“So, this time, we’re going in with this lineup?”
“Yes.”
I looked ahead.
The agents who had come to the Fox Counseling Room after finishing four days of rescue work were looking at the newly added personnel with complicated expressions.
It had clearly been a schedule that would have left them exhausted and drained, but maybe because so much had happened while they were away, there was still light in their eyes.
Director Cheong, the Facility Security Team, even the newly introduced equipment.
Agent Choi, roughly scrubbing at the back of his head, spoke.
“If you set the schedule and go in like this, we won’t be able to follow. You know that, right?”
…I know.
This time, instead of regrettably burning through all the annual leave they had used, the agents had wound up taking calls from other Hyunmoo teams in the latter half of that leave period and covering substitute shifts.
Even if they had received more leave instead of hazard pay that way, it was only natural they couldn’t use it again after such a short interval….
No—even if they theoretically could, it would look suspicious.
To begin with, the fact that those workaholic-looking agents had taken leave instead of hazard pay might already have been suspicious enough. This was a time when they had to be careful about their behavior.
There was no choice but for them to sit this one out.
And on top of that, the two people going in in their place were…
Long-Term Recovery Room
(No Visitors)
One person so contaminated that you could not even see his face.
“Hello…….”
And the other, a Facility Security Team member in a security uniform who did not look ordinary at all.
Of course they would have mixed feelings….
“…Aha, haven’t we met before? You’re the one who attacked me in that ‘underground laboratory.’”