#529 - Changfeng Conference (asking for monthly ticket recommendation ticket)

“Come on in, most people are already here, just waiting for you, the ‘main character’.” The Ashwinder once again poked half its body out of the portal, waved at Thunderbird, and beckoned him to come in quickly.

“I won't be foolish enough to walk straight in unless you come out of the door.”

Thunderbird remained unmoved in front of the door, he knew what the Ashwinder was up to, trying to trick him into walking into the door on his own accord.

If he really did that, the Ashwinder would not waste this good opportunity to fling him to the remote center of the desert, and then laugh at him fiercely after he returned. This guy wouldn't care if it would delay the normal progress of the 'Long Spear Meeting'.

“Tch, am I really that unbearable in your eyes?” The Ashwinder saw that Thunderbird was determined not to be fooled, and smacked his lips with some boredom.

But he didn't continue to waste time, and honestly walked out of the door completely.

Thunderbird stepped forward and grabbed the other person's shoulder, coldly mocking, “A dog can't change its habit of eating shit, I think you're the same.”

“Hiss… be gentle, you bastard!” The Ashwinder complained unhappily, before reluctantly leading the other person into the headquarters.

At this time, the main hall of the headquarters, which was the large indoor dueling arena, was still empty. Presumably, the others were already in the reception room.

“Did all the Spears come this time?” After entering the headquarters, Thunderbird took the lead and strode briskly inside, then did not forget to ask the Ashwinder.

Am I your secretary? The Ashwinder saw Thunderbird acting like he was completely at home, anyone who didn't know would think he was the boss here and he was his assistant.

Although he was a little unhappy, the Ashwinder knew that Thunderbird had this stinky temper, so he was too lazy to argue, just lazily laughed, “Those who should come have come, those who don't appear still haven't appeared, you know these people's situation better than me. →”

Thunderbird also heard the meaning in the Ashwinder's words, “Sphinx still didn't attend the meeting? How long has it been since he returned to headquarters to report on his duties? I think his Spear status should be revoked.”

“Hehe, he is our main source of funds, the leader won't agree, but besides Sphinx, Black Dragon hasn't arrived either, and instructed you to represent his opinion.” The Ashwinder shrugged helplessly.

Thunderbird nodded in understanding upon hearing this. Black Dragon had always been in charge of North American affairs with him, and they were considered to be in the same boat, and were both representatives of the club's radical faction.

The Silver Spears, led by Phoenix and Gold Flying Squirrel, were a bunch of conservatives. They had long forgotten their former ideals as Saints, and were focused on how to maintain eternal life, splitting Germany and establishing breeding farms were their goals.

The Merlin Order was afraid that these former Saints wanted to start a revolutionary wave again, but what they didn't know was that the reason these conservative Silver Spears wanted to split Germany was just to lay down a base, and then use this base to breed magical animals for self-sufficiency, dreaming of sustainable development and eternal life.

The former Thunderbird and Black Dragon were focused on restoring the glory of the Saints Association and breaking the shackles of the Secrecy Act, but unfortunately they could not completely control the direction of the club. The ideas of Gold Flying Squirrel and Phoenix and others were obviously more in line with the interests of the Rune Serpent.

Of course, they still strongly supported the establishment of sufficient breeding farms for self-sufficiency, as well as expanding more magical animal smuggling routes, after all, this was related to their lives, otherwise Thunderbird would not have become the person in charge of the British transit station.

So, although there were ideological conflicts between these four elders, their basic positions were relatively unified.

After roughly establishing this information in his mind, Anduin completely substituted himself into Thunderbird's role and stepped into the headquarters' reception room.

At this time, the furnishings in the reception room had been slightly changed. Several sofa chairs were arranged in a circle in the center, and many people were already seated in these chairs.

Seeing Thunderbird enter, the Silver Spears in the room turned their heads to look at him. Some people just glanced at him and then returned to their original posture, while others nodded slightly to him as a greeting.

The uppermost seat in the center was empty, representing the Rune Serpent. Although this leader would not appear all year round, a seat would still be reserved for him at each meeting to show respect.

And directly opposite the uppermost seat, the two seats on the right were empty at this time, these were the seats of Thunderbird and Black Dragon, and the other two seats on the left were already occupied by Gold Flying Squirrel and Phoenix.

Following Phoenix's seat, going to the left in turn, sat the 'Giant Spider', who was in charge of the Italian branch. This witch had a good relationship with Phoenix and belonged to the club's conservative faction, and was also an old member of the former Saints Association.

Moreover, she, like Sphinx, Horned Serpent, and Harpy, were all former students of Thunderbird.

