"Sophia Amick, due to your irrational behavior that harmed the company's interests in the boxing incident, the company will lower your authority from the current sixth level, Category A, to...the sixth level, Category B."
The small screen of the video phone displayed an electronically synthesized face with no expression.
This latest adjustment instruction from the Gasboy Authority Department was conveyed to Sophia's bedroom in the Acropolis Mountain Villa.
"Go away." As soon as she turned off the phone, she smashed the standing tabletop video phone to pieces with a sullen face.
What kind of irrational behavior? Tell me, tell me clearly.
Did she smash anything last night? Do you want her to reflect on it? It's because she lost the game, right?
Sophia took a deep breath and walked to the bedroom terrace. From last night to this early morning, her mood fell into the abyss step by step.
Last night... she, Yosuke Harado and others were in the high-rise private room of Shengshou Boxing Gym through the glass, watching how Elizabeth was ridiculously self-deprecating, but how she made those boxers excited.
No matter what, that guy was a top-level banker, a boxer leader, and was considered one of them, but he got involved with the boxers... Elizabeth didn't feel embarrassed, they all felt ashamed.
However, perhaps because Elizabeth resolved a conflict and avoided losses to the bank, and she received coordination and support from the United District, her team withdrew from the competition but won, taking away 30 million directly.
This left the blood-eaters speechless, and they felt mixed emotions when they evacuated the boxing area.
The intelligence also showed that Elizabeth publicly claimed within Seth that she had also obtained a rare weapon.
This time the boxing incident was all won by Elizabeth, all by this traitor with special disabilities!
"Ah..." Sophia let out a muffled hiss, sixth level B. It has been almost twenty years since she was born, and she has never been lower than sixth level A... She is Gasboin's potential heir!
But now, she's been left behind by every other potential heir because she made mistakes that no one else did.
I obviously do everything according to the blood-eater doctrine and have been working hard to become an excellent blood-eater.
And Elizabeth is rebellious in everything, and chose the bullshit hero type...
Why is she being punished and Elizabeth being rewarded now, just because Sophia Amick is a six-speeder?
Sophia looked at the prosperous scene in the central area down the mountain. There were many skyscrapers, there was no rain, and the holographic image above the Santo TV Building was particularly clear. A giant white-faced geisha was advertising a new laptop computer, which made her feel upset.
She used the pillar-mounted video phone on the terrace to call Yosuke Harafuji, and the call was answered shortly after.
"Yosuke, just because of your bad idea, I was demoted again."
Sophia looked coldly at Yosuke Harato, who was sitting cross-legged on the tatami in a quiet room on the small screen. He was wearing a feathered fabric again.
"Everyone has been demoted to varying degrees by their own family." Yosuke Harafuji closed his eyes slightly and continued to sit cross-legged motionless, "This would only happen if it was the intention of the joint district."
"You've lowered it too?" Sophia suddenly became less angry, "How much has it dropped?"
"It's not important. What's important is why, where did our club go wrong? If the United District punishes us like this, it means that our solution is not the optimal solution, and Elizabeth's is." He said calmly.
"I just don't understand..." Sophia turned to look at the central area, "This doesn't make sense."
"It makes sense, think about it carefully." Yosuke Harafuji said calmly, "We are young and full of energy.
“Be it banks or companies, their purpose has always been to profit and dominate, not to create fear and pain.
"A blood eater is not a butcher or an executioner. What a blood eater pursues is simply profit. As for the darkness that occurs in the process of generating the greatest benefit, it is not its original intention or its pursuit.
"But last night, after the boxers surrounded the street, our pursuit slowly became personal and irrational.
"Dear Sophia, capital has no morality and no dignity. If kneeling can gain the greatest benefit and increase value, then capital will kneel. This is its basic logic. We have made a human mistake."
"You mean..." Sophia is not stupid, and she shouldn't be so sulky now...
"Why do you think the Seventh Age is now the Palace of Libra?" Yosuke Harafuji asked himself and answered, "For blood eaters, everything must be weighed. Whichever one is of greater value and benefits, choose that one."
"According to what you said, I still have to apologize to Elizabeth?" Sophia couldn't help but said angrily, "Do you still have to apologize?"
Yosuke Harafuji closed his eyes completely, thinking silently, and then said after a long while:
"Elizabeth, she found an angle on how to sell herself. She may not be Seth's heir, but she will be an important part of a new giant neon sign.
"Do you understand what I'm saying? She won't leave, and Seth won't drive her away."
Sophia became more and more depressed after hearing this, and forced herself to think calmly, "Do you think things will really happen like that? Will there be business competition?"
It was hard for her to imagine that companies such as Santo and Gasboy would also launch heroic characters in order to dilute the value of Elizabeth's image.
"It's possible," Yosuke Harato said, "It will be profitable. The problem is that this city won't buy it easily. If it's serious, it's not in our best interests. If it's fake, the streets won't believe it.
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"So this has to be weighed. You can't lose money when creating a hero, nor can you lose the profit rate of other products.
"But as far as I know, based on Santo's past actuarial calculations, the company's cost of creating and controlling a popular hero, as well as the losses caused by the systemic chain reactions, are much higher than creating and controlling movie stars and rock stars.
