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The quill he had just bought was not draining, and Edward walked to the half-open window and threw it out, only to hear a gasp of cold air.

She looked down and saw a man hanging under the windowsill, a man who was supposed to be in the Sauron's family's royal private hunting grounds. Shoulder-length short hair was scribbled, and today she wore a brown and white hunting suit, white straight-leg pants and light gray leather boots to make her figure look a little more heroic, more vigorous and neat than before.

"You've found out." The girl who climbed the wall smiled and threw a wink by the way. The windowsill was ten meters above the ground, and Adella stepped on the protruding hanging flower platform with one foot, and one foot drooped naturally, which didn't look very laborious, and could even be said to be calm, "Then pull me!" ”

Edward closed the window and locked it from the inside.

The people outside the window shouted, but the demon pretended not to hear it, and went to the bookshelf that occupied an entire wall, and said to a dark-gray-haired figure in the corner, "Are you done with the dissertation?"

The puppet sat at the small table next to the bookshelf in a regular manner, in an upright posture, motionless, with only two lines written on the test paper in front of him.

Edward looked at him twice, without showing any objection or affirmation, and asked him bluntly, "Do you want to do this?"

"Then you are not suitable to open a factory, or even a plantation owner, and if you go to be a government employee in peace and security, you will not be promoted because your conscience is too high, and you should stop thinking about doing business."

"I, I know, it's not right. No, it's, yes, only, it's not to earn, money. Richard Ernst, a newly promoted saint who has been a demigod "puppet" for more than a month, replied as if his throat had not been oiled, groping for the right way to play, "However, in this way, it is good for the workers, the company, the credibility, and it can also be guaranteed, that is, a little loss......"

Edward was noncommittal: "The shipping route to the southern continent has just been opened, and the profit of a successful voyage is indeed more than ten times greater. But without the protection of powerful extraordinary beings, at least half of the people on the voyage would have lost their lives, and the ship would have been damaged by as much as one-third. In this case, it is better to give priority to the interests of the company, and then to divide the salaries of the sailors and the fleet according to the proceeds. ”

"If you directly set the minimum wage and a high pension, you will make desperate sailors beg for their lives. Not only that, but you also pay your salary before the voyage begins. This will leave you with no ability to resist the risks, and if you lose your team, your company will collapse, and you will be thrown into the sea to feed the fish if you cannot afford to pay your wages and pensions. ”

"......," Richard thought for a moment, "I can swim." ”

Edward glanced at him, "I hope you will always have this optimistic attitude towards the rest of your life."

"If you don't want to write, don't write. Let's talk about ideas, next question. ”

"Hmm...... A has ten times the efficiency, but B has only double. Then, I think it is possible to give the machine that can improve efficiency to B. In this way, the efficiency can be leveled, become a double, win. ”

"You're really going to go bankrupt." Edward said, "If you give B, you just go from 1 to 10, but if you give A, you can change from 10 to 100, which is a qualitative change caused by a quantitative change, and I don't think I need to teach this simple math as well." ”

"However, you are in the question, in, say, B's family, something happened, and you urgently need money, ah." Richard frowned, "Isn't that a hint from you?" ”

"What does it have to do with you if something happens to an employee's family?"

A voice naturally joined in: "It's just that we didn't give him money, of course we chose to give the machine to A." Even if B doesn't want a salary, you can only get 10 shares, but if you give A, even if you open 55, you can directly get 50 shares. This is a huge profit, as long as B works hard and improves a little efficiency, he will naturally make enough money. ”

Edward paused.

The demon and the puppet looked at the roof together, and the tenacious Miss Hunter, after opening the window to no avail, crawled in through the vent, and was sitting at the top of the long ladder of the bookshelf with her cheeks and looking down, five or six meters away enough for the hunter of Sequence 7 to see the contents of the test paper.

