Overturned Tower

Bing Shui and Russell looked at each other, revealing a natural and harmless smile.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you."

"You did it on purpose! Give you a punch!"

Xia recognized all this from Bingshui's unpretentious beating tone, and lightly punched Bingshui in the stomach in embarrassment.

"That's why I didn't tell you on purpose."

Bing Shui's voice was soft and always dragged on: "It's surprising."

"No surprise! No surprise at all!"

Xia grabbed the ice water next to her in embarrassment, and hugged her hard as punishment: "Damn! You bastard, hate!"

Seeing the two girls who had just left the stage of "female college students" fighting in front of their eyes, Russell just put his hands on his chin and looked at them with a smile.

And soon, Xia remembered that her brother was right in front of her.

So she quickly put away her indecent actions, tried her best to tidy up her equally indecent clothes with flushed cheeks, and tried her best to sit in front of Russell dignifiedly.

I feel like I can't tell.She groaned in her heart.

Originally, I wanted to impress this elder brother as a "very powerful sister"...

"It's so good, full of vitality."

Russell was envious from the bottom of his heart, and sighed with emotion in a low voice.

It's been a long, long time...and he hasn't had a friend who can fight with him like this.

Those who can communicate with him on an equal footing are either his elders or his predecessors.

Even Bad Day, who seems the most scornful and unassuming, is still Russell's uncle or elder brother according to his seniority - Bad Day is his father's student, and he is not much younger than Russell's father.

"Xia, I support you."

Looking at Xia who was still a little uneasy, Russell encouraged: "Although your plan is a bit immature, your idea is correct."

Hearing this, the corners of Bing Shui's mouth rose slightly.

And Xia's eyes lit up in a flash.

But she was still a little afraid that this was just a superficial talk, so she asked a little timidly: "Really... Is my idea correct?"

——Bing Shui noticed the first half of the sentence, but Xia only heard the second half.

Russell keenly judged the difference between the two.

So I further adjusted my attitude and corrected it to better fit Xia's sense of expectation at the moment:

"Here it is. To get out of the seat you're in and take a risk and be a voice for the people and for what's right. It's amazing."

Russell said gently: "The most valuable thing is that your first reaction is not 'shut up dissidents', but 'prove it to them'. This shows that power has not corrupted you yet."

— or rather, you haven't learned how to use your birthright.

"You're asking for nothing but justice. You're asking for a 'right' answer, you're doing what you think is 'right', and you're going to pay any price for it. You don't even have time to wait, you don't think it through leeway. You can't wait to prove yourself 'right'. This awareness allows you to pay whatever it takes."

——Although the justice and correctness are somewhat one-sided, the plans made are messy, and things are done recklessly.

"I will support you, Xia. Because although you are reckless now, you are indeed doing the right thing. But if you do something wrong one day, I will wake you up mercilessly."

——Only this time, don't do it next time.

"You can go at ease... I will not interfere with your relationship, nor will I appear on the camera. But since you have decided to do it, you must do your best. You must take the film seriously to the end and record everything that is true. You cannot shout Tired, don't back down."

——I will find someone to protect you in secret, don't show your ugly appearance under the live camera.

The ice water next to him understood the subtext of Russell's every sentence.

She suddenly showed a slightly subtle expression.

How should I put it, Bingshui feels that Russell is more like her brother...

The fit between the two is a little bit high.

But Xayah completely misses Russell's subtext.

There seemed to be light in her eyes—that was the light of tears.

For the first time, Xia found someone who could fully understand her, and this person happened to be an idol she admired and identified with.It was also the first time someone told her, "You did the right thing".

Although she also knew that her father had never owed her anything...

But she never got a compliment from her father that could make her feel sincere.

It's all just words like "It sounds good, keep working hard", "You did well in the exam, continue next time", "You did a good job, keep it up" and the like.

It always makes people feel perfunctory, and there is no sense of reality.

Everything she tried was nothing more than child's play in the eyes of her father.

Indeed... Dodgson does not have a "my director father" to pave the way for her like she does.Being able to rely on my own efforts to become the director of the head office when I was less than 40 years old was already a remarkable talent.

But because of this, Xia will feel more pressure.

Because the treatment and resources she enjoyed were much more than Dodgson's back then—it wouldn't be surprising even if she just did the same thing, not to mention that she couldn't even keep up with her father's footsteps.

This made Xayah feel powerless.She desperately wanted to prove herself... Because of this, she resisted the life her father had arranged for her.

Russell easily touched her essence during the short time they got along.

The core desire of this innocent and righteous young lady is to "prove herself", and the most fundamental obsession is "not to admit defeat".

And the root of this obsession comes from her inner inferiority complex.

The pressure that caused her low self-esteem was not given to her by the outside world at all, but by Dodgson.

Usually such a girl may adore her father and eventually find a boyfriend who has a similar success trajectory to her father.

But Xia has a desire to rise.What she wants is to surpass her father...or at least to be approved by him.

Because of this, she will usher in her belated rebellious period in her 20s.

It wasn't that I was really late for puberty, but that I felt such intense pressure for the first time when I came into contact with the society and started working after graduation.Realizing that she is just a mediocre mortal...but as a mortal, she enjoys so many resources, which makes her feel guilty in her righteous heart and realizes that this is "not fair".

