Chapter 5 Banquet
On the evening of June 16, Norton Pavilion was brightly lit.
The woven traffic was parked outside the Norton Pavilion, with luxury cars gathering, and retro dresses intertwined, creating a sense of déjà destiny of the Chicago Grand Theater in the 1920s and 1930s.
Under the dazzling crystal lamp, the fresh meat of king crabs and Australian lobsters shines, and handsome and confident faces are reflected in the orange champagne.
"Welcome all students back to Kassel College. I'm glad that so long has passed, everyone's mental outlook is still full. I'll give you a glass." Professor Manstein stood at a high place to toast everyone, bare little
The head is folded into a striking curve under the light.
Suddenly, the light above his head swayed violently, as if during class in the afternoon, someone used the light reflected from a small mirror to sway on the blackboard.
"Maduko! You guys are you again. You have been graduating for almost ten years. Are you still playing such kids tricks?" Manstein roared at a high place.
There was a burst of laughter from below. A middle-aged man named Maduko smiled and put away the small mirror. It seemed that he had a headache when he was in school.
Nishizuki and Greer sat at the corner table, with free meals and drinks on the table.
Today is the Cassel Alumni Association, second only to the day of freedom. Graduates from all over the country can enter their alma mater tonight and visit teachers or old friends.
On this day, daily consumption will be open for free, and anyone can rush into the cafeteria or banquet venue to eat and drink, as long as you are not shameless enough to pack and take it away.
Some people say that this is the time when the academy has the strongest defense, because the elites gather together and are invincible. Some people say that this is the time when the defense is weakest, and there is a very likely some suspicious guy suddenly gets in.
While filling in juice, Xiziyue quietly observed everyone's looks... Most people deserve to be labeled suspiciously.
Some people were wearing masks and black windbreakers, drinking in obscurity in the corner, looking at the paintings hanging on the walls.
Some people also entered the venue with knives on their backs and wandered like killers, but everyone could greet the person and enjoy themselves.
"Is this the current situation of Kassel graduates?" Nishiziyue frowned in surprise.
She was a little afraid that she would become like a psychopath in the future.
Grell replied: "Some people are not suitable for showing up, so they simply wear masks. As for the guy with the knife... maybe they don't feel safe if they leave the knife."
The last sentence seems particularly story-provoking, and also makes Xiziyue feel a little respect for these people who look like crazy.
"But don't think too much about everyone. There will always be a few guys who are not popular, such as over there." Grell pointed to the second floor with his eyes.
Xiziyue looked over and found two men standing and talking. One of them was wearing a white suit, a Venetian mask, and shaking a wine glass, while the other was a man with sunglasses with a gloomy face.
"Doesn't look like a good person?" Xiziyue asked tentatively.
"The masked one was the leader of the Knights Templars," said Greer.
"What's this?" Xiziyue always felt that the style of painting changed suddenly.
"Don't worry, this is not the Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, but a banker organization. In history, they are such a group of people, not brave and warlike knights." Grell explained, "The specific operation is to lend money to the kings,
If the king can't afford to pay the money, they will charge some cities as compensation."
"It sounds like a group of usury Jewish merchants." Xiziyue murmured in a low voice.
"Later, this organization has been circulating, spreading into the Secret Party, and spreading into Kassel, becoming an ordinary fraternity. Similar to the Lionheart Society, the target of serving is no longer the king, but has investment potential.
Students, even if you go to executive departments around the world after graduation, your debts are equally effective, and in this way they are more or less influential around the world.”
By the way, the leader of the Templar rarely failed to invest, but there were still Waterloo times, such as... He once generously funded former A-level elite Finger, and soon the group
Mr. Chang tasted the bitter fruit of the stock price hitting the limit.
Xiziyue listened, and nodded while spitting and drinking juice, always feeling that her life experience had increased a lot.
Soon, the two people who were talking on the second floor ended the conversation. Before leaving, the leader took out a check from his pocket and handed it to each other. The man with a dark face suddenly improved.
It's like witnessing a crime transaction scene.
Kassel Alumni Association, to put it bluntly, is also a kind of mixed-race gatherings. For example, North American mixed-race are keen on holding auctions, European mixed-race are keen on holding film festivals, and young talents from various families are showing their talents in these places.
