Douluo: The Peerless Sun, Moon, and Yuhao

Chapter 253: Xiao Ling, you have to sign this contract for the sake of the academy.

Ling Luochen grabbed the quilt again and covered his head. His whole body looked like an unknown creature wrapped in the quilt.

"...Sister Luochen?"

"Is it you?"

Ning Tian, ​​who was also surprised to see her senior in the non-public area of ​​the Soul Palace at first, tentatively said that the other party's fierce dodge reaction made her wonder who was more guilty.

"I, I..." After seeing Ning Tian's face that she least wanted to see at this moment, Ling Luochen hurriedly hid under the quilt to escape reality, mumbling to himself.

While feeling intensely ashamed because his behavior of seeking benefits from his enemies without telling his classmates and teachers was revealed, Ling Luochen couldn't help but feel a little bit more sad towards Huo Yuhao.

First, she found a real ultimate ice from nowhere to suppress herself. This was not enough. She also had to expose herself under the eyes of her classmates. How could she have the nerve to go back to see her teachers and friends in the future?

If Ning Tian goes back and makes a small report about himself to the college, I am afraid that the college will directly accuse him of collaborating with the enemy. Then it will not only be a matter of social death!
Huo Yuhao, you want to kill me, why did you bring Ning Tian here too!
It was just that I hesitated for a little longer at the beginning. Why did I have to push myself into a corner like this...

and many more!

Ling Luochen suddenly found that his thinking seemed to have overlooked certain blind spots.

Since he was afraid of being discovered by someone he knew when he came quietly today, what happened to Ning Tian...?

For what reason did she appear in this place that can be called the enemy's nest?
She was afraid of being exposed in the eyes of her teachers and friends. Didn't she have the same worry?If that's the case, why does she still appear in front of him?
Ling Luochen's mind became more and more confused as she thought about it. After struggling for a long time, she poked half of her head out of the quilt and looked at Ning Tian, ​​who was still standing beside her bed, with no strange expression on her face.

This school girl...doesn't she have the slightest sense of self-consciousness and shame that her whereabouts will be exposed?

"Senior Sister Ling, it's time to take medicine."

Ning Tian smiled and picked up a medicine bottle from the table, took out two calming pills, and handed them to Ling Luochen along with a bottle of warm water.

"Ning Tian, ​​you...why are you here?"

Ning Tian seemed to have no consciousness that his whereabouts were exposed to the eyes of his seniors. Ling Luochen could not stop the natural smile on his face.

So she pulled the quilt down to expose her shoulders, carefully took the pills and water glass, and asked with suspicion in her eyes.

"Me? Of course it's because I am now a trainee spiritual master student. Isn't it normal to study with me?"

Ning Tian answered without hesitation, without any panic expression on his face, as if he was describing that he was about to enter the inner courtyard to study.

Ling Luochen was dumbfounded as he listened to Ning Tian's self-destruction truck speech, but the latter smiled and urged: "Senior, please take the medicine quickly. After eating, you still have to sign the contract."

Ling Luochen, who was so distraught, hurriedly swallowed the pills and water, and opened the bound book that seemed to her to have a gloomy and ominous atmosphere.

One fine-tuned clause after another fell into Ling Luochen's eyes, making her heart sink more and more.

Judging from the previous terms, it seems that Huo Yuhao has become much more generous than at the beginning, and the resources for his own research are also rolling up.

But...combined with the terms about the soul and the obligations she needs to fulfill, this is completely a contract of betrayal!
To be honest, compared to the soul guide that he was just a monk on the way, the soul that made countless students in the academy extremely coveted made Ling Luochen dream about it more and long for it.

Living in the center of the whirlpool, she fully understood that if she could cut off a kidney to get a soul that was extremely suitable for her, the hospitals near the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy would be overcrowded soon, and the academy could also directly announce the suspension of classes because the students were about to go There is a queue of waist.

In the revised second version of the targeted training agreement, it is clearly stipulated that Ling Luochen needs to work for the Soul Palace or Mingde Hall for 40 years and achieve the specified economic benefit creation indicators before he can regain his freedom.

