Chapter 199 Little Gift
The smart lobby manager is wearing a hotel reception uniform and a silver emblem with angel wings on his chest. On his shell-like smooth and white mask, he projects a polite and even slightly flattering smile.
"Have you decided on the main course, dear sir?"
Li Pan looked at the dazzling holographic projection,
"Well... what is the set meal today? Salmone alla Puttanesca? This plate is not bad, what? What?"
The lobby manager announced the name of the dish,
"Grilled salmon fillet, fresh natural salmon, potatoes as a side dish, served with cherry fenugreek, papaya fillet, basil sauce, white grape juice..." "Wow,
fresh Salmon? How many legs? Can you talk?"
"Uh, sir, I don't understand what you mean..." "
Just kidding, it's just fresh fish... This is Ceres, it can't be fished out of the Pacific Ocean. Is it here? Is it synthetic maggot protein? Can it be eaten?
I mean, this is my first time using VK’s prosthetic body. It only has the most basic taste sensory module. In theory, the function of the prosthetic body can be maintained by regular injection of No. 95 organic matter nutrients. Just drink some liquid. Do I have to pull it out after I swallow this dish..." The
lobby manager was quite professional, and his expression did not waver at all.
"Don't worry, the intelligent cooking system developed by our company will be based on your request. The prosthetic model matches your taste enjoyment. In addition, our Paradise Group and VK prosthetic manufacturing also have long-term cooperation, and the script protocols adapt to each other. As long as the original components have not been replaced, you can activate the taste bud components by adjusting the MT380 to comfort mode.
In addition, our store can guarantee that all the ingredients in the directly-operated store are pure natural products, fresh ingredients shipped from Europe. This fish has real-time monitoring and quality certification from birth to serving. Please see, European Bavaria District
Swan The lake light in Lake Park is a one-to-one reproduction of the original version. You must go and see it if you have the chance. We recommend staying at the Swan Lake branch of Paradise Hotel. You are an exclusive member and can enjoy the top-level lake view suite." Li Pan looked at the other party
. The projected blue sky and white clouds, green mountains and green trees, lake light and castle.
Well, what’s in this picture is not the Earth, but Europa, Europa, New Eden that has been transformed into a livable place by the Taita Group, and with the support of environmentally friendly technologies from major companies, it is a truly top-notch wealthy area, a place for people in the universe. Home, paradise...
"Tsk... Europa... I hate Europa... Okay, let's do this. Okay, Yelena?" Yelena,
who was wearing a gold backless evening dress, smiled cautiously. , looking at the top intelligent attendant, nodded in acquiescence.
So the waiter went to serve the food, and Li Pan looked at her, lifted the tablecloth, and looked under the table at her legs that were so restrained that they were pressed together.
"Oh, you are very good today. Why, am I that scary?"
Elena grabbed her dress to cover her crotch,
"Don't, don't be like this..."
Li Pan frowned. Yelena trembled, quickly changed her words, and forced a smile,
"Okay, okay, I, I know, I was wrong. If you want it, can I give it to you when I get back to the boat..." Li
Pan She scratched her head inexplicably,
"No, seriously, what's going on? Why are you so afraid of me? I won't eat you..."
Elena shook her hand and the wine glass fell to the floor.
"Hug! Sorry, sorry!"
Before she could stand up, the intelligent waiters on both sides rushed over and knelt down, scrubbing the tablecloth and floor clean, changing the tableware and tableware, and refilling the aperitif wine.
Li Pan rolled his eyes and was quite speechless.
Then the foreman came up with two professional dancers who were dressed up and extremely beautiful, and asked politely,
"Dear sir, do you need to change to a companion doll? You are an exclusive VIP customer of our Angel Group, and our company is You provide rental angel service for free, and you can continue customized services at any time if you have specific requirements."
Li Pan looked at the pale Yelena, then at the attentive foreman beside her, and finally reacted.
"Oh, no, no need. Well, the food will be served later. Give us some private space." "
As you wish."
A group of smart people retreated, and then the hotel private room was encrypted and sealed, and at the same time, the holographic projection of the Swan Lake was projected in the room. The scenic area of the park is sparkling, and even the air is extremely fresh. Some kind of special perfume must have been used.
However, neither Li Pan nor Yelena was in the mood to enjoy the scenery.
Yelena stammered directly, "Hug, I'm sorry...Master..."
Li Pan flipped through his private mailbox and projected a contract.
This is Yelena's transfer contract. Well, a contract of sale. This time when I went to meet with the boss of Heiyou, Kanamori Goro not only sent Yelena to lead the way, but also directly treated her as a souvenir for the business. The ownership was transferred. Give it to Li Pan.
