Overturned Tower

Russell was a little dissatisfied: "What are you talking about? Of course I have read it. The scope of my reading is very wide and complex."

"Then...can I have a moment?"

The delphinium's ice-blue clear pupils stared at Russell, and said softly, like a puppy, with moist desire: "The poem you said."

"...Is that a love poem?"

"I'm going to listen to that."

She pursed her dry lips and said seriously.

The second tail behind the delphinium slowly drew out, slowly going up along Russell's tailbone.But the cold metal made Russell feel a warm burning pain, like red-hot copper.

"I give you all the insight my books can hold, all the manliness and humor my life can hold..."

Russell whispered softly, reciting melodiously: "I give you the loyalty of a man who has never had faith.

"I give you the core of myself that I have managed to preserve...

"Don't make sentences with words, don't trade with dreams.

"The core untouched by time, joy and adversity."

It was a poem by Borges that Russell had heard in his previous life.

He could think of it immediately, precisely because he felt a strange empathy from it.

He stared into the delphinium's eyes, felt the burning heat on his back, and chanted softly, as if he was chanting his own heart:

"I give you the memory of seeing a yellow rose at sunset, before you were born.

"I give you your interpretations, your theories, and true and strange news about you.

"I give you my solitude, my darkness, the hunger of my heart;

"—I want to bribe you with impermanence, danger, and failure."

"... Finished reading?"

"It's over."

Russell confirmed.

Immediately afterwards, the "Strelitzia" wrapped around the back of his neck slowly climbed up the back of his head like a snake's tail.

Immediately, Strelitzia gently touched forward.

Delphinium pressed Russell's head down and kissed it lightly on the lips.

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Chapter 1 Relief Society

[It is now Monday, December 12th, at 13:8 am]

【Good morning, Mr. Russell】

[Snowfall warning in Luopan District, Tianen District, Giant Screen District, and Apperceptibility District]

[It is detected that you are in Tianen District, there will be moderate to heavy snow before 11:40, please be careful when traveling]

【You have something to do today: at 9:30 am, meet with Director Amirus】

With the melodious wake-up sound in his head, Russell's drowsiness was quickly dispelled.

The first thing he did was to slide away the big "to-do list" pop-up window that blocked his sight.

Russell unconsciously shrunk into the heavy quilt, and rolled it to the side while wrapping the quilt.

But he didn't hit the delphinium, but just touched the still warm sheets.

"Ugh..."

He stretched slowly, and sat up from the bed unsteadily.

It's been a while since he got up this early.Today I was suddenly woken up by the alarm clock so early, I still feel a little uncomfortable.

Since the addition of three newcomers to the Special Operations Department, Russell's workload has been greatly reduced immediately.

To be more specific, he no longer goes to work now and then.

——This occasional frequency is about two or three days a week.

Counting the original Sunday off, he only works about three days a week now.

And in the three-day shift, he would go home after four o'clock in the afternoon... If there is no interview task in the afternoon, then he may arrive at the company at nine o'clock in the morning, have a meal at the company at noon, and then stretch his legs and get wet.

Naturally, the company has no opinion.

Almost everyone in the executive department knew that the two directors of the special executive department were on the mend—anyway, Delphinium was still working, and there were still pillars in the company, so it didn't matter if Qunqing didn't come.

He's cute, let him play!

However, since people who have seen the delphinium are very rare, there are almost no people who know her well; it is the fact that Russell was kidnapped, which caused the little girls to complain.

The scandal about "Ultramarine" even spread on the Internet... But because no one dared to post evidence directly on the Internet despite the surveillance of those colleagues in the Internet Security Department, so what stayed on the Internet was only "I heard" This level of gossip is nothing more than that.

With the salary support of the fake Torquay director, coupled with the sudden increase in advertising endorsement business, Russell's income has been raised by a large amount.

After getting rich, Russell didn't turn bad.But his life began to become more comfortable visible to the naked eye.

