Chapter 39: On the Eve of Nightfall
Thanks to the passer-by on the other side, the bee-eater praying, and the reborn Kewpie for the reward.
After the exam, I should have recovered 2 chapters and 10,000 words a week, but I didn't come back after I relaxed my spirit that week, so let's record it in the account first...... There is one more chapter on the weekend, and 2 chapters are owed.
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"That guy is Anderson?" Desilei and Lilith looked in the direction of Li Bai's finger, and what they saw was a young man with half-long green hair.
Under the pretext of welcoming the arrival of exchange teachers and students from other schools, the students who were driven crazy by the "Dis-belt" teaching of the new Cobra professor took the opportunity to hold another small celebration, and the three of them came out as mascot monsters, and they were not afraid of being discovered.
The "Dis-belt" is a wristwatch-like device specially designed for the Disclosure-Duel program, which has the function of judging whether the wearer has a qualified fighting spirit through the pulse of the wrist, and all students wear it to duel, and the duel count jΓΉ will be transmitted to a computing center, and those who fail to pass the fighting spirit will be punished with a demerit, and if the number of times is high, there may be a penalty for withdrawal from school.
Professor Cobra believes that this kind of duel is effective in enhancing the students' most instinctive enthusiasm for duel, but in reality, it is nothing more than a trick to promote the seedlings.
Students will force their emotions to be as fierce and fighting as possible during duels in order not to be punished, but over time, some of them will definitely get bored, and this will even affect the duel itself, making them completely disgusted with the cards.
Li Bai actually didn't want such a teaching policy to be implemented like this, but there was no way - the real role of the computing center was actually for Yubel to absorb the energy contained in people's feelings, and only in this way could she recover and become the "key" to open the plot of the elven world in Li Bai's plan.
"There's nothing to pay attention to......" ended a period of observation, in the Twin Towers, the two didn't understand why they had to observe everyone so like a great enemy, and looked at Li Bai with blank eyes, waiting for her to explain.
"It's not important, but you have to remember those people." Li Bai was busy looking at a simple map spread out on the tableβin fact, it was a map that was held up, it was a somewhat yellowed wall calendar paper, with a few lines drawn and dotted in the blank space on the back.
Since then, she has had several strange dreams one after another, from different perspectives, sometimes a bloody demon in her hands, and sometimes a refugee in a panic on the way to escape...... But there is still one thing in common, and that is that all of them are experiencing the same war, an unprecedented war that has swept the whole world.
The map is based on vague memories of her several dreams that are related to each other. The dots, which represented the names of places she had heard many times, the lines, the routes she had memorized half-recalled, half-guessed, and the two random strokes along the way, representing mountains or woods.
What is this Holy Realm? Or rather, how many yuan? Li Bai rubbed his temples and looked at the map with a headache.
Sure enough, it's still too unreliable to try to figure out these messages just by dreaming......
ββ¦β¦ Each of them is not an ordinary person, each of them has a unique creation, and I don't know if they will become enemies in the future, you have to remember not only their appearances these days, but also focus on their decks and dueling habits, and if you can have a personality, it is best to pay attention to it...... It's important not to think I'm just sending you around. Raising his head and seeing that the two were still staring at him with wide eyes, Li Bai had no choice but to explain to them in detail, and emphasized that this was not a joke.
"Desilei, how are you feeling in the past two days, are you still used to the working environment?"
Under her instruction, Desilei was able to apply for a teaching assistant at the White Academy through the back door, and after the internship period, she could directly become a teacher, and Li Bai also discovered by chance that she had a lot of dueling skills, although it was not as good as some of the people she had seen, it was more than enough to be a teacher.
Again...... Calculating the time, it doesn't necessarily mean that she needs to actually teach, maybe by then they have already left the main line of GX's "plot" and are looking for their own future.
"It's okay, it's okay!" Desire's eyes lit up, "Students, very enthusiastic, like me, I like students, too!" β
"You can do it if you think you can." Selectively ignoring Lilith's sentence 'It's all a group of **blonde hair control', Li Bai corrected a grammatical error in Desilei's sentence just now, and continued to tell her: "If you don't understand any questions at work, you can ask Joker, you've seen her several times, don't be afraid of life, you know." β
DesirΓ©e nodded, indicating that she understood.
After recuperating here, she and the white-haired woman in front of her have lived for a long time, and she can feel it...... It was a concern from the bottom of her heart, and although it was expressed with a little harshness, it did not prevent her broken heart from gradually recovering in the process.
I'm ...... The sole heir of the Venidnes family, who will become a ...... in the future How can the existence of the Lord be degraded because of a failed love affair?
DesirΓ©e lowered her head, and the eyes hidden under the golden bangs had regained a bit of a warrior's sharpness.
