On business trip
A great man once said that if you want to open a window in a house, people will definitely disagree. But if you want to break the roof, they will agree to open the window.
This means that people are compromisers.
Wu Ci's request was very greedy, but he gave up the card he had just obtained, combined with his rhetoric, and used Tianzun to act as a backstage, Zhen Shanhe would of course agree to his conditions.
The data of the second step of [Seven Steps of Divine Movement] was introduced into Wu Ci's ugly card. The data probe pierced his fingertips again, allowing the data storage to flow into his mind through the spiritual power in his blood.
[One step to conquer the country]
[Liangbu Town Mountains and Rivers]
Lack of sleep, not eating much, and having simulated several times before, or perhaps because of the whole bottle of psychiatric drugs that Zhen Shanhe had drunk before, Wu Ci's mind has been groggy. Now that he has returned to the rental house in the old city, he doesn't know whether he has calmed down or is just getting the hang of it.
He felt that he was mentally unstable. Whenever he looked at things, he had double vision as if his soul and body were not synchronized. It was like the TV had a colorful screen due to poor signal contact, and there were some phantom electronic spots in front of his eyes. As time went by, the situation became more and more serious, and he would almost become a machine that short-circuited and crashed in the next second, and go into a temporary coma.
However, Wu Ci thought about the data in his mind and quickly started to pack up his things at home.
After all, he had to go on a business trip tomorrow, so he had to go to work early. He had to disguise himself as "Arrogant" and get into the escort vehicle in the early morning, and pretend to be escorted away during the escort personnel's shift change, so as not to scare the escort personnel tomorrow.
He was very poor, because he had no memory and didn't know whether his original incarnation had left any assets behind. The tables and potted plants that he had deliberately tried to please and that were very good at dealing with people by saying they would give him money and "inspect" all the bribes he had received were now turned into chips on the gambling table and were gone.
In this world, no matter how strong you are, you can die easily. He needs to become stronger faster and climb to a higher position.
Now Wu Ci has almost used up all the spirit stones and other things, so he plans to sell all the things in the house and then give up the lease of the house to avoid being deducted money from him after he leaves... In a place like the old city, things will definitely be stolen by thieves.
Anyway, when he comes back, he can go directly to the work unit to allocate an apartment to live in for the rest of his life.
As I was packing, the phone suddenly rang.
It's Director Li.
Wu Ci had originally planned to call him to ask for leave, but he didn't expect that he would call him himself.
"Wu Ci, maybe you attracted too much attention before, so you got a notice from above for no apparent reason, asking you to go on a business trip to Sky City."
Sky City? It coincides with the place where he was on a business trip. Could it be that Zhen Shanhe had arranged it for him?
Wu Ci tilted his head and put the receiver on his shoulder, folding his clothes with his hands, and said in a normal voice with all his tiredness: "Can you tell me the details?"
"Nothing specific. The higher-ups insisted on letting you go, and I couldn't refuse on your behalf. I could only try to get you some overtime pay and field expenses. I'll use my own public funds to advance them to you, and I'll put them on your ID card later, so you don't have to worry about not being able to get things done when you're not familiar with the place and don't have money."
Now that things have come to this, how could Wu Ci not know that this was a favor he owed, even though his mind was becoming increasingly dizzy.
He exhaled softly and said seriously, "Director Li, I will definitely remember your recommendation and care. If I can be of any use to you, I will definitely not refuse."
"That's fine. Just be careful and try your best to save your life. Don't try to stand out."
Director Li said, "There is one more thing. Didn't Wu Fu say he went out with you? When he came back to work today, he looked dazed and said he owed a large sum of money on his salary card. What were you doing?"
Wu Ci really didn't have the energy to chat, and wanted to end the topic as soon as possible. He sold Wu Fu without hesitation, pretending to be an honest newcomer who had just entered the society. "Senior Wu Fu went to the casino to play a few rounds."
"This guy... No wonder he came to work this morning. It turns out he couldn't afford to eat because of gambling. I'll talk to him later. Next time you see this kind of situation, just stand up to him. What's he trying to do?"
"Senior Wu Fu must have his own ideas." Wu Ci said.
"He has no bullshit ideas. He hangs out with hooligans all day long... Oh, by the way, have you heard that there is a new Minister of Finance?"
