A huge inflatable airship passed by in the sky, with a commercial banner for the start of the main event of the Dome Battle Festival hanging outside.
It slowly passed through the sky. The weather was very bad. Heavy rain was accompanied by thunder and lightning, which made people worry about its safety. Once it was hit, it might turn into a fireball.
Lila stood in front of the thick floor-to-ceiling windows, looking out at the gray scenery outside. The densely built office buildings and commercial centers were soaked in the heavy rain. The traffic jams on the streets were serious. Since she stood here, the traffic had only moved a few times.
100 meters.
The location of Real Gold Building is very unique. It is not in the shadow of giant buildings, and it is far away from the depressed and chaotic shantytowns and castle towns. It is located on the "Third Ring Road" in the traditional sense, and is only a 15-minute drive from the city center.
It's faster if you have a machine.
Lila believed that this building had exactly the same position in the world as the Nesto Company, and it happened to be caught in the cracks.
Nisto Corporation is able to establish contact with the Xisheng Investment Group and is always dealing with ordinary citizens of Aizu Underground City. Their power accommodates witches, but also synths, gangsters, and mythical creatures. There is also a rat witch wrapped in gel.
Waiting to wake up. They are operating on their own track, completely different from any previous organization.
Xu Yang told Lila that they just left Aizu City, but Aizu City was still there and had not disappeared. It was still the last home for the desperate. Therefore, Lila had to return to Aizu City after staying in the Solid Gold Building for a few days.
situation and continue to operate their business in Aizu Castle.
In Aizu City, she will launch a series of new investment and construction plans, coordinated by Yu Ye, Enomoto Bank will launch a 1 billion capital investment in Nisto Company, which needs to be dispatched as soon as possible to avoid questioning from the bank.
Before leaving, Lila had one last thing to do.
She contacted Du Qianqian.
"Are you looking for me?" Du Qianqian walked through the corridor. She had no makeup, her hair was simply combed, and she was wearing a white long-sleeved vest with a black and white butterfly printed on the front, as if it had been stripped of its original color.
"Have you ever had such an experience?" Lila raised the psychological report sheet in her hand, "convulsions, palpitation, fear, flinching, rapid heartbeat without warning, and a sense of loss."
Du Qianqian shrank in fear.
"Nothing." Du Qianqian lowered his head, "None of this is important."
The sense of oppression brought by Falosa is unparalleled. Du Qianqian is often trapped in the deep sea in her dreams, with nowhere to escape. The witch god controls her destiny, and she is not free at all.
"I'll mark 'yes' for now." Lila marked it on the report sheet.
"How did you know?" Du Qianqian wondered.
"Every witch plays until dark in the activity room, except you." Lila's optics focused on Du Qianqian's face, capturing her micro-expressions and tracking her psychological status in real time.
Du Qianqian now looks like a puppet.
"..." Du Qianqian grabbed her right elbow uneasily. She looked outside. The people and cars on the street were extremely small. Life is very cheap. She thought of what she had said before. It was so cheap that it could disappear in the blink of an eye.
It will be erased, so cheap that no one cares about it.
"You will lose yourself if you continue like this." Lila said, "What do you want to do in the future?"
"I don't know." Du Qianqian said simply.
Lila put the report sheet aside and clapped her hands.
"Now I will teach you the method of sobriety that is popular in the army," she said. "First of all, listen to the order and tell me what you are going to do in the next hour."
"One hour..." Du Qianqian took a deep breath, "...I...want to be alone for a while."
"Where?"
"My own room..."
"Doing nothing? Thinking about nothing? That's impossible. You can still do something even if you are alone."
"I think... I can read." Du Qianqian whispered.
"Which book? What genre?"
Du Qianqian clenched her fists. She subconsciously thought of books because she wanted to become smarter and more knowledgeable. Farosha was not only a nightmare, but also a model of words and deeds. Farosha respected knowledge and power. Du Qian
Qian knew that if she wanted to be freed from Falosa's control, she must pursue every opportunity to become stronger, not only with magic power, but also with wisdom.
"I'm not sure yet." Du Qianqian raised his head, "I think I will read some works about witchcraft."
Witchology studies the origin of witches, the nature of magic, and also studies the actual operation of magic circuits in witches, exploring how witches grow and the history of their status in human society.
"This type of knowledge cannot be found on the public Internet. Ask your boss to learn how to access the deep anonymous network." Lila picked up the psychological report sheet, "This is what you will do in the next hour.
Now you are very clear about the matter."
"What about the next day and the next year? I still don't know." Du Qianqian asked.
