Fory Li's mind raced.
Who are they? How did they get in? What do they want?
He wasn't the only one. Every head in the room turned. Directors froze mid-motion. Eyes widened. Confusion rippled across faces.
No one recognized them.
The middle-aged man on the left had a straight, military posture—aged but vigorous, like someone who had eaten something miraculous to keep his body young. But he didn't draw much attention.
The one who did was the man in white loose robes, long black hair reaching his waist, face hidden behind a simple mask. He stood calm, almost serene, as if he belonged here.
Fory Li opened his mouth to speak, but Ubao—the man with the perpetual smile—beat him to it.
"Hey! You two. Who are you? Why are you here? Don't you know this is a no-entry area?"
Ubao stood up, moving toward them with confident steps.
His colleagues and Fory Li hissed warnings—"Ubao, stop!" "Don't go near them!"—but Ubao waved them off.
"Don't worry. These are just thieves. I'll handle them. I'm a black belt in—"
He turned back to the strangers, voice rising with bravado.
"Hey! I'm asking one last time, okay? Tell me—who are you? Why are you here? You want to rob this company? This? You should know this is the biggest company right now. There are security guards everywhere. I don't know how you got in or how you slipped into this meeting, but you're dead. Robbing in broad daylight? In this company? Do you even have a brain?"
He stepped closer, chest puffed, fists clenched like he was ready to fight.
Just as Ubao opened his mouth to shout again, Umang—who had been quietly processing the sudden removal of the shield—finally stabilized himself. The confusion vanished, replaced by cold anger. No one dared speak to him like that. And more importantly—no one dared speak to Sir Heart like that.
If Sir Heart got angry, Umang didn't know if he himself would be punished. Even if Sir Heart showed mercy, Mordan would not. The thought alone made his blood run cold.
Umang stepped forward, voice sharp and commanding.
"Hey, you. Just shut your mouth. Otherwise your job will be gone."
He paused for half a second, eyes narrowing as he scanned the room.
"And where is the CEO? Come here. You are not controlling your subordinates quite well. Are you so incompetent that your subordinates dare to talk like this in your presence?"
Fory Li, hearing this, began thinking: Who are these persons I don't know? But from their words it looks like they are not thieves. Even if this guess is wrong, there is no harm in treating these two strangers well.
Thinking this, he also moved toward the two stranger persons.
While going in their direction, he said:
"Please forgive me, I don't know who you are. Can you please tell us about yourselves…"
Just as he was going to finish the words, he saw Ubao angrily shouting at Umang:
"You are telling me you can fire me? Are you out of your mind? Who are you to fire me in my company?"
Then Fory Li saw Ubao's face becoming cold.
Ubao shouted again, voice rising to a near-scream:
"You both don't just stand there! Don't you hear me? Just go. Or I will help you!"
Then he saw Ubao stretching his hands in the direction of Masked person.
Then he saw the middle-aged person react and slap the hands of Ubao from reaching toward the masked person.
The middle-aged man said:
"You keep your hands away."
Ubao was stunned when he saw this thief's audacity to slap his hand. He placed his foot behind a little and got ready to fight this thief.
But just as the fight was going to start, the CEO, Fory Li, quickly came to mediate. He shouted at Ubao angrily, "Ubao! What are you doing? Jin! Gyumi! Take him back."
The subordinates named Gyumi and Jin quickly held Ubao tightly and dragged him back. Ubao struggled a little, but when he saw the CEO's eyes, he got scared and quickly shut his mouth.
The CEO then turned to Umang and said, "Sorry sir, for my subordinate's mistake. He assumed you are thieves who broke in here."
Umang just looked at Ether Clone. Fory Li, understanding that this masked person was the leader, also looked toward him.
Ether Clone just nodded his head a little. Then Ether Clone said, "Do not worry, we are not thieves or anything. As for your subordinate's mistake, it doesn't do any damage. So it's okay."
Fory Li sighed a little. He didn't know why, but he was having a bad feeling—yet this sentence caused that worry to dissipate.
He asked, "By the way, sir, who are you? And why did you come here?"
Ether Clone didn't answer this question. He just said, "You want to know what to do about the public outrage, right? Let's just say, Free Fire is going to have a massive update, unseen in history."
He then moved toward the seat at the center—the CEO's seat.
Fory Li didn't stop him. He was still processing the words.
But the other people in the room were shocked by this masked person trying to sit at the CEO's seat.
Yet they didn't stop him. Even Ubao was silent, because the CEO hadn't said anything yet.
Then Umang also moved and followed Ether Clone. He did not sit; he just stood behind Ether Clone.