The Time-Limited Leader Makes the Raid a Success - Chapter 442



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Episode 442

#442. Stop beating around the bush!

Hyun Jeong-geon was dumbfounded.

‘Isn’t that Mr. Cho?’

That face was definitely that of one of the Chinese negotiating team hunters I had copied from upstairs in the hotel earlier.

‘It may not be fake, but judging by the frivolous behavior and the fact that I feel so embarrassed, it’s definitely Mr. Joe… … .’

Hyun Jeong-geon, who had given reasons that Mr. Cho would never agree to, decided to watch the situation in silence for a while.

Xiao Zhan asked again.

“A spy? Shikai, explain properly.”

“That guy Wang Heo-di. He was a spy. I stopped him from handing over this information to the Japanese.”

Shikai, or rather, Mr. Joe, who was angry as Shikai, quickly caught the name of the hunter he had subdued and said it. She acted angry, shaking a half-burned piece of paper in her hand.

Xiao Zhan snatched the document. Looking at the cover, he saw that it was a document containing negotiation strategies. The document in his hand was then handed over to Zhao Keji.

“Is it just the cover? Where did the rest go?

When Zhao Keji asked, Mr. Joe answered.

“When I sensed something fishy, ​​I tried to burn it to destroy the evidence. I waited to get solid evidence, but I ended up not getting the complete documents. I’m sorry.”

“There’s nothing to be sorry about. If what you said is true, then you have done a great service. So how did you know that I was a Japanese spy? Did Wang Hedi say it himself?”

“Look at this smartphone.”

Mr. Joe unlocked Wang Hedi’s smartphone using facial recognition and then released the text messages.

This time, Yuan Hao snatched the smartphone and handed it over to Zhao Keji.

The text messages I checked contained secret messages being exchanged.

There was no direct order to extract information, but these words were meaningful to anyone who saw them.

If the person concerned had seen it, there would have been a lot of content that would have allowed them to know the context of the conversation.

The most absurd thing of all is.

‘So it wasn’t even Japan that approached him, but this guy Wang Hedi who proposed it first?’

Zhao Keji trembled at the betrayal of his subordinate. It was truly an embarrassing incident in front of the guests, no, in front of the Korean negotiating team, who were potential competitors.

Mr. Joe secretly smiled in satisfaction at the sight of Zhao Keji’s blushing face.

‘Haha, how can someone who claims to be a spy be this sloppy? If he wanted to do it properly, he should have at least bought a separate phone that no one knows about.’

After subduing Wang Heodi and searching through his smartphone to find an excuse to drag him in, the evidence came out.

Mr. Joe got the idea and started working right away.

In order to explain the circumstances of his subjugation, he even showed his meticulousness by transforming into Shi Kai, a hunter of slightly higher rank than Wang Hedi, one of the two hunters whose appearances he copied.

‘Hehehe! This guy takes the blame, and I pretend that the data has already been burned, and I can eat it. In fact, I only burned the cover, but even if I find out later, the situation is already over. What do you think, Hyun Ga? This is how a real professional works.’

Mr. Joe boasted about himself while winking at Hyun Jeong-geon and showing off.

Hyun Jeong-geon opened his mouth while Zhao Keji’s expression still remained crumpled.

“Oh, my, our captain has arrived. The atmosphere is really weird.”

Hyun Jeong-geon pointed toward the lobby entrance. A man was just about to step into the hotel.

“Hiccup!”

Mr. Joe hiccupped.

‘Hey, Captain Kang, why are you here?’

Zhao Keji glared at her.

He was already looking ridiculous, so when his subordinate started hiccuping out of place, he suddenly got annoyed.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”

Zhao Keji turned his head from Mr. Cho to Kang Muhyuk. In the meantime, he had entered the lobby cafe with only one attendant.

Kang Mu-hyeok came up to Zhao Keji and shook his hand, saying:

“Nice to meet you. I am Kang Mu-hyuk, the leader of Iron Will.”

