Chapter 39: A Hard-working Performance

"Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to extend my sincere greetings to all the guests attending the hearing today. I think today is special. This hearing is being broadcast live on television and is also being conducted jointly. This is the first time in the world and has extraordinary historical significance."

On the rostrum, a well-mannered middle-aged white man wearing gold-rimmed glasses pulled the venue into a serious atmosphere in a calm tone.

Then, there was a series of character introductions.

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In the front row, there are financial experts from Wall Street, former senior officers from the US military, public health experts from Daiying, lawyers from Baguette, and even a little-known science fiction writer.

The seats where Susan and others sat were like the defendant's dock. Before they spoke, they could only wait in agony.

"The experts in the venue and everyone watching this hearing will give the meeting fairness. Now I declare that the meeting on the 'Security Crisis of Umbrella Corporation a few months ago' has officially begun!" After the chairman of the meeting read out, he began to explain the previous Raccoon City crisis to some people who did not know the truth.

Combining the evidence provided by Umbrella Corporation 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 what Duncan wants to distance himself from Umbrella, but it uses a strange tone to tell the story, which makes people feel something is wrong after watching it. ஜ۩۞۩ஜ ஜ۩۞۩ஜ

Especially the ending part, "Umbrella Corporation provides up to hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the victims out of humanitarianism." When reading hundreds of millions of dollars, the female voice of the narrator obviously raised a few decibels, full of malice.

After the video was played, the camera suspended by the mechanical arm immediately came to the front of the Umbrella team, as if to film the guilty expressions on each of their faces.

Fortunately, the people who attended the meeting from Umbrella were all professionals. Susan was calm because she had made up her mind to resign. Whether Umbrella fell or not had nothing to do with her as a runaway party. She just had to follow the process.

After the video was played, the chairman on the stage looked down at the manuscript and said, "As a multinational giant company, Umbrella has an important responsibility that cannot be shirked. In the Raccoon City incident, we saw Umbrella's sense of responsibility as a multinational giant company, and we also saw that Umbrella tried its best to make up for the lost lives. So, the first question of the meeting is: 'safety'!

Next, please invite Mr. Lowell Leonard to speak."

From this sentence, the style of the hearing began to go astray.

Lowell Leonard, who came on stage to speak, was a public health expert with a smile. Because he only had the title of an expert and a string of academic achievements behind him, and no public office, this expert could speak freely.

As soon as he spoke, he gave everyone a hammer on the head.

"How dare you!" The slightly bloated health expert stood up and pointed at Susan and started to speak. "Umbrella Company secretly possessed extremely dangerous biological weapons, not only did it conduct research privately, but also caused a leak. This is such a terrible and irresponsible thing! Not only did you not report it to the United Nations, you also did not invite soldiers from various countries to stay in the institute to provide security. You conducted research at random. How dare you!..."

Ding!

Susan's mobile phone on the table vibrated slightly, and the Red Queen gave an action prompt: interrupt the speech, clarify that the T virus is not a biological weapon, and reiterate the people-oriented position of the Umbrella Company, and let everyone go to the official website to check the comparison between the virus research institute and the research institutes of various countries.

After knowing what to do, Susan pressed the microphone and tried to interrupt the health expert's spitting.

The button was pressed, but the sound did not spread throughout the venue through the loudspeaker. No matter how she called, there was no way to activate the microphone connection.

Even the surrounding cameras were not shooting the Umbrella side, but all fell on the health expert's expressive face.

After several unsuccessful attempts, a new prompt popped up on the phone: Keep silent.

Red Queen has come up with the analysis results. Almost everyone is targeting them. If they can't speak, they should continue to remain silent and wait until the speech stage to refute. You can't be unable to speak when it's the speech stage!

It's really possible!

"Representatives of the Umbrella Company, please answer the question: Does Umbrella have biological weapons?"

After the health experts spitted for half an hour, the representative with a smile gave a summary and asked corresponding questions.

"Cough..." Susan pressed the microphone button and coughed tentatively. This time her voice successfully spread throughout the conference hall through the loudspeaker, "The T virus is not a biological weapon. We have converted its research results into..."

"Then why does the T virus kill people and cause serious consequences in Raccoon City!" The representative with a smile did not give Susan a chance to continue speaking, and interrupted her speech with a voice that rose several degrees.

Susan choked and looked at the phone screen, then replied: "The T virus is not highly pathogenic after being processed. The Raccoon City incident..."

"Not highly pathogenic, that means it is still harmful to the human body, right!"

"Yes...but any..."

"Okay! After being processed, highly pathogenic biological weapons are still harmful to the human body. What is the purpose of Umbrella Company researching such dangerous biological weapons alone?" The representative with a smile slapped the wooden table and stared at Susan with small eyes. His words could not be described as sharp, but outrageous.

Even Susan, who was almost driven to lose her desire, was so angry that her teeth were clenched.

Even the Red Queen was silenced. The people who made the rules did not abide by the rules, which made it seem that this artificial intelligence that abides by the rules is very stupid.

Everyone at the scene was playing crazy and stupid. Even when they saw the Umbrella team members raising their hands and asking to speak, and even the head of the publicity department asked the staff to check whether the sound equipment was running normally, they insisted on saying that there was no problem when there was obviously a problem.

The last group of people were full of anger, but they couldn't lose their image and do some "rude" behavior, otherwise they would be maliciously slandered.

Anyway, they stayed in this conference room, neither left nor right. They would be interrupted when they spoke, ignored when they raised their hands, and accused when they left. It seemed that they could only silently endure these people's fabrications.

"The meeting is suspended. Mr. Donald, please turn off the microphone."

When a group of people were performing hard and excitedly, the chairman sitting high in the main seat suddenly spoke, interrupting the financial expert who was casting a spell.

There was a sudden sound of shutters outside the conference hall. The door was pushed open, and several middle-aged American congressmen surrounded a young man and suddenly broke into the venue. Behind them were a large group of media reporters like bees and butterflies.

Duncan walked into the conference hall with steady steps, scanning everyone in the venue. The momentum emanating from his body made some people in the venue feel uncomfortable breathing.

"Sorry, I'm late!"

The smiles of the group of people who were watching the joke in the audience disappeared. Seeing Duncan again, their mood was like falling from a roller coaster that climbed to the top of the cloud to the bottom of the valley. The whole person became light because of panic, and the swallowing action was very difficult.