Newspaper Boy
Chapter 30: Obstacles
Qian Yeliang's charming scolding attracted the attention of Zhang Yuanqing and others. Then, a man's voice came from outside:
"Oh, you're suddenly full of confidence today... I see, I heard that you are members of Yuanshi Tianzun's gang. Among the teams sent by the Five Elements Alliance to work for us, there are a few members of your gang."
Speaking of this, the man chuckled:
"So you think you have a backer? How ridiculous. In the Free Federation, in the Heavenly Punishment, the only person you can rely on is me. The only thing your Qianhe Group can rely on is the Heavenly Punishment. Those guys from the Five Elements Alliance are just here to work, understand?"
Qian Yeliang said angrily, "You are a shameless and incompetent guy."
Hearing this, the man's tone sank:
"Qian Yeliang, you are really an inexperienced, naive, and foolish girl. If you had some social experience, you would know that dating me is the right choice.
"If you had some social experience, you would know that offending me would bring terrible things to you and the Qianhe Group, but you just took my words as an ordinary threat. No, I'm telling you, it's not a threat, it's the reality that's about to come."
Hearing this, Zhang Yuanqing turned his head to look at Hongjige, and said in surprise:
"What are you waiting for? You can tolerate this? Go out and beat him."
Hongjige looked blank: "I don't understand what they are talking about."
...Oh, I was rash! I actually thought the Fire Master would understand foreign languages. Zhang Yuanqing immediately walked out of the office area and saw Qian Yeliang holding a cardboard box in the corridor, along with a blonde, blue-eyed young man with handsome features and a rebellious air between his eyebrows.
This person was wearing a well-tailored light blue suit, exuding an arrogance that made people uncomfortable.
Guan Ya and others came out after him.
Seeing the gang leader coming out, Qian Yeliang rushed over like a swallow returning to the forest, nestling beside him. After thinking about it, she silently leaned against Guan Ya instead.
——Guan Ya was the leader of the team.
The young man in the blue suit saw Guan Ya and Sun Miaomiao, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but exclaim "Wow."
As a scout, Guan Ya only glanced at him and discerned the man's lewd intentions, frowning, "Is this Brady Mead?"
Qian Yeliang nodded vigorously: "It's him."
Zhang Yuanqing looked at the two of them, "What Brady, what's going on?"
Qian Yeliang explained in a low voice:
"Brady Mead is the guy who often bullies me. He's from the Mead family. The CEO, Sean Mead, is his uncle. Brady has a lot of girlfriends and maintains relationships with many female colleagues in the office.
"During my time working at the Heavenly Punishment, he often pestered me. He started by giving gifts and asking me out for dinner. After I rejected him a few times, he threatened me, saying that if I didn't date him, he would arrange for me to participate in highly dangerous missions, and send a 'guidance team' to strip the Qianhe Group of its sovereignty.
"He also froze my bank card and salary card in New Covenant County. Assistant Emma intervened to unfreeze them, but Assistant Emma couldn't afford to offend him either, so she could only warn me.
"I feel like his patience is getting lower and lower recently. Fortunately, I usually live in the Heavenly Punishment branch, and it's still my internship period, so I haven't been on any missions yet, otherwise..."
The ways men get women are always only three: first, money; second, emotion; third, violence.
It's the same in any social stratum.
Hearing this, Hongjige's fists immediately hardened, "Aren't you working in the prosecutor's office? This kind of guy can't stand investigation, right? Is your superior, that chief prosecutor, a pushover? Is he trash?"
Tianxiaguihuo didn't miss any opportunity to tear him down, coldly saying, "For people with this kind of background and family, unless their backer falls, even if you put the ironclad evidence on the prosecutor's desk, it will be thrown into the trash as garbage."
As they were talking, Brady Mead walked over, stopped in front of Guan Ya, and extended his hand with bright eyes:
"Hello, I'm Brady Mead. Sean Mead, the CEO, is my uncle. Do you have time tonight? I'd like to invite your friends from the Five Elements Alliance to dinner."
Guan Ya looked down at his hand and didn't reach out.
"Don't go!" Qian Yeliang said in Chinese, "I heard that he often uses parties and dinners as excuses to drug and rape women. It's happened several times before. Well... Brady doesn't understand Chinese."
Hongjige immediately cursed, "Idiot, get lost!"
Brady Mead's face changed, and he glared at Hongjige, "What did you say?"
He followed up with a "fuck."
"So you can understand that!" Hongjige complained, then raised his fist to punch him, "Stupid foreign devil, dare to curse at me."
You can understand cursing words too... Guan Ya raised her hand and pressed on Hongjige's shoulder, stopping the hot-tempered Fire Master, and responded to Brady in fluent foreign language:
"Thank you for the invitation, we'll go when we have time. It's office hours now, please leave your post, Mr. Mead."
