Chapter 205: 204 Meeting? Usurpation! (Part 3)

204 Meeting? Usurpation! (Part 3)

Strange, why hasn't it started yet?

Everyone in the room was ready for the meeting, but after waiting for a while, they didn't see the leader, who should have been presiding over the meeting, speak, so they cast strange looks over.

Then they discovered that the leader, who had just been aggressive and issued a series of questions to "Little Bajinsi," was now staring at Little Bajinsi in a daze, not knowing what was going on.

In his turbid eyeballs, which were filled with bloodshot eyes after staying up all night, various weak and chaotic emotions such as wariness, doubt, panic, and confusion were all present, and paired with those slightly graying temples, he looked unusually...

Aged.

Right! It's aged!

After this strange thought arose in their hearts, the rebels in the room couldn't help but be startled.

Their leader's real age should not have reached fifty yet. Although his appearance was slightly aged and his eyes often carried inexplicable fatigue, he was still in his prime.

Therefore, among these rebel members in the room, although some were dissatisfied with his arbitrariness, some questioned his decisions, and some wanted to pull him down and take the top spot themselves, no one really felt that he was already old.

But now...

"Leader?"

Accompanied by a questioning sound with a slightly rising tail, the gazes of the group of rebels were pulled away from the head of the long table and fell on "Little Bajinsi," who was sitting in the lowest position.

This young man, who was not even twenty years old, although his figure was slightly thin, looked very upright. Even though he was sitting on a low chair without a backrest, his spine was still straight, without the slightest slouch.

And he probably hadn't slept very well last night either. His black hair was slightly messy, there was even some thin frost on his collar, and his eyes were filled with quite a few bloodshot eyes, but those dark eyeballs were still agile and sharp, as if they were spraying out the owner's endless energy.

Especially when looking at the leader at the head of the table, the focused gaze shot out by those eyeballs had a kind of soul-stirring, scorching heat, like a young beast that had discovered an old and weak antelope, baring its sharp claws at the prey that had nowhere to escape...

Is this the "Tiger" in Taige's mouth? It really is like him...

After witnessing this extremely contrasting scene with their own eyes, except for little Phoebe, who was sitting in a chair holding a milk candy, almost everyone in the room had the same thought in their minds.

The leader... seems to have really aged.

Unaware that his "desire to capture" the middle-aged Watching Watching Qiaoshuya had been misinterpreted by the group of rebels as soaring ambition, and having waited for a long time without seeing the meeting start, Li Ang, who was eager to collect intelligence, couldn't help but frown slightly and couldn't help but urge again:

"Lord Neisen!"

"Just now, you first doubted my true identity, and then questioned my true ability, wasting a lot of unnecessary time. Now it's time to continue the meeting!"

Hearing the loud reminder from "Little Bajinsi," the middle-aged man couldn't help but tremble slightly. He finally struggled out of that strange sense of loss, but after meeting the gazes cast by everyone, the agenda he had prepared for the whole night became extremely sluggish, and no matter what, he couldn't say it out loud.

"..."

I seem to know what the thing that "flowed away" from me just now is...

Feeling this inexplicable "sense of being dominated" and looking at the strange gazes cast by the rebels, the middle-aged man finally understood what he had lost after the two rounds of games just now.

It was the "right to speak" to actively control the situation, the "trust" gained as a leader, and even the "blind obedience" to himself that had been gradually cultivated because of the countless correct judgments he had made in the past!

And these things were the most basic power!

"Although I haven't read many books, politics is actually just making more people believe in you, agree with your judgment, be willing to listen to you, and thereby gather the strength sufficient to change the status quo."

Recalling the words he heard from "Little Bajinsi" last night and comparing them with the scene before him, the middle-aged man couldn't help but feel a sense of powerlessness.

So... Little Bajinsi just showed those two flaws to me, just to make me make two wrong judgments in front of everyone, thereby shaking the credibility of my words, and take the opportunity to snatch away part of the right to speak?

Could it be that he had already started planning before entering this conference room, trying to snatch the position of leader from my hands? Or... even those questions last night were a test for me?

Carrying a belly full of questions and a huge sense of crisis, the middle-aged man, who had no other choice, could only take a deep breath and preside over the meeting according to Li Ang's "instructions":

"Today... we need to determine our actions for the next period of time. First is Taige."

After taking out a few maps with markings from the materials he had prepared all night and pushing them across the long table, the middle-aged man stared fixedly at "Little Bajinsi" and said with an expressionless face:

"Your task is still the same as before, it's still to lead people to set fires in the Laus Arcade and the surrounding wealthy districts, but the intensity and scope must be constantly expanded!"