Zhao Kezhi looked back and forth between Wang Hedi’s smartphone in his hand and Jiang Wuhyuk, then shook his hand and greeted him.

“I am Zhao Ke, the Chief of Operations of the Yellow Dragon Guild.”

Zhao Keji handed the smartphone over to Yuan Hao, then pointed to Wang Hedi and gave soft instructions.

“Take this guy and rob him. And question Shikai too.”

“If it’s Shikai… Me, me? Why me?”

Mr. Cho asked back in embarrassment, but Zhao Keji just clicked his tongue.

Then, Xiao Zhan, Xu Kai’s immediate superior, went to Mr. Joe and tried to appease him.

“If what you say is true, then there will be no problem. Just be careful and follow Won Hao’s instructions.”

Mr. Joe quickly shook his head.

‘Are you really the Chief of Operations of the Yellow Dragon Guild? Even if there is evidence, you won’t listen to one side of the story. However, Wang Heo-di is under the influence of my medicine, so it will take a while for him to wake up. Since I’ve bought some time, I can just escape during that time.’

Mr. Joe nodded after devising an escape plan.

“Yes, I understand.”

“Oh, and lock them in the room and tell them to watch over the two parties.”

As Zhao Keji gave further instructions, Mr. Joe’s head turned around.

‘What? Inma, are you a suspicious person?’

Mr. Cho glared at Zhao Keji, who was keeping watch to prevent him from doing anything else.

After that, Hyun Jeong-geon’s face overlapped. He was biting his lips and swallowing them, holding back laughter.

‘Hey, are you laughing?!’

‘I guess I’ll have to cancel one of my return flights.’

While Mr. Cho was being dragged away by Won Hao and the others, Hyun Jeong-geon informed Thomas of the situation, and Thomas whispered this to Kang Mu-hyeok.

Zhao Keji tried to use his skills to eavesdrop on the conversation, but his attempt was thwarted by Thomas.

Zhao Keji, who noticed that the skill was blocked by Thomas, looked at his opponent with strange eyes.

‘Soundproofing magic? There’s a skilled wizard involved.’

Zhao Kezhi showed no sign of surprise and offered Jiang Wuhyeok a seat.

“I was so absent-minded that I kept making guests stand. If you neglect hospitality, you’re not Chinese. Please take a seat.”

“I hope the commotion ends well.”

A meaningful answer.

Zhao Keji noticed that Jiang Muhyuk had already received a message from Hyun Jeonggeon and smiled bitterly.

“As you experienced at your previous workplace, sir, this floor is originally dirty, but isn’t it extremely dirty? When you sit at the top, these inferiors tend to crawl up, so sometimes you have to pick up the whip.”

This time, it was Zhao Keji’s counterattack. The method of provoking the opponent’s temper and making him make a mistake was a low-level negotiation technique, but it was a technique that worked quite well.

But it didn’t hurt Kang Mu-hyeok at all. Rather, it only served to confirm that Zhao Keji cared about him.

‘My old job… You’re talking about the Titan thing. Are you trying to tease me by mentioning the conflict between Matthew and Bugilma? If you looked into it that far, that means you’ve been digging around in my background… ‘

As always, Kang Moo-hyuk was a man who had no mercy even for such small provocations.

“So. I guess our Director Guan Hong also ran away because he was beaten so much by Hwangryong?”

“Phew!”

A small laugh escaped Thomas’ mouth. It was a difficult mistake to call it a laugh, as if he had let out a breath of air, but it was definitely a laugh.

Kang Moo-hyuk asked, pleased to see Thomas laughing.

“Did you understand my joke?”

“Yes. Didn’t you criticize that person by using Director Guan Hong’s case as an example?”

“That was a pretty well thought out joke. It worked.”

“It worked.”

“I guess I was an American style after all. Now I understand why it didn’t work in Korea.”

Zhao Keji’s face turned red and blue as the two exchanged opinions about the joke without expression.

‘You dare to blatantly hurt my reputation like this?! You’re not even a hunter, how dare you!!’

