Chapter 213 Ocean of Insects
"Okay, who cares about getting a lot of broken bills, Grayson, tell me how much the Runwan family lost in total!"
Kleinda threw a large pile of bills in front of her on the floor, and asked the general manager of Runwanjia Spirit Tool Factory who had just arrived with a gloomy expression.
Greyson had a pair of dark circles under his eyes, and he seemed to have not slept for three days. He replied in a trance: "My lord, after the factories in various places canceled the assembly lines of lamps, in this lighting war, our Runwanjia lost a total of about 820,000 Jinlong."
Swallowing, Grayson cautiously continued to answer: "In addition, we have to pay about 280,000 Golden Dragons in liquidated damages for breach of contract with the partner in the foreign city. In addition, in addition... In addition, there is a total of about 120,000 Golden Dragons for the infringement fees paid to Duke Duke."
After hearing the report, Clarinda was furious.
He punched the table, and the expensive desk made of Lingzhi wood was smashed into pieces by his punch containing arcane power.
Standing on the crumbs of the desk, Clarinda asked sullenly, "How much does it add up?"
"A total of 1.22 million golden dragons were lost."
“What do shareholders say?”
"They..." Grayson dared not answer.
Clarinda cast the Mage Hand violently, and grabbed Grayson. As a 3rd-level Arcanist, and once built the Mage Hand Arcane Wonder, for him, the Mage Hand is almost the same as the third one.
Captured Grayson.
After landing, Grayson grinned in pain, but fortunately, his skin was only bruised and purple, and he did not suffer any internal injuries.
Holding back tears, he replied: "My lord, the shareholders of the company... The shareholders agree... No, no, no, Master Azigul objected... They think you should bear 80% of the responsibility... Master Azigul is willing to share part of it for you..."
Kleinda's face turned blue and black, and it took a while before she said: "Okay! I have fulfilled their wishes!"
Then he said to Grayson: "I will pay 80% of the money. I don't need Azigul to bear it for me. Calculate how much I have to pay."
"976,000 golden dragons."
"Looks like it's been settled a long time ago." Kleinda said coldly.
Greyson remained silent, his body was covered with bruises and bruises, each of which caused him so much pain that he didn't have the heart to answer Clarinda's question.
After a long time, Clarinda waved: "Get lost."
"Yes, my lord!" Grayson hurriedly bowed and left.
Clarinda quickly called her butler over again: "Cross, how much money is left in the Tari Treasury?"
"Master, there are still 150,000 golden dragons." Butler Cross replied.
"so little?"
"My lord, you forgot that the dividends from Runwanjia Spirit Tool Factory have not been allocated this year. In addition, we also lent a loan of 100,000 golden dragons to Runwanjia."
"When will the next funds arrive in the Tower?"
"This..." Cross hesitated for a moment before replying, "Master, our tower's funds mainly rely on the dividends from Runwanjia. The situation of Runwanjia has not been good in the past two years, so it is difficult to maintain normal expenses in the tower's income."
"How could this be?" Kleinda couldn't believe it, "Is the property in my hand so low in terms of income?"
Cross thought about the wording for a while, and replied: "The main reason is that our tower has fewer research projects and cannot achieve a balance of payments."
Having said that, Clarinda's already dark complexion became a little darker.
He is an arcanist who switched careers. After the spiritual core was broken, it was difficult to participate in the pioneering war as before. He wanted to transform and do research, but he still couldn't get any scholar title.
Originally, with the support of Runwanjia, the small life is still nourishing and nourishing, so I never thought about this.
It is only now that I understand the importance of the matter. Once there is a problem with the Runwanjia, even the operation of the Mage Tower will have problems.
But Clarinda is not without cards, and said with a dark face: "That is to say, in a short period of time, the Mage Tower has no income?"
"I'm afraid so, sir."
"Phew, draw up an announcement for me." Kleinda struggled for a while before making the final decision, "Notify the Hippidil Mine Company that I will soon sell 1% of the shares I hold in the Hippidil Mine Company."
"Master!" Cross exclaimed.
Heibideling Mining Company, the well-deserved money-printing company in Shenjiao City, even if it only has 1% of the shares, it is also a family heirloom.
Enough to support the continuation of the family for several generations.
Since Kleinda has made a decision, she thinks clearly about all the consequences: "Go ahead, it's just a little share. If the younger generation is promising, why use this little share. If the younger generation is not promising, this little share is just a lingering breath."
