Gou studies science in another world

Chapter 213 The Ocean of Insects

"Okay, who cares about getting a lot of broken bills, Grayson, tell me how much the Runwan family lost in total!"

Kleinda threw a large pile of bills in front of her on the ground, and asked the general manager of Runwanjia Spiritual Tool Factory who had just arrived with a gloomy expression.

With dark circles under his eyes, Grayson seemed to have not slept for three days, and he replied in a trance: "My lord, after factories in various places canceled the assembly lines of lamps, in this lighting war, our Runwanjia lost a total of about 82 Jinlong. "

Swallowing, Grayson cautiously continued to answer: "In addition, we have to pay about 28 Jinlong as liquidated damages for breach of contract with the partner in the foreign city. In addition, in addition... there is also the payment of infringement fees for Duke Duke A total of about 12 golden dragons."

Clarinda was furious after hearing the report.

With a punch on the table, the expensive desk made of Lingzhi wood was directly smashed to pieces by his punch containing arcane power.

Standing on the crumbs of the desk, Clarinda asked darkly, "How much does it add up?"

"A total of 122 million Golden Dragons were lost."

"What do the shareholders say?"

"They..." Grayson didn't dare answer.

Clarinda cast the Mage Hand violently, and grabbed Grayson. As a 3rd ring Arcanist, he once built the Mage Hand Arcane Wonder. To him, the Mage Hand is almost indistinguishable from the third one. .

Grab Grayson.

After landing, Grayson grinned in pain, but fortunately, his skin was only bruised and purple, and he did not suffer any internal injuries.

Holding back tears, he replied: "My lord, the shareholders of the company... the shareholders agree... no, no, Master Azigul objected...they think you should bear 80.00% of the responsibility... Azigul Your Excellency is willing to share part of it for you..."

Clarinda's face turned from blue to black, and it took a while before she said, "Okay! I have fulfilled their wishes!"

Then he said to Grayson: "I will pay 80.00% of the money. I don't need Azigul to bear it for me. Calculate how much I have to pay."

"97 golden dragons."

"Looks like it's settled a long time ago." Clarinda said coldly.

Grayson remained silent, his body was covered with bruises and bruises, each of which made him so painful that he didn't have the heart to answer Clarinda's question.

After a long time, Clarinda waved: "Go away."

"Yes, my lord!" Grayson hurriedly bowed to leave.

Clarinda quickly called her butler over again: "Cross, how much money is left in the Tali vault?"

"Master, there are still 15 golden dragons." Butler Cross replied.

"so little?"

"My lord, you forgot that the dividends from Runwanjia Spirit Tool Factory have not been allocated this year. In addition, we also lent a loan of [-] golden dragons to Runwanjia."

"When will the next funds arrive in the Tower?"

"This..." Cross hesitated for a moment before replying, "Master, our tower's funds mainly rely on the dividends from Runwanjia. The situation of Runwanjia has not been good in the past two years, so it is difficult for the income in the tower to be regenerated. Maintain normal expenses."

"How could this be?" Kleinda couldn't believe it. "Is the property in my hand so low in terms of income?"

Cross thought about the wording for a while, and replied: "The main reason is that our tower has fewer research projects and cannot achieve a balance of income and expenditure."

Having said that, Clarinda's originally dark complexion became even darker.

He is an arcanist who switched careers. After his spiritual core is broken, it is difficult to participate in the pioneering war as before. He wants to transform into a researcher, but he has never been able to get any scholar title. Enter funds to maintain.

Originally, with the support of Runwanjia, the small life is still nourishing and nourishing, so I never thought about this.

It is only now that I understand the importance of the matter. Once there is a problem with the Runwan family, even the operation of the mage tower will have problems.

But Clarinda is not without cards, and said with a dark face: "That is to say, in a short period of time, the Mage Tower has no income?"

"I'm afraid so, sir."

"Phew, draw up an announcement for me." Clarinda struggled for a while before making a final decision, "Notify the Hippidil Mine Company that I will soon sell 1% of the Hippidil Mine Company I hold. shares."

"Master!" Cross exclaimed.

Xibidiling Mining Company, Shenjiao City's well-deserved money-printing company, even if it only has 1% of the shares, it is also a family heirloom.

Enough to support the family for several generations.

Now that Clarinda has made a decision, she has to think through all the consequences: "Go ahead, it's just a small share. If the younger generation is promising, why use this little share. If the younger generation is not promising, this little share is just for dying."

