Chapter 894: Undercurrents and Lurking
Even if some time has passed, but the devil's invasion of the free city is still a hot topic after tea and dinner by the ladies and gentlemen of the upper district, after showing the weapons left by the demons, after learning that the demons in this world are not just fiction from myths and legends, many scholars have also begun to study the myths and classics that were once disdained by themselves, and some people even think that according to the theorem that stories are derived from life, no matter how absurd myths and stories may be involved in a subtle reality, why do people imagine demons such monstersPerhaps it was because of the demons that the message was passed down from generation to generation through words. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, compared to the scholars who began to study with the same enthusiasm as the discovery of the New World, the noble young masters and young ladies of the upper districts fantasized about some romantic myths from time to time, while the poor slaves of the lower districts of the free city were not interested in this, and they thought that the city was a demon city, and the rich and nobles who ruled the city seemed to be no different from the demons.
However, there is one thing that makes the supreme rulers of the Free City sit on pins and needles, because the appearance of the demon reveals that the gods are not false, and this makes people have to think about the fate of the gods in addition to their own fate when they are alive and their fate after death!
In the twisted city of the Free City, countless merchants and aristocrats dare to say that their hands are absolutely innocent, even those seemingly poor people in the lower districts are more or less stained with sin on their hands, just like the outside world describes the city, this is the city of sin, this is a place of desecration abandoned by the gods.
Perhaps Yunokia, as the Big Three, didn't expect that after using light spells to baptize almost the entire city that night in order to deal with the Demon Master, what she did made the Holy See have an extra group of believers out of thin air, and they are extremely religious. Many people in the Free City have also begun to privately pray to the goddess Ishtar, who is the only lord of the world, and have begged for her forgiveness.
Although the Free City is a city that the Holy See cannot interfere with, but unlike the demon believers, the Free City does not deliberately stipulate that religious beliefs are not allowed, after all, the merchants who trade here come from all over the continent, and as the Holy See that monopolizes the religious beliefs in the eastern part of the entire continent, there are naturally many believers who are merchants, and the Free City cannot restrict the entry of these merchants, nor can it destroy the image of the Free City as a trade hub by cutting off its arms, at most, it is not to approve the establishment of a diocese by the Holy See and expel those who openly spread the faith of the Holy See in the city, and it does not interfere much with the private religious activities of some merchants。
But now because of the demonic invasion incident, it is obvious that the number of people who believe in the Holy See in the city has increased dramatically, although it is not enough to threaten the rights of the supreme ruler of the Dao, but this is a bad phenomenon after all, if it is allowed to develop like this, when the religious power reaches a certain amount, the Holy See will inevitably use this to interfere.
However, the rulers of the upper echelons of the free city were helpless in this situation, and after being accustomed to using money and power to solve things, when some things exceeded the limits of secular power, these high-ranking people did not know how to deal with them.
Fortunately, Miss Yunogia, who was able to repel the demons that night, said at the meeting that the easiest way to break this unfavorable situation was to prove one thing to everyone in the city, that is, gods and demons are not omnipotent, and that the only thing that determines status in this city is money.
As for how to prove it, Miss Yunogia sold it and said that it would be kept secret for the time being!
It's just that compared to the slight turmoil in the mood of the city's inhabitants caused by the demonic invasion, what really makes Lawrence and Philip in the top three sit on the edge is the challenge from those below who are trying to get to the top, compared to the gods and demons who are still a little ethereal and don't know when they will completely liquidate the gods and demons of the Free City, compared to the Qugou rat who has formed an alliance with the demon and doesn't know that the corner is called Claire, the most pressing problem is the vice president of the Blackstone Ring Chamber of Commerce, Crossside.
After wooing the president Lakshmi Mittal, Lawrence, who is the current chairman of the Chamber of Commerce who bears the brunt, found that he still underestimated Klosed, this young man can always take a move ahead of him, originally thought that it should be easy to strangle him with the president of the Blackstone Ring Chamber of Commerce, but now it seems that even if Lakshmi sells his interests in order to keep his position, in addition to making his own reputation more and more invisible, the checks and balances on Klosed can really only be described as minimal, and in turn, the call for Klosed to become the president of the Blackstone Ring Chamber of Commerce is getting louder and louder。
Lakshmi, the poor creature who is almost out of place in his own chamber of commerce, if it weren't for the continuous blood pumping by himself and several big chambers of commerce to help him temporarily stabilize his position so that he can still hold some power, maybe he would have been expelled by Crossside.
Lawrence wants to get rid of Crossside no matter what, at least he can't let him sit in the position of the next chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, as long as he can sit in the position of chairman of the Chamber of Commerce for one term, he will desperately have to introduce new rules to restrict Crossside, and restrict anyone below who dares to try to challenge the Big Three, but the problem is that there is not enough time!
