Chapter 427: Chapter 365: Acting Tough on My Turf? Who Gave You the Courage!
The human mind is like this: sometimes a thought veers off the path, and it becomes a mad rabbit, racing down the highway of wrongness.
This is exactly how Misaka Tsuchiemon feels now. Convinced that Banquan Longma "betrayed" him, he’s stuck on this path and can’t turn back.
It’s expected that even if Cheng Tianpu denies it to his face, he’d still find it hard to believe him.
Li Zheng wasn’t clear about the grudges between them and thought to himself that the two organizations in Nihong Country are really harmonious. One second they are united outwardly, and the next second, they turn against each other.
Unlike our Dragon Country’s Nine Heavens and Kunlun, where each minds their own business without disturbing each other.
"High Celestial Plain bids one hundred thirty, is there a higher offer?" Li Zheng steered the conversation back on track; if no one else bid, these ten Cultivation Dishes would belong to High Celestial Plain.
Chris remarked sarcastically, "Someone just said petty fights are boring, and now they’ve truly petered out?"
Keril was equally upset about Liu Qi’s earlier behavior and chimed in, "Some men from Dragon Country are like that, putting on airs and then running away. I’ve heard they think it’s thrilling."
Suspecting the two might provoke Li Zheng, Zha Zha interjected with a just comment, "Didn’t Chairman Liu already say he won’t continue bidding? Why keep pushing?"
"We’re the ones pushing?" Keril countered, "Clearly he was the one disrupting the bidding rhythm first, so how did it become us pushing?"
This seemed somewhat unreasonable.
Everyone was just there to participate in the auction, and what price others are willing to bid is their freedom, with no so-called disruption of rhythm.
But it didn’t make sense to argue about this with such people; Liu Qi wasn’t even in the mood to bother with them and was still calculating how many Cultivation Dishes to purchase from Li Zheng shortly.
"One hundred thirty, first time!"
Seeing no one bidding, Li Zheng started counting down, wanting to speed up the auction process and finish sooner.
The auction had been going on until now, the sky had turned dark, and Xiao Ying wandered around a few times, urging Li Zheng to hurry and start dining as it couldn’t wait any longer.
"One hundred thirty, second time!"
"One hundred thirty, thi..."
"One hundred fifty!"
Halfway through typing, a new higher bid suddenly appeared in the feed.
Li Zheng paused his typing, seeing that the new bid was from a player who hadn’t said a word since entering the live stream.
Name: Jes D. Fortson.
A player from Star Stripes Country.
Cao Cao saw the screen fill with this message, his pupils slightly trembling: "Finally made a move?"
Once a member of the White-headed Eagle, he was not unfamiliar with this name.
It could even be said that the White-headed Eagle Organization exists because of this person!
Jes D. Fortson!
The great inventor who created the "Offline Thought Control Chip"!
The entire Star Stripes Country’s military is under his control!
If anyone in the Matrix could exploit all of Li Zheng’s value without harming him, it would be Jes!
Just capturing Li Zheng alive, then implanting a control chip into his brain, within just ten seconds, Li Zheng would become a flesh puppet completely obedient to Jes!
Cao Cao was not part of the Star Stripes Country military, just a real estate merchant, quick-witted and wealthy, who mingled into the White-headed Eagle Organization and managed to snag a minor leadership position once inside the Matrix.
After White-headed Eagle gravely offended Li Zheng, he quietly slipped away without saying a word.
Jes was good at scientific inventions but couldn’t play the political game. Following him would only lead to becoming cannon fodder.
Understanding this, Cao Cao decisively fled White-headed Eagle and formed his own Genesis Organization with others.
Cao Cao didn’t know much about Jes, only that he rarely appeared, and when he did, it was only for one thing: recruitment!
"I guessed something was wrong when I saw Jes’s name earlier. Now it seems he wants to recruit Li Zheng for his abilities?" Cao Cao muttered to himself, not too sure of Jes’s true intentions this time.
Sure enough, after sending the bid, Jes added, "Mr. Li Zheng, the White-headed Eagle Organization sincerely invites you to join. As long as you nod, the position of deputy is yours."
Although there aren’t over a hundred thousand members of the White-headed Eagle Organization yet, it’s not far off.
Most of them are ordinary soldiers controlled by Jes using chips before entering the Matrix, valiant and unfailingly loyal to him personally.
Another part consists of people with "abilities" that he recruited during recent days.
Like the two ability users who attacked Li Zheng before.
However, the deputy position has been vacant, with no one in charge.
It could be said that the White-headed Eagle’s "deputy" position is definitely one under one person, yet above tens of thousands!
Jes felt that this time, personally extending an olive branch by letting bygones be bygones in inviting Li Zheng was gentlemanly enough.
Even if Li Zheng doesn’t immediately kneel as others did, he would be tremendously tempted by the White-headed Eagle assistant position.
One must know sitting in that position means having one’s own authorization, controlling the life and death of all Chip Warriors!
Jes was full of confidence; no one could resist such a temptation.
Unfortunately, if it were any other ambitious person, Jes’s personal invitation would likely succeed.
But Li Zheng was different; he merely glanced contemptuously at the message before acting as if he hadn’t seen it, ignoring Jes’s invitation, and continued announcing the bid: "Mr. Jes bids one hundred fifty, is there a higher offer?"
Li Zheng’s action made everyone in the live broadcast room break into a cold sweat.
This was Jes!
The overall head of the White-headed Eagle Organization, with thousands of soldiers under his command, all fiercely loyal to him!
If he truly wanted someone dead in the Matrix, he could bury them with human lives!
They feared that if Li Zheng didn’t agree, Jes would give the order to hunt him down, and equally feared that if Li Zheng agreed, all his items would be monopolized by the White-headed Eagle.
"Mr. Li doesn’t need to rush to agree; any reply before this auction ends counts as valid." Jes continued in the message: "Mr. Li also doesn’t need to continue the countdown; no one would dare to outbid me!"
These words were even more infuriating than Liu Qi’s previous actions!
Yet nobody dared to post a counter message.
No one even dared to simply outbid him.
The reasonable fear the reckless, the reckless fear the ruthless, and the ruthless fear the fearless.
As a head of a large organization, Liu Qi belonged to the reasonable type, while Jes was the "fearless" one.
At least those he sent truly had no regard for their lives!
More terrifying than a terrorist organization!
Who could provoke him?
Who would dare to provoke him?
"In that case..." Li Zheng nods thoughtfully, "then these Cultivation Dishes are yours."
He didn’t count down, simply completing the transaction of the ten Cultivation Dishes with Jes.
After the transaction was complete, Li Zheng confirmed he had received the materials and made some quick moves.
[Player "Jes D. Fortson" has been kicked out of the live stream by the host.]
At this point, everyone was stunned.
Only Li Zheng kept a grim face and said quietly, "Showing off in my territory? Who gave you the guts?"