The Sect Master had to maintain his status.
The Strategist had to lower himself and steady the situation.
So the Strategist pulled Chen Yong over and said with a grin, "I'll send him away, and we can keep talking. With this kind of thing, we need to speak from the heart. Both sides should lay out our demands, difficulties, thoughts... put everything on the table. Communication is what matters most!"
Chen Yong returned to the room and pointed at Lu Chengwen. "Come here. You, come here. Let me show you!"
The Strategist quickly said, "I'll send him away. We won't talk to him."
"No!" Chen Yong got worked up. "I'm discussing professional matters with him. You people wouldn't understand. You, come here! You!"
Lu Chengwen leaned over. Chen Yong opened a tablet and began talking endlessly, covering everything from the terrain and landscape to the commercial layout.
Lu Chengwen looked at the map of Sai River City's most prosperous district, tilting his head farther and farther to the side...
Chen Yong looked at Lu Chengwen. "What are you looking at?"
"Oh, nothing... nothing."
Lu Chengwen used one hand to rotate the map on the screen.
Chen Yong stared at him. "You look at maps like that? Doesn't it strain your eyes?"
"Oh, right, right..."
Chen Yong sensed something was off. He hurriedly snatched back the tablet and tried rotating the map one hundred and eighty degrees to look at it upside down!
Huh!? Interesting!
Chen Yong spotted the issue. He pointed at a location and turned to his secretary. "This... what is this?"
The secretary said, "It's a large sports complex that has already been abandoned. Behind it is an old movie theater, built sometime in the last century. Oh, and over here is Old Seafood Street... over here... huh?!"