I Want to Be with Kitty Forever! / Can I? You Can!

It's not impossible that Wei Yenwu, being a member of the royal family, had the vicious instinct for power struggles deeply ingrained in his soul.

With war looming and the Commercial Union about to become a liability, Wei Yenwu saw an opportunity to completely expel Victoria's influence from Lungmen.

In any case, it's still necessary to prepare early.

The Lee's eyelids were half-open and half-closed.

Even old friends often can't understand Wei Yenwu's thoughts. Moreover, Lee's "old friend" relationship with Wei Yenwu isn't as close as Rat King's, nor as close as Edward's...

In Lee's eyes, Wei Yenwu, this dragon, can be both passionate and cold-blooded—one moment he's caught up in personal feelings, the next he's turning against them for the sake of national righteousness.

After PRTS's calculations, Oute intercepted some rather interesting intelligence without alerting Lee: although all factions in Lungmen support Wei Yenwu to varying degrees, conversely, they also oppose him to varying degrees.

Chapter 101 I want to spend the whole night with the cat!

"What about my studies?" Waai Fu asked indirectly, expressing his resistance.

Lee, speaking in the tone of a strange old man coaxing a little girl, said to the young female college student, Waai Fu, "Working at Rhodes Island is very easy, and besides..."

The dragon-faced man leaned closer and said slyly, "Even if you spend 364 out of 365 days a year in school, they'll still pay you a salary!"

Waai Fu was somewhat tempted, but she asked, "How could that be? They're not here to do charity!"

She realized something halfway through her sentence and changed her tune, saying, "That's not the kind of charity they're doing!"

Upon hearing the sound reproduced by PRTS, Oute raised an eyebrow.

If Waai Fu really did that, he would indeed still pay her salary—but she was too upright and would never do such a thing.

Furthermore, feel free to send more people over, as long as they're not in the same pool as the anniversary limited ones!

The Lee, leisurely and greasy, said, "Oh dear, I have a brilliant plan."

What brilliant plan did he have... At that time, Waai Fu's real job was to stand there like Swire and Jie, to show the others in Lungmen that Rhodes Island was not a foreign power and had no intention of completely destroying Lungmen's old order.

Furthermore, it's best if they're willing to work; otherwise, forget it.

Regardless of whether Oute wanted to break it or not, in reality and on the surface, it wasn't Oute who broke the old order.

As for why Rhodes Island was eating so juicy food, well... well, it's like a pie falling from the sky!

God has blessed me with talent!

It's all luck!

They don't have any real strength at all!

Knock knock.

Oute focused his mind and turned off the volume on the terminal.

Ms. PRTS quietly turned on the recording and notification functions, ready at any moment.

"Please come in."

The ship has been docked for some time now, and a large number of personnel are rushing from the ship to fill the Rhodes Island Lungmen Office. They are striving to get this fortress, which is full of temporary fortifications, up and running as soon as possible.

"Doctor. Oute!" Dobermann said loudly, somewhat flustered.

After opening the door himself, a dignified young man from Liberi sat amidst a pile of documents. His dark eyes seemed to be constantly gleaming with intelligence.

How come everyone can see what they want just by looking at you?

Upon meeting again on such a formal occasion, Oute even removed his hood, revealing his face, which made Dobermann almost instinctively want to salute.

Even though the urge to give a sudden salute was suppressed, Dobermann still stood at attention with his hands behind his back.

In other words, it means "Chest out! Stomach in! Head up!"

That's quite interesting.

"There's no need to be so serious." Oute gestured for her to sit down in front of him.

"Yes!"

"I don't know if you've noticed, Warfarin is helping me push things forward with..." Oute paused, ""let's call it the militia."

"Warfarin is helping me train a group of Ursus militia."

"Yes!"

Oute frowned slightly.

Dobermann's attitude was a bit strange, but he couldn't figure out what the problem was for the time being.

Given that Swire was stationed there by the Lungmen Guard Department, and considering his special order for Warfarin to train the militia, this act of stripping Dobermann of his authority should, in theory, have met with some degree of opposition...

Why does she seem... happy?

This judgment made Oute hesitate, and it also made him Specter.

However, he was still judging others by his own standards.

Not everyone is like him, deriving an abstract, twisted, and grotesque pleasure from the pursuit of power. This scoundrel shouldn't even exist in Terra. If you weld his ass to the Golden Throne, he might be happily playing Stellaris in some distant 40K...

Of course, at this moment, Oute was only hesitant about his judgment because he lacked the keen senses of Specter as Abyssal Hunters.

In reality, Dobermann might be hoping someone would lend a hand or help out...

Oute noticed this, and based on this, he slightly modified his original statement, saying, "Actually, I have other tasks to assign you."

"Yes, sir!"

