Chapter 123: People-Oriented

“…It must be painful to have a monthly meeting!”

Shi Feizhe suddenly said with great emotion.

“That’s for sure… I was last in performance last month, and I’ll be criticized in the meeting later! You came just in time. Don’t kill me, just knock me unconscious so I can’t attend the monthly meeting!”

“I’ll tell you whatever you want to know!”

Hearing Shi Feizhe’s sentiment, 250 felt that Shi Feizhe seemed to be one of his own.

He quickly said with sincerity.

He really wanted to live. Shi Feizhe asked him a lot about Ghostly Manor. For example, how many people were in the manor, the business model of the assassins, how the money was divided after killing someone, and how the performance was assessed!

250 explained everything in detail. As they talked, they unexpectedly felt a sense of kinship!

Who would have thought that Ghostly Manor was like this!

An assassin organization managed like this!

The Jianghu is truly beyond imagination.

Finally, under 250’s eager gaze, Shi Feizhe knocked him unconscious.

Shi Feizhe took 250’s waist token, mask, and black windbreaker and put them on himself.

Now, he had become 250.

He was going to infiltrate the enemy and launch a surprise attack on the Zhoutian expert.

He had already learned that Ghostly Manor had two Chief Managers, one in charge of internal affairs and training newcomers, and the other in charge of assassins and leading them on missions. The other Chief Manager was often on missions outside and not in the manor.

Only these two were Zhoutian realm experts, the others were mostly Qi Sea realm, and a small number were See the Truth realm. Those below See the Truth realm were either reserve assassins or intelligence agents.

As for True Realm experts…

True Realm experts could occupy a city and enjoy a comfortable life, who the hell would run an assassin organization and earn hard-earned money by risking their lives!

The efficiency of making money was too low.

As long as he could kill the Grand Chief Manager in a surprise attack, the others were all chickens in Shi Feizhe’s eyes.

As for sneak attacks being dishonorable…

Bah! He was dealing with assassins, what honor was there to talk about?

Eradicating harm for the people did not violate the chivalrous spirit of a Xia!

Shi Feizhe recalled what 250 had said, and after fumbling around in Ghostly Manor for a while, he finally found a courtyard and descended the stairs to reach the underground meeting room of Ghostly Manor.

The space here was spacious enough to accommodate hundreds of people. The high ceiling was carved with demons and monsters, looking terrifying and eerie. Countless oil lamps were burning above the meeting hall, illuminating the entire space.

In front of the meeting room was a platform half a man’s height. Behind the platform was a wall with four large characters written on it in a bold and flowing style.

“People-Oriented”!

Hiss… People-oriented?

An assassin organization, people-oriented, seemed reasonable!

Above the wall, there was also a white banner that read: “Ghostly Manor August Monthly Summary Meeting!”

“…Our Ghostly Manor must take the needs of our customers as our own responsibility and wholeheartedly help our customers achieve their goals!” The Grand Chief Manager, who was giving a grand speech on the platform, suddenly saw another person enter the meeting room, interrupting his words.

“Hey, you! Get down here!” The Grand Chief Manager had already spoken for a while in his opening remarks, but someone was still late? It was simply unbearable!

“Me?” Shi Feizhe pointed to himself and said in a changed voice.

“Yes! You! What time is it? Not being proactive in meetings means you have problems with your thinking! Get up here!” The Grand Chief Manager said in a deep voice.

Sigh, assassins these days were so hard to manage! They could even be late for meetings!

Under the watchful eyes of more than a hundred assassins wearing silver skull masks, Shi Feizhe slowly walked onto the platform.

“What’s your number!” The Grand Chief Manager said.

“250!”

“…Who are you calling an idiot!!!” The Grand Chief Manager was furious!

“I mean, I’m number 250!” Shi Feizhe showed his waist token.

“…” The Grand Chief Manager’s eyes twitched as he looked at the three characters “Two hundred and five” on the waist token!

He turned his head and said to the silver skull masks below the platform, “I have long suggested to the higher-ups that we should not use numbers like 250 or 438. But in their eyes, you are just nameless assassins!”