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"It is difficult to build a hero, but it is very easy to collapse. Because people have extremely high moral requirements for heroes, do you think heroes are too busy in this city? Even if people are happy for a day or two, they will always be disappointed in the end.
"But for the general public, celebrities are enough to make them intoxicated. Celebrities are their heroes, make them crazy, make them obey orders, and become the spiritual support for their survival.
"And stars don't need to have any morality, especially rock stars, they just release people's instinctive desires.
"Celebrities can also be mass-produced through advertising and high exposure. Once the company's resources are gone, they will fall quickly. Over-exposure and publicity of heroes will make people feel false. Heroes need to be forged by the times, and great heroes are
Leaders do not need resources from others and can reallocate resources themselves, which is difficult to control.
"So in summary, celebrities are the best 'heroes' on the scale. As for Elizabeth, they are not worth it."
After Harafuji Yosuke said this, he seemed to be in meditation again, reflecting on the mistakes he had made due to being dragged down by human nature.
"Then Elizabeth..." Sophia said in a deep voice. After hearing what Yosuke said, she felt that selling heroes was not profitable at all.
Elizabeth's perspective is not a big breakthrough.
With twenty-eight main functions and twenty-eight fields, the bank has a structure for selling products.
As for popular idols, the ones that win out are singers and actors. The reasons are what Yosuke just said.
Singers and actors can have the benefits of being a hero; but singers and actors don't have the troubles that a hero has.
There are too many entertainment stars under Santo, and Gasboy also has many sports stars such as racing drivers.
Some of these stars are extraordinary people, and some are ordinary people. They are all able to create value and are easy to control.
"If that's the case, why will the United District support Elizabeth this time?" Sophia was really confused.
"Elizabeth has advantages that cannot be mass-produced:
"She is really a top banker, and she is really a hero. Also, she is very beautiful and very lovable."
Yosuke Harafuji said slowly, "I don't fully understand the idea of Union District. But Elizabeth seized the opportunity last night and sold herself, not only to the bank, but also to the street. Her value comes from the way the street treats her.
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"Dear Sophia, our old friend's reputation has already reached the streets.
"Information says that the Fist District, the Little Flea District, the Sanjiao District, the Hexiang District, Kabukicho, and the Saint Manga area...
"Anyway, word is on the street that this is a curiosity, Elizabeth Sterling, she's not just a rich banker anymore, she's 'the one with them.'
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"You know her, as long as she continues to operate like this, her reputation will only become more and more famous."
Sophia was filled with annoyance, which meant that Elizabeth, a heroic product, could not be copied, but it had great value.
This is her perspective, her winning hand...
But if the Heir Club didn't hold that boxing match, wouldn't Elizabeth not have such a good opportunity?
Now they have given her 30 million yuan, and giving her this big gift is basically fulfilling the other party's needs.
Now, Elizabeth can legitimately be her hero. Seth not only does not object but supports it. Even the Union District wants to see how profitable this business experiment will be.
"Yosuke, is there anything we can do to hit her..."
"Don't worry yet." Harato Yosuke's voice was slightly doubtful, "I also suspect that Elizabeth got help from some secret society, and that there was an expert behind her back teaching her how to do it.
"The activities that she ran away for more than a year may not be as simple as we thought. I looked at the square's surveillance. The monk and the Taoist priest saw Elizabeth getting out of the car and then walked to the crowd of boxers.
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"Then this matter needs to be investigated, it needs to be investigated!" Sophia said hurriedly.
"You think the higher-ups didn't send someone to investigate?" Yosuke Harato laughed slightly, "Liz can come back just because she is considered okay. She is a conspiracy, and Sophia and the ace heroes are all gone."
Sophia was silent for a while, "Then what are we going to do..."
"Let's wait and see. Elizabeth has been given a new product trial period, and we lack intelligence. It is not wise to confront her now. As for the apology you just mentioned, my suggestion is to apologize to her and make good use of your value as an old best friend.
This is rational behavior and is in your best interest."
"If you want to apologize, just do it yourself. I have other ways to restore my authority!"
Sophia didn't want to listen to him anymore and hung up the phone, still getting more and more angry as she thought about it.
She checked some of the intelligence information received on the video phone, and sure enough, as Yosuke Harafuji said, Elizabeth Sterling was quickly becoming famous on the street, becoming a friend in the boxing area and a talking point in many areas...
Sophia then used her private satellite phone to make a call that would not be eavesdropped by other companies.
As soon as the other party connected, she said in a deep voice:
"Carl Wilson, if you can't find any more clues, I will doubt your ability to do things."
Those two street overdrives, as long as she finds them and controls them, she can make a comeback.
Wilson's voice came from the mobile phone: "Miss Amick, I already have clues. There were only a few items in the big event in the online denim circle in Streamer City that night. Give me a few more days and I will find it.
Theirs.”
"We must not let any news leak out." Sophia said coldly, but she couldn't be like Elizabeth's treasure hunt, where people from various companies swarmed around her.
Even within Gasboy, she could not reveal new clues except for the previous report. She was not the only potential heir, there were many people who wanted her dead. This time she would use her personal power to ensure that she could monopolize this power.
get.
She couldn't guarantee that she would be as lucky as Elizabeth.
