Chapter 213 The Ocean of Insects
"Okay, who can't bear to have a lot of bad bills? Grayson, tell me how much the Runwan family has lost in total!"
Clarinda threw away the pile of bills in front of her. The ground was covered, and he asked the general manager of Runwanjia Spiritual Weapon Factory who had just arrived with a gloomy look.
Grayson had a pair of dark circles under his eyes, as if he hadn't slept for three days, and replied in a daze: "Sir, after factories in various places canceled the lighting assembly lines, in this lighting war, our Runwanjia lost a total of about 820,000 gold dragons. "
After swallowing, Grayson continued to answer cautiously: "In addition, if you breach the agreement with a partner from another city, you will need to pay liquidated damages of approximately 280,000 gold dragons. In addition, in addition... In addition, you will also have to pay Duke Duke for infringement. The total cost is about 120,000 gold dragons."
Clarinda was furious after hearing the report.
He punched the table, and the expensive desk made of Lingzhi wood was directly smashed into pieces by his arcane punch.
Standing on the debris of the desk, Clarinda asked gloomily: "How much is the total?"
"A total loss of 1.22 million gold dragons."
"What did the shareholders say?"
"They..." Grayson didn't dare answer.
Clarinda suddenly used the Mage's Hand and grabbed Grayson. As a third-level arcanist, he had also built the Mage's Hand arcane wonder. To him, the Mage's Hand was almost the same as the third one. .
Got Grayson.
After landing, Grayson grimaced in pain, but fortunately his skin was only bruised and he suffered no internal injuries.
Holding back tears, he replied: "Sir, the shareholders of the company... The shareholders unanimously agree... No, no, no, Master Aziguli objects... They think you should bear 80% of the responsibility... Ah Lord Ziguli is willing to share a part of it with you..."
Clarinda's face turned blue and black, and she said after a while: "Okay! I fulfilled their wish!"
Then she said to Grayson: "Eighty percent I will pay the compensation. Aziguli does not need to bear it for me. Calculate how much I have to pay." "
976,000 gold dragons."
"It seems that it has been settled long ago." Clarinda said coldly.
Grayson remained silent, his body covered in bruises and bruises, each one hurting him so much that he had no intention of answering Clinda's inquiry.
After a long time, Clarinda waved her hand: "Get out."
"Yes, sir!" Grayson quickly bowed and excused himself.
Clarinda quickly called her butler over: "Cross, how much money is left in the tower treasury?"
"Master, there are still 150,000 gold dragons." Butler Cross replied.
"So little?"
"Sir, you have forgotten that the dividends from Runwanjia Spiritual Equipment Factory were not paid this year. In addition, we also lent a loan of 100,000 gold dragons to Runwanjia." "When will the
next fund arrive? Tower?"
"This..." Cross hesitated for a moment before replying, "Master, our tower's funds mainly rely on the dividends of Runwanjia. The situation of Runwanjia in the past two years has not been good, so the income of tower , it is difficult to maintain normal expenses."
"How could this happen?" Clinda couldn't believe it, "Is the income from the properties in my hands so small?"
Cross thought for a moment and replied: "The main thing is It’s because our tower has few research projects and cannot achieve balance of payments.”
After saying this, Clarinda’s originally dark face turned even darker.
He is an arcanist who changed his career. After his spiritual core was broken, it was difficult for him to participate in the pioneering war as before. He wanted to change to do research, but he was still unable to obtain any scholar title, and his research topic was completely clueless. As a result, the mage tower could only rely on the outside. Enter funds to maintain.
Originally, with the support of Runwanjia, my life was still smooth, so I never thought about this.
Now I understand the importance of the matter. Once something goes wrong with the Runwan family, even the operation of the mage tower will go wrong.
However, Clarinda was not without a trump card. She said with a dark face: "In other words, the Mage Tower will have no income in a short period of time?" "I'm afraid so,
sir."
"Huh, prepare an announcement for me." Clarinda struggled for a while and then made the final decision, "Notify the Xibidi Spiritual Mine Company that I will sell my 1% share of the Xibidi Spiritual Mineral Company." "Master!" Cross
exclaimed Make a sound.
Xibidi Ling Mining Company, the well-deserved money printing company in Shenjiao City, even if it only has 1% of the shares, it is a family heirloom.
Enough to support the family for several generations.
