"Dad, borrow some money from me!"

Mansions in the inner city.

As soon as Sid, who hurried home, entered the door, he met his son's expectant gaze, and an expression of interest immediately appeared on his face.

Hey.

The sun really came out in the west.

In the past, this dog son was asking for money, why did he suddenly use the word borrow today?

He doesn't care how his son spends money outside, his family property can't be defeated by spending money alone, as long as his son pays attention when he sleeps with a girl, don't suddenly bring him a wild grandson back one day.

Who hasn't been younger?

He also loved to play when he was young, and after he got married, he was a little more restrained, after all, his wife's status in the family is not low, and he still has to take care of each other's faces.

"How much?"

"Ten million!"

As soon as he heard the figure of 10 million, Sid immediately furrowed his brow.

What is the concept of 10 million?

In terms of wages, more than 500,000 people in Boulder City have to hold their breath for two or three weeks! And even if it is calculated in terms of output value, those cattle and horses have to hold back their strength for at least a whole day!

Although chips are numbers for him, they are not waste paper in the end. There is no doubt that this is not a small amount, and even if he can take it, he can't let his son be such a loser.

"You ask the housekeeper to take 200,000 yuan to spend first, and then ask me if it's not enough."

Seeing that his father had misunderstood him, Kumet suddenly became anxious, stomped his foot and said.

"Dad! I'm in a hurry! If you don't believe me, I can write an IOU! ”

Sid said as he glared at him.

"Are you in trouble again? You explain honestly, don't make your own decisions! ”

Kurmit smiled.

"No, what's the trouble, am I that kind of person? Dad, to tell you the truth, I found an opportunity to make money! ”

An opportunity to make money?

Sid almost burst out laughing.

Others don't understand his son, but he understands it too well, this guy can't keep the money in his hands at all.

With his hand on his shoulder, Sid said patiently.

"You kid, sometimes you're a little simpler, have more eyes outside, don't let people deceive. Tell your daddy, which bastard is the pie you draw? ”

Kurmit laughed and opened his father's hand.

"What! I've talked about the opportunity to make a fortune! That basic repair, you know, right? He's back from Ideal City! ”

"Basics? You mean...... Malvern's second son? It took Sid a moment to remember the name of the bastard.

To be honest, he doesn't have a very good impression of that kid, he is too reckless to do things, and to put it more seriously, he doesn't use his brain!

Obviously, you can hire two outlaws to solve the family, but you have to set fire to it yourself, and do it yourself like a pig, it's just too ignorant.

Fortunately, that kid had a smart father, and he sent him out of the city as soon as possible, first leveling the militia group, and then finding a scapegoat to calm the anger of the residents of the outer city, which was considered to be the end of the matter.

It's true that they don't take the rules on the surface seriously, but there are still unwritten rules to follow underneath.

If you really don't talk about any rules, then you won't be a predator?

If it weren't for the sake of the boy's father's face, Sid would not have agreed to his son messing around with that guy every day.

Of course, considering that Kishu has been in Ideal City for five years, maybe with the help of the old fox in Malvern, he has laid his own foundation in the local area, and it is still worth investing in face.

He plans to find an opportunity to send his youngest son over as well, establish a good relationship in advance, and take care of him when he goes there. Later, when he got a large amount of Cr, he also wanted to go there to relax for two days and experience another kind of extravagant life.

Thinking of this, Sid had a plan in his heart and said with a sigh of relief.

“…… Go to the butler and get two million chips. ”

Kummit's face collapsed in disappointment.

"Huh? It's only two million ......."

"You're too little," Sid slapped the back of the kid's head angrily, "You haven't been a homemaker, you don't know how hard it is to make money!" Take the two million to spend, don't write the IOU, you just set up a note for Lao Tzu, and go to the ideal city to study when the loss is over! Now the opportunity is so good, the flight can fly non-stop, so I can learn something and come back! ”

Kurmit pursed his mouth.

To be honest, he really didn't think it was that hard to make money.

His good buddy is the son of the president of the Bank of Boulder City, and the son of the big boss Weijia is his dog's leg, and it is not a minute for him to make money.

And the basic repair plan is very detailed, they have a detailed and complete plan, which can speculate the price of S coins to the sky!

But time is money, two million is two million.

When he turns these two million into four million, or even forty million, four hundred million...... I'm sure this stupid dad will be impressed with him!