Well, Huo Yuhao himself is very reasonable. This 40-year period is calculated according to the industry rules of mandatory graduation at the age of 25 from the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and retirement at the age of 65 for non-important positions. It does not account for Lingluo at all. Chen is cheap and does not engage in delayed retirement. As long as she reaches the specified number of years and creates enough residual value, she will be free.

This is just an adjustment to the various previous agreements related to the cultivation of Mingdetang. For the souls that Ling Luochen cares about most, desires most, and has the best control over, the main regulations are the simplest two, and they don't look at all Harsh, even extremely generous:

1. The Soul Palace is responsible for finding ice-attributed extreme northern souls of maximum age for Ling Luochen based on his body's upper limit under normal conditions. Two ten thousand-year-old souls are arranged for each of the seven and eight rings.

Every time Ling Luochen obtains a ten-thousand-year soul from the Soul Palace, he needs to renew the labor relationship for an additional 15 years and 25 years at the seventh and eighth rings respectively.

If Ling Luochen still needs a soul when he is in the Nine Rings, the Soul Palace will guarantee to provide him with a 10-year-old soul, and the service period will be changed to lifetime employment.

2. After signing the contract, Ling Luochen is obligated to unconditionally cooperate with various promotional matters of the Soul Palace, including but not limited to making posters, visiting acupuncture points, displaying in various public places, etc.; Soul Palace guarantees that it will not occupy more than 20% of her time every year. [-] days.

It seemed that the conditions were decent and formal, but Ling Luochen knew that the specific years specified in the words were all nonsense. The essence of the bound book in her hand was a contract of betrayal!
The nonsense of 15-year and 25-year stepped-up contract renewals has no meaning at all. As long as she signs this thing and gets the first soul from the Soul Palace... No, it should be said that she gets the first day's soul from Mingde Hall. Once the preferential treatment starts, Shrek will be her spiritual home that she can't go back to.

What's more, there is also the second clause in the Soul Supplement Clause, which seems harmless to humans and animals. Ling Luochen, who has a little understanding of Huo Yuhao's style, can already imagine him getting into Teacher Fan Yu's face after taking a promotional photo for himself, or even through exchanges. It’s the scene where students send leaflets to Shrek...

By then, I'm afraid Dai Yueheng will be the only one left in this generation of Shrek's Seven Devils!

Although the original contract was not much better, it was a fatal agreement that once he signed his name, it basically meant that he would sever ties with Shrek Academy.

It's just that in the past, you might be able to fool him by saying "I am here to further refine the soul guidance device", but now this contract does not even give you any room for change. As long as you get the "free" soul, you will be covered with it. It’s all hard to explain.

Hey, wait, since there is essentially no difference...then what am I struggling with now?

Ling Luochen, who was caught in a brainstorm, blinked, looking dumbfounded to Ning Tian.

"Ning Tian, ​​you...are not afraid to be an intern here..." Ling Luochen's eyes flashed slightly and she asked Ning Tian in a low voice.

"I've reported it to the college. Why are you afraid of meeting people?" Ning Tian's face was full of matter-of-factness, which made Ling Luochen feel stunned.

"The academy knows?!"

"Yes, and I am asked to give full play to the serious and diligent study style of Shrek students and study hard to graduate as soon as possible."

"Of course I know what I can do to lie to you." Huo Yuhao chuckled and added.

Reaching out and tapping the agreement in Ling Luochen's arms, Huo Yuhao said: "Look carefully and think carefully. I am a person who believes in a voluntary, twisted melon... twisting and twisting will turn it into the desired shape."

"I don't bother forcing you to do anything, but...it's hard to say whether the situation you saw today will happen again in a few months."

Su Tong, who was leaning against the load-bearing pillar of the room, rolled her eyes at Huo Yuhao from a distance and touched her neck with her fingers in fear.

"We are going to have supper first. After you have rested, you can find a chance to go back. When you have figured out whether to sign the contract, you will still use the old method to contact me."

After Huo Yuhao said that, he really stopped trying to persuade Ling Luochen and left her alone on the bed holding the bound book of the agreement. Ning Tian and Su Tong followed Huo Yuhao out of the infirmary and closed the door behind them.

