Superpowers of Sky City

At 8:[-] p.m., TGF Hotel, Presidential Suite.

Babar Slok arranged a family-owned luxury hotel for several visitors from the Capital of the Firmament, and the young man took over the entire floor, including several guest rooms, a gym, a swimming pool, a high-altitude garden, and a meeting room.The people gathered at the moment are gathering in the meeting room, listening to Gongsun Ce's summary of today's investigation progress.

"The problem in Magneto State is mainly divided into two parts, the abnormal situation of Beep and the laid-off wave of magnetic control technicians. The factors that cause the former are unknown, and the latter is mainly due to the influence of the prosthetic robot promoted by the Y·C industry in recent years .”

Gongsun Ce drew a flying saucer and a dumb robot on the whiteboard, putting a question mark between them.

"The abnormality of the Y·C industry is obvious. We all know that capital is fundamentally profit-seeking, and no company will do anything to bring itself down for the so-called social change. It is reasonable to say that the Y·C industry should lose money to accompany it. They went bankrupt, but they are still able to maintain the mode of business annexation today, which only shows that someone helped them fill this hole."

"Sorry, the behind-the-scenes person didn't find out." Qi Luo put on a crying face, "There is no record in the database, and a detailed investigation requires physical access."

"It doesn't matter, I guess it's probably Utimes." Gongsun Ce tapped the question mark between the two with a black pen, "Now, I deeply doubt that there is a connection between the two."

"Dissent." Qin Qianbai pointed to the young man next to the whiteboard, "If the unemployment rate is related to the situation of Beep, it is absolutely impossible for it to go crazy only twice during the millennium."

"Then, what drives Beep crazy is the inside story behind the appearance of unemployment. I have a guess about it..."

Gongsun Ce suddenly asked: "Are any of you here familiar with Zero Island's giant enterprise management art?"

"If you have something to say, don't talk around it." Shi Yuling said impatiently.

"I'm glad to see that everyone doesn't understand. In fact, I don't understand either." Gongsun Ce smiled cheaply, "But I know who knows them best. Qi Luo, give me a call."

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"The underworld-clan conflict in the handbag area? Tell the leaders of both parties that if there is no reconciliation, ninjas will intervene. Please be aware...I know that there is a shortage of manpower, but the key to deterrence..." The controller held an old-fashioned phone in one hand The receiver, talking back and forth, "I understand that the old people are dissatisfied, but the release of that dragon worshiper is a request from the Firmament Capital... Think about it, do you really want to use such impolite words as 'to curry favor'? Smash=san might not be happy after hearing it?... That's fine, no, no, no need to cut off your finger to apologize, after all, I just heard it wrong just now."

"Guwa-! I'm going to die-!" The controller put down the two phone receivers, and wailed like being hit by a karate master.The giant ninja smash is drinking a cold drink on the tatami in the back, taking a break by leaving all the paperwork to the self-destructive and controlling ones.

If he had known this, he should have declined the promotion.The controller took a sip of the iced barley tea and thought sadly.After being promoted, the salary has doubled, but the workload has also doubled. If I had known this, I might as well be patrolling at the bottom... "Dingling, ringing!" The phone rang like a reminder, it was an unfamiliar call from overseas , the controller connected with doubts: "domo, this is Yamada from 99 Beijing Tower...aieee, Mr. Gongsun?! The video call is no problem, you are joking, it is not troublesome at all!"

The controller set all the communications in the office to the state of "I'm sorry", which is the highest level of do-not-disturb signal to express secret work.He put his phone on the table and connected to the video.Mr. Gongsun looks pretty good, and there are beautiful girls beside him as usual.

"Yo, Yamada! You look like you've been overworked."

"Ahaha, I actually abide by the labor law..." Yamada said guiltily, "It's great to see that Mr. Gongsun is still safe and sound! I wonder if there is anything I can do to help you?"

"There is something I want to consult. Do you know Y.C Industries?"

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Gongsun Ce briefly talked with the ninjas about the company and the automatic robot, while Yamada listened and searched for information on the way.

"...I understand." Yamada nodded, "Investing a huge amount of money that does not match the income during the promotion of new products, and showing advantages in multiple directions is actually a common method for giant Zero Island companies."

"What benefits will this bring them?" Gongsun Ce asked. "Local investors are not fools. Those who want to play tricks to drive up stock prices or enrich their own pockets are basically useless for foreign companies that have just arrived."

"How should I put it..." Yamada pondered, "Mr. Gongsun, what do you think is the most valuable thing for capitalists?"

"Technology and quality control?"

"You think too much about capitalists." Yamada sneered, "Actually, most giant companies don't care about the quality of their products. What they care about most is the people who buy them...that is, what consumers think.