Next to her was the 'Horned Serpent', who was in charge of Poland and the Czech Republic and other Eastern European branches. He and Sphinx were also considered members of the conservative faction, but Anduin learned from Sphinx that this person also had rebellious intentions in his heart, but had never shown them.

The seat next to him belonged to Sphinx, who was in charge of Egypt, but now the seat was empty like Black Dragon's.

In addition, there was the 'Griffin', who was in charge of the Spanish and Portuguese branches, the 'Dakuwaqa', who was in charge of the Turkish branch, and the 'Erumptent', who was in charge of the Greek branch.

These Spears were all Spears who had gradually risen after the club was established. They had some connection with the former Saints Association, but not much.

The last one was the 'Harpy', who was currently in charge of Nordic affairs. Although she was promoted late, she was also considered an old member of the club. The main reason why she had not been promoted to Spear before was that Thunderbird liked to keep her by his side to use, and later, after Thunderbird went to America, she became a Spear by virtue of her contribution to the club in cultivating the spy Azelia.

And she was also considered a supporter of Thunderbird, a member of the club's radical faction, and was the first to take the initiative to nod to him after seeing Thunderbird enter.

After Thunderbird glanced around at everyone, he walked to the first sofa chair on the right of the head seat and slowly sat down. From beginning to end, he did not say a word to these people in front of him.

Among the Silver Spears, the relationships between the Spears were very complicated. Although everyone belonged to the same organization, they were all wary of each other, even those with relatively good relationships.

And the Ashwinder who led Thunderbird in did not participate. To put it bluntly, he was just a gatekeeper. Although his status was not low, he was not qualified to participate in the club's decision-making, but also because of his special status, he knew a lot of things.

“Now that everyone is here, let's officially begin this Long Spear Meeting.” Gold Flying Squirrel said slowly after seeing Thunderbird take his seat. When the Rune Serpent was not present, he was the moderator of the meeting.

As soon as Gold Flying Squirrel finished speaking, Phoenix next to him opened his mouth and said, “Everyone is not unfamiliar with each other, it's better to be quick, I think everyone has their own things to be busy with.”

After saying that, she looked at Thunderbird opposite her, “Thunderbird, I heard that you screwed up the British mission, which is not like your style, explain it.”

“Hmph…” Thunderbird snorted coldly first upon hearing this, “The failure in Britain, rather than being screwed up by me, it is better to say that your judgment of Britain was wrong.”

“What do you mean by that? The decision to establish a transit station in Britain was decided at the last Long Spear Meeting, and you agreed to it at that time, so how can you blame us in turn?”

Phoenix was aggressive towards Thunderbird at the beginning of the meeting, but this was understandable. Her subordinate 'Occamy' died in Britain, and her valuable prop, the Inferius Pouch, was also lost, which can be said to be Thunderbird's fault for her heavy losses.

Just after Phoenix scolded Thunderbird, Gold Flying Squirrel spoke up to smooth things over, “I don't think Thunderbird meant to blame everyone, since he took the initiative to call the Long Spear Meeting, he will explain the ins and outs to us clearly, won't he?”

After saying that, Gold Flying Squirrel also turned his gaze to the opposite side. He did not have as much hostility towards Thunderbird as Phoenix, but he was also very curious about what happened in Britain that made this general have to admit defeat.

“The club did misjudge the situation in Britain, this is an indisputable fact.” Facing Phoenix's accusation, Thunderbird did not mean to admit defeat at all, “In Britain, there are two forces that we miscalculated from the beginning.”

“Oh? Can you tell me more about it?” Gold Flying Squirrel pressed down on the Phoenix who was about to attack again next to him, and then asked Thunderbird, “Did Dumbledore take action? But according to our previous estimates, he should not actively participate in the affairs of the Ministry of Magic.”

“It's not Dumbledore, I never met him during my time in Britain.” Thunderbird shook his head at everyone, “The biggest interference to the establishment of the transit station was the British Ministry of Magic, which is the same as our previous speculation, but the details are very different.”

“Do you mean that the British Ministry of Magic attaches more importance to smuggling than we thought?” The Harpy next to Thunderbird asked at this time.

Hearing this question, the people around him looked at Thunderbird in unison. Although their smuggling business was not very popular in many countries, it was generally not treated as a top priority by the Ministry of Magic, after all, it was just smuggling.

This was especially true in Britain, they were just passing through and did not directly exploit the local magical animal resources, so theoretically it would not be very important.

“That's right.” Thunderbird glanced at her, then nodded seriously, “That Minister Bagnold has a very strong defense against smuggling, and has invested almost half of the Auror Headquarters' power into it.”