Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 198 Learn to say “no”!
Jin Li did not lie. Duan Mingyuan followed her to the inspector's office and received the recommendation letter for the Sixteen-Star Summit before lunch.

Seeing that he had once again fallen into silence, Duan Mingyuan felt a little guilty.

"What will happen if you fail to complete the task assigned to you by the Archbishop?"

“No consequences.”

The eyeball robot said.

Baptism had no hope for this in the first place, and the reason he had been following Duan Mingyuan was just to seriously implement the Archbishop's orders.

Even if she cursed the liaison officer a hundred times in her heart, Jinli would still complete her job meticulously. Her current job was to do her best to persuade Duan Mingyuan to take up the post in the Holy City.

She was an inspector and the owner of the flagship. She had been following Duan Mingyuan like a follower. Even though she had been clearly rejected, she still persevered and invited him again. Such an act of enduring humiliation and bearing heavy burdens could be said to be a full effort.

She performed her duties conscientiously as always, and whether she could convince Duan Mingyuan was not something she could control.

There are many things in life that are not satisfactory, even for the Embers Group. She thinks the Archbishop should learn this lesson.

However, for Jinli personally, rather than persuading Duan Mingyuan to take up the post in the Holy City, she hoped that those monsters on the ship would be punished by these rebellious Blue Star people.

The headquarters took advantage of her because she was easy to talk to, and stuffed all the freaks that others didn't want onto her flagship.

Especially the restaurant's executive chef, who has opened up an ascetic track for himself and dragged everyone to join him in fasting and asceticism. Ever since this ascetic freak got on her boat, she hasn't had a worry-free meal. Her email box is filled with complaint letters every day, and Baptism herself is miserable.

But it was too difficult for her to stand up and fire the executive chef in a dignified manner.

If she had been able to do that, these people would never have come on board in the first place.

And that Black Mass.

She spreads racial discrimination remarks all day long and stirs up hatred everywhere, and even her direct superior is scolded. People say that she is shielding Black Mass and that she, like Black Mass, likes to discriminate against others in her bones.

"So that means it's okay for me to leave now?"

Duan Mingyuan asked tentatively.

As expected, Jinli nodded again, and this time she sat back in her swivel chair, seemingly not intending to follow him out again.

Duan Mingyuan walked to the door, but due to the condemnation of his conscience, he was ultimately unable to walk out of the door.

He turned back and moved a chair to sit in front of the baptism.

I really can’t stand it anymore.

It seemed that he was destined to have a hard time becoming someone like Darth Vader.

Although Jinli was the inspector of the Embers Financial Group, with the same status as Fuling and more authority, she seemed to be easy to bully and never knew how to refuse others. She even agreed to requests from an outsider like him. Her age of fifteen or sixteen reminded Duan Mingyuan of those female classmates in the class who were usually taciturn and silently endured bullying from small groups.

“You don’t reject people?”

Duan Mingyuan asked seriously.

"I can."

The eyeball robot answered in place of Baptism, "But it requires a keyboard."

“Why a keyboard?”

"Because I can't say it to his face."

In fact, ever since Duan Mingyuan and his crew boarded the ship, the amount of words she had spoken through the eye robot in the past few days added up to more than in the past month.

Someone has talked about this problem before, so she learned how to use the keyboard to scold people. In the virtual world, she cannot see the other person's expression through the screen, so the psychological burden is much smaller.

And even if you really make the other person angry, you can say that the cat jumped onto the keyboard.

It was the cat that did it when she wasn't paying attention.

You are a magnanimous person, so why bother getting angry with a kitten?

Before typing every word, Jinli had a plan for retreat.

"Why can't you say it?" "No reason."

While the eyeball robot was speaking, Jin Li avoided looking at Duan Mingyuan and looked down at his knees.

"This is a lie."

Duan Mingyuan rarely asks questions like he does now, but now he has to play the annoying role, even if it may touch upon some memories that Jin Li doesn't want to face. "It's useless to escape, it will only make those people worse."

Seeing Jinli lowering his head and not speaking, Duan Mingyuan took a deep breath and decided to use practical actions to prove the harm of blindly forbearing and giving in.

For example, this is our first meeting, we don't know each other very well, and our request is to ask you to help us write a letter of recommendation.

Baptist looked at him, as if to say with her eyes that she had already written the letter of recommendation.

"Yes."

Duan Mingyuan took out the recommendation letter and put it on the table, saying, "But you made all this happen too easily. Do you know what consequences this will cause?"

Baptism shook his head, his eyes confused.

"That will make me think you are a weak person, so my demands will change. I will eliminate your confidants, undermine your power, and gradually take away the flagship that originally belonged to you. In the end, I will drive you off the flagship as the captain."

Duan Mingyuan's face darkened, and he was trying hard to transform himself into the identity of Darth Vader.

The people she met during Baptism were good people, but there were countless possibilities in this vast universe. What if the next person she came into contact with was Darth Vader?
Considering that Jinli doesn't know how to say no, the church headquarters will definitely throw the difficult mess to her to deal with.

This is no different from the workplace.

Being a doormat will not make people like you. They will just dump their work messes on you while looking down on you in secret.

Hearing this, Jinli's body tensed up and his eyes became alert, as if he was ready for battle.

"Now, tell me why you can't say no to someone in person?"

"Because I don't like hurting other people."

The voice of the eyeball robot also began to fluctuate, and electric current-like noise appeared in the synthesized sound.

"Why don't you like hurting other people?"

Duan Mingyuan did not give Jinli time to think and asked.

"You little mute, you're not likable. If you make others angry again, no one will want you."

The sound of the electric current became louder and louder, making the voice of the eyeball robot sound erratic.

But after saying this, Baptism felt completely relaxed.

"There are already many people gathered on your ship. Even in the capital of Blue Star, there are not so many people. They all rely on you. Do you want to protect them?"

Baptism nodded and clenched his fists under the table.

“Then the first thing you have to learn is to learn to say no!”

Not knowing how to say no would sooner or later put Jinli and everyone on board the ship in danger.

The two looked at each other for a long time.

After an unknown amount of time, Jinli finally mustered up the courage, faced Duan Mingyuan, and controlled the eyeball robot to loudly say "No!".

This was the first time in her life that she rejected someone without leaving any room for doubt in front of others.

She refused to accept Duan Mingyuan's suggestion.

The lingering sound of "no" echoed in the room for a long time.

Duan Mingyuan's eyes were dark.

He felt that he was about to suffer a cerebral congestion.

(End of this chapter)