"So, the mistress committed suicide due to the pressure of public opinion because she was cursed and cursed too many times?" Mi'er guessed.
"Your reason is too far-fetched." Mia said, "She can even lay off her husband, so she can't be so mentally fragile. Not to mention how does this explain the cause of her husband's death?"
"By the way, what's the name of the company they work for?"
"Tonkin Lucena Financial Firm." Mia has a good memory.
"That's it." Mi'er pulled out a newspaper that had fallen on the floor from the gap under the bed. The third page read "Financial giant shrinks its claws, Tomkin Lucena Financial Firm lays off employees across the board."
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"It seems that the company they work for is a subsidiary of a certain financial giant. It was closed due to recent business adjustments, and all employees were laid off. The time was... last week."
"So..." Both little girls suddenly realized.
According to the narrative in the newspaper, the layoffs did not come suddenly, but lasted for half a year.
At first, departments with high labor costs were shut down, such as the software system maintenance department where the male owner worked, and all technical aspects were outsourced.
As a result, the male owner, Mike, was laid off (his wife personally handled the resignation procedures), causing the couple's finances to suddenly become tense. Mike was still looking for a job at first, but he never succeeded in finding another job. Three months later, the family was unable to pay the rent.
They can't be delivered on time.
At this most critical juncture, the company shut down and the hostess lost her job. The family income was completely cut off. If she couldn't pay the rent, she would have to move out. She didn't have any extra savings to find a cheaper house. In addition,
This city will not tolerate homeless people and will expel all homeless people to the outer suburbs...
The difficult dilemma faced by this middle-class couple at that time was clearly displayed before the eyes of the two little girls.
"So...sigh." Mia didn't know what to say.
Just like her back then, when she learned that she had been abandoned by the Thieves Guild, her future expectations suddenly began to deteriorate sharply, causing unexpected loss, instability and fear. She still has lingering fears.
Fortunately, she was taken in by Asker's mercenary group again on the day she was fired. However, this couple has been facing the pressure of unemployment and the deterioration of family finances since the husband was laid off at the end of last year.
He was tortured for half a year.
As for the complete loss of family income caused by the hostess's unemployment, it was just the last straw that broke their psychological defense line.
"Mi'er..." Mia felt a little uncomfortable.
"Yeah, I know." Mi'er held her hand.
"It seems that you have found the answer?" the voice of the man in black robe sounded.
"Yes." Mi'er explained the reasoning of the two of them.
"Hmm, the first level is actually not difficult, right?" The man in black robe said with a low smile, "So, what are your thoughts on passing the level?"
"Is this considered part of customs clearance?" Mi'er asked questioningly.
"It doesn't count, so you don't have to say it." The man in black robe replied.
"I think they are very pitiful." Mi'er was silent for a long time before saying, "Manpower is limited, and sometimes we will always encounter crises that we cannot solve by ourselves. As you know, I was lucky enough to meet someone who could
Save my people and they didn’t, so they are pitiful.”
"That's a good answer." The man in black robe was silent for a moment and said calmly, "Then, let's move on to the next level."
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Ask woke up again and looked outside.
It was almost around 7 pm, and the sky was already dark, but the sky above Solomon City was still brightly lit. Countless neon lights, colored lights and holographic lights emitted colorful and dazzling images on the facades and tops of the buildings.
People in this world don't seem to have the concept of light pollution and sound pollution. Even at two or three o'clock in the night, these lights stay on for a long time as if there is no electricity bill, accompanied by the sound of advertising - these sounds come from the advertising airship over Solomon City.
It flies through every urban area at a speed of three hours per circle, and plays the designated advertising information back and forth in the form of sound.
To a certain extent, it is similar to brainwashing people.
In this city with highly developed capital, almost all resources are commercially exploited, including all the information you see and hear when you walk on the street, all of which have carefully designed traffic locations.
What if you don't want to receive this information? Buy filter glasses, soundproof earplugs, and live in a high-end house that can block these interferences.
However, the quality of these advertising images is very high, and most of them are presented in the form of "short videos" and "micro-stories". The carefully designed plots can be completed in tens of seconds, which is enough to make any casual viewer's attention...
It grabs their attention and makes them addicted.