Setting fires in the Laus Arcade?

Hearing the words of the middle-aged Watching Watching Qiaoshuya, Li Ang's eyebrows couldn't help but twitch slightly, and he remembered the task the red-haired Director had once given him: investigate the arsonist appearing in the Laus Arcade. (Chapter 116)

So the Director really found the right target. If he hadn't gone to the Rose Manor to save people at the beginning, he might have met the anomalous object holders among the rebels earlier than now... Speaking of which, the rebels have been setting fires continuously for so long, but they haven't really set a big fire. The purpose likely isn't to attack the wealthy district, right?

"Alright! This job is not bad!"

Just as Li Ang was frowning and pondering, the scarred man took the map, looked at it, and then smiled with a face full of cold intent.

"I worked at the smelting plant back then and was almost scalded to death by the material juice that turned over. That bunch of bastard factory owners insisted they had no money to compensate, but privately they had money to live in such good houses. I've long wanted to set a big one!"

"Pay attention to the scale."

After glancing at Li Ang, who didn't raise any objections, the middle-aged man turned to look at the scarred man, frowned, and reminded:

"Your purpose isn't to hurt many people, but to set fires on a large scale to cause panic, force those wealthy people to pressure the Police Department, and try to divert the patrol forces of the capital so it's convenient for others to act!"

"Got it, got it. Isn't it just being a target?"

The scarred man waved his hand impatiently:

"I'm very familiar with this job. There definitely won't be any mistakes. You can just say the next one!"

"..."

Having no way to deal with this stubborn guy, the middle-aged man took a deep breath again and assigned tasks to the group of rebels one by one.

"Oliver continues to be responsible for transactions, but this time, apart from finding the Laien family's arms company to buy weapons, you must focus on finding out the locations of several arms warehouses through arms trading.

Taking advantage of the chaotic period of the military's power transition, we need to seize the opportunity to raid the arms warehouses and try our best to get some high-power weapons and bombs..."

"Next are Lucy and Lu Ke. Your tasks are changed. Lucy, prioritize infiltrating the 'Gear' Shipping Company and investigate the situation of those private ships that don't receive ordinary passengers.

And Lu Ke, you need to sneak into the landing tower, check the flight schedules of the airships heading to the Keliuoke Wang Guo, and take the members who have retired from the army in the organization to place bombs on the important pillars of the landing tower!"

"What?!!!"

After hearing the task assignment given by the middle-aged man, not only did Li Ang's pupils shrink at the end of the table, but the group of rebels in the room was in an uproar.

The pot-bellied Oliver stood up first, his expression stunned as he asked:

"Lord Neisen! You want us to attack the landing tower?"

"To be precise, it's to attack a flight of airships heading to the Keliuoke Wang Guo."

After correcting Oliver's statement, the middle-aged man said with a calm expression:

"Blowing up the landing tower is only the last resort. What I truly hope for is to be able to kill the sniffers of the Keliuoke Wang Guo and get back all the data regarding the mineral deposits of the Wang Guo's counties."

Keliuoke Wang Guo's sniffers? Mineral data of the Wang Guo's counties?

"What's the point of getting these back?"

The short Lu Ke couldn't help but stand up and question:

"We can't use that data at all. And that's the Keliuoke Wang Guo, the City of Machines! The strongest country in the entire western world. The Wang Guo has owed them money for six years and still hasn't paid it back!

Not to mention whether this attack can succeed, if we really blow up the landing tower and kill those sniffers in the end, forced by the pressure of the Keliuoke Wang Guo, the entire Wang Guo will desperately hunt us down! Even if the assassination of the King succeeds, the consequences might not be as serious as this!"

"I know, but this matter still must be done."

Facing the questioning of the group of rebels, the middle-aged man said:

"I still can't explain the reason to you, but just like the countless correct judgments I made at those critical moments in the past, if we don't do this, the only thing waiting for us and this country will be a worse result!"

"But..."

"No buts."

The middle-aged man knocked on the table and announced with a calm expression:

"Regarding my true ability, you should all have some guesses. Now I can tell you directly that being able to shuttle between all the doors in the capital is indeed only a part of my ability. My true ability is... Little Bajinsi? What are you doing?"

"Nothing."

After getting up from the chair at the end of the long table and walking to the door frame of the conference room, Li Ang reached out to the nameplate on the door frame and answered without looking back:

"You say yours, I'll just touch it." ===== CHAPTER 206 =====