Chapter 1757: Need to Add Money

Situations about the same?

After hearing the words of the Queen of East Kalaiven, the several queens sitting at the "Queen" table couldn't help but be stunned in unison, and then strange expressions appeared on their faces one after another.

If you put it that way, the situations of everyone sitting here really seem very close; basically, they are all inseparable from a certain someone.

Counting that "main palace" Queen Weiluonika, there are a total of six kingdoms sitting here, among which the North Kingdom, the Witch Nation, the Lvzhou Kingdom, and the West Kalaiven Kingdom can be said to have been forcibly propped up by Li Ang.

And this mysterious Queen of East Kalaiven, although the specific situation is not yet clear, since she said it's about the same, it's eight or nine out of ten that she also encountered a crisis, Li Ang went on a mission, and the queen ascended to the throne—that set.

The remaining new queen of the Qianfan Sea Kingdom, who is a bit of a bitch, although it hasn't been heard that she was forcibly propped up by someone, someone's own younger brother is sitting behind her, writing something in a notebook, so it must also be inseparable from Li Ang.

So this table of ours, rather than being the "Reformist Faction" supporting Lvzhou and the Cleaning Bureau, is more like the Food God and the people who have a thing with him faction! And more importantly...

I don't have a thing with him!

Looking at the other "scandalous targets" of Li Ang beside her, the queens who considered themselves clean and white with a certain someone... at least for now, they were still clean and white—couldn't help but subconsciously move their chairs further away.

And just as the queens were trying to distance themselves from others to prove that they were still innocent maidens and different from the other bitches who were hooking up with married men, the empty side of the triangular main conference table suddenly lit up, rippling with a cluster of brilliant star points.

Under the astonished gaze of the kings and accompanying personnel, two old men wearing special formal suits seemed to squeeze out from another world, waving their hands to push away the light points that were denser than the starry sky, and slowly appeared from nothingness.

That's right! This entrance is appropriate!

Watching the two directors, who had reluctantly accepted his suggestion and activated the Star Gate to span a distance of over fifty meters, shifting directly from outside the hall to beside the main conference table, and seeing Leon, who had hitched a ride through the Star Gate to shift back to his seat, he could not help but nod with a satisfied expression.

Excessive vanity is a bad habit, but necessary packaging cannot be saved.

After all, although the Twelve Kingdoms know that the Cleaning Bureau is awesome, they don't have a concrete concept of just how awesome it is. It's like the number of one million in a bank account versus a million in paper bills piled in front of you; can the impact be the same?

The two of you walking into the hall on foot to be seated before, and having to take proof documents to explain to the doorman guards that you are the Cleaning Bureau directors presiding over the meeting, really dropped all the class of the Cleaning Bureau.

Although even if the two of you crawled in from the door, the Twelve Kingdoms would still maintain respect for the Cleaning Bureau, this kind of method with full sound and light effects can turn respect directly into awe, and the subsequent assembly will be able to go much more smoothly.

"Everyone."

Secretly tidying up the formal suit Li Ang insisted he change into, and forcibly suppressing that awkwardness, Director Scorpio recited the three elements of showing off he had just learned: chin slightly raised, gaze looking down, and speaking with a cold face:

"I am Director Scorpio of the Cleaning Bureau, and the person standing next to me is Director Cancer. This Twelve Kingdoms assembly will be presided over by the two of us."

Watching the main conference table, which was shocked by his performance and quiet enough to hear a pin drop, Director Scorpio felt a secret pleasure in his heart. Then, maintaining a demeanor of thirty percent politeness and seventy percent arrogance, he skipped all the pleasantries and scene-setting words, and entered the topic with a calm expression:

"The main purpose of inviting everyone to participate in the assembly this time is to change the current overly chaotic status quo, promote exchanges between our Cleaning Bureau and the Twelve Kingdoms, open up new channels for timely communication and feedback, continue to deepen the cooperation between the two sides in the past, and so on and so forth.

Of course, apart from these topics proposed by our Cleaning Bureau, some people have also put forward some new ideas at the level of international relations, but these are temporarily classified as 'related discussions' and should be discussed after the main topics are finished... Everyone has no objections to this process, right?"

No... or rather, even if there were, it wouldn't be of any use, right?

After listening to the opening remarks of the Scorpio Director, apart from Veronica who had hitched a ride through the Star Gate with him, the eleven kings sitting at the main conference table all subconsciously looked toward Leon, who was sitting in the "accompanying position."

Although Director Scorpio didn't name names directly just now, no one sitting here was a pure fool; everyone could know with their butts that the "some people" who put forward some new ideas was one thousand percent him, no mistake.

Or to be more blunt, the so-called "main topics" in this Twelve Kingdoms assembly were nine out of ten just smoke screens, and those new ideas classified as "other related discussions" were the things that were truly life-threatening!

