Chapter 381: Secrets of Dragon City
Standing on top of the world?
Su Xia didn't agree, there was still some way to go.
Admittedly, this crook syndicate is a kid compared to the cyborgs, but it's not that easy to deal with.
Su Xia is also a child compared to the mechanical family.
He and this group of crooks are equal opponents.
"What are you going to do with that much money?" Susha continued to ask.
"Continue to grow the business and expand into the world." Andrew replied honestly.
"What other businesses?"
"That's a lot of ......"
Andrew thought about it, gathered his thoughts, and told what he knew.
As far as he said, the group's business is quite extensive, of which investment accounts for a large part, and their group is the majority shareholder of many enterprises after the war, and has also acquired and merged many enterprises, and most of the unicorn companies can see their group.
From the perspective of the entertainment industry alone, their group has had a great impact and has created many stars who are now popular.
There are so many industries on the surface that ordinary people can't imagine.
There are so many in the back that it makes people's scalp tingle.
There are many gray industries, such as cloning that Su Xia knows, that extends to more than a dozen gray area transactions, which existed long before the war, and now it is only more convenient.
"For example, if someone wants to clone their dead family member, no matter what channel they find, they will basically find us in the end." Andrew talked about one of them.
"There is no meaning, the dead cannot be resurrected after all." Su Xia shook her head.
"My lord, you are not suitable for business at first glance." Andrew said.
"Don't say that too soon."
Su Xia looked determined, his pharmacy was still making money, and it was the most profitable pharmacy in the entire Coral City.
Andrew explains: "My lord, you need to grasp the psychology of your customers, just like I told you before. ”
"Be specific."
"A lot of times, customers also know that the product may not be useful, but they just want to buy a hope, and when they call to consult, their needs are already in front of you."
Andrew talks eloquently about the many simple rules in the industry.
In his words, what they sell is not products, but customer needs.
If the customer has no demand, no matter how good the product is, it is useless.
At this time, it is necessary to create demand for customers.
"Demand can be created out of thin air, even if I pull a random passer-by on the side of the road, I can create a suitable demand for him." Andrew said.
"Makes sense...... What is the core business of your group? Earn so much money, which one is it for development? Su Xia suddenly asked.
"This ...... There doesn't seem to be a very specific core project. ”
"Do everything?"
"The ones I told you about are the main ones."
Andrew explained seriously: "If you really want to talk about it, the group has always been like this, whether it is before or after the war, the project is similar, but the world after the war is more chaotic, for a period of time, most parts of the world are implementing 'shock therapy', and the mechanical clan is not managed, which gives our group the opportunity to grow rapidly." ”
"Well, the automatons really don't care." Su Xia nodded.
"But this time it's different, the cyborg actually arrested the employees of our group."
"Oh?"
"It's Seahorse City, those bases should have been destroyed by your own hands, and some of the employees who escaped were captured by the mechs and will be sent to the United Court for trial."
"Oh, that's right."
Su Xia thought for a while, it stands to reason that the mechanical clan would indeed not care about this kind of thing.
In the eyes of those mechanical creatures, human affairs are trivial, management is only a waste of time and energy, and most of the time they overlook the development of the human world.
Unless, it touches their interests or emotions......
Could it be the reporter's mechanical friend?
Su Xia thought about it, and probably it could only be like this.
At that time, the mechs came too fast, and the reaction speed was beyond everyone's imagination, so that he didn't have time to deal with the follow-up, and he didn't know what happened to the several bases in Seahorse City.
Come to think of it, Ding Can shouldn't let him down.
"Don't really have a specific core project? The top brass has not expressed any wishes either? Su Xia asked again.
"My lord, I can't reach the top yet." Andrew replied.
"I thought you were tall enough."
"I ...... After all, it's just a humble product, and although I'm responsible for enough things, it's not human at all in the eyes of the higher-ups, and I'm not qualified to touch too deep things. ”
Andrew told the truth, his position, like a conveyor belt on a huge industrial machine, is a little stronger than an ordinary screw, but not much stronger.
In the history of this planet, there have been countless organizations similar to their group.
Looking back, as early as a thousand years ago, someone put forward the concept of eternal youth by "drinking the blood of young people".
