Chapter 608

【Name: Gate of the Other Side (Gate, Space, Escape)】

【Appearance: No physical form, manifested as a strange door with indeterminate width, unknown size, unknown thickness, and material and style that are difficult to determine.

The only certain characteristic of this anomalous object is that on the door frame of the door it parasitizes, a cork nameplate is bound to appear, with the strange words "I really want to escape" carved on it with fingernails.】

【Ability: Parasitic door, space shuttle, crisis transfer】

【Cost: Before the "door" that is put down disappears, a part of one's power will be permanently occupied/lose everything one possesses, becoming a wanderer arriving at the other side.】

【File: The anomalous object of "Nathan," the rebel leader running rampant in the capital. One of the large number of functional anomalous objects created by the Aquarius Director of the Cleanup Bureau to achieve his wishes. Tentatively numbered 0001.

As part of the Aquarius Director's most proud work, to ensure the safety of this anomalous object, he forcibly meshed it with another anomalous object named "Escape Nameplate," giving the holder an extremely strong escape ability.

And relying on the powerful effect of the "Gate of the Other Side" which can ignore distance, even though they encountered extremely harsh searches by the kingdom for several years, the rebels, with a total membership of over a thousand, had never truly been exposed until they received the attention of Li Ang Ryan, a cleaner from the Virgin Branch, during an attack activity...】

【Evaluation: Has the powerful ability to shuttle freely between all doors in the entire capital, and can be activated unconditionally when encountering a crisis, instantly taking the holder away, making it almost impossible to capture.

In addition, when personally opened by the first user, Joshua Robian, this anomalous object will reveal its true form, becoming the "Gate of the Other Side" that can briefly penetrate the future.】

【Infection Value: 0.1】

Damn it, it really is watertight...

Looking at the words "escape," "crisis transfer," and "impossible to capture" that appeared repeatedly in the item description, Li Ang, who was eyeing this "Anywhere Door," couldn't help but click his tongue in his heart, temporarily giving up the idea of taking this thing for himself.

To this, one can only say that whether it's the director when he's not drunk or the old silver coin Aquarius Director, those who can climb to high positions in the Cleanup Bureau seem to protect both their heads and their butts when doing things, not even willing to leave a hole the size of a needle's eye for others to drill through.

Thinking about it carefully, it's normal. After all, if they were really the kind of people who were careless and didn't leave enough backups, let alone mixing their way to the high level of the Cleanup Bureau, they would probably have fallen into that ten percent annual mortality rate within the first few months of joining the Cleanup Bureau. Those who are not cautious enough are the minority.

Hmm... but even if I probably won't be able to get this extremely useful anomalous object in the end, I have found another hidden prince, met the "grandson and grandmother" with memory abilities, and heard quite a bit of intelligence. All three lurking goals have been almost completed. It seems it's time to close the net.

After regretfully taking his hand off the 【Gate of the Other Side】, Li Ang reached into his bosom and tapped the small mirror, signaling Youha to hold the valley terrain map he drew yesterday... or rather, the location map of the rebel stronghold, and immediately return to the bureau to call for people. Then, under the surprised gazes of the crowd, he turned and walked back to his seat.

"Lord Nathan, your ability should be peeping into the future, right?"

After speaking out his "deduction," Li Ang looked at the middle-aged man with a gloomy face in the main seat while secretly switching out the 【Elite Performer】 badge, revealing an extremely disappointed expression.

"It's a pity. No matter what you saw in the future, I still believe that your command of us has committed a series of extremely serious mistakes."

……

If he had "called for people" yesterday, the one who came to "close the net" should have been his own director. But now the director has mostly departed for the General Bureau to initiate an inquiry into Aquarius, so the person sitting in the bureau should be Senior Ai Ma.

And because the rebels' stronghold is not in the capital, in this remote valley far from the capital, it will still take some time for Senior Ai Ma to come over. Adding the time for Youha to run back from the mirror world to report, it will probably take about forty or fifty minutes.

What he has to do now is to find a way to drag out all the members present, especially the middle-aged man who is the leader and the grandmother and grandson with memory abilities, during these forty or fifty minutes before the "fishing net" arrives, so that Senior Ai Ma can arrest them and thoroughly complete the established lurking goal.

After confirming that his task was to drag out time, Li Ang didn't wait for the middle-aged man to refute and said directly in a way that would shock people:

"I don't know what kind of future you saw, and I don't understand why you want to attack the Landing Tower, but there is one thing I am very clear about: if we continue to act according to your command, it will only lead us to a new failure!"

"……"

"What do you know?"

Hearing "Little Bagins's" very arbitrary evaluation, the middle-aged man, who had endured for a long time, couldn't help but feel a nameless fire rise in his heart. He stood up and glared at Li Ang:

"You don't know at all what kind of future I saw! If you don't do as I say, then Kroke... uh..."

When he said this, the middle-aged man couldn't help but pause slightly, then touched his temples, sat back down, and scolded with anger in his eyes:

"You don't understand anything at all!"

