Phyllis is one of the weirdest rulers I have ever seen. She looks like a queen, but she is actually a peddler. She is calm and wise sometimes, but she is actually a hawker. She shoulders the responsibility of a nation. …actually a peddler. If there is a "Wonderful Emperor Ranking List" in Hongshijie, Phyllis will definitely be in the top three, and she will defend her title for the rest of her life...
The biggest difficulty I have with Phyllis is this: whenever I try to get down to business, Phyllis gets off topic and speculative. Of course, the reverse is also true: whenever Phyllis talks about business, I might be off topic...
"Oh, so you are interested in this stone!" Sandora explained a little bit, and Phyllis finally understood the reason why she was brought here. A few pieces of meteorites, "Could it be that this is really a treasure? I thought that all I dug up were broken... well, I mean, we don't know how valuable these stones are."
I glanced at Phyllis silently: "Don't talk about this in front of me, who doesn't know that you know that what you dug are broken rocks that are everywhere in the universe. Ming told you, this piece The meteorite is of no value, but the thing inside it is the culprit that caused you to be chased and killed by the fallen apostles in four quadrants: it is the black lump you are holding in your hand."
Phyllis was curiously studying the black hard substance (?) we cut out from the meteorite sample, when she heard that, she jumped up on the spot as if she had been scalded, and threw the black lump far away. Tavel (mass projection) saw it, and hurried to rescue the important relic from her hometown: she stood still, but a translucent shadow exactly like herself floated out of her body, and this shadow was before the black lump landed on the ground Catch it, and when you walk back to Tavel, the translucent shadow looks almost the same as a real person: there is only a circle of interference ripples that are unique to quality projection around you. Tavel looked at the newly split phantom around him and shrugged: "It seems that another mass projection has been added. Go to the Second Armor Research Room to report."
The mass projection that just split off a minute ago handed over the black bump in his hand to Sivis, and then disappeared in a piece of teleportation light.
Me: "... so your mass projections are all split like this?"
"Ah, yes, Your Majesty, this is a special ability," Tavel's mass projection (actually, I don't know what number it is at all, I feel like I haven't seen her body for a long time) pointing Myself, "Others don't have it. The subordinate has modified himself and tried to make full use of all threads. The goal of the subordinate is to create a quality projection for each thread..."
I thought about it, and felt that Tavel would be able to cover two football fields with himself at that time: Why are there solo characters around me who take advantage of the legion? Isn't the cute army of little dolls enough
"Such a dangerous thing... What do you want me to do?" Phyllis first stared dumbfounded at Tavel's transformation into a living person, and then suddenly realized that she seemed to have fallen into a pit. She looked at it with a look of doomsday. The black lump that almost killed himself and hundreds of subordinates backed away calmly, "Let me tell you, I don't want to have anything to do with those lunatics..."
"You take us there again, to the place where you found this meteorite," Sandora naturally ignored Phyllis's miserable expression, "If possible, bring back the entire meteorite belt there. Of course, we will send out engineering ships from the empire, so you don’t have to worry about manpower.”
"But I'm worried about safety!" Phyllis frowned at the time, jumping up to about half the height of Pandora, "I watched the video of the battle on your border a while ago, it's the end of the world when you fight The level is good! The mortal race will die a large number of people watching by the side! The creed of your life is to risk your life, you play your own life and the life of others by the way! I feel that walking with you will die too soon... "
I thought about it, and I think what this guy summed up makes sense, so what should I do
"Uh, I know your concerns." I looked at Phyllis, and I knew in my heart that this was a difficult job, especially when the strange queen in front of me had already had a psychological shadow. Regardless of whether the fallen apostles' persistent pursuit of a piece of hometown material is for nostalgia or for greater value, anyway, since they can hunt down once, they can hunt down the second time. Phyllis is worried about taking us to dig stones It also makes sense to be ganked at times: those fallen apostles are also Xiling apostles, and their level of persistence is definitely not lower than ours, "Well, I will send the royal elite to escort you. If you find anything, I or Sandora will How about taking the legion to meet them personally? When the fallen apostles really come, you just need to hide: At the time of the border defense battle, you were also hiding in the Admiral of the Empire for the whole time, and nothing happened?"
"Don't mention this," Phyllis curled her lips, "I still feel hairy when I think about it now. Do you gods have to drag mortals to be cheerleaders beside you when you fight... By the way, how about I give you the coordinates, you yourself Can you dig in the past?"
"This matter is important, and we don't want any unrest." Sivis looked seriously at Queen Fiali, who had already started bargaining. "We must ensure that every piece of information is absolutely accurate. The coordinates alone are not enough."
