[Crescent City Branch of the Joint Venture Company, Secret Meeting Room]

Zhao Yiming stood alone in front of the huge holographic screen. The walls and floor of the room were dark, and only the cold blue light of the screen illuminated him.

The screen was now divided into six pieces, and what was reflected was not a real person, but an abstract image.

A king with majestic eyes.

A queen who is both beautiful and cold.

A chariot that stands tall like a tower.

The bishop looked full of sorrow.

A knight whose sight is as sharp as a blade.

A soldier with a resolute expression.

In front of the six huge holographic images, Zhao Yiming seemed to be just a tiny ant. Just looking at them required him to look up.

Silence permeated the surroundings along with a sense of oppression. Time seemed to have stopped, and every second was stretched infinitely.

At this time, a low voice sounded, and the soldiers spoke first: "Zhao, Crescent City has been very lively recently."

Zhao Yiming nodded and replied: "Excuse me, directors, but the recent events have settled down."

The soldier's voice suddenly became heavy: "We don't like this kind of excitement."

Zhao Yiming's fingers twitched unconsciously.

Knight: "I won't talk about the people who died. It doesn't matter. But if the city is in trouble like this, what good do you think it will do to us?"

Zhao Yiming: "I am finishing this matter and will give all directors a satisfactory answer at that time."

Bishop: "People from the intelligence service said that you sent an unrelated person to surrender."

Zhao Yiming: "Yes."

"Explain the reasons," the Queen ordered.

Zhao Yiming: "The company's information security team analyzed the source code of the virus. In its language structure, I saw a very familiar logic. I know who wrote it, but I don't want people from the Public Security Bureau to trouble her. "

Queen: "Is she yours?"

Zhao Yiming: "No. I worked with him before, he was a hacker, but he later left the company due to some personal reasons."

Chariot's emotionless voice came: "You should know the principle - if you have strength but cannot be used by the company, then deal with it as soon as possible."

Zhao Yiming: "I keep this principle in mind. But I hope to keep her because she will be useful in the future."

Soldier: "Zhao, you have too many ideas. The most important thing now is the election of the upper court next year, not your little ideas."

The bishop added: "Crescent City should have been the company's dominant city, but among the current eight ruling committee members, three clearly support the Iron-Blooded Alliance, one supports the Black Domain Group, and only two support us. Bit."

"There are only two people left. If we lose any one of them, it will be extremely fatal. And you are still here doing those insignificant things."

Zhao Yiming pursed his dry lips and his eyes swayed a little, as if he was struggling in his heart.

After hesitating for a moment, he said in a deep voice: "Excuse me for the offence, dear directors. The reason for this situation is that I think the headquarters made strategic mistakes in various previous decisions in Crescent City."

"We have been trying to win over important government officials and social elites in the consortium, trying to control the entire Crescent City from top to bottom."

"This strategy is certainly effective in other cities, but as everyone knows, Crescent City has a very special environment. This is the capital of mercenaries. The mercenary group penetrates the entire social class and controls all aspects of Crescent City."

"With any top-down decree, if the city's mercenaries don't cooperate, the matter won't be done. Even if it is forced, the cost will be extremely high."

"Before I took office in Crescent City, the Iron-Blooded Alliance had been deeply involved in the mercenary industry for decades. The current mercenary king Zhou Hannian and countless medium and large mercenary groups were all supported by them."

"The Iron Blood controls the mercenary group in the middle, which can affect all aspects of social life at the bottom and prompt the government officials to issue decrees that are beneficial to them."

"With all due respect, directors, Crescent City is no longer the company's advantageous area, and we are slowly losing the competition here."

The queen said in an unquestionable tone: "Speak of the future, don't speak of the past."

Zhao Yiming: "My idea is very simple. The old structure dominated by the Iron-Blooded Alliance must be broken. Crescent City needs a new mercenary king."

Bishop: "The most promising mercenary rookie in recent years is Crescent Seven Stars. I remember there is one of my own among them. Do you plan to support him?"

Zhao Yiming: "Although that guy has some strength, he is essentially a playboy. He is nothing without his father and will have no future."

Queen: "Who are you going to support, Mo Xue?"

Zhao Yiming: "Edge."

Queen: "Yeah."

Bishop: "Fringe is very close to the Iron-Blooded Alliance. Their leader initially started his career relying on Odiana and Dres, two middlemen who worked closely with the Iron-Blooded Alliance. How do you intervene?"

Zhao Yiming: "The middlemen are middlemen, and the mercenaries are mercenaries. The two are closely related, but they are independent of each other. The edge is still small, and the iron blood has not even looked at them. This is the time for us to intervene."

Queen: "It sounds like you are confident."

Zhao Yiming: "It can be seen from the action of defeating the Tooth Tiger on the edge that Su Mo is a person who attaches great importance to his companions. In this case, I will give him a companion along the way. This person will become our capital to control him in the future."

Bishop: "You just said that the hacker is not yours and she will listen to you?"

Zhao Yiming: "She can't, but I have a way to turn her into a chess piece buried on the edge. I just need a suitable opportunity."

Queen: "What if this opportunity never comes?"

Zhao Yiming: "Then I will create an opportunity. Everything has been arranged."

The conference room fell into silence, and all the directors seemed to have run out of questions.

Zhao Yiming's tense nerves finally relaxed a little in this silence.

At this time, the king, who had been silent from beginning to end, spoke.

His voice was very plain, but it was precisely because of this plainness that he revealed his supreme majesty: "Xiao Zhao, I remember that we played several games of chess together more than ten years ago. Your chess skills left a deep impression on me."

"Ordinary people always look at the next step, but you are a strategist and can look at hundreds of steps for the next step."

Zhao Yiming nodded to show humility, and his beating heart seemed to become hotter.

King: "But it seems that we can only see a hundred steps."

In an instant, Zhao Yiming's pupils expanded violently, and his whole body froze like a statue.

The avatars on the holographic screen began to go out one after another, and the directors went offline one after another.

The changing light and shadow intertwined on Zhao Yiming's face, making him anxious and confused.

In the end, only the king's magnificent and majestic head remained on the screen.

The king said slowly: "Xiao Zhao, Mr. Jiang of your branch will retire next year, and you haven't returned to the headquarters for a long time to catch up with me. I will wait for you to come back and play a good game of chess with me."

The fire rekindled in Zhao Yiming's distracted eyes, and he bowed heavily to the king in front of him, until the holographic image disappeared, he still stood there bowed.

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