Chapter 5 Can't Fight
Hack took the map and compared it all over the building, drawing the odds and pieces of offices that were not marked on the map, speculating on the hidden spaces. On a map for visitors or insiders, he couldn't find a wide office. Eighty percent are hiding in which secret room.
The man hid himself, subjecting his men to Norpig's attack, and did not allow them to take precautions. Nick felt that no matter how many great titles he had, and how often he was in the newspaper pages for charity, he couldn't respect Kuo for that alone.
Wick probed all the way to the lobby on the first floor, and on the way he did find a lot of unused space that couldn't find an entrance.
Syk sees Sister Dai in the lobby, directing the staff to repair the damage caused by Nopigue. She specified the pieces that each person wanted to move, and then the location where she wanted to move. Everyone commands one action at a time, and depending on the atmosphere, they know that it is best not to assert themselves.
So there were so many mages on the scene, and not half of them used spells.
Xi Ke looked at Sister Dai's back, and always felt that something was different. It's been less than half a day since Xi Ke first saw her, and although Sister Dai obviously belongs to the core of power in this place, she herself is a woman who will not impress Xi Ke. He only cared about Sister Dai's power, and he had no interest in the rest of the world.
The current Dai sister didn't know which dark memory Xi Ke had touched, which made Xi Ke's soul tremble.
For female mages, there is a deep-seated fear of Xi Ke. Generally speaking, the more primitive the spell system, the more emphasis is placed on qualifications, and the closer to the modern spell system is, the more emphasis is placed on effort. Soni spells are very primitive spell systems, so qualifications have a great impact on learning outcomes. Since ancient times, women have been gifted with magic better than men, so in the Dark Academy, women are overwhelmingly superior to men.
The current sister Dai gives Xi Ke that feeling. She's like the female classmates in the academy in the past, they can see other people as maggots just by the fact that they are women.
Sister Dai turned and faced Xike head-on. Rick saw her loose face, her eyebrows and mouth that she tried to pretend to be majestic and taut, and the feeling she had just felt disappeared without a trace. She's just a boring woman with power that doesn't belong to her, with a round face that is clutching the tail of youth, a shape-shaped body that lacks exercise and is only maintained by massage, and that's it.
"The one over there!" Sister Dai shouted at Xi Ke with her hands on her hips and chest, "Come here and help, what are you doing standing there stupidly?"
Unable to escape in time, he joined the team of manual repairs. Every employee who was called by Sister Dai had a helpless expression of wanting to leave work early.
"I'm going to a meeting! hurry up and get all of this, don't let me catch you being lazy again!" Sister Dai yelled at Syke. Although Xike has always been working, it is better not to argue at this time. He nodded humbly.
As soon as Sister Dai walked out of the hall, everyone exchanged a look and immediately took out the staff and amulet, the handling technique, the remodeling technique, the shattering technique, the restoration technique, everyone can use whatever spell they can, the spell light kept flashing, and the hall was sorted out at once.
One of the employees sighed, "It's finally time to get things done. 」
After finishing up, everyone returned to their posts, some people had to sort out the reports, some people had to contact customers, and some people had more important and delicate things to repair than the façade. Rick wasn't the only one here who was interrupted in the middle of his work.
Nick ran to the counter, leaning his upper body against the edge of the counter and asked the staff, "How often does Norpige harass here?"
"If you mean the record on paper, he's never been harassed here. The counter clerk said, "Whoever asks you this question, you have to answer that the company's well-established security measures have kept Norpig out of the door, and he has no chance of causing any damage to the company and its valued customers." 」
Rick asked, "But can you tell me what the gate looks like?"
"As a mage who came to our company practiced Transfiguration while walking, we have a reasonable suspicion that he is causing such an ugly state by throwing away the remaining clumps of energy. The Company has claimed damages from the Master. 」
"Where's the Explosive Hope Lecture?"
"The speaker failed to manage his private life well, and revenge was only caused by resentment with others. The company is completely innocent and suffered. The Company has sought compensation from his bereaved family due to the loss of work efficiency caused by his personal actions damaging the Company's assets and frightening the Company's employees. 」
"The office fire just now?"
"Poor distribution design leads to fireshots. The responsibility lies with the construction company that built the building, which failed to meet its professional requirements adequately, and of course the company has held it liable for causing the death of its employees. 」
Tick bites the inside of his lower lip with his upper and lower incisors. Altaro Moxin did not admit that they could not stop Norpig, and in order to create the illusion that Norpige had never succeeded, they would find someone to help Norpi take the blame whenever something happened. Before he met him, Xi Ke really didn't think that such a thing could be done. The counter clerk said these things with a cold expression, and apparently he didn't like it either.
"I'll change the question, how many times a day will the head office of Ataro Moxin be very innocently affected by other people's mistakes?"
"Five times a day on average. The employee smiled more terrifyingly than the cold expression and said, "Even the frequency of accidents at the Haunted House in Kandapil is not as high as in our company. 」
Xi Ke lowered his head and thought for a moment, then looked up and asked, "Where are the magic words used for employees here?" At this time, if you want to know something, it is best to talk to the director of the Mage Practice Administration directly.
"The only magic word here that can take the initiative to communicate with the outside world is managed by Sister Dai. If there is a need to use it, you must write an application first, and unlock it after Dai Sister has approved it. The entire call must be recorded to prove that it has not been abused. 」
"This is the Devil's Talk Company! there's only one!" Rick shook the table in disbelief. If you work at a fast food restaurant, you can eat fast food to your heart's content!