After all, Russell doesn't like to buy any luxury goods, and he doesn't have any bad habits.Although Russell is very greedy, he will not deliberately buy those expensive "farmed ingredients"... The most high-end synthetic meat is actually much better in taste, texture and nutrition than real meat.

Those who still spend a lot of money to eat real meat are enjoying the "rareness" rather than the taste.And Russell never cared about that kind of symbolic and ritual things.

He spent the most of the money he earned in this wave, that is, buying a new floating car for Mr. Herman, so that he can use it for transportation when he goes to work.

The rest is to donate a large sum of money to Paradise Bird - after Paradise Bird has adapted to the work of the Special Executive Department, it feels that the work here is not too much.And she and those two angels are usually restless personalities... Russell will curl up in the corner of the sofa in the office and touch fish when he has nothing to do, but they obviously can't enjoy this kind of fun that belongs to cats.

So they applied to the church and established an orphanage.

At present the three of them, together with a priest and two nuns, care for a dozen orphans.The age ranges from three or four years old to twelve or thirteen years old.

Russell is also very pleased that they can finally find something they like to do. Not only did they not be arrested and imprisoned in the office, but they donated 50 credit points to them.

With this money, I won't have to run around looking for donations for at least a few years.

Considering that they are a bishop and two angels after all, there are many rich people who want to donate money to please them.They have accepted personal favors for no reason, and they will have to pay back in the future—but they are not orthodox churches after all, and they don't understand, and don't bother to understand, those ways of the world that compromise and win-win.If those rich people think that they can be bribed by donating money, they are very wrong.

But in that case, they will offend people for no reason if they don't do anything after receiving money.

So Russell simply refused to let them collect donations, but covered all the expenses by himself——

Now he is a big star.There is no pressure at all to support a dozen or twenty orphans.

On the contrary, if they all go to college in the future, it will be a sum that cannot be ignored...but that will be a long time later.Moreover, these children are of different ages, so it doesn't matter if they are scattered.

Maybe by then, Russell will have children of his own.

Since liberating the container of God, Russell felt that life became easier and easier.

—or, on the other hand, he became a little nervous.

He can turn himself into Alice and stay at home to read and study, and let the container of God become himself to go to work or accept interviews.

He can also turn the vessel of God into a godfather to deal with the affairs of the "family", and Russell can stay at home to exercise, or use the vest of the "detective" to go out to improve his presence.

As they guessed.When resources were further exhausted, companies finally began large-scale layoffs.

Not only the head office and directly affiliated companies, but even small companies that have nothing to do with the giants have been hit.

This inevitably brought chaos on a large scale.

But the company's will is very firm - they just want to reduce the population, so they will be driven into the lower city first.

Russell's previous layout has indeed taken effect... The "family" he created absorbed the largest number of high-quality talents with the strongest controllability in the first wave of catastrophe.

And those dregs that were eliminated by them also formed various forces.

Against the background of other forces, the "family" founded by the godfather, who deliberately did not take a name in order to reduce the sense of existence, also gained its own name with the rise of other forces.

At first they called it "Fushijiao", but the godfather didn't like that title.

"We don't have any beliefs at all, and it's not our turn to save the world. If we must have a name, let's call us 'Fuji Society'..."

Here's what the Godfather said: "Support the needy, help the needy. If the company can't or won't do it, let's do it. But it's not for nothing. But the main selling point is that we always It will be more timely than 'justice'."

At this time, the godfather finally announced his real code name: barber.

"Anyone needs a barber, someone who can let him get close to his back with a knife, someone who can help you maintain a decency you can't maintain yourself. And a combination of the two."

The "Fuji Society" is different from the previous "Venuel of Ignorance" and "Eternal Tribulation Reincarnation", it has the tacit approval of the church and the company.Even uptown, some people joined the Relief Society, seeking "mutual help in times of need."