While Kurmit was dreaming of making a fortune, Sid had already gone to his wife, Bonnie.

Pushing open the door and entering the dressing room, he hugged the woman who was sitting at the dressing table, and the maid was waiting to comb her hair.

Although she is forty or fifty years old, because of good maintenance and bionics technology, she looks almost unchanged from when she was young, except for a faint wrinkle at the corners of her eyes.

If she was a wastelander, she would probably be buried in the ground by her age.

"What is so pleased?" Bonnie's cheeks were slightly red, and she glanced at the maid beside her, motioning for her to go out first, and close the door by the way.

Sid didn't care if there was anyone next to him, anyway, he hadn't tasted the girl's taste, and kissed his wife with a smile.

"Honey, we're going to get rich!"

Bonnie snorted.

"Rich? Aren't we already rich? ”

"It's going to be richer!" Sid sat down on the couch and triumphantly laid out his agreement with Liszt on the bond.

Liszt agreed to give him half of the cake at the "original price", and gave him professional advice, proposing to let him allocate half of the long and short debts.

He subscribed for 500 million short-term bonds and 1 billion long-term bonds...... Although at first he planned to subscribe to the latter for all of his 1.5 billion, after all, it sounded more tempting to buy 100 chips at the issue price of 85, but considering that he also had to let Liszt earn some money, he happily nodded and agreed.

85 issue price, in other words, he can buy 1 billion chips with only 850 million chips, and the league will pay him 40 million chips in interest every year!

Of course, he was not concerned about the interest on the 40 million chips a year, only the poor would count on the interest given by the bank.

He will use a suitable price, such as 1.3 billion or 1.4 billion, to split and sell a total of 1.5 billion debts to those chambers of commerce and factory owners in Boulder City.

After all, they ate the meat themselves, and they also took a mouthful of broth to drink.

And the factories and chambers of commerce that have made money from the alliance now have money, and they will definitely be interested in this value-added business.

They'll drink this soup.

And it has to be drunk!

Thinking of this, Sid couldn't help but feel proud of his genius scheming.

This in and out is a hundred million!

The money that can only be earned by eating interest for two and a half years, he only needs to move his fingers, and he can earn it in an instant.

An honest man like Liszt, who does business in factories and separates his duties, knows nothing about real "power"!

"I always felt that something was not right, why did Liszt give you this opportunity to make money? He's a new aristocrat, right? After listening to her husband's words, Bonnie still vaguely felt that something was not right.

To put it bluntly, she doesn't trust the Wastelanders.

Even if the Wastelanders have become nobles in the inner city with money, their blood is still filthy and sinful.

Sid was not at all surprised by his wife's concerns, a vase like hers would not have been able to touch the darkness outside, and not even an inch of wasteland could be seen from the window of his house.

But he knew it very well.

He knew better than anyone how desperate the out-out wastelanders were, and how desperate they were for life in the inner city. For the sake of that black card, they can be humbled to the dust, take off their dignity and heart and throw them into the oil pot.

"Yes, he's a new nobleman, and his black card was even the one I got for him, but the power at the heart of the inner city still doesn't matter to him. I can get half of the nobles to vote with me, but he still has to figure out the world's affairs and ask me which side I should stand on when voting so as not to offend anyone for some reason. If he wants to gain a foothold in the inner city, he must rely on us, on our family, on the intertwined veins of this edifice! You can understand that he is one of our dogs. ”

Looking at her husband's confident eyes, Bonnie's heart relaxed a little and put her hand on his shoulder.

"This family is supported by you alone, so don't be too tired."

She doesn't understand the complexities.

Her father protected her very well, but looking at the occasional sadness on the maid's face, the bitterness on her face when she wrote to her sweetheart, and the sincerity and fear when facing herself, she could still guess that the people outside were not doing well.

Putting his arms around his wife's waist, Sid said confidently.

"Rest assured, your husband is not fighting alone, we are a bunch of people—descendants of a noble group who have carved out a new world on the ruins of nothing. Our opponents are just a few gophers with frozen brains, and the wastelanders who pick up garbage and eat their stomachs. ”

"They don't even know what real scheming is, we see them all, and they don't even know how many cards we have."

"We can't lose!"

