The intelligent lobby manager, who was wearing a hotel hospitality uniform and a silver emblem with angel wings on his chest, projected a polite and even slightly flattering smile on his shell-like smooth and white mask.

"Have you decided on the main course, dear sir?"

Li Pan looked at the dazzling holographic projection,

"Well...... What is today's set meal? Salmone alla Puttanesca？ This plate is okay, oh, what's the matter? ”

The lobby manager Biliba reported the name of the dish,

"Grilled salmon fillet, fresh natural salmon, potatoes with cherry blossoms, papaya fillet, basil sauce, white grape juice ......"

"Wow, fresh salmon? How many legs? Can you talk? ”

"Uh, sir, I don't understand what you mean......"

"Just kidding, but fresh fish...... This is Ceres, it can't be fished out of the Pacific Ocean, right? Is it synthetic maggot protein? Can you eat it?

I mean, the first time I used VK's prosthesis, there is only the most basic taste sensory module, theoretically to maintain the prosthetic function, as long as I regularly inject No. 95 organic nutrient solution, do I have to pull out this dish after I swallow it......"

The lobby manager is quite professional, and his expression does not fluctuate a little.

"You can rest assured that our self-developed intelligent cooking system will match your taste enjoyment according to your prosthetic model. In addition, we have a long-term cooperation between Heaven Group and VK Prosthetic Manufacturing, and the script protocol is adapted to each other, as long as the original components have not been replaced, you can adjust the MT380 to comfort mode to activate the taste bud components.

In addition, we can guarantee that all the ingredients in the directly managed store are made of pure natural products, fresh ingredients from Europa, and the fish is monitored and certified in real time from birth to serving.

Please see, the lake light in Swan Lake Park in the Bavarian area of Europa, a one-to-one replica of the original, you must go to see it if you have the opportunity, it is recommended to stay at the Swan Lake branch of the Paradise Hotel, you are a privileged member, you can enjoy the top lake view suite. ”

Li Pan looked at the blue sky and white clouds, green mountains and green trees, and lake castles projected by the other party.

Well, what is in this picture is not the earth, but Europa, the new Eden that has been renovated by the Taita Group, and the real top rich area with the blessing of environmental protection technology of major companies, the lair of the universe people, and the heavens......

"Tsk...... Europa...... I hate Europa...... Okay, let's do it. Is that okay, Elena? ”

Yelena, who was wearing a golden backless evening dress, smiled stiffly, looked at the top intelligent person attendant, and nodded in acquiescence.

So the waiter went to serve the food, Li Pan looked at her, lifted the tablecloth, and looked at the other party's legs that were restrained and put together under the table.

"Yo, I'm very good today, what, am I so terrible?"

Yelena pulled her dress to cover her crotch,

"Don't, don't ...... like that"

Li Pan frowned. Yelena trembled, quickly changed her words, and forced a smile,

"Okay, okay, I, I know, it's my mistake, if you want, I'll give it to you back on the boat......"

Li Pan scratched his head inexplicably,

"No, really, what's going on? Why are you so afraid of me? I'm not going to eat you again......"

Yelena's hand shook, and the wine glass fell to the ground.

"Hug! Sorry, sorry! ”

Before she could stand up, the smart waiters on both sides rushed over and knelt down, scrubbed the tablecloth floor, changed the table utensils, and refilled the aperitif wine.

Li Pan rolled his eyes, and he was quite speechless.

Then the foreman came up with two professional dancers dressed up and extremely beautiful, and asked politely,

"Dear sir, do you need a different companion doll? You are our Angel Group VIP exclusive customer, our company provides you with free rental angel services, if there are specific requirements, you can continue to customize the service at any time. ”

Li Pan looked at Ye Lena with a pale face, and then at the attentive foreman on the side, and finally reacted.

"Oh, no, no, yes, wait a minute. Give us some personal space. ”

"As you wish."

A group of intelligent people retreated, and then the hotel private room was encrypted and closed, and at the same time, the indoor holographic projection of the scenic area of Swan Lake Park was sparkling, and even the air was extremely clear, probably using some special perfume.

However, Li Pan and Yelena have no intention of enjoying the scenery.

Yelena stammered directly, "Hug, sorry...... ...... hosts"

Li Pan rummaged through his private mailbox and projected a contract.

This is Yelena's transfer contract, well, deed of sale, this time to meet with the boss of black oil, Kanamori Goro not only sent Yelena to lead the way, but also directly used her as a business souvenir, and the ownership was transferred to Li Pan.

Of course, in theory, human trafficking is illegal, so in practice, what is transferred at the contract level is the prosthesis and the debt, the prosthetic body that Yelena uses now, and the debt signed by the only brain that belongs to her.