Cross said with moist eyes: "Master, you have to think twice, this may affect several generations of the family!"
"I have considered very clearly that the shares of the Heibideling Mine Company were obtained because I was promoted to a third-ring arcanist, not because the family passed them on to me. It can be seen that the so-called family heirlooms are empty talk, and the younger generations are incompetent and cannot be protected at all. It is better to use it to solve my current predicament."
Butler Cross had no choice but to follow Clarinda's instructions to draft a share sale announcement.
Any change in the shares of Hebdi Ling Mining Company requires the voting resolution of all shareholders, especially the admission of new shareholder members.
Actually, this is more like a high-level coterie.
Arcane mages with ring 3 and above are the major shareholders of Hebedi, and arcane mages with ring 2 basically can only drink some soup along with them.
Even so, there was still a long line of arcane mages staring at the shares of the Hibidi Spirit Mine Company.
So when the announcement of the sale of Clarinda's shares was sent to Hebdiling Mining Company, the management followed the established procedures and sent invitations to vote for resolutions to all shareholders.
And it will be up to the company's board of directors to decide how to deal with the 1% shares.
Is it an internal buyback, or is it looking for new shareholders.
…
Kiston Mage Tower, with white clouds lingering around half its waist.
In the small villa in Yunding Garden, Keyston Nutao, with a hair like a golden lion king, is playing a game of Reversi similar to Go with his great-granddaughter Kylia Nutao.
"Little Ji Liya, you are a really good classmate. The title of polymath, hehe, grandpa was already 70 years old when he obtained the title of elemental scholar. This kid has just turned eighteen. Tsk tsk, what a long head."
Kiston muttered while playing chess.
Kilia smiled sweetly: "Grandpa, you are good at accumulating wealth. As for Duke, he is indeed very talented. This has to be admitted."
"Oh, even my little Jiaolong admits that this Duke is excellent?"
"Grandpa, you are joking again. My talent is much worse than Duke's. Duke should be the kind of true genius arcanist." Kylia thought carefully, "When we first met, I thought he was taciturn and had the same temperament as Leadman's assistant."
"Then what?"
"Later, I discovered that although he loves research and is obsessed with research, he is not rigid in life. On the contrary, he is very funny and has a very active personality."
"Well, he is very involved in research and has achieved very good results, which means that he has a top IQ; he is interesting and active in life, and can win the appreciation of my little Kiria, which means that his EQ is also top."
Kiston stopped playing chess, and said with great interest: "Both merchants are top-notch, what an outstanding young man he is!"
Kiriya nodded: "It's really excellent."
She recalled her classmates in the Penrose Mage Tower, Bronke felt a little cynical and alienated, and Orianna and Bazar were too fawning.
Only Duke gave her a different feeling.
Neither deliberately pretending to be lofty and alienating myself, nor trying to curry favor with myself, every time we get along with each other is an equal attitude, the feeling of neither far nor near is just right.
But occasionally when the two of them chatted and laughed together, she could feel that Duke would inadvertently exude a strong self-confidence, as if he was the biggest in the world.
This kind of confidence, she only felt from her own grandfather.
But Grandfather Keyston is the well-deserved leader of Heijiaohe, the only 5-ring ocean arcanist, and he should have this confidence.
Duke has such self-confidence. In her opinion, this is only produced by having a clear understanding of her future.
In other words, this is the demeanor that belongs only to the truly proud son of heaven.
"Little Kilia?" Kiston raised his head and called out.
was thinking about Kiria who got along with Duke, and then came back to his senses: "Huh?"
"Ouch, my little dragon!" Kiston exclaimed cheerfully as if he had discovered a new world, "Tell grandpa, little Kiria, are you fascinated by this Duke?"
"How can there be!"
"Grandpa lived almost two hundred years old, how many people's lives are fleeting in the eyes of grandpa, I can't guess with your little thoughts?"
Seeing this, Kiriya opened her mouth and said, "It's a little bit. Duke, he's neither as proud as a nobleman, nor as humble as a commoner. It's really relaxing when chatting with him."
"That's why grandpa said, this Duke's dual merchants are top-notch, such a talent, tsk tsk, grandpa really misjudged him before, thinking he was a lucky young man, and classified him as a mediocre arcanist."