Zhao Keji noticed that he was referring to his own mistakes by alluding to the incidents of driving out Guan Hong, clashing with the guilds in Shandong, and being toyed with by Mirage.

This failure was even more painful because it caused doubts about his abilities even within the Hwangryong Guild.

Moreover, since Kang Mu-hyeok was speaking without any emotion, she thought that he was intentionally making fun of her.

When Zhao Keji’s anger seemed about to explode, Hyun Jeong-geon suddenly stepped in and mediated the two sides.

“Chief Zhao Keji. Please forgive our captain’s rudeness. This person is really bad at this kind of thing and doesn’t know where to joke. I hope you understand that I didn’t mean anything bad. Captain, please apologize quickly.”

“Oh, did you feel offended? I’m sorry. I thought it was okay to joke around when you were the manager. Surely… you’re not angry because it’s not funny?”

Zhao Kezhi was even more upset by Jiang Wuhyeok’s last question.

Even the expression on his face was confusing, as if it were a question that was innocent and without malicious intent.

Then suddenly another thought occurred to me.

‘Huh! Your acting skills are good. A person who holds Guan Hong in his arms can’t be that stupid. Did you use a strategy of agitation? I almost fell for it.’

Zhao Keji artificially suppressed his anger. Of course, that did not mean that his anger had subsided.

I was originally going to get angry, but I stopped myself midway and the anger built up inside me.

That was exactly Hyun Jeong-geon’s plan.

‘You can’t just get angry so easily and ruin a negotiation. I know from dealing with him, Kang Mu-hyeok is someone who knows how to make people angry without any ill intentions. No, he even disguises his ill intentions as pure and uses them. Try dealing with this devil while you’re angry.’

Zhao Keji took a deep breath and got to the point.

“I heard. Let’s join forces to push Japan out? And then we can compete among ourselves? It’s not a bad suggestion, but it’s not a particularly tempting suggestion for us. Of course, if the conditions are good, it’s a different story. What have you prepared in Korea?”

Zhao Kezhi treated Korea not as an equal, but as a vassal state that had to pay tribute and receive something in return.

If it was China, if it was the Yellow Dragon Guild, I thought it would be natural for them to stand in that position and negotiate.

I was confident. It was Korea that was in a hurry, not China.

Even if the deal with the Gloria Guild didn’t go well, there was a high chance that it would be a failure for everyone.

In that case, it wouldn’t have been a bad idea to take this opportunity to get some concessions from the Iron Will Guild.

‘Even Biwonjun Bugilma had to suffer defeat in the Guanhong and Mirage issues. If he could just deal a blow to Iron Will, that alone would be an achievement.’

Even though I had such high expectations and took such an arrogant stance.

The answer from Kang Mu-hyeok.

“I thought about it when I came here, and I don’t think there’s any need to join hands with China.”

“What?”

“Korea has suffered a lot of damage. It is also threatened by China, Japan, and Nagas. Looking at the news, Taiwan is also in chaos. I don’t think we should use that as an excuse to get something.”

“Now that I think about it, it wasn’t that you didn’t think about it, but that you were deliberately criticizing this side. So? Are you planning to join hands with Japan?”

“No. I want to say that we are not in a relationship where we hold each other’s hands and reject each other.”

“You were the first to suggest excluding Japan!”

Zhao Keji jumped up from his seat and swore.

To be exact, it was Hyun Jeong-geon’s fake proposal, not Kang Moo-hyeok’s, but since he had already received the report, Kang Moo-hyeok was able to shrug his shoulders and continue speaking calmly.

“That was the case. But now things have changed.”

“So that means there will be no concessions until the end. You won’t accept any demands?”

“No. I mean, literally, the situation has changed.”

“Stop beating around the bush!”

Kang Mu-hyeok looked up at Zhao Keji and spoke directly.

“The Gloria Guild will contact you tomorrow. The content will be a three-country negotiation among Korea, China, and Japan. They will coordinate the export of the Flying Seahorse there.”

“!!”