After Beating the Game, I Became the Villain BOSS

Chapter 524: Chapter 342: At a Loss

Seeing Shangguan Li fall into silence, Dolan, the chief disciple of the martial arts school and the deputy leader of the Mo Xue Mercenary Corps, stepped forward, his tone quite dissatisfied: "Junior Sister, your request is a bit excessive."

"There’s a disaster on the frontier, and we’re troubled seeing it as well. But the problem is, what does this have to do with our Mo Xue? We’re mercenaries."

"Stopping the beasts and such, that’s the responsibility of the authorities, has nothing to do with us. Why are you coming to us?"

Dongdong bit her lip and said, "If you don’t want to go fight the beasts, at least go and rescue people, okay? Mo Xue has so much aerial transport equipment, in one trip you can move several thousand people to safety, make a few trips back and forth, save as many as you can!"

Dolan frowned, saying solemnly, "You didn’t understand my words. Whether it’s stopping the beasts or rescuing people, it’s not the duty of us mercenaries, you can’t force a duty that doesn’t belong to us onto us."

Dongdong looked absentmindedly at Dolan, not understanding why this once passionate senior brother had become so indifferent.

She hesitated for a moment, then said tremulously: "I understand, this matter requires money... yes, mercenaries need to be paid to do things, I’ll pay you! I’m very rich now, lots of money saved in my account, I’ll give it all to you!"

"If it’s not enough, I’ll go to finance to overdraft. For decades to come until I die, I won’t take a single moon coin remuneration, I’ll overdraft it all to give to you, consider it as me issuing a commission to Mo Xue, is that good enough?"

Dolan sighed long and hard, helpless: "Junior Sister, don’t say such naive things, if we can’t help, we can’t help."

Dongdong pointed to the surrounding air transport vehicles ready to go, questioning: "Then tell me, what are you going to do?"

"Just now I saw you had all the floating airships outside, I thought you were ready to head to the frontier. What are you doing?"

Dolan was momentarily at a loss for words, carefully looking at Shangguan Li, who was silently looking down, and said nothing.

Just as Dongdong was about to continue questioning, a hovercar emblazoned with the Scythe of Death emblem landed in the square.

A member of the Death Scythe Mercenaries walked out, approached Shangguan Li, and asked: "Are your airships ready? Please depart soon, there’s a lot of stuff waiting over there."

Hearing the words of the Death Scythe Mercenary, Dongdong was stunned on the spot, looking at Shangguan Li in confusion: "Master... what does he mean?"

The Death Scythe Mercenary looked at Dongdong, quickly recognizing this rising star who had recently defeated Lucifer in a challenge, and his tone became more cordial: "Oh, the Second-in-Command of the Edge is here too, my apologies."

"It’s like this, the Iron Blood Alliance is undergoing a major transfer, Scythe of Death’s workload is already full, according to orders from above, we are contacting other mercenary corps for assistance."

"Over in Anmi New District, many Iron Blood middle managers are still moving houses, and there’s a lot of valuable furniture that needs transporting, we’re planning to have Mo Xue’s people help."

Dongdong was completely stunned, looking at Shangguan Li with eyes full of strangeness, her voice trembling: "Master, now there are millions of lives hanging in the balance on the frontier. You’re going to help those wealthy people... move furniture?"

Shangguan Li still looked silently down, turning her head slightly, though she was a dignified master, she did not dare to meet her disciple’s interrogating gaze.

At this moment, Dongdong suddenly felt that the master who once accompanied her day and night had become so distant, looking at her as if seeing a stranger: "Master, tell me... this isn’t real..."

"My master is a very chivalrous person... she would never ignore people’s lives in danger and run off to be a dog for those giant corporations!"

Dolan couldn’t listen anymore, loudly scolded: "Enough with that already! What are you saying? Oh, it’s only okay for you people at the Edge to cozy up to Hegemony Company, but Mo Xue can’t do anything for Iron Blood? That’s what you call being a dog?"

"Junior Sister, do you know how long Master has waited for this opportunity? For so many years, Master has been diligently leading Mo Xue forward just for the chance to make a name for everyone."

"But you also know, there’s a barrier in this world, that is giant corporations. If we can’t get recognized by these giant corporations, can’t establish relationships with those big figures, no matter how glorious it seems on the surface, we’re still just small fry!"

"It’s the same for Mo Xue! Everyone may say we’re a mercenary corps led by the Seven Stars, but if giant corporations don’t take notice of us, even after ten or twenty years, we’re still just small fry!"

"We don’t want that! We have ambitions too! Mo Xue doesn’t want to just stand in the shadows, watching you soar while we can only stand still, picking up your leftovers!"

At this point, Dolan heavily tapped his own chest, his tone bleakly saying: "Assisting Iron Blood’s transfer is Mo Xue’s first chance at formal contact with a giant corporation."

"Miss this chance, and who knows when the next opportunity will come, it might never come again because we turned them down once."

"Put yourself in Master’s shoes, would you resign yourself to giving up a promising future to do inexplicable things?!"

Dolan’s words were very pragmatic, yet also brutally honest.

Mo Xue Mercenary Corps was established early, gained fame early, once upon a time, they were also superstars in New Moon City, looked upon favorably by numerous intermediaries, with a bright future ahead.

Even many believed, in decades, Mo Xue would become the next Scythe of Death, their leader had the potential to succeed Zhou Hanyan, becoming the next King of Mercenaries.