The employee pursed his lips, showing that he and Xi Ke felt the same way: "Before Lord Kohogaim Kejar took office, each of us had a 1,000-degree free employee benefit quota to use every year, and now this benefit has also been abolished. 」
"That's broad—I forgot what to do again, but you know who I'm talking about. He's afraid you'll tell you outside how it's going on here—" Before he could finish his sentence, the staff hurriedly shut his mouth.
The employee whispered, "Don't say it. That man is an archmage, and we can't fight him. 」
Xi Ke swallowed the words back into his stomach, it was not something easy to digest. The bell rang at six o'clock. A simple melody composed of a single note announces that Syk is ready to leave work.
The employee said coldly, "You won't be able to hear it from tomorrow, and I don't want to mention that the shift clock will interfere with the employee's desire to concentrate on work, and it must be canceled in order to make the employee's work smoother." He wants us to forget when we get off work and rest, and preferably work until we forget to eat or sleep, and die here. 」
Through a whole bunch of coercive "autonomy" rules, you can't complain, you can't get angry, and now you can't even leave work on time. In fact, this is not a primary school, not a kindergarten, but a slave factory.
Nick turned to look at the rainless gate and walked out, seriously considering whether he wanted to come back or not.
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Rick rented a place in the city where he could spend the night. It was on the edge of the slum and on the other side was redevelopment. Due to the old age of the house, the corruption of public security, the unauthorized compartment does not comply with the regulations, and the construction site next door that keeps dropping things and is targeted by the National Construction Bureau, the rent has been reduced a lot. But even if it is this kind of broken price, because it is in this city, it is still very expensive, and you can rent the whole house in other places.
Xi Ke walked into the so-called "room" that was only two square meters in size and had no windows. There was only a mattress and an electric fan in the room, and nothing else could fit in. The thin mattress was thrown directly on the floor, and there was no such thing as a real "bed" here. His weather-beaten suitcase was still on the mattress. Since there is no furniture for storage in this place, there is probably no need to tidy up.
He cast a spell to summon fresh air, and then carefully erected a ball-shaped fixed wall to cover the room. He had to make sure that even if the crane next door fell on his room this time, the room wouldn't flatten.
When everything was ready, he took out the expired bread he had found on the road and gnawed it silently.
Through the paper-thin wall panels, Syk hears the voices of almost every room. The neighbor on the left was drinking and scolding the boss to himself, the neighbor on the right was snoring deafeningly, the two upstairs neighbors were rolling around on the ground, and the downstairs neighbors quarreled, and it didn't take long for it to turn into smashing things and crying.
Rick sighed and began to miss the cold, fragrant air of the forest, freshly picked wild herbs, and the tranquil surroundings. If it weren't for the money, he wouldn't have lived this hard life. His neighbors must be like that, but Rick already has a contract, and they're still waiting for an opportunity. Life in the countryside is much better than here, and if it weren't for the fact that the big cities have a better chance of leading to a colorful future, there wouldn't be so many people crowded here.
And at the age of twenty, he understood what he really liked. As soon as this work is over, he will leave the city immediately.
He collapsed on the mattress, covered his body with his coat, and fell asleep from the noise and vibration of the construction site. I don't know how long he slept, but he woke up stiff and remembered that he hadn't brushed his teeth or bathed. He put his toiletries in the basin and went to the basement to find a shared bathroom.
There was no magic ladder here, and he went down the stairs. He looked out of the narrow window in the stairwell, and the buildings were brightly lit before it was dark. The bright colors of various neon signs can only be seen in the artificial concrete jungle.
Rick remembered that the place where he was born was completely different from this place. He is a child of the mountains. He continued downstairs.
The basement doubles as a utility room, and the air is filled with the stench of rats and sewage. There are piles of broken furniture here. The hairless broom in the corner shows that there were people who had tried to show tidying up here in the past, and it was obviously a failure.
The shared bathroom is located in the corner here, so you must wear shoes when you go in, and you can't touch the walls, otherwise you will come out dirtier than before you went in.
Seeker walked into the bathroom in plastic slippers and stepped over the tiles covered in black footprints. Because the number of bathrooms in this building is simply not enough compared to the number of residents, Xi Ke was still mentally prepared to queue up, but he didn't think that there was no one.
By the time he had taken a shower and put on clean clothes and came out, there was still no one waiting outside. The stench had changed, and there was a faint smell of sulfur mixed with it, and the silver box around his neck jumped violently, and he immediately threw down the basin and pulled out the sacrificial knife and a handful of chicken ribs.
The smell of sulfur became heavier, and began to irritate the nose and eyes, and a faint smell of blood wafted over, mixed with the peculiar sour smell that people emit when they were afraid.
In addition, he recognized several scents in the air: the thorn water as a concoctor of spell materials, the spider powder, the main pigment material of the circle, and the sacrificial filth taken from his intestines. Numerous flavors emerge one after another.
These were the usual scents of the summoning demons, and Vick had attended them countless times. Everyone in the Dark Academy will learn to summon demons, and almost all of them will choose demons as the first demons, and there are very few people like Xi Ke who choose demons as demons.
The broken bookshelves near the staircase burst into flames and burst into flames. The flames expanded at an unnatural rate, and the staircase was engulfed in flames at once.
Smoke rose from the ground, obscuring Rick's vision.