In fact, I want to say that having the coordinates is probably enough. With the accuracy of the scanning ship of the Empire, it is not difficult to find a stone in the vast universe, but seeing the expression on Sivis's face, I know that this is not the case. A problem that can be analyzed rationally: when it comes to the news of the origin and hometown of the apostles, all Xiling apostles have to be more paranoid than rational, and now Sivis is like this, even if it has no effect in theory, she will Only the Fiali people can go with them to rest assured.
Seeing the resolute expression on Sivis' face, the Queen of Strange knew she had no choice, so she could only sigh and nod: "Okay, okay, I'll take you there—but the agreed escort team must maintain quality and quantity, In addition, if you really meet those lunatics, you don’t mind if I run away first? Although Fiali people are not afraid of fighting, we are really not ready to fight with the gods... "
This is of course no problem, we nodded happily.
"One last point," Phyllis thought for a while, "about the price—don't look at me like that, I'm a businessman."
I knew that Phyllis would shift the topic to this direction sooner or later. Whether as a queen or as a businessman, she should always maximize the benefits that the Fiali people can obtain, but she has already obtained low-level arms from the empire. Now that the rights are sold, I really don't know what else she is dissatisfied with. The significance of low-level arms sales rights is very clear to both of us. It not only means amazing commercial value, but also means that Fiali people can play some "smart tricks". Although the tracking chips on those arms have restrictions on their use, Fiali people Can't buy and use in your own world (worlds that allow imperial ammunition are vetted, Fiari worlds are not included), but I'm sure Phyllis will go to great lengths to get her scientists to try to imitate those things. And even if they can master a little technology from it, their various technologies can rise to a level in a straight line. This kind of "extra benefit" is not painful to the empire, and the impact on the macro world is acceptable, so I don't bother to care about it. The empire's non-interference in other civilizations means not to engage in "catastrophic intervention". We can't control the impact of this kind of influence that can't trigger the end of the world. Think about it, how many inspectors are there in the macro world? In theory, these censors do not interfere with the normal operation of their own world, but they are mortals after all. After all, the Imperial Code does not care about trivial matters, saying that the actions of these censors have no effect on the operation of their world—is it possible? We can only try to ensure that this effect is in a benign state.
Remember the topic about the Imperial Code, when the gap between civilizations reaches a certain level, it will be extremely difficult for the lower side to influence the higher side. Fuck him...
Oh, this topic has gone too far.
I thought about it, and suddenly my heart moved: "Okay, aren't you planning to create some kind of void consortium?"
Phyllis nodded quickly: "Well, the Fiali Void Consortium, I think it is the biggest challenge in my life, to build a business empire that spans the multiverse..."
"Well, the empire will support your consortium: you can use the portal first, you can set up consortium stations in various worlds, and you only need to apply to the local outpost. In addition, we can set up a cross-void communication network for you: You know the technical difficulty of this kind of network. Even if you can build it with your own strength, its stability and bandwidth are also problems, but I can help you build one with imperial technology. What do you think of these treatments? It’s better than a hammer Is it a good deal?"
Phyllis was stunned for a moment, then jumped half as high as Pandora again: this time she was happy. Then she started reconfirming with me in an unbelievable tone, because she didn't think she could get such a good reward just for leading the way, in short, she felt that we were planning to pack her with her adjutant Selling... I really don't know why she is so persistent in selling her adjutant, even when she is in danger of being sold out, she immediately thinks of tying her adjutant...
Facing Phyllis' confusion, I said righteously: "You don't understand the significance of this thing to the empire. It is easy for you to lead the way, but for us, the origin of this meteorite core is of great significance. Equivalent exchange."
As soon as I finished my righteous words, Sandora began to roll her eyes, muttering to me in the spiritual connection: "Isn't what you just said just the consortium support plan that we discussed last time? And we plan to Supporting several consortia."
Well, that's right, the exciting treatment I told Phyllis was actually decided before. As far as this transaction is concerned, Phyllis actually didn't get any extra benefits, but I Think about it, you have to be like this when facing profiteers. I don’t know why, when I was pitted against this strange lady in front of me, I didn’t feel any pressure at all, and I even felt like doing justice for the people.
"Then when shall we leave?"
Feeling that she has made a lot of money, Queen Fiali is now full of motivation, and she even asked when to leave. It's not that she forgot the dangerous moment when the fallen apostles chased them down four quadrants for a single stone, but she used a precise business vision After weighing my own life and the profit of this expedition, I feel that what I can earn is worth more than my life. I guess I will never learn this way of thinking.
"You go to prepare now, and leave after lunch," Sandora replied, "I will let our most advanced and high-speed void shuttle and the Royal Escort accompany you, if that world is near Far Border, Then you can arrive at the station before or after dinner at the earliest, I hope to get good news from you before breakfast tomorrow, and then send someone to meet you."