……

"Hahaha! Those stupid pigs! You don't know what a look on Sid's face when I told Sid that idiot he could buy 100 debts for 90 chips! It turns out that an elegant and decent man can really turn from a human into a pig in one second! ”

A mansion in Dawning City,

Liszt's face smirked and presumptuously sneered.

He vividly described to Chu Guang how he tricked the greedy fat pig into the cage he had made up during the banquet, and lured it step by step to put the rope around his neck.

Chu Guang listened with a smile on his face and applauded lightly.

"Wonderful."

"You're overrated!"

Restraining the flirtatious smile on his face, Liszt bowed his head slightly, and continued respectfully, "No matter how wonderful my performance is, I am only an actor on stage, and I can't compare to you who designed the entire stage for me. ”

"Don't be modest! It won't do me any good to pat my ass," Chu Guang smiled and continued, "Did you bring anything with you?" ”

"Here."

Liszt clapped his hand lightly.

Soon, his henchman Han Long pushed open the door and walked in from outside the study with two large suitcases.

At the suggestion of his boss Liszt, he laid the suitcase flat on the empty table on the side of the study and opened the lock.

I saw that there were black and white chips with crown patterns printed in the suitcase, and the face value of these chips was 10,000.

Liszt looked at Chu Guang and said respectfully.

"Please take a look."

Chu Guang glanced at Lu Bei, who was standing beside him.

"You go count them."

"Yes!"

Lu Bei nodded cleanly and walked to the two suitcases.

Although Chu Guang knew that Liszt must have counted the chips over and over again, and he would never dare to lie to himself, letting Lu Bei go through the motions could reassure him.

And Lu Bei is still the same as before, meticulous about the tasks he has assigned, and earnestly counts them one by one.

Looking at the young man who was engrossed in counting the money, Liszt's expression relaxed, and he looked at Chu Guang who was sitting on the sofa with a smile.

"As you ordered, I have sold more than half of the bonds to a prominent nobleman in Boulder City, and it is not surprising that he will resell these bonds to the factories in Boulder City."

If the result of the last round of inflation was the concentration of social wealth in the Boulder City in the hands of the nobles who held power and the merchants who controlled the means of production, then this round of inflation generated by subordinated debt will make the merchants who control the means of production also begin to taste the "sweet bitter fruit".

Those merchants are the most cunning.

They greedily enjoy the comfort of the hot springs, but are the first to be alert when the water is hot enough to burn their buttocks.

Therefore, when necessary, they will pull the nobles who are not very intelligent but strong enough to face the external threat together.

Therefore, if you want to harvest them, you have to put a little effort into selling the knives that cut the meat to the nobles in the inner city first, and borrow their hands to do this time-consuming and laborious work.

A total of three billion debts is just the beginning.

Neither Liszt nor Chu Guang promised Boulder City that this was the last money they borrowed from Boulder City, and they would not use new debts to pay off old debts.

"Actually, there's one thing I don't understand." Liszt suddenly asked.

"What's the matter?"

"The Alliance has an account in Boulder City, right?" Liszt looked at Chu Guang suspiciously and asked, "Anyway, the chips have to be brought to Giant Stone City for trading, why don't you transfer them directly?" Do you have to use cash? ”

Chu Guang smiled and said casually.

"Because the money is not used to buy things, it is bait for fishing. In this game, we can only guarantee our own credit, and it is difficult for others to say, so I need some off-the-counter cash to deliver on our promises. ”

Chu Guang looked at the suitcase on the table.

According to his orders, Liszt asked Sid to pay a "deposit" of 20 million chips in advance, and it was a cash transaction, and then sent someone to deliver the chips to the alliance.

No one dared to ask Sid what he was doing with the money, and 20 million was stuck on a small amount, so the Bank of Boulder City would not be aware of the rumors in advance.

Half of the 20 million is to pay the debt of the Bank of Boulder, and the other half is for Malvern to see, telling the guy that the alliance is even ready for next year's principal and interest.

So don't think about blackmailing the alliance with debt!

Malvern is a smart man who will surely realize that making too much money in his own currency is a bubble, and will definitely use the debt to pressure the League, either offering to free the free circulation of chips and silver coins, or asking the League to help him find a new place for the excess bubble.

Whether it's allowing chips to be exchanged for Cr across the bridge, or allowing chips to price the food of the Lion Kingdom and the mineral resources of Xizhou City, these are all means to an end.

