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The towering Gothic palace collapsed along with its solemnity.
In the ruins, thick-soled boots stepped over the broken wall. A young man in a black military uniform, spotless, picked up a crown that had fallen from the ground at some point but was still intact.
A heroic spirit made of golden particles appeared from behind him, and with one sword, it cut through the corner of the triangular stable structure in front of it, revealing Princess Morningstar who was protected by Miss Chen.
She had lost all her jewels and her gorgeous skirt was finally dirty. She no longer looked down at others from a high position. She was half-huddled in the corner, but her beauty was not diminished. She was still like a noble tulip in the sun, but it looked like it had been knocked out of the flowerpot and was covered in dust.
Miss Chen, who was protecting her, had temporarily disappeared due to exhaustion of spiritual energy, and she saw legs tightly wrapped in thick-soled boots and military trousers stop in front of her and stand still.
Princess Morning Star raised her head and gave the young man a sweet smile. "Are you going to kill me? If you kill me, you will die too. I believe you are not so stupid."
The black-haired young man in military uniform looked down and put the crown back on the princess's head. "You are right, Your Highness. Your noble status does give you the privilege to do whatever you want."
He half-knelt down, wiped the dust off the princess's face with his fingertips, and leaned close to her ear, whispering in a sweet voice that others thought was a love word, "I really can't kill you, but you'd better remember that I am not someone you can manipulate at will. Don't do it again."
After saying this, the young man turned on the recording device on his uniform badge, stood up with a smile, and extended a hand to the blond girl wearing a crown, humbly and politely, "It seems that the architectural design of the palace is not very solid. It actually collapsed when the wind outside blew. It's really dangerous.
Fortunately, I was there today and was able to save you at the critical moment, but I cannot guarantee it will happen next time. For your safety, this fun ends here... Princess."
Wu Ci opened the recording and defined it all as a joke, which meant to warn Princess Morning Star not to pursue the matter and to speak out to leave evidence. Otherwise, it would mean a complete break-up and he would be held responsible later. Since she was going to die anyway, he could just ignore it and kill her on the spot.
Princess Morning Star narrowed her eyes, apparently understanding his intention.
"This is really amazing, Wuci Executioner." She dodged Wuci's outstretched hand, patted her skirt and stood up, chin held high. "It seems that you are really favored. He even gave you this card."
"What do you mean?" Wu Ci withdrew his hand nonchalantly, and continued the topic with a smile to avoid embarrassment.
"He never gives this biggest joker card to anyone else."
"If you have checked the information, you will know that his original name was Yuhe, and he has some blood relationship with my mother. 20 years ago, after returning from that terrorist, he forcibly seized power and succeeded. The board of directors used the Sky Curtain Project as an excuse to send people to instigate the public and the group of spiritualists who had just emerged at that time, setting off a global riot..."
Princess Morning Star said cheerfully while tidying up her appearance, "Later, he changed his name, and all matters concerning the Heroic Spirits came under his control. Even I couldn't order the Spirit Guardians around. Guess where the name 'Zhen Shan He' came from?"
Wu Ci pondered for a moment. He remembered that Zhen Shanhe said that he only had the first two steps of the Seven Steps of Divine Movement. When he asked Zhen Shanhe how to get the second volume, Zhen Shanhe told him not to aim too high and to stay alive first.
"The second step is his name?"
"That's right. He used the second step to suppress all the spiritualists and rioting people at the time, and massacred the board of directors." Princess Morning Star threatened with a smile, "People didn't know him as a newly returned ruler at that time, so they called him Zhenshanhe based on the name of the method he used.
Over time, he became associated with this name. No matter what kind of violent rule he implemented or what horrifying and cruel methods he used, as long as they heard this name, no one dared to resist.
One step to conquer the country, two steps to calm the mountains and rivers. It sounds like a very righteous method, but it is actually linked to the violent and terrorist rule, which is also ironic.
"Thank you for your information, Princess." Wu Ci took off his military cap with one hand and saluted with a smile. "But I believe that Director Zhen Shanhe must have his considerations. I still have work to do today, so I will take my leave again."
Without waiting for Princess Morningstar to continue speaking, he pulled down the brim of his hat again and turned away.
He said he had something to do, and it was true that he had something to do. It was almost noon, and Wu Ci was in a hurry to go home, change into ordinary clothes, and go to the preservation and inspection department for lunch. After completing the induction procedures, he had to use the working hours to slack off and take a nap.
The onboarding process was quite convenient. All I had to do was to find a robot to input my files and collect my uniform and ID.
