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Chapter 498

Author: Old Pumpkin
If the first team had completed the mission smoothly, he could announce the good news at a press conference, and everyone would praise him.

However, the first team was nearly annihilated, and a second team had to clean up the mess. Stephen could not bring himself to announce that. The enemy was just a small foreign faction, but they almost wiped out an elite squad. If Stephen revealed the news, he would only become a laughingstock.

The assistant shook his head. He did not know the reason either.

His best guess was that Arnold’s team’s actions had been exposed.

Stephen took a deep breath to calm himself down, considering how he was supposed to report this to the public.

“What if we say that both the first and second teams are from the same squad, but they took different routes?” he suggested.

That way, the narrative would shift from ‘the first team was ambushed and almost annihilated’ to ‘the enemy’s fierce resistance caused casualties in the squad’. Stephen felt that the second n
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