Quadruple split

Game time AM12:29

Academy City, Gray Alley District, underground third floor, Midnight Hall

As soon as she got to the first floor, she transformed into a half-orc woman from the cat tribe who was about twenty years old, wearing a black mask, and her whole body was hidden under a black cold-proof cloak. She has not changed her appearance until now. Jia Wen was walking slowly through the crowd, looking at the bustling and lively environment around him unhurriedly.

Compared to Academy City under the sun, the dark alleys underground made Gawen feel much more friendly.

Not far away, she saw an old woman selling inert potions that were almost expired but not completely expired at a low price. She smiled at every passerby that would have been very friendly if she didn't have two front teeth missing, and introduced in a hoarse voice. own products.

She saw a lizard woman in school uniform timidly taking two large bags of jingling gold coins, and then she turned into the depths of a dark alley with the ferocious-looking, round-shouldered fellow in front of her, her legs trembling all the time.

She saw two boys who had used age-enhancing drugs being thrown out of the tavern, but they just arranged their robes happily, summoning the low-level magic [Water Mirror] to check the wrinkles on their faces, and making a fuss. He walked towards another pub across the street with a proud expression.

She saw a few scantily clad half-elves posing on the street. One of them even put on the dim yellow magic crystal lantern next to him, and kept ogling people while making a series of blood-spraying movements. , a delicate smile hung on the corner of her mouth.

She saw several third-rate killers with gloomy temperaments standing in front of a certain notice board, with exposed arms covered with tattoos and black bandages on their faces. They were probably in front of a text that could be deciphered using basic means. Consider the cost-effectiveness of the task.

She saw people with the Thieves Guild emblem on their chests walking quickly through the streets, either holding letters or packages in their hands, appearing quietly, and then disappearing quietly.

Gawen took a deep breath, and a smile flashed across her exposed eyes for a long time. It was obvious that despite the relatively simple sinful atmosphere, the environment here made Gawen very comfortable.

It's not as high-end as the Free City, and it's not as inferior as the 'black street' in the outer city. It can't be compared with a certain earl's residence far away in the southwest continent. But after coming here, Gawen developed a feeling of being like a fish in water. Feel.

In fact, whether it is Bai Fujin, a young female elite in the real world, or Jia Wen, the chief staff officer who hides his strength in the world of innocence, they all have a very clear and clear understanding of themselves, that is, they are anything but. Good people.

Gawen has always been very clear that not everyone lives in darkness, and not everyone will use any means to achieve their goals, and it’s not that she doesn’t like those who stand upright in the sun, she just knows that even if she can have a good time with them, In the final analysis, we are still people from two worlds.

It's not that she doesn't want to stand in the sun, it's just that she is more suitable to stand in the darkness.

After all, when right and wrong no longer exist in a person's eyes, then no matter whether he is black or not, it is impossible to become white.

Therefore, Jiawen's self-positioning has always been very clear. She does not subjectively think that she is a bad person, but objectively she knows very well that she cannot be a good person.

It is precisely because of this that when Gawen stepped into the Gray Alley area, she felt like a fish in water, because she could feel that the people around her were all her kind, no matter what their status, at least in a broad sense. .

The turbid sin in the air helped her stay clear-headed.

That's right, what Gawen needs most right now is a clear mind, because she has been forced to this point and is mentally excited to the point of almost collapse.

She had to admit that today she suffered the biggest blow since she entered the world of innocence, and it was very likely that she was about to face the first death of the character 'Jiawen'. At this moment, she was very nervous, and this kind of The level of tension was something she had never experienced in all these years!

There is no way to heaven and no way to earth.

No matter how hard I struggled, I couldn't escape from the opponent's grasp. Not only that, until this moment, I couldn't even see the full picture of the opponent's plan. I just kept running exhausted, constantly showing my trump cards, constantly struggling to win, and then... Continuously being driven to a dead end.

I don’t know how many times Gawen wanted to give herself a quick death, then directly rebuild her character and try her best to remedy the mistakes she made. This was actually not difficult for her.

First of all, Gawen has almost the same budget allocation as Merlin. Although the amount of money at her personal disposal is symbolic, the total amount is very considerable.

This money was not allocated to her by others. In fact, Gawen took the initiative to tell her boss that she had some business experience outside the game. While serving as a staff member, she was also responsible for the finances of the Guilty Lord's Mansion...or rather, Gawen, who was responsible for the secret accounts, was just talking to Bart Gavin. Archduke Los asked for a start-up capital of hundreds of thousands of gold coins, and in a short period of time he doubled this number several times through high-risk financial services including but not limited to the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, the Steam Consortium, the Church of Wealth, and the Viper Chamber of Commerce. I made several short-term, high-return, high-risk investments, which directly enriched the account where the secret account was located.

Finally, she planned a sophisticated Ponzi scheme through remote control in the Blade Alliance's only port city [Massaton], earning a profit of approximately 1500% of the basic cost in two months. In addition to sacrificing Except for a few player employees who didn't even know the identity of the employees, they paid almost no price.

Of course, the fate of the governor of [Massaton] and several big merchants was quite miserable, but for Ms. Gavin, who values ​​human rights, those so-called 'partners' have a completely equal relationship with herself, so naturally they will not is calculated into the 'cost'.

It's not complicated, and it's certainly not as simple as those movies on TV a few decades ago that had business wars on the front but idol dramas underneath.

This involves some issues that are very troublesome to explain. Since it will take too much time to expand, here are just a few examples.

For example, the Chauvin Empire is the leader in the commercial field of the Southwest Continent, and with the status and influence of Jiawen's camp in this country, as long as she is determined to do it, she can get information and secretly influence things. Well, there are a wide range of possibilities, and there are not many tricks that can be done here.

