Li Pan hated itchy, and he also said with a strong smile,

"Imai-san appreciates you so much, Yamazaki, you can have a few drinks with others, I'll come and see the goods."

"Yes, manager, then I'll be rude first."

In this way, Yamazaki was dragged upstairs to drink, and Shoichiro Imai treated him as a junior of Todai and introduced him to a young lady in a circle. Then the smart puppet quickly delivered the meal, and a group of people began to laugh and laugh together.

Li Pan sat downstairs alone, the puppet sat in front of him with a box, and really took the box containing the golden Buddha in his hand, showed it to him, and didn't even pour him a glass of water.

Li Pan's current feeling is like a driver who carries the boss to a business banquet but is not qualified to serve the table and can only sit in the car......

Damn, these goddamn Sky People! It's not unintentional at all, it's especially intentional!

But also, the street boys in the night city are full of envy, jealousy and hatred for the second generation, and the young masters of Sky City can't look down on these rude, cruel, impoverished, and barbaric ruffians who are full of vulgar words.

Even if Li Pan is the manager of the monster company, but when he checks his resume information, he was born in a compulsory military service technical school, and these elites who are highly educated in the New East University of Science and Technology, and the elites who study in other worlds are naturally too lazy to take care of it. That Zhang Ichiro was willing to come forward and say a few words, but he was already in the face of Yamazaki Ayato, a junior.

This kind of feeling is probably like seeing a cockroach in your living room.

Feeling this kind of condescending disregard and obvious boredom, Li Pan almost wanted to flip the table.

It's still Yamazaki's side to identify the appearance, and quickly sent a bunch of information about the meeting, many of which are still the internal files of the Security Bureau, which can be regarded as letting the boss have something to do, so as not to make trouble and their Security Bureau will come to wash the floor again.

After all, people are looking for customers, and Li Pan has no choice but to sit patiently, waiting for the collector to come to the door, while looking at the information to pass the time.

In fact, Li Pan is really not a cyber psychopath, so he won't explode at one point, and to be honest, 'Sky Man discrimination' is also a common social phenomenon in 0791 now, and it is a manifestation of the sharp differentiation of classes within society, and it has been seen a lot.

Of course, 'Sky People' itself is a discriminatory term, and in addition to referring to the 'Sky City' where these people live, there is also a deeper reason.

To put it simply, because every indigenous person of the earth generally calls themselves 'earthlings'.

And the vampires of the Night, the children of Dawn of Dorne, all kinds of battle skeletons transported directly from spaceships, android androids produced with otherworldly technology, and those otherworldly visitors who use QVN to link to the plane.

For security reasons to prevent terrorist attacks by the Legion, unregistered prosthetics are generally not allowed to descend directly on Earth for the first time.

These prostheses are usually stored on space stations and spacecraft, and if they want to descend into the atmosphere, they must pass through customs biochemical security checks, and descend by space elevator or shuttle, so they are also widely known as 'cosmos'.

So sandwiched between the two groups, that is, the 'Sky People'.

This word specifically refers to those people who are themselves indigenous to the earth, but kneel and lick the 'cosmic people', and even wish to take the initiative to change their prosthetics to join the 'cosmic people'.

Of course, discrimination is also mutual, and the 'Sky People' also discriminate against the natives on the ground, all the creatures bound to the surface of 0791 by their bodies, even the samurai lords of Takamagahara.

So don't be careful, people are not targeting you alone, Li Pan, but discriminating against all earthlings outside your own circle on an equal and undifferentiated basis......

Even the high heaven hara-hara warriors that Li Pan had come into contact with before were not as extreme as the Sky People. Look at Akiyama Saito or something, aren't you still kneeling and licking?

Of course, it may also be that these kendo masters and craftsmen that Li Pan came into contact with, hot spring female generals, and Koga female ninjas, are themselves low-level samurai who serve people, so they can be skilled when they kneel down one by one, and they won't put any Chinese genealogy.

Enthusiastic netizens often discuss this phenomenon, Li Pan also saw several popular science articles when he squatted in the pit and brushed the posts, and the information report sent by Yamazaki was written more thoroughly.

According to the analysis, this is because the Chinese people of Takamagahara have received a traditional education, on the surface they are president cadres, they are still samurai in their bones, the strong are respected, they think they are lords, the ruling class, and they are disdainful of the homeless and bankrupt, but they are not too extreme for the company dogs.

