When Song Lan emerged from the employee's backstage area, he noticed that all the customers in the coffee shop had been cleared out, leaving no one but himself and the trembling clerk.
He guessed that this was a "heartwarming" gesture from Sean Grant and the production team of "Master of Rescuers".
It seemed the clerk also realized the fate that was imminent, her face ashen.
Thus, Song Lan felt that the negative public opinion was pervasive, inescapable for both Rob Lucci and himself.
Everyone knew about the interrogation methods of Military Intelligence Section Seven and the Counter-Intelligence Department.
They were granted special powers, which in certain circumstances allowed them to act without the legal constraints of the United Government, and those targeted by them often ended up with a "missing" status.
There was a reason why the disappearance rate of the United Government's population kept high, and people seemed to have gotten used to it.