Walking onto the social stage, the senior members of the family exchange information in secret rooms and discuss the world pattern.
Compared with mixed-race gatherings in other regions, the Kassel Alumni Association is relatively mild, and promoting an atmosphere of unity. Revisiting the old places is the main purpose, exchanging intelligence and developing new members is only the secondary purpose.
"The person wearing school uniforms was not a student, but a senior brother who had graduated for ten years. The reason why he wore school uniforms was not to regain his youth, but to simply control the school uniform."
"And there, the one who has a salesman's face and handed cigars everywhere to others. After graduation, he opened a big company in India. Although he smiled at everyone here, he was outside.
A business giant that looks at one side."
In a mixed-race society, the dragon-slaying heroes who are rushing to the front line have certainly higher status than ordinary businessmen. The only people who are qualified to look down on the front line warriors are scientists who are bored under the academy for research. This group of people stands on
The top of the chain of contempt.
Just like secretly gossip, Grel explained the identities of senior brothers and sisters at the scene one by one, and Xiziyue was attentive to listen.
As time goes by, the atmosphere of the alumni association becomes stronger and stronger. Dances are whirling on the dance floor, and the graceful violin accompanies behind the scenes.
Some people also drove a convertible on campus, and the whole campus was filled with a festival atmosphere.
"Do you know that person?" Xiziyue pointed to a majestic old man standing in the center of the hall.
The old man was wearing a neat tuxedo and white gloves, with golden tassels hanging on his chest, and his gray-white hair was neatly tied behind his head. No matter how he looked, he was a housekeeper.
Having a housekeeper means having a master, but there is no master around him.
"I'll go! This person has some background!" Grel stared at this person, and finally remembered this person.
"Who is he?" Xiziyue asked.
"I don't know the name, I only know that he is the housekeeper of the Cassel family." Grel said in a low voice, obviously this is a super secret.
"The housekeeper of the Cassel family? He serves Charlotte?" Nishikozuki also lowered his voice.
"That's right, when President Charlotte's personal butler was attending the school board when she was young, this butler gave her ideas behind her, which can be said to be ruled behind the curtain."
These words are indeed confidential enough, involving the private affairs of the school directors. If exposed, the charges will be enough to crucify Grale and march across the school.
"This butler controls Charlotte behind the scenes?" Xiziyue asked again in shock.
"Not that Charlotte was only under 14 years old at that time, and it was indeed necessary to have someone to give her advice. Now Charlotte can sit at the negotiating table independently and decide whether to scold the principal based on her own needs."
Isn't this last sentence a bit strange?
"I roughly understand." Xiziyue nodded thoughtfully.
Xiziyue spitted and drank the juice, her eyes slowly swept around, and stayed on everyone's face for a moment.
The profile has already been opened.
Although the profile is not strong, she can still detect something...an unsettling atmosphere.
From the first moment she entered Norton Pavilion, she carefully stared at everyone with a security check attitude. Some exuded an orange and red.
But as Grell said, everyone is a person who rolls over from the tip of the knife, and it is normal for good comrades on the front line of the executive department to exude a dangerous aura.
And what this butler... had to say, he exuded a purple-level dangerous aura.
The others seemed to have noticed the powerful aura of the housekeeper and walked around. He stood in the middle of the hall like a black reef, surrounded by people, but he remained motionless.
At this time, one arm waved high and greeted Xiziyue from a distance.
It was a strange girl with a refreshing smile and a natural sunny atmosphere. She was wearing a dark blue evening dress that exposed one shoulder, just a red dress that sets her male companion.
"Ye Sheng, a graduate of Class 03." The male companion introduced himself.
"A graduate of Class 2004, Jiude Yaji." The girl introduced herself.
"Hello, senior brother and sister, I am Xiziyue." Xiziyue replied, "Ye Sheng? Jiude Yaji?"
She had seen these two names. In the report file of the Bronze Palace, she was a partner who went deep into the front line to fight. At that time, the college gathered the whole school to rescue them.
In the end, it was Lu Mingfei's Black Sheep Wall to crack the map.
When it appeared, people related to Lu Mingfei still came up to talk to each other.