It's time to pick up the sword again, both for yourself and for Lipel!
"Buckle up." There was a knock on the door, and after getting Li Bai's signal, Lilith got up and ran to open the door.
"You're all here, you two didn't go down to play today?" The person who came carried a satchel, and after entering the door, he first threw the bag on the ground, threw off two shoes and walked in.
The long gray-white hair is the Joker that Li Bai just mentioned.
"Badminton is no duel fun!" Desilei immediately retorted to her, "Is there a star in the field of badminton who looks like me (Note 1)?" β
"Sister Joker~" Lilith's eyes lit up when she saw Joler, and she stuck to it like a kraft candy, "Did you bring anything fun with you when you came back this time?" For example, this issue of PLAYBOY? β
"Go aside." Flashing the other party's attempt to hug his thighs, Joker pretended to pout in disgust, regardless of this expression, the other party couldn't see it at all, "The little fart kid who doesn't have the same hair underneath, and still wants to see the playboy?" Wait a minute...... How did you know that word. β
"I flipped it over and threw it on the table, and she took it and looked at it herself." Li Bai calmly took a sip of tea, his calm face only hid a little smile in his eyes.
"How can that kind of book be flipped around for a child? Hey...... No, you actually watched it? I just tried to get you a copy out of curiosity, you you actually read it!? Joker's cry of surprise came from under the mask, and then he realized that he had slipped his mouth, and immediately waved his hand in denial: "No, no, I didn't mean to, I never doubted your sexual orientation......"
"No explanation." Li Bai grinned, revealing a sweet smile that seemed very terrifying to others, "I'm not angry at all. β
β¦β¦ It's weird not to be angry! Joker's heart shuddered, as if he remembered something terrible.
"Ahaha...... she laughed dryly, "let's talk about something else...... I think this news sister will definitely be interested. While saying this, she picked up the satchel that was thrown over there when she entered the door, and took out a newspaper from it and spread it in front of Li Bai, only to see that there was a line of black bold characters on the first page, which almost occupied the entire page.
"The Lord of Angelis is amazing, and the person he wants is the king of duels! γ
......Seeing such a strange title, Li Bai couldn't help frowning, she reached out to take the newspaper and carefully read a few lines of small words under the title.
"After his death, he will transfer to me the equivalent of 50% of the total amount of equity he owns? Is he crazy? How old is it to start making a will now? β
Li Bai vaguely remembered that the man in sunglasses with a strange hobby was still very young, and he was not middle-aged, so why do you think about it now, isn't there any incurable disease?
β¦β¦ But even then, shouldn't he have designated it for me?
"There is some control over outside information in the academy, and the outside has been crazy about this for a long time. To the uninformed, he is tantamount to leaving an inheritance to someone who has been missing for three years...... There are even some people who believe that you have died unexpectedly, and that he is making a deal with the dead! Joker spread his hands, "Not to mention that he is far from making a will. β
"Deal?" Keenly noticing Joker's use of this word, Li Bai asked: "But there is no mention in the news that I need to fulfill what in exchange, so the outside world does not know the full content of his will?" Are they guessing? β
"Well, because this is the news exposed by commercial espionage, only part of the content of the will, I have inquired, and the background of the person himself is average."
"The content of the will has always been confidential, and if it can be exposed by such a guy, many people in his family should have intervened." Li Bai smiled weirdly, "They must be very unwilling, after all, their own fat water is about to flow into the fields of outsiders...... That's why I thought of using this method to put pressure on Edmund. β
"So, what does my sister think about this?"
"Don't worry." Li Bai put down the newspaper and looked at the two girls who didn't interject but had been listening with their ears pricked up, "We have more important things to do, this kind of news can be regarded as a farce and just watch the spice." β
"The matter of the will, ...... after death"
She didn't say any more, but was interrupted by a strong tremor.
"What's going on! Earthquake? The shaking didn't last too long, about 3-5 seconds, and Joker, who came back to his senses, looked at the kitchen window a little strangely, "The shaking of the island is really rare, especially since the time is so short. β
"It's unlikely to be an earthquake." Lilith felt that something was wrong, "There are no factors that will cause the nearby seabed to tremble, and it is impossible for the earthquake to be only for such a short time, and there is a building collapsing?" Or did something hit the sea cliff? β
ββ¦β¦ Maybe neither. Li Bai calculated the number of days of use of the Dis-belt in her heart, and had a bold guess, she got up and brushed her dress, took the key hanging on the hanger, and walked to the corridor.
Opening the iron fence door and following the stairs to the top of the Twin Towers, Li Bai didn't bother to fix her hair that was blown away by the wind, she turned her head for the first time and looked at the central area of the island.
Even though she was ready in her heart, when that scene really appeared in front of her, she was still shocked.