After speaking, she was about to return to the office area with Qian Yeliang.
Seeing this, Brady Mead hurriedly stepped forward a few steps, blocked their way, and said with a brazen smile, "In the Heavenly Punishment, refusing a colleague's invitation is very impolite, so..."
Before he could finish speaking, Zhang Yuanqing stepped to the side, raised his foot, and kicked out with lightning speed.
Brady Mead reacted extremely quickly, jumped back to avoid the kick, and retreated several meters on the wind.
"You dare to attack me?!" Brady was stunned. He didn't expect that after he announced his name, this yellow-skinned monkey from the Second District would dare to attack him.
Brady stared at Zhang Yuanqing fiercely and said sternly, "Do you want to die in New Covenant County, you lowly yellow-skinned monkey? Even if you kneel down and admit your mistake, I won't forgive you. Go to heaven and repent to God, because you have offended me."
Guan Ya once again pressed on Hongjige's shoulder, staring at Brady Mead, "Don't mess with us, if you don't want a melee in the building."
She could tell that Yuanshi had held back with that kick, it was just a warning, and she knew that he didn't want to fight here either.
Brady Mead stared at their backs coldly for a few seconds, then turned and left.
He took the elevator back to the executive department's floor, forcefully pushed open the office door, took a bottle of whiskey from the wine cabinet, poured half a glass, and drank it in one gulp.
"Knock knock!"
The frosted glass door was knocked on, and a middle-aged man with blond hair and blue eyes, with a slicked-back hairstyle, pushed the door open and entered.
"Young Master Brady, have you met the Five Elements Alliance's aid team? Did they make you angry?" The middle-aged man bowed.
"Richardson, I want to kill that yellow-skinned pig from the Five Elements Alliance, I want to kill him!" Brady slammed the glass down, gnashing his teeth.
Richardson was a The Way of the Extraordinary cultivated by the Mead family, and also his assistant, responsible for his food, clothing, and work in all aspects.
He was the person Brady trusted most.
Richardson, who was about fifty years old, silently listened to the young master's account and said:
"Young master, they are just a group of uncultured monkeys, not worth your effort. The executor will not want to see you in conflict with the people of the Five Elements Alliance."
"I know," Brady took a deep breath, "But they are, after all, people of Winnie Burunt, uncle can ignore those ants, because targeting ants is an insult to his status, but I have to do something."
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"Remember, in New Covenant County, men who impart everything and women who welcome you with open arms are all people to be wary of."
In the office, Zhang Yuanqing earnestly instructed the gang's saints: "Especially the enthusiastic welcome of the Desire profession, they will not only make your whole body weak, but also lead you to bankruptcy. Hongjige, you are a Fire Master, full of energy, you must pay attention to avoiding it."
Hongjige was unconvinced: "Tianxiaguihuo is also a Fire Master, why don't you talk about him."
Tianxiaguihuo said lightly: "Compared to paying an excessive price, I am better at suppressing desires."
"So you only accept freebies." Hongjige hit the nail on the head.
Freebies are indeed not appropriate, after all, time is money... Zhang Yuanqing was about to speak when he suddenly saw Yuan Ting's head poking in at the door, his eyes flashing with curiosity (gossip).
"Who is this guy? Why do you all listen to him?" Yuan Ting asked suspiciously.
He had been paying attention to this Jv Mang for a long time.
At Jv Mang's command, Sun Miaomiao and the others happily went into the office. When Jv Mang was drinking water by the water dispenser, Sun Miaomiao and the others happily gathered around him.
He was clearly the favorite of the group.
A little known Beast King, why?
Everyone turned their heads to look at him and said in unison, "You don't need to know, we won't tell you."
Yuan Ting was struck by lightning, clutching his chest in pain, like a patient with a myocardial infarction.
At this moment, Sun Miaomiao pinched her collar, shook it, and looked around, saying, "It's so hot, why did it suddenly get so hot?"
Tianxiaguihuo sensed something and said, "The temperature is rising rapidly, currently at 31 degrees... The air conditioner is blowing hot air."
Turning on the hot air on a hot day?
The weather in mid-October was still hot, and it was impossible to live without air conditioning.
Guan Ya quickly asked the Extraordinary assistant to check the air conditioner, only to find that the air conditioner had been turned to heating mode, and the adjustment and on/off buttons had been damaged.
They asked the front desk of the Heavenly Punishment to repair it. The front desk responded with a smile, but the repairman never came.
Just as the Five Elements Alliance members were sweating profusely, the power went out in this office area.
The computers couldn't be turned on, the work at hand couldn't be done, the office area was stuffy, and the repairman was still nowhere to be seen. Guan Ya took the team of eighteen people to the activity area, cooling off in the air conditioning while urging the front desk to contact the repairman.
