"When there is something wrong in the forest, there is something wrong in society…"
"That proverb doesn't sound chinese, or shakespearean."
"The state of the world is quickly falling into disarray since Overwatch was forced to disband. And now their operatives are taking it upon themselves to regroup and fight again. That sounds an awful lot like what we tried to do with Philanthropy, don't you think?"
"Can everyone not debate the semantics while I'm trying to avoid being frozen alive, Mei Ling?"
"Frozen alive? You're supposed to be in the western coast of Africa— hold on, are you fighting Mei-Ling Zhou?"
"She's also named Mei?"
"So you are! Snake, please don't try to harm her, she's a sweet girl! Mei's not a fighter, she was studying the climate in the ice caps for Overwatch, when a polar storm left everyone there no choice but to put themselves into cryostasis in order to survive. She was the only one that got to walk out alive… only years later. Now, she just wants to continue her work."
"You sound so personable about this. Do you know each other?"
"Not at all. I've been keeping with her online journals—"
"Why."
"It was only part of my data research! I wanted to know more about the recalled agents, and thought it would be enlightening to look there. I love how she gets into writing them, she becomes really funny in the later ones…"
"Did you at least actually learn anything? What's with the technology behind her weapon?"
"That's her endothermic blaster. Mei designed it to capture animals to study without actually harming them."
"Well, she's using it now as a gruesome weapon of war. I've seen how she fights; she's making these walls of ice that corner people, and them she freezes them in place to line up an icicle at point-blank range."
"Snake! She's not some masochist!"
"All I'm thinking is, that maybe walking out as the sole survivor from her base affected her more than she cares to admit."
"You're impossible sometimes. At any case, then you know already that approaching her up-close isn't going to work. Find a way to work at long range. And Snake?"
"Yeah?"
"If anything happens to her, I'll never forgive you!"