Civilization: Beyond Two Worlds

After sending the Dragon Emperor away, Kant breathed a sigh of relief.

In this incident, the Dragon Clan can be described as the biggest loser. From the mysteriously missing mission to the Dragon Legion that was almost wiped out, the loss of more than 30 people on Long Island this time is a major event that is enough to shake the regime.

Therefore, the battle of the Far Harbor is settled, and the top priority is not to settle accounts after the autumn, nor to extort the empire, the council and the elves, but to face any actions that the dragons may take, including war.

Fortunately, all the dragons who died this time were Long Island conservatives.

Fortunately, the Dragon Emperor is a business dragon.

Fortunately, forbidden spells, battleships, armaments, and what they represent, as well as the identity deterrence of fire thieves, kept the king of giant dragons cautious and rational.

But reaching a consensus with this business dragon still has to pay a little price.

"However, I didn't suffer."

The confrontation and game with the Dragon Emperor is first to show muscles, secondly to show attitude, and then to achieve a consensus on concepts and ideas, and finally, to exchange and bind interests.

For example, when Dragon King saw a tablet capable of playing video, he was acutely aware of its various other uses—text, news, opinion control, advertising, music, theater, and so on.

This top business dragon has developed all kinds of infinite charm and huge business opportunities of personal mobile terminals in the Internet age almost instantly, and realized that this is an unprecedented huge gold mine, even enough to surpass the security business profits of Longdao Defense and become a new business model. wealth growth point.

Kant's force and attitude made him give up the monopoly of obtaining the production method.

Then turn to cooperation.

Such benefits are enough for the Dragon Emperor to ignore the deaths and injuries of the Dragon Clan this month.

After all, those who died in the battle under Danfeng Lucerne were work-related injuries and could not retaliate.

The embassy also had to go on a treasure hunt without reporting, and even lost a dragon, not to mention it.

As for those dragons who died in the Far Harbor, they were even more lost dragons. They were backstabbed by their own people at first, and then they were saved by Kant. The most important thing is that they are still conservatives, not employees of Long Island Defense, but still the elders. Acquiring tax evasion and evasion, these tax thieves have nothing to regret except that they are dead and unable to finally shine for their clan.

- Of course, the most important reason is that Kant gave too much money.

And Kant also made a bid.

Broken Islands.

For Far Harbor to regain its position as the center of trade on the west coast, it must first kill the Broken Isles.

Dragon Island is isolated overseas. It is also an island country. The Broken Islands is completely within the combat radius of the dragon battle group. With the help of the Dragon Emperor, the external pressure will be shared a lot. After all, the deterrent force of the dragon is still enough.

When the Dragon Emperor heard this condition, he said that he had to pay more.

So Kant added money.

Using his unrivaled alchemy skills to provide powerful weapons and equipment for the dragon operators of Dragon Island Defense to enhance their market competitiveness and reduce the casualty rate.

This can save a lot of pension and insurance money for Long Island Defence.

Of course, you have to pay for it.

Of course, the Dragon Emperor said that it doesn't matter - anyway, it's not the company that pays the money, the dragon scales are on the dragon. If the dragon operators want to raise the price, they can buy weapons and equipment by themselves.

Of course, if the operatives of the Royalist faction want to buy equipment, they can go through the company channel and buy from Kant at an agreed price, which is even better. There are also VIP products and three years of after-sales service.

It can be said that this negotiation was a complete success.

Kant and Longhuang have reached a strategic cooperative relationship. The two parties will carry out further exchanges and cooperation in the fields of politics, economy, military, diplomacy, etc., and sign a package of economic stimulus plans such as joint ventures, Internet information business, and arms sales. Longdao promises, Will fully support Kant's embrace of free trade.

In the confrontation with this foreign capitalist, Kant did not suffer, and even won a game.

"This old dragon, suffered a loss of ignorance!"

Kant held Lily's shoulders to review the process and results of the negotiation with her, and finally couldn't help laughing.

"When he saw the tablet, he immediately thought of a series of operations such as advertising, information, new media, content push, etc. It was really awesome, but the limitations of the times, lacking a bit of a big picture, his eyes were all immersed in this virtual economy. , Tucson is broken! Sometimes it's clothes! The real industry is the last word!"