Clearly lacking the senses of Abyssal Hunters, Oute failed to fully grasp Dobermann's current state of mind: she was completely captivated by Oute.

In Dobermann's eyes, the current Oute: top-notch in frontline command, top-notch in strategic decision-making, top-notch in logistical operations, has a high sense of responsibility and moral standards, and also "cares for his soldiers".

She's good-looking too.

Although Oute himself has consciously or unconsciously seized power, he doesn't think his current actions are particularly outstanding... just a low-spec version of General Yuan with micro-management cheats.

He believed that his actions, aside from the military advantages and his full understanding of Rhodes Island's spirit and righteousness, meant he wouldn't try to claim the Black Crown; even distributing money made him feel a little guilty, unlike General Yuan who did it with such openness.

But Dobermann was once a soldier in the Bolívar army. Even if the original Marshal Yuan traveled back in time to Bolívar and took power, it would still be better than the current situation.

Moreover, the tailored approach taken by Oute actually turned out quite well.

"Wait a moment, take Operator Swire back to headquarters to familiarize her with our training grounds and procedures." Oute paused, then said, "Arrange her accommodation on this ship as well."

Does this need to be specifically mentioned?

Dobermann had some doubts.

"However, your most important task is still to get a note from Kal'tsit and retrieve a Dream-Sleep Device from Closure."

Yes, we need Kal'tsit's signature for this—because Oute's embezzlement has already been exposed, and if he provokes the cat again, his back will be covered in scratches when he goes to bed tonight.

It's not that Oute can't cover it up, but everything leaves a trace. Intentionally covering it up would only make things seem worse.

I want to play with the cat all night!

"Dream-Sleep Device?"

"Closure should tell you."

No, she won't.

Closure herself didn't know what this thing was for, so how could she tell others?

But let others tell the lies.

Oute reminded her, "After you get the Dream-Sleep Device, wear it to bed before 10 p. m.

"I see, Mianmeng..." Dobermann nodded, his small eyebrows relaxing.

"That way, I can have an easier time too."

It means there's no need to make up nonsense.

Finally, Oute reminded her, "Swire, she's the one downstairs training the new recruits, Feline."

With Rhodes Island establishing a firm foothold in Lungmen, quite a few Lungmen residents have indeed joined voluntarily. Oute's current plan is for the vast majority of them to remain at the Lungmen office.

The reason is simple: Rhodes Island is just a newcomer to Lungmen, and it not only isn't afraid of its offices becoming too close to the local faction, but it's actually quite happy about it...

Chapter 102, is that okay? Yes, it is!

A person can only play the cards they already have in their hand; the spirits of their ancestors will forever linger in the minds of their descendants.

If Oute had taken over a normal feudal state, he would have definitely taken a centralized approach and begun to challenge the perennial central-local conflict. Since he has taken over the Knights Hospitaller... asking for "borrowing" money is the right thing to do.

The Eastern Empire of the Latins is heresy!

The stronger the bond between the office and the on-site staff, the more important they can be in the activities of "I am Rhodes Island, send money" and "I am Rhodes Island, rob".

Furthermore... Oute also discovered a very interesting person among these newly recruited Lungmen operators.

She was somewhat evasive around Swire, and luckily, the little tiger was a bit careless and didn't notice her. But if Ch'en were here, she probably wouldn't be able to hide anymore...

This person is none other than "Nine," a former high-ranking member of the Lungmen Guard Department who once served as Ch'en's superior before "resigning" due to Originium Infection.

In the original timeline, although she disliked the state of Reunion Movement after Black Snake's intervention, she was still attached to the original ideals of Reunion Movement. The fact that Reunion Movement was able to revive in the form of "New Reunion Movement" and live a second life was inseparable from her efforts.

However, it was about six months after she resigned from the Lungmen Guard Department that she connected with the Reunion Movement.

In other words, regardless of how she defines her identity now, to outsiders, she is indeed already a member of the "Reunion Movement".

As part of the Reunion Movement, which distanced itself from Black Snake, Nine may have had more contact with Talulah's original ideals. This makes her "infiltration" of Rhodes Island particularly interesting.

Can this corner of the wall be pried open?

It's very difficult, but not entirely impossible.

Nine had been "lying low" in the Reunion Movement for more than three years. Judging from her final choice, Wei Yenwu's annual abstract event, "You think I killed all the infected people in the slums, but actually I was just putting on an act and didn't kill them all," can only be considered the last straw that broke the camel's back.

However, it is not absolutely impossible.

Because of Oute, Wei Yenwu's image in the slums has suddenly become more personified... The resentment of the nine infected people has not yet been fully ignited by such a concrete symbol as "the corpse of an infected child in the sewer".

At this moment, she still harbored illusions about reformism.