Lu Chengwen talked a whole lot of nonsense without saying a single useful thing, pumping everyone full of excitement.
It worked remarkably well.
Everyone was busy being moved or moving themselves, and forgot what they had just been discussing.
Feng Xianzi rose to her feet:
"Make your preparations. Meeting adjourned."
Lu Chengwen did not understand any of it. What kind of nonsense was that? The meeting was over just like that? She had not said anything!
The crowd dispersed.
The skinny man and the burly man approached him.
The skinny man clasped his hands. "Brother, you're quite the speaker!"
"You flatter me, you flatter me."
"Join our Rationalist faction. We'll kill Lu Chengwen together!"
"Huh?" Lu Chengwen looked at the two of them. "I'm going too?"
The burly man said, "You're a good brother! We'll kill Lu Chengwen together!"
Lu Chengwen scratched his head. "No... I don't think I can. My martial arts are terrible."
"That's fine. You can be in the suicide squad. Lure Old Man Wu away, then we'll go capture Lu Chengwen alive."
"No... are you trying to kill him or capture him alive?"
"If we can capture him alive, we capture him alive. If we can't, we kill him."
"And if you capture him alive?"
"Hehehe!"
The skinny man said, "They say Lu Chengwen is loaded, and he especially loves throwing money at problems. Once we capture him, we won't even need to interrogate him. Feed him a lump of shit every day, and within three days, he'll obediently hand over money."
"You're doing this for money?"
"Of course not!" the skinny man snapped. "We're doing this for justice! Fairness! Peace and love! The money is just a side benefit."
Lu Chengwen nodded. "Got it."
He looked back and saw that Feng Xianzi had already gone