"Miss Adella Soren." Richard greeted her, but disagreed with her answer, "As a factory owner, shouldn't you think about it, for the sake of the workers?" I should, help him, you. ”

Adele laughed innocently, jumped down the ladder, landed right between Richard and Edward, and replied naturally and confidently: "The king is obliged to us only after paying taxes." You open factories and pay wages to workers, why do you have an obligation to them? If you want me to say that if you want to make money as quickly as possible, you should buy some slaves, you don't even need to be paid, and they are cheap, and you can buy them everywhere. ”

Richard took a deep breath and replied earnestly, "If I were to buy (he said those two words with difficulty) slaves...... I won't pay them either. ”

"yes, that's a lot of money left."

"But...... I will calculate the value they generate for me, and if they make enough money, I will make them free again. ”

Adella thought for a moment and clapped her hands: "Well, this Fang Yu is really suspicious of mentioning the work enthusiasm of the slaves, and your factory will definitely develop in a very short time." Then she thought for a moment and said naturally, "Then are you bothering about fulfilling the promise?" Indeed, if they regain their freedom, they will leave the factory or need to pay their wages, and the initial advantage will be gone. But it's also very simple, just let them work hard, raise the price of redemption, and let them die of exhaustion before they make enough money. ”

"Mr. Gustav has developed steam technology, and now there are new factories and plantations everywhere, and the unemployment rate in Intis has dropped all at once. Compared with the workers who are not well treated and run away, they still buy slaves to work in peace! Not only does this generate great value, but it can also be replaced quickly! That's a good idea, Richard, you're smart! ”

Little by little, Richard's face lost its color.

"Teacher." He looked at Edward, who was silently listening to their discussion, as if asking for help, and said with the last of his strength, "Is this right?"

"I'm not judging, it's just an essay question. When you answer, you will have an answer in your heart. ”

Edward, uncharacteristically, did not chase Adella away. This answer made Richard's mood slightly better, and she said, "Next question."

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After the tarot meeting, Crane left the gray mist, picked up the pen that had been soaked up with ink, and carefully prepared to write a letter to Maria.

"Dear Miss Maria...... I am deeply touched by your trust in me and your love for the people of the East End...... I've thought about it and I'm capable of taking this commission, but I don't know how far I can go...... I will do my best to fulfill your request......"

Just as Crane was thinking about it, an illusory cascading prayer suddenly sounded in his ears.

Male voice? Mr. "Hanged Man", or Little "Sun"? Crane glanced out the window at the gloomy sky, got up and entered the bathroom next door, locked the door, and walked four steps backwards to the gray mist.

In that mysterious space, the majestic ancient palace stood silently, and the illusory male voice reverberated one after another.

Crane glanced at it, confirming that the prayer was from the little "sun". As he sat down in the position of the "Fool", he stretched out his right hand, spreading spirituality, touching the corresponding crimson star.

Huo Ran's voice of prayer became clear enough and layered, and Crane quickly figured out what the "sun" was talking about: the former exploration team leader next to him who had seen Amon suddenly lost control and strangely penetrated the seal and came to his room.

"Sun" thinks that the other party's loss of control will not be without reason, and he guesses two possibilities, one is that his extraordinary way is in line with the needs of the descendants of the ancient sun god, and the other is that the other party may have sensed the tarot party and noticed Mr. "Fool's" secret pulling.

As his thoughts drifted, Crane's gaze froze as he looked at the prayer screen. On the "sun" that is difficult to see in Mohu, there is a transparent and illusory figure entwined! He has hands and feet, but like a python, twisting around the "sun", and his head is propped up behind the head of the "sun"!

In the hazy picture, he is dressed in a black classical robe, a peaked floppy hat, and a monocle made of crystal on his face.

For all this, the "sun" is unaware!

…… Crane almost gasped, frightened by the other party's strange methods.

He vaguely understood the purpose of the other party: to reside" in the spirit of the "sun", waiting for the next tarot gathering, and sneaking into the gray fog without knowing it, like a virus or a Trojan horse!

