Chapter 388 - 363: I Want to Recruit You! Want to Be a General?

Chapter 388: Chapter 363: I Want to Recruit You! Want to Be a General?

On the super cruise ship, amid a mix of excited and dejected voices, the Xuanfeng Alliance’s nutritional supplement launch event concluded successfully.

Liu Hai breathed a sigh of relief.

He knew pirates would be coming tonight, and he had been genuinely afraid they would suddenly burst in halfway through the event.

Fortunately, nothing had happened.

The pirates had likely been dealt with already, without so much as making a ripple.

’It made sense, though. A group of pirates targeting an entire country? Wasn’t that just a death wish?’

When the launch event ended, he also hurried away from the scene.

He noticed some of the women were giving him strange looks, as if they wanted to devour him whole.

Seeing their large figures, he felt a little intimidated and decided it was best to make a quick escape.

If they had been smoking hot babes, he wouldn’t have minded chatting them up. Maybe they could have developed a connection, and something... enjoyable might have happened.

As for the on-site product purchasing, he could just leave it to others to handle.

His only remaining responsibility was to handle the upcoming negotiations with the diet product companies.

However, from the desperate look on those companies’ faces, he could tell their desire to secure the distribution rights was far greater, and more urgent, than the Xuanfeng Alliance’s desire to sell.

Therefore, the Xuanfeng Alliance was in no rush at all.

They were in the driver’s seat now.

With Liu Hai’s departure, the main program of the launch event was over.

Chen Lu looked at the heavyset man beside her, his face beaming with joy, and couldn’t help but sigh.

He had won a spot for the free trial treatment, but she hadn’t.

’Why wasn’t my luck as good as his?’

Then, she saw numerous staff members emerge, pushing out case after case of the product.

Security guards had already set up a police line to prevent a crush of people.

But how could Chen Lu and the other large people around her care about that? They all surged forward in a frenzy.

After all, the number of products available for on-site purchase was limited! There were only 100,000 units in total, and who knew how many had already been allocated to the event on the beach below.

So, you had to fight for it.

In that moment, Chen Lu unleashed some kind of primal strength, directly shoving aside several large people in front of her.

’If I can’t get one now, this whole trip will have been for nothing!’

Liu Hai had left the conference hall and gone up to the next level. Standing on a walkway looking down, he could see the entire scene.

’What a product,’ he thought. ’It really drives people wild.’

But once the negotiations with the diet product companies were over, this product would no longer be his concern. He was about to officially take up his new post as the director of the Xuanfeng Alliance’s international seaport.

...

「Meanwhile」

Nex woke up in a room to find several men surrounding him, staring at him with cold sneers.

He could feel a palpable threat emanating from them.

His expression turned particularly grim when he saw the black man who had brought him here.

"You’re from the Beautiful Country?" Vast asked Nex with curiosity.

Nex didn’t answer, so Vast just continued, "I came out of the Drifting Country myself. But I hate the Beautiful Country to my very core. I imagine you’re the same."

"..." Nex gave Vast a long look upon hearing this. But just as he was about to open his mouth, the black man suddenly lunged forward and seized him by the throat.

Nex was completely stunned.

’Is this guy a psycho?’

’One moment he’s trying to build rapport, making me think he has some kind of agenda, and the next he has me in a one-handed chokehold.’

The man’s strength was simply too great; Nex had no way to resist.

"Before I take you to see the Governor, I’m going to give you a little accessory," Vast said, holding out his hand. A nearby Speed Ability User handed him an electronic chain, and he fastened it around Nex’s neck.

Only then did he release Nex.

Nex’s expression was grim. He instinctively tugged at the electronic chain, only to find the clasp seemed perfectly seamless. He couldn’t pull it off at all.

"Don’t waste your energy. You can’t take it off," Vast said, turning on a screen. "Here, let me show you what it does."

On the screen, Nex saw a figure wearing the same kind of chain. Then, the chain flashed violently. The figure’s neck snapped, and its head rolled to the ground.

The scene made Nex instinctively flinch, a chill running down his spine.

’Wearing this thing... doesn’t that mean your life is completely in someone else’s hands?’

Nex now understood his situation, and his expression was grim beyond belief.