Later, some of these organizations were drowned by the waves of time, and they completely became the dust of history.
There are also organizations that have retired behind the scenes, using the money accumulated from those bloody transactions, and have become some famous families now, and they are related to many nobles and even royal families on the Western Continent.
And their group has only gathered a group of powerful people in the new era, replacing those old organizations in the flames of war again and again, and becoming the masterminds behind this era.
Andrew then said, "However, I once ran an errand for some people at the headquarters, and I happened to hear some gossip. ”
"Be specific."
"That's it...... A guess ......"
Andrew touched his brain and continued: "It seems that someone at the top wants to create a new world and destroy the existing human world. ”
Su Xia became a little interested and asked, "Why?" ”
"I don't know, just what I know, there are two explanations."
"Which two?"
"The first one is about race." Andrew said: "There seem to be people at the top who feel that most of the existing human beings are inferior humans, and they must be eliminated and the remaining superior human beings must be retained. ”
"Oh, it's an old rumor, I've heard it too."
Su Xia nodded, this is nothing new.
"What about the other news?" he asked. ”
Andrew replied, "And one more...... Some people at the top level feel that all human beings are inferior, no matter what race, every natural person has a defective gene, and everyone must be eliminated, and then through genetic technology, a world of cloned human beings with only perfect genes will be created. ”
"Wait a minute, aren't the top executives of your group natural persons?" Susha asked.
"Yes."
"Aren't they, then, going to destroy themselves?"
"That's right." Andrew nodded, "However, it is said that they all left clones of perfect genes, and when the time comes, they will transfer their memories to the clones, and then destroy their old shells with genetic defects, and lead all mankind in the new era." ”
"What a......"
Su Xia touched her chin, feeling that this rumor was too strange.
The existing world is ruled by the mechs, and those mechanical creatures will watch this happen?
The cyborgs don't care about the petty fights within the human race, and keep the human being in captivity like pets, and the humans can make any trouble on weekdays.
But once a small number of pets want to destroy most of them, no one else needs to do it, and the autonmen can crush them to death.
"That's all I know, my lord." Andrew said that no matter how much he wants, he can only grasp the top management of the group.
"Well, there's another problem."
"Your Excellency, you say."
"You've been dealing with some arms lately?"
"Yes."
"Where exactly are you going to sell to?" Susha asked.
"In the southwest region of this continent, there is a large human gathering place called 'Dragon City'." Andrew replied truthfully.
This answer was the same as Su Xia had guessed before.
At that time, in the manor, when the owner of the manor said the news, Su Xia thought of the current situation in Dragon City.
Now rumors are rife within Dragon City, the situation is chaotic and turbulent, as if someone is deliberately spreading false news in the dark, trying to provoke the division of the entire Dragon City.
He said to Andrew: "Dragon City has its own arsenal, even if you want to purchase materials, it is to purchase them from the central or northern part of the continent, and the materials you handle should not be sold to Dragon City officials." ”
"That's right, sir."
Andrew nodded, "I'm just a middleman for those arms and supplies, the other party will send the goods over, and I will be responsible for picking them up at the Conch City dock, and then sending them to a temporary coordinate near Dragon City...... It can't be sent directly to Dragon City, so it shouldn't be officially purchased by Dragon City. ”
"Who sold it? And who bought it? Susha asked.
"This ...... I don't know......"
"I don't even know this, what kind of business do you do?"
"My lord, this kind of business, both parties to the transaction are basically confidential." Andrew's face was embarrassed, "A middleman like me, just make money with peace of mind, and you can't ask too much." ”
He mentioned that these transactions were basically assigned to him by the group.
And the group itself only plays the role of a middleman.
"It's like a tavern at Zero." Andrew explained: "Your Excellency, you come from the Zero Tavern, and you must know that the tavern itself is just a task trading station, and many people will give out tasks anonymously, and then another group of people will take them anonymously. ”
Before each transaction, he will contact the seller anonymously through the network device, checking the quantity of the material, the arrival time, the transaction location and other details.
He couldn't and didn't dare to ask who the seller was, and he didn't even dare to investigate secretly.