The action plan that Sandora proposed to Phyllis is very interesting, and all its moments are based on meal times...
Phyllis also felt that there seemed to be something worth complaining about in this timetable, but she quickly exclaimed about another thing: "Leaving at noon? Are you in such a hurry? I still have business to discuss today."
"Business?" It was my turn to be surprised this time, "I'll go, your survival talent in an unfamiliar environment is full, and your consortium has received business in just a few days?"
Phyllis smiled quite smugly, while reaching out to take something out of her bag: "Actually, it's not a big business, but it's not bad as a starter. It's about media audio and video. A strange guy came to We said that he could provide the source of goods, and wanted to sell a low-cost and high-consumption audio-visual product in Hongshijie through the channel of the consortium. He himself said that it is not convenient for him to sell... "
Before she finished speaking, I had an ominous premonition. After she took out the contents of the bag, I experienced this ominous premonition: Phyllis held several pirated discs in simple packaging: windowsxq , StarCraft 6, 4Dmax2077, Red Alert 8, and even an installation disk of Homeland 9, it is impressively written that it was produced by Bubble, absolutely fine...
The first thing I can think of is: the child’s mother finally couldn’t bear the slow game development progress and endless bounces of people on earth, she started to make games by herself, and the second thing is, good Sikaro He is so courageous that he even dares to pirate and sell the things written by Pao Pao. The third thing is... the world is about to end.
"You have a strange expression," Phyllis looked at me in amazement, while carefully putting away the pile of pirated discs that looked like ordinary discs, but the capacity and contents of them were probably insane. "What's the problem? Products are contraband in the empire?"
"No," I said through gritted teeth, "the ones on sale are contraband..."
Phyllis: "?"
"In short, you don't need to worry about it," I patted Phyllis on the shoulder, and said to myself that the thing I was most worried about at the beginning finally happened: a pirate dealer who was the number one in the void and a profiteer who was the number one in the void had a historic meeting, and They seem to hit it off. If these two people really cooperate sincerely, the market economy of Hongshi will really go nowhere in the future. "I suggest you don't buy anything from that guy. Believe me, his bag There is no real product in it. When I was active on the earth, even the ID card was squeezed out by hand. If you do business with him, you will be fooled by tons of fake products."
Phyllis let out a bewildered oh, and seeing the expression on her face, I knew that this strange queen would never know the pain unless she was tricked by Sikaro once. I have the intention to send someone to arrest Sikaro and put him in a small black room for a few days, but when I think that the person who was trapped by fake products this time is Phyllis, the most prostitute businessman in history, I feel like it’s nothing. Well, after thinking about it, I think the reason is this: It is better for pirate dealers and profiteers to cheat each other than for them to go out and harm others. Lin’s scales are not necessarily the only things that can be produced and sold in this world. The theoretical upper and lower limits It's okay with morality...
I revealed the identity of the pirate dealer a little bit, and Phyllis immediately showed a horrified look. She probably didn't expect that such a strange model would appear in the iron-hearted imperial soldier, and then she didn't have to worry about discussing business today. Son: Anyway, they are all from her own family, and I told her that no matter what, the person who sold the order would not be able to come out for activities today. I decided to let Phyllis go to lead our patrol team to find the stone first, then send someone to restrain Sikaro, and have a good chat with the old boy about the cause.
Because the departure time is very urgent, there are only two hours of preparation time left, so Phyllis left and went back to find her navigator and accompanying scientists to prepare, while Sandora decided to stay at the headquarters, and Tavel and the others continued to study the black lump from their hometown. Although it was just an ordinary metal-rich ore, no matter how much they studied it, they couldn't find any earth-shattering secrets, but it was of great significance to the apostles of Xiling. In Sandora's words, even if you can't research anything, it's good to just look at it for a while: at least it's the first time in your life that you are so close to the breath from your hometown, and this feeling makes her very novel.
Still the same sentence: Who said that the apostles of Xiling are not emotional? They're just pissed off...
On the other hand, Xiaoxue, this girl came out with us after a thorough slap in soy sauce. I had hoped that her prophetic power would play a role, but that black lump obviously exceeded the limit of prophetic power too much. The origin of the apostle of the spirit is already a span of time that cannot be described by numbers. Even if Xiaoxue suffers internal injuries, she will never see where the "hometown world" is.
In this way, leaving Sandora who was in a state of excitement, my daughter and I went home, and then saw a giant fox chasing its tail in circles in the yard: the fox was as big as Xiali, and in Next to her, there is a large pile of clay tablets... RS