Cross said with moist eyes: "Master, you have to think twice, this may affect several generations of the family!"

"I have thought very clearly that the shares of the Heibideling Mine Company were obtained because I was promoted to a third-ring arcanist, not because the family passed them on to me. It can be seen that the so-called family heirlooms are empty talk, and the younger generations are incompetent, and they are fundamentally protected. No, it’s better to use it to solve my current predicament.”

Butler Cross had no choice but to follow Clarinda's instructions to draft a share sale announcement.

Any change in the shares of Hibidi Ling Mining Company requires the voting resolution of all shareholders, especially the admission of new shareholder members.

In fact, this is more like a high-level coterie.

Arcane masters with ring 3 and above are the major shareholders of Hebedi, and arcane masters with ring 2 basically can only drink some soup along with them.

Even so, there was still a long queue of arcanists staring at the shares of the Hibidi Spirit Mine Company.

Therefore, when Clarinda's share sale announcement was sent to Hebdiling Mining Company, the management followed the established procedures and sent invitations to all shareholders to vote on resolutions.

And it will be up to the company's board of directors to decide how to deal with this 1% stake.

Is it an internal repurchase or finding a new shareholder.

……

Keystone Mage Tower, with white clouds lingering around half its waist.

In the small villa in Yunding Garden, Keyston Nutao, with a hair like a golden lion king, was playing a game of Reversi similar to Go with his great-great-great-granddaughter Kylia Nutao.

"Little Ji Liya, you are a really good classmate, the title of polymath, hehe, grandpa was already 70 years old when he got the title of elemental scholar, this kid has just reached his full age, tsk tsk, how did his head grow .”

Keyston muttered while playing chess.

Kylia smiled sweetly and said, "Grandpa, you are good at accumulating wealth. As for Duke, he is indeed very talented. I have to admit that."

"Oh, even my little Jiaolong admits that this Duke is excellent?"

"Grandfather, you are joking again. My talent is much worse than Duke's. Duke should be the kind of real genius arcanist." Kylia thought carefully, "When we first met, I thought he was taciturn. , with the same temperament as Leadman's assistant."

"and then?"

"Later, I discovered that although he loves research and is obsessed with research, he is not rigid in life. On the contrary, he is very funny and has a very active personality."

"Well, he is very involved in research and has achieved very good results, which means that he has a top IQ; he is interesting and active in life, and can win the appreciation of my little Kiria, which means that his EQ is also top."

Keyston stopped playing chess, and said with great interest: "Both merchants are top-notch, what an outstanding young man he is!"

Kiriya nodded: "It's really excellent."

She thought back to her classmates in Penrose's mage's tower, the cynical detachment of Bronke, and the overly fawning of Orianna and Bazar.

Only Duke gave her a different feeling.

Neither deliberately pretending to be arrogant and alienating himself, nor trying to curry favor with himself, every time we get along with each other is an equal attitude, the feeling of neither far nor near is just right.

But occasionally when the two of them chatted and laughed together, she could feel that Duke would inadvertently exude a strong self-confidence, as if he was the biggest in the world.

She had only experienced this kind of confidence in her own grandfather.

But grandpa Keyston is the well-deserved leader of Heijiaohe, the only 5-ring Ocean Arcane Mage, he should have this confidence.

Duke has such self-confidence. In her opinion, it is only when she has a clear understanding of her future.

In other words, this is the demeanor that belongs only to the true pride of heaven.

"Little Kilia?" Kiston raised his head and called out.

Just thinking about Kiria who got along with Duke, she came back to her senses: "Huh?"

"Ouch, my little dragon!" Kiston exclaimed cheerfully as if he had discovered a new world, "Tell grandpa, little Kiria, are you fascinated by this Duke?"

"No way!"

"Grandpa lived almost two hundred years old. How many people's lives are fleeting in Grandpa's eyes. I can't guess with your little thoughts?"

When Kiriya saw this, she opened her mouth and said, "It's a little bit. Duke, he's neither as proud as a nobleman, nor as humble as a commoner. How can I say it? When chatting with him Really relaxing."

"That's why grandpa said, this Duke's dual merchants are top-notch, such a talent, tsk tsk, grandpa really misjudged him before, thinking he was a lucky young man, and classified him as a mediocre arcane mage."

