Chapter 181: Ruins and New Life (I)
October 21, Krubel neighborhood.
With the release of the fourth issue of Smanius two days ago, the first volume of A Song of Frost and Fire was also released in the city of Falan under the name of Kane's Horn, and they are proud to announce that this book will set off a new wave throughout the Horse Plain, and the Jialanren are its first readers, and they are also the closest and happiest readers to the classics.
Such incendiary slogans, combined with the first commemorative singles with signatures or special numbers, undoubtedly once again stirred up the fame of Kane's Horn.
As a result, Eric became Lokan's best-selling author of all time, setting a staggering 70,000 volumes on the first day of sales, and breaking his own royalty record every day......
Of course, no one in France Blue City does this kind of boring list.
Compared with the heat here, the "Magic Daily" has reached the verge of bankruptcy, and the employees have fled, scattered, and what can be dug has also been poached by the corner of the opposite door. It was originally a dangerous building full of holes, but because of a group of old immortals, no one dared to say anything, and now it was kicked hard, and it was crumbling in less than a month, and it was about to become a ruin.
William Shockley was standing in front of the Magic Daily office, he liked nothing more than to admire the crushing defeat of his opponents, but it was not yet time to collect the corpses of his opponents, and it would be better to reappear in a few days when they were completely dead and had attracted scavengers and flies.
"Wait for death! Old stuff! ”
He gave a middle finger up.
"It's not certain who will die first!"
An old immortal leaned out of the window and said viciously to William.
"Ha, Dog of Defeat, whatever you want."
He snorted lazily and twisted his fat ass into his newspaper.
William nominally came to do what he was doing under the guise of inspection work, and anyone with a discerning eye knew what he was doing.
Under the leadership of Nancy Gibbs, Smanius Newspaper recruited a group of young and beautiful female editors from its opponents, most of them are graduates of the colleges in the surrounding towns of Falan, although they are not better than the students of Jialan, but they can enter the Magic Daily, and their own quality is also surprisingly high, and not only in ability, but also in appearance and figure.
So this made William happy, these young and beautiful girls were completely different from the yellow-faced women in the family, and the flowery prostitutes in Copper Fire Lane, they exuded indescribable charm, and even the sweat on his forehead and the small act of twisting his hair all tugged at his heartstrings.
William struggled to move his bloated body between the cramped workbenches, and he spotted a maroon-haired, linen shirt, sleeves rolled up to her elbows, and a single ponytail still shaking, licked her dry lips, and tried to lean over and touch her round and full little ass.
Damn, these workbenches are getting narrower and narrower.
William muttered, squeezing through with difficulty
However, halfway through the crowd, a figure suddenly flashed in front of him, so he couldn't die to block him.
"Mr. Gibbs?" William frowned.
He remembered that this kid was the "talent" in Robert's mouth, and this room of people was also brought in by him one after another, and even Seraf's cooperation was carried out because of him, and he almost single-handedly undertook the entire operation of Smauius, and he was indeed worthy of these two words.
In the early days of Smanius, such a person was really needed, but now that it has developed to this scale, what good is this kid?
A look of displeasure appeared on William's face, and he didn't understand that the other party was here to obstruct him.
"You're blocking my inspection, Mr. Gibbs."
"Mr. Shockley, the workshop is a heavy place, and the magic printing press is also a precision instrument, and it is not good to bump and bump, especially the staff, and they should not be disturbed. So, you shouldn't push here. ”
William raised an eyebrow, "You dare to talk to me like that?" ”
He thought he could scare this kid, but who knew that Nancy did not show weakness, and with a flip of his hand, the contract shook open.
"It's very clear above, I have the final say in everything in this workshop, even if you are the director of Kane's Horn, you can't interfere with the work, right?"
William was stunned for a moment, then laughed angrily, "You said a lot, Mr. Gibbs, can you give me a closer look at the contract?" ”
"Of course."
William took the contract, didn't look at it, and tore it to shreds. This guy is also really born with strange powers, and the parchment roll of the contract that solidifies the triple enchantment can be torn into pieces of this size.
"Wow-"
A handful of shards smashed into Nancy's face and scattered them all over the place, and the dispute between the two attracted all the attention in the room, and the female editors did not dare to come out, leaving only the humming sound of rubbing slates.