But the front desk responded with a smile as always, and did nothing as usual.
That wasn't all. Just as the Five Elements Alliance members were filled with anger, troublemakers came.
Two Heavenly Punishment members came with a clear purpose, wearing shirts with the collar buttons open, exposing their strong chests, sleeves rolled up to their elbows, revealing their thick forearms, giving off the air of shirt-clad thugs. They squinted at the Five Elements Alliance members standing in the lounge area and cursed:
"Oh, God, the lounge area is occupied by a bunch of uncultured and rude foreigners. This is a public area, not your office area. Please go back!"
A scout from the Five Elements Alliance endured his temper and stepped forward, explaining, "I'm sorry, the air conditioner in our office area is broken, and the power is out..."
Before he could finish speaking, he was pushed hard by another Heavenly Punishment member, "Go back! You rude guys, The Way of the Extraordinary from the Second District are all shit."
The scout staggered backward, almost falling.
He was full of anger, but dared not speak out, after all, this was their territory, and Heavenly Punishment, as the strongest official organization in the world, had been domineering and powerful for a century.
The official The Way of the Extraordinary of the Five Elements Alliance had an innate fear in their hearts, unable to hold their heads up and stand straight, feeling inferior.
Clearly, someone was targeting them!
The Transcendent members of the Five Elements Alliance were both aggrieved and angry, but they couldn't find a superior who could take charge.
"Practicing high jump in the toilet - that's too much!" Hongjige's body exploded with fire, and he shot out like a cannonball, crashing into the two Wind mages of the Heavenly Punishment.
He had endured again and again, but he couldn't bear it anymore.
Just then, a gust of wind swept through the corridor next to the living area, making a "woo" sound and scraping out a shrill howl in the corridor.
The next second, Hongjige, this cannonball, was blown away and crashed heavily into the snow-white wall, and the wall collapsed with charred cracks.
A middle-aged man with sunken cheeks and a slicked-back hairstyle, about fifty years old, walked in the howling airflow, his light brown eyes sweeping over the Five Elements Alliance members sternly, saying:
"Unauthorized attacks on colleagues, depending on the severity of the circumstances, will be subject to fines, imprisonment, and the death penalty! Although you are members of the Five Elements Alliance, you will not be spared if you violate the laws of the Heavenly Punishment."
"Who the hell are you?" Hongjige wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, baring his teeth.
The middle-aged man said lightly, "Someone who maintains order. Also, in New Covenant County, in the Heavenly Punishment, you must use English, that is also the rule."
The Transcendent members of the Five Elements Alliance dared to be angry but dared not speak out. This person seemed to be a senior executive of the Heavenly Punishment. He didn't come out when the air conditioner was broken, and he didn't come out when the power went out.
But now he came out.
"Who is he?" Zhang Yuanqing looked at Qian Yeliang beside him.
"He is Brady's assistant, secretary, and bodyguard, Richardson, a level six Wind mage." Qian Yeliang said indignantly, "It's Brady who's doing this, what should we do? Should we tell Assistant Emma?"
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Emma pushed open the door of the office, looked at Minister Winnie behind the luxurious desk, and said softly:
"I heard that Brady Mead cut off the power in the aid team's office area. Before that, he made those young people blow hot air for an hour. Minister, should I intervene?"
Winnie Burunt picked up her water cup and took a sip, asking back, "Did they ask you for help?"
Emma shook her head: "No, but they almost had a conflict with the people from the executive department in the lounge area. If they violate the discipline because of this, it won't be good for you to protect them. That should be Brady Mead's purpose."
Sean Mead would not be willing to let this group of saints from the Five Elements Alliance become Minister Winnie's obedient subordinates.
If he couldn't get them, he would destroy them.
Winnie shook her head:
"Sean is an arrogant guy that I find annoying. He wouldn't use such low-level methods to target small guys at the Saint level."
She said with a calm smile:
"Don't worry about it, let them handle it themselves. If they can't handle such small things, staying here is just a death wish. I'll send them back to their country. In the Five Elements Alliance team, Guan Ya is the leader, but Jv Mang came in first when they entered the conference room, and Jv Mang was the first to leave. I suspect he is the decision-maker of the team.
"Have you noticed that the level of this group of saints is too balanced, generally all level five. Guan Ya's level and identity are not enough to match the position of leader. You can take this opportunity to see if the person handling things is Guan Ya or Jv Mang."
"Are you interested in him?" Emma said.
Winnie "hmm"ed, her delicate mouth raised slightly: "I hope he is a capable assistant, not a fool without wisdom."
"Understood." Emma bowed and left the office.
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ps: Fix typos first, then revise later. Sacrifice a book: "Princess, Please Respect Yourself!", a very interesting theme, interested readers can take a look.