So yes, Li Pan is actually Yelena's 'master'. A snap of her fingers can make her blow herself up and self-destruct, or sell it to the Heaven Space Station under the Heaven Group as an angel to return some money or something......

"I won't just do that to you, and I won't eat you, ok? I just need you to lead the way. ”

Yes, Yelena's 'shell' is not worth mentioning, what is valuable is the coordinates of the refinery and the black oil transportation route worth hundreds of billions of dollars, which is the sincerity sent by the Jinsen Chamber of Commerce.

And theoretically, this time to lead the way may also be Yelena's last mission, as long as Li Pan personally goes to meet with the boss behind the black oil and masters the coordinates and routes, she is dispensable, no, it is a safety hazard. In general, they are to be destroyed.

"I can erase your memories of the coordinates and hire you as a bodyguard. Or simply continue to keep you and continue to serve as the middleman driver between Panlong and Jinsen, after all, I am very busy, and this business line cannot always let me run alone. And I don't have anyone credible who can be useful......"

Yelena immediately knelt down, crawled over and hugged Li Pan's legs, rubbing her face against Li Pan's knees like a cat and looking at him with wide eyes. I really worked hard to control my destiny, but my body was trembling all the time......

The first time I saw it, it was quite a royal sister fan, what is the matter with this contrast......

Li Pan also rubbed his eyebrows,

“…… Go back and sit down. ”

Yelena hurriedly sat down.

"That's it...... Behave normally? Li Pan thought for a while, "Just the colleague mode?" Forget it, secretary, lover, whatever, just relax a little and don't make me noticeable. ”

Yelena nodded again and again, "Okay boss, I remember." ”

Then she rubbed Li Pan's leg with her foot, and the force was so strong that Li Pan's calf poked by her high heels hurt......

"Well, whatever, serve the food."

So the intelligent attendants rushed in and served the main meal.

In the end, it is the cooking system of the top company, and the grilled salmon is indeed quite delicious, so that Yelena gradually relaxed, and couldn't help asking,

"Are you actually a VIP of paradisus heaven, there are few managers in Takamagahara who can consume exclusive customers, and the people who can usually live in Sky City are shareholder-level investors......

"Well, our company has good benefits and has experience rolls."

Li Pan was also noncommittal, and didn't want to talk too much in front of these intelligent people.

After all, the Paradise Group is not credible.

Li Panke still remembers that he was sitting upright in the car and was hit with a nuclear bomb in the face.

But unfortunately, in the Ceres Universe, his options are also limited.

In the universe, in the end, it is the territory of large companies, especially in the multi-mining area near Ceres, and the most powerful industry is the valley industry. In other words, this is an enemy-occupied area in a special engagement!

THE LAST TIME THEY MET, THEY DIRECTLY DISMANTLED AN AGRICULTURAL SPACE STATION, SO LI PAN DIDN'T FEEL AT EASE TO MEET YELENA IN A PUBLIC AREA, AND HE DIDN'T DARE TO DIRECTLY HAND OVER HAYABUSA BACK TO JUMP INTO THE REFINERY. In case it is caught up by other people's fleets, it will be troublesome.

So I searched the nearby Celestial Domain, and this Sky City under the Paradise Group belonged to the neutral zone of the company's private territory, and his exclusive customer treatment had not expired, so it was relatively safe.

This Ceres' Paradise Space Station is similar to Sky City in the Night City, both of which are consumer areas under the Paradise Group, similar to the Baofeng Group, Heaven also does various services in terms of luxury goods, but at the same time, the research and development technology of intelligent people is not bad, but it is not a carbon-based bionic person, but a silicon-based intelligent prosthesis, and various Android robots.

At the same time, Heaven also has a special patent, which is at the top of the committee, which is the Heaven Server and Upload Intelligence.

That's right, it's the eighteen-kind brain-computer upload technology.

And the 'paradise' of heaven, which is equivalent to the independent hypothetical server outside the public network of the QVN quantum virtual network, is the largest, legal private civilian network in the deep web.

Back then, Heaven was also generous, the top three bulls in the committee, but the so-called one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, HT Chaos Technology and PG Paradise The two network giants are in direct competition, and the competition is to the point of a corporate war, and in the end, the committee was even divided into two camps, and the biggest civil war broke out in the security committee.

That's right, it's the time when thirty percent of the heavens and worlds were destroyed and the star gates were renumbered.

As the winner, HT Chaos Technology obtained the exclusive right to operate QVN, and monopolized all corporate services, various public safety systems, public transportation systems, and corporate network firewall services.

Naturally, Heaven plummeted, lost QVN's orders, handed over a huge number of patents, and split up the prosthetic body and the service industry to sell them, which finally stabilized the basic market and gradually slowed back.