"Boy." William smiled and said, "That's right, this contract is to tell you that the sky is the biggest in this room, you second child, but they didn't tell you when you left the Magic Daily?" In Cain's Horn, I'm here except for the six bad old men on the board. ”
"The contract doesn't say so, sir." Nancy frowned: "According to the contract, if you unilaterally forcibly tear up the contract, this newspaper will exist separately from the Horn of Kane, and all the previous profits will belong to us, and at the same time, you will also terminate the cooperation with Seraf and compensate for the future-"
"Where is all this? It's an honor to tell you, boy, you've been fired. And as long as you dare to step out of this room, I guarantee that you will not be able to say a word for the rest of your life. Now I'll give you two choices, either get down on your knees and lick my boots clean and apologize to me for your mistake, or get out of this workshop and be a wreck with your tongue pulled out! ”
William spat and spat all around, but Nancy was unmoved, wiped her face, looked behind him, and then smiled subtly.
"What are you looking at, boy? Do you hope for someone to save you? Ha, that's ......."
William turned around impatiently, his expression suddenly frozen.
Behind him, at some point, there was a group of people, and at the front was Robert Noyce, and at the table next to him sat a young girl, unbelievably beautiful, swaying two slender legs wrapped in white long-legged socks, and the lines were extremely beautiful.
In normal life, he may have his eyes sucked up, and immediately changed to the most perfect demeanor to come forward to talk......
But now, he doesn't care about it at all.
Because standing next to these two people are the six "bad old men" of the board of directors.
It's just that each of them has a gloomy face.
"Director William." Robert cleared his throat, took a half step forward, and gave his boss an apologetic smile: "Sorry, boss, I forgot to tell you that today is the day of the board's routine inspection, but I think a serious and serious person like you should not forget to ......"
The muscles in William's cheek twitched, but he reacted quickly.
"Of course I won't forget, dear Robert, or you know me."
He chuckled dryly, the air filled with the smell of embarrassment.
In the past, the board of directors usually only had one person, or no one at all, and watched remotely through magic projections, but today, these bad old men didn't know what medicine they had taken wrong, and they all came, aren't they afraid of dying of exhaustion when they go up the stairs? And when did they come up?
He was thinking about how to deal with the past when the oldest-looking of the six suddenly pushed Robert away and stood in front of him.
"William."
"Yes, Lord Andrew!" William was stunned.
"Ahem...... A month ago, we received reports about all kinds of violations of rules and disciplines, treating contracts as air, and trampling on the principle of fairness during your tenure...... But out of trust in you, we did not believe and ...... to this day"
Sweat began to drip from William's forehead, but his body stiffened and he didn't dare to wipe it.
"Ahem...... To this day, we have witnessed this scene. ”
Andrew leaned down and struggled to pick up a fragment of a parchment roll and rub it across his fingertips.
"I think you should understand how much our cooperation with Seraf will cost if it is terminated, right?"
"Clear, understood......"
"Very well, then I will give you two choices." He paused, and continued: "Either you apologize to Mr. Nancy Gibbs and ask for his forgiveness to continue working for Cape Kane, but then the supervisor will be Mr. Robert Noyce, and you will be his subordinate. Of course, you can also refuse, and then-"
"No, I'll choose the first one!" William said suddenly, then turned cleanly and knelt down in front of Nancy.
This is a ruthless character, not only to others, but also to himself, and he kisses Nancy's boots like crazy, which startles the latter.
"Mr. Gibbs, forgive me for my ignorance, forgive me for my barbarism, get rid of it, please, forgive me......"
"Hey, hey, get out of here, your shoes are all dirty from you!"
"Forgive me...... Forgive me...... I beg your pardon ......"
"I'll forgive you a ghost!"
Nancy lost patience and threw a heavy kick in William's face. Thanks to Jialan's strict physical fitness training, even after graduating for many years, the power of his foot is comparable to that of a second-level mercenary, so William's body of more than 300 catties flew out sideways, knocked down three chairs in a row, and passed out directly.
"This is for the editors who have been 'taken care of' by you these days. Of course, I didn't say I would forgive you. ”
Nancy shrugged and spat on the ground.
Seeing this, Robert snapped his fingers, beckoned the security guard to come up and carry him out.
Seeing that the matter was over, Andrew didn't care about it anymore, and he didn't bother to make any celebratory remarks to the new leader Robert Noyce, but turned his eyes to Grace, who had been watching from the sidelines.
"Now we can talk, Miss Jones."
"Of course." Grace smiled.