Overturned Tower

The delphinium smiled triumphantly, the strelitzia prosthetic body on the lower back activated by itself, and the metal prosthetic limb like a snake's touch circled around in front of her body, and lifted Alice's short skirt violently upwards.

She squeezed her throat, and said in a weird voice like an old hooligan: "What do I want? You have to abstain from sex for the first three months, but I don't have to... What do you think? Pfft..."

As she spoke, she burst out laughing for a moment.

When she put Alice's legs down, she suddenly felt the white silk touch from the palm of her hand, which was actually quite good.

Her attention was immediately drawn away: "When did you change to white silk?"

Alice, who was originally covering her face in a shy manner, moved her hands away with some doubts: "Didn't you change it for me?"

"Huh? When?"

"Five or six months ago... that's when I saw the sheath."

"...I seem to have an impression."

As Delphinium spoke, she casually took off Alice's little leather boots.

She was a little curious and wanted to throw them away, but found that they suddenly disappeared out of thin air after leaving Alice.

"There is a loophole in your transformation, Russell."

Delphinium held Alice's feet, and pointed out seriously: "Why are you gone after you take off your clothes?"

Alice is only 1.5 meters five, while Delphinium is 1.6 meters nine.The height advantage between them made Alice so petite that her feet could easily hold her.

Alice was a little helpless, and uttered Alice's voice in Russell's tone: "No way, it's not a real 'change out of thin air'. It's just a materialization of the mirror image, and it's just a scene reflected in the mirror after all. What are you doing?!"

Feeling the cold Strelitzia slowly touching her thigh, Alice screamed, "Do you want to be serious?"

In the next moment, her body distorted and changed into Sai Lun, who was two times bigger than Delphinium.

The posture that was originally restrained by the delphinium became a posture that completely hugged the delphinium.

Delphinium, who was held in Sai Lun's arms, laughed twice: "I'm training your transformation speed..."

"I suspect that you just fell in love with Alice."

Sai Lun hugged the delphinium and smiled softly.

The next moment, Sai Lun turned back into Russell himself.

The sunlight outside the window didn't shine directly on them, but sprinkled on the edge of the bed.

Both Russell and Delphinium closed their eyes—there was no passionate kissing or showing love, but just hugging each other quietly and warmly, sitting on the bed and experiencing the rare moment of leisure and relaxation.

As time passed quickly, they were almost motionless.Only the delphinium would occasionally rub against Russell's neck, and Russell would lightly touch the delphinium's ear with his own.

They opened their eyes at the same time and looked at each other as the sunlight moved away from the bed.

"Speaking of which," Russell said suddenly, "do you want to go on a business trip?"

"You mean... other sky islands?"

Delphinium immediately understood what Russell meant.

Russell nodded slightly.

"Although I expected it a long time ago, I actually didn't expect you to be pregnant so early."

"Come here several times a week, I actually don't think it's a surprise..."

"Well, I know that too. So I want to take you back to Sogo Island. To see Alice's grave, to see where I grew up.

"—and then we get engaged when we get back."

He said, reaching for Delphinium's ear.

The delphinium stretched out his hand to pat Russell's hand away, and smoothly held it backwards, intertwining his fingers.

"I don't want to get engaged, that kind of thing doesn't make any sense."

Delphinium said without hesitation, "I want to get married directly."

"it is good."

Russell nodded and answered seriously.

Chapter 2 Board of Directors

Where the directors usually gather to work, how they control the company, and who are the "directors" who control the supreme power of the "Big Seven" and control the lifeblood of the world are still unsolved mysteries.

Except for directors like Chairman Sai Lun who especially like to emphasize their own presence, they occasionally appear in news reports.

As for the other directors, let alone their real names... even their general appearance, and even whether they are old or young, male or female are still a mystery.It's not just the elf directors... Even information on human directors who change quickly and have a clear promotion track is extremely difficult to get.

In the "Big Seven" companies, there is a common feature... that is, the higher the position, the more mysterious the image becomes.

Not to mention a high-ranking director—even if it is just a company executive, his business card can fetch a very high price on the black market.Because it means that you can send emails to the other party through the business card, which means an opportunity to communicate with the other party.

In many cases, people may not be unable to pay the price.It's just that they have no cognition, no intelligence, and no channels.

It's just a small business card, and you may be blocked after sending a meaningless email-but this email may have the effect of changing your life against the sky.

Help the big shots deal with some small problems that they are too lazy to do, for example, get rid of the fleas that have been fighting against the big shots, and you can get a good salary, and even a decent and stable job in the head office; if If you see a person on the wanted warrant, you can also send the photo, time and location via email to secretly exchange for a bounty... There may even be a chance to get the other party's appreciation.