Director Li was not there and there were very few people in the unit. Wu Ci was led by a robot to choose an office near the corner.
The office area of the Preservation Inspection Department is very large. Perhaps to allow them to work in peace, each office is separated by a low metal wall to ensure privacy.
Wu Ci was very good at handling things. He put down the things that were distributed and went to meet people with the gifts that he had bought when he came.
Maybe most of them didn't come to work. There was only a young secretary girl, two middle-aged men who looked like seniors and soaked wolfberries in thermos, and a blond young man with a righteous face.
The girl was lying on her desk watching a TV series, and Wu Ci brought her some snacks. Two seniors were playing chess, and Wu Ci brought them some tea.
As for the righteous blond young man, when Wu Ci saw him, he was playing billiard in the lounge.
The thermos was placed next to him. He was dressed in a serious manner, a shirt, jacket and sneakers. A bunch of keys were hanging on his belt, which jingled when touched.
He looks like a senior cadre with a lot of experience and a high position.
The radio next to them was playing a jazz channel, and a sweet, thick, slightly hoarse female voice lamented in a contemptuous tone how men were so frivolous and impetuous that they could play with love at will.
It sounds familiar... like the acquaintance of the original body in the interrogation department yesterday... That beautiful blonde is really famous, and information about her is everywhere.
Wu Ci began to sing lazily, "Hello, I am the new clerk Wu Ci."
"Your position is wrong. Didn't Director Li tell you? According to the procedures here, the youngest person who comes in is a clerk." The blond young man cleared the table with one shot, threw down the club, jumped onto the table, stretched out his right hand and said, "Hello, I'm Wu Fu."
Wu Ci pretended to be flattered and shook his hands with both hands. "I have never met people from our department before, and I don't know much about you, but I have heard a lot about us from other places. I feel very honored to work with all of you elites. I am not very familiar with our affairs here, and I am here today to make some acquaintances. I hope you will support me in my future work, and I will humbly learn from you. I hope that in the days of our cooperation, you can complete every task happily."
Wu Fu, the blond young man who looked more righteous than the Templar Wu Ci had seen during the Solomon era, had an expression that was hard to describe. "Do you believe what you said in our department? Don't use clichés... How did you become such a seasoned official?"
"No, no, I really admire you all."
Wu Fu sighed, put on a token ring of the same style as Wu Ci's on his right thumb, and rolled up his trouser legs to point at the inconspicuous electronic handcuffs on his feet. "Don't be polite. I don't want to go through ideological education and political review to become a tax thief."
The false smile on Wu Ci's lips immediately dropped, and he instantly became alert to the Five Talismans' killing and card-stealing, and he even had the illusion that he was his enemy.
What's going on with Zhen Shanhe? Why are there his captured subordinates everywhere?
The blinded Pi Ke, the stuttering Zhao Xu, the old cadre Wu Fu here, plus him and the blonde female star he met in the torture room yesterday. Princess Morning Star said there were only ten of them, but he had met five! It would take a while to find a reason to kill them all.
Wu Ci's muscles tensed up, but Wufu showed no intention of attacking. Instead, he asked with concern, "I heard that you were called by Princess Morning Star this morning. What did you do to provoke that woman?"
"It's a field mission assigned by Director Li. Director Zhen Shanhe asked me to tell her to archive the files."
"She didn't give you any trouble, did she?"
As soon as Wu Fu finished speaking, the radio playing jazz music next to him began to emit a flash of electric current.
[Now we have an urgent news report]
[Her Royal Highness Princess Morningstar secretly summoned the new executive officer of the Special Management Bureau early this morning. The conversation lasted for a long time. Some people reported that they could hear frequent gunfire coming from the palace.]
[Our reporter went to report the incident immediately, but saw the palace collapsing.]
[According to the palace management staff, the accident was caused by the palace's structural problems after years of lack of maintenance, not human factors. They will immediately arrange for an insurance company under the Sky Group to conduct an investigation and compensation, and repairs will be made as soon as possible.]
[Her Royal Highness Princess Morning Star calls on everyone to pay attention to building safety, demolish dangerous and old buildings in a timely manner, and be careful of damage to life and property]
"Okay, no need to talk anymore, I roughly know what happened." Wu Fu looked at Wu Ci in amazement, "You destroyed the entire palace, you are very brave."
Wu Ci was silent for a moment, "...The insurance company belongs to the Sky Group, so the compensation for rebuilding the palace, Zhen Shanhe, won't charge me, right?"
