Chapter 557: Rebel Meeting and

"Li Ang Bobby Laien..."

Just as Li Ang was holding his younger sister's family photo, pondering how to dig out the secrets of the Water Bottle Director to speed up the Bureau's investigation of this guy, a group of people was also holding his file, pondering how to move this stumbling block.

"Must we take action? Can't we solve him with ordinary means?"

After quickly flipping through the few documents in his hand, the short man sitting at the very end of the long table couldn't help but take the lead:

"His itinerary is basically fixed. He has to go from Bridge Street to the Municipal District where the Police Department is located to work every day. If we set up an ambush in advance, maybe we only need a few bombs..."

"It's useless."

The young man sitting opposite him shook his head, gritting his teeth with full hatred:

"He is a person from that Cleaning Bureau. He has more than one anomalous object for protection. Ordinary alchemy bombs probably won't kill him."

"Then bomb his home!"

The short man suggested again:

"Even with anomalous objects for protection, it's not necessarily possible to defend against it 24 hours a day. We can sneak over at night and blow up the entire apartment on Bridge Street!"

"Can't sneak in."

A young woman wearing a hat shook her head and said at a very fast speed:

"The view of that apartment is very good. The balcony in the northwest corner can directly observe the whole street. When I was assassinating the Princess before, I once wanted to choose that place as the first sniper point."

But just as I had climbed over the fence back then, I discovered an old man who was terrifyingly strong, staring at me while holding a pair of large shears. I fired a shot at him, but it did absolutely nothing; he backhanded me with a snip that nearly cost me my life.

"Later, I took twenty people to sneak over, but in the blink of an eye, they were tied up by an old lady with white hair and thrown into the trash station at the corner of the street."

"The old man didn't kill me, but he held a pair of large scissors over a meter long and clicked at my head for more than half an hour. Not only did he shave off my hair and eyebrows, but even my nose hair was scraped clean. It hasn't grown back yet."

After slightly raising her head to show everyone her empty nasal cavity, the young woman sighed:

"Later, I found out that the apartment itself is an anomalous object. The strong old man and the white-haired old lady inside have been dead for more than ninety years. With these two old ghosts guarding the apartment, if we really want to sneak in and plant bombs, I'm afraid we need an army with heavy weapons to attack."

"Oh, by the way, have you seen heavy weapons? I went to the Bobby Laien Arms Company to take a look last month. They only finished half of the heavy weapons ordered by the military, but the report form dared to write that it was completed. In fact, except for a few most important troops, many have not been actually equipped. We can actually use this point..."

"Alright Charlotte, your information is very useful, but it has nothing to do with this meeting. What we are discussing this time is how to solve this Li Ang Bobby Laien."

After interrupting the young woman, the middle-aged man sitting in the main seat said:

"Everyone, according to the information sent back by Barton, this Cleaning Bureau employee is not weak. For this kind of person with anomalous objects, the probability of solving him with ordinary methods is not high. You still have to take action."

"It's no problem for us to take action, but what should we do after taking action?"

After sucking his teeth hard, an old man dressed quite sloppily reminded:

"He is an employee of that Cleaning Bureau. The person who gave us the ability at the beginning said that the Director of the Virgo Branch of the Cleaning Bureau is terrifyingly strong. Even if we all go together, it's just sending ourselves to death."

"If Barton were still here, we could kill him in the copy space created by Barton. But now Barton is gone. Killing him might provoke that woman to take action personally..."

"That won't happen. The woman in the Virgo Bureau has her own duties and generally won't take action personally. And we don't necessarily have to kill him. Erasing his ability and memory is enough."

The middle-aged man in the main seat said while looking at the sleepy child on his right, tapping the table lightly:

"Phoebe, you also join this mission. You are responsible for making the target forget the information about us in his brain, as well as that ability to peek into other people's souls. Can you do it?"

"Huh?"

Hearing the middle-aged man's question, the sleepy little girl gave a start, then said blankly:

"What mission?"

"..."

"Ambush Li Ang Bobby Laien."

The little girl sniffed upon hearing this and continued to ask blankly:

"Who is Li Ang Bobby Laien?"

"An employee of the Cleaning Bureau, who exposed Barton's identity and took away Samantha's ability."

"Who is Barton? And who is Samantha?"