And if there is any important internal information-for example, the head office wants to buy a certain company, and the company's attitude on the surface is very tough and not to sell.But there may be some [-]-year-old boy in their company who can contact the middle and high-level leaders of the head office to secretly tell the other party: In fact, we want to sell, and now we still want to use this method to raise the price, but now this The price is already within our psychological expectations.

Once the head office knows the real bottom line of the other party in this way, it can gain a great advantage in intelligence during the negotiation process.If the head office gets a result that satisfies them, it will never be stingy with these "friendly people" and reward them generously.

It can even be said this way - the head office actually doesn't care that much about how much money they can earn.After all, they are essentially Sky Island's credit currency issuers.

Really smart people can realize that the real purpose of the head office is to continue to suppress the right to speak of other companies.

The "Big Seven" have a strong sense of territory.If it is against the head office at the commercial level, it may not attract the attention of the head office—but if it tries to attack the head office at the level of public opinion, then it may usher in physical destruction.

Because of this, what the head office really hates is the fact that "someone is working against them".

And the thing that can most eliminate this antagonism is mysticism.

The perception of the mysterious board of directors in people's minds is just one black silhouette after another.Anyone who may look ordinary may be a director... They don't even know who their enemies are, let alone gather intelligence, assassinate or design layouts.

The most classic misleading is that the "board meeting hall" in the headquarters of the Big Seven companies is actually just an empty room.

Even if there are the most elite mercenaries who can sneak into the core area of ​​​​Tianen Park and install bugs in the board meeting hall, they will never hear anything; there is no point in installing bombs, even the most elite hackers , nor can any meeting records be retrieved from the camera.

Because of this conference hall, what it provides is just "projection".

At this time, Chairman Sai Lun was sitting at the main seat, watching one director after another gradually appear in the void.

Every director appeared at the conference table out of nowhere, and then nodded to Sai Lun.Their image is so clear, as if they are really here.

— This is the secret that directors can always hide in the shadows.

All directors have a special secret order buried in the back of their heads.As long as they are within the range of the sky island, they can receive the signal, and project into a closed space at any time, just like entering a sneak game.

This enclosed space is a one-to-one replica of the real-world "boardroom" and is subject to change at any time.This means that any document can be viewed by the directors from the "mirror world" by placing it in the real conference hall.And any hands and feet in the real world have no effect on them.

After crossing Leviathan's Wall, Russell's mirror image ability has been enhanced even more powerfully.

His imitation of Sai Lun is absolute-this means that Russell not only obtained Sai Lun's chip data, but even the "board key" in his hands.Even Sai Lun's chat history, he can check it at any time.

Even the "mother tree system" didn't judge Sai Lun's death...or in other words, it actually judged Sai Lun once when Sai Lun was swallowed by Russell.But because of the transmitter on "Sai Lun", the mother tree system immediately detected that "Sai Lun is still alive", so it judged the previous signal as a false alarm, and immediately performed self-correction, stopping the rebirth of Sai Lun .

Therefore, Russell boldly imitated Sai Lun, and carried out a medical examination of the highest standard on the grounds that "the chip reported an error for no reason".

Even the physical examination of the elf director found nothing abnormal.

At that time, Russell realized that he had indeed seized the identity of "Sai Lun".Unless someone attacked Chairman Sai Lun in public and directly caused fatal injuries, his disguise of Sai Lun could no longer be seen through.

After that, Russell began to actively interfere with the board in his capacity as Saron.

The first is to shorten the working hours of six days a week to three and a half days a week.And imposed a maximum upper limit on the total working hours per week.This change will be implemented in half a month... Sai Lun also specially left a handover time to avoid suddenly disrupting the work rhythm.

Then, for all employees who have been working in the company for more than ten years, a senior member-level insurance of the medical team is purchased... and it is planned to gradually promote it within three years to everyone who has worked for more than five years.

Of course, Russell did not ignore that this large-scale change will cause huge chaos in the fields of freight, service, and medical treatment, as well as cause pressure on the grassroots work in the medical industry... So he conducted another round of expansion, and planned to start from Ampoule Biomedical Acquired three large pharmaceutical companies under its umbrella.

Then came the scholarship system... "Sai Lun" directly classified the "scholarship loan" that he could apply for when he was admitted to Tianen University as a bonus.In other words, if the students are good enough to pass the exam and enter Tianen University, then they don't have to pay tuition fees directly.This is not to say that the university's income will be reduced, but that this income will be directly donated to them by Tianen University in the form of "bonuses".

A change of this scale is very difficult if you think about it.

But in fact, Sai Lun hardly encountered any resistance.

Because Tianen Group is rich.