Of course, in theory, human trafficking is illegal, so what is actually transferred at the contract level is the prosthetic body and the debt. The prosthetic body that Yelena is using now, and the debt signed by the only brain that belongs to her.
So yes, Li Pan is actually Yelena's 'master'. You can make her self-destruct with a snap of her fingers, or she can sell it to some Paradise Space Station under the Paradise Group and become an angel to get some money back... "
I won't deal with you casually, let alone eat you, okay? I just need to You lead the way."
Yes, Yelena's 'body' is not worth mentioning. What is valuable is the coordinates of the refinery and the black oil transportation route worth hundreds of billions, which were sent by the Jinsen Chamber of Commerce. Sincerity.
In theory, leading the way this time may also be Yelena's last mission. As long as Li Pan goes to meet the boss behind the black oil in person and masters the coordinates and routes, she will be dispensable, no, a A safety hazard. Under normal circumstances, they will be destroyed.
"I can help you erase the memory of the relevant coordinates and hire you as a bodyguard. Or I can simply keep you and continue to be the middleman driver for Panlong and Jinsen. After all, I am very busy. This business line cannot always let you I will run with him alone. And now I also lack trustworthy people who can be useful..."
Yelena immediately knelt down, crawled over and hugged Li Pan's legs, and rubbed her face against Li Pan like a cat. Pan's knees looked at him with wide eyes. She has worked really hard to control her own destiny, but her body has been trembling...
The first time I saw her, she looked like a royal sister. What's the difference?...
Li Pan also rubbed his eyebrows and said,
"...Go back Sit down."
Yelena quickly sat down honestly.
"Just... act normal?" Li Pan thought for a moment, "Just as a colleague? Forget it, secretary, lover, whatever, just relax and don't attract attention to me." Elena nodded repeatedly
. , "Okay boss, I remember."
Then she rubbed Li Pan's legs with her feet. The force was too strong and the high heels poked Li Pan's calves.
"Oh, whatever, let's serve the food."
So the intelligent servants filed in and served the main meal.
After all, it is the cooking system of a top company. The grilled salmon is indeed quite delicious, so much so that Elena gradually relaxed a little and couldn't help but ask, "Are you the
VIP of Paradisus, from Takamawahara?" There are not many managers who can afford exclusive customers. Generally, those who can live in Sky City are shareholder-level investors..." "Well,
our company has good benefits and has experience coupons."
Li Pan was also noncommittal, I don't want to talk too much in front of these smart people.
After all, Paradise Group cannot be trusted either.
Li Panke still remembers the time when someone hit him in the face with a nuclear bomb while he was sitting upright in the car.
But unfortunately, in the Ceres universe, his options are very limited.
After all, the universe is the territory of big companies, especially in the many mining areas in the universe near Ceres. The most powerful industry with the largest number of industries is Valley Industries. In other words, this is an enemy-occupied area in the midst of a war!
The last time they met, they even demolished an agricultural space station, so Li Pan didn't feel confident meeting Yelena in a public area, and she didn't dare to hand over HAYABUSA directly to the refinery. It would be troublesome if someone else's fleet followed them.
So I searched the nearby universe and found that this sky city under the Paradise Group belongs to the company's private domain neutral zone. His exclusive customer treatment has not expired, so it is relatively safe.
The Paradise Space Station in Ceres is similar to the Sky City in the Night City. They are both consumer areas under the Paradise Group. Similar to the Baofeng Group, Paradise also provides various services in luxury goods, but at the same time, its smart human research and development technology is not bad either. But instead of making carbon-based bionic humans, we will make silicon-based intelligent prostheses and various Android robots.
At the same time, Paradise also has a special patent, which ranks at the top of the committee, namely Paradise server and Upload upload intelligence.
Yes, it's the brain-computer uploading technology of Shiba.
The 'heaven' of heaven is equivalent to an independent hypothetical server outside the public network of the QVN quantum virtual network. It is the largest legal private civilian network in the deep web.
In those days, Paradise was also very wealthy, with the top three experts on the committee, but as the saying goes, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. The two Internet giants, HT Chaos Technology and PG Paradise, were in direct competition, and the competition reached the level of a corporate war. In the end, the committee was even divided into two camps. Fighting broke out, the biggest civil war in the Security Council broke out.
Yes, it was the time when 30% of the heavens and worlds were destroyed and the star gates were all renumbered. As the winner, HT Chaos Technology obtained the exclusive operating rights of QVN and monopolized all corporate services, various public safety systems, public transportation systems, and corporate network firewall services.
Naturally, Paradise plummeted. It lost orders from QVN, handed over a huge number of patents, split off the prosthetics and service industries and sold them. Only then did it finally stabilize its fundamentals and gradually recover.