Ling Luochen was stunned for a long time, then looked at the bound book in his hand, thinking about the impact of the huge amount of information he had received today, and remained silent for a long time.

"I always feel that Shrek Academy's attitude is a bit... too liberal. You should pay more attention."

The three of them had a midnight snack in the cafeteria and found a table to sit down. Ning Tian held his chopsticks and reminded Huo Yuhao with a slightly worried look on his eyebrows.

Of course, Ning Tian didn't bother to make up lies that would be revealed immediately to trick Ling Luochen into falling into the trap. She really got permission and even encouragement from Shrek Academy to "sneak into the Soul Palace to learn core techniques"!

The news that Ning Tian was absent from class a lot could not be hidden from his teachers and friends. Since there was no way to hide it, it was better to communicate openly with Shrek Academy.

She is not a small-time soul master who can only be embraced by the academy. She is very independent. Even if it is just for the Jiubao Glazed Sect to keep up with the trend, it is completely reasonable to apply to learn soul technology as a student.

From the first day she entered Shrek Academy, she was a person who first acted based on her own ideas and was not attached to the academy.

"I know." Huo Yuhao gently stirred the soup in the soup bowl with a spoon and nodded with a smile.

"You're stealing from me. It's the same with He Caitou, and it's the same with you; this world is just copying, it's nothing." "He Caitou...how is the situation now?"

"Don't worry, he has enough fried chicken meals every day, and he is not allowed to practice during working hours. He has already gained twenty pounds."

There was more interest in Ning Tian's eyes: "Speaking of which, are you really not afraid that the soul that you have worked so hard to study will be stolen by others? No matter how genius you are, you can't open the soul palace across the border. And Shrek has the market of Three Kingdoms and One City and can explore it at will, and the elite soul masters of the Three Kingdoms have always respected Shrek..."

"Am I afraid of this?" Huo Yuhao stopped stirring the spoon and smiled sideways.

"Don't say it's you, even if other exchange students from Shrek apply to study, I will still approve it. The Soul Palace is not an institution dedicated to a few elites like Shrek and Mingde Hall. Its foundation lies in the semi-public welfare of the masses. The bigger the stall is, the more vital it will be."

"Shrek can't open branches all over the cities of the Three Kingdoms. This is their most glamorous coat and they won't take it off voluntarily."

As he said this, Huo Yuhao suddenly thought of something and changed his words with a "tsk": "But it is conceivable to support a skin-changing sect to do such dirty and tiring work for them."

"If you want to learn, just do it openly. There is nothing to keep low-level basic spells secret. Even a soul master can take a soul beast to make a contract and listen to it. There are too many channels for leaks, and it is impossible to prevent it. If you want to If you want to further learn the intermediate spells that can be applied to ten-thousand-year souls, then follow the rules and let me see how many spiritual treasure soul masters Shrek is willing to send over."

"The core competitiveness of the Soul Palace has never been these low-level spells. The purpose of providing free services to low-level soul masters is to make huge profits from high-level soul masters. By the way, starting from scratch, you have to vomit blood first to strangle potential opponents. profit margins and talent training opportunities.”

Ning Tian nodded lightly: "This method looks familiar. You happen to have enough capital to establish yourself in this way. The threshold for this industry is really not low."

Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes slightly and chuckled: "Learn, go ahead and learn. Otherwise, all the talents I have trained through painstaking efforts over the past few years will be used as my wedding dress, which will make up for my inability to recruit the Three Kingdoms in the past few years." This is a window period for talents. Since they are not doing their jobs properly, I welcome them very much."

Ning Tian naturally understood the underlying meaning of Huo Yuhao's words - Huo Yuhao was confident that all the talents in the continent would be able to be used by him in a few years. Since he thought he had a chance to win, he should naturally have the corresponding ambition and magnanimity.

Neither Soul Palace nor Shrek disdain and cannot hide their thoughts; it's just that both sides believe that they have great advantages and time is on their side.

The final result can only be witnessed by time, but the Nine Treasure Glazed Sect has already made a choice in advance and placed a heavy bet.