So as long as you wear a formal attire, tie, and follow the culture and tacit understanding within the company, in the eyes of other samurai, you can be regarded as a first-class ashigaru attendant, at least a low-level member of the group, and a follower of the ruling order of Takamagahara.

Therefore, generally speaking, it is rare for samurai to bully and bully their direct subordinates within the rules, and discriminate against everyone else.

But the sky people are different, you don't have the same family background and education, and those people don't want to hang you at all.

This is not only the discrimination of the propertied against the bankrupt, but also the special historical reason of the 0791 plane. One of the main reasons comes from the original shareholders of Takamagahara.

Many people often mistakenly believe that Takamagahara is the private property of the Oda family from scratch, but this is deliberately misleading.

To be precise, it was the first generation of Oda Kamisuke, with the 0791 plane, who joined Takamagahara and received the investment of the board of directors, and 0791 gradually became the headquarters of Takamagahara.

If you don't start from the beginning, it may be a little difficult to understand, so I need to be long-winded.

To put it simply, in the beginning, only Earth 0 was considered Earth, and the other Earths were just parallel universe colonies of Earth 0.

The original time-traveler Oda was just a small cruiser captain of Earth 0, although he could easily sweep through the other world and rule 0791 Earth, but that's all.

With just one otherworldly traveler and a cruiser, he can dominate the primitive tribe, and if he wants to develop this sixteenth-century rural earth and join the earth's 0 heavenly universe trade system, it is simply impossible.

So he needs to attract investors, recruit partners, and borrow money from banks to develop his own world.

So Oda used the information he gathered during the 0791 crusade against the Legion to contact the Oriental chaebol under the Legion and recruit them to join the gang.

At that time, the war between the Security Council and the Legion was coming to an end, and the big picture was decided. As the defeated side, the Oriental chaebol has lost almost all its fleets and colonies, and if you don't want to continue your path to the dark and be banished to the edge of the universe with the remnants of the legion, you can only start all over again.

So they grasped this life-saving straw and accepted the invitation of the first Oda to come over. Takamagahara was officially established, and the funds and technology of the Oriental Department were invested in 0791 Earth to participate in the development of the colony.

The name Takamahara is also very clear, and the directors of the first Takamagahara are all 'cosmic people and gods' from the other world.

Although the two sides are partners, and Takamagahara's chaebol is the actual investor in capital and technology, but for the local indigenous earthlings, especially for the samurai class, they feel that they are the masters of 0791, and the co-masters of the world are still the Oda family, so the Oda have always firmly controlled the appointment and dismissal authority of the presidents of each company.

Of course, those directors are not from clean backgrounds, they violate the taboo of the Security Bureau, and they can't jump out and compete with the Oda family for the real power of the chairman of the rural company, just looking for a place to invest and make money, who really comes to work in the wasteland?

So the 'Celestials' chose the 'United Society', a local indigenous businessman, to act as a manager and white glove to operate the fund and asset appreciation. At the cost of not participating in Takamagahara's human rights, he assisted trade and investment advisors, and received a large amount of income dividends as a reward for his investment.

In this way, with the massive capital injection and scientific and technological support, Gao Tianyuan has grown explosively all the way, taking advantage of the east wind of the economic recovery of the Heavens Universe after the war, and successfully joined the Heavens Trade Agreement, the output value of the group has been soaring, and the directors have made a lot of money.

By the time of the eighth generation of Oda, there was even a chance to join the safety committee, although in the end the impact committee failed and the extreme prosperity turned into decline, and then there was a financial crisis such as the collapse of the property market and the stock market, capital flight, and large-scale bankruptcy and bankruptcy, but the 'congregation', which controlled the actual capital of Takamagahara behind the scenes, was not unscathed, but it can also be said that it fell into the well, took advantage of the fire to rob, and made a lot of money.

However, in this long economic winter, a large number of middle- and lower-class samurai families, including the upper-class Chinese, went bankrupt in the economic crisis, resulting in the dissatisfaction of the samurai class's upward path to cut off their savings and could no longer be covered up by economic growth, and in order to transform internal contradictions, the Oda family was forced to embark on the road of militarism, and even wanted to engage in a multiverse empire, and finally naturally suffered a crushing defeat in the corporate war, which is a later story.

