"What the hell are you talking about?"
Blushing, Li Wuji said in the most hoarse and desperate voice, "My position and future in the family have been completely ruined by you two wretched prisoners. What do you mean by 'community of interests'?"
"My lord, it seems that you haven't figured out the situation yet."
Boss Bai said with a smile, "Once the news that the 'National Protection Army' rebelled and caused the annihilation of your fleet was sent back to the territory of the four Kurfürsten, we would certainly be doomed. However, as the person in charge of the whole thing, you would certainly be disgraced and killed without a burial. You would only be a joke and a disgrace like Li Lingfeng and Li Linghai, wouldn't you?
"However, here comes the most important point. What if the news of your failure was not sent back to the family or even out of this space zone?"
Li Wuji had been on the verge of collapse. As his ambitions withered, his soul seemed to have withered to the limits.
However, Boss Bai's words were like a ray of sunlight in the middle of the overwhelming dark clouds, illuminating his head immediately.
Like a viper that had just been revived, Li Wuji tried to straighten his back.
"Think about it, my lord. Right now, the space zone around the Blue Sky Market is under our control. Not a single starship has escaped. You haven't had the time to send a signal for help to the family. Even if you did, it would've been jammed by us."
Boss Bai said patiently, "Then, as long as we don't tell the truth, who knows what happened in the Blue Sky Market in the past day?
"Look, the organization of the National Protection Army is more or less intact. In fact, because the guys who each had their own schemes and were fickle were removed, the cohesion of the army has even been strengthened!
"As for your fleet, of course, it suffered heavy losses. However, attacking the Blue Sky Market comes with a price in the first place. As long as the maintenance of the dock is accelerated, it is not entirely impossible to cover it up.
"Let's consider one possibility — the National Protection Army is nominally still under your command, and the letter you sent to the family territory is not a letter asking for help, but a report of victory. A report of victory in conquering the Blue Sky Market. At most, the losses will be slightly greater than previously estimated.
"In such a case, is it possible to preserve my lord's reputation and position in the four families for now?"
Pondering for a long time in a daze, Li Wuji shook his head and said, "The truth will be exposed sooner or later."
"Not necessarily."
Boss Bai chuckled so sincerely and yet so hideously. "Very soon, it will be the 'Battle of Seven Seas' where the four families' coalition fleet attacks the headquarters of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors. The scale of the Battle of Seven Seas is at least ten times larger than the Battle of the Blue Sky Market. Countless fleets will be mired in the swirl of destruction. There will be plenty of opportunities for us to take advantage of the chaos. As long as we swallow more fleets like we did in the Battle of Seven Seas, we will expand the scale of the National Protection Army to the point that nobody can annihilate us anymore.
"At that time, who would care about Marquis's little lie today? As long as you have a strong army, you can call a deer a horse. Isn't that the rule of the game? "
Li Wuji's face was cramping violently, as if he did not know the space pirate squatting before him at all. He found it hard to believe. "You — you are too crazy. I am a marquess of the Imperium. You are trying to turn me into your accomplice and the cover of the National Protection Army!"
"Wrong."
Boss Bai said gently and was about to slap Li Wuji's face, only to realize that his hands were too dirty. Smiling in embarrassment, he wiped his hands on his clothes that were full of stains and blood. After covering them with more dust, oil, and blood, he finally patted Li Wuji's face neither too heavily nor lightly. "Accomplice? You don't deserve it, my lord. I only need an obedient dog."
"You —"
Li Wuji was dumbfounded at first. Then he burst into fury and was about to counterattack.
"Put away this pretentious act."
Boss Bai suddenly sped up and slapped Li Wuji's face twice as quickly as lightning. "Did you know that there are only two kinds of people in this world? No, no, no. Not the Cultivators and the Immortal Cultivators, not the people of the Imperium and the Holy League, not the good guys and the bad guys, but the people who are unwilling to be dogs and the people who are willing to be dogs.
"It has nothing to do with strength, position, glory, power, or any other fancy things. It's just a choice in the deepest part of your heart.
"As for me, I'm the former — the people who are unwilling to be dogs, but my lord is the latter. Don't lie to yourself. I can see it. Even if I can't, I can still smell the stench of dogs deep inside my lord's bones. So, I have high hopes for my lord, and I believe that my lord can make great achievements in his new post."
"Asshole, how dare you humiliate a marquess of the Imperium like that!"
