No strange things are allowed to evolve!

"What are you saying? Isn't this also to help you carry out a major internal purge? And you're complaining about the trouble?"

“I know this isn’t a bad thing.” The president sighed. “That’s why I said I didn’t know if you were a lucky star or a jinx.”

“You clearly think it’s a bad thing…” Jiang Shu said somewhat disheartenedly, “If you want to say I’m a jinx, you can just say so directly. There’s no need to pretend and make us choose one or the other.”

"sit down."

Because of their last meeting, it was no secret that Jiang Shu had a connection with the rebel, Blueberry Dipping Sauce.

Therefore, this meeting and conversation saved a lot of unnecessary explanations and allowed us to get straight to the point.

After hearing Jiang Shu's explanation of the whole story, the president said with some surprise:

"I've heard a little about that first place thing, but your bureau chief said he would handle it and would let me know if necessary or if I needed any help. So I haven't gotten involved and have just been observing. From what you've said, it seems things haven't gone as smoothly as I thought."

"I feel like you trust the director more than I trust him," Jiang Shu said, somewhat speechlessly. "After all, this is your own territory, so you should value it more."

But the president didn't take this questioning to heart at all, and just said dismissively, "If I don't trust him, who else can I trust? You don't understand. This trust comes from the fact that he and I are the same kind of people, the same level of evolvers. Sometimes, when facing people of this kind, even if they are enemies, this trust is even greater than that I have for some of my most loyal subordinates."

Simply put, it's a mutual respect between strong individuals. In some situations, this mutual respect makes people believe that the other party would not and would disdain doing anything degrading, such as deception.

"Even if that's the case, saying something like that is still quite dangerous," Jiang Shu cautioned.

The president remained unconcerned.

"It doesn't matter. Even if word gets out, no one will believe I would say such a thing. If you don't believe me, you can try it. Then everyone will just think you're talking nonsense and slandering me."

"..."

For some reason, Jiang Shu always felt that as their relationship grew closer, the president's behavior in front of her became more and more casual, even lawless.

Or is this person actually like this all along?

"However..." the president changed the subject, "Why do you insist on asking him for this favor? It's not that other people are necessarily trustworthy, but he's certainly much more reliable than a rebel."

Jiang Shu had considered this issue.

However, the people he truly trusts are those he has actually interacted with for a period of time and who have been subtly influenced by his dedication.

Perhaps after careful selection with the president's help, there will indeed be a more suitable candidate than blueberry dip.

However, meeting these conditions will definitely take a lot of time.

What Jiang Shu lacks most right now is time.

Since Blueberry Sauce had never heard of that mysterious organization, the mark left on him by [Dedication] would not become invalid because he violated the principles that Blueberry Sauce needed to uphold, so he was naturally the best candidate.

“Because I saved his life, I’m his savior in a way,” Jiang Shu replied. “I’ve looked into it, and those people have nothing to do with the rebels, so he wouldn’t stoop to tricking me like this.”

Upon hearing this, the president remained silent for a long time.

After a sudden sigh, he remarked, "It's good to be young. You're full of passion and a sense of justice, and the world doesn't seem so dirty to you."

After saying that, he seemed to have changed his mind and said, "That makes sense. Even rebels aren't necessarily all that bad. Besides, you're his savior. If there's no conflict in our positions, occasional cooperation isn't out of the question."

The chairman temporarily approved Jiang Shu's decision.

He seemed unwilling to continue the discussion and instead asked Jiang Shu, "So what do you plan to do next?"

"You're asking me?" Jiang Shu asked, somewhat puzzled. "Wasn't it already made very clear? That person seems to have the ability to influence the selection of talent within the Holy Temple, so they must have people among yours. Naturally, we should find them out."

“I know, what I mean is, if you were to make the decision, how would you plan to do it?” the president asked.

“As for me…” Jiang Shu thought for a moment, “I would probably have him deliberately make some rather outrageous requests, the kind that would be rejected by HR without a second thought under normal circumstances, and then whoever agrees or shows that there is room for negotiation, that should be the one.”

After some thought, the president questioned, "Isn't this too arbitrary? What if they feel it's appropriate to relax the conditions? After all, our Holy Church values ​​strength and believes in rewarding the capable, so it's not always so absolute. How do we make that judgment?"

“Absolutely not.” Jiang Shu said decisively, “The premise of ‘the capable get more’ is that the person is capable, but the person I found has no advantage at all, or even if he does have an advantage, he certainly won’t show it, because for him, being capable means doing more work, but he is just a lazy dog.”