Recalling those "new ideas" in the agenda form that only had vague names written on them but made people feel terrified, the six kings sitting opposite Li Ang at the "Anti-Food God" table couldn't help but look at each other, and saw a determination like burning the boats in each other's eyes.

The main topics in front are fine, but those so-called new ideas later, absolutely none of them can be passed! Otherwise, themselves and the kingdoms they control will sooner or later completely become puppets manipulated by the Food God!

"Since no one has any objections, then I will start directly."

After waiting for a while and hearing no sound, Director Scorpio, who had already rehearsed in advance, nodded slightly, then announced the first topic of the day... or rather, a notification, and said with a serious face:

"From today on, the Cleaning Bureau will no longer directly provide protection to the Twelve Kingdoms."

"?!!!!!"

After hearing Director Scorpio's words, the kings, who were originally prepared to agree to whatever they heard and skip the main topics directly, couldn't help but be in an uproar!

"What did you say?!"

Not even caring about honorifics, the King of the Cliff Kingdom sprang up from his chair, his eyes filled with disbelief:

"Is the Cleaning Bureau crazy? Are you serious?"

"This is a resolution passed unanimously after discussion by all directors."

Taking over the conversation and indicating that this was an unchangeable decision, the pot-bellied Director Cancer rubbed his belly and said with a smile:

"From now on, all the work of the various branches of the Cleaning Bureau within the Twelve Kingdoms, specifically including the handling of sudden anomalous events, the clearing of various extreme churches, the resistance against invading outer gods, as well as the protection of everyone yourselves, etc., will all..."

Will all... stop?

Watching the two directors who were clearly not joking but had really made a resolution, not only were the kings at the "Anti-Food God Table" greatly shocked, but even the queens at the "Scandal Table" couldn't help but show expressions of shock.

The total number of people in the Cleaning Bureau is only a few thousand, and they have to be dispersed among the Twelve Kingdoms and dozens of large and small city-states. Each branch in each kingdom has an average of only a few dozen people, not even enough to fill the smallest apartment building.

Compared with the number of officials in each kingdom that needs to be calculated in units of 100,000, these few dozen people in each branch of the Cleaning Bureau are like water droplets falling into the sea; the degree of visibility is not even as good as a hair on a cow's butt.

But if this seemingly insignificant cow hair really makes up its mind to quit and insists on detaching from the cow's butt, then this cow of mine is afraid that in a few years, it will have to become a mad cow covered in rotten sores!

"Wait!"

Seeing that the Cleaning Bureau seemed to be coming for real, the King of Thunder, who was originally prepared to just muddle through the main topics, couldn't sit still anymore and hurriedly stood up to block:

"You can't do this!"

"Why can't we?"

"Because... this will cause the Twelve Kingdoms, and even the whole world, to fall into chaos!"

Facing the terrifying crisis of the Cleaning Bureau wanting to quit, the King of Thunder at this time could no longer care about those "new ideas" and racked his brains to desperately block:

"Ordinary people are very easily infected when solving anomalous events! Then they evolve into new anomalous events! If you completely let go, it won't be long before anomalous events explode! By then, even you will be affected, and then..."

"But we didn't say we were going to let go."

"??????"

Following Li Ang's request, Director Cancer, who deliberately stretched out the kings, explained with a smile:

"You stood up too hastily; I hadn't finished my words just now... The Cleaning Bureau is not going to stop activities completely, but from now on, all the work of our Cleaning Bureau in the past will be changed to paid services in the future."

"Ah?"

Confused by the sudden turn, the King of the Thunder Kingdom was silent for a moment, then asked in a daze:

"So what you mean is... need to add money?"

"Funding certainly needs to be added, but what needs to be added is not just funding."

Indicating that this was not what he meant, Li Ang moved the chair under his butt, moved from the "Scandal Table" to the "Cleaning Bureau" table, signaled that he was now speaking as a director of the Cleaning Bureau, and then stood up to explain:

"The rewards we in the Cleaning Bureau want are more powerful support, closer cooperation, and a more stable situation."

"???" xn

"To put it bluntly, it means we can no longer push everything to the Cleaning Bureau like before. The Twelve Kingdoms should, and must, take on the part of the responsibility they should take on."

Li Ang, who had long been very dissatisfied with the current model of the Cleaning Bureau, said directly:

"In the process of dealing with anomalous events, the part of directly contacting anomalous objects is indeed not suitable for ordinary people to do, but work such as prior intelligence collection, remote reconnaissance and monitoring, providing fire support, and later cleanup can be competently done by trained ordinary people.

In addition, apart from these supports that should have been provided long ago, the various kingdoms that are chaotic under everyone's rule are themselves the main reason for the large-scale outbreak of anomalous events, and this situation must also be changed!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1758 =====