"Grandfather, what kind of Arcane Master do you think he is now?" Kylia asked with a smile.
Kiston Raging Touched the snow-white beard on his chin. He only had hair that was always golden, which might be related to the blood of the Raging Family.
"What kind of arcanist..."
He pondered for a while, then stared at Kiria suddenly, and said with a meaningful smile: "Little Kiria, what do you want grandpa to say about him?"
"Grandpa, you are evaluating, Kiria didn't think about anything." Kiria covered her mouth and smiled.
"Cunning, you, you have inherited your grandpa's talent as an arcane master, and you have also inherited your grandma's cunning character." Keyston thought of his wife who passed away almost a hundred years ago. Although he continued many successors later, he did not leave any heirs.
It's not that I can't, but I don't want to.
So the line of the family is basically born of him and his first wife.
certainly.
Bastards are counted separately.
"Grandpa, don't fall for your tricks. I lied to me that Duke was boring and rigid, so I classified him as a mediocre arcane master. Now I put eye drops on Grandpa, and he praised Duke." Kiston leaned back in his chair, "I will see him in person some other day, and then I will make an evaluation."
Kiria was about to make fun of her grandpa.
Outside the housekeeper Gina knocked on the door and came in: "Master, Miss Kiria, please excuse me, there is the general manager of the Hibidi Ling Mine Company, come to see the master."
"Who is the general manager?" Keyston asked.
"His Excellency Philip White Rabbit."
"Oh, it's the boy from the White Rabbit's family." Keyston finally remembered who the general manager was, "Since there is something to do, let him come over."
"Okay sir, I'll bring him here right now."
Steward Gina went for a while, and brought a middle-aged man in his forties over. He was wearing a decent arcanist robe, his hair was combed meticulously, and he was wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.
"Master Keyston, junior Philip White Rabbit, send your greetings."
"You're welcome, sit down."
"Thank you, my lord." Philip White Rabbit turned around and smiled at Kylia again, "Miss Kylia, you are a well-deserved flower of Shenjiao City."
"You are too generous, Your Excellency Philip."
After the courteous greetings, Keyston asked directly: "Little Philip, what's the matter with Hibiscus that I need you to come and visit me?"
"It's like this. One of Hebedi's shareholders, Your Excellency Kleinda, has decided to sell 1% of his shares, so I'm here to ask for your opinion."
"It is said that Runwanjia suffered heavy losses and needed to pay a large amount of Jinlong, so they sold Hebdi's shares as a last resort."
Kiston pondered for a moment, and said: "Okay, I already know, you immediately call the shareholders of Hebe to hold a voting meeting in three days, and contact the directors, and hold a board meeting tomorrow."
"OK."
Philip White Rabbit got up to leave.
Kiston was full of emotion: "Little Kilia, Duke, this time, you made Clarinda very miserable. By the way, I remember that you also invested in the Giant of Light, right?"
"Yes, I own 7% of the Giant of Light."
"You will make a lot of money." Kiston laughed, "The Tower of Learning in the Holy City of Alchemy is already promoting strong light technology. Although the giant of light may not be able to share the market in other fields, it can make a lot of money just by relying on patent fees."
Kiliya blinked her eyes: "However, the patents are all in the hands of Duke. He bought the shares with the patents, and the rights and interests are limited to the wind and interest market. That is to say, the patent fees in the other eleven fields are Duke's private income."
"What?" Keyston was taken aback, "This kid still has a hand? With this momentum, isn't he going to become the richest man in Shenjiao City?"
"Grandpa, you are exaggerating. No matter how much the patent fee for the strong light technology is, Duke will not be able to catch up with the wealth of the old nobles in a short time."
"Eleven fields are promoted together, a lot, and a lot of patent fees!" Keyston clicked his tongue in amazement.
Then he shook his head again: "Kleinda deserved the loss. He is usually used to relying on his ability to dominate others. This time, he was severely punched by a young man with a patented invention... Anyway, he was also injured for opening up the war. Let's hold a meeting and discuss it carefully."
"Grandpa, I heard that Your Excellency Clarinda deserted on the battlefield in the past?" Kylia asked curiously.
"Facing the Yalong's approach, it is understandable to be a deserter. Besides, even the spirit core is broken, who would be ashamed to blame him for escaping."
Kiston didn't want to say more, so he quickly found an excuse to send Kylia away.