"Alright, that's fine then." The guild leader thought for a moment, then asked, "What will you do if we find you?"

Jiang Shu finally realized that something was wrong.

It seems the president isn't simply discussing things with himself, but rather testing and training him.

What does it mean?

Although he didn't quite understand what the other person meant, Jiang Shu still answered seriously: "Anyway, we definitely won't deal with them right away. Who knows how many people they've buried in the sanctuary? So I think we'll probably leave them alone for now, but arrange for trusted people to monitor them and see if we can follow the clues to find other hidden leads."

"Not bad." The president nodded in satisfaction.

However, it seems that he is only moderately satisfied, not particularly satisfied.

Sure enough, the president immediately continued, "But this is not the optimal solution. It is too idealistic to just leave it alone and think that we can use them to trace the source."

It's important to understand that someone who can be easily deployed to pass an interview with someone who is dispensable, someone who can only add icing on the cake but not provide real help, is definitely not of a high rank.

Even if such people are exposed, they certainly won't pose any threat to them, which is why they dare to use them so casually.

This means that even if these people have connections to higher-level informants, it might not be possible to accurately trace those connections through them. It's uncertain whether there's any direct link between them, and even if there is, it would be a connection that can be severed at any time and is impossible to track.

Jiang Shu was stunned.

He really hadn't thought of that.

Seeing that Jiang Shu seemed to be deep in thought, the chairman asked again, "So, after I reminded you of this point, how do you think it should be improved?"

Jiang Shu pondered for a moment, then said uncertainly, "Find a way to raise their levels?"

"How exactly do you do it?"

"For example, let them take on more important jobs, let them not only influence an interview, but also have a greater impact, so that they will be valued more there."

Jiang Shu pondered for a moment before slowly saying:

"In this way, we can directly cultivate these people who were originally just pawns that could be discarded at will into higher-level entities in the shadows. Then, as long as we keep an eye on them, wait for them to come to us, and attack their reinforcements, we can get a greater harvest than if we used them as clues to follow the trail. At crucial moments, we might even be able to use them to mislead the opponent's judgment."

Upon hearing this, the president's eyes were filled with satisfaction, and he looked at Jiang Shu with a sense that she was a promising young man.

But just as he was about to praise Jiang Shu, saying that he had good comprehension,

Jiang Shu, however, seemed to have unlocked his full potential and continued, "And once one of them gains a higher rank and greater power because of our deliberate indulgence, and makes great contributions over there, becoming someone who can sit at the same table as their former superiors."

Their confidence and desire will surely surge, and they will regard all of this as the result of their own hard work. They will feel that their abilities and experience of starting from scratch deserve better conditions.

In this way, those who do less than them but can sit at the same table with them will inevitably be met with their hostility, and with just a little manipulation, infighting is inevitable.

I call it 30x leveraged short selling with an undercover agent.

"Uh..." The president listened blankly.

But that's not all. Jiang Shu continued, "But that's still not enough. Dissatisfaction with their status and treatment is not enough to completely tear them apart. To pull out the radish and bring out the mud, we have to make them completely tear off their masks and self-destruct."

I think that to achieve this goal, we must first make them compete internally.

In order to solidify their position or advance to the next level, they gather performance data and intelligence, becoming extremely active.

As for those hidden networks that we haven't yet discovered, once we find that some of them have broken the rules and started making a big fuss, while the Holy Temple remains indifferent like idiots, they will definitely muster up the courage to go in and do more mistakes.

Once we've revealed almost everything that can be revealed, it'll be time for us to make our move.

Jiang Shu paused, a ruthless glint in his eyes:

"At that time, we will thoroughly stir up the conflict between them. For example, we can kidnap Zhang San's son and frame Li Si, or induce Li Si's wife to have an affair and then frame Wang Ermazi."

Once the situation gets out of control, the people behind them will definitely step in to mediate. No matter what mediation methods they use, as long as we escalate the conflict and make these undercover agents believe that this is a means for their boss to check and suppress them, these traitors will turn their guns on that mysterious organization.

In order to get revenge, they will definitely take the initiative to find the Holy Temple to atone for their sins. At that time, won't they be at our mercy and exploited?

Hehehe..."

The president remained silent for a long time.

"You're... perhaps being a bit too radical again..."

"Huh? Isn't this the very thing you deliberately tried to lead me to think in this direction?"

"...?"