"Grandfather, what kind of Arcane Master do you think he is?" Kylia asked with a smile.

Kiston Raging Touched the snow-white beard on his chin. He only had hair that was always blond, which might have something to do with the blood of the Raging Family.

"What kind of arcanist..."

He pondered for a while, then stared at Kiria suddenly, and said with a meaningful smile: "Little Kiriya, what do you want grandpa to say about him?"

"Grandpa, you are evaluating, Kiria didn't think about anything." Kiria covered her mouth and smiled.

"Cunning, you, you have inherited your grandpa's talent as an arcane master, and you have also inherited your grandma's cunning character." Keyston thought of his wife who passed away nearly a hundred years ago. No heirs remained.

It's not that I can't, but I don't want to.

Therefore, the lineage of the family is basically born of him and his first wife.

of course.

Bastards are counted separately.

"Grandpa, don't be fooled by you. I lied to me that Duke was dull and rigid, so I classified him as a mediocre arcane master. Now I put eye drops on grandpa, and Quaduk boasted a flower." Keyston leaned back in his chair, "I'll meet him in person some other day and make an evaluation."

Kylia was about to make fun of her grandpa.

The butler Gina knocked on the door and came in: "Master, Miss Kiria, please excuse me, there is the general manager of the Hibidi Ling Mine Company, come to see the master."

"Who is the general manager?" Keyston asked.

"His Excellency Philip White Rabbit."

"Oh, it's the boy from the White Rabbit's family." Keyston finally remembered who the general manager was, "Since there is something to do, let him come over."

"Okay sir, I'll bring him here right now."

Butler Gina went there for a while, and then brought a middle-aged man in his forties over, wearing a decent arcanist robe, combing his hair meticulously, and wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.

"Master Keyston, junior Philip White Rabbit, send your greetings."

"You're welcome, sit down."

"Thank you, my lord." Philip White Rabbit turned around and smiled at Kylia again, "Miss Kylia, you are a well-deserved flower of Shenjiao City."

"You are too generous, Sir Philip."

After being courteous, Keyston asked directly: "Little Philip, what's the matter with Hibiscus that I need you to come and visit me?"

"It's like this. One of Hebedi's shareholders, Your Excellency Kleinda, has decided to sell 1% of his shares, so I'm here to ask for your opinion."

"Hey, why did he sell Hebdi shares?"

"It is said that Runwanjia suffered heavy losses and needed to pay a large amount of Golden Dragon, so it had to sell the shares of Xibidi as a last resort."

Keyston pondered for a moment, and said: "Okay, I already know, you immediately call the shareholders of Hebidi to hold a voting meeting in three days, and contact the directors to hold a board meeting tomorrow."

"Ok."

Philip White Rabbit got up to take his leave.

Keyston was filled with emotion: "Little Kilia, Duke, this time, you made Clarinda miserable. By the way, I remember that you also invested in the Giant of Light, right?"

"Yes, I hold 7% of the Giant of Light's shares."

"You've made a lot of money." Kiston laughed, "The Tower of Knowledge in the Holy City of Alchemy is already promoting strong light technology. Although the giant of light may not be able to share the market in other fields, the patent fee alone will You can make a lot of money.”

Kylia blinked her eyes: "However, the patents are all in the hands of Duke. He bought shares with the patents, and the rights and interests are limited to the market in the field of wind and interest. That is to say, the patent fees in the other eleven fields are all Duke's private interests. income."

"What?" Kiston was taken aback, "This kid still has a hand? With this momentum, isn't he going to become the richest man in Shenjiao City?"

"Grandpa, you are exaggerating. No matter how much the patent fee for the strong light technology is, Duke will not be able to catch up with the wealth of the old nobles in a short time."

"Eleven fields are promoted together, a lot, and a lot of patent fees!" Keyston clicked his tongue in amazement.

Then he shook his head again: "Kleinda's loss was not unjust, and she was used to relying on the ability of a local snake to eat others, but this time she was severely punched by a young man with a patented invention... Anyway, he is also Injured for opening up the war, hold a meeting and discuss it carefully."

"Grandfather, I heard that Your Excellency Clarinda, was he a deserter on the battlefield?" Kylia asked curiously.

"Facing Yalong's advance, he can understand as a deserter. Besides, even the spirit core is broken, who would dare to blame him for escaping."

Kiston didn't want to say more, and quickly found an excuse to send Kiria away.