"I understand."

After grabbing the sheep horns that had successfully stirred up the other party's anger and secretly stuffing them back into the small mirror, Li Ang, who had finished his tricks, examined the middle-aged Joshua, who was in a state of chaos. He first looked at his temples, which had suddenly turned quite a bit whiter, and then asked calmly: "Lord Nathan, if I'm not mistaken, you don't seem to be able to reveal the future to us directly. Otherwise, you would age rapidly or even die directly... Am I right?"

"Right!"

Middle-aged Joshua, who had eaten a rage aura from the Black Goat and whose IQ had temporarily dropped by thirty points, directly admitted this guess. At this moment, he only felt that the rage in his heart was burning more and more fiercely. He tried his best to suppress it without opening his mouth to curse, but instead questioned with gloomy eyes:

"Since you believe I can see the future, why do you still question my decision?"

"It's very simple. I am not questioning the future you saw, but questioning your judgment of the future, or to put it more bluntly, I am questioning you as a person."

Under the confused expressions of the group of rebels, "Little Bagins," who had just joined the core group of the rebels, actually stood up directly. He gazed at the middle-aged man who was the leader and said with an incomparably sincere expression:

"Lord Nathan, I am very sorry, but I believe you do not have the talent to be a leader. Even if you can see the situation in the future, you cannot make the most correct judgment based on the information you obtain... And I am very certain that I am not the only one who thinks so."

After saying this, Li Ang looked around and nodded with a slight apology:

"Everyone, I am sorry... Those who think what I said is right, and feel that Lord Nathan does not have the talent to be a leader, please bow to me."

?!!!

Completely not expecting that the dispute between "Little Bagins" and the leader would actually involve them, the group of rebels, caught off guard, stood up in unison under the effect of the 【Prince of Traveling Cuckoo】 and performed a standard bowing salute toward Li Ang.

The only two people in the whole room who did not salute were little Phoebe, who was sleeping on the table with a milk candy in her mouth, and the bald woman who was a staunch "pro-leader faction."

However, what was even more fatal was that after seeing that everyone "agreed" with Little Bagins's statement and felt that Lord Nathan was not a qualified leader, the bald woman, who was full of shock, hesitated for a moment and actually bent over as well because of her "inner wavering."

"You... impossible! You lied!"

Looking at the rebel members who identified with Li Ang's statement one by one and really stood up to bow to him, the middle-aged man's eyes shook violently, but he quickly reacted and glared at Li Ang:

"The activation condition of your ability is absolutely not persuading others! I have always been correct in the past! Even if every operation didn't succeed, I could still retreat unscathed! I am an excellent... at least a qualified leader! They... they shouldn't feel that way!"

"Alright..."

Li Ang didn't argue with him after hearing this, but looked at him with slight pity, then nodded obediently:

"If thinking this way can make you feel better... then let's just say I lied to you."

"……"

Having been "betrayed" so fiercely by everyone in person, even if he could run away from Senior Ai Ma's hands later, he probably wouldn't think about taking others with him, right?

After looking at the middle-aged man whose self-confidence had suffered an unprecedented blow and who was stunned by the sudden "betrayal," Li Ang decided to add more fuel to the fire to prevent him from still holding onto any hope and trying to take others with him later.

"I can actually understand why everyone thinks this way."

Under the confused expressions of the group of rebels, Li Ang sighed directly and expressed his opinion on their behalf:

"Lord Nathan, you don't understand. What we who are willing to join the rebels want is not that every attack can succeed, but to see a better future in a practical way!"

"The future here does not refer to the kind of future you saw, but that everything is changing! It is everyone's future, and even the future of the entire kingdom, moving toward a better direction. But what have you given us?"

When he said this, Li Ang paused slightly, giving everyone time to think along with his words, but didn't give too much, and immediately summarized for them:

"Attacks! Attacks! And more attacks!"

"Attacking wealthy merchants, attacking officials, attacking nobles, attacking the royal family... You don't know at all how to make everything move toward a better direction; you only know how to launch one meaningless destruction after another!"

"In the years you have been in charge of the rebels... Sorry, I didn't mean to use other non-derogatory terms, but after thinking about it, only the two words 'rebels' are more suitable for our meaningless actions over these years."

After a questioning of the "rationality" of the rebels' existence, which made middle-aged Joshua's face turn blue, Li Ang, who was used to killing people and condemning their hearts, relied on the effect of the 【Elite Performer】 and added a knife with an "incomparably heartbroken" expression:

"After your years of hard work attacking, have those greedy and cruel factory owners become kind? Have those corrupt and incompetent officials become capable? Have those arrogant and presumptuous nobles restrained themselves? Has the always muddled and incompetent royal family changed?"

"If none of them have, then what exactly did you attack? You who can only lead us to carry out 'successful' destruction everywhere, but are incomparably failed in all other aspects, how can you have the face to say you are a qualified leader?"

"Lord Nathan! Do you understand now why everyone is unwilling to continue following behind you?"

(End of chapter)