As long as consumers want to buy, even fake and shoddy goods can be sold at high prices, and high-quality products that cannot be sold are equivalent to scrap iron.This is the real purpose of huge sums of money to promote tactics. These seemingly short-sighted and ridiculous propaganda actually have amazing efficiency in changing people's ideas. "

Yamada showed a photo. In the photo was Ashihara Castle they were familiar with. The airship used for commercial promotion repeated vulgar and even ridiculous slogans in the night sky.Cheap cheap, actually cheap.

"Looks ridiculous, right? But they really have an effect. You will get bored after listening to a sentence ten times, you will feel familiar after hearing it a hundred times, and you will trust it after hearing it a thousand times." Spending wages on idol groups is an adult People who choose ''must go to a resort on Yamato Island once in a lifetime'' and 'Malicious iced tea is harmless to the human body'... People who engrave these concepts in their minds will naturally send money into the coffers of the company."

Gongsun Ce nodded again and again: "In other words, ideas are the most valuable commodity."

"You're right... If you change your mindset, you can change people's way of life, and if you turn commodities into necessities, you won't have to worry about money. But even with huge sums of money to promote tactics, it's rare to achieve this. Accidentally being punctured is the end of bankruptcy, after that there should be another layer of consideration." Speaking of this, Yamada stopped talking to avoid disturbing the other party's thinking.

Gongsun Ce snapped his fingers: "Thank you, Yamada! You really helped me a lot. Is there anything you should pay attention to about the company itself?"

"They make good shurikens."

The rumbling sound came like a voiceover, and the black wall behind Yamada turned over, revealing the face of a giant ninja.That wall is actually the back of the smash.

"Thunder=san is also in that company. He is an Odd Appearance Envoy who is good at controlling lightning. He will not be your opponent."

"Please send me a copy of the information, so I will be prepared." Gongsun Ce shook his head with a smile, "Have you pushed the work to Yamada again?"

"Angry hahaha!"

The giant ninja smiled boldly and walked away from the screen.Yamada in the brown ninja outfit put on a bitter face in [-] seconds. "Please take care of yourself!" He put on a smile with the speed of changing his face like a professional, and bid farewell to Gongsun Ce and his party.

Gongsun Ce turned off the video call, turned around, and said to the ladies: "Thinking from this direction, the situation will show a new side. The biggest impact of the layoff of technicians on society is not that many people have lost their jobs. work, but because people's 'concepts' have undergone subtle changes.

When the eldest lady was collecting information before, she mentioned an interesting saying that the locals used to use the word confrontation to describe the relationship between man and nature.If humans and nature are regarded as two armies facing each other, the technicians who transform the dangerous enemy's elite soldiers "magnetism" into our forces are undoubtedly the top elites of the human camp...and after most of them are replaced by robots , what would most people think? "

Qin Qianbai thought for a moment, then replied, "It's enough to rely on robots...?"

"Correct. 'It's okay without a general', 'It's enough for us to have a robot in battle', 'This way we don't have to fight'... It's not surprising that such a team will be killed by the opponent in one go. .”

"It is possible," Elandia said. "The mind itself has power."

"However, the focus of 'available' is on specific materials." Shigure Zero tapped the table, "This method can affect at best the redundant concepts in a local area... Do you think those who have no power Will the meme of the local totem affect the status of the local totem? This is too far from the mysterious world, and it is almost the same as the spiritual prison world."

Gongsun Ce shook his hand: "I'm sorry, ladies, can you speak more clearly? I don't quite understand what you are talking about."

"Actually, Ms. Shigure didn't understand, she was just echoing me." Elandia said, "This is the knowledge you will learn later."

"Ahahaha, she's just pretending!" Gongsun Ce laughed unscrupulously.

"This guy...!" Shi Yuling's teeth grinding sounded clearly. "Calm down, Shigurei!" "Don't pretend you don't understand." Qi Luo hurriedly and Qin Qianbai controlled someone with a dark complexion, lest everyone fight before they acted.

"Come back to business, this may not be a direct effect of the dragon phenomenon. It may be that someone once used people's concepts to accomplish something, but now this concept has been shaken..."

Ailandia was thinking quietly, and Qin Qianbai noticed that her expression was somewhat familiar.She observed for a while, and found that those tiny movements and eyes were almost exactly the same as those of Gongsun Ce.It was Ah Ce who had been learning from her, and many of his ideas for solving problems came from this lady.Think, speculate, confirm, solve.

"This is still speculation, and we need to confirm it. Ce, I have an idea." Elandia said, "I read in the newspaper last week that tomorrow there will be an employment art exhibition specially set up for the unemployed. .”

"Ah~!" Gongsun Ce nodded in agreement, "You are right, we can make this exhibition bigger. If 'concept' is really that important to them, Mr. President will definitely come to the door himself."

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two hours later.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Y·C Industry President's Office.