Then a person came to the edge of the garden wall, admiring the white clouds outside and the great rivers and mountains below the white clouds.

……

puff!
There was a gunshot that was so subtle that it could hardly be heard, and 500 meters away, a three-ringed spirit beast-a flying flying monkey was drinking water, and a flower of blood exploded on its head.

"It's done, let's collect the corpse." Duke jumped off the branch.

With a slight shake of the Sand Eagle pistol in his hand, countless fluorescent lights disappeared, returning to the orbit around Linghai.

The mercenaries of the Broken Sword Mercenary Corps were already familiar with the powerful strength of their big benefactor, and sent a team of mercenaries to quickly collect the corpse, and then easily picked up the flying flying monkey whose head was shot, and patted Du Gram's ass.

"My lord's strength is even stronger than that of a ring 2 arcanist!"

"It's too powerful, 500 meters away, one hit kills, it's so terrifying!"

"The Flying Flying Monkey can fly and run, and its cured arcana is also powerful. It's a pity that we were killed by the adults after seeing our faces!"

The mercenaries were in awe of Duke's methods.

Duke had a calm expression on his face, but in fact he was very proud in his heart. This soul-piercing attack was unlike any other arcanist.

"With Sand Eagle in hand, I have the world!"

The Sand Eagle's power is strong, it is indeed strong, but its strength is limited, and bullets may not be able to break through the level 2 arcane defense.

However, the sudden bullets made it hard to guard against.

Unless the spirit beast can also cast arcane spells instantly, it cannot be blocked at all, especially the armor-piercing bullet in the special effect bullet-physical version, no matter how thick the armor is, it is difficult to parry.

When the special effect bullet-element version is developed, the power of the Sand Eagle Bullet will become even more mysterious.

"Let's go, continue to move forward." Duke turned over and rode on the spirit horse, commanding the team to continue advancing into the depths of the forest.

Xiaohong's wedding flight hasn't come back yet, he has been camping in the forest for the past two days, hunting as a pastime.

1st ring, 2nd ring, 3rd ring spirit beasts, basically none of them can escape his bullets, even if it is 4th ring, there is no less attempt.

Some hunts failed, and some hunted successfully.

This mainly depends on whether Sand Eagle's bullets can penetrate the defense of the spirit beast, and if it penetrates the defense, it will chase after it, and the bullets will be poured out like money.

If he couldn't break through the defense, he immediately turned around and ran away.

In just two or three days, the spirit beasts that Duke hunted alone knocked down the price of the spirit beast market in Snake Town by nearly half.

of course.

He no longer cares about the benefits of hunting spirit beasts. All the prey is handed over to Broken Sword, which will be used to develop Broken Sword and provide him with resources in the forest anytime, anywhere.

He is still focusing on learning.

When he reaches the period when he is mainly researching, his demand for resources in the forest will be greatly increased. At that time, the mercenary group will have to run around to collect the required resources for him.

The evening of the third day.

Xiaohong hadn't flown back yet, so Duke naturally wouldn't leave, and continued to choose to camp in the forest.Lie on the roof of the Black Beetle under the light of the campfire and gaze at the starry sky above.

"Where is home?"

"Is the Earth, or the Milky Way, in this starry sky above me?"

Duke often asked questions like this, even though he felt that life in the Seven Towers Federation was far more exciting than his life on Earth.

"My hometown is always my hometown..."

"However, if there is a chance to choose, I will definitely stay in the Seven Towers Federation without hesitation. Not to mention the extravagant life of an arcane master, just my current body, this feeling of being healthy and powerful is by no means the same as being raped and raped on earth. I can compare the delay."

He doesn't want to go back to Earth at all, but that doesn't stop him from missing Earth.

"Among the seven towers of the Seven Towers Federation, there is a Stars Tower whose main job is astrology. It is responsible for predicting the future, enlightening the future, and leading the future. I don't know if the Stars Tower can confirm whether the star field I am in is the Milky Way."

"Well, it's best that the Tower of Stars can draw an image of this galaxy, so that I can compare the image of the Milky Way in my memory."

"If I remember correctly, the earth is in the third spiral arm of the Milky Way, at the inner edge of the Orion arm..."

Looking at the stars, thinking about the earth.

Before he knew it, Duke felt that his eyelids were a little heavy, and he seemed to have fallen asleep in a daze, and his breathing became longer.

But in the next moment.