And whenever he thinks of this, Lawrence can't help but be anxious, now he has much more chips in his hand than Clossard, but it is a bad hand, and Clossard, although he does not have many chips, but the good cards continue to be at the same time, as if he can see through the cards in his hand, his backwardness in intelligence collection makes himself constrained everywhere, and here a certain means may have to be implemented.
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Everything was expected by His Excellency the Vice President!
Emma, located in the upper district of the Free City, stood out among many competitors at a young age and became the personal assistant secretary of the vice president of the Blackstone Ring Chamber of Commerce, with the rise of Vice President Clossard, especially when Clossard has clearly challenged Lawrence, the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce at the top of the Big Three, Emma's value has also jumped to become an unattainable existence.
One person attained the Tao and the chicken dog ascended to heaven!
This sentence is also common in the other world, besides, Emma is not a chicken dog, all these years Emma has worked under Crossside, and her strength not only makes Crossside impressed, but others also have to recognize her vision and efficiency, at least in the Blackstone Ring Chamber of Commerce, Emma's competitors, those who have just graduated from the academy and are still young and beautiful, have to admit one thing, this personal secretary who is favored by His Excellency the Vice President is not on the throne with his own ass. And if Emma, who originally had a very high level of business, could wait for the day when Clossard became the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, then Emma would definitely be like Lawrence's female assistant, Ms. Keyman Susanna, and become the judge in the hearts of businessmen of all sizes in the entire free city, because every word of her mood may determine the value of her Chamber of Commerce in the eyes of the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce!
The various chambers of commerce and the men who did not hesitate to eat soft rice began to talk to Emma constantly, trying to use this investment to climb a big tree for the future, although Clossard is not yet the chairman of the chamber of commerce, but if he waits for others to really take the position before starting to invest, I am afraid that the daylily will be cold by then!
And now Emma found that just as the vice president expected, sure enough, these days her home has begun to be monitored, as a female assistant, she has to pay special attention to some subtleties at work, and for this reason, she has also exercised a pair of discerning eyes, as the days go by, she finds that those men who are around her first are more and more enthusiastic, some people also have a trace of strange eyes, and some pedestrians who have appeared near their homes from time to time recently also feel inexplicably unfamiliar faces, it seems that they are just passing by very ordinary, but they can detect some dangerous sights thrown at their mansions。
Obviously, after the three giants couldn't fight in the mall, His Excellency the Vice President, they began to prepare to do it outside the mall, and His Excellency the Vice President almost lived in the Chamber of Commerce, so they couldn't find an opportunity, and as an assistant, he was the most suitable person to do it.
But how do you do it!?
Kidnapping and coercing yourself is a good way, but now in this situation, let alone disappearing for a day, I am afraid that even a moment of delay will make the cautious vice president suspicious. Emma is sure that the possibility of kidnapping her relatives to blackmail herself is indeed much higher than kidnapping herself, but fortunately, her mother and sister have started to leave the free city three days ago, and even their hometown cannot be reversed in order to avoid danger, God knows if those businessmen will investigate their background and chase them all the way, Emma's only choice is to let her family find a strange place that no one knows about to temporarily hide their identities and live for a while.
"Hey~ I bought a big house at the time, but after no one lived in it, I felt empty. At home, Emma reclined on the sofa and sighed as she looked at the deserted home.
In order to make sure that even the maid is dismissed, and the maid who works in the upper area also knows the situation in the free city these days, and Emma's dismissal is also 100,000 points understanding, and even Emma feels that even if she doesn't dismiss the other party, the other party will find an excuse to leave in order to protect herself, but the most tragic thing after the maid leaves is that because he is busy with work for a long time, the original extremely skilled life skills will be forgotten, and he almost didn't vomit when he tried to make a dinner just now.
"Sister, I'll go to bed after I've packed up my things. ”
"Hmm~ I see, Frank, the wound on your face isn't hurting, is it?"
Looking at the younger brother who walked by the door, Emma stood up and walked over to look at the bandage on his brother's face and asked with concern, now only the younger brother is still in this empty house, which can be regarded as being able to accompany him, but what is really unlucky is that the younger brother Frank was involved in the fire because he went out to play in the previous demon invasion incident, and as a result, his face was burned and finally recovered, and because of the injury, only the younger brother could not leave
Because ┉┉Because of the injury!Yes┉┉Because of the injury!!
Emma frowned and felt as if something was wrong in her heart, but it suddenly dawned on her, it was true that her brother couldn't leave because of his injury, but recently for the safety of his brother, he decided to let his younger brother temporarily move to the academy as a boarder.
"It doesn't hurt much, sister, I'll go back to my room to sleep first, and you can go to bed early." ”
Frank nodded, his face under the bandage was expressionless, as if he had lost human affection, and only after Emma nodded did Frank go on his way into his room.
Open the door, light the light, close the door, take a deep breath and exhale heavily! Frank looked at the large bag of luggage in the room and slipped the last book in his hand.
In Frank's head, the Demon Master's soft, but eerie voice rang out. (To be continued.) )