Chapter 60: Eren’s Visit
When morning came and Adyr arrived at the Player Headquarters, he found himself caught in another brief chat with the receptionists. The women at the front desk seemed to carry the weight of all the building’s gossip, always the first to know everything, like professional, sneaky reporters in disguise.
The addicted woman he had pulled back from the edge not long ago was especially good at this. She operated like the head of a secret network, as if she had built her own web of informants. From janitors to technicians, from the tea lady to the security staff—she had access to all of them.
And that worked in Adyr’s favor. For a while now, they had become his eyes and ears throughout the building, quietly carrying news back to him.
Yesterday, they had been the ones to casually reveal the name of the new division: Player Task Force (PTF). And today, he could already tell they were whispering about something new. Another rumor.
When he asked, they couldn’t help slipping into talk about the latest gossip. According to them, the government was finally preparing to officially announce the formation of the new division to the public.
Of course, the receptionists had no idea what exactly would be revealed or that it involved another world. All they knew was that the building housed third-generation mutants and that the recently released game was somehow acting as a simulation for training them. But even having that much information made them surprisingly good at what they did.
He also learned that a few reporters had already started circling the building, and according to the receptionists, the City Manager himself had paid a visit the night before. To them, it was a clear sign that a major press conference was on the horizon.
Adyr mentally filed everything away with a quiet grin, then turned and stepped into the elevator.
These bits of information might have seemed small or useless on the surface, but when viewed as part of the bigger picture, they painted a clear warning of the chaos to come. And as he entered his room, he was already thinking about how to use that chaos to his advantage.