However, it was impossible for Chu Guang to let the cunning fox run away smoothly, and even planned to take this opportunity to trap them deeper.

Malvern would never have dreamed that his major shareholder was so anxious that he couldn't wait to repay the principal and interest at the end of the year for the alliance, and stabbed himself when he didn't know.

Liszt nodded as if he didn't understand.

"And what about the rest of the money? 830 million chips in cash is not easy to come up with, this is not a small amount, the Bank of Boulder City will definitely be eyeing this money, even if Sid takes out the cash first, I'm afraid it will not be easy. ”

Chu Guang smiled and said: "I don't need to bring it out, what do I want so much waste paper for, we will use this money to buy some things, part of it will be used to buy back discounted debts, and part of it will be used to buy means of production, and maybe you will need your help when the time comes." ”

Liszt asked with interest.

"What to buy?"

Chu Guang didn't reveal it to him, but just said concisely.

"The 510 million chips that the Bank of Giant Stone City gave us that the medium and long-term loans that cannot be bought, can be bought with this money. Our Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Economy have made a list, which has just been discussed, and I can tell you that this thing exists, but I will not tell you what it is about in advance. ”

Because it's unfair to other competitors.

Liszt planned to sell Boulder City for a good price, and Chu Guang would let him get the benefits he deserved, but only for the part that had been agreed.

Planning for the future of the Alliance, that's another matter.

Liszt immediately understood what Chu Guang meant, and then stopped asking, smiled relaxedly, and diverted this dangerous topic without a trace.

"Okay, say it when you need to use me...... But then again, your efficiency is really high, and a consensus was reached in one meeting, and the nobles in the inner city could quarrel for a week over such trivial things as who would eat more, but they couldn't be quick when they should be cautious. ”

"That's their business."

Looking at Lu Bei, who nodded to him, Chu Guang smiled, got up from the sofa, and shook hands with Liszt, who also got up.

"But I promise, they all have a share, and they won't miss a bite."

Holding back solemnly the solid and powerful steel, Liszt also smiled and replied respectfully.

"It's an honor to serve you!"

……

While the top brass of Boulder City and the top of the alliance were intriguing with each other, the three-day celebration had come to an end.

After tonight, everyone's life will have to return to the usual track and return to work.

But not many people regret it.

On the contrary, I am full of expectations for tomorrow.

Because from tomorrow onwards, they will only have to work eight-hour shifts, and the boss will not only not deduct their wages, but will also pay them more. Because the alliance requires their boss to cooperate, and if they don't cooperate, they pack up their things and roll to the neighbors.

Compared to a fast-growing market with unlimited potential, what is the increase in labor costs?

Smart people do this math problem.

On the other side, with the help of Fang Chang, Dolly had finished her column.

However, just as she was about to tell her boss Hal the good news, she found out that his boss had come from Boulder City.

And with a large group of employees, carrying the luggage with a disgraced face, looking swept out of the house.

On the edge of the Linghu Lake, on the doorstep.

After listening to Howl's explanation, Dolly's eyes widened.

"The newspaper has been disbanded?!"

Hal looked at Dolly with a surprised look on her face and whispered.

“…… It's not for me to disband. ”

"I know...... But why didn't you tell me earlier?! Dolly clenched her fists in anger.

She spent almost the entire festival looking around the streets of Dawn City to write that column, and she didn't even enjoy the celebration.

As a result, when she finished everything, the useless president of her own house told her that her job was gone?!

Hal craned his neck and said with a weak heart.

"I thought I'd be here anyway, so I thought I'd tell you to your face...... By the way, your arm is alright? Congratulations, it's a good fit for you. ”

The distraught Dolly pressed her eyebrows, but she did not divert from the topic by him, and was still haunted by the closure of the newspaper.

"But...... But...... Isn't the newspaper an affiliate investment? ”

Hal sighed and said as he looked at Dolly as she tried to make a final struggle.

"Yes, but there's no way the Coalition's embassy is putting pressure on Boulder City for one of our newspapers, it's their internal affair, and the Coalition doesn't want to make a fuss about it...... Of course, for the sake of the Alliance's face, Boulder City didn't embarrass us and let us take everything with us. Except for the windows and doors, I packed everything I could and brought back, including your desk. ”

Dolly looked at him stunned.