Facing the little girl's repeated questions, the middle-aged man was not impatient but explained earnestly:

"They are our companions. Barton is the spy lurking in the Secret Investigation Bureau, the strong uncle with a scar on his face. Samantha is the aunt with bandages wrapped around her hands who can heal others and also make others rot directly..."

"Oh..."

After nodding as if she understood, the little girl rubbed her eyes and asked again:

"Then who are you?"

"I... forget it."

After rubbing his temples with a headache, the middle-aged man beckoned to the seat on the other side of the little girl and said helplessly:

"Lucy, your sister's amnesia has acted up again. She can't discuss things in this state. You'd better pour the information that needs to be known directly into Phoebe's brain!"

"Good."

A hoarse and old voice sounded. An old woman with a face full of wrinkles sat up straight, stretched out her trembling palm, and placed it on the little girl's forehead.

Seeing this pair of strange "sisters" ready, the middle-aged man nodded with satisfaction, then instructed the old woman with wrinkles:

"Lucy, the target this time has the ability to peek into other people's soul states. So after everyone finishes the meeting and selects the candidates for the ambush mission, I have to trouble you to take action again."

"To avoid the people executing the mission from having hostility toward the target, causing unnecessary vigilance by alerting him too early, please implant a layer of false memory for the selected people to temporarily cover up everyone's original memories. Any problem?"

"No problem."

"Thank you for your hard work."

After nodding to thank the old woman, the middle-aged man leaned forward slightly, pressed his hands on the table, and said directly:

"Then next, it's best to determine the ambush location. Do you have any suggestions for this?"

"I suggest taking action when he goes to work!"

A man covered in burns on his right hand raised his hand and said coldly:

"We will all go out together, kill our way into that Cleaning Bureau, kill that red-haired woman first, then burn everyone else to death, and then..."

"Alright, alright, shut up!"

Hearing the burn-scarred man's suggestion, which couldn't be called deliberately seeking death, but could only be called purely not wanting to live, the middle-aged man sighed and waved his hand in the direction of the burn-scarred man.

Accompanied by a strange explosion, the burn-scarred man instantly disappeared from the room, leaving behind only a chair that had fallen with quite a bit of dust.

Not knowing what method he used to drive the burn-scarred man away, the middle-aged man said with a headache:

"There's no need to say such stupid things. Are there any slightly more reliable suggestions?"

"Yes." The sloppy old man raised his hand and suggested earnestly:

"What do you think about setting up an ambush at the Lion Heart Duke's succession ceremony?"

The Lion Heart Duke's succession ceremony?

After listening to the sloppy old man's suggestion, the rebels in the room were silent for a while, then began to nod one after another.

"Very good!"

"Very suitable!"

"I think so too!"

The middle-aged man in the main seat pondered for a while, finally nodded, and said with a smile:

"It's indeed a good choice. The Lion Heart Duke's succession ceremony will definitely have many important people attending, and even the Royal Family will send representatives."

"If we are lucky enough, not only can we solve the problem of Li Ang Bobby Laien, but we can also eliminate a large number of nobles and officials at once. Let's set the ambush location at tomorrow's succession ceremony!"

"As for the specific ambush candidates, do any of you want to participate voluntarily?"

"I want to go! I want to go!"

Hearing the middle-aged man's words, the young woman with the shaved head who was very talkative raised her hand excitedly:

"I can... from five kilometers away..."

"You are excluded."

Interrupting her again, the middle-aged man shook his head:

"Your ability is hidden enough, and the distance is far enough, which is very excellent for assassination, but the destructive power is too poor, and you may not be able to break the anomalous object used by the target for protection."

"Moreover, we don't need to kill him this time. As long as we subdue the target and let Phoebe erase his memory and ability, it's enough, so you are not suitable for this mission."

"Then count me in!"

Just as the talkative bald woman pouted in dissatisfaction and prepared to argue, a thin young man stood up and said excitedly:

"At the beginning, it was Barton who took the initiative to stay behind to break the rear, and Samantha and I escaped. This time I..."

"Sorry, you are not suitable either."

The middle-aged man shook his head:

"It's not the time to provoke that red-haired woman from the Cleaning Bureau yet. And you have the best relationship with Barton. I'm worried that you will kill the target forcibly to avenge Barton, and then things will be impossible to end. You'd better stay."

"..."

