Anyone could tell that Sun Jianren was quite displeased at the moment, and facing his rhetorical question, someone quickly brown-nosed him.
"Captain Sun, it seems someone is still missing, Su Mu hasn't arrived yet."
"Today is Sunday, maybe Su Mu didn't see the message?" Someone else, dissatisfied with Sun Jianren, also expressed their displeasure at being summoned on a Sunday.
"Someone send him a message. If he doesn't come today, we'll postpone the meeting. Whenever he arrives, we'll start the meeting!"
Sun Jianren spoke with insidious intent, placing Su Mu in opposition to everyone else, shifting the conflict.
The two people who had been close to Sun Jianren these days were the first to act, starting to @Su Mu in the Third Squad group chat. After a few minutes had passed.
Sun Jianren's expression became increasingly unpleasant because no matter how much they @'d, the person remained unresponsive.
"Send it in the big group chat. I want to see if this Captain Su doesn't like checking his phone."
As soon as he said this, many people fell silent. Sending it to the entire school's security big group would offend people, even though Su Mu wasn't a squad captain anymore.
But they all noticed that Zhou Lei, the captain of the Fifth Squad, was close to Su Mu, and Su Mu's martial arts cultivation was also at the Second Level Peak, slightly stronger than all of them, comparable to the two captains in the school.
Earlier, Su Mu lost the election for chief captain by just one vote, and they didn't want to offend Su Mu too much.
"Captain Sun, I'll send it."
Li Lei gritted his teeth, remembering that behind Sun Jianren was Director Li of the Logistics Department, while there was no one behind Su Mu, just a kid from a poor village.
He immediately @'d Su Mu in the big group.
Soon, a lot of colleagues were alerted in the big group, some asked what happened, and Li Lei exaggeratedly described the situation.
He said that the Third Squad was planning to have a simple meeting, which would be over in a few minutes. For this, Captain Sun had even personally and politely notified everyone in advance, but Su Mu just didn't show up.
After hearing this, many people chose to be spectators since it was an internal matter of the Third Squad and had nothing to do with them.
Li Lei immediately gave a signal to Shen Ming beside him.
Shen Ming, gritting his teeth, joined in with Li Lei in the big group, starting to accuse Su Mu of being too over the top, implicating them.
Seeing this, a few reasonable people in the big group also started to accuse Su Mu, speaking from a position of moral superiority.
The meeting room was full of tension, while on the other side, it was calm and quiet, within the Martial Artist Association.
Su Mu asked to borrow a charger, and the staff not only kindly brought him a charging cable but also led him directly to a quiet room.
"Is this the treatment for a Third Level Martial Artist?"
He had never experienced such treatment before, and at this moment, Su Mu couldn't help but feel a bit emotional, but he soon discovered that it wasn't the battery that was dead on his phone, but the phone itself was broken.
"It's probably because of the time I dropped it and broke the screen, it damaged the phone."
This phone was the one that Su Mu had bought when he was in university, and during this time he had been reluctant to replace it, and before he knew it, fifteen years had passed.
Right then, he borrowed a phone from the staff to call his wife, but before he could share his joy, his daughter's voice came through the phone.
"Mom, I want to talk to dad, dad, dad, can you hear me?"
"Yes, I can hear you, dad can hear you from here." Su Mu's voice instantly softened, and the staff next to him quietly moved a step closer, pricking their ears.
"Dad, Xiaoyue misses you. Can you come back this summer vacation?"
"Can you?"
Summer vacation, huh.
During the summer vacation, there's double pay. In the past two years, Su Mu had chosen to stay at the school during the summer vacation. Last Chinese New Year was also spent at the school. It had been nearly two years since he last went back.
Before Su Mu could speak, Miaomiao's voice came from the phone.
"Xiaoyue, stop acting spoiled. Dad needs to work and make money."
"Oh, okay, Xiaoyue knows."
"No, I'll come back this summer vacation."
"Dad, you're the best!"
"And how about mom?"
"Mom is the best too."
The association staff listened with interest, a knowing smile on their face, eagerly getting closer as they listened, and after the call ended, they still had a look of lingering enjoyment.
"Sorry, Mr. Su, I didn't mean to eavesdrop... but your daughter is so sweet, her voice is so lovely, and your wife's voice is also nice, you must be a very happy family."
"Yes, quite happy."
After leaving the association, Su Mu looked at the increasingly crowded street, feeling like he had forgotten something.
"Can't remember it, so it must not be important."
If it were something important, Su Mu would definitely remember it, at least have some impression.
Right now, he couldn't recall it at all, so it clearly wasn't important.
Soon he went to the bank to cash the Spirit Stone check. In times of trouble, true friends are revealed; only Zhou Lei notified him of the meeting, and only Zhou Lei was willing to lend him money to get through the hard times. Su Mu first transferred nineteen thousand Spirit Stones to Zhou Lei's account, keeping his promise to repay double what he had borrowed.
With the remaining thirty-one thousand, Su Mu kept one thousand for next month's superpower withdrawal, spent a few dozen Spirit Stones to buy a cheap new phone, and planned to take the remaining over twenty thousand home in the summer vacation to give his wife and kids a surprise.
"Time to buy a phone."
Meanwhile, a few people in the big group continued their back-and-forth chatter, yet the main subject, Su Mu, still showed no signs of wanting to bubble up.
In the meeting room, Sun Jianren's face was looking worse and worse.
Time ticked by, and three hours passed swiftly; the time was now eleven-thirty.
Sun Jianren finally couldn't sit still.
"Su Mu is selfish and lacks any sense of collective honor. I will report today's incident truthfully to Director Li of the Logistics Department. I propose we now vote on expelling Su Mu!"
"Those in favor, raise your hand."
Sun Jianren put out a harsh word, using his uncle as a backing, wanting to expel Su Mu directly. He thought that those implicated by Su Mu would all support him.
However, in reality, as soon as he said this, everyone's expressions slightly changed, even Li Lei and Shen Ming, who had been joining in, fell silent.
Not a single person raised their hand in agreement.
At this moment, everyone believed that Sun Jianren had gone too far, because certain precedents couldn't be set. No security personnel had ever been expelled from the school before, so it was considered a relatively stable job.
If they were to watch Su Mu get expelled now, who's to say it wouldn't happen to them later, touching their own interests.
Sun Jianren's gaze fell on Li Lei and Shen Ming. Li Lei hesitated and spoke, "Captain Sun, doing this seems a bit inappropriate. Su Mu was only late, but it's not that serious."
For a moment, Sun Jianren's face turned the color of pig liver, and he suddenly felt like a clown.
Earlier someone tried calling Su Mu, initially getting a busy signal, then Su Mu stopped pretending altogether, and when they called again, it directly prompted that the other party had turned off the phone.
Su Mu was definitely doing it on purpose, simply to irritate him, openly trying to slap him in the face.
Feeling the gaze of everyone, in that instant Sun Jianren felt as if everyone was watching his embarrassment.
Sun Jianren gritted his teeth and said, "I will certainly report this matter to Director Li, meeting adjourned."
Captain Sun turned and left the meeting room, slamming the door shut with a bang.
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