Ministry of Finance?
Wu Ci's hands paused as he was folding clothes, and his eyeballs, which were aching severely, stopped at a void point, proving that he was beginning to recall.
Wasn't that the department headed by Senior Yu Xuan whom he had just killed? Why was there a new director so soon? Didn't Wu Fu get the position?
He pretended to be surprised, but was afraid that Director Li would misunderstand him as being too cold-blooded. He hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't help asking, "The people above have nothing to do with us, right?"
"Originally, there was no connection. Do you know who it was? The famous singer and dancer Miss Cecilia! A movie star! She specially arranged for someone to come and ask about your position!" Director Li exaggerated, "How did you get connected with such a big star?"
Cecilia? This name... seems to be the owner of the voice imitated by Wu Fu, the famous singer and dancer... Isn't this the blonde girl that Zhen Shanhe sent people to capture and send to the interrogation department?
Wu Ci took her out of the interrogation department and sent her to the medical department and left her alone. Who would have thought that she would act so quickly and secretly take down Wu Fu and the Ministry of Finance that was being watched by so many people?
She seems to be related to her original self? Are they companions who have been living in the wilderness together?
Wu Ci reached for the knife on the table and stabbed himself, trying to stay awake.
He felt his increasingly gloomy mind calm down a bit. He avoided the blood gushing from his arm, slowly put away his clothes, grabbed the cold brass receiver of the phone, and whispered to Director Li, "…I'm not sure either. Maybe they knew each other before. Director Li, you know that people at the bottom know a lot of people, so there will always be someone who makes it to the top."
"Since you are not an enemy, I will report your information. Otherwise, it will be difficult to fool them. I just came to inform you in advance... Anyway, be careful, Wuci. This big star must have a backer behind him."
Director Li warned, "The Ministry of Finance has always been run by an executive officer who is directly under the director. She was able to take the position so quickly, either because she has an incredibly powerful background, or because she is a spiritualist, or because she was able to kill her predecessor... After all, the Ministry of Finance has so much money and it's very enjoyable. Who knows, tomorrow the news might announce that she will inherit the code name of the executive officer of the Ministry of Finance."
Wu Ci did not refute the fact that "it is impossible that someone else killed the previous CEO of the Ministry of Finance" because he and Wu Fu went to the Ministry of Finance to find the previous CEO, but directly noticed the key point of Director Li's words, "...will there be news announcements when the CEO takes office?"
"Yes, we have to get to know the nobles and upper-class bosses, and know that we have to be more restrained when we meet them, so as not to make a scene. It's an unspoken rule that everyone in the bureau and the upper management knows well... Oh, yes, but this also applies to situations where Director Zhen Shanhe needs them to hide their identities to complete a special mission... For example, the new officer who took office a few days ago didn't even know his code name."
Wu Ci, a mysterious officer who suspected that Zhen Shanhe was dissatisfied with him and therefore had not been given a code name, was relieved to see that he had managed to keep his easy identity under Director Li.
Fortunately, he was not exposed and could still work as a small clerk in the department and get salary and subsidies for being a tax thief. After all, he did not get a proper salary as an executive for the capitalist Zhen Shanhe, and his debts from loans increased...
He is not like other heroic spirits who can directly transform into spirit sons, who do not need to eat, drink, sleep, or the necessities of life, and do not need money to survive. He is just an ordinary person with a flesh/body. He also needs to eat. He can't be a shameless rogue gambler like Wu Fu, who goes to the company cafeteria to eat free meals all day long when he has no money.
Although this is a benefit that tax thieves like them who relied on loans and were exploited by the Sky Group to complete their studies, worked hard to climb up, and finally passed the civil service exam deserve, Wu Ci always felt that eating in the cafeteria all day was quite disrespectful, as if he was idle all day, spending money lavishly, and had no friends to dine with.
Wu Ci was not happy about getting the cafeteria provided by the Sky Group for free, because he felt that this might make him a little bit unusually special or eye-catching.
I don't know why Cecilia wanted to know his whereabouts and position. Could it be that she knew he was going on a business trip, and because of their old friendship and the fact that he had rescued her from the Torture Department, she wanted to call him over and give him some pocket money so that he could live more comfortably while he was away?
