Chapter 500 Negotiation Failure
Li Wanghe looked at the letter of authorization and felt extremely desperate... Then he picked up the pen and signed it very smoothly.
When the other people saw Li Wanghe signed, they all breathed a sigh of relief. This way, it was not that they were cowardly first, but that Li Wanghe did not lead the team well and suppressed the morale of their own resistance.
"Okay, I'll leave first." Liu Lingshan put away the authorization letter and turned to leave.
Only after the footsteps outside faded away did Pan Jianguo yell, "This is too much!"
"This is too much! Isn't it Liu Lingshan who has the final say? Wei Yansheng, why are you the commander-in-chief?"
Wei Yansheng sneered: "Just now I saw you guys signing smoothly?"
Several people were stunned and silent for a few seconds, and four burning gazes were focused on Li Wanghe.
“It’s hard to achieve great things!”
"You are not worthy of your position!"
"A traitor within the group."
"I believed the wrong thing!"
Li Wanghe took a deep breath and said, "A centipede will not die even if it is cut into pieces! What's more, she is not dead yet! It was wrong to resist rashly just now. It was brave but not wise! I think the current political situation is indeed wrong, but we can't just force it. We have to adjust it slowly! I think it would be better to suppress Wei Donglai first and deal with Liu Lingshan's arrogance."
“That makes sense.”
“I agree.”
Good man, is this what is called backbone? Wei Yansheng was convinced.
…
In a quiet box of a high-end coffee shop on Green Ocean Island, four middle-aged men sat around a table. The coffee on the table was warm and filled with a bitter aroma, but no one tried to taste it. The expressions of the four of them were unexpectedly the same, and they all stared straight at the dark brown coffee liquid, as if they wanted to see through the bottom of the cup with their eyes.
Finally, someone spoke.
"They're all dead! I can't contact any of them."
The others were also silent. In fact, this sentence had already been said ten minutes ago and was just repeated now.
"What should we do? Keep waiting?"
"How can we wait? Gabriel is gone, who are we waiting for?"
"We are not the highest-ranking members of the organization. I think... there should be someone who can give orders on Gabriel's behalf, right?"
"You must be joking! Do you think now is the time to wait? Who knows if Su Ming is coming towards us now!"
"So are you going to run away? If I run away, I'll be confirmed as the Mysterious Eye, and you won't be able to come back! I still have a wife and children!"
"Then you wait here? You are waiting to die here! Do you want to die?"
The voices of several people were getting louder and louder, almost starting a quarrel. If someone hadn't stepped forward in time to remind them, I'm afraid this high-end box would not have been able to soundproof.
After a brief moment of losing control of their emotions, the four of them calmed down again. After all, now was not the time to quarrel or engage in infighting. This time, their lives were truly at stake.
"Damn it! Doesn't it say that no one in this world is immune to the unknowable power?!" The man slammed his fist on the table, and a few drops of coffee splashed out of the cup.
The other three sighed and shook their heads, also finding it unbelievable.
"I have decided to run away. I plan to take away all the storage objects that can be taken away. With my current authority, I can call up three storage objects. I can take these three storage objects and leave. If I encounter an ordinary hunting team of the alliance, I will be able to fight." said another man.
His words touched the minds of the other people. They had actually had this idea for a long time, but what made them hesitant was mainly their family.
"What about your wife and children?"
"Oh! What else can I do? Am I going to run away with my whole family? Besides... I don't think the Alliance will do anything to my family. There will definitely be many people like me. If the Alliance imposes unfair punishment on the family members of every defector, what kind of sensation will it cause?"
A man beside him glanced at him and said through gritted teeth, "I'll listen to you! I'll go with you too! We go together and have someone to look after us."
The man nodded slightly, glanced at the rest of the group with a tired and helpless look, and asked in a low voice: "Is there anyone else who wants to run with us?"
"Once we run away this time... unless the alliance collapses, we won't be able to come back."
"What a coward! There are so many islands in this world. Wouldn't it be nice to just find a place that is not under the control of the Alliance and settle there? If we escape together, with the help of those few containment objects and the unknown power, no one with the ability to save their own life would dare to go against us!"