But unlike companies like Dawn Terra that are in decline, because of QVN’s unique technology, Paradise still has a chance to slowly come back. And their most profitable business is to provide 'exclusive paradise customization' services to private individuals.
Because obviously, not everyone has 10 billion to enjoy a real reincarnation in another world.
For security reasons, Chaos Technology cannot grant special permissions to individuals on public servers to avoid threatening the security architecture of the entire QVN system.
But heaven can do it, it’s all broken anyway.
Usually only the company level can operate brain-computer assets, but Paradise uses the supercomputer, server and dedicated network that served the QVN public network and are now idle to provide customers with exclusive Paradise gift packages and exclusive smart uploads. Space and private brain-computer servers.
When customers purchase this service, they do not need to undergo special training like Shiba, nor do they need to develop a big snake system like the company. As long as they go to the Paradise City to undergo surgery, they can 'go to heaven' and be intelligently uploaded to their customized exclusive cyberspace. Achieve electronic immortality. It is equivalent to traveling into the Internet and into the 'different worlds' of another dimension.
And to a certain extent, this world where all your wishes come true may be more like paradise than cruel reality. Of course, the premise is that you have to have money to spend.
As long as you have money, you can live happily in paradise. You can also download it to a silicon-based intelligent human prosthetic body and be reborn at any time in any other world with a paradise server. Or if you get tired of playing with it, spend another 10 billion to customize a coordinated genetic human life form to be resurrected.
Therefore, those Sky People who live in Sky City every day mostly use Paradise’s customized service lines to swim in the virtual electronic ocean.
Compared with 10 billion rebirths in another world, the middle-class elite can barely afford the services of heaven. They can not only purchase services, but also upload their consciousness to heaven after death if conditions permit.
Some companies will also specifically sign contracts with the Paradise Group to purchase long-term insurance from Paradise for their employees, so that their employees can be uploaded to the Paradise server after their accidental death. In this way, work will not be affected. You can continue to work after death and continue to pay back the money...
Oh, heaven...
So after dinner, I ate a piece of salmon and a bunch of condiments, and Li Pan hugged Yelena again. They opened a private room in the Paradise Hotel, and then the two of them used Paradise's internal link to connect to the Paradise server. Then they used their consciousness to download it into two intelligent human prosthetics, and then bought a frigate with a license and tax, and went there empty-handed. Refinery exploration.
After such a troublesome detour, the cost was less than 10 million. If he is targeted by the company again, Li Pan will have nothing to say.
Fortunately, everything went smoothly, and no space pirates or the like intercepted their ship. After a series of deep space jumps and manual navigation in the mining area, they successfully arrived at their destination, the black oil refinery in Takamagahara.
This factory is located in the Kuiper Ice Belt. Unlike the asteroid belt, most of the surrounding celestial bodies are frozen volatiles, or 'ice', methane, ammonia, and water.
The refinery was built in a frozen methane iceberg. It was larger than the last warehouse and looked like it could accommodate at least a battleship class.
"Welcome, Manager Li. You've worked hard all the way."
"President Kanamori, thank you for the gift." "You
're welcome, you're welcome, you can just like it. Come and take a look at our factory."
Elena Without permission to disembark, Goro Kanamori came to greet him on the rest of the journey and took him to see the production lines and warehouses of the refinery.
It is basically a fully automated and unmanned production area, with only a few automatic repair prosthetics. In emergencies, engineering personnel will be linked from a distance to repair.
This place is indeed quite big. Li Pan made a rough estimate. The entire factory equipment is fully powered and can produce at least 20 tons of black oil every month. It is obviously one of the main military factories supplying the Titan fleet during the war years. .
However, after so many years, the equipment has been dismantled, sold, repaired, and broken. Now only one production line is still maintained, with a full production capacity of one ton per month.
In order to avoid Ye's discovery of too frequent production and transportation, the amount used on the market is not high during peacetime. In fact, it is only used once every six months.
The two of them walked roughly in a circle, came to the office, and met the representatives of the shareholders behind the scenes. Of course, the other party also used a prosthetic body.
"Manager Li, let me introduce you. This is..."
"Maeda Etsuchu."
The other party took the initiative to extend his hand.
Li Pan was also stunned, "Maeda...are you me?"
He had seen the name Maeda Etsuchu in various company information updated during the 18th update when he was reading in the toilet.
This Maeda family is an important minister under the command of Oda. Maeda Etsuchu himself served as the leader of the Oda clan's horseback clan. Later, he was assigned to Shibata Heavy Industries and served as the right-hand man of the Shibata clan. When the Oda clan was in civil strife, he once became the leader of Shibata clan. The confidant of the department.