Then a person came to the edge of the garden wall, admiring the white clouds outside and the great rivers and mountains below the white clouds.
…
Poof!
There was a gunshot that was so subtle that it could hardly be heard. Five hundred meters away, a three-ringed spirit beast-a flying gliding monkey was drinking water, and a flower of blood exploded on its head.
"It's done, let's collect the corpse." Duke jumped off the branch.
With a slight shake of the Sand Eagle pistol in his hand, countless fluorescent lights disappeared, returning to the orbit around Linghai.
The mercenaries of the Broken Sword Mercenary Group, already familiar with the powerful strength of their own big benefactor, sent a team of mercenaries to quickly collect the corpse, and then easily picked up the flying flying monkey whose head was shot, and happily patted Duke's ass.
"My lord's strength is stronger than that of a 2-ring arcane mage!"
"It's too powerful. It's 500 meters away. It kills with one blow. It's so terrifying!"
"The Flying Flying Monkey can fly and run, and its cured arcane power is also powerful. It's a pity that we were killed by adults when we saw our faces!"
The mercenaries were in awe of Duke's methods.
Duke's face was indifferent, but in fact he was very proud in his heart. This soul-piercing attack was unlike any other arcanist.
"With Sand Eagle in hand, I have the world!"
The Sand Eagle's power is strong, it is indeed strong, but it is limited, bullets may not be able to break through the level 2 arcane defense.
However, the sudden bullets are hard to guard against.
Unless the spirit beast can also cast arcane spells instantly, it cannot be blocked at all, especially the armor-piercing bullet in the special effect bullet-physical version, no matter how thick the armor is, it is difficult to parry.
And other special effects bullets - element version developed, the power of Sand Eagle bullets will be even more strange and unpredictable.
"Let's go, continue to move forward." Duke turned over and rode on the spirit horse, commanding the team to continue advancing into the depths of the forest.
Xiaohong has not returned from her wedding flight, and he has been camping in the forest for the past two days, hunting as a pastime.
1st ring, 2nd ring, 3rd ring spirit beasts, basically none of them can escape his gun bullets, even the 4th ring has no less attempts.
There are hunting failures and hunting successes.
This mainly depends on whether Sand Eagle's bullets can penetrate the defense of the spirit beast. If it penetrates the defense, it will chase after it, and the bullets will be poured out like money.
Unable to penetrate the defense, he immediately turned around and ran away.
In just two or three days, the spirit beasts that Duke hunted alone knocked down the price of the spirit beast market in Snake Head Town by nearly half.
certainly.
He now looks down on the benefits of hunting spirit beasts, and all the prey is handed over to Broken Sword, which is used to develop and grow Broken Sword, providing him with resources in the forest anytime, anywhere.
He still focuses on studying now.
When he reaches the period when he is mainly researching, his demand for resources in the forest will be greatly increased. At that time, the mercenary group will have to run around to collect the required resources for him.
The evening of the third day.
Xiaohong has not flown back yet, so Duke will naturally not leave, and continues to choose to camp in the forest. Lie on the roof of the Black Beetle under the light of the campfire and gaze at the starry sky above.
"Where is home?"
"Is the Earth, or the Milky Way, in this starry sky above my head?"
Duke often asked questions like this, even though he felt that life in the Seven Towers Federation was far more exciting than his life on Earth.
"My hometown is always my hometown..."
"However, if I really have the opportunity to choose, I will definitely stay in the Seven Towers Federation without hesitation. Not to mention the extravagant life of the arcane masters, just my current body, this feeling of being healthy and strong is definitely not comparable to me who was delayed by **** on the earth."
He didn't want to go back to Earth at all, but that didn't stop him from missing Earth.
"Among the seven towers of the Seven Towers Federation, there is a Stars Tower whose main job is astrology. It is responsible for predicting the future, enlightening the future, and leading the future. I don't know if the Stars Tower can confirm whether the star field I am in is the Milky Way."
"Well, it's best that the Tower of Stars can draw an image of this galaxy, so that I can compare the image of the Milky Way in my memory."
"If I remember correctly, the earth is in the third spiral arm of the Milky Way, at the inner edge of the Orion arm..."
Looking at the starry sky, thinking about the earth.
Before he knew it, Duke felt his eyelids were a little heavy, as if he had fallen asleep in a daze, and his breathing became longer.
But in the next moment.
