Pirate: It’s not a phantom beast, it’s a phantom god!

Chapter 279 The Abandoned Pawn

"You'll regret this, President."

Looking directly into Willie's eyes, Kasba made no attempt to hide his threat.

In his view, the other party's chairman was nothing more than a puppet on the surface, while he himself was the real person in charge of the entire military-industrial complex.

After all, the reason why the Beasts were able to control these families was because of the information provided by Kasba. Compared with these 'outsiders', he was the only collaborator they truly trusted.

And in the period before that, during the process of integrating the resources of various families, the beasts' obedience to him made him even more convinced of this.

For those who are disobedient, uncooperative, or even those they dislike, a mere word is enough for the beasts to cut off their heads without hesitation... This is why the current leaders have become so docile.

With the support of all the beasts, these creatures cannot disobey him!

Kaspar was so certain of it.

……

Sure enough, after staring at the other person for a while, Willie looked away as usual.

"cough!"

"Alright, let's not waste time on these trivial matters. Now let's get down to business."

After abruptly changing the subject, Willie took out a stack of well-sealed documents from his briefcase, which was the same style as Wright's, and distributed them to everyone.

"Humph!"

Seeing that the other party had backed down, Kasba stopped dwelling on what had just happened—for some reason, he had a bad feeling about this day.

"Everyone, take a look. This is the new instruction issued by the Beasts' leadership team a few days ago after their cadre meeting."

"This may involve some personnel transfers and other work arrangements."

While everyone was looking through the document, Willie took the opportunity to give them a general explanation of its contents.

"Thanks to everyone's hard work over this period of time, our military-industrial complex has matured in all aspects, and the higher-ups mean that we can start operating it."

By integrating the resources held by several factions that have been operating for a century, and then redistributing them according to type, a completely new and massive system can be built...

It sounds similar to kneading several small dough balls into one large dough ball, but the time, effort, and even lives lost in the process are countless.

Despite the immense pressure from the outside world and the relentless, digging-and-digging-of-graves-and-corpse-digging efforts from within, it has only just barely been completed.

……

"Well, in general, everyone from now on—"

“Wait, Chairman Willie.”

"Where's my share?"

Seeing that Willie had already begun to speak eloquently, while the space in front of him remained empty, Kaspar frowned and asked, a sense of unease creeping into his mind...

Why was he not informed in advance that Beasts intended to make adjustments to the military-industrial complex, but instead it was Willie, an "outsider," who announced it?
The stamps on those sealed bags clearly belonged to Bai Shou, and were official documents drafted after special discussions with the other party... but how come I haven't heard a word about it?
And Willie's unusual attitude today... He secretly made contact with the people from the Beasts' side, which is why he had some confidence.

The bad feeling grew stronger, but Kasba felt relieved when he thought of Spandain and the others' faces.

I have a way out, so the other party won't dare to do anything to me.

"Haha~ Sorry, Kasba, you probably don't need this document."

As expected, Willie gave Caspar a friendly smile in response to his question.

"The plan is to transfer the existing consortium to Beast Heavy Industry, and then divide it into multiple departments according to the steps from raw material mining and ore refining to processing and sales, with each family's leader in charge of one of them."

"Patriarch Kuge, you will serve as the Minister of Logistics. You will be fully responsible for the supply of raw materials and ore from now on."

"I will compile the materials on the mines and other raw material suppliers that we have in our possession for you later."

"Yes, I understand."

Kugo, the female leader who, despite being over fifty, showed no signs of aging, smiled and nodded.

"Sendog, you will be in charge of the specific weapons production from now on."

"Ah."

Sendoug, sitting next to Kasba, hummed in agreement; he seemed completely absorbed in a particular page of the document in his hand.

"Mr. Mu, you have the widest network of contacts. From now on, you will be in charge of sales, is that alright?"

"..."

"Sigh... It seems that my old bones will have to hold on for a few more years."

"Cough cough~" The eldest member of the Mu family, the head of the family, was leaning on a cane. Although he still coughed from time to time, he still seemed to have some energy.

Although their resources were scattered and reorganized, these people's families still existed. As long as they could continue to occupy a place in this group, their families could continue to exist.

……

After assigning tasks to each family, Willie turned his attention back to Kasbah.

"As for you, Kaspar, who was the former vice president... it seems that the higher-ups have also arranged a few good positions for you."

"..."

Kasba didn't speak, but just stared intently at Willie, who had a smile on his face.

He wasn't truly an ignorant fool; the series of appointments the other party had just made clearly excluded him from this military-industrial complex.

Unload the mill and kill the donkey?
There's not much to say about that, the only question is why the donkey was himself?!

Shouldn't it be Willie?

Amidst Caspar's bewildered, shocked, confused, and angry gaze, Willie continued with a smile:

"Kasba, it seems the higher-ups want to transfer you to headquarters; that would be a promotion."

Congratulations! Haha!

"Headquarters?"

Seeing Willie's barely concealed expression, and the other family leaders who seemed to have figured something out and started whispering among themselves, Caspar suppressed his emotions and asked.

"Correct."

"It is the weapons research and development department, which is directly managed by core cadres. It is now our superior department."

"They seem to have a few important vacancies over there, and they specifically want you for them."

"Pfft~"

"Haha~ Of course, it's not mandatory, it mainly depends on your personal wishes."

[But you were clearly laughing the whole time, without stopping!]
Seeing that the other leaders also started laughing after looking at a certain page of the document in their hands, Kaspar could no longer hold back and snatched the document from Sendoug's hand next to him and started reading it.

This time, the other party was not angry at all. Instead, he laughed heartily, clutching his stomach, as if his ancestral grave, which had been blown open by Kaspersky, had automatically recovered.

"Hahahaha! Kasba, you, you..."

"Shut up!"

Kaspar's face turned ashen as he looked at the contents of the document.

[A specialist in precision targeting for rapid-fire machine guns?]
[A high-explosive bomb spotter?]
[A hypersonic missile pilot during the testing phase?]
[......]
"Well, these are all easy jobs. Kaspa, you should go and enjoy yourself!"

"Yes, it seems your work recently has been recognized by your superiors."

"He's so young and promising, much better than us old guys. Haha~"

"The future is bright!"

"Keep up the good work! Don't embarrass us former subordinates, Vice President!"

"..."

……

"enough!"

The paper in his hand was gripped tightly, crumpled into a ball, and Kasba roared in a fit of rage, almost losing control:
"You guys shut up!"

"Do you really think that mere beasts can control me?!"

"Don't forget, I'm with the World Government..."

Snapped!
Willie took a thick stack of lists from his briefcase and threw them in front of Caspar.

"These are the list of world government officials related to you and the details of your cooperation. We have already renegotiated with them a few days ago."

"They are willing to renegotiate the agreement with Beasts, establish a deeper cooperative relationship, and replace... a new agent."

"Wha, what do you mean?"

"Heh~ Even now you still don't understand, nephew Kasba~"

"You are no longer of any use."

(End of this chapter)