Duke opened his eyes like lightning, grasped upwards with both hands, and quickly grabbed a small thing the size of a bird, but whose whole body seemed to be transparent.

The little thing was covered by the night, and its body was basically invisible.

If it wasn't for the faint light from the bonfire not far away, which shone on it and cast a reddish reflective color, Duke really didn't know what he was grabbing.

"Squeak!"

The little thing in his hand struggled desperately, but was firmly locked by Duke's battle armor attached to his hands, unable to move.

In the surrounding tents, the grunting of mercenaries came and went.

In the black beetle car, Vivienne, who had already been lying down, turned over, and she would not fall asleep until Duke returned to the car.

No one noticed what Duke had caught.

After all, even Duke himself didn't know what he grabbed. He sat up from the roof of the car, grabbed the small thing with one hand, and turned into a Sand Eagle pistol with the other.

Turn on the tactical light, the light shines in the hands, and the small things are completely illuminated into the prototype.

"This is……"

The body of the little thing is transparent, and its rough outline is like a flat bug. Xiaoyi's database is running crazily, and the result is quickly compared.

"Master, there is an 86% possibility that this is the trilobite in the ancient phantom."

"Ancient shadows? Trilobites?"

Duke was surprised: "You mean, this is the phantom of the ancient era erupting from the spiritual spring. Here, at this moment, the phantom of the ancient era erupted?"

He suddenly stood up and looked around, the surroundings were quiet, only a few mercenaries were holding bright portable lights and shining them around.

There is no sign of the phantom of the ancient era about to erupt.

But the transparent trilobite in his hand is really not like an ordinary spirit beast, it feels weightless to the touch, it really looks like a transparent phantom.

Suddenly.

The trilobite in his hand seemed to have reached its limit, and it shattered like a bubble with a click.

Duke caught a void.

But he could feel that a change was erupting in the spiritual sea. It was the guardian and mysterious vine that existed in the spiritual sea like a vision, swaying wildly, as if facing an enemy.

It was also the reaction of the guardian vine just now that awakened him from his drowsiness, and then caught the trilobite.

"Xiao Yi, this sign is not right, it seems that the phantom of the ancient era has really exploded!"

"Master, please be careful. According to the trilobites caught just now, it can be judged that this ancient phantom eruption should be the Ocean of Insects. The Ocean of Insects is the most ancient phantom in the ancient era. It is not very dangerous, but Indulging in it is still easy to seriously damage your vitality."

"I'll be careful, and the Guardian Mystic Vine should come in handy at this time, but what about the others?"

Xiaoyi judged: "People who have a spiritual sea will be impacted by the ocean of worms, but the spiritual apprentice's spiritual sea is weakly connected with the outside world, and the impact of the ocean of worms will not be very strong. At most, there will be a certain amount of damage to the vitality. Rest for a while will recover."

Communication is only for a moment.

At this time, there was finally a new change in the night sky outside. It was waves of transparent sea water composed of spirituality, spreading from a distance until Duke was also submerged in it.

Can't see.

But one can truly feel the sea water composed of spirituality.

Xiaoyi has stopped the exclusive meditation method for hanging up the phone, and fully protects Duke's spiritual sea, so as not to be impacted by the sudden outbreak of the ocean of insects.

The same is true for the guardian and mysterious vines, which are filled in every corner of the spiritual sea.

Duke didn't look inside the Linghai any more, but fully felt the unique experience brought to him by submerging him in the ocean of worms.

At this moment, he felt as if he had transformed into a ray of life in the ocean of insects.

Surrounded by the ocean of worms, it moistened and washed his body little by little, giving him an unprecedented joyful experience.

Suddenly.

A few meters in front of him, a trilobite exuding snow-white transparent light, about the size of a palm, wandered towards him, with two long tentacles fluctuating up and down with the current.

Then a crinoid grew out from beside him, swaying its arms and feet, exuding the same transparent luster.

Then in the distant sky, there was a nautilus with a long pointed shell, swimming around in the sky, at least ten meters long by visual inspection.

Another unknown sea worm, which was as soft as a leech, but fatter, swam to him from another direction.

In Duke's field of vision, more and more glowing phantoms began to increase and converge.

In this quiet night, there is a illusory image of how various creatures in the ocean in ancient times survived.

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In the new January, Laobai has the audacity to ask for a guaranteed monthly pass~
　Ask for a ticket~
　　
　
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