Or, to make a malicious guess, Cecilia was planning to call him over to kill people and steal the cards, and to get rid of Wuci, her wilderness companion who knew her past, so that she could sit firmly in the position of Minister of Finance and Executive Officer with a clean record?
Hearing the call being hung up, Wu Ci licked his lips, temporarily stopped his increasingly terrifying speculations, patted his head, packed up everything in the house that could be sold and sold it, including the tableware that Black Cat brought from next door.
The only things left in the empty house were the mirrors embedded in the walls.
Wu Ci looked at himself in the mirror as if he were standing in a kaleidoscope, and then he saw another person reflected in the mirror layer by layer.
He felt that his mind seemed to be a little dazed again, and he saw the illusion that was exactly like himself again.
[Are you going to get rid of me?]
The man in the mirror, who was much gloomier than him, raised a weird smile and lip-synced silently.
[You are my hero]
[I command you in the name of the spiritual master——]
The figure suddenly disappeared, and was replaced by a completely different image.
He had a pretty baby face, wore low-waist jeans, was barefoot, and had the sweater that Wu Ci had lent him before on his upper body.
The black cat reflected in the mirror climbed in through the window. "Hey? Brother A-Ci? I said I'd come to inform you. Are you ready so soon? As expected, you and Sister Cecilia have already met!"
Wu Ci's expression was stiff and he no longer had the energy to respond to the black cat.
The one in the mirror just now was... my original self?
The original body is not dead, so can he still be forced to give orders?
The black cat arrived just in time and just interrupted the original body's order... I don't know if I can really force him to give the order...
But what if the original self appeared in the mirror again at this time, told Black Cat that he was a fake, and ordered him to return the body?
The black cat will definitely choose to believe his original self who grew up with him in the wilderness, and then capture the soul of this fake one to set off fireworks!
Wu Ci reacted instantly, squeezing out his spirit and the little remaining spiritual power, and immediately transformed "Chu Ci" into a spirit body and activated the body synchronization state. He pretended to accidentally pinch the pendant hanging around his neck that contained the chess piece of authority!
The sword of "Chu Ci" was unsheathed in an instant, and the mirror on the wall exploded under the influence of his spiritual power!
Black Cat entered combat mode and looked around cautiously, "Are there any enemies? Brother A-Ci?"
Wu Ci did not answer.
Without the reflection of the mirror, the dim light in the room was extremely weak. He turned his head slowly in the darkness like a puppet that had not been wound up properly, and his eyes kept jumping to the black cat's expression and neck.
After a long while, he confirmed that the black cat was not dangerous and had no intention of attacking. He patted the black cat on the head and finally smiled gently, "It's okay, it's been solved. Go out first, and be careful not to get scratched by the debris."
Black Cat followed him belatedly, "…Are you okay? Brother A-Ci? Are you tired? What happened? Do you want to rest for a while?…You look really bad, I've never seen you look so bad before…Shall we go have a meal and then get a room at the hotel? I'll stay here for you and won't let anyone disturb you."
Wu Ci, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, causing the black cat, who was chattering in worry, to bump into his back unexpectedly. Only then did he realize that they had walked into a dark and deserted alley.
"Thank you, but I'm fine. I just forgot to eat and sleep these few days, and was forced to take some psychiatric drugs." Wu Ci stood unsteadily against the rusty iron frame in the alley and said with a smile.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like nothing is wrong, but they fell silent, with only the 3dgg outside the alley as the background sound.
Even without an audience, the debtors whose consciousness and souls were extracted after death and enslaved used inorganic electronic sounds to promote loans that sounded very cost-effective. The light danced with their movements, flickering clearly on Wu Ci's pale face. In the darkness, only his pale blue eyes emitted a quiet light like the dawn as always.
I don't know when it started raining, and the rain penetrated the dark old buildings and the densely connected electric wires and cables, and fell into the alleys.
The sound of rain was very subtle, with only some of it hitting the rusty exposed pipes, making a dull sound, and the rest falling on the ground in silence.
The black cat was walking barefoot in the dirty water. His feet had just been accidentally cut by the mirror fragments on the ground because he was in a hurry to catch up with Wu Ci, and a pool of brown blood had formed in the dirty water.