Crucially, he had no idea what they wanted with him.

’They caught me, but they didn’t kill me.’

What horrified him even more was that these people didn’t seem like ordinary humans at all.

After a moment, Nex forced himself to calm down and asked, "Are all of my men captured?"

His operation tonight had been too bizarre. It had been declared a failure before he even understood what went wrong.

"They’re all in prison," Vast replied without hesitation. He then added, "Whether they live or die will depend on you."

"You knew my plan in advance?" Nex asked, unable to accept it.

Vast said coldly, "That’s right. The Governor knew your detailed plan all along. He was just waiting for you to walk into his trap."

"Who was it? Who the hell betrayed me?" Nex roared, furious.

All he had wanted was to retire with his men and live a normal life, yet someone had stabbed him in the back.

"No one betrayed you," Vast sneered. "But your plan was hardly a secret."

Nex found his words contradictory.

’If no one betrayed me, how could they possibly know my plan in detail?’

Vast clearly didn’t want to waste any more words. "Let’s go. The Governor is waiting for you."

Nex watched the black man walk out, then gritted his teeth and followed.

He, too, wanted to see this mysterious Governor of the Xuanfeng Alliance who had so thoroughly defeated him.

The man had always been one of the Xuanfeng Alliance’s greatest secrets.

Many people must have wanted to know his true identity, but there was no way to find out. Not a single photo of him had ever circulated online.

It was unbelievable.

’I have no idea how he managed it.’

Two Speed Ability Users fell in behind Nex, giving him no opportunity to try anything.

Nex shook his head in resignation.

Not that he was planning on trying anything. He had already witnessed the freakish abilities of the black man in front of him and the two men behind him.

With that kind of power and speed, he knew he was no match for them.

Besides, with all of his men in their prisons, what could he possibly do? If only for their sake, the only thing he could do now was cooperate.

Nex soon followed them to the topmost deck of the super cruise ship.

Several figures were seated there around a table. It appeared to be a tea table, the kind used in the Dragon Country.

The beverage they were drinking had to be tea.

He recognized Baguda and Yasna.

After all, the two were very famous in both the Xuanfeng Alliance and Boya, making frequent public appearances. He had naturally come across their profiles while reviewing intelligence.

As for the others, one was Dali, a general in the Xuanfeng Alliance, and another was a man called Red Lizard.

This Red Lizard had only become well-known after the Xuanfeng Alliance’s founding. He was a commander, and rumor had it that the soldiers under him were the Alliance’s absolute elite.

Nex was shocked. These were all high-ranking members of the Xuanfeng Alliance.

He had targeted this super cruise ship, and all the while, these people had just been sitting up here drinking tea. They must have been watching his little performance the entire time, while he’d thought he was the one in control.

At that moment, Nex felt like a buffoon. He was filled with shame and humiliation, wishing the ground would open up and swallow him whole.

But then, he watched in astonishment as the black man walked up to a young man and reported respectfully, "His Excellency the Governor, I have brought Nex."

"His... His Excellency the Governor?"

Nex’s eyes flew open. The mysterious Governor of the Xuanfeng Alliance was this young man?

It was too absurd.

’How could he be so young?’

But the reality seemed to be just that. Baguda and the others were all looking at the young man with clear deference, waiting for him to make a move.

Nex was aghast, and in that instant, he sensed just how formidable this young man was.

’What kind of methods does he use,’ Nex wondered, ’to make people like Baguda and Yasna so completely subservient?’

Lu Feng looked at Nex. The gaze instantly put Nex under immense, inexplicable pressure, and he swallowed subconsciously.

He felt awful. He was Nex, the infamous leader of the Sar Pirate Organization.

He had faced encirclement by the Beautiful Country’s navy without a shred of fear, remaining perfectly composed.

Yet now, facing this young Governor of the Xuanfeng Alliance, his composure was proving to be so fragile.

"Wh-what do you want?" Nex could only force the question out, hoping to hide his own wretched state.

Lu Feng didn’t rush to answer. Instead, he picked up a cup from the tea table, took a sip, and then said to Nex in a relaxed tone, "I want to recruit you. How would you like to be a general?"

"Huh?" Nex was completely unable to process what he had just heard.