But unlike companies like Dawn Terra, which are in decline, with the unique technology on QVN, Paradise now has a chance to slowly slow back. And their most profitable business is to provide 'exclusive paradise customization' services to private people.

Because obviously, not everyone has 10 billion and can enjoy a true rebirth in another world.

For security reasons, it is impossible for Chaos Technology to open special permissions to individuals on public servers to prevent someone from threatening the security architecture of the entire QVN system.

But heaven can, anyway, it's all broken jars.

Usually only the company level can operate brain-computer assets, and Paradise takes out the supercomputing, servers and franchised networks that used to serve the QVN public network and are now idle, to provide customers with exclusive Paradise gift packages, exclusive intelligent upload space and private brain-computer servers.

Customers who purchase this service do not have to receive special training like Eighteen, nor do they have to build a big snake system like the company, as long as they go to the city of heaven to undergo surgery, they can 'go to heaven' and intelligently upload it to their own customized exclusive cyber space to achieve electronic immortality. It's like traveling into the network, into another dimension of the 'heavens and different worlds'.

And in a way, this kind of wish-fulfillment world may be more like heaven than the harsh reality. Of course, the premise is that you have to have money to spend.

As long as you have money, you can also be free in Heaven, and you can download it to the silicon-based intelligent human prosthesis at any time in any otherworldly plane with a Heaven server. Or if you get tired of playing, spend another 10 billion to customize a coordinated gene human life form to resurrect.

Therefore, like those in Sky City, who lie down every day, most of them use the customized service lines of Paradise to swim in the virtual electronic ocean.

Compared to the tens of billions of reborn in the other world, the services of heaven can barely be afforded by the middle-class elite, who can not only buy the services, but also upload their consciousness to heaven if the conditions permit after death.

Some companies will also sign a contract with Paradise Group to purchase long-term insurance for their employees, so that employees can upload to Paradise's servers after their accidental death. In this way, it will not affect the work, and you can continue to work and continue to pay back after you die......

Oh, O heaven......

So after having a meal, eating a piece of salmon meat and a bunch of condiments, Li Pan opened a single room in the Paradise Hotel with Ye Liena in his arms, and then the two of them used Heaven to link to the Heaven server, and then the two of them used their consciousness to download into the two intelligent human prostheses, and then bought a frigate with a package of cards and taxes, and went to the refinery to explore the way by empty ship.

It's so troublesome to go around in a big circle, and the cost is 10 million less. If he can be targeted by the company again, then Li Pan has nothing to say.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly, and there were no space pirates or anything like that to intercept their ship, and after a series of deep space jumps and manual navigation in the mining area, they successfully arrived at their destination, the black oil refinery in Takamagahara back then.

The plant is located in the Kuiper Ice Belt, which, unlike the asteroid belt, is dominated by frozen volatiles, or 'ice', methane, ammonia, and water.

The refinery, built in a frozen methane iceberg, is larger than the last warehouse and looks like it could at least be used for battleship-class mooring.

"Welcome, Manager Lee. You've worked hard all the way. ”

"President Kanamori, thank you for the gift."

"You're welcome, you're welcome, if you like it, come and take a look at our factory."

Yelena did not have permission to disembark, and the rest of the journey was greeted by Goro Kanemori, who showed him the production line and warehouse of the oil refinery.

It is basically a fully automatic and unmanned production area, with only a few automatic maintenance prostheses, and in case of emergency, there will be engineers who will be connected from a distance to repair them.

This place is indeed quite large, Li Pan roughly estimated, the entire factory equipment is full of horsepower, at least 20 tons of black oil can be produced every month, obviously one of the main military factories for the Titan fleet during the war years.

However, after so many years, those equipment are dismantled, dismantled, sold, repaired, and repaired, and now there is only one production line still maintained, with a full production capacity of one ton per month.

In order to avoid too frequent production and transportation being discovered by the Yeshi, the amount on the market is not high in peacetime, and in fact, it is only started once every six months.

The two of them roughly circled, came to the office, and met the representatives of the shareholders behind the scenes, of course, the other party also used prosthetics.

"Manager Li, let me introduce you, this is ......"

"Maeda Echichu."

The other party took the initiative to reach out to him.

And Li Pan was also stunned, "Maeda...... Who are you? ”

The name Echichu Maeda, who he also reads in the toilet, has seen it in various company information in the eighteen update.

This Maeda family is an important minister under Oda, Maeda Echichu himself served as the leader of the Oda clan's Ma Dai mother's clothes, and was later arranged to Shibata Heavy Industries, as the right hand of the Shibata valve, when the sons of the Oda family were in civil strife, they once became the henchmen of the Shibata family.