Now that Clarinda has made her decision, she has to think through all the consequences: "Go for it, it's just a small share. If your descendants can make a difference, why do you need this little share? If your descendants have no future, this little share is just a living thing."
Cross said with wet eyes: "Master, you have to think twice. This may affect the family for generations!" "
I have thought clearly that the shares of Xibiti Spirit Mine Company are because I was promoted to the third level of arcana. I got it from my master, not because it was passed down from my family. It can be seen that the so-called heirlooms are empty talk, and the descendants are incompetent and cannot protect them at all. They might as well use them to solve my current predicament." Butler Cross had no choice but to follow Clairin's instructions
. Da's order to prepare a share sale announcement.
Any change in the shares of Xibidi Ling Mining Company requires a voting resolution by all shareholders, especially the absorption of new shareholder members.
In fact, it's more like a high-level clique.
Arcane mages of level 3 and above are all major shareholders of Xibiti. Arcane mages of level 2 can basically just drink some soup.
Even so, there was still a long queue of arcane mages eyeing the shares of Xibidi Spirit Mine Company.
So when the announcement of the sale of Clerinda's shares was sent to Xibidi Ling Mining Company, the management followed the established procedures and sent invitations to vote on the resolution to all shareholders.
And the company's board of directors will decide how to deal with this 1% share.
Is it an internal repurchase or looking for new shareholders.
...
Kiston Mage Tower, white clouds lingering halfway up.
In the small villa in the Genting Garden, Kirsten Fury, who has a golden lion-like hair, is playing a game of Othello similar to Go with his great granddaughter Kyria Fury.
"Little Kiriya, you are a really good classmate. You have the title of Erudite. Hehe, my grandfather was already 70 years old when he got the title of Elemental Scholar. This kid has just turned eighteen. Tsk tsk, his head is full of How long is it?"
Christian muttered while playing chess.
Kiriya smiled sweetly and said: "Grandpa, you are good at accumulating knowledge. As for Duke, he is indeed gifted. I have to admit this." "
Oh, even my little dragon admits that Duke is excellent?"
"Grandpa, you are joking again. My talent is much worse than Duke's. Duke should be the kind of truly talented arcane mage." Kiriya thought about it carefully, "When we first met, I thought he was taciturn. , has the same temperament as Assistant Lidman."
"Then what?"
"Later I discovered that although he loves research and is obsessed with research, he is not rigid in his life. On the contrary, he is very funny and has a very active personality." "Well, he is very devoted when
doing research and has achieved very good results. This means His IQ is top-notch; he is interesting and active in life, and he can win the appreciation of my little Kilia, which means his emotional intelligence is also top-notch." Christian stopped playing chess and said with great interest: "Both quotients are
both Top notch, what an outstanding young man he is!"
Kylia nodded: "Really outstanding."
She recalled her classmates in Penrose Mage Tower, Blanc's somewhat cynical sense of alienation, Oriana and Bazaar These two of you are too fond of flattery.
Only Duke gave her a different feeling.
Neither did he deliberately alienate himself by pretending to be aloof, nor did he try to flatter himself. Every time he got along, he acted as an equal, and the feeling of being neither far nor close was just right.
But occasionally when the two of them were joking together, she could feel that Duke would inadvertently reveal a strong sense of confidence, as if he was the greatest in the world.
She had only experienced this kind of confidence from her grandfather.
But Grandpa Keithton is the well-deserved leader of Black Dragon River, the only 5th ring ocean arcane mage, and he deserves this confidence.
Duke has such self-confidence. In her opinion, this comes from having a clear understanding of his future.
In other words, this is the style that only belongs to the true pride of heaven.
"Little Kylia?" Christian shouted as he stretched his head.
Kylia, who was recalling her interactions with Duke, finally came to her senses: "Huh?"
"Oh, my little dragon!" Christian shouted happily, as if he had discovered a new world, " Tell Grandpa, little Kiliya, are you attracted to this Duke?"
"No way!"
"Grandpa lived for almost two hundred years. How many people's lives are fleeting in Grandpa's eyes? I can't guess that little trick?"
Seeing this, Kiriya simply opened up and said, "It's a little bit, right? As for Duke, he is neither as proud as a child of a noble family nor as a commoner. So humble, how can I put it, I feel really relaxed when chatting with him." "
That's why Grandpa said, this Duke double businessman is a top-notch person, such a talent, tsk tsk, Grandpa really made a mistake before, thinking he was just a A lucky young man, he was classified as a mediocre arcane mage."
