Chapter 777: Candidates for Deputy Captain

The first meeting after Chen Ye became Chief Seat came to an end.

The entire meeting had only lasted about ten minutes. There had been no pointless chatter. Once they had covered the important points, they adjourned.

Every one of these announcements would have a tremendous impact on Xi City’s future.

The first was the formation of an alliance government.

This would be Xi City’s official organization in the future.

The second was the restructuring of Guard Team Thirteen.

Guard Team Thirteen was Xi City’s enforcement arm, and it would certainly be expanded in the future.

The third was the question of taxes.

Some people were opposed to taxes, while others supported them.

But as long as Guard Team Thirteen, the Convoy Alliance, and the Silent Council did not object, it would not be a major problem.

For now, the Silent Council was doing most of the work to build Xi City. Other convoys were contributing too, but their preparations were nowhere near as thorough as the Silent Council’s.

Happy Garden, for instance, was being renovated primarily by the Silent Council’s architectural Superhumans and its members.

The plan was to use these tax revenues to build Xi City in the future.

Of course, each convoy would still manage, develop, and operate the territory it had seized for itself.

All three matters were important, and none took precedence over the others.

The matter most closely related to Chen Ye himself was the restructuring of Guard Team Thirteen.

The changes to Guard Team Thirteen had attracted a lot of attention.

In a sense, the thirteen members of Guard Team Thirteen were the strongest people in all of Xi City.

And that was not all.

Being a captain of Guard Team Thirteen meant becoming part of Xi City’s privileged class.

This had many ambitious people hoping to have the strong members of their convoys give it a try.

Over the next few days, the captain positions in Guard Team Thirteen would likely undergo major changes.

Perhaps every time a new convoy arrived in the future, there would be some changes.

By the afternoon,

the first news to come in, once again, had to do with You Hu.

Building One had been designated as the main administrative building.

The entire sixth floor was reserved for Guard Team Thirteen’s offices.

Besides the conference room where the first meeting had been held, several small offices had also been partitioned off nearby.

These small offices had been set aside for the clerical staff of Guard Team Thirteen in the future.

The largest office had a sign on the door that read, “Chief Seat’s Office.”

Chen Ye was in that office at the moment.

He had not come in specifically to sit at his desk.

He had simply seen an office like this and wanted to take a look.

Meanwhile, Little Fish had already taken on the air of a core member and deputy captain of Guard Team One, and was telling Chen Ye the news she had just received.

“At one o’clock this afternoon, You Hu got into a fight with a Superhuman from one of the newly arrived convoys!”

Little Fish reported the latest news with an expressionless face.

Chen Ye looked astonished. “Someone challenged his position?”

“That was part of it. Mainly, the guy had a smart mouth and mocked You Hu for crying after you beat him.”

“Then You Hu got into a fight with him!”

Chen Ye’s mouth twitched.

Little Fish continued her report. “At one thirty, You Hu got into a confrontation with a Superhuman from the Titan Sequence…”

Chen Ye was astonished again. “Was it because he got mocked again?”

Little Fish nodded and continued, “At two o’clock, You Hu…”

“Wait, wait a second,” Chen Ye interrupted. “Just tell me directly, how many people has You Hu gotten into conflicts with so far?”

Little Fish raised her right hand and counted on her fingers. “The one from the new convoy, the one from the Titan Sequence, and…”

“Over the entire afternoon, You Hu fought seven people!”

“He won every time?”

“Yeah, every time!”

“Was it all for the same reason?”

“More or less. Some people saw You Hu crying after you beat him and thought he was weak, so they wanted to take his position!”

“But so far, not one of them has succeeded.”

“The three captains who just took the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth positions have all fought You Hu!”

“You Hu won every time!”

Little Fish nodded.

Chen Ye did not know what to say.

He had a vague impression of the Superhumans who had just taken the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth positions.

The three of them had been arguing over whose position should be higher.

