Pretending To Be A Boss

The thirty-ninth fortress, the eighth level.

Following Li Wanye's remarks, the world of the Pyramid had been unusually tumultuous for several days.

People reacted as if they had been alive for decades, only to be informed that the world might soon come to an end.

They were excited, resistant, and fearful, and even the most submissive inhabitants of the fortresses began to respond to Li Wanye's call in their own ways.

Just Li Wanye's words were not enough to change the structure of the world, the traditions of "humans being kept in captivity" that had persisted in the Pyramid World for hundreds of years.

Li Wanye rarely called for meetings on the eighth level, and for many fortress lords, the eighth level was something they had never seen before.

This place could be regarded as the storage area for all the core technologies of the thirty-nine fortresses.

Having the meeting at the eighth level also indicated Li Wanye's absolute trust in these people.

The theme of the meeting was naturally to change the federative system to an imperial one.

But it had a splendid wrapping—unity.

Only by uniting could there be a chance to survive under the threat of the eradication of the world by the Eden devil child.

The lords were not keen on attending such a gathering, but there were the public opinion—and interests.

Besides the uproar among the residents of the Pyramid, there were the generous conditions that Li Wanye had offered.

Those lords who were willing to attend the meeting and agree that the thirty-nine fortresses should become the highest bastion of future human civilization and accept resource allocation would be able to purchase Judgment Knights at a much lower cost than the current market price.

For the smaller fortresses that could not afford the high price—this was indeed too much to offer.

Many lords thought that even if they starved to death or jumped from the sixth level of the Pyramid, they would absolutely not accept the proposal from the Li family.

But in reality, after the conditions were released, the several hundred slots were all taken.

The lords of the large fortresses had also come to understand that, even though they still had armed weapons within the Pyramid, the offensive skills of the Judgment Knights seemed to have a special suppression over the beasts.

Additionally, they were curious about what gave Li Wanye the confidence to make these offers.

After all, public opinion would slowly change.

For various reasons, whether from larger or smaller fortresses, the lords were now all gathered in the conference room.

Not only these lords, according to Li Wanye's requirements, if today's meeting reached a consensus, then the high-ranking officials of each fortress, including direct relatives, would also receive job allocations under the new system.

This meeting was thus also a reshuffle of power.

The only thing that made the lords accept this was that the cake was still divided among themselves, only the largest piece, that is, the knife and fork, were now in Li Wanye's hands.

Therefore, every lord and their most capable subordinates had come to this grand eighth-level conference room.

In this hall-like conference room, Li Wanye sat at the largest end.

The opposing seats were taken by the Qi Family from the second fortress, the Song Family from the first fortress, Li Zhenjiang from the House of Daedalus of the fifty-first fortress, Yune Moru from the Sky Guardian Fortress, and Deloris, the new lord of the Lincoln Fortress.

Everyone was indeed surprised that a woman, and a woman in her thirties, had become the lord of the Lincoln Fortress.

But today, no matter who it was, they were destined to be just a side character.

Watching the lords come and go, Li Zheng, as the security officer for this conference, was surveying these lords.

There was no anomaly, except the son of Zhuo He seemed somewhat strange.

To date, the lord of the Holy Land fortress, Zhuo He, did not have a son, at least not publicly known, yet unexpectedly this time, with Zhuo He ill and unable to attend, his son Zhuo Youcai was sent in his place.

It's curious why Zhuo He, a fortress lord, would give his son such a landowner's name.

Zhuo Youcai looked very young, with his scarf wrapped around his head like a Saudi Arabian prince, and although Li Zheng had never seen him before, he felt those eyes seemed familiar.

He did not think much of it; everyone who entered had no weapons.

They had also been checked by the Judgment Knights, so it was impossible for the Eden devil child and beasts to have infiltrated. This was also why Li Wanye chose to hold the meeting on the eighth level.

Because previously, the Eden devil child, Tang Xian, had been expelled on this level.

The screening process on the eighth level of the thirty-ninth fortress was now so rigorous that any disguise was pointless.

After confirming that all the lords were present, Li Zheng picked up his phone and quietly reported the situation to Li Wanye.

The game that would decide the world's structure, or, to put it another way, the top power holders' cake-cutting game, was about to begin.

Li Xiaonian sat in a corner, indistinguishable from the family members of some other lords. Although he would also be allocated some power, this time he was only present to witness the event.

Li Xiaonian had been looking around nervously. Unlike his brother Li Zheng, Li Xiaonian seemed rather unsettled.

He was like a child who had done something wrong, or perhaps, he was unsure whether what he had done was right or wrong.

Before long, Li Wanye arrived at the conference room, and with his arrival, the whole room fell silent.

It was hard not to be silent because behind Li Wanye was a long line of Judgment Knights.

Every fortress had purchased Judgment Knights, but due to the high price, the number they bought was limited, generally a few dozen, and even the wealthier fortresses had only a hundred or so.

They had never seen a scene surrounded by hundreds of Judgment Knights in three inner and three outer circles.

The scene invariably reminded them of the Banquet at Hong Gate; for a moment, all the lords were somewhat afraid.