Me! Cleaner!

Chapter 204 Meeting? Usurping the throne! (Down)

Strange, why haven't you started yet?

Everyone in the room was ready for the meeting, but after waiting for a while, they didn't see the leader who was supposed to preside over the meeting speak, so they all cast strange looks at him.

Then everyone discovered that the leader, who had just been asking "Little Baggins" a series of questions in an imposing manner, was now staring at Little Baggins in confusion for some reason.

In his turbid eyes with a lot of bloodshot eyes after staying up all night, fear, doubt, panic, confusion...all kinds of weak and chaotic emotions, coupled with the slightly gray hair on the temples, made him look... unusual…

old.

right! Just old!

After this strange thought came into their minds, the gangsters in the room were unconsciously startled.

The real age of his leader is probably not yet fifty. Although his face looks a little old and his eyes often have inexplicable fatigue, he is still in the prime of life.

Therefore, among the chaotic members in the room, although some were dissatisfied with his dictatorship, some questioned his decision-making, and some wanted to pull him down and take the position themselves, no one really thought that he was old.

But now...

"Master Chief?"

Following a question with a slightly upward pitch, the eyes of the gang were pulled from the main seat of the long table and fell on "Little Baggins" sitting at the lowest position.

Although this young man, who is less than twenty years old, is slightly thin, he looks very upright. Even if he is sitting on a low chair without a backrest, his back is still straight without any rickets.

And he probably didn't sleep very well last night. His black hair was a little messy, there was even some frost on his collar, and there was a lot of bloodshot eyes in his eyes, but his dark eyes were still smart and sharp. , as if radiating the owner’s endless energy outwards.

Especially when looking at the leader on the throne, the focused gaze shot out by those eyes has a kind of soul-stirring scorching heat, like a young beast that has discovered an old and weak antelope and is heading towards a place with nowhere to escape. The prey showed off its sharp claws...

Is this the "tiger" Tiger talks about? It really looks like...

After seeing this extremely contrasting scene with their own eyes, except for little Phoebe who was sitting on the chair with a toffee in her mouth, almost everyone in the room had the same thought.

The leader...seems to be really old.

…

Little does he know that his "desire to capture" the middle-aged Joshua has been misinterpreted by a group of gangsters as ambition. After waiting for a long time before the meeting started, Leon, who was eager to collect information, couldn't help but frown slightly and couldn't help it. He urged again:

"Sir Nathan!"

"Just now you first doubted my true identity and then questioned my true abilities. You have wasted a lot of unnecessary time. Now it is time to continue the meeting!"

After hearing the loud reminder from "Little Baggins", the middle-aged man couldn't help but trembled slightly. He finally struggled out of the weird feeling of loss, but after meeting the eyes of everyone, he prepared for last night I have been discussing the topic all night, but it has become extremely stagnant and I can't say anything.

“…”

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

Feeling this inexplicable "feeling of being dominated" and watching the gangsters' increasingly weird looks, the middle-aged man finally understood what he had lost after the two rounds of games just now.

It is the "right to speak" that actively controls the situation, the "trust" gained as a leader, and even the "blind obedience" to oneself that is gradually cultivated because of the correct judgments made in the past!

And these things are the most basic powers!

‘Although I don’t read much, politics is actually about getting more people to believe you, agree with your judgment, and be willing to listen to you, and then gather the power to change the status quo. ’

Thinking of what he heard from "Little Baggins" last night, and comparing it to the scene in front of him, the middle-aged man couldn't help but feel weak.

So...little Baggins just exposed those two flaws to me, just to make me make two wrong judgments in front of everyone, thus shaking the credibility of my words, and then take the opportunity to steal some parts. The right to speak?

Could it be that before he entered this conference room, he had already started planning to try to take away the position of leader from me? Or...even those questions last night were a test for me?

…

Full of questions and a huge sense of crisis, the middle-aged man had no choice but to take a deep breath, follow Leon's "instructions" and preside over the meeting:

"Today...we are going to determine our actions for the next period of time, starting with Tiger."