Faced with Jiang Shu's innocent gaze, the president suddenly felt that he should try to avoid taking the initiative to cultivate him in the future.

Because he realized that he might have been mistaken because he was too old.

Jiang Shu was probably not a child, but more like a cunning strategist in his youth.

You should stay away from people like that.

If you kill someone and go to court, they might turn around and say you instigated it.

I was so scared I cried.

Chapter 318 Dissipation of Power

"What, you don't like it?"

Jiang Shu sensed something from the chairman's hesitant tone:

"If you think it's too mild, I have some more domineering little tricks up my sleeve."

"Alright, alright, stop with the grand scheme." The president knew that this kind of bad seed sometimes seemed a bit naive, but it was just that his mind hadn't quite caught up yet, and it didn't mean that he needed any discipline.

Given his ability to draw inferences from one instance to another, it would be better to advise him to restrain himself to avoid accidentally offending the natural order at some point.

"Alright, that's about it. There's no need to say anything else."

So the president changed the subject:

"By the way, I've already prepared those items that could increase the hatchery's profits that you asked me for last time."

As he spoke, the president took out several items from the warehouse whose purpose was unclear just by looking at them and handed them to Jiang Shu:

"They are all very precious, please keep them safe."

"Oh dear," Jiang Shu said awkwardly, "I can't accept this."

"..."

The president was speechless. Isn't this exactly what you asked for?

Why are you pretending to be something you're not now?

You're getting a good deal and then acting innocent, aren't you?

But the president was too lazy to investigate further.

After briefly explaining how to use these props, he then dismissed Jiang Shu.

After leaving the guild leader, Jiang Shu packed away his props and set off to conquer Qu Boya.

He wasn't just fooling around with the blueberry dipping sauce; he genuinely planned to handle the important matters first before going to Bo Ya for special training.

He had already planned ahead. After understanding the strengths and weaknesses of each of the top ten seats, he would then learn new skills in a targeted manner during the process of upgrading and becoming stronger, so that he would have sufficient means to deal with various complex situations in the future.

Now, apart from the Empress Dowager, Jiang Shu has almost figured out how to deal with those seemingly invincible opponents who can only be crushed by absolute power by studying the video footage all night.

So when he arrived at the strategy area and found Boya, he quickly made up a list without saying a word, under Boya's puzzled gaze.

"I need skills with these effects right now. The numbers represent priority. The top few are the ones I urgently need right now, and the ones listed later are the ones I don't need right now. It doesn't matter which one comes first."

After handing the list to Boya, Jiang Shu explained.

He did not write down specific skill names because acquiring a specific skill is much more difficult than randomly acquiring one from a category of skills that all have similar effects.

Although specific skills may have different special effects, or the strength of such general effects may also vary, Jiang Shu is not very picky. All he needs is a mechanism. As for the value of the mechanism or whether there are any additional special effects, it doesn't matter. He believes that everything can be made up for by skillful operation.

Take Hiroshima's heatwave as an example. For Jiang Shu, what matters is whether he can fly, how fast he can fly, and whether he will burst into flames or spray water while flying. In fact, all of these are possible.

As long as it goes from 0 to 1, that's fine.

At worst, we can just replace it with a more powerful skill of the same type later.

So even though the list of skills seems extensive, Jiang Shu doesn't think it would be difficult to collect them all.

After all, he only needs a partial or even no modification, and he doesn't expect a full modification. So, wouldn't it be a piece of cake to let the experienced Pokémon training master, Boya, handle it?

Looking at the list of more than a dozen skill groups representing different effects, Bo Ya was quite surprised.

"What, are you going to fight a world boss?"

In her view, a normal evolved being only needs one or two signature skills to become a powerful figure. Jiang Shu, on the other hand, seems to want to master so many skills and reach a certain level of proficiency. It's hard not to think that he wants to go against some ruthless person.

Although Bo Ya understood Jiang Shu's intentions after his explanation, he was still somewhat skeptical.

"Not to mention how difficult it is to collect all of these, even if you did collect them all, you can't bite off more than you can chew. It's not something you can master in a day or two to apply them in actual combat."

"It's alright." Jiang Shu had already considered these things: "I didn't expect them to become my core skills. I have other people who have chosen my core skills. I just need them to be able to break through in specific situations and at crucial moments. In short, you just need to use your professional abilities to help me filter them and come up with a strategy."

"Alright... since you've put it that way," Bo Ya had no choice but to nod reluctantly.