Kant said proudly: "It's as big as an advertising screen, as small as a mobile phone, who will ship it? Me! Who will build the signal tower, provide content output, and even storage media? Me! The equipment needs maintenance, needs updating, needs maintenance, and also Who the **** needs electricity, who can produce and provide it? It's me!"

Complete monopoly.

Do you think this is the earth? Now the real industry is the father!

Lily squinted: "When you ask for him, you are a good brother. After cheating, you are an old dragon."

Kant laughed and said: "It's just a show, we can't mess up our generations."

Long Niang spat.

At this moment, a golden dragon in the distance deflected its direction and flew towards Chaosheng Manor. It transformed into a human outside the manor, landed on the ground, and dodged to the bottom of the balcony.

The handsome dragon half knelt down and said, "His Royal Highness Kant, at the order of the Dragon Emperor, I will wait for the eight dragons to serve under your command in the form of mercenaries until His Majesty summons them back."

"Your Majesty ordered us to obey all your orders, including cooperating with you to carry out the dragon-shaped alchemy armed experiment, and even all acts of war, we will follow your instructions and make merit for the dragon race!"

Kant was startled, and then showed a look of disgust.

Lily snickered behind her.

"These..." Kant lowered his voice, dissatisfied, "Aren't they conservatives?"

"Change the court, be loyal to the Dragon Emperor, and don't lose the dragon." Lily whispered, "This time, the casualties were heavy, and almost all of the dead were descendants of noble dragons and elders, and only eight of them were left alive. It’s still such a thing about losing a dragon, how can they get good fruit to eat when they return to Dragon Island?”

"If you are interrogated and questioned every day, you will have to eat the eyes of the elders, be targeted openly and secretly, and may even be silenced, so as not to humiliate the reputation of the conservatives - they are not stupid, they must be looking for a way out, the Dragon Emperor only needs to recruit Wave your hand and they'll rush up to lick it, what's so weird."

"…"

This old yin, the Dragon Emperor, is so **** cunning.

"Fuck you."

Kant rolled his eyes and said, "That is to say, Lao Tzu promised that his alchemy weapons would be equipped on these dragons, so that he could see the results?"

"right."

"He said help me deal with the Broken Isles, is this his military support?"

"Eight-headed dragons, it's enough to form a giant dragon battle group. Do you know how much it costs to hire such a combination in the market?" Lily's eyes turned into crescents with a smile, and she could see that she was very happy. , "This is a big deal, and the Dragon Emperor has fully supported it."

"Ding Li, he didn't spend any money at all. He not only dug up the corners of the conservatives and made them lose eight dragons' combat power, but also used it to prostitute my equipment and equipment." Kant rolled his eyes to the sky. , "I'm still **** watching these dragons for him, just in case they hook up with conservatives again?"

"Yup."

"...I have to use them carefully, don't let them die, or the Dragon Emperor will have to compensate me."

"That's called a pension."

"Grass."

"Okay, don't be silly."

Lily held back her laughter and put her arms around Kant's shoulder to comfort him: "He may have made a profit, didn't you also suffer? You are already very powerful if you can win or lose in a fight with this old dragon."

Kant scolded: "Damn, wait, this **** will be found sooner or later, I have to let him know how the franchise fee, patent fee, maintenance fee, follow-up service fee is written!"

He was unconvinced and said angrily: "—This old motley lizard!"

Lily patted him: "Okay, don't let the cruel words go, it's still waiting below."

Kant took a deep breath when he heard the words, took a few steps forward, held onto the railing, looked at the giant dragon below, with a reserved smile: "Get up quickly, thank my big brother for me."

The other party looked up in amazement: "Huh?"

"My eldest brother, is your Dragon Emperor." Kant said proudly, "We will tie the golden orchid."

The Golden Dragon said blankly, "Ah this..."

Kant raised his hand and said, "You can ask him for proof yourself. We talked very happily, met each other late, and hit each other up. We are half-brothers."

The giant dragon was still bewildered, not knowing what expression to show. In the blink of an eye, Kant had already floated downstairs, helped him up, and said with a pleasant face, "You guys do things for me, how are you paid?"

The other party replied nonchalantly, probably because Kant claimed to be the righteous brother of the Dragon Emperor, and Lily did not object, not to mention, the fear and shock brought by the paradox elements were far from dissipating.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty said that originally, we would not be paid for crimes and meritorious services, but since Your Highness has praised us so much, we have defined our mission as an official assignment from the company, and the company will pay the bills uniformly..."

