Bo Ge easily appeased Cai Dong, and even achieved a logical closed loop through Cai Dong's self-reflection.
So he and Cai Dong started chatting about old times again, deepening their bond.
"I have to say, life in our city village used to be really good. We couldn't make a lot of money without demolition, but everyone had a building with forty or fifty rooms. As long as the rent was cheap, a lot of migrant workers would come to live in our city village."
Cai Dong was also filled with emotion at this moment. Slightly tipsy, he thought of the past.
"That's right, back then, every household had twenty or thirty thousand yuan a month. Compared to those migrant workers who only earned four or five thousand, five or six thousand, and rarely over ten thousand, we were truly living a very happy life back then."
Bo Ge also nodded with emotion.
"But later, Bo Ge, it seems you and one of your brothers were adopted, right? I remember, Brother Zhang Bo, your family passed away early back then, and you became an orphan, living quite poorly."
Cai Dong suddenly remembered something.
"That's right, back then, my cousin and I were adopted by a wealthy businessman who supported us from elementary school, middle school, all the way to high school and university."
Bo Ge finished his drink. His expression remained unchanged, he just smiled and said, "Then the death spirit rules arrived, and Undead Monsters also began to rampage. Everything was gone."
However, Bo Ge's heart had a special reaction to Cai Dong's words, even showing some apprehension.
Because he didn't understand why Cai Dong suddenly asked that.
You see.
This matter had always been a rather private topic for him; he had never told anyone, and basically no one knew about it except for those who came out of the city village.
And now, Cai Dong, also from the city village, was discussing this topic with him. Moreover, the wealthy businessman who adopted him was actually General Manager Yang of the Green Leaf Group, who was currently carrying out a plan to subvert Deherim with him.
Cai Dong asking this indeed made him quite alarmed.
"Alas, it's such a pity. If Bo Ge, you could have continued your development, you might be studying for a master's or even a doctoral degree now."
Cai Dong continued, but he didn't see the slightest change in Bo Ge's expression. Bo Ge's acting skills were already very good, and now everyone was slightly tipsy, especially Cai Dong who had drunk a lot of ale, so of course he couldn't detect the subtle emotional changes on Bo Ge's face.
"Hmm, almost, but most likely just a master's student."
Bo Ge also waved his hand at this point, smiling and saying, "What's the point of talking about this? It's useless. In this era, what can a doctoral supervisor do? What can a former national project supervisor do? Don't they still die if they're supposed to, and live miserably if they're supposed to?"
"Yes, yes, if the Blue Star World still existed, we wouldn't be from the same world, Bo Ge. I used to envy you so much back then. Your academic performance was so good, and you had noble people helping you. I just lived in a home with a drunkard and a gambler. I'm not afraid of you laughing, my father loved to drink and gamble everywhere, and my mother loved to play mahjong, not coming home all day. I grew up alone, which also led to my previously sharp and harsh personality."
Cai Dong's tone became increasingly distressed at this point, and his eyes were even a little red.
However, Bo Ge also realized at this moment that Cai Dong seemed to genuinely be reminiscing about his past in the city village and wasn't saying too much, nor did he seem to notice too much.
Speaking of this, Bo Ge's tone also became more sincere. He reached out and patted Cai Dong's shoulder: "Isn't everything getting better now? The past is a road we've already walked. Now, we just need to stride forward. As brothers, we'll support each other as we move forward, and everything will get better."
"Yes, everything will get better."
Cai Dong talked more about his past life, and suddenly looked up at Bo Ge, his voice complex: "To be honest, Bo Ge, tell me the truth, is something about to happen? I always feel a bit uneasy."
"What's going to happen? Don't be so paranoid. It's not that big of a deal."
Bo Ge, at this moment, reached out and patted his shoulder again, comforting him: "You're just thinking too much. It's just about apprehending some remnants of the Diesel Company. What else could happen? Even if the scope of the purification might expand, it doesn't actually involve us that much. When Master Shen Mu asks, you can just say it's an internal conflict among Blue Star Humans, some dirty dealings and conflicts between senior managers and middle-level managers, isn't that enough?"
"Although that's true, I always feel something isn't quite right, especially since those senior managers and middle-level managers have always been well-behaved before, but now they suddenly found an excuse and are about to have a conflict. I always feel something is off."
Cai Dong narrowed his eyes and looked at Bo Ge: "I feel like someone is really fanning the flames here."
"Then who do you think it is?"
Bo Ge, at this moment, seemingly puzzled, rubbed his chin while looking at Cai Dong.
"I don't know."
Cai Dong said truthfully: "It's just my sixth sense vaguely telling me this, but you are a Prophecy-type Mage, you should also be able to sense some small contradictions here, or some strange feelings, right?"
"There are some strange feelings, but these matters are not for us to worry about. The remnants of the Diesel Company were personally ordered by Master Shen Mu. If anything happens, Master Shen Mu will personally issue the instructions. We are outsiders, and we should not easily get involved in this muddy water."
Bo Ge, at this moment, earnestly advised Cai Dong: "Let those senior managers and middle-level managers fight among themselves; we just need to watch the show from behind the scenes. You stay here, in charge, mediating the conflicts among these guys, and that's enough. Even if something else happens, it's their own business. My point is that you must be a good general manager, and this general manager position must be yours. Even if I have to take the blame, it's better than you taking the blame, after all, you know you are the backbone."
