Overturned Tower

"Eat first, we can talk about work tomorrow after you go to work!"

Auntie said angrily while holding a huge plate of grilled Tomahawk steak in front of Russell.

Delphinium's eyes widened immediately: "Mom, where's mine?"

"Why are you in a hurry! Let the Ultramarines have a look first, and then share it with you. The Ultramarines may not be able to eat a third of it, and it will be yours in the end."

Wearing round-frame glasses, the gentle woman with fluffy white dog ears pushed the glasses and said proudly: "Auntie is doing well!"

Russell's eyes lit up immediately: "It's delicious just looking at it!"

"Right!"

"Yes!"

"Tsk."

Delphinium curled her lips and made an exception and poured herself a glass of Coke.

I'm having a great day today...let's celebrate a little bit.

Chapter 3 The Forge Spell

Unknowingly, Russell found that his time at Delphinium's house began to gradually increase.

Two weeks ago, Russell had to work overtime with Uncle Herman all night because he had to prepare a birthday present for Delphinium the next day.

Russell, who didn't sleep all night, gave himself an injection of "overtime music" to ensure that there would be no problems during the prosthetic surgery the next day.

Those colleagues in the Network Security Department sometimes give themselves a shot to refresh themselves when they work overtime for more than 24 hours.It can effectively regulate blood pressure, protect the heart, and keep your mind calm without shaking your hands while preventing sudden death.

As the head office of Happy Island, Tianen Group has the priority to recruit talents from all over the island.

That is the highest-quality talent pool among more than 4000 million people, which can be regarded as having a large number of talents... Because of this, Tianen Group usually only needs to increase the welfare benefits of the head office, and can easily poach from other companies. People, let them work for themselves sincerely.

The method is also very simple - the more other companies like to work overtime and not pay wages, the more they will not work overtime and pay more - anyway, they are a monopoly group, and they control more than two-thirds of the island small company.

As long as Tianen Group raises some performance requirements for small companies, those small companies will have to make their employees work overtime to meet the targets. High-level people don't necessarily have the brains to tell who is the core talent, let alone have the consciousness to please them.Maybe under office politics, outstanding talents will be squeezed out instead.

And when they leave, they will naturally go to Tianen Group, which has high benefits and no overtime, or other head offices.

This is an aboveboard conspiracy.

But even so, colleagues in the network security department still have to work overtime often.

Because the business under the jurisdiction of the Network Security Department is relatively complicated.In addition to monitoring cameras in various places, locating criminal chips, shallow data collection and analysis of suspected demons, and manual contact when the execution department is dispatched, it is also responsible for managing Internet public opinion and deleting fraudulent information on the Internet. As well as maintaining the company's firewall, defending or actively attacking those psionic hackers.

Therefore, the Cyber ​​Security Department not only has overtime work, but also has a special night shift... But sometimes when it gets busy, the day shift will also work overtime to the night shift, and the night shift will also work overtime to the day shift.The gradual increase of three to five times the hourly salary for overtime work is naturally a coup to calm people's hearts. However, the drug commonly known as "overtime music" imported from Ampoule Biomedical is a sharp weapon that can prevent sudden death and improve work efficiency.

When Russell was in school, he heard that some small companies on Holy Blood Island were trying to copy the drug.As the head office of Holy Blood Island, Ampoule Biomedical not only did not stop them, but quietly watched them operate.

It has been four or five years now, and I have never heard of anyone succeeding.It has to be said that Ampoule Biotech's level of pharmaceutical technology is almost chronological.

After Russell got the injection, the operation went very smoothly... But the duration of the injection was only around six or seven o'clock in the evening.Although Ampoule Biological claims that it can be injected three to four times in a row, it will not cause obvious damage to the body.However, Russell believes that any medicine has side effects... So he didn't continue the injection, but ran away directly after installing the new prosthetic body on Delphinium.

He didn't even eat much for dinner that night, he just drank a bowl of instant noodles when he got home and then fell asleep.

Russell slept for twelve hours at a stretch that day, but when he woke up again he felt refreshed and free from headaches and fatigue.He also had to lament that this medicine did have something to say.

And when he came to Delphinium's house last weekend, he had to stay for a meal at night because he left too hurriedly last Sunday.Counting the trip over on Saturday night, he ate four meals and slept one night at Delphinium's house...

This week, because Russell had asked Miss Bingshui in advance, she would be off on Saturday... so Russell and Delphinium came back at noon on Saturday.

This time, after finishing his meal on Sunday night, Russell was kept by his uncle and aunt to sleep again.

He even found out that the delphinium's house already had its own toiletries.

...What's the matter with this feeling?

Although he hasn't confessed yet, the people around him seem to agree that the two are dating...

Not bad though.

Anyway, he's fine when he goes back.

Russell has been staying in the furnace of pain this month, learning the magic application of the furnace school from Mr. Zhongxiang.

Hanging did not accompany the godfather... After sending the godfather here, he left within a few days.