At this moment, he finally understood what the angel fellow meant by "annoying and disgusting thief", and being so "friendly" from the beginning really opened Crane's eyes. And now he has to deal with it, either quickly find a way to clear Amon from the "sun" body, or temporarily exclude the "sun" from the tarot party.

If I don't remove Amon from the little sun, I may be stripped of my control of this mysterious space...... What a blasphemer! Fortunately, the little "sun" was relatively simple and direct, and immediately reported this matter to me, and through the corresponding crimson stars, with the help of the power above the gray mist, I was able to discover his strange state......

Crane took a breath, trying to calm himself down. He looked at the items he had and quickly came up with an idea.

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"Well, she's managed to give the commission to Crane."

Edward reached out and touched two owl charms parked on the table, and swayed leisurely in the old rocking chair full of pillows and cushions. It was already dark outside, and the warm fire in the living room was blazing, with hot milk tea and cake at hand.

"At the same time, Mr. A also accepted the commission of the Aurora Society? Hehe, this time things are interesting, maybe they will run into it. Mary didn't need to tell Mr. A to be cautious, worried that he would hurt Crane? I think it's a little more dangerous for Crane, who has an unknown hole card with his companion...... Mr. A has not spent any credit on the recording officer in his hand recently, so he should be very poor. ”

"It's a good thing that Capin's men, plus Mr. A, can at least try out some of Crane's secrets, which is a real surprise."

She closed her eyes, as if listening to something, and after a while, she spoke: "Crane-Zhou Mingrui, I think it is very likely that he is the backhand of the 'Master of Mystery', isn't this soul and memory also captured from the Source Castle?" However, it is also possible that it is a coincidence, or like the ancient sun god, it is the vessel and resurrection hand of that god. ”

"yes, it's good to be a messy container all the time."

The rocking chair creaked, and she sat up, looking through the fireplace through the tattered diary in her hand, a remnant of Russell's middle days, and the records in it were somewhat valuable. The Dusk Hermits, Adam, and the Blasphemy Slab are mentioned. This group of guys who like to promote the development of the world behind the scenes did put a lot of effort into Russell, and although he died in the end, Russell's results were relatively satisfactory.

"The only question is, can the Lord of Mystery make a mistake? Her resurrection vessel actually has a self, is not born with a high personality, and has no trace of being encroached upon at all? It's incredible. ”

The prophecy of Zarathu, the history of the Sauron family and the plans of Russell before he unveiled it, the ghost ship of the Trenthorst Empire in the legends of the Quaternary Age, the Laurel loaded with Byron's treasures and finally inexplicably silent in the Berserk Sea, and Nast Solomon, the King of the Five Seas......

Solomon.

Edward's eyes sharpened.

Then she pouted, turned to the next page, and continued to watch Russell's various nagging and complaining. You see, there is still Solomon, there is only a super mutilated version of Russell's spiritual imprint. Not to mention Solomon, Roselle didn't have it, and I don't know where to stay in the dark grave. Whoever deserves to be the Black Emperor will die, and the one of Rune dares to try.

"If it is confirmed, it is almost certain that there are other people who are also preventing the resurrection of Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun, and the character is not yet certain."

It's boring...... The last nineteen years of the end were hard. Obviously, the barrier has reached and is in danger, and the same kind of people outside still refuse to be the first birds, for fear that something will go wrong and then be turned into a magical item by the glory of the group attack, and the end has not yet started to collapse directly.

But anyway, it has been so long, and waiting for another nineteen years is just a dozing off, and for eternal life, time has long lost its meaning, just a reference standard that is not commonly used.

There are only 19 years left before the end of my mission, and I really should hurry up to experience life and enjoy more happiness now.

TBC

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There is no inner ghost, Adella's character is updated.

After reading the papers and materials for a day, I didn't write the papers so seriously

The whole point of icy reality and the primitive accumulation of capital bloody and dirty.