In short, it is also very clear that these 'sky people' themselves are the basic plate of the 'United Society', and they are the children of the chaebol family, and the education they have received since childhood has been extremely elitist and extremely otherworldly.

In order to serve the true master, in the future, to engage in the trade and capital operation of the heavens in the High Heaven Plain, the elite education that these people have received since childhood is standing on the multiverse level, coupled with the conditions of their families, they often link to the heavens and universes through QVN, and even spend most of their time in the 'universe on the other side of the door', and only occasionally 'wake up', can their horizons not be broadened.

After seeing the superb scenery of the other world, and there is no room to rise in the high heavens, it is natural to have the worship of converts, thinking that the night capital is a mud ditch, a remote mountain village, from generation to generation, of course, gradually isolating itself from the natives, and bent on moving closer to the more advanced and civilized heavenly world.

In fact, don't talk about them, even Li Pan himself, now that he has cultivated immortals, he already sees that everyone is an ant. Where can you still see the of the night capital.

This is not alarmist, in fact, with the development of technology, the 'Sky People' are rapidly being accepted by the 'Space People', and the indigenous earthlings of the Night City are dividing into two distinct groups.

The Sky People have benefited from the current trade of the Heavens, and naturally they are the polar opposite of those who have gone bankrupt and defeated and clamored for independence, and are more supportive of the Celestial Financial Order established by the Security Council than the so-called Samurai Empire.

They want to completely integrate 0791 into the Heavens trade system, so even if they are a group cultivated by Takamagahara and making money from Takamagahara, they are still emotionally inclined to the side of the Security Council, and they are strong supporters, allies and compradors of the 'Cosmic People'.

There are even rumors that even this Takamagahara's fiasco is said to have played a very disgraceful role in the war by the 'Sky Man'. Therefore, they have always been the target of the Red Heavenly Dog's heavenly punishment, and they are more and more afraid to leave the 'Sky City' and return to the ground.

roughly sorted out the positions of the 'Sky People' and the 'United Society', and then looked at the banquet upstairs, Li Pan also knew it in his heart.

This time, Imai was so jealous of Yamazaki Ayato's 'junior', and was even willing to take out the family heirloom 'Golden Buddha' and transfer it at a discount, maybe he already secretly knew Yamazaki's undercover identity and wanted to get on the way of the Security Bureau through business assistance.

However, many of the things that the monster company is staring at are indeed bought by the chaebol of the 'United Society', and if you take the path of Yamazaki Ayato, it is not a bad thing if you have the opportunity to get it back, and let him buy it alone in the future, Li Pan will not be angry.

It's just that it's a good opportunity, but at this time, a new competitor has appeared, and it's really a twist and turn.

After looking at the goods through the magazines and waiting for two hours, the collectors of ACA finally arrived under the guidance of smart dolls.

The collector also sent two representatives, one of whom was using the skeleton of a female intelligent person, apparently a cosmic person linked through QVN, and the other was a teenager about the same age as Rama.

The intelligent man didn't have much to say, it was similar to the intelligent human attendant in Sky City, it was provided by the space station, a short-term business lease prosthetic, a five-level intelligent human prosthetic body for tourists from another world, and company employees on short-term business trips.

The boy was an earthling, dressed as a street boy, with a pair of blue eyes, still a little white, black and white hair, as messy as a hedgehog, with a forehead guard on his forehead, a tear-like tattoo on his left cheek, and several leather bracer braided cords on his hands and wrists.

This kid has a weird aura. Is it a ninja? No, it seems to be a bit like Rama...... Isn't it some kind of superpower......

"Oh yes, this formal suit, isn't your Excellency a monster company?

Meet for the first time! It's an honor! It's a contemptible calling card! ”

The white-headed boy stood at the door with his hands in his pockets, and the female intelligent person took the initiative to shake hands with Li Pan.

Li Pan looked at the electronic business card sent by the other party.

Belea

ACA Association of Antique Collectors

Site Director of S68

MA Collector

"It turned out to be Ms. Belia, and when we first met, the contemptible person was the acting manager of TheM."

Li Pan exchanged business cards with her, and the other party also smiled,

"It's such a coincidence, could it be that Your Excellency is also here for the 'Ruth Statue', right?

Clearly, the guest is as he pleases, since you are one step ahead, why don't you quote first? ”

Well? Russ statue?