"That'...... What are you going to do next? ”

Hal looked at the setting sun in the west, with a slightly complicated expression.

"I'm going to take my colleagues to Luoxia Province, where I'll start a new Survivor Daily and start a business in the Lion Kingdom. Of course...... If you don't want to go that far, you can also go to Dawn City, where you also have the Daily Survivor, and I talked to the editor-in-chief here, and they welcome us. ”

He had read the "Survivor Daily" in Dawning City, and it was not as interesting as it was in Boulder City, after all, it took a little skill to talk to Mr. House.

Most of the literate people in the league will find a unit with better conditions, and the profitability of the newspaper is limited, and the editorial positions are usually not too high-paying, so most of what they write is in the vernacular, and there is less humor.

However, their future can be looked forward to.

After all, the price of advertising will increase with the size of the economy, and a good life here will always favor those who are serious about their work.

The Daily Survivor originated in Boulder City.

But their mission is over.

After explaining what happened next, Hal didn't dare to stay and eat, and cautiously said sorry again and left.

Looking at Dolly who came back from the entrance with a lost face, Fang Chang gently patted her shoulder and said comfortingly.

"It's okay......"

"But it was a press release that was finally written......" Dolly's eyes were full of tears, and she felt an unspeakable grievance in her heart.

She believes that there is a lot to learn from the Alliance's approach, and if the working conditions of the workers are improved and the residents of Boulder City are also richer, more new things will spontaneously pour into Boulder City, and the ideas of the people will become more abundant. Even if we can't go back to the good times of prosperity, we can make everyone's life a little better than yesterday.

She didn't like the nobles of the inner city, and she knew better than anyone how ugly and dirty they were.

But if she could make life a little better for the people of Boulder, she would be willing to let go of her petty hatred and publish the good things she saw in the Alliance in the newspapers, even if some of them were just one-sided or even naïve ideas.

Some people imagine, some people perfect, some people try, three people can always do more than one person can do, and no one can come up with a perfect solution from the beginning.

However, what she never expected was that just as she was about to do these things, the Daily Survivor was forced to close its doors.

Insults that are more vicious than ridicule and ridicule are utterly indifferent.

"Isn't that ironic?" Fang Chang coughed lightly, and couldn't help but tease, "The big bad wolf with a bad stomach was treated as a guest, but the smart and clever Miss Investigator lost her beloved job - hey, are you a cat?!" ”

Before his words could fall, Dolly had already pounced on him and gnashed her teeth.

"You're still teasing me!"

Looking at the tears that filled his eyes, Fang Chang suddenly felt a little distressed, although the player didn't feel such a thing.

He reached out and gently hugged her and touched her head.

"I'm sorry."

"You didn't do anything bad, you don't need to apologize!"

With tears in her eyes, Dolly stubbornly sucked her nose hard, her voice low and hoarse and distressing, "You would have guessed that it would become like this...... Right? ”

Fang Chang sighed softly.

"If I didn't expect it, it would have been fake, but it was really unexpected so soon."

Dolly looked at him with heartbreaking eyes.

"But why! Why are they ......"

The reason behind it may not be as complicated as you think, it may just be that one day a nobleman picked up a copy from a commoner's newsstand on a whim. They don't usually like to look at it very much, like they don't usually taste beer mixed with water, but when they take a sip, they frown...... So it's not your fault, there's no need to feel sorry for someone who doesn't deserve it. ”

Not wanting to make Dolly too upset, Fang Chang continued to comfort her.

"Besides, even if the newspaper aside, it's still a pleasure for me to walk around the streets of Dawning City with you, and ask about the 'secret recipe' for the rise of the Alliance."

This kind of simple happiness is not so easy to obtain in the information age.

In reality, it's so easy for him to know something at the touch of a finger or a few phone calls.

“…… But our efforts are meaningless," Dolly bowed her head, "my column...... I won't be publicizing. ”

"How so? Didn't I say that even lying side by side on the lawn with you and counting the stars is full of meaning, not to mention that we have done so many things these days, whether it is meaningful or not should not be decided by people who have not done it. ”

Looking at the confused and ignorant eyes, Fang Chang shook her little hand.

"How about trying to contribute to the Alliance's Daily Survivor?"