"Grandpa, what kind of arcane mage do you think he is now?" Kiriya asked with a smile.
Christian Raging Waves touched the snow-white beard on his chin. Only his hair was always golden, which may be related to the bloodline of the Raging Waves family.
"What kind of arcane mage..."
He pondered for a while, then suddenly stared at Kiriya and said with a meaningful smile: "Little Kiriya, how do you want Grandpa to evaluate him?" "
It's Grandpa Zu. You are making comments, Kilia didn’t think about anything.” Kilia covered her mouth and smiled.
"Cunning, you, you have inherited your grandpa's talent as an arcane mage, and you have also inherited your grandma's cunning character." Christian thought of his wife who had died almost a hundred years ago. Although he had many stepchildren later, none of them were He left no heirs.
It’s not that I can’t, it’s that I don’t want to.
Therefore, this family lineage is basically the result of him and his first wife.
certainly.
Illegitimate children are counted separately.
"Grandpa, I won't be fooled by you anymore. You lied to me and said Duke was boring and rigid, so I classified him as a mediocre arcane mage. Now I'm giving Grandpa eye drops and praising Duke for being a flower." Kirsten leaned back in his chair and said, "I will meet him in person some other day and then make an evaluation."
Kilia was about to make fun of her grandfather.
Outside, housekeeper Gina knocked on the door and came in: "Master, Miss Kilia, please excuse me. The general manager of the Xibiti Spirit Mine Company is here to see the master." "Who is the
general manager?" Christian asked.
"His Excellency Philip White Rabbit."
"Oh, it's that boy from the White Rabbit family." Christian finally remembered who the general manager was. "Since you have something to do, let him come over." "
Okay, sir, I'll bring him here right now." Come here."
Housekeeper Gina went there for a while and then led a middle-aged man in his forties over, wearing a decent arcanist robe, his hair combed meticulously, and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.
"Sir Christian, I would like to say hello to you, my junior Philip White Rabbit."
"You're welcome, take a seat."
"Thank you, Sir." Philip White Rabbit turned around and smiled at Kiriya, "Miss Kiriya, You really deserve to be the flower of Shenjiao City."
"You are so flattering, Your Excellency Philip."
After the courtesy, Christian asked directly: "Little Philip, what is going on in Xibiti that requires you to come and visit me?"
"It's like this. One of the shareholders of Xibiti, Your Excellency Clarinda, decided to sell 1% of his shares, so I came here to ask for your opinion." "Hey, why did he sell the shares of Xibiti?
"
"It is said that Runwanjia suffered heavy losses and needed to pay a large amount of golden dragons, so it had no choice but to sell the Xibiti shares."
Keyston pondered for a moment and said: "Okay, I already know. You will summon the shareholders of Xibiti immediately. Three days later Hold a voting meeting, contact all directors, and hold a board meeting tomorrow."
"Okay."
Philip White Rabbit stood up and left.
Christian sighed with emotion: "Little Kylia, this guy Duke has made Clinda miserable this time. By the way, I remember you also invested in the Giant of Light, right?" "Yes
. , I hold 7% of the shares of the Giant of Light."
"You will make a lot of money." Christian smiled, "The Erudite Tower in the Holy City of Arcane is already promoting strong light technology. Although the Giant of Light may not be able to Divide the market into other fields, but you can make a lot of money just by relying on patent fees."
Kilia blinked: "However, the patents are all in the hands of Duke. He uses the patents to invest in shares, and his rights and interests are limited to Fengxi. Field market. In other words, the royalties in the other eleven fields are Duke's private income."
"What?" Christian was stunned, "This guy still has something to offer? At this rate, wouldn't he? Want to become the richest man in Shenjiao City?"
"Grandpa, you are exaggerating. No matter how much the patent fees for strong light technology are, Duke will not be able to catch up with the wealth of the old aristocrats in a short time." "
Promote eleven fields together, many, patents It costs a lot!" Christian exclaimed for a while.
Then he shook his head again: "Clarinda didn't lose unjustly. She usually relies on her skills as a local coward to take advantage of others. This time she was punched hard by the young man with his patented invention... Anyway, so was he. He was injured for the pioneering war. Let's hold a meeting to discuss it carefully."