Blushing in fury, Li Wuji tried his best to straighten his body and bite Boss Bai's throat, but it was a pity that he was locked by Boss Bai and could not move at all. He could only gnash his teeth and say, "In your dreams. I would rather die than be associated with you and deceive my family and the entire Imperium. Go to hell, you lowly bandit!"
"That's a real shame."
Boss Bai said calmly and drew a silk handkerchief from Li Wuji's open collar. He wiped his dirty hands first and the greasy sweat on his forehead and the back of his neck with it, before he finally crumpled it and threw it at Li Wuji's face.
"Right."
He suddenly changed the topic and said, "I wonder, for someone as knowledgeable as my lord, do you know how to deal with the excrement of the crew members in a fully-enclosed starship?
"Right, if my lord doesn't know anything, I can explain it to my lord in detail. We have a magical equipment unit named septic tank. Through the processing mechanism of microbes, the excrement of human beings can be reduced into the most fundamental elements and thrown back into the ecological cycle.
"Aya, seeing is not as good as hearing. It's hard to explain. Why don't I ask my lord to check it out right now? One of my starships happened to be hit in the circulation cabin at the bottom level where the septic tank was located. Tsk, tsk, tsk. The scene, the smell, and the touch were truly 'marvelous'. "
Li Wuji's face completely changed. Like a chicken whose neck had been grabbed, he shrieked, "What are you doing, Boss Bai? What do you want exactly? I … I won't let go of you even if I become a ghost!"
"Nothing. I'm just asking my lord to go to the quiet, unpopulated place and think calmly."
Boss Bai smiled. "If my lord does become a ghost there, you will certainly be a ghost … with a full stomach."
"No, no, no!"
Every hair on Li Wuji's body was standing up and shivering, and he was about to completely collapse.
Boss Bai turned a deaf ear to his screams. Summoning his servants, he instructed, "Come on. Serve my lord to take a nap in the circulation cabin at the bottom level of 'Thundersnake'. Well, just hang him one meter above the septic tank and lower him a little bit every minute. After my lord is full and thinks it through, bring him to meet me.
"My lord, this way, please. You're welcome. This way, please!"
Boss Bai bowed deeply to Li Wuji and saw him off politely.
"Boss Bai! Boss Bai! Boss Bai! "
Li Wuji shrieked like a vengeful ghost. Even a pig that was about to be sent to the slaughterhouse did not struggle as hard as he did. Even though he was dragged several kilometers away, his screams could still be heard clearly.
After taking care of two important persons on the side of the reformists and the four families in a row, Boss Bai couldn't help but chuckle as he watched Li Wuji's miserable body being dragged away by brute force. Then, he said to A Boxing Champion next to him, "Let's continue the topic just now. Should we talk while we walk?"
The two experts walked to the depths of the port confidently.
What they saw on their way were busy maintenance and upgrades, or the clearance and loading of assets. The Big Bai Pirate Gang and the fleet of the Cultivators were like two greedy bugs that crouched on the "big apple" that was the Blue Sky Market, determined to suck up all the juice.
After the battle of the Blue Sky Market, both Boss Bai, who defeated twenty-eight pirate gangs in the market, and A Boxing Champion, who was bold enough to ambush Li Wuji's fleet in space, had become "gods" in the eyes of each other's warriors. Wherever they went, everybody cheered and saluted them.
Talking and laughing, the two of them walked to the depths of the forsaken port. It was not until they reached a quiet place that Boss Bai said, "The distribution method this time is still the same. I don't want to keep any of the cunning and evil guys in the twenty-eight pirate gangs alive. As for the guys who don't owe too much blood debts and can still be polished and modified, the ambitious and dishonest ones will be mine, and the dutiful ones who are only trying to survive will be yours.
"As for the starships, I've checked them. Only 20% of the starships can keep up with the speed of the Big Bai Pirate Gang at best. However, I will have to dismantle the power units and fuel cabins of some of the starships to modify my starships and make them faster. After conversion, about half of the starships will be yours. Even so, the scale of your fleet will be expanded by twice immediately. How about it? Can you handle it?"
"Not a problem. I can."
Compared to Boss Bai who was chattering nonstop, A Boxing Champion was even more taciturn and meticulous. He calculated carefully for a while before he said cautiously, "When I was in the Land of Sins, I was more or less the No. 1 bandit. However, after I came to the depths of space and witnessed Boss Bai's methods, I finally realized that this was what a real 'bandit leader' looked like.
"Without Boss Bai's comprehensive planning and almost foresight, there would've been no chance of success in today's battle at all. I admire you, Boss Bai."
"Admire me? You don't have to. Everything I've done is still within the comprehension of ordinary people. "
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