Later, after the Takamagahara Seiju Incident, this guy quickly rebelled, took over and conquered other forces under Shibata, and then took the Hokuriku Heavy Industries Group and jumped directly to Yushiba's subordinates, becoming one of the top local bosses in Yushiba's Takamawara regime. , and he is well-rounded and well-liked among the committee. He even managed to get a general in the Space Army. He can be regarded as a ruthless political animal.
I just don’t know if he was among the people who had tea together at the beginning...
"President Li, I have admired your name for a long time, and I have always been looking forward to paying a visit to you. Please take a seat."
Kanamori Goro also closed the door and went offline after observing his words.
Li Pan also said politely,
"I heard that General Maeda has recently taken charge of the engineering department of the Northern Army in Takamagahara. I am very grateful to you for taking care of me last time and purchasing a large amount of equipment for the company. I will remit the money right away. If you allow me, I will arrange a
ship to arrive now." Pick up the goods, I hope our cooperation can continue."
In fact, if you think about it, although military consumables such as black oil are important, their shelf life is too short and requires careful production planning. Therefore, even within Takamagahara, it must be done by Oda Koshi's horse. It is managed by a group of cronies, but it is also necessary to maintain a close cooperative relationship with the military industry bosses in order to smoothly transfer it to the fleet.
It is probably thanks to this dark trump card that the Maeda family is able to maneuver among various forces with ease and jump repeatedly. At a time when big families are being exterminated, beheaded and disemboweled, let's still maintain the dignity and power of the family.
"You're welcome, these are just trivial matters. As long as you say a word, we, Maeda Military Industry, are willing to support your company in this bidding war. Just follow your orders." Unexpectedly, there are no other spectators around now, and Maeda Echichu is actually a little bit surprised
. No need to lose face, so he bowed down and knelt down, hugging his thighs and recognizing his father.
Although Li Pan didn't believe there was a word of truth in these people's mouths, a dignified Gao Tianyuan boss who knelt down whenever he asked was really powerful. So he was stunned and helped him up with a smile on his face,
"General, why did you say this? You are an important minister of Gao Tianyuan and the favorite general of His Highness Yu Shiba. How can you afford it as a mere agent of mine who is not even a regular employee?
What's more, the outcome is still undecided. His Highness Hashiba has received many emails from me without even sending a fart. Takamagahara has not taken sides so far. Is it really okay for you to switch sides so quickly? It's not possible. It's just a meeting. Just give me a kowtow, right?"
Maeda Eschu didn't get angry, he still licked his face and said with a smile,
"Looking at what you said, that monkey climbed all the way from 'Weiyuan', and he does have some skills and scheming, but he What I see is still just the 'Gao Tianyuan' on the books. I have never done horseback riding, I have never seen 'Yellow Spring', I have never seen the real 'Gao Tianyuan', there are many things that it is impossible to make correct judgments. But I
I have been Lord Oda's personal servant since ancient times. I am deeply rooted in the "Yellow Spring". I know clearly that your company has been involved in 0791 for a long time. It has been operating on this earth for many years, and the strength it shows now is nothing more than an iceberg. One corner. The transfer of the Holy Grail to us for safekeeping several times before was just the judgment of the upper management. But
now the really powerful ones on the committee have withdrawn early. The remaining ones at the bottom also want to challenge your company? Haha , I think there is no need to fight this battle at all. Even if your company doesn't take action, your ability, Manager Li, is enough to defeat other cosmic people. If you don't come to show your kindness now, when will you wait?" Li
Pan was stunned for a moment, kept smiling, and looked at him silently.
"...General, must you have misunderstood? What skills do I have? My skills are all given by the company."
Maeda Yunchu smiled without saying a word, took out a chip from his arms and handed it to him,
"Those people in the universe don't know about you?" You have potential, but I am very clear about it. In fact, we have been paying attention to you and tried every means to hide you. We originally wanted to arrange for you to work in the Security Bureau after graduation. It is also our fault that we hid you too deeply, but some idiots ruined you. I won't mention it
anymore. Now that you have been recruited by TheM, it is unexpected and reasonable. It's strange that they can't find you. But I heard that people from the SEC have also talked with you. Right, then it will be bad if we keep hiding it.
Therefore, here is a little greeting gift, which is not respectful. I think after you read it, you will believe our sincerity."
Li Pan held the chip and was doubtful. I had to insert the chip, and when I saw the "Human Instrumentality Project" that popped up, the smile on my face gradually disappeared.
"Who are you?"
Maeda Koshichu smiled,
"No, what you should ask is not who we are, but who you are."
Then his eyes of the prosthetic body dimmed and he disconnected. The link is offline.
(End of chapter)