Chapter 1128 - 1128: Feeling Disgusted

When mentioning Hong Ming, Xiao Feng's calm gaze disappeared for a moment.

Hong Ming, was the former abbot of Anping Temple, the mentor of Hua Ling and Hui Yi and others.

Regarding the impression of this old abbot, Xiao Feng always felt it was very "profound and unpredictable".

From when he was alive to after his death, it was always like this.

Take a recent event, for instance, the golden spheres the old abbot gave Hua Ling were crucial to defeating Gu Shi!

At this moment, with the appearance of the name Hong Ming, Xiao Feng couldn't help but become more serious...

"Why would Hong Ming the old abbot give you such a rating?"

Ma Yuliang took out a matchbox from his pocket, lit up his pipe, took a deep breath, and puffed out some smoke, saying, "Those are past matters, no need to mention them."

Xiao Feng's brow furrowed slightly: "Let's not talk about past matters then, but talk about the current ones. Who exactly are you?"

"I'm the head of the Demon Suppression Action Team." Ma Yuliang smiled: "This annual assessment is organized by me personally."

Head?

Organized personally?

Xiao Feng felt he seemed to understand something, but still asked: "Including the internally decided core members?"

Ma Yuliang shook his head: "I just set up the stage, I don't manage the performance. So far, this show appears to be quite exciting though.

Aside from the open and secret struggles among Wu Zhanbo's group and that young girl Hua Ling, the most interesting part is your trading resources."

"Is that a compliment?"

"Of course!" Ma Yuliang earnestly replied: "This assessment had many clear loopholes in its rules, but you're the only one who dared to exploit them so boldly."

"And then what?"

Xiao Feng pressed: "In this assessment, there were some manipulating like Wu Zhanbo, and some exploiting rule loopholes like me. As the head, wouldn't you just discover problems and not resolve them?"

Ma Yuliang chuckled but didn't respond, then after a brief pause, countered: "Did you feel during the assessment that the Demon Suppression Action Team might be finished?

Or rather, that it's unfit to challenge the Devil's Concentration Camp?"

"Yes, but not as strongly as I do now!"

"Oh?" Ma Yuliang's smile grew even wider: "You seem to have hidden meanings in your words. Why don't you share the reason?"

He clearly understood that Xiao Feng's brief sentence actually hid sharp wit.

Feeling like the Demon Suppression Action Team might be finished during the assessment, and feeling even stronger upon meeting its head, was obviously implying the head's incompetence.

Seeing Ma Yuliang's increasingly hearty smile, Xiao Feng was further convinced that this old guy indeed had a peculiar trait, enjoying being criticized.

In that case then...

Xiao Feng quickly organized his words and spoke sternly: "A fortress often collapses from within, absolute fairness doesn't exist in this world, and that certainly can't be changed.

But if this simple fact leads to completely abandoning fairness, that would truly be ridiculous.

How many people previously protested from below about injustice, surely you've seen it as well. If you don't correct this soon, it will eventually fall apart."

"What about you?" Ma Yuliang replied patiently with a gentle smile: "Isn't trading resources a form of exploitation of the weak by the strong?"

Xiao Feng seemed to anticipate this attack, calmly shaking his head: "The root of this issue lies with the head, that is you.

Setting aside rule flaws, don't those buying resources understand that even if they don't buy, I wouldn't dare to really harm them?

Ultimately, if the upper beam isn't straight, the lower beam will be crooked. If you had some managerial skills, I wouldn't succeed so easily."

"Hahahahaha!" Ma Yuliang laughed heartily and cursed: "What a sharp-tongued kid, you come up with crooked ideas to make money, yet you throw the blame back at me."

With that, he laughed again, his laughter echoing on the mountaintop, carried away by the wind.

At this moment, Xiao Feng was completely convinced of Ma Yuliang's peculiar liking for being criticized.

The more he was criticized, the happier this head became.

No wonder at such an old age, he's still so vigorous, simply this morbid... cough, sunny attitude, is truly one in a million!

As if to affirm Xiao Feng's thoughts, Ma Yuliang soon spoke in a very cheerful tone:

"My purpose in organizing this assessment is to 'scrape the poison from the bone' for the Demon Suppression Action Team.

I didn't touch Wu Zhanbo and his associates earlier because they were indispensable.

But times have changed, without them, although it would bring significant impact, it wouldn't become non-operational.

Moreover, from a long-term perspective, eliminating them is more beneficial than harmful!"

Pausing for a moment, Ma Yuliang continued: "As far as I'm aware, that little girl Hua Ling has opened doors for you several times..."

"Stop saying things that can be easily misunderstood, okay?" Xiao Feng exclaimed with a blackened face.

"Misunderstanding?" Ma Yuliang looked puzzled: "I don't think I said anything wrong, can you say you never went through that little girl Hua Ling's back door?"

"..." Xiao Feng.

At this moment, he understood one more thing.

That is, Ma Yuliang's upbeat and resilient mindset is indeed a necessary trait.

Without this kind of psychological endurance, if he doesn't get beaten to death, he'd surely get verbally battered.

However, since Hua Ling was mentioned, Xiao Feng simply followed the topic and asked: "Did you choose Hua Ling to be the team leader of the Demon Suppression Action Team because of Hong Ming the old abbot?"

"Hehe..." Ma Yuliang chuckled, adopting a tone of seeing through everything: "Young man, changing the subject in front of me, you're still a bit too green.

Going through the back door is going through the back door, what's there to be embarrassed about admitting?

Moreover, I don't intend to pursue whatever's happening between you two."

Xiao Feng took a deep breath, muttering: "Can we not talk about the back door anymore?"

"It's 'back door' with the diminutive suffix, otherwise it lacks soul." Ma Yuliang seriously corrected.

Just for this phrase "lacks soul", it's enough to show this head frequently surfs online, and is quite adept at new cultural trends and popular language.

However, that's not what Xiao Feng was focusing on, he only knew he truly felt disgusted by the opponent just now.

He's always the one who disgusts others, but rarely does he get disgusted himself, it's genuinely unsettling.

Thinking long and hard, Xiao Feng decided he must return the favor, so, pretending to be unintentional, he asked: "How old is the old man this year?"

"This year I'm already eighty-three." Ma Yuliang chuckled, his face full of pride.

Xiao Feng slowly nodded: "Then you ought to be careful?"

"Why do you say that?"

"Haven't you heard of the old saying? Eighty-three, eighty-four, if the King of Hell doesn't call you to go..."

"Hold on!" Ma Yuliang interrupted: "It's seventy-three, eighty-four."

Xiao Feng smacked his forehead: "Look at my memory, I made a mistake!

But it's soon enough.

After the new year, won't you be eighty-four?"