"Grandpa, I heard that Lord Clarinda was a deserter on the battlefield in the past?" Kiriya asked curiously.
"In the face of Yalong's advance, it's understandable to be a deserter. Besides, even the spiritual core is broken, who has the nerve to blame him for running away."
Kirston didn't want to say more, and quickly found an excuse to send Kiriya away. .
Then a man came to the garden wall and admired the white clouds outside and the great river and mountains below the white clouds.
...
Poof!
A gunshot sounded so subtle that it was almost inaudible. Five hundred meters ahead, a third-ring spirit beast - the Flying Flying Monkey - was drinking water. A blood flower exploded on its head.
"It's done, let's go collect the bodies." Duke jumped down from the branch.
The Sand Eagle pistol shook slightly in his hand, and then it dispersed countless fluorescent lights and disappeared, returning to the orbit of the spiritual sea.
The mercenaries of the Broken Sword Mercenary Group were already familiar with the powerful strength of their big benefactor, so they sent a team of mercenaries to quickly collect the corpses, and then easily picked up the flying flying monkey whose head was shot, and patted Du with joy. Gram's flattery.
"My lord, you are more powerful than a second-level arcane mage!" "
It's so powerful. It can kill you with one hit from five hundred meters away. It's so terrifying!"
"The Flying Flying Monkey can fly and run, and it has solidified arcane magic. It's also powerful, but it's a pity that he was killed by the adults even after he saw us!"
The mercenaries were as awe-inspiring to Duke's methods.
Duke's expression was indifferent on his face, but in fact he was very proud of himself. This soul-piercing attack was unlike any other arcane mage's.
"With the Sand Eagle in my hand, I have the world!"
The power of the Sand Eagle is indeed strong, but its power is limited. Bullets may not be able to break through level 2 arcane defenses.
However, the sudden bullet makes it difficult to guard against.
Unless the spirit beast can also cast arcane magic instantly, it will be impossible to block it, especially the special effect bullets - the armor-piercing bullets in the physical version. No matter how thick the armor is, it will be difficult to parry it.
When the special effect bullet-element version is developed, the power of the Sand Eagle bullet will become even more bizarre and unpredictable.
"Let's go, keep moving forward." Duke turned over and mounted the spirit horse, directing the team to continue moving deeper into the forest.
Xiaohong Fei hasn't returned yet, so he has been camping in the forest for the past two days, using hunting as a pastime.
Basically none of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd level spirit beasts can escape his bullets, even the 4th level ones have tried a lot.
Some hunts fail, and some hunt successfully.
This mainly depends on whether the sand eagle's bullets can penetrate the spirit beast's defense. If it penetrates the defense, it will pursue it, and the bullets will be poured out like no money.
If you can't break through the defense, turn around and run away immediately.
In just two or three days, the spirit beasts hunted by Duke alone reduced the price of the spirit beasts in the Sheshou Town's spirit beast market by nearly half.
certainly.
He no longer values the benefits of hunting spiritual beasts. All the prey is handed over to Broken Sword to develop and grow Broken Sword, providing him with resources in the forest anytime and anywhere.
He still focuses on studying.
When he reaches the period where research is the main focus, his demand for resources in the forest will be greatly increased, and then mercenary groups will have to run around to collect the resources he needs.
In the evening of the third day.
Xiaohong hasn't flown back yet, so Duke naturally won't leave and continues to choose to camp in the forest. Lying on the roof of the Black Beetle in the light of the campfire, staring at the stars above.
"Where is home?"
"Is the Earth, or the Milky Way, in the starry sky above my head?"
Duke often asked this question, although he felt that life in the Seven Towers Federation was far more exciting than his life on Earth. life on.
"My hometown is always my hometown..."
"However, if I really have the chance to choose, I will definitely stay in the Seven Towers Federation without hesitation. Not to mention the luxurious life of the arcane mage, my current body alone is so healthy and powerful The feeling is definitely not comparable to that of me who was delayed by drinking and sex on 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 Star Tower. Its main job is astrology. It is responsible for predicting, enlightening and guiding the future. I wonder if the Star Tower can determine whether the star field I am in is the Milky Way." "
Yeah , it is best if the Star Tower can draw an image of this galaxy, so that I can compare it with 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..."
Look at the stars and think about the earth.