"We don't care about what they don't care about, we don't think it's that important to us when they care, and I'm sure the editor-in-chief of Daily Survivor will be impressed by your meticulous investigation. We need your eyes to discover the Nago that is hidden in us, and other hidden dangers that we have not yet discovered. ”

The confused colors gradually regained their light.

It was nice to see her pick herself up again, Fang Chang smiled softly and made a harmless joke in a very soft voice.

“…… It would be a shame to just give up. ”

"I'm still waiting for the gentle and kind Miss Dolly to make money to support me."

……

After coming out of Liszt's house, Chu Guang instructed Lu Bei to take the brothers of the Guards Corps to send the chips to the Ministry of Finance, while he went to Linghu North Street, where the players were gathered, to see what new work his little players were doing.

And just when he was passing by the player's self-built community, he happened to meet Hal who had just come out of Fang Chang's house.

Before he could figure out how to explain, Hal originally wanted to dodge, but when he saw that Chu Guang had already seen him, he could only step forward and say hello, and before Chu Guang asked, he told the truth of the matter.

With his head bowed and not daring to look into the manager's eyes, Hal whispered apologies.

"Sorry...... I have lived up to your expectations and made the newspaper yellow. ”

Looking at his trembling appearance, Chu Guang happened to be in a good mood, and said with a smile.

"Did I tell you what my expectations were?"

Hal was slightly stunned, confusion in his eyes.

Dead or alive didn't think about it, he scratched his head.

"What is it?"

"Nothing, I just asked you to do it, not what you have to do it. But now it seems that the investment has paid off unexpectedly, and your choices and decisions make me feel that it is worth the money. ”

Looking at this confused young man, Chu Guang said with a smile.

"It's a good idea to open a newspaper office in Luoxia Province, do whatever you want, and remember to say hello to your father for me when I go back." By the way, have you eaten? ”

Hal came to his senses, his stomach grunted, and he blushed and shook his head.

"No ......"

"Let's be together, then."

Hal was stunned when he heard this, and then he was flattered and hurriedly waved his hand to excuse himself.

"Well, that's embarrassing."

Chu Guang smiled, patted him on the shoulder, and said jokingly.

"What's so embarrassing about this, wasn't I invited you to the first meal in Qingquan City, and I didn't see you embarrassed at that time."

Hal coughed dryly.

"That's different...... That's hungry. ”

And how can it be compared to now!

The Alliance has grown into a towering tree, and even his father has to be respectful to the administrators of the Alliance.

Not to mention him.

"Just say goodbye before leaving! When I go to the desert, remember to tell the people there what I look like, and stop imagining the picture in a vacuum. Looking at Hal, who was still embarrassed, Chu Guang urged with a smile, "Let's go, drink, don't grind!" ”

If you resign, it will be faceless.

Hal nodded with a smile and was dragged to the barbecue stand by Chu Guang.

Many of the shelter residents are here.

They weren't too surprised by the arrival of the manager, most of them were still busy with their own business, and only some fun people who had nothing to do came up to say hello.

However, Hal could see that the flirtatious titles they had made up did not really regard the adult as an unattainable being, nor did they have any irony about yin and yang, but simply wanted to attract his attention through this kind of performance art.

But is that any good?

In fact, they know in their hearts that managers will not favor them because they "pat themselves on the back", right?

Hal didn't know what they were trying to do, but just watched curiously at the Vault dwellers, who had been in Boulder City with all the freshness of the place.

After nightfall, the voices are even more vibrant, and even melodious music is played.

The people here seem to be celebrating the last night of the festivities.

They kneaded the clawed crab meat and flour and sprinkled spices to make patties, and put the tables together to share the wine of victory and stories of adventure.

They never seem to get tired.

Wasteland is not taken into account at all.

The smell of oil is more intoxicating than the foam of beer, and what makes you can't take your eyes off the rising bonfire and the dancing in front of it.

And the manager who brought him here has long since lost his whereabouts.

Hal, who accidentally drank too much, stared at the increasingly hazy world in front of him in a daze, and gently hummed his freshly made limerick poem-

"The lanterns are good, and the hyenas also go to join in the fun, greedily snatching into the oil pot, crying and laughing."

Wait and see.

Those arrogant guys.

Thinking that after going to the desert, he would not be able to appreciate the mourning expressions of those high-spirited old men, and Hal suddenly felt a little reluctant to be here......

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(Too many updates, the keyboard is broken, sweat)