The principle of the Help Society is "Conditional Grace".Helping those in need, and asking for their return when they need help in the future, is like depositing money in a bank.

And what the godfather provides is "the loan of favor".

For those "godchildren" who have some cultivation value but need far more help than he gives to others, so they cannot "pay", the godfather can temporarily use his own face to mediate.

For people who are not familiar with each other, or those who have conflicts or old grievances, the godfather can also be used as a guarantor to introduce and carry out "favor transactions".

The business quickly spread from Lower Town to Uptown.

From being born without a code, to the direct blood relatives of the head office board; from being feared killers, thieves and mercenaries, to artists, playwrights and other "idols" admired by people; from being penniless and even owed a lot of debts Frustrated employees, to the top management of large and small companies...

Many people owe him favors.

But these favors will not be accumulated and not repaid, and the favor will become the enmity.Instead, the "debt repayment" was quickly completed with a method that the other party could easily accept.

However, the "prices" that everyone can accept gather together, but gradually converge to form a huge community of interests.

Although it is still only a prototype...

However, before he knew it...he had become the real "Godfather".

Chapter 2 Godfather and cat

Of course, it is not that there are people who are greedy for such huge benefits and simple ideas and want to copy this business.

But after all, they have bad intentions and lack of ability and capacity... Maybe they can do better and more "fair" than the godfather in a short period of time.

However, without exception, they were unable to hold on to the point that benefited everyone.Generally speaking, it will be reduced to a scam of killing pigs, and in the end it will not be able to operate and run away with money, or offend people and be killed in a surprise attack.

——After all, even the godfather himself has been attacked by people of different positions.As mediators and centers of interest exchange, they have no reason to survive.

Despite the godfather's stature among uncensored people, downtown is no longer a gathering place for uncensored people these days.

Half a year after the criminal organization was wiped out by the angels, a new round of turmoil began in the lower city.

There are criminals, there are uncoded people who are out of debt... and there are depraved white collars who still have chips and plan to return to Uptown later.

Among those who can fight, there are illegal psykers and newly awakened young mages; there are also escaped prisoners who were laid off by the execution department and sent back to prison; "Civil Enforcement".

Among them were the company's rebels, as well as the armed groups directly supported by the Tianen Group.

Even other tycoons have also intervened, betting on the forces they are optimistic about.

Today's Lower City is no longer a lawless place where the unscrupulous, mercenaries and criminals struggle to survive.It's the "losers" who have their own ideas, dividing the chaotic battlefield.

Affected by this, the atmosphere in Uptown has also become tense.People's emotions became restless, all kinds of ghosts and snakes came out, and the previous "rules" were completely abolished.In front of these "outsiders", the face of the White Lion Group, the face of the strangulation, and the face of the godfather are not easy to use... Even the godfather has been assassinated three times.

——But no matter what, they couldn't kill the godfather.

Because the godfather who was killed and turned into a corpse in front of everyone will always reappear at another moment.

So some people say that the Godfather is not a person, but a secret organization, or an inherited title.Some people say that the godfather knew that someone was going to attack him, so he sent a substitute; others said that the godfather has the power of immortality and resurrection.

Some people say that the godfather can parasitize the souls of other people's thoughts; some people say that the godfather is a biochemical person who has been trained to have the same thoughts... What they see is just "one of the godfathers".

But in any case, those failed assassinations did not cause trouble for the godfather.

On the contrary, it added a lot of mystery to the godfather.

The great "Godfather" Mr.This morning he couldn't get up because he was busy dealing with the unexpected situation at the Fuji Society last night until midnight.

Three days ago, Amirus had asked Russell to meet, but he shrugged it off because he was too busy with work.Now he can't push it a second time, so he has to get up obediently.

Russell stared blankly at the front, his eyes still not fully focused.

At this time, Delphinium, who had already put on her coat, pushed open the door of the bedroom.

"woke up?"

She said casually, "Drink some water."