American congressmen suddenly burst into the venue, followed by a large group of media reporters like bees and butterflies.
Duncan walked into the conference hall with steady steps and glanced at everyone in the venue. The aura emanating from him made some people in the venue feel breathless.
"Sorry, I'm late!"
The smiles of the group of people who were watching the joke in the auditorium disappeared. When they saw Duncan again, their moods were like falling from a roller coaster that climbed to the top of the clouds and suddenly fell to the bottom. Their whole bodies became light-headed due to panic, and they could even swallow.
Chapter completed!