……how to say.

If it wasn't for her own sister, such a character would be quite easy to deceive.It is easy to be fooled by Russell into a tool person who only has his own eyes.

In tonight's operation, she will also provide herself with an alibi very well.Nothing will go wrong here.

But Russell remembers...

Bad Day said that Xia is the new member that the Tower of Babel is going to recruit.

She is indeed talented.

As the director's daughter and an outstanding graduate of Tianen University, her professional value is beyond doubt.And it is very easy to become a high-level company, and can become another nail in the Tower of Babel.

At the same time, she also has a heart of justice, compassion and sacrifice.

For Xia, who was born superior to others, this is the most precious talent.

Although no one taught her how to cultivate this talent... Even Russell could predict that without herself, ice water, and the Tower of Babel, after more than ten years, Xia would become more cold-blooded than her father. "Corporate Executives".Maybe you will sneer at your own innocence at the moment.

Just because a person can resist the pollution of capital and power for a while does not mean that she can resist for a lifetime.

Sinking into the abyss of failure, people will become more and more confused.The strength of the mind will be constantly weakened.

After the first shake, there is no going back.

Therefore, in Russell's view, Xia's purity is not enough if he wants to join the Tower of Babel.

She had no idea why she was moving forward.Such a person tends to become an unstable factor, and becomes a pig teammate when shaken.

Further growth is required.

Before that, she was still just a tool.Not a companion.

Now Xia is just a big girl.To make her mature, she must be given a real pain—a heart-wrenching pain.

— But from another perspective, she is a cat.

Feline soul relatives are very able to bear pain.Outsiders seem to have nothing to do, and they don't care about everything.

But when cats can't bear the pain, they are often terminally ill.

How to find something for her to level up within a safe threshold?

Russell thought for a moment.

He looked at the ice water, then at Xia.

Suddenly I had an idea.

Isn't strangulation and ale going to start a "family" and radiate to the upper city?

This might serve as a proper rehearsal.

"Have you heard, 'The Godfather of Downtown'? He's the uncrowned king of Downtown."

Russell said to them seriously: "Remember to be careful when you act."

"...Is he very powerful?"

Ice water is a little worrying.

Russell shook his head slowly: "That's not true.

"But he has a dark wisdom that can sink people. Words can penetrate the cracks of another's heart, and it is easy to sway a person... and finally give him allegiance.

"There are already a lot of people in the upper city under his control. I think he may be planning to spread his rule of the lower city to the upper city."

Hearing this, Bing Shui frowned suspiciously.

Why do I feel... as if you are also this kind of person?

She thought so in her heart, but didn't dare to say it.

Chapter 62 Running Out of Resources

Whether it's Russell, Bingshui, or Xia...

None of the three of them happened to be the type who paid attention to ostentation and etiquette.

Because it was almost time for dinner, the three of them didn't bother to leave the cafe to find a place to eat.

After discussing with each other, we found that we all had nothing to eat.So I simply decided to order some sandwiches, cakes, ice cream and other foods in the original place to deal with it a little bit.

By the way, the super large ice cream is ordered with ice water.

Although Russell also mentioned, is it not good to eat ice cream on an empty stomach at night... But Bing Shui smiled and blocked it with a sentence of spiritual relative difference.

It's not easy for him to ask the other party, "What are the characteristics of your spiritual relatives?"This topic is a bit too personal.

Of course, the money is still paid by AA.

This is mainly because everyone tacitly agreed to avoid some troubles.

According to the rules of the company, when people of different ages meet for the first time, in order to show their importance to the younger generation or the younger generation, the older party will often treat the other party to a meal to show care;

And when the older one resigns, is promoted, or is transferred to another empty island, and the two parties may never see each other again, how many of the younger generations who had that meal can still remember the kindness and recognition of each other over the years? You can invite me back again because of your support and cooperation.

The specifications of these two meals are completely different from the usual treats.It usually indicates how much you value the other party - how many people will come when you leave, usually means how popular and how good you are in the company.

Theoretically speaking, this is a rule shared by the seven empty islands, and it seems to have been brought from the earth age.It's just that the execution strength and details of different sky islands are different.

When Russell was still in college, he heard that there was a big incident on Happy Island.

That was about four or five years ago: because there was a senior executive of Tianen Group, when he retired, no one came to see him off, and finally chose to commit suicide by taking poison at his farewell party.

Even because he didn't have to go to work every day, the body was even found after two days.

After all, he was an executive of the head office, with a high status, but he died because of such a trivial matter.This matter has aroused considerable discussion on the Internet, and even spread to Sogo Island.

After that, anonymous editions on the Internet raised very strong criticisms of this practice.

So Tianen Group followed suit and banned this kind of rule throughout the island.By the way, the review standard for happiness has been tightened.

But there are still some old-fashioned or very traditional people who still insist on the principle of "treating guests to dinner when they first meet"—for example, the old elf Russell met on the airship, Amirus.

In the end, this "prohibition" quickly swung to the other side and became a new custom: when people meet for the first time, no matter how good the conversation is or how close the relationship is, they cannot go with each other. Have a meal.We must wait until we meet again before we can eat together.

At the beginning, it was because everyone was very taboo about this matter, wondering if the other party would think about the meaning of this meal.