These words finally convinced the other two people present. The four of them looked at each other and nodded, indicating that they had made a decision.
They plan to steal the items in storage and escape!
…
On August 2, 2281, the day after Su Ming cleansed out the headquarters of the Seven Gods Alliance, the world underwent tremendous changes.
Staff defections occurred in all four alliances, and it was very common for employees to take away extremely dangerous objects when they defected. Some extreme cases even released some monsters imprisoned inside the investigation bureau, causing huge casualties and economic losses in the surrounding areas.
This time, except for the Alliance of Seven Gods, the actions of the other three alliances were surprisingly consistent. They condemned and criticized the unexpected internal massacre of the Alliance of Seven Gods.
It was obvious that the four major alliances had known about the existence of the Mysterious Eye for a long time, but they just didn't know how to deal with the traitors within their ranks. However, the voluntary defection caused the other three alliances to turn their attention to the Seven Gods Alliance. In just one day, the Seven Gods Alliance was caught in a huge whirlpool of public opinion, and the news from the outside world was flooded with all kinds of improper operations of the Seven Gods Alliance.
Of course, the media blurred the details of what the Seven Gods Alliance had done. The four major alliances all chose to keep the existence of the Mysterious Eye secret. The headlines of all the major newspapers were all related to Wei Yansheng.
"The Seven Gods Commander issued an extreme "massacre order"! Hundreds of senior alliance officials died in just a few hours!"...
"The impact of Wei Yansheng's "extermination order" on the world"...
"Heroes who have changed the world many times, have their thoughts become extreme in old age?"...
Su Ming sat on the airship, looking at the newspaper headlines with a slightly frown on his face.
Observing the writers' purpose from the contents of these titles, he felt that all the articles were adding fuel to the fire of one thing: they all wanted Wei Yansheng to abdicate.
However, Su Ming, the instigator of the massacre, was not mentioned at all in the article. Liu Lingshan and his identity were completely blurred, and not a single word about him appeared.
"Will the commander-in-chief step down?" Su Ming asked.
Liu Lingshan took out a can of beer from the refrigerator next to him, opened it with a "swish", sat down on the sofa, and picked up the stack of newspapers on the coffee table.
"Of course he has to step down. This is almost inevitable. Lao Wei must have been prepared when he signed his name." Liu Lingshan said, "Xiao Ming, you are not sensitive enough to politics. You need to learn more.
For example, this time, you had already thought about such a big commotion, but you didn’t expect that someone must be held responsible for this unrest.
The people need an explanation. They don’t know the truth, but they have the right to know the truth...even though this truth is also false.
Lao Wei is the one who gave the explanation, but you and I are not.
The reason is very simple. The other three alliances are not idiots. They all know how big a threat the Mysterious Eye poses to the world. After suffering yesterday's blow, they should have a deeper understanding of that organization. And as the only person who can possibly destroy the organization, you must not allow any accidents to happen.
As for me... I am involved in too many aspects and I am too sensitive. People like me who have become a patron saint symbol will not be messed with as long as there is no fault in position or principle... Messaging me is not conducive to social stability and the price to pay is too high.
In comparison, it is very convenient to use Lao Wei as a scapegoat. He is old and it is time for him to retire. This time he used himself as a scapegoat, which is simply squeezing the surplus value of his political identity to the extreme. "
Su Ming looked at the eye-catching headlines in the newspaper and gained more insights.
Mr. Wei has done what he should do, and now he has to complete what he should do.
Everyone has worked to annihilate the Mysterious Eye, and he must make these efforts bear fruit.
…
In the advanced medical room on the airship, Xia Xiaoyu sat by the bed, looking after Gabriel, who had broken arms and legs.
"I look ugly now, don't I?"
"People with disfigured faces are ugly." Xia Xiaoyu said coldly.
"How good is Su Ming to you?" Gabriel asked.
