Chapter 1 Brokers
[It's Monday, December 13, 8:10 a.m.]
[Good morning, Mr. Russell]
[Snow Warning in Luopan District, Tian'en District, Jumu District, Tongjue District]
[Detected that you are in the Tian'en area, there is moderate to heavy snow before 11:40, please be careful to slide when traveling]
[Today's Table: 9:30 a.m., Meet Director Amirus]
With a melodious wake-up sound ringing in his head, Russell's sleepiness was quickly dispelled.
The first thing he did was to slide away the big "to-do" pop-up window that was in front of his view.
Russell unconsciously shrank into the heavy quilt, wrapped in the quilt and rolled it to the side.
But he didn't bump into the delphinium, but only touched the sheet that was still warm.
"Uh-huh......"
He stretched slowly and sat up from the bed.
It had been a while since he had gotten up so early. I was suddenly woken up by such an early alarm clock today, and I was still a little uncomfortable.
With the addition of three new people to the Special Operations Department, Russell's workload has immediately decreased considerably.
To be specific, he doesn't go to work occasionally now.
- This occasional frequency, about two or three days a week.
Including the Sunday off, he now only works about three days a week.
And in the class that arrived at work in the past three days, I basically went home at 4 o'clock in the afternoon...... If there is no interview task in the afternoon, then he may arrive at the company at 9 o'clock in the morning, and at noon he will raise his legs and moisten the company for a meal.
And the company naturally has no opinions.
The entire executive department almost knew that the two ministers of the special enforcement department were already on good terms - anyway, the delphinium was still working, and it didn't matter if there were still pillars in the company, and the group of young people didn't come.
He's cute, let him play!
However, because the number of people who have seen delphinium is very rare, there are almost no people who know her; However, it was Russell's abduction that caused the little girls to complain.
The scandal about "ultramarine" even spread to the Internet...... But because no one dares to send evidence directly online under the surveillance of those colleagues in the cyber security department, what stays on the Internet is just rumors of the level of "I have heard".
With the salary support of the fake Tokfat director, coupled with the sudden increase in the advertising endorsement business, Russell's income suddenly increased a lot.
After becoming rich, Russell did not become bad. But his life began to become comfortable with the naked eye.
After all, Russell doesn't like to buy luxury goods, and he doesn't have any bad habits. Although Russell is a glutton, he does not deliberately buy those expensive "farming ingredients...... The most high-end synthetic meat is actually much better in taste, texture and nutrition than real meat.
Those who still pay a lot of money to eat real meat today are not so much for the taste as for the "rarity". Russell never cared about the symbolic and ceremonial stuff.
The most of the money he made this time was to buy Mr. Herman a new floating car that he could use to get around when he went to work.
The rest was to donate a large amount of money to Paradise Bird - after Paradise Bird got used to the work of the Special Enforcement Department, it felt like there was not much work here. And she and the two angels are both personalities who can't be idle on weekdays...... Russell would huddle in the corner of the sofa in his office and fish when he was fine, but they obviously couldn't enjoy the fun of being a cat.
So they applied to the church and set up an orphanage.
At present, three people, plus a priest and two nuns, care for more than a dozen orphans. Ages range from three or four to twelve or thirteen.
Russell was also very pleased that they could finally find what they liked to do, and instead of arresting them and putting them in jail in the office, he donated 500,000 credits to them.
With this money, you won't have to run around looking for donations for at least a few years.
Considering that they are, after all, a bishop and two angels, there are many rich people who want to donate money to curry favor with them. They have accepted personal favors for no reason, and they will have to pay it back in the future - but after all, they are not orthodox church sects, and they do not understand and disdain to understand the sophistication of those who compromise and win-win. If the rich think that they can be bribed by donating money, they are very wrong.
But in that case, if they don't do anything after receiving money, they will offend people in vain.
So Russell simply didn't let them collect donations, but covered all the expenses himself-
Now he's a big star. There is no pressure at all to support a dozen or twenty orphans.
However, if they all have to go to college in the future, it will be a huge amount that cannot be ignored...... But that was a long time later. And these children are of different ages, so it doesn't matter if they are scattered.
Maybe by then, Russell will have children of his own.
Since liberating the vessel of the gods, Russell has felt that life has become simple and easy.
— or conversely, he became a little nervous.
He can become Alice by himself, stay at home and study, and let the vessel of the gods become himself to go to work or be interviewed.
He can also make the vessel of the gods become the godfather and deal with the affairs of the "family", while Russell can stay at home and exercise, or use the "detective" vest to go out and brush up on his presence.
Just as they guessed. As resources ran out further, the companies finally began large-scale layoffs.
Not only the head office and direct companies, but also small companies that have nothing to do with the giants have also been affected.
This inevitably leads to large-scale chaos.
But the company's intentions were very strong – they were trying to cut the population, so they drove them into the lower city first.
Russell's previous layout did work...... The "family" he founded absorbed the largest number of high-quality talents with the strongest controllability in the first wave of catastrophe.
And the scum who were eliminated by them also formed various forces.
Against the backdrop of other forces, the "family" founded by the godfather and deliberately not named in order to reduce the sense of existence also has its own name with the rise of other forces.
At first they called it "Fuseko", but the Church Father didn't like it.
"We don't have any faith to speak of, and it's not our turn to save the world. If we had to have a name, we would call it 'Brokers......"
The Father said, "Support those who need support, help those who need help." If the company can't do it or doesn't do it, then let's do it. But it didn't come without a price. But the main selling point is that we will always be more timely than 'justice'. ”
And at this time, the godfather finally revealed his real code name: The Barber.
"Anyone needs a barber, someone who can reassure him to approach his back with a knife, someone who can help you maintain the dignity that you can't maintain on your own. and a combination of both. ”
Unlike the previous "Veil of Ignorance" and "Eternal Reincarnation", the "Brokers" have the tacit approval of the church and the corporation. Even in Uptown, some people joined the Brokers, seeking "mutual help when necessary."
The principle of the Brokers is "conditional grace". Helping someone in need and asking for something in return when they need it later is like a bank deposit.
And what the godfather provided was "a loan of favors".
For those "godsons" who have some cultivation value, but the help they need is far greater than the help he gives to others, so they can't "pay", the godfather can temporarily use his own face to reconcile them.
For people who are not familiar with each other, or who have conflicts or old grudges, they can also use the godfather as a guarantor to introduce and carry out "favor transactions".
The business soon spread from Downtown to Uptown.
From a born uncensored, to a direct blood relative of the board of directors of the head office; From feared killers, thieves and mercenaries to adored artists and playwrights and other "idols"; From frustrated employees who are penniless and even indebted, to the top executives of large and small companies......
A lot of people owe him a favor.
But these favors will not accumulate and not be returned, and they will become enemies. Instead, he quickly completed the "debt repayment" with a means that the other party could easily accept.
And the "price" that everyone can accept is gathered together, but it gradually converges into a huge community of interests.
Although it is still only a prototype......
Yet, unconsciously...... He has become a real "godfather".