Because I heard that some wild mages were born in the last month... Although the era of the "White Lion Group" is over, even if it is just because of his vigilance against malt wine and his contempt for other mages, he can't let it go. Those mages went to recruit new people on a large scale.

So Strangling went to the original wasteland again, preparing to bring back a few new apprentices to expand the power of his faction.

Adventures in the dream world are not in a hurry if you are alone.

It’s like a game I bought myself. It may last for several months intermittently, and I will only touch it when I have time and energy; but if it is a game that can be online, the brothers can’t wait to have a good time every night——Occasionally If someone slack off for a day, he will be picked up by several other brothers to cheer him up.

It is precisely because of this that when Hangsha took Russell to explore the dream world together, Russell's time was occupied every night.

But after Hanging left, Russell didn't know his way... He was also a little worried. If Hanging didn't lead the way, he might not be able to come back if he left the furnace of pain too far, so he simply stayed inside and didn't go out.Anyway, as long as he stays in the furnace of pain, even if he falls to the next area because he hasn't moved for a long time, he just needs to come back.

It's a pity that Mr. Zhongxiang is a relatively silent type, and he can't beat a fart with three sticks-Russell often surrounds Zhongxiang to ask some common sense in the dream world.But Russell asked ten questions, nine of which the teacher would answer silently with the sound of blacksmithing, and the remaining one who was willing to answer two sentences would probably give a simple one-sentence reply in the riddleman style.

If you ask more questions, you will be easily caught by Zhong Xiang, pressed on the cutting board and hit with a hammer.Russell's mind was buzzing.

But on the other hand, fortunately, Zhongxiang is the kind of mentor who is relatively silent.

Russell didn't come to the dream world occasionally, and he didn't ask him what he was doing...Of course, even if Russell was in the dream world, he might not be able to teach anything.

It is said that other mad mages either have a strong desire for control and require apprentices to "go online every night" to learn spells; School spells; some even eat students, or make students part of their own power; some make students hunt elves or angels, or make some sacrifices for them in reality.

For example, a few days ago... On Friday night, Russell went to the dream world to ask for leave from Zhongxiang.

As soon as Russell opened his eyes, he heard Zhong Xiang strike iron in front of him.It is said to be blacksmithing, but in fact it is to dismantle a part of one's body and beat it.

So Russell leaned over and asked, "Teacher, what are you studying tonight?"

Then Zhongxiang called him silently for half an hour, ignoring him.

Russell knew what he meant, that there would be no class tonight.

Russell asked again: "Mr. Zhong, can you tell me about the Moonlight School you mentioned last time?"

Zhongxiang might be in a better mood that day, so he came up with the phrase "a madman who tries to be a picture".

Then there was no movement again.

Afterwards, Russell asked again, but was caught by Zhongxiang and beat him with a hammer.His "thinking impurities" were cleared after the beating, specifically referring to that day, Russell's curiosity was hammered out.

So Russell asked Zhongxiang for two days off - he probably guessed at that time that he might not be able to come back on Sunday night.

Zhong Xiang didn't ask why or what to do, but continued to forge in silence.

Russell understood that this was the teacher's approval.

——Such a complex way of communication means that Russell can read other people's thoughts.

He was actually quite curious as to how the brainless lion of Strangling communicated with Zhongxiang at ordinary times... But it was a pity that Russell saw that Strangling was sent flying away with a loud "get out" for three nights in a row.

But Russell can see one thing, that is, Zhong Xiang doesn't like to lead students - just like the kind of postgraduate tutor who focuses on scientific research.

I didn't intend to teach at all, the main purpose of the graduate students I accepted was to do odd jobs...

And the same is true for the end town.

He seemed to be squatting in this place and concentrating on leveling, and then someone rushed over and said, teach me, sir.And Zhongxiang's reaction was "brain shielding".

According to Zhongxiang's reaction speed, he can definitely hear it, and he is not "too engrossed to react" at all.It's just that I don't want to care about people.

From this point of view, the melting pot school really has no future at all...

Regarding this, Russell also tentatively asked Zhongxiang that day—to some surprise, Zhongxiang didn't mind students changing jobs, and it could even be said to encourage them.

Teacher Zhongxiang finally spoke.

He said that he knew from the very beginning that Russell was not suitable for the way of the furnace.

He also said that strangulation is a complete departure from the way of the furnace.Hang Ling didn't dare to stay here because he had already lost the power of the Furnace School, and he was worried about being discovered by Zhongxiang—but he actually knew it a long time ago.

If Strangled continued to deviate from the Way of Wrath, even the Way of Wrath would withdraw its own power from him...power that belonged to the Fire of Wrath.

And Russell asked Zhongxiang again, what kind of path is suitable for him?

So the teacher finally stopped talking.

Like an old man wearing a hearing aid, sometimes he can hear and sometimes he can't, but Russell can't be sure whether he really can't hear or pretends not to hear...

But at least one thing can be known, that is, after Russell learns the "melting furnace incarnation"... that is, after Russell has been greedy for a long time, strangling that cool spell that can turn himself into a ball of flames and move at high speed, he will never die. Going to teach myself something else.