"You ask too many questions, don't you? Do I need to tell you what my relationship with him is? You don't think that just because you've known me for a long time, you're someone to me, right?" Xia Xiaoyu looked at him unhappily, with a hint of disgust on her face, "If you really feel a little guilty towards me, you should just cooperate with him."
"It seems that you really like him." Gabriel smiled.
Although his eyes were still very friendly, his burned face was too ugly and his smile made it difficult to make people feel close to him.
Xia Xiaoyu took out a small knife, and just like ten minutes ago, she gently cut the half of Gabriel's thigh that was still intact. Last time, she failed, but this time, her hand, which had not been able to move, finally moved, and the sharp blade cut Gabriel's skin.
Xia Xiaoyu's eyes immediately lit up, she looked happy, and immediately stood up and ran out the door.
Just as he ran to the door, Su Ming walked in.
"I just cut him! As expected, he has a way to get rid of the contract!" Xia Xiaoyu said to Su Ming excitedly.
"That's great. I also have something to ask him." Su Ming said calmly, "Xiaoyu, please go out first."
Su Ming sat down beside the bed and said straight to the point: "If I'm not mistaken, you have two personalities."
"That's absolutely right. I have a dual personality, but it's different from an ordinary dual personality. My two personalities are completely separate, but we can both access each other's memories. For me and him, the brain is more like a hardware that stores memories. Memory is data that can be read."
Gabriel stared at Su Ming and asked curiously, "How did you guess that?"
“Don’t worry about how I guessed it. You are no longer bound by the contract. You can tell me the list of all the members of Mysterious Eye. Please cooperate with me.
In fact, even if you don't tell me, I have a way to get those lists from your mind, whether it's using supernatural powers or other means. I have already found the person and can interrogate him at any time.
But the list of people I can get from your mind in this way may not be complete, so I still hope you can cooperate with me actively."
"Oh."
Gabriel chuckled and turned his head away.
His meaning was very clear. If he couldn't make a fair and equal deal with Su Ming, he would rather die than help Su Ming. Even if Su Ming could always get what he wanted in the end, he was unwilling to let Su Ming have any ease.
In fact, Gabriel was expecting something to happen, although the probability of it happening before his death was very low.
Before he was caught by Su Ming, Ambrose once said: "I have thought of a way to kill Su Ming. If this method doesn't work, then it really won't work."
He chose to believe Ambrose, so he is now waiting for Su Ming's death.
Now he is still useful to Su Ming and he should not be killed in a short time. If Su Ming is killed by Ambrose before that, then he can still continue to lead the organization as the leader of the Mystic Eye and complete his interrupted great cause.
This is his only hope now.
"It seems you won't cooperate with me."
Su Ming had already anticipated this situation.
He knew Gabriel's character very well. This man was a true idealist, a bit like him. He would never involve his own life and death in negotiations. He had only one criterion for judging whether something should be done: whether it was beneficial to his own power.
"I can promise you that I will not kill you and let you continue to be responsible for the experimental research on chaos fragments. However, this time the research is under the supervision of the Alliance and must be safer and more reliable. If your strategy is really suitable, then I think the Alliance will also recognize it. What do you think?" Su Ming asked.
"How can I trust you?"
"I have a superpower that is very similar to that of the devil, called Absolute Contract, which can make the contractual relationship between both parties the same as that established with the devil." Su Ming replied.
Gabriel was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "You really have all kinds of abilities...Okay, I believe you, but so what? I don't trust other people. I don't think the Alliance will let me do research with peace of mind. Research under the control of others cannot achieve higher results. I have verified this myself.
Before I met Xia Xiaoyu, I was also doing research. Scientific research requires a lot of funding, a large number of technical talents, and some privileges.
I know best what the rulers want to see and what they don't want to see. The first thing they consider is not what kind of changes this technology will bring, but how the public will view this technology after it appears.
So... unless you can get the highest leader of the alliance to sign the kind of contract you mentioned with me, it won't work."
Su Ming sighed softly.
"What a pity." Su Ming said.
Gabriel's idea is not difficult to understand, no wonder he chose the Mystical Eye to realize his ideal.