From the materials he prepared last night, he took out several marked maps and pushed them across the long table. The middle-aged man stared at "Little Baggins" and said expressionlessly:

"Your mission is still the same as before. It is still to lead people to set fires in Lowther Arcade and the surrounding wealthy areas, but the intensity and scope must continue to expand!"

Setting fire in Lowther Arcade?

After hearing what middle-aged Joshua said, Leon couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly, remembering the task that the red-haired director had given him, to investigate the arsonist who haunted Lowther Arcade. (Chapter 116)

So the director really found the right target. If he had not gone to Rose Manor to save people, he might have met the anomaly holder among the gangsters earlier than now... It is said that the gangsters have continued to set fires for so long, but they didn't If you really set a fire, the purpose is probably not to attack the wealthy area, right?

"Okay! This is a good job!"

Just as Leon frowned and thought, the burned man took the map and looked at it, then smiled coldly.

"When I was working in the smelting plant, I was almost scalded to death by the dumplings. Those **** factory owners insisted that they had no money to pay compensation, but privately they had money to live in such a nice house. I had thought about it a long time ago. Put something big!" "Pay attention to the scale."

After glancing at Leon, who made no objection, the middle-aged man turned to look at the burned man, frowned and reminded:

"Your purpose is not to hurt more people, but to cause panic by setting fires on a large scale, forcing the rich to put pressure on the police department, and try to transfer all the patrol forces from the royal capital to facilitate other people's actions!"

"I know, I know, aren't you just being a target?"

The burned man waved his hands and said impatiently:

"I'm very familiar with this job. I can't make any mistakes. Just tell me the next one!"

“…”

There was nothing he could do with this free-spirited guy. After taking a deep breath again, the middle-aged man assigned tasks to the gangsters one after another.

"Oliver continues to be responsible for the transaction, but this time in addition to buying weapons from the Lane family's arms company, he also needs to use the arms deal to focus on exploring the locations of several arms warehouses.

Taking advantage of the chaotic period of military power transition, we need to seize the opportunity to raid the weapons warehouse and try to get some powerful weapons and bombs..."

"Then Lucy and Luke, your mission has changed. Lucy will give priority to sneaking into the Gear Shipping Company to investigate the situation of private ships that do not accept ordinary passengers.

Luke will sneak into the boarding tower, inquire about the airship flights leading to the Kingdom of Korok, and take the members of the organization who have retired from the army to plant bombs on important pillars of the boarding tower! "

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"What?!!"

After listening to the task assignment given by the middle-aged man, not only did Leon, who was sitting at the bottom, shrink his pupils, but all the gangsters in the room were in an uproar.

The pot-bellied Oliver stood up first and asked with a stunned expression:

"Sir Nathan! Do you want us to attack the boarding tower?"

"To be precise, it was an attack on an airship heading to the Kingdom of Korok."

After correcting Oliver's statement, the middle-aged man said calmly:

"Blowing up the boarding tower is only a last resort. What I really hope is to kill the sniffers in the Kingdom of Korok and get back all the information they have about the mineral deposits in each county of the kingdom."

A sniffer from the Kingdom of Korok? Mineral information for each county in the kingdom?

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

The short Luke couldn't help but stood up and questioned:

"We can't use those materials at all, and that's the Kingdom of Korok, the capital of machinery! The most powerful country in the entire western world, the money the kingdom owed them six years ago has not yet been repaid!

Let’s not talk about whether this attack can be successful. If we really blow up the boarding tower and kill those sniffers, under the pressure of the Kingdom of Korok, the entire kingdom will desperately search for us! Even if the assassination of the king is successful, the consequences may not be as serious as this! "

"I know, but it still needs to be done."

Facing the doubts of the gangsters, 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, what will happen to us and this country will only be worse. result!"

"but…"

"No buts."

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

"You should all have some guesses about my real ability. Now I can tell you directly that being able to shuttle between all the doors in the capital is indeed only part of my ability. My real ability is...little Baggins? What are you going to do?"

"nothing."

After getting up and leaving the chair at the end of the long table, and walking to the door of the conference room, Leon reached out to the nameplate on the door frame and replied without looking back:

"You tell me what you want, and I'll touch it."

(End of chapter)