Chapter 12: Undercurrents

It was a conference room, and the dim candlelight danced slightly on the menorah on the wall, and most of the room was still shrouded in darkness, which seemed to indicate something. At the circular council table, which occupies most of the space, there are 20 high-backed chairs, each with a candelabra behind it, which forms a dark light with the chairs, making it impossible to see if there is anyone in the chairs. And in addition to this ancient method, there is also a layer of sci-fi texture on the chair, which makes all kinds of detection methods helpless.

At this time, the bell stopped, and the only person standing in front of the main seat at the far end of the door, shrouded in the faint light through the glazed window behind him, said in a neutral and peaceful tone: "The time has come, the vigil bell has sounded, I don't know how many councilors have arrived this time, please raise your hand now!"

There was silence

Then a sharp electronic synthesized voice came: "Headmaster Hart still likes to make boring jokes, the Speaker of the Night's Watch Council is not here to tell us bad jokes, Headmaster, you'd better get down to business, we don't have much time." ”

The sound echoed throughout the room, making it difficult to detect the source. Principal Wang smiled with a gentle and appreciative smile: "The electronic synthesis sound of materialism and the air resonance sound of the idealistic creation realm, the new patriarch of the Habsburg family has good means!" After a pause, he continued, "But the molecular-level creation realm can't hide from me, only the synthetic sound can also deduce a person's tone and state of mind when speaking, and the new patriarch seems to be eager to challenge authority."

There was silence again, and Principal Wang sat on the only main seat without a black curtain or candlestick, staring in one direction with deep meaning

At this time, a middle-aged man's voice came from the direction of the principal's gaze: "Principal Hart, your Speaker's authority is indeed unprovoked, I only sincerely apologize for my words and deeds just now, but you should also understand that you are only the strongest among the awake people." There was a hint of warning in his apologetic tone.

Principal Wang snorted, slowly stood up with his hands on the table and looked around the round table and said, "Then I don't care, anyway, now that I'm the boss, there is a kind of you waking them all up like you did 12 years ago?" At the same time, the glass-colored glass window behind him lit up, and then the roaring thunder came, with the principal's intimidating gaze and hooligan-like unreasonable tone, forming a huge sense of oppression. The black light curtains on some of the chairs began to shake and distort.

There was another dead silence.

"Looks like no one has an opinion?" the headmaster sat down again, and the oppression in the room cleared, and there were many gasps and discussions. "How good is this, I'm also a literati, and I don't like to shout and kill guys at every turn. This is not a good habit for an educator, and if I had to do it once a year at a regular meeting, it would be a big damage to my image."

The people in the dark around couldn't help but roll their eyes when they heard it, what kind of image do you think you have? Moody, multi-means, and like to listen to gossip on the Internet, Lao Na made fun of Professor Gu Ind, the most serious professor in the academy, and even his chrysanthemum nickname was secretly first raised by this old boy, and such a glorious image has long been spread through the family members of the major families in the school. Now come and pretend to be a big-tailed wolf with us, the ghost believes it! But the strength of this old guy who has lived for I don't know how many years is unpredictable, and it stands to reason that all the old guys who have reached the atomic level of the creation realm in the idea of idealism are in a state of sleep most of the time because they want to conserve energy to prepare for the transformation of the life level. Judging from the temptation just now, this old guy is at least an atomic-level old monster in the Idealistic Creation Realm, how can he still be alive and kicking all the time? He has been the president of the Night's Watch University for nearly 200 years, and he has never been seen sleeping, it's too unreasonable, right?

These people have doubts in their minds, but they are all submissive. Seeing that they were basically leveled by himself, Principal Wang estimated that the time had come, and he could say those proposals that were more difficult for them to accept. So he said in a tone of commenting on the book: "Let's not talk about salted eggs, now let's get down to business." It is said that in recent years, the situation has changed dramatically, scientific progress, and energy development, and a large number of ancestors have awakened. Last year, we knew of 83 cases, including 81 cases of carbon grade and 2 cases of silicon grade, and after analyzing the previous data, we know that the number of awakening of Schering is increasing exponentially. This year, it is expected that there will be more than 200 cases of Awakening of the Spirits, and we are a little understaffed due to the Founding Incident 12 years ago, so I propose that some of the guards of the Non-Existent Lands and all the sentinels who monitor the descendants of those involved in the Founding Events be recalled in order to deal with the upcoming wave of Awakening of the Spirits. ”

"Impossible!" "This can't be done!" "Headmaster, you're so nonsense!" "You can't be joking with that tone, right?" The room suddenly became as lively as a pigsty where dinner was served.

"Actually, I'm serious!" Principal Wang's face was serious, showing a resolute look, "The situation is urgent! Don't forget our responsibility!"

"I apply to dismiss the bill! The place that does not exist is an important place for imprisoning radical dangerous figures, and letting these guys escape from any of them could cause huge social unrest! Many years ago, after successfully escaping from prison, the Islamic radical Ben Langdon actually assumed the name of bin Laden and became a well-known terrorist tycoon in the world, and the damage caused was incalculable! We sent a full three teams of night watchmen to kill him with the secret assistance of the United States. But he had passed on his idealism to his successors, and nearly half of the troubles in the Middle East were caused by this fellow's students. How can such a time of crisis reduce the guards of the non-existent land?"

"Seconded! dismissed!"

"Seconded!"

"Seconded!"