—Finally, this motley old lizard said something human.

Although he thought so, Kant found a bitterness on the dragon's face.

As soon as he turned his head, he wanted to understand what was going on.

Damn it, the old lizard didn't suffer.

This company's unified reimbursement is a curse that makes the leeks tremble with fear, that is, you spend the money yourself first, and then ask the company for reimbursement at the end - the fatal joint is this last step.

When you enter the financial office with an invoice in both hands, you have to face the other party's stricter picks and reviews than the college entrance examination invigilator. Cut off the parts of the regulations” one by one, sometimes you spend 800, and you can only report 600, and the extra 200 can only be considered stupid [beep-].

The **** about this is that finances are not inherently bad, and they take pleasure in your cold sweat and stubbornness. The reason why the other party is so inhuman is because the company has regulations or the boss's will and hints, after all The landlord's family also has no surplus food, so the employees can't make waves, but the boss and executives never come forward in person, just let the two leeks quarrel, hate, shout and get angry.

On the other hand, the situation of the Dragon Emperor here is a bit more extreme. The old yin force does not want to report a penny, but the old lizard finally has some idea in his heart, and he also gave Kant some hints.

There are only two ways to pay the bills uniformly. Either let the eight dragons take care of their own profits and losses, or let Kant take care of themselves. If you choose the former, these giant dragons will have this disaster. If it is the latter, you can reap the gratitude of the dragons. And some who know if there is no use for loyalty.

But Kant will not suffer.

-Because in the near future, Kant and Long Island will definitely have trade relations, he can take this opportunity to withhold a certain amount of money to make up for the part of the money that has been advanced.

You can even report a little more and set up some names.

Even a little bit more, you can ask for all, that is, let the chives and dragons pay for the dry food themselves, on the other hand, they will report the account to Longdao in their own name, and then withhold the money to earn double.

- You mother, three melons and two dates, is it interesting?

Kant shook his head and regarded this snack machine as the Dragon Emperor's quirk and way of communication. After all, this giant dragon capitalist has been at a high place for all these years, and it was a bit of an itch to finally meet a bosom friend.

"Okay, look at you poor, I paid for the money and went back to the Dragon Clan to ask for it." Kant patted him on the shoulder, "Work hard and earn money, otherwise I will send you back to Dragon Island."

The giant dragon actually showed a touch of emotion: "Thank you! Your Highness! We will do our best to serve you!"

Kant smiled: "Everything is normal?"

"Yes, Your Highness, we will guard the sky of Far Harbor, there is no problem!"

"Then trouble you to continue on duty."

When the new boss said this, he seemed to think of something: "Oh, by the way, my rules here are a bit different from those of Longdao. If you want to do things, you have to go through pre-job training."

"Yes, please tell me."

With the threat of the Dragon Island, the intimidation of the Dragon Emperor, and the deterrence of Kant himself, the dragon's awe and obedience to Kant are now at their peak.

Kant said kindly: "After you're done here today, you go to Horus, tell it about it, say you need 'loyal and thoughtful staff training to cultivate a sense of honor, a fighting spirit, and a wolf culture', and then It knows what to teach you."

"Wolf... wolf nature?"

—Well, it’s the kind that teaches you to grab meat and eat shit.

Kant's smile was unfathomable: "Go ahead, in addition, remember to ask Horus to set up a file for you, and measure the physical characteristics and data in the dragon form, and the plan to develop dragon-shaped mecha for you will be put on the agenda. , this is also one of your tasks to stay here."

"Yes!"

Watching the golden dragon leave, Kant nodded and said, "Well, dragons can indeed be domesticated."

He looked at the dragon girl beside him.

Miss Yinlong stared: "What are you looking at? I'm not one of those dragon-throwing things! Still want to tame me?"

Kant smiled and said, "No, you are a cat."

"What's the meaning?"

"To say you're cute, elegant, and hard to fathom."

"...I always feel like you're scolding me around the corner."

"There's nothing."

At this time, it was close to noon, the weather was clear, and the cheers in the distance became more enthusiastic. From here, the crowd was surging, and there was a faint loud shouting.

Lily frowned and said, "What's wrong?"

"It's starting to pay for meals." Kant turned to look at her, "Do you want to take a look?"

"No." Lily shook her head, "I'm going to eat first, and I'll spit out all the breakfast for you two."

