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Because of the balance maintained by the three factions, there was simply no way to cheat in this election for the chairman.

Standing in front of the ballot box were members of the Skull, Dahe, and Dragon Soul Team. Zhou Yang stood nearby, observing every move of the people around him. The Skull and Dahe members were just as watchful, guarding against each other's possible cheating, leaving no chance for their own side to cheat.

Over ten minutes later, more than two hundred formal member teams from the Asian Mercenary Association finished voting. Hu Zhengwei began to count the votes, while Zhou Yang and members from Skull and Dahe supervised the process on the side.

An electronic screen was placed at the center front of the venue, showing the names of Meng Kuang, Okazaki Yokawa, and Qin Tian in sequence. Below their names, rectangular red boxes displayed the votes they each received.

At the start, Meng Kuang was in the lead, and a triumphant smile spread across his face.

Okazaki Yokawa was anxious until his vote count started to rise, and only then did he begin exchanging challenging glances with Meng Kuang.

The seating arrangement of Qin Tian, Meng Kuang, and Okazaki Yokawa was interesting; Qin Tian sat in the middle with Meng Kuang and Okazaki Yokawa on either side.

Thus, whenever these two interact with each other, their gazes had to bypass Qin Tian, which made him sitting in the middle feel slightly uncomfortable.

At that moment, Qin Tian had the least votes, so both Meng Kuang and Okazaki Yokawa simply ignored him.

However, this situation did not last long, as Qin Tian's votes suddenly began to surge!

"Qin Tian!"

"Qin Tian!"

"Qin Tian..."

When the staff counting the votes started to continuously announce "Qin Tian," everyone's attention started to focus on Qin Tian.

Even Hu Zhengwei, who oversaw the process, frowned in suspicion and walked towards the two counting staff, whispering, "Is this a mistake? Let me take a look..."

As it turned out, every ballot indeed had Qin Tian's name written on them!

After looking through the ballots, Hu Zhengwei exchanged a helpless glance with Meng Kuang.

Meng Kuang looked shocked, then turned his head towards Qin Tian.

At the same time, an equally shocked Okazaki Yokawa also turned his gaze towards Qin Tian.

For the first time, these two Left and Right Protectors locked eyes in the venue, and it wasn't out of rivalry, but fixed on Qin Tian!

Now the center of attention, Qin Tian remained extraordinarily calm, with just a slight smile playing at the corners of his mouth.

Thankfully, the teams with whom arrangements were made finally did honor their agreements and cast their votes for him!

"Qin Tian, what exactly have you done?"

As the vote counting continued, Meng Kuang couldn't help but quietly question Qin Tian, "How is it possible that your votes could match mine?"

At this moment, as shown on the screen, Qin Tian's votes were only two away from catching up with Meng Kuang. So Meng Kuang found it unbelievable.

In the lead with four more votes than Meng Kuang, Okazaki Yokawa also questioned Qin Tian with a tone of shock and anger, "Qin Tian, tell me properly, how exactly did you cheat? Your number of votes, ha, so fake..."

Finally, Qin Tian spoke, "The bigger surprise is still ahead, just watch."

Based on Qin Tian's prior expectations, if all went well, his votes should at least exceed Okazaki Yokawa's by about a dozen votes.

Indeed.

A minute later, Qin Tian surpassed not only Meng Kuang but also Okazaki Yokawa, shooting directly to first place among the three!

"Oh!"

Seeing Qin Tian's votes surging ahead on the screen, a moderate-sized gasp resounded throughout the venue, followed by murmured discussions among some teams.

The counting continued, with only about two-thirds of the total votes having been announced, but from this point on, time seemed to enter a garbage period.

Because Qin Tian's votes were increasing rapidly, while those of Meng Kuang and Okazaki Yokawa were climbing very slowly, unable to keep up with Qin Tian's pace at all!

"This..."

"Oh... How on earth did the Dragon Soul's Qin Tian manage to outpace Skull's Meng Kuang and Dahe's Okazaki Yokawa? This doesn't make sense..."

"Yes, whom did you vote for? I voted for Captain Meng Kuang. This is so strange! Could it be that Qin Tian falsified the results?"

"I think that's impossible. The people overseeing the votes aren't from the Dragon Soul Team, and Skull and Dahe have such significant power—if the Dragon Soul Team cheated, they would surely detect it."

"Hehe, what are you two discussing? Isn't Dragon King Qin Tian being elected just what everyone hoped for? I've heard about Dragon King ever since he was in the Dragon Soul Team and admired him greatly. Now, he proposes implementing more democratic policies within the association, to which I fully support!"

"Exactly, exactly, I voted for Dragon King Qin Tian. Dragon King is young and promising, why shouldn't he win? I'm not exaggerating—at the podium, among the three, only when Dragon King is elected can small teams like ours have a bit of hope."

"..."

The discussions rose and fell, with most people musing over why Qin Tian's votes were so high.

However, the three people on the stage remained silent.

Qin Tian seemed relaxed and at ease.

As for Meng Kuang and Okazaki Yokawa, their usual competitiveness was replaced with pallor and anger.

These two never expected that Qin Tian would pull the rug out from under them, quietly amassing such popular support within the association!

What frustrated them the most was that, despite all the moves made by the Dragon Soul Team and Qin Tian to rally support, they had only noticed a fraction and hadn't taken it seriously at all. It was simply infuriating...

When about one-eighth of the total votes were announced, the person announcing the votes paused and added, "Qin Tian currently has 126 votes, surpassing half of the total votes, and is elected as the new chairman..."

"Cut the talk, just keep announcing the votes to the end!"

Before the person could finish speaking, Hu Zhengwei glared at him and shouted angrily.

At this moment, Hu Zhengwei finally couldn't hold back and yelled.

The counting continued, but it was already insignificant.

When the final vote count was tallied, Qin Tian was automatically elected as the new chairman of the Asian Mercenary Association with an exceedingly high vote rate of close to sixty percent!

Clap, clap, clap...

After the final vote count was fixed, most member teams below the stage automatically applauded Qin Tian.

Qin Tian was elected! In the manner of a dark horse, elected!

However, after the applause came silence, plunging the entire venue into a deathly stillness!