"You can continue to look for direction." Lila wrote more records on the psychological report sheet, "You have to give yourself 6 to 12 months to breathe and try to rescue yourself from the state of being at a loss."
"Do I still have such a chance?"
"Life is not an endless race; it allows you to stop and think."
"Thank you." Du Qianqian bowed to Lila, "Farosa... really put a lot of pressure on me."
"A qualified organization must have the ability to self-monitor and self-purify." Lila said, "Our current scale and scope of influence are not small, and we need someone to keep an eye on internal affairs."
"Yes." Du Qianqian lowered his head.
"I believe you are a good and trustworthy boy." Lila observed Du Qianqian.
"I won't let you down." Du Qianqian was stunned for a moment, then said firmly.
"Why don't you bring this?" Lila handed the psychological report sheet to Du Qianqian, "You were trained as a spy. Disguise is your greatest skill, and gathering intelligence is your basic ability. You have to go from the inside.
Observe and prevent any kind of crisis from happening. When I leave here, you are responsible for continuing to observe and track these psychological reports, and remember to write your own."
Du Qianqian tried to look through it, and Lila collected the status of everyone except Xu Yang.
"I understand..." Du Qianqian was flattered. She stood there for a while and looked at Lila, "Are you from the company's army?"
"Originally affiliated to a mechanized infantry brigade of a giant enterprise, reconnaissance sequence, with the rank of second lieutenant in an independent internal system." Lila said.
"Yes, Second Lieutenant Lila." Du Qianqian saluted Lila, "I promise to complete the mission."
"Dismissed." Lila returned the gift to Du Qianqian.
Du Qianqian changed her gloomy attitude when she arrived and disappeared down the aisle with unprecedented confidence and joy. She will complete the work for Lila, observing and collecting intelligence from the inside.
Lila's eyes returned to the window. The heavy rain gradually stopped and the streets became much cleaner.
"It seems to have worked," Xu Yang sent a message to Lila, "It helped somewhat and is good for everyone."
"Your idea is good, but I think it was not a good thing to recruit Du Qianqian from the beginning." Lila responded in the secret communication channel.
"Looking on the bright side, if it weren't for us, Du Qianqian would still be dancing at the Sunrise Bar and being bullied by other staff."
"Growing up is a long process."
"It is also a necessary process, not only for the young witch, but also for Falosa herself." Xu Yang said, "The days ahead are long."
"I will return as soon as possible, Master." Lila left the Solid Gold Building. "Even a short separation from you is unbearable for me. Once the matter in Aizu City is resolved, I will return to you."
"No problem, 'Lieutenant'."
"Hey!" Lila felt deeply shy and hurriedly took a taxi and left the Solid Gold Building.
After a week of preliminaries, in early October, the main competition of the Dome Battle Ceremony officially started.
A40 was sent to the arena area, waiting for their group's game to start. When it came to the official competition stage, it was inconvenient for Xu Yang to hang out in the arena, and there was a risk of being targeted, so he stayed in the Solid Gold Building.
Watch the game with the witches.
The lively trend of human-machine fighting is gradually rising. In order to make this flashy game more lively, many exaggerated news about betting are rampant. The templates are very similar, telling how ordinary people can achieve financial freedom by betting on games. There is obviously a marketing promoter behind it.
, but unable to resist people’s desire for profit, the trend of betting on competitions suddenly emerged.
While some viewers are carefully analyzing the skills, performance and fighting qualities of both sides of the game, other viewers are focused entirely on the real-time odds and handicap bankroll trends.
Not only this fighting ceremony, similar financial games have penetrated into every competitive sport. In the past ten years, cruel match-fixing facts have been exposed one after another, causing all kinds of sports to fall into recession. Speculators have vigorously
Like locusts that destroyed most events, the Dome Battle Festival became a new trend, attracting the attention of bookmakers and dog gamblers from all over the world.
"If we place bets, we will make a lot of money." Asamu ran to the smart screen and switched to the official betting page. Kyoto Unlimited itself also supports this kind of betting business.
Currently, the odds of A40 are 3.44, and the odds of Li Si are 1.98. In other words, as long as you invest money in A40, if A40 wins, you can earn 3.44 times as much money.
"This is not..." 102 was stunned. She and the other witches had hundreds of thousands in their fund cards available for use, but could not find a chance to spend it. "We are going to get rich."
"But can the A40 win?" 101 wondered.
"Whether we win or not, no one knows. But losing can be controlled." Qian Meng used his brain.
"What do you mean?" 102 was confused.
"Let's bet on the guy opposite A40, and then inform A40 to crack down on match-fixing!" Qianmeng said happily.
