302 The Redheaded Jeeves (1/2)

The brazen card artisans' faces had all turned dark, and their hair and clothes were smoking as they lay stunned on the ground. Everything was quiet in the large hall, with the rest of the card artisans' gazes at the team looking completely different than before. Those who had just been catcalling along with the brazen ones had all turned white.

The youth swallowed hard, looking at Chen Mu in awe. That talented fellow, who was just about his same age, was actually the leader of that team.

Bogner's eyes glinted with an unusual look. He normally had the impression that his boss was low-key. Although he knew his boss had killed Zu Ning with his own hands, he hadn't seen it with his own eyes. The hot look the boss suddenly showed that day had rather surprised Bogner. Xi Ping, Sue Lochiro, and Ru Qiu were also looking at Chen Mu in disbelief.

On the other hand, Lu Xiaoru didn't feel a thing. She had suffered at Chen Mu's hands and knew the boss was just in the habit of staying normally low-key. Those guys were no different than local gangsters, after all! But she couldn't help but feel for them, seeing their expressions under Chen Mu's glare.

Chen Mu hadn't been in touch with that many high-level people. He understood the struggles of the lower ranks better. When he had been a street punk in his childhood, he had only understood one principle: If you went to some strange place to beg for food, the more you cowered, the more you would be pushed around. But if you rolled up your sleeves and fought with the bums from that place—as long as you displayed enough toughness even though your fists might not be hard enough—everyone would be in awe of you even if you were defeated in the end. Bums and ruffians were like that. So were card artisans!

It was as though Chen Mu had realized something.

The card artisans were indeed intimidated. Lu Xiaoru and the others were perfectly powerful. Moreover, they were completely in sync. Along with their more than ten remaining comrades, if the power of a single person was that good, and their team matched their tacit synchronization, then they were what those card artisans least wanted to run into.

They completely ignored the several hundred other people. In that place, such mid-level card artisans weren't worth looking at. That was even truer of the non-combatant personnel. But a puzzled look was flashing through quite of few of their eyes.

There were a few more than 20 battle personnel, plus 300 rookies and more than 100 non-combatants. That sort of deployment was really strange and a little bit unreasonable. As they saw it, there were only 20 of them who would be any use in a battle.

The team had only 20 battle personnel to carry more than 300 pieces of rookie, mid-level card artisan cannon fodder, plus a few hundred non-combatants, plus the transport shuttles. If that wasn't looking for death, then what was? Even if those 20 card artisans were utterly awesome, that much power was nothing when facing a large team.

And, there was just one old hand leading the team! It was inconceivable that such a team configuration could actually get to the Regal Base. To reach the base from outside was very difficult; if you didn't have enough power, you couldn't reach it at all. So, the only possibility was that there were some super aces among them.

The card artisans watching looked at one another, keeping their expressions as usual, though their gazes showed a flash of alertness and caution. The card artisans who had been interested in the team were thinking it over. Even to be able to lead a team there, they would certainly have to be an uncommon power. They couldn't afford to provoke such people.

But when their gazes passed over Chen Mu and the rest, there puzzlement grew still deeper. They certainly hadn't found anyone with the power of an ace. Chen Mu was excluded right at the outset since he was too young! When you added to that his position as the boss, if such a young, rich boss wasn't shooting for a tasty playboy future career, then what was he doing stealing food from them?

So, although everyone felt his perception, they still excluded him at the outset.

The one most like an ace was the man holding the fat dog, without a doubt. When everyone targeted him, however, they were amazed to find he had no perception at all! Weird! That was really weird!

How could such reckless card artisans survive there? The crowd was cunning and careful, and they remained alert and suspicious. Since they didn't understand the situation, no one was stupid enough to start anything. Even just those 20-some card artisans were enough to cause a little trouble.

All the other card artisans in the big hall just kept drinking their tea with their heads down to hide what they were thinking from showing in their eyes.

”I think you need to rent a batch of rooms for now, so your fine dependents can rest,” the youth proposed.

Bogner knew that wasn't what Chen Mu was good at, so he took over. ”Oh, what would you suggest?”

Taking a look at Chen Mu, the youth saw that he didn't look the least bit upset, and he immediately realized Bogner's position on the team.

Without hesitating, he responded, ”There are a lot of you, and you might want to rent an entire residential area. That way, you could be away from everyone else, and it won't be so noisy. Your safety would be assured. It also wouldn't be too expensive.”

”Let's do that.” Bogner took a look at Chen Mu. Seeing that he had no objection, he nodded.

The youth then led the party to take care of the arrangements. Sue Lochiro and Ru Qiu still hadn't recovered from their recent scare.

There was no commotion during the entire process of moving in. The whole team had maintained its ever-perfect formation since they had entered the large hall. Each of the battle personnel looked on alert. Such discipline made the minds of the jungle card artisans who had been secretly watching them jumpy again.

”How should I address my little brother?” Bogner asked with a smile.

”Jeeves.” The youth didn't turn around.

”When was this base built? I remember there was an old, broken-down and abandoned base here before.”