"This is the world of a dirty but charming adult." Kant turned to go back to the house, "What do you want for lunch? Steamed, fried, fried, braised and stewed?"

"Ice cream, vanilla, strawberry, yogurt, I want three buckets."

"I'll feed you with a meow."

"I'll give you a meow at 0.1 percent."

"Do you believe that 0.1% can make all the beautiful girls in the city walk in front of me for a week with cat ears and cat tails in bikinis?"

"cut."

After lunch, I was full.

Kant and Lily left Chaosheng Manor and came to the street.

The giant dragon is still patrolling the sky, the drone is passing by at a low altitude, the navies of the three countries are maintaining order in the city, and the execution has come to an end.

The most heinous criminals of the riot have been on the rack, and are now begging for death in agony, but their sins have not yet been paid, and the spectators who have come here have already cried, they have nothing to blood and death. Don't care, because there are more important things waiting for them.

It's time to pay.

Also take care of meals.

This is the most important.

"Line up! Line up! Line up!"

The sharp whip whistle sounded in the long street, and the members of the trial court in black robes shouted in a terrifying voice: "No crowding, no jumping in line, no pushing, no noise! ​​Those who do not obey the order will be disqualified from receiving the application. The recipients leave immediately and are not allowed to stay!"

Kant and Lily also put on black robes and cloaks so as not to scare people and cause unnecessary trouble. Colonel Henry, the commander of the Imperial Fleet, accompanied them all the way, respectfully.

"Father."

But it was Horus who was in charge of the explanation.

"We have allocated 108 registration and distribution points to ensure that money and food are distributed as quickly as possible. At present, the order is good, and the people's obedience is high..."

At this distribution point, the people lined up in two lines, and the line spread backward. Everyone consciously stood behind the previous person, even the children were firmly held in place by their parents, while beside the line, the street There is also a large open area, but no one is standing there.

Long Niang said in surprise: "From the perspective of an ordinary human being, it's really not easy to do this."

"It's the first step, the easiest step."

Kant turned his head and said, "The first thing I'm going to teach them is to line up."

Long Niang pondered: "Order?"

Kant shook his head and said, "Obey."

At this moment, there was a commotion in front of him, and a figure wanted to run away, but the persecutor on the side stepped forward and punched, the other party screamed and fell straight.

There was a brief commotion in the team, whips and screams sounded, maintaining order, the persecutor who threw his fists stepped forward, grabbed the unconscious man, grabbed the opponent's wrist and twisted it, screaming shrill screams. The sound sounded, and the man was awakened by abrupt pain.

The indifferent voice of Horus sounded in the street and spread far away.

"You are obviously the Sirnuo of the Preston family, why did you become Chiyaka of the cold lane? Greedy and stupid despicable person, your disgusting behavior has brought shame to the city, and the reward of His Royal Highness Kant is indispensable to you. You can't take a cent more than a cent, and today you'll understand that."

The other party struggled, screamed, begging for forgiveness: "Forgive me, my lord, please forgive me..."

"Insulting the society, sentenced to 20 canings, tortured and looted, and recovered what His Highness Kant gave him, Sirno of the Preston family, I hereby declare that I will deprive you of your identity certificate, and you may lose your future. All the gifts you will receive, in the days ahead, you will understand what you did wrong today."

Two wolves-like members of the Tribunal dragged him aside, screaming screams accompanied by the whistling of the whip, and at the same time, some of the perpetrators walked back and loudly preached the crime and stupidity of this person, the people. Looking at him, a look of contempt and contempt appeared on his face.

—Humans like to stand on the moral high ground, because it can bring a feeling of superiority that is extremely cheap.

Lily whispered, "Identification—what's that?"

Condra stepped forward with Long Niang.

The very winking Colonel Henry had already stepped forward to show his identity, ordered the soldiers not to salute, and let everything proceed as usual. The cheater had already been dragged out of the whip, and the next person stepped forward tremblingly.

"Please sit down."

Lily looked over, and there was a row of long tables over there, and the tables were neatly facing a large amount of food.

After Kant's feeding, Long Niang has already recognized those things, bowls of instant noodles, compressed biscuits, ham sausages, and canned luncheon meat... piled up into mountains.

Several large boxes of silver coins were placed behind the table and all opened.

"Hello, citizen."

Opposite the man is a machine with a camera and a microphone, and the voice of Horus rang out from inside: "Answer my question, name, occupation, home address, family members..."