Later, after the High Heaven Yuan Cheongju Incident, this guy quickly jumped back, took over and crusaded against other forces under Shibata, and then took the Hokuriku Heavy Industries Group and jumped directly to Yu Chai, and became one of the best local bosses in the Yu Chai High Heaven Yuan regime, and he was exquisite, and his popularity on the committee side was also good, and he actually mixed up with a general in the Space Army, which can be regarded as a ruthless political animal.

I just don't know if there was him among the few people who drank tea together......

"President Li, I've admired my name for a long time, and I've been looking forward to meeting Your Excellency, please take a seat."

Goro Kanamori also observed that he had to close the door and go offline.

Li Pan also politely said,

"I heard that General Maeda has recently been in charge of the Takamagahara North Army Engineering Department, and I am very grateful to you for taking care of you and purchasing a large amount of equipment for the company last time.

I'll send the money, and if you allow it, arrange a ship to pick up the cargo now, and I hope our cooperation will continue. ”

In fact, if you think about it, although black oil is an important military consumable, its shelf life is too short and requires careful production planning, so even if it is necessary to be managed by Oda's cronies within Takamagahara, it must maintain close cooperation with the military industry bosses in order to smoothly turn over to the fleet.

It is estimated that thanks to this black oil hole card, the Maeda family can easily maneuver around the forces of all parties and jump sideways repeatedly. At a time when those big families have been wiped out and beheaded, let's still maintain the dignity of the family and the power of the growing world.

"You're polite, these are just small things, as long as you say a word, we, Maeda Military Industry, are willing to support your company in this bidding war. Do as you are told. ”

I also didn't expect that now there are no other audiences around, this Maeda Echichu doesn't want face at all, he bows his head, and he kneels on the ground under the soil, hugging his thighs and recognizing his father.

Although Li Pan doesn't believe that these people have a sentence of truth in their mouths, but he is a big man in Gao Tianyuan, and he kneels when he says, which is really powerful. So he was stunned, and he also piled up a smiling face to help him up,

"Why did the general say this, you are an important minister of Gao Tianyuan, the beloved general of His Royal Highness Yuchai, I am just an agent, and I am not even a regular worker, how can I afford it.

What's more, now that the victory is not scored, His Royal Highness Yuchai has also received a lot of emails from me, and he doesn't even let out a fart, and Gao Tianyuan has not sided with each other so far, but you turned against me so quickly, is it really good? No, it's just a knock when you see someone, right? ”

Maeda Echichu was not angry, still licking his face and laughing,

"Look at what you said, that monkey climbed all the way up from the 'Reed Plain', and it was indeed quite a bit of skill and scheming, but what he saw was still the 'High Heaven Plain' on the books. I have never been a stable, I have never seen 'Huangquan', I have never seen the real 'Takamagahara', there are many things that it is impossible to make a correct judgment.

But my family has been the personal servant of Oda Gong since ancient times, and it is more deeply rooted in the 'Yellow Springs', and I know it clearly that your company has long been involved in 0791, and has been operating on this earth for many years, and now the strength it shows is just the tip of the iceberg. The previous transfer of the Holy Grail to us for safekeeping was only the judgment of the higher-ups.

And now the really powerful ones in the committee have withdrawn early, and the remaining ones who are at the bottom of the list also want to challenge your company? Hehe, I don't think this battle has to be fought at all, even if your company doesn't make a move, Manager Li's ability alone is enough to sweep away other universe people. If you don't come to show favor now, when will you wait? ”

Li Pan was stunned for a moment, kept smiling, and glanced at him silently.

“…… The general misunderstood, what skills do I have, my skills are all given by the company. ”

Maeda Echichu smiled without saying a word, took out a chip from his arms and handed it over,

"Those cosmic people don't know your potential, but they know it very well. In fact, we have been paying attention to you, hiding you in every possible way, and we wanted to arrange for you to join the Security Bureau after graduation, but we also blamed us for hiding you too deeply, but we were spoiled by some idiots......

Not to mention, now that you've been recruited by TheM, it's unexpected, and it's no surprise that they can't find you. But I've heard that the SEC people have talked to you about it, right, so it's going to be bad if we hide it any longer.

So, here's a little greeting gift, not a respect. I think you'll be convinced of our sincerity after reading it. ”

Li Pan took the chip, inserted the letter into the chip suspiciously, and looked at the "Human Instrumentality Project-Human Completion Plan" that popped up, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared.

"Who the hell are you?"

Maeda Echichu smiled,

"No, Your Excellency should ask not who we are, but who you are."

Then his prosthetic eyes dimmed, and the link was disconnected.

(End of chapter)