"Thank you, thank you, Bo Ge. I understand that you're doing all this for my own good."
Cai Dong was even more touched at this moment. He knew that Bo Ge saying this was actually a form of protection for him.
Cai Dong didn't think too much at the moment, nor did he realize that the Bo Ge in front of him had already begun his grand plan, and was not protecting him as he claimed, but rather wanted to completely drag him into the mess.
After all, only Bo Ge himself knew what he was doing, and even within the Green Leaf Group, only the senior managers knew.
His plan was truly too secretive.
And he was truly like a chameleon, a highly venomous chameleon, quietly lurking in Deherim's most crucial position, waiting for the grand plan to proceed.
No one knew that this chameleon, having completed its disguise, was accumulating venom, about to deliver a brutal bite. When that bite came, it would be utterly, completely fatal.
"Alright, you should rest well too. I won't chat here any longer; it's almost time."
Bo Ge finished the last sip of ale in his glass, then stood up and looked out the window at the sky, which had already turned dark but glowed with a faint white light, like the moon, still illuminating the entire Deherim brightly.
He then bid farewell to Cai Dong and left the town residence.
Cai Dong also personally supported his body to see Bo Ge off from his residence, then felt a wave of fatigue throughout his body. He couldn't help but yawn, went to his room, lay down on the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.
However, after Cai Dong fell asleep, Bo Ge did not walk towards his own town residence.
Instead, he looked at the streets of the Town Area, which, although under curfew at the moment, were not strictly enforced. He pursed his lips, turned a corner, and walked quickly towards a relatively spacious open area nearby.
That was an area where middle-level managers often gathered.
And there, nearly seventy or eighty middle-level managers had already appeared. They were very quiet, no one speaking, just finding corners in twos and threes, sitting and waiting for someone to arrive.
It wasn't until Bo Ge appeared at the edge of this open space that everyone stood up, indicating that the person they were waiting for was Bo Ge.
"Bo Ge is here, Bo Ge is here! Get up, everyone, get up!"
"That's right, that's right, Bo Ge is here! Let's hurry over, let's hurry over!"
"The situation is too serious, we must find Bo Ge and let him explain. Everyone come over, whatever is happening, let's all quickly speak up and tell Bo Ge everything we know."
"Stop dilly-dallying! Hurry up and come over! It's not easy for Bo Ge to come here. The fact that Bo Ge called us here means he trusts us."
At this moment, those middle-level managers also quietly called out, urging the others to walk over quickly.
These seventy or eighty reshaped managers were already standing in front of Bo Ge, all looking at him expectantly.
"Hmm, everyone quiet down. I understand what you mean, and this is why I asked someone to inform you to come over. In my heart, you are the most trustworthy group of middle-level managers, unlike the other forty or fifty middle-level managers."
Bo Ge also nodded at this point, raised his hand, waved to these people, and at the same time signaled them to stop talking and listen to him.
"Bo Ge, Bo Ge, with your words, we are relieved. You don't know how anxious we were after hearing about this. Those senior managers just want to mess with us and make things difficult for us."
"That's right, they just want to make things difficult for us, and they're even forming alliances. We were just a bit unconvinced by them before, and now they're using this to suppress us, and each of them seems quite rude to us."
"It's no longer just being rude and suppressing us; they want us to die! They even want us to hand over our human followers and be put under house arrest, but we didn't listen to them. We united and came here."
"What exactly is going on, Bo Ge? You have to say something. We are very nervous right now. If a conflict really happens, those senior managers will definitely not let us go. Besides, we are not remnants of the Diesel Company! A large number of us were just ordinary people in the Diesel Company's territory before."
"That's right, Bo Ge, we are just ordinary people, we couldn't choose where we wanted to stay! We've stayed in the Green Leaf Group before, and the Diesel Company too. Now they suddenly say that those of us who stayed in the Diesel Company are very likely remnants of the Diesel Company. How is that possible?"
"They're just making trouble for no reason. We're truly helpless. All day today we've been questioned and interrogated, and from their attitude, they just want us to admit that we are remnants of the Diesel Company."
"Even those guys, after seeing us band together, directly said that we are all remnants of the Diesel Company, and that we have formed our own small factions, a group of dissidents against Master Shen Mu and Deherim, a Diesel Company remnant gang. How is that possible?"
"Bo Ge, you must uphold justice for us! We went to find Sun Zhiru, and that guy ignored us, and even told us to believe in Master Shen Mu. How can we believe that? Now those senior managers just want to make an example of us."
"They're not just making an example of us, they want to wipe us all out. We offended them before, and now they're retaliating against us."
These middle-level managers all came before Bo Ge, continuously pouring out their grievances, because they were truly suffering an injustice at the moment. Especially thinking about the interrogations they endured during the day, their faces were all quite distressed.
That wasn't questioning; it was practically an interrogation.
Those senior managers just disliked these middle-level managers and wanted to beat them into submission. If possible, they believed those senior managers would show them no mercy, directly forcing them to admit they were all remnants of the Diesel Company, then put this label on their heads, and finally let them suffer the cruelest punishment as retaliation for not telling these senior managers when they submitted the list.
As a result, these middle-level managers were truly quite helpless and quite angry now.