It's like outside the game, a large company decides to acquire another company. After the plan is made public, if nothing unexpected happens, the latter's stock will most likely increase significantly. Then those who can learn about this in advance Of course, you can make a lot of money without any effort.

For another example, there are some cases that only exist in reality but have never happened in the Innocence Continent. These have been studied by the bachelors to the point where they are almost transparent, and even primary school students outside the game can hardly be deceived. Under different worldviews, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people may be deceived, and the most common place for this kind of thing is the "cool point" in a large number of time-travel themes.

And Jiawen just took advantage of this. Although she could not use cases outside the game or even the player's immortality to 'cheat', if she could use it, why not use it?

The situation is probably like this, but it is just a theory. After all, these operations will give rise to a lot of professional problems when they are really applied. The reason why Gawen can do it is because she is a professional in her own right, so everyone can travel through time one day. Well, it’s better not to follow suit easily.

All in all, Jiawen, who is in charge of finance, has been setting up small 'offices' all over the continent since a long time ago after having a lot of money. The main purpose is to provide services to 'expatriates', mainly in terms of funding. .

To sum up, although the fund reserves of each office are not large, for people like Gawen who have absolute authority, they still have enough money to go to the Mages Guild and take the teleportation array back to Academy City.

So as long as she can appear near a big city that is twelve hours of game time after rebuilding her character, she will definitely be able to make it to tomorrow's meeting.

If by chance the rebuilt character goes to a remote area where there is no place for shit, or a place that is not covered by the office, it would be fine to die and come back again.

The other party doesn't know that [Thousand Faces] is a soul-bound equipment, and even if it knows, it probably won't be of much use. After all, a situation like this where he is being targeted completely can be classified as a special situation.

Based on this, it is not difficult for Jia Wen to make amends. The reason why she has not done so yet is because she simply does not want to give up easily.

Hope is slim, but not hopeless.

From the time she was sensible, she has been a person who will never give up in the face of 'impossibility', but will never let go of any possibility, no matter how small the possibility is.

For example——

Maybe the person who is staring at him is difficult to monitor underground?

This is the whole reason why Gawen appears here. She is still betting that the other party will be disturbed by this reason!

As for whether there is anyone blocking her in the underground gray alley area, Gawen personally thinks there is no such thing. This is still a gamble, but in her opinion, the most cost-effective way in this case must be to have people guard each exit. , instead of pursuing and intercepting him on a large scale like before.

The Gray Alley area is a mixed bag, prone to trouble, and is not under the jurisdiction of the law enforcement team!

So Jia Wen bet that the people the other party could mobilize, apart from the law enforcement team, were mostly elite units such as Mu Xuejian and Lian, and it would be difficult to make a difference in this special area!

When she saw Lian at the entrance of Gray Alley, she knew she had made the right bet on this one!

Although the other party guessed that they would come to the Gray Alley area, they probably did not have enough manpower and support to carry out a large-scale encirclement and suppression inside.

And just after Gawen left the Midnight Hall and walked slowly into the fourth underground floor, which was half divided by the Thieves Guild and half the Intelligence Plaza, she was pleasantly surprised to find that her previous bet was also right!

Not long after she entered the fourth underground floor, the burning sensation in her body suddenly weakened rapidly, and within a moment it turned into an almost imperceptible warmth.

This means that the most determined gaze has disappeared, replaced by the surrounding 'pedestrians' who are wandering in the gray area, habitually looking around, and subconsciously paying attention to the movements of everyone around them.

Without any hesitation, Jiawen immediately blended into the crowd and then spent more than ten minutes 'fine-tuning' herself, from eye color and eyelashes that were difficult for others to notice, to skin color, hairstyle, and finally body shape. , clothing, gender and even race, when she returned to the third floor ten minutes later, she had completely changed into a completely different person.

To be more precise, he has become a completely different person from the one before the burning sensation disappeared!

As for the specific appearance, it doesn't matter, because the other party has already lost track of him!

The sudden surprise did not make Gawen relax. On the contrary, she became more cautious than before, and her brain was constantly thinking. Countless thoughts flashed through her every minute and every second, which even caused enough physical damage. value of a load that falls slowly.

That's right, Jiawen didn't feel at ease. Although everything was developing in a good direction, even though he seemed to be out of despair, all he needed to do at this moment was to leave this place and find any opportunity to return to Liuli Pavilion. But she still has a strong sense of crisis.

Without any reason, just an instinctive intuition, Gawen believed that the other party would not let her go so easily, and was not even sure whether she had really left the enemy's sight.

This is not unfounded worry. After all, she has paid the price for her hastiness before, and she also knows how meticulous and thoughtful the other party's arrangements are, so this suspicion is completely justified.

What's more, the warmth on her body has not completely disappeared, so it may be that the person with the most superb methods is temporarily unable to monitor herself. There are 'plainclothes' in the vague eyes around her.

It is dangerous to leave here rashly, and it is even more stupid to stay where you are!

There is only one right choice!

No matter how the other party arranges it, as long as you can find an opportunity to go offline, you can completely take the initiative in your hands.

Ten minutes ago, this matter was still an impossible task, but for Gawen, who has now gotten rid of that biggest and most annoying gaze and can even breathe a lot easier, there is not much difficulty left. .

She believes that even if someone is still paying attention to her at this moment, even if the other party is mobilizing people as quickly as possible to arrest her, after that gaze completely disappears, she can still find an opportunity to block all sight!

[Come on, the mouse’s final escape has begun~]

Although there were still cards in his hand that he had not finished playing, Gawen, who regarded this moment as the final battle, licked the corner of his mouth and set foot on the main road of the Midnight Hall again.

Chapter 1418: End