He didn't say anything, but suddenly he felt that he couldn't see the witchcraft in the rain clearly. Mixed with the hazy light, even the sound of gg was blurred, making everything seem false, as if separated by an invisible barrier.
Wu Ci looked very tired. No... not just tired, but more like dying.
His condition has never been worse.
Black Cat tugged at his sleeve carefully, "Brother Aci, why don't we climb up... I'll go back to the wilderness with you. I know what you were thinking before, but it's been so long, you should know that you are deceiving yourself. People like us, inferior dogs in the wilderness, are just rats in the gutter when we come to the city. Even if we climb up, we can't become human beings, but just dogs of the people at the top."
Wu Ci interrupted him, "What did you want to say when you came to me originally?"
"…Sister Cecilia said that she has taken a position in the Finance Department of the Special Management Bureau. She knows that a batch of arms and medicines, as well as a whole car of spirit stones, will be sent to Sky City tomorrow. The team of spirit masters in charge of the delivery is hers, and she has already controlled them in advance with her heroic spirit abilities."
"Robbed the Zang Wilderness?"
"Yes, Sister Cecilia said she found out there is a private subway outside the city that was built by a smuggling gang 20 years ago. That subway has not been completed and few people know about it. Let's see if there are any people there. If there are, that's the best. If there are, we can just go and block the terminal. Then we can live there after we defect."
"Brother A-Nian, you don't have to worry about me. I joined the Wandering Cult to help you, and Sister Cecilia went to the city to become a star to find you. As long as you are willing, we can defect with you. Anyway, we have to go back to the wilderness, and we are not afraid of being wanted or hunted down."
Black Cat made his tone lively again. "I know you two have lived in the city for a long time and have become very particular. There happens to be an underground heating pipeline nearby. I can connect the pipeline and supply hot water every day. I have also prepared a special air purifier and generator, which can be driven by spiritual power."
The rain falling from the sky was sour, bringing with it dust and various chemical pollution. Wu Ci coughed twice in the rain and coughed up blood.
He felt a slight burning pain on his exposed skin, and the scratches on his arms mixed with the pain from the rain also cleared up his chaotic mind. "I won't leave for now."
"That's fine... you know what's going on anyway," the black cat forced a smile, "By the way... don't bother keeping those psychics. Sister Cecilia said she has a lot of them under her command, and they can be used as consumables. When the time comes, we can kill them and drag their bodies to our subway station to store them as psychic batteries, and then put the blame for the theft on them."
As expected... 20 years have passed, and the world is still like this, everyone is eating each other.
The upper class people step on the lower class people, and the lower class people, in order to survive and live better, have weak moral values and step on people even lower for the sake of profit.
Although perhaps those psychics are not considered lower class people.
They may just have low-ranking Heroic Spirits, but as "superior" necromancers, ordinary people can never approach them. There is a whole team of such "superior" people, but they are just consumables.
How many people does the Ministry of Finance manage? And how many psychics does the Special Management Bureau, which has the Ministry of Finance, have waiting to be used?
It's not that he felt sympathetic. Wu Ci just felt sad about this phenomenon. However, since he had already been assimilated, he thought he should get this batch of supplies.
Of course, he also considered whether this behavior would expose them.
After all, Cecilia had just taken office and was about to report the "theft" of expenditure goods to Zhen Shanhe, and she was going out of the city with Wu Ci for a day... and it just so happened that the two of them were old acquaintances.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that it was definitely them who did it.
However, Zhen Shanhe would not care so much about an executive like them. These things are just a drop in the bucket for the Sky Group, and it is not too much for them to rob a few times.
Zhen Shanhe only cares whether they have done a face-saving project, so even if they know it is them, they will turn a blind eye.
Wu Ci didn't want to show off his greed too much, so he used the reserved politeness of an adult to evade the request, "I have to go on a business trip to Sky City, and I can't leave."
"Then you are shirking responsibility. I heard that a member of the Seven Sins was also escorted... It is said that he was just arrested and will be transferred to Sky City for trial. Why not just release him and say that we are going to hunt him down?"
"I'm afraid not. That congressman is fake," Wu Ci smiled. "My job is to pretend to be this congressman and be escorted there."
It’s a little late, so I’ve added the words for tomorrow’s chapter here.
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