Thousands of miles away, the Poseidon Pavilion Conference Hall.

Yan Shaozhe stood up solemnly and raised the latest brochure of Soul/Soul Palace that was delivered by express mail.

"Dear elders, through the mutual confirmation of the news from Fan Yu and the exchange students, as well as the confirmation of the benevolent people who are secretly leaning towards us, we can now say with certainty that the soul technology secretly developed by the Sun and Moon Empire has matured!"

"It can also be seen from the latest news from Ning Tian that she is in a place where it is easiest to contact souls. The fact that she can make up her mind to study souls shows that in the eyes of her and the Nine Treasure Glazed Sect, souls are more valuable than soul guides at this stage. It's more valuable."

A pavilion elder said leisurely: "At the beginning, she swore that she had used her own personal experience to prove that the future belonged to soul guides. It was understandable that she would not spend her whole life studying on the path of soul masters, but now it seems that she has made a successful turn. It was really fast, and within a few months she felt that the soul guide was not worthy of her ambition, haha."

"She is so unsure of her own way of cultivation and has a weak mind that wanders around. I think her feelings in the academy may not be able to withstand the test..."

"Ahem!" Mr. Lin coughed lightly, interrupting Mr. Su who was doubting Ning Tian's loyalty.

"Ning Tian is still young. I think it's a good idea to learn more and be exposed to more things. After choosing the path of your choice, I think it's a good idea to further your studies. When she reaches our age, she won't have a chance to turn back even if she wants to."

"Oh, I'll really wait and see." The old man shrugged and leaned back on the chair.

Elder Lin frowned and said dissatisfiedly: "The Nine Treasure Glazed Sect is standing there and cannot be moved away! No matter what Ning Tian learns, she will come back eventually. The knowledge she learned is the wealth of the academy and should be encouraged. That’s it.”

"Humph, after all these years I have been unable to speak to you, but this time you are indeed right." Mr. Su finally agreed with Mr. Lin's statement that "Ning Tian can't run away even if he has legs, and he will have to come back sooner or later." .

Yan Shaozhe glanced at all the elders present, and after the argument paused, he said in a deep voice:
"Adhering to Mr. Mu's legacy, we must unswervingly support the development of the soul guidance system."

"But now, it is obvious that the emergence of souls has no less important significance and potential than soul guides!"

"What cannot be ignored is that compared to the long-term backwardness and gap in soul guidance tools, our Shrek Academy has unique people and geographical advantages when it comes to souls!"

The elders present at the meeting all expressed their approval after hearing the words. Soul Spirit has been pioneered and developed on the basis of traditional soul masters. It still follows the path of strengthening the power of soul masters themselves. Looking at the cold machinery that Kebi is trying to mass-produce A soul guide that suppresses the flesh and blood of a soul master and kills a soul master that has been trained for 20 years with two months of factory shells is much more pleasing to the eye!

Moreover, Shrek Academy not only has unique talents and foundation in the research of soul masters, but it is also directly adjacent to the Star Dou Forest, which is rich in soul beast resources but the conflict between humans and beasts has always been very prominent. It is not afraid of the Star Dou ferocious beasts and can be greatly alleviated. The conflicted soul cannot be moved.

One step at a time, one step at a time, with the combination of people and geographical advantages, everyone is very confident about Shrek's future.

and so……

"If we can catch up with the Sun Moon Empire's research progress on souls as quickly as possible, with the foundation and strength of our Shrek Academy and the full support of the Three Kingdoms, it is completely possible to overtake the so-called Soul Palace and even take the lead in the future of souls. The foreseeable future!”

Yan Shaozhe looked serious and solemn:
"Therefore, I, Yan Shaozhe, hereby propose that, except for a few outstanding students of the soul guidance department, order the exchange students who are still studying soul guidance tools at the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy to transfer their learning goals to the study of soul technology!"

"This is a win-win choice for themselves and the college. The college supports them to apply for internships and further studies at the Soul Palace like Ning Tian!"