"No, no, they'll buy a box."

Before Li Pan could speak, Imai Shoichiro floated out from the second floor and interjected,

"Now that we're here, let's take a look at the goods."

The intelligent man attendant opened the box and showed the 'Golden Buddha' to Belia for her to see. also deliberately covered the lid of the box and showed Li Pan the box......

"Genuine." Belia smiled and nodded, and then bowed to Li Panyi, "Then we take it, can we?" ”

Li Pan signaled that you have money, please do it.

"Thank you."

Belia owed Li Pan again, snapped her fingers to pay the Imai family, and the young man behind her walked up, reached into the box, and took out the 'Golden Buddha' empty-handed.

The moment he came out of the box, Li Pan clearly saw that the black smoke on the 'Golden Buddha' was filled, and there seemed to be blood and tears on the Buddha's face. On the young man's hands, those leather rope bracers shone brightly, gathering two clouds of rich white light, wrapping the 'Golden Buddha' like a cocoon, and suppressing the black smoke.

Li Pan looked at the young man's hands with interest, and it was really not qi, it was some kind of otherworldly energy that he had never seen before, which emanated from the eyebrows and wrists, and the magic patterns hidden under the forehead and wrists, and then exerted an effect through the amplification of the protective gear.

Obviously, this kind of super energy also has to abide by the monster rules of the 0791 plane.

"This is also an ACA collector?"

Bellia smiled and waved her hand, "No, the husky is my pet. ”

Li Pan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, the white-haired boy named Husky had no expression, and his eyes didn't look like he was controlled by spirit or drugs, he should have a basic sense of self, not a bionic clone.

Shoichiro Imai had a bright eye, and he laughed,

"So you have this kind of taste, Miss Belia, if you make a big deal today, if you are not in a hurry, why don't you let the contemptible people set up a banquet to entertain you?

I also have a lot of puppies in my family, I think you will like it, why not take a few back and take them as a souvenir. ”

Belia smiled, "It's okay, our collectors' association is new to the city, and there are still many opportunities for cooperation in the future." It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, and I'm going to disturb you tonight. Husky, look at things. ”

The husky was holding the 'Golden Buddha', and he didn't move when the intelligent person sent him a bulletproof suitcase. Li Pan silently put away the empty box.

75 million arrived, and Shoichiro Imai was also very happy,

"It's great to be able to make this business, and it's rare to meet again, let's have a class reunion tonight!

Come on, Ayato, let your manager take things back, and let's have a good time together! ”

"This ...... Let's stop nagging......"

Ayato Yamazaki also felt that Shoichiro was a little too much, and if he continued to stimulate it, he was afraid that he would not be able to shovel it when he collected the body......

Li Pan didn't care, he was still staring at the 'Golden Buddha', sure enough, at the moment when he closed the wooden box in his hand, the 'Golden Buddha' suddenly opened his eyes, shot out a red light, made a hole in the light cocoon, and then protruded a black gas from his mouth, broke through the shackles of the light cocoon and fled to the second floor.

This picture was almost fleeting, and the husky didn't react at all, so Li Pan smiled and said,

"Since it's rare for old classmates to meet, Yamazaki, you're welcome, I'll attend on behalf of the company tonight, and I'll report something tomorrow, I'll go back to the company with the goods first."

Then he and Beliya glanced at each other, nodded goodbye, and Li Pan walked out of the maze under the leadership of the smart puppet and returned to the shuttle.

Russ statue......

Li Pan checked the company's files, Lu Shi, this seems to be a cultivator in ancient South Asia, the inheritance era is even before the emergence of ancient Buddhism, it can basically be understood as a monk of the Ah San version, but he advocates penance through extreme self-abuse, torture the body to stimulate potential, and work hard to become an immortal.

However, looking at the shape of the statue of Rushi on the Internet, it is usually blue-faced and fanged, like an evil ghost, which is far from the walking Buddha of Sukhothai. It stands to reason that there is no confusion, right?

Is it because the collector really knows the details of the Buddha statue?

Or is it that the other person sees something different......

Whatever, people don't look down on us earthlings, what kind of cold ass do you stick to your hot face, just use the Imai family first, and try the color of this monster.

Whether it is a Buddha or a demon, you can know it at a time.

(End of chapter)