The location of the originally huge domed main teaching building is now empty, revealing the silver-white lower facilities and various wire pipe passages, like an anthill that has been cut off by a knife and roots, exposing everything to the ground, and it is particularly bleak against the background of the surrounding environment.
"The main school building! The main school building! The few people who came up behind her were not mentally prepared for such a situation, they were much more shocked than Li Bai, Joker took off the mask and shook it off, and rubbed his eyes fiercely, "This is impossible!?" No one can do that! β
It's a massive building out of thin air...... Damn, who's going to sue her for what's going on, prank? Who can do it? Magic Lamp Giant (Note 2)?
And...... And it's lunchtime...... Almost all the students are in the main building, where are they now?
It also includes a group of teachers and professors...... There is also Principal Sameshima......
Thinking carefully about the current situation, Joker sadly found that it was likely that only himself, the dean of the White Academy, was the only one left on the whole island.
But she's never dealt with such a bizarre situation!?
"Don't rush." Taking a deep breath, Li Bai tried his best to make his voice sound as steady as possible, "Contact Haima Group and Angelis Chaebol first...... There is also the Mackenzie family and the Galham chaebol also contacted, one of the exchange students who came here is called Amon Garham, and there is a student named Regie Mackenzie in the White Academy, their strength is very good, the most important thing at present is to block the news first, with their help, the success rate will be much higher. β
"You can contact the rest, and Angelis will leave it to me." After a pause, she sighed lightly, "That's right, I also want to ask what that will of the shake M means." β
A series of measures were quickly implemented, the dock was closed, it was forbidden to go, the whole island opened signal interference, and information leakage was prohibited, and at the same time, several giant-level forces in the outside world also received the news, and soon, an invisible big hand covered the top of this incident, isolating the eyes and suspicions of a qiΔ inside or outside.
Rod Edmond Albert, who was in the Beijing time zone, had not yet gotten up, and instead of being annoyed by the mobile phone wake-up, he quickly got up and pressed the answer button.
The identity of the person who knows this mobile phone number is not ordinary, and it is impossible to ring without a major event, so he must answer it.
"Huh? This caller number ......" Rhodes frowned when he swept the call, because he had almost no memory of this number, but soon, he scavenged a scene of past influence from his memory bank, and naturally made up who the person on the other end of the phone was.
βHelloοΌ Miss, you finally gave up...... Do you know how haggard and irritable your sister and brother have been in the past few years, I was still rushed by him last time I admonished him, I am so sad, I am so sad, ...... baby"
"Shut your mouth." Even though the prescient person moved the phone a certain distance first, the fake cry that came from the end still gave Li Bai goosebumps, "I'm looking for you to talk about serious things." β
"Is it about the will? Don't care that I'm such a good person who is kind and giving, how can I be moved, do you want to come and make a promise, it's not difficult, it's just a warm ......"
"Beep-" Li Bai pinched off the phone with a black face, and then ignored the crazy vibration of the mobile phone, and began to eat snacks by himself.
It took her almost an hour to finish eating, and then she wiped her hands slowly, picked up the phone that was still vibrating wildly, and pressed answer.
"It's serious." A solemn and calm man's voice came from inside, "...... You say, I'll listen. β
"......" Li Bai's face distorted for a moment, but she still tried to control her feelings, "First of all, the content of our call must be kept absolutely confidential, you know what this means." β
"And, of course, your brother." Rhodes was not surprised, if he planned to expose his savings, the other party's call might not be to himself, but to Haima.
"Good." Since he was able to have a normal dialogue, Li Bai no longer procrastinated, and confided in the anecdotes that happened on the core campus.
Rhodes, although she has only had very little contact, but for some reason, she just feels that this seemingly unreliable guy can give full trust in certain things.
Maybe it's the other party's past rumors that are at work? Being able to raise a business empire at an age of less than a weak crown, his ability certainly does not need to be questioned.
"Then the purpose of your coming to me now is to have Angelis and the other forces block the news." Rod groaned.
He didn't question how bizarre what Li Bai said, maybe it was the first contact in several years that gave him a reason to trust, or maybe it was because he had an abrupt adventure factor in his bones.
"And keep an eye on Bekas, and give him some help with what he's going to do next."
Whether the main teaching building can return or not is related to whether Becas can make a rainbow dragon at that juncture, and there can be no omission.
"OK, I see." Rod also didn't ask Becas what he was going to do, "Is there anything else?" β
ββ¦β¦ Of course. Even though the other party's attitude of being sure that he would definitely take the initiative to ask something was very poor, Li Bai had to ask.
Because she didn't know if she could hear the other party's voice again if she missed this opportunity.
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Note 1: DΓ©silei refers to the Warrior of the Wilderness.
Note 2: The giant of the lamp in Aladdin's magic lamp has moved the castle out of thin air many times.