Yaji replied with a smile: "We have heard of you for a long time, S-level, one-day free empress, and the likes of the four giants. You have created many myths in just a few months after entering the school."
Ye Sheng also responded: "So we want to come and meet you and see if you are as magical as the legend."
Xiziyue was stunned: "You are also here to say to me, 'You deserve to be my opponent'?"
"What's the matter?" Aki was puzzled.
"Ah no, nothing, I often encounter similar incidents recently, so I'll treat them as my inherent jokes." Xiziyue calmly shook her head, throwing her sense of déjà off.
Yaji understood very considerately: "It seems that you should have accepted many challenges from people during this period, right?"
"It's all literary fights, and it hasn't reached the stage of martial fighting yet." Xiziyue said.
"It's okay, there will be a fight in the future. When you reach your sophomore year, a snow-like challenge book will fly towards you." Aki patted Nishikotsu on the shoulder.
"There must be a lot of love letters." Ye Sheng looked at Xiziyue and smiled funnyly.
Yaki elbowed Ye Sheng on the back of his waist: "I haven't returned to school for too long. Can't I suppress my slutty mood in my heart? Ah?"
"It hurts! I was wrong, I was really wrong this time!" Ye Sheng immediately begged for mercy.
The atmosphere around immediately became lively and turned into a flirting like a young couple, and many people watched here.
Grel said to Nishikozuki: "I forgot to tell you that the two seniors, Akiji and Ye Sheng, are already married, and the wedding was held in the church in our school."
"Can you see it." Xiziyue nodded.
Ye Sheng scratched his head and smiled bitterly: "Hey! The attitude is too light. You should be surprised at this time...what? The two seniors are already husband and wife? You really can't tell at all!
”
The man said this in an imitation of a stiff Japanese-style tone, and was soon hit by Aki's elbow.
Of course, Xiziyue could see the relationship between the two of them, and they had just gotten married and were still in a hot state of marriage, with pink halos surrounding them.
But soon, under this pink halo, Xiziyue noticed something was wrong.
A hint of unsettling smell... like some kind of black smoke.
Both of them have this kind of aura.
"I haven't returned to school for a long time. The campus has changed so much. I have installed a lot of more advanced and convenient equipment, and learned some system to build such a human being. Who came up with this system?" Ye Sheng sighed.
"I guess it's not the student union. Their purpose is to be ultimate pleasure and to advocate consumption. We will definitely not use learning something like this to restrain ourselves," said Aki.
"Yes, since that's the case, there's only one truth, the Lionheart is the murderer!" Greer raised his eyebrows and naturally integrated into the conversation between his predecessors, "Charlotte uses the school director and Lionheart to be the director and the Lionheart."
The president of the association promotes the learning point system with dual authority, blocks their consumption limits, and lives a life of civilian students, which is exactly what the Lionheart Club is good at.”
"And what? Will the students start to have sex with Lionheart?" Ye Sheng asked excitedly.
"Of course I started to do it. Under the leadership of their respective leaders, the two societies compete fiercely in various fields. The facts prove that Chairman Zero is still superior in skills." Grell replied with a smile.
These three people discussed Kassel's great deeds in recent years so enthusiastically. The two seniors who had already graduated have regained their green sense of time.
Xiziyue said nothing, lowered her head and pondered deeply about the uneasy breath she felt just now.
"Senior Aki, Senior Ye Sheng, can you shake my hand?" said Nishiziyue.
When Greer heard this question, he immediately understood what was going on.
Xiziyue is going to use profiles on these two people.
Maybe it was Lu Mingfei's relevant information.
"Yes, is there any reason for doing this?" Ye Sheng still handed out his hand.
"I remember, you seem to be able to write it out. Do you want to investigate us?" Yaji said with a smile, but he still handed it out.
"Anyway, please relax and open your hearts." Xiziyue said lightly.
"learn."
In Ye Sheng and Yaji's view, this is a small game from the junior girl.
Xiziyue reached out and held the other person.
The power of the profile extends out like a thin thread, and each thread brings back the amount of information, and the feeling of uneasiness gradually becomes clear.
Xiziyue was stunned.
The breath of death...
Chapter completed!