Unknowingly, Duke felt that his eyelids were a little heavy, as if he had fallen asleep, and his breathing became longer.
But in the next moment.
Duke opened his eyes like lightning, grasped upward with both hands, and quickly grabbed a small thing the size of a bird, but its whole body seemed to be transparent.
The little thing was covered in darkness, and its body was basically invisible.
If the bonfire not far away emitted a little glimmer of light and shone on it, creating a reddish reflective color, Duke would not have known what he was grabbing.
"Squeak!"
The little thing in his hand struggled desperately, but was locked tightly by Duke's fighting spirit armor attached to his hands, unable to move.
In the surrounding tents, the grunts of the mercenaries could be heard one after another.
In the Black Beetle, Vivian, who was already lying down, turned over. She would not fall asleep until Duke returned to the car.
No one noticed that Duke had caught something.
After all, even Duke himself didn't know what he had grabbed. He sat up from the roof of the car, grabbed a small object with one hand, and a Sand Eagle pistol appeared in one hand.
Turn on the tactical light, and the light shines on your hands, completely revealing the prototype of the little thing.
"This is..."
The little thing's body is transparent, and its rough outline is like a flat insect. Xiaoyi's database is running like crazy, and the results are quickly compared.
"Master, there is an 86% probability that this is a trilobite in the shadow of ancient times."
"Ancient shadow? Trilobite?"
Duke was surprised: "You mean, this is the explosion of the spring of spirituality. The phantom of the ancient times, here, at this moment, has the phantom of the ancient times erupted?"
He suddenly stood up and looked around. It was quiet. There were only a few mercenaries holding strong portable lamps, shining their light. go.
There is no sign of erupting the shadow of ancient times.
But the transparent trilobite in the hand does not look like an ordinary spiritual beast. It feels weightless and really looks like a transparent shadow.
Suddenly.
The trilobite he held in his hand seemed to have reached its limit, and shattered like a bubble with a snap.
Duke drew a blank.
But he could feel that a change was erupting in the spiritual sea. It was the protective and mysterious vine that existed in the spiritual sea like a vision. It was swaying crazily, as if facing a formidable enemy.
It was the reaction of the Guardian Mysterious Vine just now that made him wake up from his drowsiness and catch the trilobite.
"Xiaoyi, there's something wrong with this sign. It looks like the shadow of ancient times has really erupted!"
"Master, please be careful. Based on the trilobites we just caught, we can tell that the type of this ancient phantom outbreak should be the Ocean of Insects. The Ocean of Insects is the most ancient phantom of the ancient times. It is not very dangerous, but Indulging in it will still easily damage your vitality."
"I will be careful, and at this time the Guardian Mysterious Vine will come in handy, but what about other people?"
Xiaoyi judged: "Those who have the spiritual sea , will be impacted by the Ocean of Insects, but the spiritual apprentice’s spiritual sea has a weak connection with the outside world, and the impact of the Ocean of Insects will not be very strong. At most, there will be a certain amount of damage to the vitality, which can be recovered after a while." The exchange only took place in a moment
.
At this time, there was finally 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 submerged in it.
Out of sight.
But I can really feel this sea water composed of spirituality.
Xiaoyi has stopped the exclusive meditation method of hanging up, and is fully protecting Duke's spiritual sea from being impacted by the sudden outbreak of the insect ocean.
The same goes for the vines of protection and mystery, filling every corner of the spiritual sea.
Duke no longer looked inside the spiritual sea, but fully felt the unique experience that the sea of insects submerged himself and brought to him.
At this moment, he felt as if he had transformed into a ray of life in the ocean of insects.
Being surrounded by the warmth of the Ocean of Insects, nourishing and washing his body bit by bit, gave him an unprecedented pleasure.
Suddenly.
A few meters in front of him, a trilobite emitting snow-white transparent light, about the size of a palm, wandered towards his direction, its two long tentacles undulating up and down with the water flow.
Suddenly, a sea lily grew out from beside him, swaying its arms and legs, exuding the same transparent luster.
Then in the distance, there was a nautilus with a long and pointed shell swimming in the sky. It was at least ten meters long by visual inspection.
Another unknown sea insect, which was as soft as a leech but fatter in size, swam to him from another direction.
In Duke's field of vision, more and more luminous shadows began to increase and gather.
On this quiet night, an illusory image of how various creatures survived in the ocean in ancient times was staged.
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