Chapter 386: Here to Give Orders

Editor: Millman97

Shu Mei stood up and continued in a tone that was not so friendly, "First, my task group has always had a large workload. You not only didn鈥檛 increase the number of my members but reduced our members. Now you want to move our deadline forward, how do you expect us to do that?"

The three other people nodded in agreement.

"That鈥檚 right, we have less people but you want us to produce faster results. Who could possibly do that?"

"Miss Xia, we also think this order is a bit illogical, can you please change it?"

Since they were all disciplined military men and women, they didn鈥檛 dare to go against Xinghe鈥檚 orders too harshly and openly.

Xinghe said softly, "I think the request is entirely reasonable. I鈥檝e studied what each of you is capable of and I fully believe that this task can be accomplished before tomorrow night."

"You鈥檝e studied us? You鈥檝e only been here for two days; how can you possibly know what each of us can do so well and so soon?" Shu Mei was starting to lose it. "Miss Xia, we do not accept this arrangement. I think the original arrangement was a lot better."

"The old arrangement is not bad, but we鈥檙e in a critical period. We have to push ourselves or there will never be improvement."

"We鈥檝e been pushing ourselves! There is no holiday and every day we鈥檙e working overtime!" Shu Mei retorted. She was not Xinghe鈥檚 biggest fan from day one and now she only hated her even more. With Shu Mei leading the way, others started agreeing.

Everyone thought Xinghe鈥檚 arrangement was unfair. Not only Shu Mei鈥檚 task force had their workload increased, everyone else did too. Only those task groups that required special skills had an increase in members.

Furthermore, they鈥檇 doubted Xinghe鈥檚 capability from the beginning and were dissatisfied with her sudden appearance. At that time, their resentment burst into the open.

Xinghe was unfazed facing the room鈥檚 rejection of her, while Shu Mei was having the time of her life.

She gave a smile and advised Xinghe kindly, "Miss Xia, you鈥檙e new here so you wouldn鈥檛 understand our work. If the task could be completed earlier, we would skip eating and sleeping to rush it to completion, but the thing is, this is mission impossible."

"Are you skipping eating and sleeping?" Xinghe suddenly asked in return.

Shu Mei was stunned...

Xinghe scanned everyone there. "Are the rest of you not eating and sleeping to do your job as well? If you have not, then don鈥檛 tell me the task is impossible! Plus, my arrangement wouldn鈥檛 even force you guys to such a level. I鈥檝e arranged everyone with their team mission and I need them to be completed on time. If there鈥檚 any complaints, you can refer to your leader or the Major. I鈥檓 just here to mind my business and do my job!"

With that, Xinghe turned to leave. She didn鈥檛 want to waste time explaining herself, because she knew it wouldn鈥檛 have worked. No one would believe her without a trial by fire. Therefore, she decided to do things the hard and fast way.

After Xinghe assigned the tasks, she left the rest to Gu Li. Gu Li chose to cooperate with her and used his power to squelch all the voices of dissatisfaction.

"Sister Mei, the woman really thinks she鈥檚 something else," the quintessential lackey that followed Shu Mei grumbled to her.

Shu Mei laughed condescendingly. "But of course, she has a unique background after all."

Her voice was purposely loud so almost everyone heard her.

"Unique background? Do you know who she is?" someone immediately asked.

A disgruntled Shu Mei said suggestively, "Of course I do. After all, she has such a long history with the Xi family..."magic