I'm Really Not the Lord of the Abyss - Chapter 51

In the conference room, some people were just about to show Lu Mi a bit of their power when the oppressive silence was broken by a shout of surprise.

“Ah, Lu Mi, it’s Lu Mi!!”

Everyone frowned slightly, wondering who was so surprised and breaking the rules.

On looking, oh, it’s ‘gold ingot father’. (TL: joke term, means ‘financier’)

Grant rushed to Lu Mi like a flying bird, his eyes shining like light bulbs, “I! I am Grant, do you remember me from the auction?!”

Although he asked this, the little young master’s eyes seemed to suggest that if the other party said they didn’t remember, he would burst into tears on the spot.

Grant’s older brother was also drawn to the commotion, putting down the contract he was halfway through reading.

He knew how arrogant and difficult to serve his younger brother was. Grant was born in the Welvezes family, with several older brothers and sisters above him. Unusually, the siblings in this family had an exceptionally harmonious relationship.

The older brothers and sisters all doted on him, and he didn’t have the burden and worries of inheriting the family, so he was born a winner in life.

Although this also resulted in Grant being somewhat naive, sometimes getting involved in disputes with rival families, he survived thanks to his unusually keen intuition, which made his other brothers dote on him even more.

From then on, Grant rarely confided in people, even his brothers and sisters had hardly ever seen this side of him.

The blond man looked in astonishment at his brother, who seemed to have become a different person. When has he ever seen him pleasing the other party?

“Hmm, Grant, long time no see.”

The young man nodded lightly at the young man with blond hair who was entwined with him.

It was like casually greeting a neighbor after seeing them, but considering Grant’s identity, this reaction was too indifferent.

The blond man looked at Lu Mi with some curiosity.

At this time, Grant was already impatiently asking, “How come you’re here? You wouldn’t also be here for a meeting, would you? I knew there would be a day when you would come to this headquarters with your abilities! I really came at the right time today!”

He then pulled open the chair next to him, “You sit here! Or I can give up my seat for you, this place has special lighting and even added a cushion! You don’t know, after I returned to the imperial capital…”

He seemed eager to share the best things with the other party, and at the same time, he had a belly full of words he wanted to reminisce about.

At this time, the stunned people in the conference hall finally reacted one by one.

Someone coughed lightly, and they looked at each other.

Lu Mi looked around the entire hall, a huge oval table was placed in the center.

At the front of the room, an old man who was over fifty but had the appearance of a young man sat in a position. The rest of the people sat in order under him, occupying more than half of the round table.

As Lu Mi was sizing them up, they were also observing him.

Grant seemed to sense the subtly wrong atmosphere in the air, put down his hand and frowned. The blond man next to him took one look and knew that his brother was not happy.

“Lu Mi?” Grant stuttered.

“I’m sorry, Grant.” Lu Mi slowly walked towards the round table, “But I came here today for a reason.”

Lu Mi pulled open the other end of the round table, directly opposite the old man, “You don’t mind if I sit here, do you?”

As his words fell, some people’s faces changed slightly.

The blond man watching was even more curious, was this…a challenge?

After Lu Mi took his seat, Sholun and the former chief warden also sat down, while the others who followed, such as the guards and Anbo, couldn’t resist the pressure and chose to conservatively stand behind Lu Mi.

In this way, the entire round table was reduced from its original spaciousness.

It should be known that those who could enter this conference room were all heavyweight figures of the headquarters. Now the seating rate could break a new historical high, which meant that all the prominent figures of the headquarters had come.

“Are you really that Lu Mi from the K8 branch?” The handsome man sitting in the first position on the left side of the other end opened his mouth. He looked interested and sat up slightly, “I remember the K8 branch is in a far place…”

Lu Mi raised his eyebrows, “And you are?”

“Desmond.” The man smiled, showing a mouthful of white teeth, “You seem very powerful, how about we have a match when we have time…”

“Desmond.” Another thin man on the opposite side looked up indifferently, “Mind your manners.”

