I! Cleaner!

Strange, why hasn't it started yet?

Everyone in the room had prepared 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 eyes.

Then everyone found that the leader who had just been imposingly questioning "Little Baggins" was now staring at Little Baggins in a daze.

After staying up all night, his turbid eyes with a lot of bloodshot eyes showed fear, doubt, panic, confusion... all kinds of weak and chaotic emotions, coupled with the slightly gray hair, making him look abnormally...

Old.

Yes! That's old!

After this strange thought came to their minds, the rebels in the room were unconsciously startled.

The real age of their leader should not be even fifty years old. Although his face looks a little old and his eyes are often inexplicably tired, he is still in the prime of his life.

Therefore, among the members of the rebels in the room, although some were dissatisfied with his arbitrary decisions, some questioned his decisions, and some wanted to pull him down and take their own positions, no one really thought he was old.

But now...

"Master leader?"

Accompanied by a slightly raised questioning voice, the eyes of the rebels were pulled from the main seat of the long table and fell on "Little Baggins" sitting at the lowest position.

This young man, who was less than 20 years old, was slightly thin, but he looked very tall. Even if he sat on a low chair without a backrest, his back was still straight without any hunchback.

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

Especially when looking at the leader in the main seat, the focused gaze in his eyes had a kind of fascinating burning heat, like a young beast that found an old and weak antelope, showing its sharp claws to the prey that had nowhere to escape...

Is this the "tiger" in Tiger's mouth? It really looks like it...

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

The leader...seems to be really old.

...

Unbeknownst to him, his "desire to capture" middle-aged Joshua had been misinterpreted by the rebels as a raging ambition. After waiting for a long time without seeing the meeting start, Leon, who was eager to collect intelligence, could not help but frown slightly 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 weird feeling of loss, but after meeting the eyes of the crowd, the topic that had been prepared all night last night became unusually sluggish, and he couldn't say it anyway.

"..."

I seem to know what just "flowed" from me...

Feeling this inexplicable "feeling of being dominated", watching the rebels' gradually weird eyes, the middle-aged man finally understood what he had lost after the two rounds of games.

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

And these things are the most basic power!

'Although I haven't read much, politics is actually about making more people believe in you, agree with your judgment, and be willing to listen to you, and then gather enough power to change the status quo. '

Thinking of what I heard from "Little Baggins" last night, and comparing it with the scene in front of me, 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, and then shake the credibility of my words, and then take the opportunity to snatch some of the right to speak?

Did he start planning before entering this meeting room, trying to take the position of leader from me? Or... even those questions last night were a test of me?

...

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

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

After taking out a few marked maps from the materials he prepared last night and pushing them across the long table, the middle-aged man stared at "Little Baggins" and said expressionlessly:

"Your mission is still the same as before, and you still have to lead people to set fires in the Lowther Arcade and the surrounding wealthy areas, but the intensity and scope must be continuously expanded!"

Set fire in the Lowther Arcade?

After hearing what the middle-aged Joshua said, Leon's eyebrows raised slightly, remembering the task that the red-haired director had given him, to investigate the arsonist who appeared in the 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 If you don’t 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 spilled juice. Those bastard 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. Let’s go 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 make it easier for others to move!"

"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 arms trading 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! "

"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."