Disagreement comes one after another. It is rare for the patriarchs of the major families to have a consensus, and when they completely overwhelmed the speaker, they were very excited, only to feel that the principal was dizzy today, and actually proposed such a bill that no one would agree to, and would only damage his authority.

Although Principal Wang's face was frosty, a smile seemed to be visible from the corners of his slightly curved eyes, and he knocked on an inconspicuous small bell in front of him, and the chime made a crisp sound that covered everyone's voices.

It wasn't until the room was quiet again that Principal Wang said in a slightly unhappy tone, "In that case, I propose to withdraw the manpower to monitor the descendants of the Lijiao incident to supplement the Night's Watch team. In addition, in the long run, the school's enrollment scope and number of students will also have to expand, and the internship of the college students will also have to increase in order to cope with the upcoming crisis!"

"I'm against it," someone subconsciously said.

"Well??!! what are you talking about? This won't work, that won't work, what are you going to do? Do you want to sit back and wait for the awakened ancestors to fight with ordinary humans?" Principal Wang shouted violently, and then paced slowly beside the main seat, his tone slowed, "I know what you want to say, we are indeed moderates, but we are not conservatives! The situation is urgent! You don't agree with my second proposal, do you want your family to kill all the awakened ancestors?" As he spoke, he walked to a chair, put his leather shoes on the round table in front of the black curtain, put one hand on his knees, and crossed his waist to look at the black curtain with the other crossed.

There was no reaction to the black curtain, Principal Wang snorted and stepped onto the conference table, and actually walked leisurely on the table, squatting down in front of each seat, asking one by one in a variety of different tones. "Then your family will be the savior?" "What do you guys say?" "What do you think of this big guy?" "Answer me, you kid?" condescendingly. The people he questioned before were silent, and now it was the new patriarch of the Habsburgs who was questioned by him, who was obviously annoyed by the haughty attitude of the headmaster, and said angrily: "If the other families agree, we Habsburgs will definitely accept this great mission!"

Before Principal Wang could say anything, someone immediately retorted: "Think beautifully! Leading the Night Watch organization is also something that a single family dares to think of?"

"The academy is the product of the compromise between our major families, and if you want to break out of this rule now, don't blame us for being ruthless!"

"I agree with the principal's proposal!"

"Seconded!"

"Seconded!"

At this time, the new patriarch looked at the smile shown by Principal Wang in front of him, and suddenly understood that he seemed to have been used as a gun by this old fox

After this topic was passed, President Wang sat back in the main seat, and listened leisurely to the other councillors put forward a new bill, "about the Mayan doomsday prophecy that is widely rumored in the society"

After a while, some people gradually reacted, and found that everyone was put on a table: the old fox did not expect the first proposal to pass at the beginning, he used his momentum to oppress all the parliamentarians, and then showed his flaws, so that everyone attacked desperately, blocking the way to send guards; and then asked one by one, so that the patriarch of the Habsburg family, who had opinions about himself, jumped out, and took advantage of the mutual restraint between the various families to block another way for a certain family to take the lead and fight the crisis together. And blocking this road is his main goal, so in the end, there is only one way left, led by the night watch university established with the support of the major families, to fight against the impending crisis, so that the university is dominant, and the other families can only influence indirectly, and he, the president, is in power, becoming the core of the decision-making of the night watch organization in the next period of the Ancestral Tide!

After understanding this combination of punches, most of the patriarchs were in awe, and even the Habsburg guys were happy to surrender, and the next proposal was resolved in an orderly and very quick manner.

A few hours later, it was already dark. Principal Wang walked out of the room on the top floor of the college's huge bell tower, then turned around and said to the figures standing up: "This regular meeting of the night watchman is over! I hope you will implement the proposal in your hand as soon as possible!

"It's a long night!!" the figures whispered together, their voices filled with conviction and determination to protect, and then the figures twisted and disappeared in a flash like a television image, leaving behind four small searchlights on their seats. The headmaster watched as the last figure vanished, and with a wave of his hand, the menorah in the conference room was extinguished, and a thick curtain fell from the only window, and then the door closed automatically, and an alloy chain wrapped around the doorknob like a snake, and then the two ends suddenly melted and joined together. Seeing that all this was done, Principal Wang turned around and strode out of the corridor, his old body looking tired but still full of vitality to set sail!

Half an hour after the principal left, a small flying insect came out of the crack in the door of the conference room, lay on the ground and seemed to rest for a while, and then quickly flew through the corridor, rushed out of the tower, and flew into the dark night sky

I don't know how long later, in a simplely decorated, clean and tidy room. A figure turned his back to the window, with a small flying insect in his hand, and muttered: "The headmaster is really a good means, although I know that it is not so easy to transfer the guards of the non-existent land, but this road is blocked by the headmaster like this, and he has won the leadership of the night watchman's next action for himself and the school, this is really amazing! It's okay, the plan has just begun, and the actors haven't appeared yet, the sons of careerists, don't let me down."

At this time, Edward and Avril were slowly making their way back to the Night's Watch Fortress with their homemade sleighs and dragging the carcasses of the disposed oxen, hoping to catch the hot dinner. And Hao Song and Su Rui, who were far away in the northern hemisphere, had just come out of the canteen kitchen of the information building, and seeing that the two of them looked satisfied, they really suspected that they had done something bad inside. The man and woman looked around, and at the same time sneaked out of the cafeteria, and walked around the gate of the information building, giggling and bickering along the way

"The so-called council is a bunch of people who are skinning themselves, and if you are thick enough and your fists are big enough, you can rip off the skins of all of them!" - Hart Bihevel y