“Douglas, you’re really boring.” Desmond said to the man, then looked at Lu Mi with a twitch of his nose, “I don’t know why, but I smell a very dangerous scent from you. You’re probably not here just for a meeting, are you?”

This man, whose intuition was like a wild beast, it was unknown if he understood what he was saying at the moment. When Lu Mi looked at him, Desmond just smiled as usual, “But after all, I am the person in charge of security at the headquarters. If you want to do something here, I will definitely stop you.”

–I won’t let you succeed. It was not a threat, but simply a declaration of the result.

In fact, it was this man who had guarded the long peace of the headquarters and turned it into an impregnable fortress during his tenure.

And the performance of the soldiers behind him undoubtedly revealed how much they trusted him, all standing straight, their eyes bright.

Lu Mi’s eyes flickered slightly, but he turned to look at the man who was called “Douglas”.

“Leader of the Golden Clock,” the silver-eyed youth addressed him, “The situation of the Blue Steel Empire, thank you for your concern.”

Douglas’s indifferent expression changed slightly.

“How come, Douglas, you and this new chief warden have some kind of connection?” Dunham said with a smile.

Douglas’s eyes darkened, and he answered Lu Mi without changing his expression, “I don’t understand what you mean.”

“I am Dunham.” At this time, Dunham looked at the other person with a meaningful gaze, then pointed to himself with a smile to Lu Mi, “The current person in charge of the General Science Academy, I have always admired Tartarus for a long time, I wonder if you are interested in cooperating in the future?”

Dunham quite straightforwardly threw an olive branch to Lu Mi, causing the rest of the people who hadn’t had time to perform to curse him as a fox in secret.

Anbo, standing behind Lu Mi, took everything in-the first three people to speak were undoubtedly the three candidates for the next president.

Desmond, who was in charge of security at the headquarters, Douglas, who was in charge of the information department, and Dunham, who was in charge of the General Science Academy.

As competitors of each other, the relationship between these three people was obviously not good.

It had long been heard that the headquarters was now divided into factions led by these three people. Now, seeing that others dare not interrupt when they speak, it was indeed so.

Looking at the current situation, temporarily accepting Dunham’s gesture would not be a bad insurance…

Just as Anbo was thinking about this, he saw Lu Mi suddenly look at a document on the table, “Do you mind if I take a look?”

The blond man looked at Grant urging him next to him, smiled, and nodded to Lu Mi, “Please.”

Dunham’s smile stiffened slightly, he looked at the subordinate who handed the document to the blond young man.

The subordinate’s legs went soft at once, this…! He didn’t know that the little young master of the Welvezes family would know this new chief warden! The subordinate’s sweat fell like crazy, and in the approving eyes of his superior, he felt that his life was about to end.

Lu Mi flipped through the document casually, and sure enough, it was a plan on how to develop (split) the remaining value of Tartarus, which mentioned those powerful mutants who had escaped from prison.

Anbo, standing behind, became more and more angry as he watched, not because he sympathized with those mutants who were regarded as “precious experimental materials”, but because he suddenly realized–

In the eyes of everyone, Tartarus is now a chip waiting to be contested!

Not as an equal existence to communicate, even if they say something similar to “invite cooperation”, in fact, just like this document, they regard them as things in the bag that were kept in the dark.

“Is this your sincerity in proposing cooperation?” Lu Mi’s tone was emotionless.

Dunham was silent for a moment, spreading his hands, “I’m sorry, there was some problem with my information, this is my negligence.” He took the document and tore it up in front of him.

The only one who could interfere with his “information” was Douglas, who was in charge of the information department. It was really a mistake.

But not knowing that Lu Mi was coming, he still dared to talk about cooperation with the Welvezes family here, and it was not without a hint of contempt for the chief warden he had never met.

Just didn’t expect Lu Mi to be such an existence…It’s a pity that once the goodwill is lost, it can’t be regained. Dunham felt regretful on one hand, and began to think about new strategies with unusual calmness on the other.

After the three candidates stopped speaking, the elderly man with white hair and a youthful appearance, who was sitting in the central position at the other end, slowly said, “Welcome to your arrival, Chief Warden, I am the current president of the headquarters, Ivanovich.”

