Prodigal System in the Flourishing City

Chapter 1845: Chapter 1848: Knock Knock Knock

Lu Xiaobu decided to give these people, who were basically like a bunch of kids, another lesson.

So Lu Xiaobu lazily stretched out his hand and started tapping on the conference table, slow and casual, one knock after another.

”Dong, dong, dong!”

The conference room was dead silent at this moment; that was the only sound echoing nonstop.

The sound wasn’t loud, but everyone present clearly had a part of their attention glued to it.

This wasn’t some brilliant technique, just basic human instinct.

Most humans can’t stand boredom; the moment there’s anything that can pull them out of their current dull state, they can’t help but focus on it!

It’s like a kid doing homework while their parents chat nearby—by the end, the homework is barely touched, but the conversation they heard word for word.

Especially now, with these twenty-one people all confused and being suppressed to death, it worked even better!

So Lu Xiaobu’s knocking became the thing they unconsciously focused on.

There was nothing surprising about this scene; no one would even think to care.

”Go on.”

Lu Xiaobu looked at Silver Fox with a squinting smile as he asked, his hand still rhythmically tapping away.

Because of Lu Xiaobu’s knocking, Silver Fox had more or less snapped out of it.

Whether it was a report or pressure, whatever—just finish talking and get it over with; he didn’t want to keep tossing this around!

So he opened his mouth and continued, ”Everyone here is a Cultivator, all Mahayana, and on your own turf you’re all the type who dominate a region, so of course you’re all unwilling to accept the current situation!”

”So what? You confident you can change it?”

Lu Xiaobu grinned and tilted his head at Silver Fox.

Just as Silver Fox opened his mouth, ready to answer, Lu Xiaobu spoke again and cut him off: ”If nothing unexpected happened, there should be people from the Lord of Heaven here, right?”

As he spoke, his gaze swept over all twenty-one people present.

At the same time, his tapping began to speed up bit by bit!

”Dong dong dong!”

The knocking, riding along with Lu Xiaobu’s gaze, started drilling straight into the depths of everyone’s hearts!

Unconsciously, some people began showing bad reactions!

The reactions were tiny, clearly them trying their best to control themselves!

They were very uncomfortable!

This kind of forcing themselves to suppress their reactions was really miserable!

But for some reason, even though normally they wouldn’t react at all even if someone mentioned the Lord of Heaven right to their faces, right now they actually felt like they couldn’t hold their emotions down!

They didn’t even know what emotion it was, or why—just that the dong dong dong sound was annoyingly unbearable!

The sound was like one heavy hammer after another pounding on them!

How was that possible?!

It was clearly just normal knocking; they didn’t feel any attack—so why was their inner voice being disturbed?!

And it wasn’t just the ones with guilty consciences; even those with nothing to hide were getting irritated!

Silver Fox, who’d been standing right on the cutting edge this whole time, felt it even more!

He didn’t know why, but a surge of anger rose up from the bottom of his heart!

Yet he couldn’t even tell what exactly he was angry about?!

Was he angry that he kept being led around by the nose by Lu Xiaobu?!

Or angry that there were people from the Lord of Heaven among them?!

Or was he just purely pissed off at Lu Xiaobu’s incessant noise?!

He couldn’t tell—or maybe it was all of the above!

”Oh? You guys don’t know? Eh, then forget it, no future for you lot! I’m guessing you don’t even know who among you is the mole. You’d probably get stabbed and still be clueless!”

Lu Xiaobu’s tapping suddenly stopped, and a sigh-laced voice echoed out, sounding like he was about to leave in disappointment!

The moment those words fell—

All of a sudden—

The fire in Silver Fox’s chest seemed to find a vent in an instant!

The knocking disappeared, and Lu Xiaobu’s tone changed!

Two of his three targets for anger were gone, so his rage started uncontrollably pouring into the third!

Which was: there was a mole among their people!

This was something they’d actually all known for a long time. After all, a lot of things were just ”everyone knows but no one says”; not daring to confirm, but suspicion was definitely there!

Now, with Lu Xiaobu’s guidance, it was like a powder keg with the fuse lit—blowing up in an instant!

So—

”Who said we don’t know?!”

Silver Fox slammed the table and roared!

As soon as he spoke, two more people followed right after: ”That’s right! Who said we don’t know?!”

”Oh? So you do know then!”

Lu Xiaobu immediately broke into a grin!

Beautiful!

It had been a long time since he’d had this much fun!

Silver Fox’s face had gone green by now, his teeth practically grinding to dust!

The instant he said those words, he realized what he’d done!

And he regretted it on the spot!

Because he already knew he’d made a huge mistake!

What time was it now?!

This was supposed to be their time to unite and put pressure on the newcomer Lu Xiaobu!

But before the real pressure even started, he’d blurted that out in a moment of impulse!

So how the hell were they supposed to ”unite” now?!

Especially with those two idiots actually echoing him?!

Wasn’t that just pouring oil on the fire!

Sure enough, when Silver Fox looked around the room, his face went completely dark!

The atmosphere had changed!

It had just been awkward before, but now it was practically a breeding ground for anger and killing intent!

Of course he knew there were moles!

But some things can only be known, not said out loud!

Now that it was out in the open—

The ones who didn’t know would start panicking; they’d become hyper-alert toward every single person around them!

The ones who were actually moles would start getting angry too, worried they’d be exposed!

And the ones who weren’t moles but knew there were moles—when they saw those clueless idiots looking at them with suspicion, they’d be furious all the same!

If everyone here were just ordinary people, anger would just be anger; nothing too serious would happen!

But!

Were these people ordinary?!

On their own turf, each of them was the kind of top dog whose one word could leave millions dead!

So their anger would turn into killing intent in the shortest possible time!

They were used to killing off anyone who opposed them!

However, since they were all top dogs, did that mean the people they pointed their killing intent at weren’t top dogs too?!

—You want to kill me?! Come on then! Let’s see you try!

That would absolutely be the first reaction of any top dog being targeted!

And what followed would definitely be a clash of killing intent!

At that point, even if there was no grudge before, there’d be one now!

Because whoever backed down here would really lose all face, and it might even impact their Dao heart, which in turn would affect their Cultivation!

Now this was trouble!

Silver Fox felt his blood run a little cold!

He looked at Lu Xiaobu’s calm-as-ever expression and, for the first time, showed a look of fear!

He had underestimated this man—grossly underestimated him!

Just a few sentences and a few knocks on the table, and he’d already pushed this gathering, which hadn’t even officially started yet, to the brink of collapse!