Chapter 1427 Midnight Hall
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Academy City, the third underground floor of Gray Alley District, Midnight Hall
As soon as you get to the first floor, you will see the appearance Transformed into a man of about twenty Behind the half-orc woman of the cat tribe who is 20 years old, wearing a black mask, and her whole body is hidden under a black cold-proof cloak, Gawen, who has not changed her image until now, is slowly walking through the crowd, looking at her unhurriedly. The surroundings are bustling and lively.
Compared to Academy City under the sun, the dark alley area located underground makes Gawen feel much more friendly.
Not far away, she saw an old woman selling inert potions that were almost expired but not completely expired at a low price. She smiled at every passerby that would have been very friendly if she didn't have two front teeth missing, and introduced in a hoarse voice. own products.
She saw a lizard woman in school uniform timidly taking over two large bags of jingling gold coins, and then turned into the depths of a dark alley with the ferocious-looking, bulky fellow in front of her. My legs were shaking all the time.
She saw two boys who had used age-enhancing agents being thrown out of the tavern, but they just arranged their robes happily while summoning the low-level magic [Water Mirror] to check the marks on her face. Wrinkles, while noisily walking towards another tavern across the street, with a proud expression.
She saw a few scantily clad half-elves posing on the street. One of them even put on the dim magic crystal lamp next to him and made a series of concessions while ogling people. The movements of the person's blood spurting, and the delicate smile hanging on the corner of the mouth.
She saw several third-rate killers with gloomy temperaments standing in front of a certain notice board. Their exposed arms were covered with tattoos and their faces were tied with black bandages. They were probably working somewhere that could be used. Consider the cost-effectiveness of the task before deciphering text using basic means.
She saw people with the Thieves Guild emblem on their chests walking quickly through the streets, either holding letters or packages in their hands, appearing quietly, and then disappearing quietly.
Gawen took a deep breath, and a smile flashed across her exposed eyes for a long time. It was obvious that although it was just a relatively simple sinful atmosphere, the environment here made Gawen very comfortable.
It is not as high-end as the Free City, nor is it as inferior as the 'black street' in the outer city, and it cannot be compared with a certain earl's residence far away in the southwest continent, but after coming here, Gawen is It created a feeling of being like a fish in water.
In fact, whether it is Bai Fujin, a young female elite in the real world, or Jia Wen, a chief staff officer who hides his strength in the world of innocence, they all have a very clear and clear understanding of themselves. That means he is definitely not a good person.
Gawen has always been very clear that not everyone lives in the darkness, and not everyone will do whatever it takes to achieve their goals, and it’s not that she doesn’t like those who stand upright in the sun, it’s just that she knows very well that even if she Being able to have a drink and chat with the other person means that in the final analysis, they are still people from two different worlds.
It's not that she doesn't want to stand in the sun, it's just that she is more suitable to stand in the darkness.
After all, when right and wrong no longer exist in a person's eyes, then no matter whether he is black or not, it is impossible to become white.
So Gawen's self-positioning has always been clear. She does not subjectively think that she is a bad person, but objectively she knows very well that she cannot be a good person.
It is precisely because of this that when Gawen stepped into the Gray Alley area, she felt like a fish in water, because she could feel that the people around her, no matter what their status, at least in a broad sense , are all considered to be of the same kind.
The turbid sin in the air helped her stay clear-headed.
That's right, what Gawen needs most right now is a clear mind, because she has been forced to this point and is mentally excited to the point of almost collapse.
I have to admit that today she suffered the biggest blow since she entered the world of innocence, and it is very likely that she is about to face the first death of the character 'Gawen'. At this moment, she Very nervous, and this level of nervousness is something she has never felt in all these years!
There is no way to heaven and no way to earth.
No matter how hard you struggle, you can't escape from the opponent's palm. Not only that, until this moment, you can't even see the full picture of the opponent's plan. You just keep running for your life, constantly showing your trump cards, and keep struggling. Strive to win, and then... keep being pushed to the end.
