Chapter 8

William Carter wasn’t unfamiliar with novels; in many of them, the main characters all had their own cheats, their own golden fingers.

He had seen all kinds of cheats, but one like his—this seemed to be the first time.

He took a deep breath, making sure all the data and memories in his mind had finished transferring.

While his mind was still a tangled mess, he hurriedly sped up, walked into his own room, closed the door, and sat down to rest.

He took out a disposable plastic cup, poured himself a glass of warm water, and drank it all in one go.

Leaning back in his chair, he let his weight be fully supported by the wooden seat.

He sat like that for quite a while before he finally managed to sort out all the information in his head.

According to the information in his memory—

He, William Carter, was, on the surface, an ordinary office worker.

But secretly, he was one of the behind-the-scenes directors of Mister Pharmaceuticals. In the massive board of directors, he held the key position of Head of Security.

According to the information in his memory, during the years he managed the security department, his methods were ruthless, and he had suppressed several internal personnel upheavals within the group. He also secretly sought personal gain, amassing a considerable amount of personal wealth.

Now, with the chairman of the board changing within the group, factions were clashing, and the power struggle had reached an extremely brutal level.

He had retreated to the countryside precisely to avoid the most intense period of conflict.

Sitting in his room, William Carter took out his phone, and for some reason, his contact list now contained a bunch of numbers belonging to various people from the Mister Group.

What’s more, his phone had inexplicably transformed into a satellite phone made of high-strength materials.

The phone looked the same as before on the outside, but its contents were completely different.

“This is insane!” William Carter stared in shock as he fiddled with the phone. All sorts of novel high-tech features made him feel like he’d been a total bumpkin before.

And to think he used to consider himself a tech geek, thoroughly familiar with cutting-edge digital products.

He opened the phone’s specs.

The row of outrageous data at the top gave him quite a scare.

Drop-proof from over a thousand meters, waterproof to over ten thousand meters, resistant to all kinds of interference, enhanced signal. The battery life was more than ten times that of a regular phone. There were over a dozen encrypted communication modes. Remote operating system functions, and so on.

Just looking at the other hardware specs, this phone’s performance was far superior to even the best computers on the market.

“Amazing!” After admiring all the phone’s features, William Carter quickly began checking his own body.

According to the information in his memory, as a behind-the-scenes director of the Mister Group, he had a biometric authentication chip implanted.

Very soon, he raised his right hand and felt a slightly hard disc under the skin on the upper side of his forearm.

He pressed the disc and, following the instructions in his memory, softly spoke the password.

“Activate Mister System.”

Whoosh!

His forearm instantly felt warm, and in midair, a semicircular blue light screen suddenly appeared, floating in front of him.

The light screen was divided into four main options.

Weapons, Personnel, Intelligence, Upload.

“Amazing!” William Carter excitedly reached out and tapped the Personnel section in the air.

The light screen immediately enlarged the ‘Personnel’ option.

Rows of information with personnel avatars began to scroll down like a waterfall.

‘Henry Cash: Thirty-one years old, former Federal Special Forces Team One, tactical commander, skilled in positional command and infiltration assassination.’

‘Redley Beckham: Thirty years old, former Federal Airborne Tenth Regiment reconnaissance soldier, skilled in stealth assassination and intelligence gathering.’

‘Harold Kane: Twenty-eight years old, former Federal Fifteenth Armored Division lieutenant, skilled in long-range fire control and close combat.’

‘Helen Grant, thirty years old, former Republic of El High Defense Forces soldier, skilled in ultra-long-range sniping and intelligence gathering.’

……

……

Rows upon rows of densely packed personnel avatars filled the entire light screen.

William Carter swallowed, his throat bobbing, feeling parched.

He had never heard of Mister Pharmaceuticals before, but if all the information on this light screen was real—

Then the true nature of this group was probably far beyond his imagination…

“According to the information provided by the system, as Head of Security, I have the authority to mobilize any of these security department members at will.

If that’s the case, doesn’t that mean I can use their power to investigate my grandfather’s situation??”

As William Carter’s thoughts shifted, he immediately connected it to the predicament he was currently facing.

In a direct confrontation, even ten of him wouldn’t be a match for Ethan Clark.

But if he used his identity as a director of Mister Pharmaceuticals, the power he could mobilize would probably far exceed his imagination.

“Although I might face even greater dangers in the future, I need to solve the immediate crisis first!”

William Carter steeled himself.

He’d already died once—what was there left to hesitate about?

According to the memories in his mind,

He quickly selected a total of twenty security department members, all of whom were the closest available personnel.

At the same time, he also allocated some powerful weapons and tools from the weapons section that he deemed necessary.

After double-checking everything, he pressed the confirm button on the light screen.