This time, the one who answered him was not Lu Mi, but the former chief warden of Tartarus standing behind Lu Mi, “You’ve also gotten old, Ivanovich.”

This old man, who was from the same era as the other, had long taken in the scenes in the room, realizing that the other was also becoming powerless like him, “The last time we met was more than a decade ago, wasn’t it?”

Ivanovich’s old eyes still held a sharp light, “You’ve found a good successor.” He sighed, “Now it’s the world of the young.”

“Not bad.” The former chief warden laughed, “We old guys are bound to retire, and the affairs of the young should be left to the young to solve.”

Not knowing if he understood his hint, Ivanovich suddenly laughed.

“I have this intention.” Ivanovich’s old face suddenly became serious, and it was true that even though he was getting older, his sharpness from the past had never disappeared but was hidden deeper.

The sudden release of momentum made everyone in the room tense up involuntarily. The three candidates seemed to sense something, their eyes trembling slightly, looking at each other with unprecedented seriousness.

“At the beginning of this meeting, I made a decision.” Ivanovich slowly spoke.

Ivanovich looked at Lu Mi, who he had been waiting for a long time. His life experience made him more firm in his thoughts at this moment, “I have seen all kinds of situations that have arisen in the headquarters because the next president has not been settled…”

The three candidates’ faces turned pale.

But Ivanovich seemed to not see their tension, and continued, “So I decided to announce here–”

“Before the end of this meeting, whoever can get Tartarus into the headquarters of the extraordinaries, will be the next president of the Extraordinaries Guild!”

“…”

“!!!”

As soon as the words came out, there was an uproar in the whole room.

Some people even couldn’t help but stand up directly, their hands on the table, their emotions extremely agitated.

“Eh? Wait, wait! President, isn’t this too hasty?”

“That’s right! Even if you want to set up a ‘final exam’, you can’t ignore the ‘usual grades’, can you?”

“And the performance of the three lords just now…”

This TM is the most crucial point! The supporters of each faction, thinking about the “each has its own merits” performance and speech of the three people just now, even if they don’t have any “goodwill readers”, they know that in the eyes of the silver-eyed youth, it’s definitely a negative number!

Time machine! Is there a time machine that can let a moment rewind and start over!? It’s best to start from the moment you enter the door!

“Hey, what the hell are they doing?” Anbo and others were also directly dumbfounded.

Lu Mi squinted his eyes slightly, not knowing what he was thinking.

And the three candidates were also caught off guard and stunned, especially Douglas and Dunham. After they came back to their senses, their eyes squinted tightly on Lu Mi.

The flickering eyes were just like their wildly fluctuating mood at the moment, unable to keep calm.

–They were played! The two candidates gritted their teeth in secret. Before this, the whole atmosphere of the headquarters was clearly to seize Tartarus, and now putting forward such a request…That old guy is definitely doing it on purpose!

Douglas looked at the silver-eyed youth’s calm expression. With his relationship with the other party, it was almost impossible to make the other party willingly join his camp. Should he use extreme measures? With his troops, it should be no problem to take down these people, just don’t know how Desmond and Dunham will hinder him… He needs to set a plan immediately.

“I have a question.” Dunham raised his hand at this time, still smiling, “The people who detained…escorted Chief Warden Lu Mi here said that Chief Warden Lu Mi had announced the dissolution of Tartarus, so in this case, can we build a Tartarus afterwards…”

Before Sholun could show a murderous look in his eyes, Ivanovich interrupted him, “Don’t be clever at this time, Dunham. Since Tartarus was dissolved by him, it can also be restarted by him, it seems you have one more task to complete.”

That is to say, they only recognize this Chief Warden Lu Mi’s Tartarus…..The people quickly realized that there was no room for reversal in this matter.

“Then,” Ivanovich took the reactions of the people into his eyes and spoke unhurriedly, “I declare this meeting–begin.”

Everyone’s hearts tightened!

They hadn’t forgotten that the deadline Ivanovich gave earlier was “before the end of this meeting”.