There are only a dozen sellers in the world who can provide a large number of arms, excluding the mechanical family.
Even if the other party doesn't say it, he can basically guess.
After all, the goods were sent from the continent across the sea, and only the human gathering place marked by the eagle could provide so many arms on that continent.
"The Dragon City gathering place has a conflict with the large Terran gathering place across the ocean, and you should know that it has been there for a long time." Andrew said.
"What contradiction?" Su Xia frowned and asked.
"Huh? Don't you know, adult? ”
"I've been training alone in the mountains and forests for the past few years, and I haven't paid attention to that."
"That's right...... There are contradictions between the Dragon City Gathering Place, the Eagle Gathering Place, the White Bear Gathering Place, the Golden Lion Gathering Place and other large Terran gathering places, and it seems that there was a big trouble two years ago, and it almost started, but then it was forced by the deterrence of the mechanical clan, and had to put aside the dispute and unite temporarily. ”
"Forced by the deterrence of the auton......"
Su Xia inexplicably wanted to laugh, the unity of the human race can only rely on this kind of sci-fi setting, which is really unrealistic.
According to Andrew, there hasn't been much contact between the several large Terran settlements since that incident.
The gathering place of the eagle in his mouth is called Mirui on the game map, and the gathering place of the white bear is called Lucy on the game map...... Probably to avoid getting into trouble, Andrew was used to calling aliases and didn't dare to call his name directly.
As for the cause of the contradiction, it seems that it is a dispute over the right path, and among them, there is also a struggle between the factions that insist on militancy, surrender, moderation, and other ways out, which is quite complicated and difficult to explain in a few words.
"On the other side of the sea, on another continent, the heads of several human settlements seem to think...... We can coexist with the automatons in a special state, and they want to ease the relationship. ”
"Direct surrender?"
"No......"
Andrew shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either: "What they are proposing is not surrender, but 'co-existence', I am just a puppet controlled by the group, I can't understand this, and I don't know much." ”
"I don't understand either." Susha said.
"My lord, you are a member of the fighting faction, and you will definitely have a common language with those people in Dragon City."
"I'm a militant?"
"Just look at your actions."
Andrew said seriously: "The reason why there are so many people supporting you is not only because of your attitude towards the people at the bottom, but also because of your attitude towards the mechanical race, now there are people from combat factions all over the world, and many of them have already regarded you as their own. ”
Su Xia suddenly said: "I see." ”
No wonder the southwest region is so serious this time, every city is in chaos, and the chaos has become a pot of porridge.
It stands to reason that what Su Xia has done during this time has not allowed him to get so much support.
There must be some old forces secretly acting to muddy the waters.
It's about attitude and the struggle for the road ahead.
There is no shortage of people in this world who insist on fighting.
Su Xia's attitude was clear enough to attract the attention of those people.
Andrew said: "I'm just guessing that the Eagle Gathering Ground may want to disintegrate the Dragon City Gathering Place, or support a new spokesperson to oust the current Lord of Dragon City from power, so that he can get the support of Dragon City at the next gathering place meeting." ”
"Have you seen the current Lord of Dragon City?" Su Xia asked him.
"No, I've heard of some."
"Do you know his background?"
"This ...... I don't know, but I heard that it was gradually coming to power in the past ten years. ”
"Okay."
Su Xia was about to ask some other questions, when suddenly her face changed and she looked outside.
In his senses, there were complex metal objects approaching his location.
"Don't talk, the patrol soldiers of the Cyborg are here!"
With a wave of his hand, Su Xia climbed onto his and Andrew's bodies, covering the two of them all and achieving complete invisibility.
Then he directly put away the stool he had sat on, and pulled out the two floors where Andrew had sit.
Then, with Andrew, he flew out of the back window of the house.
"Buzz—"
In the sky, more than a dozen cyborg scouts flew by, scanning the life information below as they flew.
Andrew's eyes widened and he panicked, his heart pounding, his mouth closed tightly, and he didn't dare to make a sound.
He didn't expect the automatons to come so quickly.
How long has he been talking to Su Xia?
It's less than five minutes!
Were these mechanical creatures attracted by the sound of the previous explosion?
Can these covered things on his body escape the detection of the cyborgs?