I don’t know how many times, Gawen wanted to give herself a happy death, and then directly rebuild the character and try her best to remedy the mistakes she made. This was actually not difficult for her.
First of all, Gawen has almost the same budget allocation as Merlin. Although the amount of money at her personal disposal is symbolic, the total amount is very considerable.
This money was not allocated to her by others. In fact, she took the initiative to tell her boss that she had some business experience outside of the game. While serving as a staff member, she was also responsible for the finances of the Guijue Residence...or in other words, the addition of secret accounts. Wen just asked Grand Duke Bart Garros for a start-up capital of hundreds of thousands of gold coins, and in a short period of time, she doubled this number through high-risk financial services including but not limited to the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, the Steam Consortium, the Church of Wealth, and the Viper Chamber of Commerce. After a few flips, I made several short-cycle, high-return, high-risk investments, which directly enriched the account where the secret account was located.
Finally, she planned a sophisticated Ponzi scheme through remote control in the Blade Alliance's only port city [Massaton], earning approximately the base cost of 1,500 within two months. % of the profit, except for sacrificing a few player employees who did not even know the identity of the employees, almost no cost was paid.
Of course, the fate of the governor of [Massaton] and several big businessmen was quite miserable, but for Ms. Gavin, who values human rights, those so-called 'partners' are completely equal to herself. relationship, so naturally it will not be calculated into the 'cost'.
This is not complicated, and of course it is not as simple as those movies on TV decades ago that had business wars on the front but idol dramas underneath.
This involves some issues that are very troublesome to explain. Since it will take too much time to expand, here are just a few examples.
For example, the Chauvin Empire is the leader in the commercial field of the Southwest Continent, and with the status and influence of Jiawen’s camp in this country, as long as she is determined to do it, the information she can get will be good. There are a wide range of possibilities for things that can be affected secretly, and there are not many tricks that can be done here.
It's like outside the game, a large company decides to acquire another company. After the plan is made public, if nothing unexpected happens, the latter's stock will most likely increase significantly, so it can be done in advance Anyone who learns about this can naturally make a fortune without any effort.
For another example, some cases that only exist in reality but have never occurred in the Innocence Continent have been studied by the bachelors to the point where they are almost transparent, and even primary school students outside the game can hardly detect them. Depending on the method of deception, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people may be deceived depending on the world view, and the most common place for this kind of thing is the "cool point" in a large number of time-travel themes.
And Gawen just took advantage of this. Although she could not use cases outside the game or even the player's immortality trait to 'cheat', if she could use it, why not use it? The situation is probably like this, but it is just a theory. After all, these operations will give rise to a lot of professional problems when they are really applied. The reason why Gawen can do it is because she is a professional in her own right, so everyone can travel through time one day. Well, it’s better not to follow suit easily.
In short, after Jia Wen, who is in charge of finance, has become rich, he has been setting up small 'offices' throughout the continent a long time ago. The main purpose is to provide services for 'expatriates', and Mainly financial services.
To sum up, although the fund reserves of each office are not large, for someone like Gawen who has absolute authority, the money to go to the Mages Guild and take the teleportation array back to Academy City is too much. After all, there is still some.
So as long as she can appear near a big city within twelve hours of game time after rebuilding her character, she will definitely be able to make it to tomorrow's meeting.
If by chance the rebuilt character goes to a remote area where there is no place for people to play, or a place that is not covered by the office, just die and come back again.
The opponent doesn't know that [Thousand Faces] is a soul-bound equipment, and even if he knows, it probably won't be of much use. After all, a situation like this where he is being targeted completely can be classified as a special situation.
Based on this, it is not difficult for Gawen to make amends. The reason why she has not done so yet is simply that she does not want to give up easily.
Hope is slim, but not hopeless.