"It's hard to say. Although the princess said it was not caused by human factors, Director Zhen Shanhe must know that it was you who did it. Even if you were defending yourself, it was excessive defense... He would rather you not pay off your debts."
Witch's Word: ...
He was wrong. He shouldn't have made up a story in front of Princess Morning Star, saying that he believed Zhen Shanhe must have other considerations in giving him the joker card.
Could it be that Zhen Shanhe's consideration for him was that he thought he could pay off the debt without any additional increase, so he arranged for him to offend Princess Morning Star and destroy the palace to incur more debt?
"You look so fake when you smile with your fist on." Wu Fu commented.
Wu Ci said helplessly, "The palace looks very expensive. Anyone who hears that they will have to shoulder so much debt will not look very happy."
"In that case, Wuci, are you interested in doing something?"
"Hmm?" Wu Ci tilted his head in confusion, "What?"
“Although our status is high, it only sounds good. We have no specific jurisdiction, position or military title. We can only be regarded as executives outside the system.
So I did some research and looked up some of our senior colleagues, five in total.
A former executive of Sky Group, in charge of the operations department.
Queen Mother Ines was born in the secret guard and is in charge of Zhao Xu, who is in charge of the interrogation department, and Yu Shang, who is in charge of the medical department.
Born as a wilderness hunter, he served as the queen mother's male favorite for several years and was in charge of the migration of the special service department.
Yu Xuan, who was born into a poor family and passed the college entrance examination, is in charge of the Ministry of Finance.
You should know that the executive officers under Zhen Shanhe are in a hereditary system, and there are only ten at the same time. The rings as tokens of trust correspond to his ten fingers, symbolizing his control over the Dark Star.
Think about how our position was vacated, Wuci, these seniors are not so friendly. "
Wu Ci interrupted him expressionlessly, "Although I have only seen Mi Ke and Zhao Xu, they are not as dangerous as you say."
After becoming a favored one of Tianzun, Wu Ci's thoughts were completely assimilated by Tianzun's lustful nature.
Pi Ke is a stupid gambler who can get along with Tian Jizi, a disciple of Tianzun. At most, he can be a fun person, but there is no way he can play two-faced with him.
As for Zhao Xu, how bad can a little stutterer who shows mercy to women and gets himself punished and crawls in the dark be? Can he be worse than him?
What's more, these two have black hair, which is the favorite of Tianzun! In comparison, Wu Fu's golden hair, which doesn't meet Tianzun's aesthetic standards and looks like a templar under Lord Silver, is obviously worse!
However...so far, all the Royal Guards that Wu Ci has seen have a face that could easily make them the center of a Dark Star who entertained all kinds of beauties to death 20 years ago...Zhen Shanhe would not consider appearance as a necessary criterion when selecting people!
It's fine if I don't think about it, but once I think about it, I feel like... what kind of beauty pageant scene is Zhen Shanhe playing at! Recalling the clerks, section officers, and leaders I have met in the Special Management Bureau, it seems that none of them are ugly! The higher the position, the more outrageous they look!
Especially those executives who act as personal guards. Originally, Zhen Shanhe controlled them by force with debts, tortured those who disobeyed, and put electronic cuffs on the ankles of all of them to track their whereabouts and control them at all times. It sounds like just a despicable act of capitalists, but combined with their faces that can't be made up even with plastic surgery, it always feels like Zhen Shanhe is playing some excessive forced love!
Wu Ci shuddered, and was about to say something else when Wu Fu suddenly approached him, and a dangerous smile appeared on his brilliant and upright face. "Zhen Shanhe is raising pigs, encouraging us to fight each other... But we came late, and we are naturally inferior to them. It is also easy for them to kill us in order to consolidate their status. Why not join forces and make a plan?"
That's true... It's better to strike first than to strike later. Wu Ci doesn't dare to believe in the kindness of others, and would rather be a bad guy first to keep his life safe.
What's more... he should have climbed higher... If he had climbed higher earlier, Princess Morning Star would have taken him into consideration, and how could she have attacked him today!
Wu Ci narrowed his eyes and asked knowingly, "What do you mean?"
"The Ministry of Finance includes the entire Special Management Bureau's capital flow and financial planning. A little corruption and bribery is enough for us to live well. And Yuxuan, who is in charge of it, happens to be the only one without a background. We can set up a plan to get rid of him without any problems. We can vacate the position and compete based on our own ability... Or, we can choose between the Ministry of Finance and his cards."
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