The command building of the former military base has been renovated, and the floor-to-ceiling windows on the first floor of the building where you can directly see things outside the building have been replaced by the original tempered composite glass with new purified glass. The outer layer of the purifying glass has a transparent lattice filter, which has the effect of sharing radioactive substances. Radioactive dust is blocked by this mesh outside the glass, thus protecting the indoor environment.

Crystal mesh glass is a small part of the Black Rose family's recent exploration of environmental purification, which is still in the end, and when other purifying building materials are developed, Beonliz may consider putting them all on the market. This should be a big shock to the existing purification equipment market, and now, the windows of the command building are all replaced with this purification glass as a pilot for the Black Rose family.

Of course, crystalline glass alone is not enough to completely isolate the inside and outside of the building. Twenty air filter generators are installed in the corners of the hall, which continuously filter the air throughout the hall and send toxic substances to the outside through the exhaust pipes, creating a relatively safe indoor environment for the hall.

If it weren't for that, the nobles of Asgard wouldn't have come to the wilderness to attend the invitation party for the opening of the Zero Point Company. After the fireworks used as the opening ceremony of the party ended, the melodious sound of the piano sounded in the hall. As soon as the pianist finished playing, Zero presided over the speech of the evening and announced the official start of the cocktail party.

Then the light of the hall softened, and the nobles began to turn their heads to each other with the sound of a low, soft piano. Countless messages crept through the party, and the occasional chuckle and the staggering of wine glasses meant that some agreement had been quietly reached. The publicists of Zero Company also began to haunt these aristocratic businessmen, exploring possible business opportunities at the reception.

It's an aristocratic game of business, and looking at the well-mannered men and the ladies in their shadows, it's impossible to connect the scene with the brutal wilderness outside.

Whether it is the old era or the new era, the gap between the rich and the poor, the cheap and the noble will always be so huge. People in the wilderness may be able to fight for their lives for a fairly clean bread, but a party like this can eat the rations of a thousand-person town in the wilderness in recent years. At the same time, it also eats up at least a million or so funds.

Watch the waiter pierce the edges, the bottles of fine wine open, the soft lights swirl gracefully, and even the air in the hall with minimal radiation. All of this means that the money in the zero pocket is pouring out in an endless stream.

It's just that Zero also understands that without giving, there is no gain. What he is giving now will surely be redoubled on these people.

"Well done, Zero. ”

The old man's slightly nasal voice sounded behind Zero, and when Zero turned around, he saw Ben in civilian clothes. Ben came to Zero's drinking party today as a private person, but even so, I don't know how many nobles in this drinking party heard that Ben was also there, so they followed suit. Otherwise, with zero and one upstarts, some of the nobles in the field who hold their own identities are not something he can invite.

For this old man who has known since the wilderness, changed the trajectory of his destiny, and still fully supports him until now, Zero Self is grateful. He beckoned the waiter, picked up two glasses of wine, and handed one of them to Ben, and said sincerely: "I am very happy that you are willing to come." Master Douglas. ”

Ben Haha smiled, took the glass and said, "Here I'm Ben, not Douglas." We used to be comrades-in-arms, and of course, the time was short. But no matter what, I still remember that little experience. Come, let's have a toast. ”

Zero smile, wine glasses staggered, drink it all in one go.

"Zero, you're doing even better than I thought. As now, according to my original estimates, it would be at least three years before you could do all this. But you've only spent just over a year, which is good and proves that I have a vision. Ben said with another drink, spitting on it.

Zero stood next to him and said lightly, "Without your help, I wouldn't be able to do what I am now." So I'm grateful, but at the same time a little confused. ”

"Oh, what's the doubt? Ben asked with interest.

Zero shook a new wine and said, "To be able to develop Valhalla and Asgard to the point of being one of the two giants of the mainland, I believe that when you are a superior person like Lord Douglas, you must be a person of foresight." I've read a few books before, but there were few people in power like you in the old days who cultivated their subordinates as vigorously as you did, even to the point of laissez-faire. Isn't Lord Douglas afraid that someone like me will not be controlled by you or Valhalla once his power swells to a certain extent?"

Ben listened to Zero's doubts, and he didn't answer them immediately. He called for the third wine, and did not forget to say: "The wine is good tonight, you shouldn't be able to get such a product yet, it should be provided by Beonlis." ”

Zero nodded, and Ben smiled: "That's it, even Beonise thinks you're a partner to work with, do you think my vision will be worse than that girl?"

