Chapter 204 Meeting? Usurpation!
Chapter 204 Meeting? Usurpation! (Part )
Strange, why hasn't it started yet?
Everyone in the room was ready for the meeting, but after waiting for a while, they saw that the leader who was supposed to preside over the meeting did not speak, so they all cast strange looks at him.
Then everyone discovered that the leader, who had just been questioning "Little Baggins" with great momentum, was now staring at Little Baggins in a daze for some reason.
After staying up all night, his cloudy eyes were filled with bloodshot, fear, doubt, panic, confusion... all kinds of weak and chaotic emotions, coupled with his slightly graying hair, made him look abnormal...
old.
Yes! It’s old!
When this strange thought came to their minds, the rioters in the room were involuntarily startled.
The real age of our leader should be less than 50 years old. Although his face looks a little old and there is often inexplicable fatigue in his eyes, he is still in his prime.
Therefore, among these rebel members in the room, although some were dissatisfied with his arbitrariness, some questioned his decision-making, and some wanted to pull him down and take his place, no one really thought that he was old.
But now...
"Master Chief?"
Accompanied by a questioning voice with a slightly rising tone at the end, the eyes of the rioters were drawn away from the main seat at the long table and fell on "Little Baggins" who was sitting in the lowest seat.
This young man, who is less than 20 years old, is a little thin but looks very tall and straight. Even when he sits on a low chair without a backrest, his back is still straight without any hunchback.
He probably didn't sleep very well last night either. His black hair was a little messy, and there was even a thin layer of frost on his collar. There were bloodshot in his eyes, but his black eyes were still smart and sharp, as if they were emitting his owner's endless energy.
Especially when he looked at the leader in the main seat, the focused gaze in his eyes had a kind of burning warmth that was breathtaking, like a young beast that had discovered an old and weak antelope, and was showing its sharp claws to the prey that had nowhere to escape...
Is this the "tiger" that Tiger mentioned? It really looks like it...
After seeing this extremely contrasting scene with their own eyes, almost everyone in the room, except little Phoebe who was sitting on a chair with a candy in her mouth, had the same thought in their minds.
The leader...seems to be really old.
……
Unaware that his "desire to capture" middle-aged Joshua had been misinterpreted by the rebels as a strong ambition, Leon, who had waited for a long time but did not see the meeting start, could not help but frowned slightly in his eagerness to gather intelligence, and could not help but urge again:
"Sir Nathan!"
"Just now you first doubted my true identity, and then questioned my true ability. You have wasted a lot of unnecessary time. Now it's time to continue the meeting!"
After hearing the loud reminder from "Little Baggins", the middle-aged man couldn't help but tremble slightly, and finally struggled out of the strange feeling of loss. But after meeting the gazes of everyone, the topic he had prepared all night last night became extremely sluggish and he couldn't say it out loud.
"..."
I seem to know what just "flowed away" from me...
Feeling this inexplicable "sense of being dominated" and watching the increasingly strange looks from the rioters, the middle-aged man finally understood what he had lost after the last two rounds of games.
It is the "right to speak" to actively control 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 haven't read much, politics is actually about getting more people to believe in you, agree with your judgment, and be willing to listen to you, so as to gather enough power to change the status quo.'
Thinking of what he heard from "Little Baggins" last night and comparing it with the scene in front of him, the middle-aged man couldn't help but feel weak all over.
So... Little Baggins just revealed 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 taking the opportunity to snatch away some of the right to speak?
Could it be that he had already started planning to take the position of leader from me before he entered this meeting room? Or...even the questions he asked last night were a test for me?
……
With a lot of questions in his mind and a huge sense of crisis, the middle-aged man had no choice but to take a deep breath and follow Leon's "instructions" to preside over the meeting:
"Today...we need to determine our actions for the next period of time, starting with Tiger."