Yamamoto Carter slumped in his office chair, sighing wearily.The oiran robot brought from Zero Island automatically walked behind him and rubbed his shoulders.The robot's hand was cold in the air-conditioned room, and Yamamoto thought that an intelligent temperature control system should be added to it.

Yamamoto was very tired. There were a lot of troubles at the recording site of today's program. He was severely made things difficult by the host, and in the evening it was another reception for the acquisition of small and medium-sized enterprises.But he also has a sense of accomplishment. The advancement of automated production has changed the city and people's thinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.Ideas are more powerful weapons than banknotes, and the new generation of his dream is dawning, an era made by machines that will free mankind... a better tomorrow...

"hey-hey."

Yamamoto laughed triumphantly and proudly. He turned on the TV to see if there was a replay of his interview.The late-night news was shown on the TV, and the young man in red with short hair was talking to the reporters.

"...Mr. Jago Drusus, Governor of the Catholic Church in red, expressed his deep humanitarian concern for the unemployment wave of technicians in this city and surrounding areas. Mr. Jago said that machines cannot replace creative human beings after all. Tomorrow's Art fairs are the best proof of that..."

The interview with the Governor in Red is over.President Yamamoto's face suddenly darkened, he turned off the TV, and angrily slapped the remote control on the table.

"The bastards from the TV station!" Yamamoto yelled angrily, "They only made a promise to me at the reception last week, and the result turned out to be...Where did the commercial spirit of the people go! I went to the show to be a clown Is this what you got in exchange! Thunder=san! Thunder=san!!”

"I'm here."

The ceiling of the president's room opened, and a corporate ninja in a bright yellow ninja outfit stood in front of the president without a sound. "After all, we are outsiders, and the Slok family and the church have greater influence." Lei Ming told the truth he didn't want to hear, and President Yamamoto pulled his hair anxiously. "Those bastards, if they catch the opportunity to promote, such a long time of hard work..."

The corporate ninja waited quietly until the president regained his composure.A sly smile appeared on President Yamamoto's face.

"That's good too. If the other party wants to make a temptation, let's find a way to turn it into an opportunity. Tell the people in the church that we are also happy to participate in a public art exhibition and send the latest skillful hand K9."

"Very happy."

"Then, tell the people on the TV station and those self-media bloggers that this event is the best opportunity to prove the church's concept, and the truth is always highlighted in the debate... In short, it is those clichés. Then invite some experts to publish in the newspaper Argue, let them take advantage of this momentum to stir up the topic, the hotter the better, right? Another eye-catching title. 'Machines VS Humans! The Art of Discourse!' That's good, right?"

"Very happy." Lei Ming nodded, "Do you want to flatter and kill?"

"That's it, hold them up high, and then push them hard for the last time." Yamamoto's eyes became firm, "Thunder=san, use your ability to interfere with them tomorrow. Make sure they fail! Then people will You will have a deep understanding of who the progressives of the times are!"

"Very happy." Lei Ming said, "but the other party's experts won't just sit idly by. They have the Envoy of Creation of the World, and the investigators from the Firmament Capital are here today."

"Is there a big gap between Appearance and Creation?" Yamamoto frowned.

"It's as big as the gap between Zero Island and Usters."

Lei Ming knew that this metaphor made Yamamoto completely understand.The president was thinking hard at the desk, flipping through the materials of the enemies together with him.

"Is that young man able to create world-class combat power when he has activated the psychic power?" Yamamoto asked, "Then, if he is forced to the point where he has to use the psychic power...Mr. Gaius can collect Enough information, right? This is more meaningful than our mission itself, right?"

"It's actually like this." Lei Ming said, "A meaningful defeat is equal to a different kind of victory. Please lend me the equipment that Hong Yiqing gave you."

Hearing this, Yamamoto cringed, and he said worriedly: "You can use weapons produced by the company, such as iron sand shurikens. But let's forget about that, Leiming=san. It's too dangerous, and it's not something that humans can use. "

"I don't even have this level of awareness, and I will only be defeated by the enemy in an instant."

Lei Ming stood silently, with a stubborn fighting spirit in his eyes, and a fanaticism similar to that of President Yamamoto.

"Yamamoto=san." He changed into a personal address, "After a certain age, human beings can clearly see their limits. Just like politicians who can't climb up, white-collar workers who can't be promoted, I am the same .I practiced to the Appearance Realm, and my whole life will stop here.

However, I want to see the scenery after the 'end' no matter what.I don't expect to be able to stand there, I just want to take a look... Even for a moment, I am satisfied. "

"Oh..." Yamamoto hesitated for a long time before making a decision, "Please be careful."

The two came to the deepest part of the Y·C Industrial Building. In the dark space stood a set of alloy battle armor about two meters high.There were streaks of golden current flashing across the equipment, and the helmet was made into a hideous look, like a ferocious dragon about to bite off its head.