"If some students show outstanding talents in this process, the college should support them to further penetrate into the core level of Soul Palace and strive to learn the non-public core technologies of Soul Palace. Their names will be remembered in the future history of the school and even the history of mankind. To make contributions, the college will also allocate part of the resources belonging to the Soul Guidance Department for the cultivation of soul-related talents, and open relevant courses in the Martial Soul Department."

Mr. Song at the conference table sighed: "It's just a pity that Caitou kid."

Everyone was silent, and they all understood what Mr. Song did not say directly: some of these exchange students may actually take on the responsibility of spies with the encouragement of the college, and then there may be unfortunate students who become spies. The new "He Caitou".

"The college will not let down the sacrifices of every student. If something happens to them, the college will support their parents and support their families in return!"

Yan Shaozhe's expression was a bit stern. His sense of smell told him that he was standing at a juncture where every decision was likely to have far-reaching consequences, and he had to shoulder the responsibility that history had placed on his shoulders.

"This responsibility is really not small, and it's hard on the children." An old man shook his head gently, "And to gain the trust of the Sun and Moon Empire, and to be qualified to access the real secrets, he himself must be absolutely loyal to the academy. Believe it or not, this is easier said than done?”

Xuanzi bit off a piece of chicken leg skin, took a sip of wine and said vaguely: "What's the point? We have seven monsters from the inner courtyard with them. I think it's just right. I don't believe that the wolf cubs from the Sun and Moon Empire are treating us." My precious genius is not tempted!"

"When the little guys get their secrets or are in danger, I will go to Mingdu in person to bring them all back! What's the point of wasting time with soul guides? I think this soul is another opportunity for our academy. . As long as we get their full set of spells, the Soul Palace is worthless to us and is not our opponent at all!"

"They can also recite incantations and sit on the ground to collect money. Apart from that, is there any other job that Shrek can't do better than them? With the population of one country and the combined efforts of the three countries, they still take advantage of them and refuse to accept the souls of hundreds of years and thousands of years. Why are they competing with our college for the beast's money? How much money can they throw into this bottomless pit?"

Song Lao sighed softly. She already knew the news that Dai Yueheng was injured. If Ling Luochen had another misfortune... they would be so sorry for the Shrek Seven Monsters.

"Now, I ask the Poseidon Pavilion to vote on this proposal!"

Hands were raised one after another, and even Xuanzi, the master of Poseidon Pavilion, put down the drumstick in his hand and cast a solemn vote.

"Okay, okay!" Yan Shaozhe felt an indescribable clarity surge through his body.

"Ning Tian has penetrated into the Soul Palace. I will personally write to her and ask her to record what she has seen and heard, especially the most important spell!"

"Dear exchange students, I will also ask Fan Yu to personally explain all the instructions from the college. The college must seize every opportunity and exert all its strength!"

"In addition... I will immediately discuss with Ditian personally when I get the contract spell for souls under ten thousand years old; I, Shrek Academy, will support a small sect to compete with the Soul Palace, starting with Shrek City and the Star Dou Forest. , tell Ditian the benefits of this soul, establish mutual trust between the academy and the Star Dou Forest, and ease the relationship between them."

Xuanzi smiled, wiped the grease on his hands, and added:

"That Huo Yuhao, I think he had evil intentions when he came to our Shrek City last time. That soul is definitely not something that a little kid like him can create by chance."

"Let me see, maybe he got some inspiration from reading our Shrek classics. Otherwise, given his age and experience of studying soul guidance devices, the invention of the soul cannot be justified at all."

"Just tell Ditian that this soul is the hard work of our Shrek, and we must say the same to the outside world in the future. With Shrek's ten thousand years of fame, how can the people believe in the Sun and Moon Empire that is not good at the way of a soul master? In the future history books Come on, this soul is our invention!"

"Di Tian knows our Shrek's weight, how could he reject our goodwill? Besides, he has no way of knowing the news about the Sun and Moon Empire. He has no choice but to trust us and cooperate with Shrek. I believe he will make the right decision! In the future, Shrek and the Star Dou Forest will form an alliance, which will definitely dispel the wolfish ambitions of the Sun and Moon Empire!"

(End of this chapter)