Chapter 233 Hardship of Being the Boss

The whole situation flipped from one twist to another in less than a minute. An Xiao hadn’t even recovered from the shock of confrontation when she heard the old brother surrender right in front of her.

He was faster than her!

It felt quite magical.

Ling Mo reacted quickly, immediately manifesting two pairs of handcuffs to cuff Long San and the girl. Then he turned to Long Zun and asked, “What about him?”

“Gentlemen, since I’m already surrendering, is it really necessary to treat me like this?” Long Zun’s expression turned miserable, “Can’t we sit down and have a good chat? You came here for what, I’ll agree to it.”

Xia Xinyan squinted at him for a moment and said, “We want your Canglong.”

“Okay, okay, no problem! I’ll give up my boss position, can you let me go then?” Long Zun put on an overly cooperative act.

Then Long San cried out again, “Boss! Are you really going to just hand over your achievements to these people?!”

“Shut the hell up!” Long Zun couldn’t hold back any longer and shouted, “If it weren’t for your useless execution of my orders, would Canglong have been targeted? I told you all not to be too damn high-profile, but you stubbornly wouldn’t listen! Just because you have some abilities, you think you’re better than everyone? I told you to bring back anyone who wouldn’t join the organization for a memory wipe, and what do you do? You make people physically disappear! I said doing that would cause trouble! Who the hell ever listens to me?!”

Long San: “…”

Xia Xinyan: “…”

Ling Mo: “…”

Looks like being a boss wasn’t very comfortable for him.

This venting seemed to open a floodgate for Long Zun, who couldn’t stop himself from ranting: “The whole world is about to be driven to the apocalypse by that damned game! Is it wrong for me just to want to live a good life in the future? After all the trouble of pulling together a little organization, was it easy for me?! I don’t have any ambition to rule the world; I just want to stay in this little place, eat, and wait for death without getting bullied by anyone. Can’t you at least satisfy that little request of mine?”

After a pause, he continued cursing, “Who the hell was promoting world domination in the organization?! Who let in so many late-stage delusional idiots?! Who thought having some abilities made them superior?! Now look where we are! We’ve attracted someone more powerful who’s come to our door, and you want to push me out to face the heat?! Is that fair?!”

Long San even felt guilty after being scolded like that: “… Sorry, boss, we misunderstood your meaning.”

“Sorry is useless; Canglong is gone, it has to be renamed!” Long Zun wiped his bitter tears, adjusted his mindset, and looked at Xia Xinyan and the others, saying, “Ahem, sorry for making you laugh—here’s the real situation: I have no big ambitions, nor have I thought of harming anyone. I’m not asking you to give me a seat, I just hope you can let me off… It would be best to leave me some time to take everything with me.”

Xia Xinyan frowned slightly: “You didn’t instruct them to kill anyone?”

“Definitely not!” Long Zun hurriedly denied, “I was just worried that if Canglong was exposed and targeted by a big force, even a small fry is still meat, and if those big forces wanted to swallow us, the first to die would definitely be the boss of Canglong, right? I just wanted to live honestly—so I told them, if someone didn’t want to join Canglong, bring them back for Little Bu to hypnotize and wipe that memory. I really didn’t have any intent to harm; who knew those idiots would screw it up and end up killing people?”

After a brief pause, he continued, “And to date, only three people have been killed—I’m not saying three is a little! I place great value on life; we’re all human, peace is important, right? I’m really sorry for their deaths, and if any were your… friends or anything, I can help you however I can; I can even call in the killer for you to deal with. How about that?”

Xia Xinyan suddenly felt like laughing.

This guy… actually isn’t so dumb.

He probably guessed their intention the moment they walked in, and he had a clear grasp of the situation—those who dared to show off at this point either really had strength, had a powerful backer, or possessed both. Of course, there was a chance they were reckless fools, but based on the brief scuffle, Long Zun could eliminate that possibility.

So in either of the first two scenarios, they were not a threat that this little organization could handle. Rather than get in deeper trouble, it would be better to concede early, at least to avoid a humiliating death.

If he really just wanted to live well, then there was nothing wrong with this approach; first, wash his bad reputation clean, push all the blame to others—no matter the truth, that would likely make the newcomers underestimate him, and the more they looked down on him, the less likely they would be to bother with him and let him go.

On the flip side, if what he said was true… then he was also pretty much a failure as a boss, or rather, he just couldn’t be a boss.

After pondering for a while, Xia Xinyan said, “Gather all your people. We’ll come to take over tomorrow noon. If anyone else comes looking for you during this time, just say you’ve already been selected by the Summer Family, understood?”

“…Understood, understood.” Long Zun was extremely cooperative.

Xia Xinyan nodded and looked at Ling Mo and the others: “Let’s go.”

Even after leaving Canglong, An Xiao still looked confused: “Wait… we… are just leaving like this?”

That incredible opportunity to take Canglong just slipped away…

“Or else what? Do an on-the-spot regime change? Crown you as the boss?” Xia Xinyan shot her a sideways glance, “Our purpose in coming here is to take down Canglong, not to become its boss.”

“… So what do you mean?”

“Any organization that wants to grow and thrive needs a good leader, but we aren’t that.” Xia Xinyan simply replied.

Though they weren’t… she already had a potential candidate in mind.

An Xiao still didn’t get it: “Aren’t you worried they’ll prepare to ambush us when we come tomorrow?”

“They won’t,” Xia Xinyan firmly shook her head, “That big guy isn’t that stupid.”

Since Long Zun had repeatedly tested their reactions in the dark, she simply satisfied him and dropped the name “Summer Family” in her last line.

As for anyone else coming looking for trouble, that was just a pretext.

As long as he wasn’t foolish, Long Zun would figure out their background, precisely the high strength and great background he was looking for—if he wanted to survive, then he wouldn’t have any thoughts of resistance.

And even if they were genuinely a bunch of idiots, it just meant a few more people would be killed.

She really didn’t regard the ambush of this group with any concern.