But he had not expected those three idiots to actually challenge You Hu.

They must have gotten beaten pretty badly.

Still, You Hu was clearly no pushover. He had fought people all afternoon by himself and won every time.

That kind of strength… was genuinely impressive.

It was a pity that he had faced the Blood Moon Lord, Fear, who had already reached Sequence 4.

If Chen Ye had still been at Sequence 3 back then, he probably would not have stood a chance against You Hu without using his trump card.

“Bang!~~~”

“Ahhh~~~~”

“Stop! Stop! Captain Four, I give up, I give up…”

Chen Ye hurried to the office balcony and looked outside.

You Hu stood panting outside the residential compound, looking as if he had just gone through a fierce battle. A terrifying aura emanated from him.

Two men who were clearly Superhumans lay on the ground, repeatedly begging for mercy.

You Hu seemed to sense Chen Ye’s gaze and raised his head.

His eyes met Chen Ye’s Blood Eye.

You Hu reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. Every hair on his body stood on end as he stared warily at that blood-red eye.

The corner of Chen Ye’s mouth lifted. He turned and went back inside.

Little Fish leaned over the railing too, smacking her lips. “This guy… he’s really gone crazy. He hasn’t stopped since the afternoon. He’s even crazier than Demoness Jiang!”

The little girl had nothing much to do at the moment, and although Chen Ye had become Chief Seat, he was still a one-man operation.

So Chen Ye had borrowed Little Fish to run errands for him, effectively making her his deputy captain.

“Hey, when are you going to hire a deputy captain? You’re not planning to keep using me as child labor, are you?”

“Employing child labor is illegal!”

Everyone else saw Chen Ye as the Chief Seat, but Little Fish saw him as her lifelong nemesis.

Little Fish felt humiliated to be working for her lifelong nemesis.

That was why she never called him Chief Seat.

Chen Ye flopped down on the already peeling sofa. “A deputy captain? I’d like to find one too. Who’d want to use a dumb little kid like you?”

“But it’s not like I can just find a deputy captain whenever I want!”

“That guy, Dantai Bie, is so unreliable. I haven’t seen him for days!”

When Little Fish heard Chen Ye call her dumb, she marched over, kicked him in the calf, and said angrily, “Dantai Bie’s no good either. He knows you’re looking for him, so he’s been hiding these past few days!”

“Chen Ye, you big jerk! You’re employing child labor and not even paying me. I’m going to report you!”

Chen Ye chuckled. “Go ahead. I’ll be waiting!”

“You…”

Furious, Little Fish made a face at Chen Ye, opened the door, and ran off.

It really was not right to keep using Little Fish as unpaid child labor.

After all, Little Fish was still a child, and an ordinary person at that.

It was not good for her to get too involved in Superhuman affairs.

Xue Nan had also been incredibly busy lately. As the supervisor of the Fair Convoy, he had a lot of things to worry about.

Although Chu Che was the captain, he rarely bothered with the convoy’s little affairs.

Chen Ye naturally could not ask Xue Nan to be his deputy captain.

Xu Lina… A sexy female deputy captain would not be a bad choice.

It was just that Xu Lina was too weak!

She could not handle it whenever trouble came along.

Gong Yong?

No good either. He had not left home for days, supposedly because he was researching something new.

Iron Lion…

Well, in the future, he would be Chen Ye’s loyal, unpaid workhorse.

But he was not very bright, so he was not suited to being deputy captain.

Thinking about it gave Chen Ye a headache.

Surely he could not personally handle everything as Chief Seat from now on.

That would make him seem far too ordinary and lower his standing.

Just then, Little Fish, who had already left, came back. Her little face was sullen.

“Hey, you big jerk, someone’s here to see you!”

After saying that, Little Fish turned and left.

A knock came from outside the door.

“Knock! Knock-knock!”

The knocking sounded eerie and ominous, just like something out of a horror movie.