“But in my eyes, you are all my soldiers, my men, and living people! You should not be humiliated like this!”

“However…”

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The Grand Chief Manager shook his head and sighed. Even with the mask, one could sense his helplessness.

“It’s already commendable that the Grand Chief Manager considers us! This subordinate is willing to go through fire and water for you, without hesitation!!” An assassin standing below the platform suddenly said.

“Indeed! Indeed! This subordinate is willing to go through fire and water for the Grand Chief Manager, without hesitation!!”

“This subordinate is willing to go through fire and water for the Grand Chief Manager, without hesitation!!”

Then several people knelt down with a clatter, and others followed suit and knelt down, muttering.

For a time, because of what Shi Feizhe said, the Grand Chief Manager turned those words into a way to win people’s hearts. Coupled with a few loyal lackeys expressing their loyalty, the others had no choice but to kneel and pledge their allegiance.

If you didn’t kneel and express your loyalty, you were an outsider, disloyal to the Grand Chief Manager!

Even if everyone was not loyal to the Grand Chief Manager, they had to at least put on a show.

This was the magic of collective meetings.

But Shi Feizhe wouldn’t indulge him. He originally wanted to take the opportunity to launch a surprise attack and give the Grand Chief Manager who was winning people’s hearts a surprise, but the Grand Chief Manager was a bit far from him, and this guy also had body tempering skills, so there was a risk.

He had to find another opportunity.

The assassins below the platform knelt down, except for one person.

That was Shi Feizhe on the platform!

The Grand Chief Manager looked at Shi Feizhe, who was standing there blankly, with displeasure on his face, but he was wearing a red mask, so others couldn’t see it.

This guy had no sense of the situation, no wonder he was number 250!

Sigh, if it weren’t for the fact that it was extremely difficult to find new recruits and the success rate of assassins was too low, he would have killed this clueless person with a single slash twenty years ago!

But it was precisely because the previous training was exceptionally cruel, with a high mortality rate and low loyalty among the assassins, that Ghostly Manor had to learn from the advanced management experience of the Southern assassin organizations and reform their management to increase the number and loyalty of their assassins.

Killing one today and another tomorrow, after a few years, they wouldn’t have completed many missions, and most of their own men would be dead.

How could they still do business and make money!

It was important to understand that people were the core of an assassin organization.

An assassin organization also had to be people-oriented!

And you know what, since the management reforms, although the number of top assassins had decreased, the overall number of assassins had increased significantly. With more people, they could take on more missions and earn more money!

Every assassin was a walking money-making machine for the organization.

Killing them with a single slash before was such a waste! They couldn’t even recover the cost of food!

It was said that their counterparts in the South had already gone legitimate and become a chamber of commerce. They would even do jobs like finding cats as long as they were paid!

It was truly enviable!

“250, you…” The Grand Chief Manager was about to reprimand this clueless person and tell his group leader to give him a hard time, when he heard Shi Feizhe shout.

“The Grand Chief Manager is like a reborn parent to us! Since that’s the case, why don’t we elect the Grand Chief Manager as our boss! From now on, we will live as his people and die as his ghosts!”

As he spoke, Shi Feizhe waved his hand to the people below the platform and shouted loudly and fanatically, “Live as the Grand Chief Manager’s people, die as his ghosts!”

Kneeling was impossible, even pretending!

He just had weak legs and couldn’t kneel!

So, he gave the Grand Chief Manager a big surprise!

The people kneeling below the platform were originally just going with the flow and expressing their loyalty. Seeing someone taking the lead and shouting, they also started shouting along in a daze.

“Live as the Grand Chief Manager’s people, die as his ghosts!!!”

“Live as the Grand Chief Manager’s people, die as his ghosts!!!”

Over a hundred people in the entire meeting hall shouted together, making it seem like a cult or pyramid scheme!

Only a few of the Grand Chief Manager’s trusted aides were puzzled. This wasn’t part of the plan before the meeting!

250 attends the meeting! Hmm… not intentional. （If I had updated this chapter yesterday on 520, it would probably have been more interesting. ）