They're really, really rich... "too much money" in the literal sense.

Tianen Group controls more than 51% of large and small enterprises on Happy Island with an absolute shareholding of more than [-]%. Its tentacles cover all walks of life... It can be called a monopoly in all fields.Those small companies that are enemies, if their behind-the-scenes bosses continue to trace back, they can always be traced back to Tianen Group itself.

In addition to Tongshen Island, among the seven giants, the Tianen Group has the strongest control over these small and medium-sized enterprises.

This means that even if they don't have to move at all, some companies will wholeheartedly make money for them.

And the money they get can hardly be used except to buy other new companies.

This part of the profit can only be said to be a drop in the bucket... Not to mention, it was originally taken away from these people, and it doesn't matter if it is returned now.

Rather, it is precisely for today's Shien—the Tianen Group deliberately lowered the quality of life of the residents before.

The directors of the elves took these new ideas of Sai Lun as the practice of the fate of "favor" as a matter of course.They didn't even make a single query on this topic, but repeatedly asked Sai Lun "Are you planning to give up your destiny now?"

Sai Lun's answer is of course "no".

She called the bill "repurposing the unemployed," or splitting one job into two.

This means that if you really need money, you can spare some time in the three and a half days to do odd jobs.Although there can only be one official job, there can be many part-time jobs.

And the original working hours are cut, which means that their income will drop.Based on the principle of "everyone can only have one formal job", the boss can only recruit new employees - this way to solve the unemployment population.

That is, the previous "working population" is divided into "full-time workers" and "semi-weekly workers", and the previous "unemployed population" is filled in "semi-weekly workers".

It seems that this is meaningless left-handed and right-handed, and it also prevents employees who could take a day off from taking a rest, and can only work two jobs...

But this is actually Russell's special arrangement.

Two months later, after the unemployed population that had already swelled to 15% was quickly filled back, "Chairman Sai Lun" had a new idea—she further tightened the total working hours.This means that people who originally used their spare time to work will not be able to go, and they will have a lot of free time.

If it were put in the past, these idlers would easily cause all kinds of turmoil.

But now there is one difference... that is the Fuji Society.

The reason a lot of people don't get involved in charity activities is because they don't have that much time.Because they have to be busy with work.

But now, they are "semi-unemployed" because of Chairman Sai Lun's new policy - they can only do [-]% of the original work and get [-]% of the original income.Many people are very satisfied with this, but some people will be a little dissatisfied... because they themselves are people who can't be idle, or people who really lack income.

Therefore, they can only go to the relief agency to "take orders".

Because this is neither a job nor a part-time job, it can bypass the arrangement of Chairman Sai Lun.

As a result, the Fuji Society has grown wildly.

"Sailun" actually uses this method to slow down production activities throughout the entire sky island - although the number of employees seems to have increased, overall their total effective working hours are actually still reduced.But fortunately, this change is island-wide. Although I am slow, everyone is slow. At least I will not be squeezed to death by the opponent because of the reduced shipment rate...

At this time, the board of directors also realized Sai Lun's strategy.

——She actually used this method to reduce the "resource consumption speed" and forcibly reduce the original life speed.

This is equivalent to distributing part of the income of those who used to work normally to support those who are unemployed.As a reward, they are given a full half of their free time every week.Since everyone's incomes are lowered simultaneously, prices must be lowered too... and that's literally forcing life to slow down.

Immediately afterwards, Chairman Sai Lun abolished the "minimum consumption tax".In other words, those ultra-low-priced items that consume less than a little credit point no longer need to pay a high consumption tax of 10% when transferring money.

This also makes it possible to trade ultra-small items.Credit points that were originally only accurate to one digit after the decimal point were even directly increased by one digit.

So under this series of supporting measures, a very strange situation appeared in Happy Island...

That is, although the company's shipments have decreased, resource consumption has decreased, and everyone's wages have decreased...But for some reason, the quality of life has improved a lot.

As a result, the Fuji Society expanded rapidly, and soon became the third largest institution on Happy Island - second only to "Tianen Group" and "Cyber ​​Church".

After that, more than a month passed.

At the board meeting in May, Sai Lun once again put forward a new proposal——

"The problem of labor shortage needs to be solved urgently," the lady with blond curly hair looked around, showing a gentle and kind smile, "Now I propose: include uncoded people into the category of workers."

As soon as these words came out, the directors all turned their eyes to Chairman Sai Lun.

"Wait a minute, Chairman Sai Lun...

"I'm really doubting now, have you reached some kind of...cooperation with the Fuji Society?"

With the cold voice sounded.

Sai Lun looked over one by one with a smile on his face, and paused slightly on the objecting "Kamarser".