Otherwise, the worse the advertising quality, the more negative effects it will have under the fatigue bombardment, and the gain will outweigh the loss.
After watching the commercial film for about ten minutes, Aske felt a little bored and said:
"Vesta?"
"I'm here." A female voice sounded in the room.
"Shield," Ask said.
"Execute external shielding." As the female voice fell, the huge floor-to-ceiling window glass also changed color, transforming into a quiet forest scene at night. The noisy advertising sounds from the outside world were also completely filtered out.
Lying down on the rocking chair again, Asker began to plan the team's subsequent development.
Now in the team, there are three people who condense the law, namely Paige, Eleanor and himself.
Among them, Peggy is the strongest. On the night of the Law of Condensation, she was upgraded to 5 levels, reaching the upper limit of the magic tide, Lv. 15. This situation is equivalent to 147 in snooker (one shot is scored from the beginning
At the end of the game), it is the same as a football goalkeeper taking a big shot and scoring a goal. It is an extremely rare phenomenon - we usually use a certain word to describe it: "hanging up".
Next is Ask himself, who ranks second with a level of Lv. 12 with the two skills of "Conceptual Arms" and "Ambush". And his next skill is naturally planned and determined.
"Plunder" is to plunder the opponent's basic attributes through attack actions. For example, taking away the bloodline ability or law skills of extraordinary people, or taking away the explosive power of firearms and artillery, etc., are also must-learn skills for the laws of war.
Although the effect of the ability taken away will be a little worse than that used by the original owner, it is equivalent to increasing unlimited possibilities in terms of tactics.
After all, for professional players, versatility is often higher than strength, because the power of legal skills is rarely stronger than tactical nuclear bombs.
(If so, the Holy See also has super-high-yield strategic nuclear bombs)
There are many skills for erasing tactical nuclear bombs, such as black holes (removing nuclear bombs before they explode) and so on.
Of course, the plundering skill Asik is about to learn cannot take away the explosive effect of nuclear bombs for the time being, because the energy contained in it is too strong, but he can take away the detonation ability and turn the charged nuclear bomb into a useless big iron lump.
This is also a solution.
The third one is Eleanor, who majors in Law of Will + Holy Sword. Law and extraordinary swordsmanship complement each other. It can be said to be the ultimate strength party. Although there is a time limit, it is still strong enough to be placed on the earth.
The above is the ace MT that major professional teams are rushing to grab, and it can be played even better in Asker's hands.
These three are the leaders in level in the team, while Nora and Mia are lagging behind the most. The former is due to the lack of supplementary materials and formulas for Life IV, and the latter is lack of supplementary materials and formulas for Shadow IV, so they are both stuck.
At Lv.9.
It would be normal for an ordinary extraordinary person in this world to find the materials and formulas for a Level IV potion for more than ten years - otherwise, why are there so few extraordinary people above the law level?
However, Asker definitely can't stand this. There is nothing you can do if you are stuck on the condensation of laws. After all, it is better to lack than to waste. But what's the point of being stuck on magic potion resources?
After going through the information that he still remembered several times, Asik decided to go find Capasilin again... No, let's ask the old butler named Maxinus first. Don't your Licinius family pride themselves on being super?
Are you rich? Don’t you even have the ingredients and formula for a mere Level IV potion? Hurry up and hand it over for your eldest lady!
In addition to upgrading potions, another thing worth looking for is the Ripple Sword.
As the most mysterious space-based extraordinary swordsmanship, only Storm, the captain of the Purple Lightning Team, learned it.
This guy is known as "Brother Dayu", and he is usually extremely taciturn (actually, he is sullen). As for how to learn the ripple sword technique, no matter how many people tried to test him like a joke, he never said a word.
One time, I was really annoyed, so I casually said that I "learned how to escape from the escape room" in Solomon City. Even though they knew this guy was talking nonsense, major clubs still played Solomon City in the game three or four times.
Therefore, if the difficulty of mastering the Holy Sword lies in learning, the problem with Ripple Sword Technique is that there are no clues, so where does Asik start now?
Just thinking about it makes people irritated - especially now that these two girls have no consciousness at all. One is shopping and the other is addicted to games, which makes Asker simply unable to say anything.
Nora, Mia, you are already mature extraordinary beings, can't you learn to find resources on your own?