"Rick Leyer..."

The man's face was weathered, about thirty or forty years old, his face was cracked by the sea breeze, very dark, his bare chest was very red and red, he was obviously a man from the sea.

He stammered: "I...I fish, my home...home lives..."

Along with his words, the sound of sizzling continued, until after he finished speaking, a small iron plate with holes was handed out by the mechanical arm, and there was a silver coin that was somewhat black.

Then a bucket of instant noodles, a pack of compressed biscuits.

Even though there have been many precedents, when it was his turn, Rick still showed a look of surprise, and suddenly got up, he was about to kneel: "Sir, thank you..."

"Don't kneel!"

Horus shouted.

"Yes, yes yes yes yes!"

"Okay, citizen, thank you for coming here and supporting the just cause of His Royal Highness Kant. This is a thank-you gift for the agreed silver coin. This is your lunch and dinner with meat and ham."

"and this…"

The robotic arm pointed to the iron plate: "It's your identity certificate, you have to keep it well and keep it cherished. It has many uses, one of which is that when someone tries to seize this silver coin and seize His Highness Kant Xu The gift for you, then you can take this sign and find any members of the inquisition you see, they will uphold justice for you, this is His Highness's sacred law and promise, everyone should abide by it."

"also…"

Holuston paused for a moment and said, "This identity certificate has many other uses that must not be lost. For example, if there is a good thing about sending money and food next time..."

"You'll have to take this to get it."

"Now, you can go."

The man in the sea got up hastily, clutched the iron medal and silver coins tightly, picked up the hot round paper tube, and the packet of biscuits on it, he suddenly smelled a tempting aroma, and went from From the round paper bowl, thunder sounded in the man's belly, and hunger drove him to lift the lid.

"Don't eat here."

A voice that was more useful than governors, kings, and emperors rang in my ears.

"Everyone is hungry, don't be greedy."

He blushed and thanked him, consciously walked to the other side of the street, and walked away quickly against the wall.

Lily asked, "This is your second step, to let them know you count?"

Kant shook his head and said, "No, it's not about words...it's credit."

"Let them know that I have my word, and let them know that they better have my word, and soon, credit will become the most precious currency in this city, and the righteous will reap the rewards of the people. Envy and respect...they will understand, trust me, and get what they will get."

"Money and food?" Longniang asked. "Then what will you get from them? Power? Loyalty?"

"These are just incidental, virtuous rewards. Power and loyalty allow me to better advance my plans and get them more stuff, but the ultimate purpose...is not so utilitarian."

Lily asked curiously, "Oh? What is that?"

"follow me."

Condra followed her, following Rick Leyer's back.

They followed the man who ran the sea to a deserted alley.

Hungry people can't stand the charming aroma of instant noodles.

At this moment, all the man's attention was bewitched by his appetite, and he didn't even notice the two figures staring at him. He squatted down, put the silver coin, the iron plate and the biscuits between his thighs and his lower abdomen and clamped them tightly. Tremblingly, he pulled out the plastic fork and lifted the lid of the instant noodles.

The heat brushed against his dark face.

He learned how to eat instant noodles without a teacher, and tremblingly, he put the small white fork into the soup, and evoked the soft noodles with a string of soup. A large amount of saliva was secreted in an instant, and he opened his mouth tremblingly and bit the steaming noodles.

Then he froze.

Even his body was stiff, like a stone sculpture, and he didn't dare to move.

Let the salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar, spices, beef extract, palm oil, spices and other ingredients in the instant noodle juice bombard the poor taste buds.

What a wonderful feeling it was, this strong and rough man suddenly burst into tears, his body trembled violently, but he didn't dare to cry out, and he didn't dare to let the noodles spill, he chewed hard, Tears slid into the bowl of noodles, and he ate.

He picked out the tender and tender ham section, and the lunch meat with a little fat left, which was the delicacy he had never tasted in decades, as if he was really alive at this moment, really feeling When it comes to life, the meaning and value of life, the joy of life, and the unforgettable...

sorrow.

He buried his head and ate what was in his hands.

From the back, it looks like a wolf.

"That's my answer."

Kant motioned for Lily to leave.

"Although instant noodles are delicious, they shouldn't be so delicious."

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PS1: Update! Seven thousand words! I didn't sleep well yesterday, go to bed early tonight, good night.