The middle-aged man took out a few marked maps from the materials he had prepared last night and pushed them across the long table. He stared at "Little Baggins" and said expressionlessly:
"Your mission is still the same as before. You are still to lead people to set fire to Lowther Arcade and the surrounding wealthy areas, but the intensity and scope must be continuously expanded!"
Setting fire in Lowther Arcade?
After hearing what the middle-aged Joshua said, Leon couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly, remembering the task that the red-haired chief had given him, to investigate the arsonist who haunted the Lowther Arcade. (Chapter 116)
So the director really found the right target. If he hadn't gone to Rose Manor to rescue people, he might have met the holder of the abnormal object in the rebels earlier than now... The rebels have been setting fires for so long, but they haven't really set a big fire. I'm afraid their purpose is not to attack the rich area, right?
"Good! That's a good job!"
Just as Leon frowned in thought, the burned man took the map, looked at it, and then grinned with a cold look in his eyes.
"When I was working at a smelting plant, I was almost scalded to death by the spilled material. The bastard factory owner insisted that he had no money to compensate me, but he had enough money to live in such a nice house. I have been wanting to have a big one for a long time!" "Pay attention to the limit."
After glancing at Leon who did not raise any objections, the middle-aged man turned to look at the burned man and frowned as he reminded him:
"Your goal is not to injure more people, but to set fire to a large area to cause panic, so as to force those rich people to put pressure on the police department and transfer as many patrol forces as possible from the capital to facilitate the actions of others!"
"I know, I know. Isn't it just to be a target?"
The burned man waved his hands and said impatiently:
"I'm very familiar with this job, there's no way I'll make a mistake, just tell me the next one!"
"..."
There was no way to deal with this unruly guy, so the middle-aged man took another deep breath and assigned tasks to the rebels one by one.
“Oliver will continue to be in charge of the transaction, but this time, in addition to buying weapons from Ryan’s arms company, he will also use the arms trade to focus on finding the locations of several weapons warehouses.
Taking advantage of the chaotic period of power transition in the military, we need to seize the opportunity to raid the weapons warehouse and try to get some powerful weapons and bombs..."
"Next is Lucy and Luke. Your mission has been changed. Lucy will first infiltrate the Gear Shipping Company and investigate the private ships that do not accept ordinary passengers.
Luke will sneak into the boarding tower, check the airship schedules to the Kingdom of Korok, and bring the retired members of the organization to place bombs on the important columns of the boarding tower!"
"What?!!!"
After hearing the assignment given by the middle-aged man, not only did Leon, who was sitting at the last seat, shrink his pupils, but the rioters in the room were also in an uproar.
Oliver, who was paunchy, stood up first and asked in astonishment:
"Master Nathan! 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 the last resort. What I really hope is to kill the sniffer of the Kingdom of Korok and take back all the information they have about the mineral deposits in the counties of the kingdom."
A sniffer from the Kingdom of Korok? Mineral information from the counties of the kingdom?
"What's the point of taking these back?"
The short Luke couldn't help but stand up and questioned:
"We can't use that information at all, and that's the Kingdom of Korok, the capital of machinery! The strongest country in the entire western world, and the kingdom still hasn't paid back the money it owed them six years ago!
Let’s not talk about whether this attack can succeed. If we really blow up the boarding tower and kill those sniffers, the whole kingdom will desperately search for us under the pressure of the Kingdom of Korok! Even if the assassination of the king succeeds, the consequences may not be as serious as this! "
“I know, but it still has to be done.”
Facing the doubts of the 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, what will greet us and this country will only be worse results!"
"but……"
"No buts."
The middle-aged man knocked on the table and announced calmly:
"You all probably have some guesses about my true ability. Now I can tell you directly that being able to travel between all the doors in the capital is only part of my ability. My real ability is... Little Baggins? What are you going to do?"
"nothing."
Leon stood up and left the chair at the end of the long table. After walking to the door of the conference room, he reached out to the nameplate on the door frame and answered without turning his head:
"You say yours, and I'll touch it."
(End of this chapter)