Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey!

Chapter 1670: Chapter 386: Thousand Poison Brain God Pill and Chen Jie’s Grand Plan

”You’re right on time.”

Chen Jie looked at the Four Great Elders and said, after hearing this, Chou Niu was the most blunt, speaking directly: ”Stop with the nonsense, I’ve collected all ten herbs you wanted, and I even gathered one more as an extra task completion for you.”

Chen Jie smiled upon hearing this: ”Very good, Elder Chou Niu, I really didn’t misjudge you, you were able to complete the task smoothly, not bad, not bad.”

”Hmph.”

Chou Niu tilted his head with a conceited expression, seeing this, Chen Jie smiled and looked at him with a slightly focused gaze: ”But you only brought back one extra herb, aren’t you worried that you’ll end up at the bottom?”

”Aren’t you afraid of being eliminated from the bottom?”

Chou Niu gave Chen Jie a disdainful look without speaking, but the disdain on his face was clear to Chen Jie.

Chen Jie’s smile widened even more.

”Wow, look at that expression, I seem to know what you’re scheming, but are you really sure your alliance is unbreakable?”

Chou Niu remained silent, but was visibly defiant.

Chen Jie knew this guy was bull-headed, making him submit wasn’t going to be easy, so he turned to look at Elder Chen Long and said: ”Chen Long?”

”At your service!”

Chen Long approached, full of smiles as he looked at Chen Jie.

At this point, Chen Jie looked at him and said: ”Among these people, you’re the one I admire the most, you have the transformation of a dragon and a snake in you!”

Chen Long’s expression turned a bit awkward at this, a transformation between a dragon and a snake.

To put it nicely, it means being adaptable; to put it bluntly, it’s sycophancy.

Chen Jie, regardless of whether he looked embarrassed or not, merely looked at him and said: ”I’ll give you a chance, how was your harvest, you didn’t end up like Chou Niu, only bringing back one extra herb, did you? If so, I would suspect you colluded to deceive me.”

Chen Long replied with a broad smile: ”Heh...how could that be, I brought back, three, three in total.”

As he spoke, Chen Long fetched two additional herbs from his bosom, plus the one more he had prepared, making exactly three.

Upon seeing this, Chou Niu’s eyes almost popped out: ”Chen Long, you...”

Chou Niu was in disbelief, didn’t everyone agree to stand against Chen Jiusi together? They were all supposed to bring out just one extra herb?

What do you mean by bringing an extra one, isn’t this screwing me over?

At this point, Chen Long seemed oblivious, still full of smiles looking at Chen Jie, like a bootlicker who knows when to bend and rise, indeed living up to the old loach’s name.

Chen Jie calling it a transformation of a dragon and a snake was not just a mere taunt, there was some sincerity in it, it wasn’t a joke.

A person like Chen Long, when soaring, resembles a dragon swimming through the sky, with lofty aspirations.

When weak, he can live like a loach in the river, mingling with rotten fish and shrimp, burrowing into the mud, preferring to dirty himself than not strive to survive.

This is the transformation of a dragon and a snake, although it’s villainous conduct, many who thrive in this world are often such people.

Stubborn types like Chou Niu often don’t end well.

Chen Jie looked at the bewildered and deeply hurt Chou Niu, shook his head slightly, and then patted Chen Long’s shoulder: ”You’re good, you’ve given your brother a solid lesson.”

Chen Long bitterly replied: ”I’m wholeheartedly for the young hero, I don’t understand what the young hero means.”

Chen Jie smiled upon hearing this, saying nothing more, but looked at Elder Shen Hou: ”Elder Monkey, you seem to have had quite a harvest too, wouldn’t you also have brought back an extra herb?”

Upon hearing this, Shen Hou bitterly replied: ”Not as impressive as Chen Long, I only gathered two more.”

Upon hearing this, Chou Niu glanced at Shen Hou, it wasn’t as painful as Chen Long’s betrayal, but he was stunned, apparently, he was the only one foolish enough to bring back just one extra herb, in fact, he had the chance to gather

one or two more herbs, but he gave up, because he genuinely believed the three of them could advance and retreat together. Now it seems laughable, truly laughable, he considered them brothers, but they saw him as someone to step on.

At this moment, Chou Niu felt as if his worldview had been shattered, turned upside down, although he was straightforward and honest, it didn’t mean he was stupid.

Furthermore, to rise to a senior management level within a large organization like the Zoroastrian Sect, at the rank of elder, how many could be fools?

Many things, he just didn’t want to overthink due to his impatience, but thinking a bit more, how could he not understand the twists and turns in this? He was deeply disappointed in Chen Long at this point.

I lay bare my heart and lungs with a brother, you wanted to take out a brother’s heart and lungs.

This was exactly Chen Jie’s aim, if the Four Great Elders were united, it would be hard to manage, even if he could implant the Thousand Poison Brain God Pill, but if these four had unified wills, controlling them wouldn’t be easy.

But now, with rifts between them, it becomes much easier to manipulate in the future, this is what is known as the way of authority.

The so-called way of authority is to shift conflicts, as long as there are interests between people, conflicts are inevitable, be they life and death conflicts or ordinary ones, a high-level superior must learn to shift them.

For example, if the conflict was originally between subordinates and superiors, it could be transformed into conflicts among subordinates.

Like now, the conflict was originally between Chou Niu and Chen Jie, but Chen Jie used his methods to intensify their inner conflicts, ensuring their hearts couldn’t unite, thus making it easier for Chen Jie to control them.