Ben took a small sip and continued, "Zero, I'm not dizzy enough to get old and dizzy. If I can't control my ambitions, I'm not stupid enough to lend a gun to someone else to deal with myself. We met in Remut that day, and you Weishenme took over Theon's mission, and I knew it clearly. If you weren't a responsible man, I wouldn't have given you Colt that night, but would have sent you back to the West with a bullet. ”

"The identity of a man-made god is not enough for me to move the idea of inviting you. Of course, that crazy Jihua in the old days does have a lot of value to study, but once your identity is not well controlled, it will definitely be a devastating disaster for Asgard. No matter how stupid I am, I wouldn't put a ticking time bomb on my side. Ben looked at Zero and said solemnly: "The reason why I support you is because I believe that you who can take out all the money on your body to help others have enough self-discipline to control your liliang and ambition." You will be my friend, not my enemy. ”

"Of course, that's not enough. Your liliang, your sense of responsibility, and everything you do now are the embodiment of your value. Zero, if you have that value, there will be me, Beonliz and these people in the venue who are willing to invest in you. Ben smiled and said, "Also, I'm not generous enough to be unrestrained by you awesome guys. It's just that you're not at the point where you've touched the limit. ”

At this time, an assistant comes to Zero's side and reminds him that he should prepare for the arms exhibition. So Zero said goodbye and left, and when his figure was overwhelmed by the crowd, Ben quietly withdrew from the venue and sat on a private car that had been prepared for a long time outside the venue.

Ben is just here to go through the motions and show his face to show his support for Zero. Now, what he should have done has been done, and naturally there is no need to continue to stay. After all, the real protagonist tonight is Zero.

The car drove away from the base and headed for the wilderness back in the direction of Asgard. During the journey, a screen was lowered in front of the seat. After a short period of standby, the screen appears. In the picture, Cario's figure appears in it.

"How's it going, Cario, is there any news from the Jishu department?" asked Ben indifferently.

In recent days, he's been trying to track down the identity of the person behind the killing. Due to his pressure, the relevant Jishu personnel on the command side have been working overtime continuously, day and night to track down the source of the fake order issued through the headquarters system that day.

Cario had two panda eyes, and the chief instructor had as many as three cigars in his mouth. As if he wanted to burn the lobes of his lungs, he took a few puffs of his cigarette and said, "You came just in time, I was just looking for you." Basically, there are results coming out. The few days that Jishu Department have been busy with their work have not been in vain, and it is certain that the guy who issued the order is a computer master. Or rather, he has such a talent under his hands. Either way, the command itself set up a lot of data traps and problems. I won't go into the details of the process, but the conclusion is that this order was issued by our great dark god, Lord Loki!"

"Loki?" Ben's pupils shrank slightly, and he said in a deep voice, "Have you investigated clearly?"

"At least 80% sure. Jishu found an abandoned tablet brain from the source of the signal terminal, the brain was damaged, but they found that the central chip could be repaired inside. After taking a few more puffs of his cigarette and coughing a few times, Cario said, "Of course, the brain is not the special computer that Lord Loki usually uses. It was only in the repaired chip that some information was found, and they indirectly pointed to Lord Loki. This information includes several emails, hey, it turns out that our Lord Loki is also a guest of honor of the Dark Merchant. And then there's some video material, so to speak, Lord Loki is quite photogenic, so these things, Ben, do you want me to hand over to your secretary. ”

Ben frowned, although Cario looked like a rough man on the outside, he was serious when he was doing his business. Since he dared to report an 80% probability, the answer was almost equal to 100%. It's just that I didn't expect that it would be Loki who wanted to kill zero.

It's not impossible, Rocky has an eccentric personality, and his personality assessment has comments such as "narrow-minded, possessive, and destructive". The most serious of these is Loki's possessiveness, and in Loki's private mansion, all of his decorations and even the materials used in his construction are unique in Asgard. Loki would never allow what he owned to be in the hands of others, and if such a situation occurred, the same thing would be destroyed by his own hands.

Speaking of which, Ben remembers the last time there was a small conflict between Loki and Zero at the Great Hall's celebration dinner. At that time, Loki threatened to destroy Zero, but at that time, he only thought that Loki was playing a childish temper again, so he didn't take it to heart. Now, judging from the evidence at Cario's disposal, the possibility is infinitely larger.

If that's all there is to it, Loki still has dealings with the Dark Merchant, which is something that Ben cannot tolerate. Others may not know, but Ben, Cario, or Paul all know that the Dark Merchant is in fact run by Oglok, the Speaker of the Dark Council. If Loki had been in contact with the Dark Merchant, there was no guarantee that there would be some kind of collaboration between him and Ogellock.

Given Loki's personality weaknesses, this is a very high possibility.

On the screen, Cario silently waits for Ben's decision. After thinking for a moment, Ben finally sighed: "Let Valkyrie spy on Loki, if he does something out of the ordinary, he can be directly sanctioned without me." Inform Thor and Badr to keep an eye on the members of the Dark Blade, and forcibly detain them by force if necessary. The only caveat is that it's all going to be done in secret, and I don't want to give Oglok a sniff. ”

Cario said silently, "I know what to do. ”

This is the end of the communication, and Ben's brow furrows even more as the screen gradually recedes into the bottom cover. As the car carrying the highest power in Asgard returns to the city, an undercurrent begins to surge in the city, and the turmoil of the last knowledge is coming!