After the young man sat down in disappointment, the middle-aged man didn't ask anymore but pointed directly:

"In this way, except for the two sisters Phoebe and Lucy, David, Luke, you two follow along! Your abilities are clearly the most suitable for this mission."

"No problem!"

The man who first suggested the bomb responded.

"Can."

The sloppy old man nodded.

"That's it!"

After determining the specific candidates, the middle-aged man watched the few people who got up and walked toward Lucy to take the initiative to accept memory coverage, and nodded with satisfaction.

After the few people finished accepting memory coverage, he waved to everyone in the room. The strange explosion sounded again, and everyone in the room disappeared, leaving only chairs covered in dust.

And the middle-aged man in the main seat also seemed to have experienced more than ten years of time, and his originally pitch-black temples were already stained with strands of gray.

Still no one can live to the future?

Looking at the empty meeting room and those chairs full of dust, the middle-aged man who had aged quite a bit sighed faintly, then stood up with difficulty, controlled his future body, and walked toward the door.

After the last time he made a change, he still couldn't change the fate of the Kingdom's destruction. The resistance led by the Princess failed completely, and the entire Kingdom was dragged into a tragic melee that lasted for eleven years. The originally prosperous Capital was turned into ruins under the bombing, and countless people were displaced and lived in misery.

And in those futures where he successfully assassinated the Princess, the Royal Family and nobles surrendered voluntarily, first ceding territory and paying indemnities, then handing over all resources such as ports and mines, and even the legal currency was forcibly abolished. The originally wealthy country was almost squeezed dry, but the people could barely maintain their lives.

As for myself and the "rebels" I gathered... in no future did everyone exist; there was only myself, enduring the pain of a broken country and a destroyed home, struggling to survive. After all, only by surviving could I pass the message back to the past time and time again, trying to save a homeland that had reached a dead end!

After walking to the door with difficulty, the middle-aged man who had aged quite a bit took a deep breath, and his bony hands grabbed the rusty doorknob tightly.

Come on! The Bobby Laien family, which caused a huge deficit in the military and led to a lack of military combat power, has died out completely and has been replaced by a new Lion Heart Duke. I want to see what this future will look like!

"Creak!"

Accompanied by the raw sound of the old door shaft, as if pushing open a door separating two worlds, the warm and somewhat dazzling sunlight spilled in, accompanied by extremely enthusiastic noise, shining on the middle-aged man.

"This... this is?!"

Looking at the exquisite and neat buildings, the bustling streets, the huge airships flying with ribbons, and the people discussing in front of the strange big screen at the street corner, the middle-aged man was completely stunned on the spot.

Succeeded! I finally succeeded! The Kingdom is saved!!!

A huge, uncontrollable ecstasy seized his soul. The middle-aged man, with tears and snot streaming down his face, knelt on the ground and let out a hysterical roar uncontrollably.

"Oh! You startled me!"

"What's wrong? Why are you shouting blindly?"

"Prince Li Ang was caught cheating, why is he so happy?"

"Guards! Guards! There's a lunatic here!"

"..."

Amidst the curious gazes and noisy pointing of the passersby, the middle-aged man who had finally seen a beautiful future suddenly raised his arms and shouted to the sky with joy.

"Long live the Kingdom! Long live the Kingdom!!"

Startled by his shout, the crowd retreated a few steps, then began to whisper in confusion.

"Is this person crazy?"

"Is there something wrong? Why shout Long live the Kingdom suddenly?"

"Yes, didn't the Kingdom disappear long ago?"

What did you say? The Kingdom is gone?!!!

Hearing the conversation between the two aunts carrying vegetable baskets beside him, the middle-aged man sprang up from the ground, pounced on the aunt, and roared crazily:

"How can the Kingdom be gone?! Who did it! Who did it!!!"

"No no no... it wasn't me! I didn't do it!"

Scared to death by the "lunatic's" behavior, fearing he would bite her if he got angry, the aunt buying vegetables trembled, raised her hand, and hurriedly pointed to the big screen at the street corner.

"Prince Li Ang did it. If you want to find someone, find him! It has nothing to do with me!"

Li Ang... Prince?

Following the aunt's guidance, looking at the strange screen at the street corner, looking at the handsome man who kept waving his hands and repeatedly emphasizing that the cheating was just a rumor and he didn't do anything that night, the middle-aged man was stunned on the spot.

Li Ang... Bobby Laien?

Kill him! I'll go back and kill him now!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 558 =====