Duke opened his eyes like lightning, grasped upwards with both hands, and quickly grabbed a small thing the size of a bird, but whose whole body seemed to be transparent.
The little thing was covered by the night, and its body was basically invisible.
If it weren’t for the faint light from the bonfire not far away, which shone on it and cast a reddish reflective color, Duke really didn’t know what he was grabbing.
"Squeak!"
The little thing in his hand struggled desperately, but was firmly locked by Duke's battle armor attached to his hands, unable to move.
In the surrounding tents, the grunting of mercenaries came and went.
In the black beetle car, Vivienne, who was already lying down, turned over, and she would not fall asleep until Duke returned to the car.
No one noticed, Duke caught something.
After all, even Duke himself didn’t know what he caught. He sat up from the roof of the car, grabbed the small thing with one hand, and manifested a Sand Eagle pistol in the other.
Turn on the tactical light, the light shines on the hands, and the small things are completely illuminated to the prototype.
"This is…"
The body of the little thing is transparent, and the general outline is like a flat bug. Xiaoyi's database is running crazily, and the result is quickly compared.
"Master, there is an 86% possibility that this is the trilobite in the phantom of ancient times."
"Ancient shadows? Trilobites?"
Duke was surprised: "You mean, this is the phantom of the ancient era erupting from the spiritual spring. Here, at this moment, the phantom of the ancient era erupted?"
He stood up suddenly, looked around, the surroundings were quiet, only a few mercenaries were holding strong portable lights, shining them around.
There is no sign of the phantom of the ancient era breaking out at all.
But the transparent trilobite in his hand is really not like an ordinary spirit beast. It feels weightless to the touch, and it really looks like a transparent phantom.
Suddenly.
The trilobite he held in his hand seemed to have reached its limit, and it shattered like a bubble with a click.
Duke caught a void.
But he could feel that a change was erupting in the spiritual sea. It was the guardian and mysterious vine that existed in the spiritual sea like a vision, swaying wildly, as if facing an enemy.
It was also the reaction of the guardian · mystery vine just now that awakened him from his drowsiness, and then caught the trilobite.
"Xiao Yi, this sign is not right, it seems that the phantom of the ancient era has really exploded!"
"Master, please be careful. According to the trilobites caught just now, it can be judged that this ancient phantom eruption should be an ocean of worms. The ocean of worms is the most ancient phantom of ancient times. It is not very dangerous, but it is still easy to seriously damage your vitality if you indulge in it."
"I will be careful, and the guardian · mystery vine should come in handy at this time, but what about the others?"
Xiaoyi judged: "People who have a spiritual sea will be impacted by the ocean of worms, but the spiritual apprentice's spiritual sea is weakly connected with the outside world, and the impact of the ocean of worms will not be very strong. At most, there will be a certain amount of vitality damage, which can be recovered after a short rest."
Communication is only for a moment.
At this time, there was a new change in the night sky outside. It was waves of transparent sea water composed of spirituality, spreading from a distance until Duke was also submerged in it.
Can't see.
But I can really feel the sea water composed of spirituality.
Xiaoyi has stopped the exclusive meditation method for hanging up the phone, and fully protects Duke's spiritual sea, so as not to be impacted by the sudden outbreak of the ocean of insects.
The same is true for the guardian and mysterious vines, which are filled in every corner of the spiritual sea.
Duke no longer looked inside the Linghai, but fully felt the unique experience brought to him by submerging him in the ocean of worms.
At this moment, he felt as if he had transformed into a ray of life in the ocean of insects.
Surrounded by the ocean of insects, it moistened and washed his body bit by bit, giving him an unprecedented joyful experience.
Suddenly.
A few meters in front of his eyes, a trilobite exuding snow-white transparent light, about the size of a palm, wandered towards him, with two long tentacles fluctuating up and down with the water flow.
Russia and a crinoid grew out from beside him, swaying its arms and feet, exuding the same transparent luster.
In the distant sky, there is a nautilus with a long, pointed shell swimming around in the sky. According to visual inspection, it is at least ten meters long.
An unknown sea worm that was as soft as a leech, but fatter, swam to him from another direction.
In Duke's field of vision, more and more glowing phantoms began to increase and converge.
In this quiet night, there is an illusory image of how various creatures in the ocean in ancient times survived.
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New January, Laobai has the audacity to ask for a guaranteed monthly pass~
Looking for tickets~
(end of this chapter)