Ever since she was sensible, she has been a person who will never give up in the face of 'impossibility', but will never let go of any possibility, no matter how small the possibility is.
For example——
Maybe it is difficult to monitor the person who is staring at him underground?
This is the whole reason why Gawen appears here. She is still betting that the other party will be disturbed by this reason!
As for whether there is anyone blocking her in the underground gray alley area, Gawen personally thinks there is no such thing. This is still a gamble, but in her opinion, the most cost-effective way in this case must be to let People guarded each exit, instead of pursuing and intercepting them on a large scale like before.
The Gray Alley area is a mixed bag, prone to trouble, and is not under the jurisdiction of the law enforcement team!
So Jia Wen bet that the people that the other party could mobilize, apart from the law enforcement team, were mostly elite units such as Mu Xuejian and Lian, and it would be difficult to make a difference in this special area!
When she saw Lian at the entrance of Gray Alley, she knew she had made the right bet on this one!
Although the other party guessed that they would come to the Gray Alley area, they probably did not have enough manpower and support to carry out a large-scale encirclement and suppression inside.
And just after Gawen left the Midnight Hall and walked slowly into the fourth underground floor, which was half divided by the Thieves Guild and half the Intelligence Plaza, she was pleasantly surprised to find that her previous bet was also right!
Not long after she entered the fourth underground floor, the burning sensation in her body suddenly weakened rapidly, and within a moment it turned into an almost imperceptible warmth.
This means that the most determined gaze has disappeared, replaced by the surrounding 'pedestrians' who are wandering in the gray area, habitually looking around, and subconsciously paying attention to the movements of everyone around them.
Without any hesitation, Jiawen immediately blended into the crowd and then spent more than ten minutes 'fine-tuning' herself, from eye color and eyelashes that were difficult for others to notice, to skin color, hairstyle, and finally body shape. , clothing, gender and even race, when she returned to the third floor ten minutes later, she had completely changed into a completely different person.
To be more precise, he has become a completely different person from the one before the burning sensation disappeared!
As for the specific appearance, it doesn’t matter, because the other party has already lost track of him!
The sudden surprise did not make Gawen relax. On the contrary, she became more cautious than before, and her brain was thinking non-stop. Countless thoughts flashed through her every minute and every second. It even caused a load that was enough to cause physical fitness to slowly decline.
Yes, Gawen is not at ease, even though everything is developing in a good direction, even though he seems to be out of desperate situation, all he needs to do at this moment is to leave this place and find an opportunity. She had just returned to Liuli Pavilion, but she still had a strong sense of crisis.
Without any reason, just an instinctive intuition, Gawen believed that the other party would not let her go so easily, and was not even sure whether she had really left the enemy's sight.
This is not unfounded worry. After all, she has paid the price for her sloppiness before, and she also knows how meticulous and thoughtful the other party's arrangements are, so this suspicion is completely defensible.
What's more, the warmth on her body has not completely disappeared, so now it may be that the person with the most superb means is temporarily unable to monitor herself. There are 'plainclothes' in the vague eyes around her. '.
It is dangerous to leave here rashly, and it is even stupider to stay where you are!
There is only one right choice!
No matter how the other party arranges it, as long as you can find an opportunity to go offline, you can completely take the initiative in your hands.
Ten minutes ago, this matter was still an impossible task, but for Gawen, who has now gotten rid of the biggest and most annoying gaze, and even breathes a lot easier, it is already There isn't much difficulty left.
She believes that even if someone is still paying attention to her at this moment, even if the other party is mobilizing people as quickly as possible to arrest her, after that gaze completely disappears, she can still find someone who can block all The timing of the sight!
[Come on, the mouse’s final escape has begun~]
Although there are still cards in his hand that have not been finished, Gawen, who has regarded this moment as the final battle, licked the corner of his mouth , set foot on the main road of the Midnight Hall again
Chapter 1418: End
(End of this chapter)