The undercurrent is coming, but at least it's calm at the moment. The weapons exhibition room of Zero Point Technology was brightly lit, and the exhibition room was located at the back of the venue, covering an area of about 2,000 square meters. The room was filled with weapons racks, but most of them were still vacant, and only on the shelves in the small arms area had just been placed a batch of light rifles that the company had produced not long ago.

Although these rifles are weapons of the old era, the use of new age finishing jishu and composite materials makes these finished products not only accurate, but also durable. If it flows into the wilderness, it is considered a high-quality product. In addition, there are other lightweight firearms and equipment for customers to refer to and buy.

It's just that although these weapons are well-made, in terms of power, they can never be compared with new weapons. Naturally, the 2,000-square-meter exhibition room is only open to ordinary customers. This is the first exhibition held by Zero, and the weapons on display are not sold on the basis of power. The real selling point is the production capacity of these guns, which in time has its own equipment development team. With such a production facility, it is difficult to guarantee that Zero will not produce excellent new weapons.

Therefore, among the nobles who visited the exhibition room, although the number of people who placed orders was not large. However, there are also more than a dozen people with unique vision, seeing the meaning behind this exhibition, they also ordered a batch of new firearms in a decent manner, which can be regarded as the first step in the cooperation between themselves and Zero.

Among the nobles at the venue, four or five aristocratic lords who had already been assessed as big customers by the public relations team of Zero Point Company took the repair haode elevator to the second basement base through a secret invitation and visited the headquarters of Zero Point Company and the newly built arsenal.

In the arsenal, several assembly lines are in action. However, most of the space in the factory is still idle, and there is still a lack of soft and hard facilities such as workers, equipment, and even weapons development teams. Only when these things are all in place can the factory action of Zero Technology be officially on the right track. But among the several assembly lines in operation, there is a new type of individual combat rifle that is being produced, but it has attracted the attention of these nobles.

The battle rifle produced by this assembly line, called "Dark Blood", has been modified by the second generation, allowing the new rifle to be powered by high-capacity batteries, completely replacing the ignition system of the old era. This makes the rifle very quiet when firing, and barely makes any noise, which can be said to be a stealth killer on the battlefield.

The rifle has a choice of two modes, sniper mode and burst fire, with the sniper mode firing range of up to two kilometers, and even the burst mode has an effective range of nearly one kilometer. This makes long-range fire suppression no longer rely on the cumbersome heavy equipment of rapid-fire heavy guns to complete, and the new rifle is more flexible to use, as for the power, it can be completely compensated by quantity.

Darkblood II is a weapon produced by Zero from the Black Rose family's acquisition of weapon blueprints. Although this rifle is the last powerful weapon in the new arsenal, it is the same as the ground exhibition room, showing customers that the company has the ability and equipment to produce new weapons.

Therefore, after visiting the arsenal, several nobles who were invited to the high-class parlor, although only one customer said that they wanted to order a batch of Dark Blood Rifles. But in between the talks, the remaining customers also showed a willingness to cooperate, but they needed far more weapons than the Dark Blood Rifle.

In the negotiation with these nobles, in addition to the participation of Black Rose's public relations staff, Theon, who was invited to the reception tonight, was also impressively listed. Theon served as Zero's temporary advisor, and he was a good talker, and during his time in Asgard, Theon had a certain level of understanding of the city's nobles. Therefore, in some technical communication, Theon can be described as fluent.

From politics to art, from war to women, Theon has dabbled in almost every field. Whenever they talk, they cleverly use words to show that the talker is better than himself in this regard. made these noble lords smile and smile, and they had the feeling of seeing each other late. So in the middle of the conversation, Theon faintly won a few large orders for the zero company, and everything was just waiting for the zero factory to get on the right track, and there were special personnel who would track the progress of these orders.

Looking at Theon's appearance of being like a fish in water between these nobles, Zero sighed.

Everyone has a battlefield that everyone is good at.

Zero's battlefield is in the wilderness, while Theon's battlefield is between politics and business. Theon's cameo tonight has given Zero a few potential customers who can cooperate for a long time, and its role is no less than that of a powerful person.

When the staff took over Theon's job and began to serve these clients, Zero and Theon quietly left the room. Their work has been done, and the next step is nothing more than some follow-up service, but they don't have to do it themselves.

Zero and Theon walk in the renovated living quarters, where some of the water purification units and generator sets have been restored, and as long as there is enough fuel, it can fully support the daily operation of the small half of the base. Of course, as long as Zero continues to expand, it is not impossible that one day, this two-story base will be fully operational.

If the second-floor base is in normal operation, it means that there will be a permanent population of nearly 2,000 here, which is already equivalent to the size of a medium-sized town.

Looking at this base, Theon was in a trance, as if he had seen the epitome of Remut.

At this point, Zero said, "Mr. Theon, I wonder if I can take the liberty of making a request to you?"

Theon smiled slightly and said, "You want me to stay and help you?"

Wisdom like Theon, how can he not guess zero thoughts.