At present, Russell has learned three spells from Mr. Zhongxiang, "Grasp of the Furnace", "Flame Protection", and "Flame Infusion".

The first is the one often used by Stranglers, who can burn others to ashes by touching the flames of the Furnace of Torment.

That flame can instantly burn the steel and prosthetic body, not because of its high temperature... but because these flames from the "fountain of rage" are actually a strange creature.

Yes, creatures...the deflagrating dark red flames, the crimson lava river, but they are actually a kind of spirit creature similar to bacteria, which is similar to "demons" in essence.But there is no advanced intelligence that belongs to demons, just like ants and humans are both carbon-based creatures.

They can burst out a disintegrating power by devouring the emotion of "anger", and carry out rapid self-replication. The flames and lava are only appearances, and its essence is a reduction reaction...so the "lovers" at that time After being burned off by Russell, her body temperature was not greatly increased.As for the prosthetic man who was strangled and burned to death, there was only a small puddle left, and there was no burst of super high temperature that could burn the onlookers. It was more like being "corroded" away.

Because of this, these "flames of anger" can ignore "flammable" and "non-flammable", and burn directly regardless of the ignition point.Neither gold nor tungsten can resist the burning of this flame.

And the process of learning spells is to pass the certification of the furnace of pain, and introduce a little bit of flame "tamed" by Zhongxiang into one's own body of mind, that is, the body of "self" in the dream world, as an introduction .Once you have tamed the "fire seeds" in your body, you can make them respond in a simple way... such as erupting from your body, blocking attacks or forcing others back, or temporarily injecting them into bullets and weapons.

In reality, the constant feedback of strong emotions in the heart will make people inevitably and unstoppably inclined to the way of "anger", and it is for this reason that the power of other ways is needed as restraint.

But fortunately, Russell usually does not need to switch to the identity of godfather.Therefore, the subtle negative impact of learning this spell on him will be much smaller.

After mastering this spell, Russell draws the power of flames from the Way of Wrath. It is no longer an ordinary fire of rage, but a furnace of pain—or a higher concentration drawn from the river of rage. , and the more active "anger", it can also be easily operated.

——This is the secret of the "Series of Spells" unique to the Crucible School.

After learning about this principle, Russell suddenly realized something...

His beheading of the saint also increased toughness, cutting power and length through the strength of "determination".And after the determination fades, its length will also decrease and fade immediately.

And the "sharpness" that seems to be able to cut all substances, but when cutting, sparks burst out like a chainsaw... It seems that it is essentially the same as the flame of the furnace school.

... From this perspective, the essence of psionic armament and these "school spells" may be the same.

The nature of psionics and spells—perhaps the same.

Chapter 4 Unexpected Demons

The bad guy hasn't come to work for more than half a month.

Because of this, Russell and Delphinium did not go to the company as early as usual, but had breakfast at home.

"Slow down on the road," Delphinium's mother told them loudly when she sent them off, "Don't forget to take someone with you... It's different from usual, don't drive so fast!"

"—I know, I know!!"

Delphinium became annoyed and immediately responded with a higher voice.

"Hush your voice!!!"

Delphinium's mother immediately yelled back with a louder voice: "You're making a noise out of Ultramarine!"

It should be said that these two people are indeed canine soul relatives. Russell's head is buzzing and his ears are a little frizzed by the loud voice... It's like being hit by Teacher Zhong.

Russell shrank in the back seat of the car, rubbed the roots of his ears, and couldn't help complaining: "It's rare to see you so excited..."

Before Delphinium was picked up by Delphinium at the beginning of the month, Russell's impression of Delphinium was always that he was a mature and steady, deep and wise, righteous and sympathetic boss who was very reliable and trustworthy.

After all, she always sits in her seat calmly and seriously, efficiently handling the work that belongs to her and some work that does not belong to her.And in her spare time, she never plays games, goes shopping or participates in entertainment, but reads and learns to improve herself.The very few personal breaks are just reading novels or watching variety shows, but the relaxation time will never exceed an hour.

In addition, unlike Russell who never exercises and only relies on talent to maintain his soft and agile body, Delphinium uses the fitness room inside Tianen Group every night before leaving get off work.

Never arrives late and leaves early, there is always a solution for any job received.When Russell first joined the company, Delphinium brought Russell out alone to talk, comfort and encourage him...

Although Delphinium is three or four years younger than Russell, Russell has always regarded Delphinium as a respectable senior.

...But after following Delphinium back home, Russell gradually realized that Delphinium had such a side outside the company.

She was not always so calm, and often quarreled with her mother when she was at home-although in Russell's view, Auntie was really a very peaceful and gentle person, but for some reason she often quarreled with Delphinium.

At the very first time, Russell was so frightened that his whole body froze, worrying that he might be in the way of making his aunt angry.

Then it didn't take long, because Russell didn't smell "angry", and suddenly realized that it was not a quarrel.

It's just because when those two people get together, the voice will become louder and louder like an echo...

"Sorry...did I disturb you just now?"

After getting into the car, Delphinium's voice suddenly became soft as usual.