As for the original content of the meeting “about the aftermath of the collapse of Tartarus”, they had long thrown it out of their minds. Now, who cares about those things, which one can be more important than “the next president candidate”!

Just as the various factions were beginning to think about how to speak next, they saw the center of their attention slowly stand up.

“…Chief Warden Lu Mi,” someone hurriedly asked, “Where are you going?”

The silver-eyed youth just glanced at him lightly, “The meeting is over.”

“What?” The man opened his mouth in surprise.

Lu Mi calmly declared unilaterally, “I said, I already know what I want to know, the meeting is over.”

“No, please wait…!” Everyone was surprised that he didn’t play by the rules.

Normally, when one goes from being “the chosen one” to being “the one who can choose others”, even if they don’t inflate uncontrollably, they should want to appreciate and mock others a bit.

“Get lost.” Sholun seemed to approve of Lu Mi’s approach, “What do you think the chief warden of Tartarus is? A tool for assessment?”

Under Sholun’s murderous gaze, the man trembled and made way.

“Please wait, Your Excellency Lu Mi, I think we can still talk.” Dunham said.

Lu Mi: “Not interested.”

He could wait, but those guys in the sky couldn’t.

Especially at this time, Grant rushed up excitedly to lead the way, “Lu Mi, are you leaving? Why don’t you come to my house, I wanted to invite you to my house to play when we parted at the auction, if you’re not interested, I can take you around the imperial city! It’s my treat!”

Everyone saw that they couldn’t stop him from leaving, and they could only stare, anxious as if on pins and needles.

Douglas looked coldly at Ivanovich, who was obviously standing by, and suddenly said, “President, your requirement is just to let him join the headquarters, the specific means can be decided by me, right?”

Ivanovich gave him a meaningful look, then looked at the silver-eyed youth who was calm and composed in the distance, “…That’s right, people are responsible for their own actions, I won’t interfere.”

Douglas: “Huh.”

Just as Lu Mi and the others were about to leave the conference room, suddenly, the Golden Clock troops broke in collectively.

…For some reason, everyone didn’t find it surprising.

The goal of a lifetime was right in front of them, under the watchful eyes of everyone. Let the other party leave and accept their own failure afterwards?

Douglas had been standing high for too long, how could he allow such a thing to happen!

Dunham noticed that the president didn’t comment on this scene, so his eyes flashed and he pressed a button on the terminal at his waist.

Desmond’s communicator suddenly rang, and when he picked it up, he heard, “Lord Desmond, Lord Dunham’s troops have suddenly appeared in large numbers at the C3 gate, they are requesting passage!”

Desmond looked at Dunham next to him, who gave him an innocent smile.

“Let them through!” Desmond raised an eyebrow, then grinned, “Let our troops come together, the more the merrier.”

Dunham looked at him, “How come, aren’t you not interested in that position?”

Desmond laughed out loud, “It’s lively with more people!”

Want to play big, then he will lend a hand! The stagnant headquarters finally became a bit interesting, was it because of that person’s arrival?

Desmond cast his gaze on the silver figure at the door, and at this moment, Lu Mi, who was surrounded, was not flustered at all.

Lu Mi even listened to the increasingly loud footsteps in the distance, how many people?

“So this is your final choice?” He slowly raised his eyes, and for some reason, everyone suddenly felt a slowly rising pressure.

The wind in the air seemed to start to become noisy, brushing over their cold skin, sweeping over their cheeks.

Someone suddenly noticed that the sky had darkened.

Although it wasn’t particularly sunny weather today, the sudden darkening of the sky was still noticeable.

No, wait…

The man suddenly widened his eyes, because he suddenly saw the outline of the edge of that huge shadow…outline?

In the next instant when he suddenly looked up, he noticed that there was something faintly visible in the sky.

Continuous blue patterns flowed over that “thing”, what was it? An ancient, yet huge existence that did not belong to this world…

And the silver-eyed youth just stood there, seemingly oblivious, in the center of that huge shadow.

Like a god looking at the fools who dared to challenge him.

“As you wish, the exam time has come.” He said.