Infrastructure starts from the game

While Angor and Mithril were arguing about the workshop's budget, the "Street Volunteer Committee" led by Thorny Moon had already started to act, and the distribution of game tables was in progress in an orderly manner.

In just one week, Thorny Moon negotiated the three largest shopping malls in Cecilia City, the hottest bar, and the rental plan for the game tables in the two largest plazas. The game tables in Angel's inventory It was completely consumed.

The huge gear hanging in the sky has let the people of Cecilia know that "the magic gear has reopened", and when the magic props of the workshop appear in the entertainment places that people often go to, the game table has become a hot topic among people. topic of.

"The Rose Tavern has placed a magic item, it's fun!"

"Ah, the shape of the table is right? I saw it in the garden square too!"

"It seems that the games are different in different places?"

"You have to go to Magic Gear to play all of them at once."

"I got [-] points in it, it seems that my magic talent is not as bad as the school said!"

"No, ordinary people can go up to [-], right?"

On the street, such conversations can be heard at any time.

As the first batch of players and members of the game table, the children of Yixue feel very honored.

"Game tables are completely on fire!" Maya said happily. "When I went to Central Avenue, I saw there was also one in the Bell Tower Square there. People were queuing up to play. I also went to play two."

Liti said: "It will be more expensive outside the workshop!"

"That's right, the ones over there cost 250 per cent! There's only summer tables."

"Then you still play?"

"The free times of my membership card are the same everywhere!" Maya said proudly, "At that time, several people came to ask me what to do with the membership certificate!"

That's right, in addition to the scattered income, the game tables placed in the city also continuously provide workshop members.

At present, there are almost not enough membership crystals for Magic Gear, so that Angel is considering whether to conduct a membership test or something, such as how much to recharge (X), such as how many game points to become a member.

——The two Enlises feel the same, because don’t they also need money to play games?And for some people who don't operate well, I'm afraid it will cost more money.

Enlis thought so, and looked at the game tables in the mall.

Of course, Enlis and her two best friends didn't come just to play table games outside.

The teachers of the free school seemed to have an important meeting today, and the afternoon classes were skipped. The girls thought that they were going to the magic gear recently, so they decided to go shopping in the most prosperous central street in the city.

But Enlis was no longer as worried as she was a month ago.

She no longer has to think about where the vegetables are on sale and where the bread is on sale. Instead, she can look at what she likes like an ordinary carefree 12-year-old girl, and even buy it with her pocket money.

It's just that Enlis is reluctant most of the time.

Like Mithril, she was afraid of poverty.

And Enlis is also very used to thinking about her "family" when shopping:

"People really like the game table. Tell Mr. Angle when you go back, he will be very happy, right?"

Enlis thought so while looking at the crowd queuing in front of the game table.

But when she noticed someone from the corner of her eye who could also stare at the game table, her body froze.

"Enlis, let's go over there and have a look!" At this time, Liti held Enlis's arm affectionately, "I heard that there is a new crepe shop over there... What's wrong?"

Liti keenly sensed that Enlis's mood was not right.

Maya asked carelessly from the side: "Could it be because you don't have pocket money? I said, the business of the workshop is so good now, if the black wizard doesn't give you pocket money again, it would be too stingy—"

"No, Mr. Angel is very generous to me. I even said that I don't need pocket money." Enliss said softly.

Her pocket money is on par with a cat waiter's salary.

Fifteen silver a month.

(There is an additional commission for cat treats.)

Enlisi felt that she had to go to school and didn't do any work at all, so she felt guilty for taking so much money, so she decided to secretly save the money and buy gifts for Angel later.

Anyway, to Enliss, such a day was like a dream she didn't want to wake up from.

Such a beautiful dream was brought about by the bankruptcy of the workshop.

Enlis turned her gaze away, lowered her voice and said, "It's over there...I've seen that person over there."

"Over there?" Liti and Maya curiously looked in the direction Enlis had just looked at.

They noticed that two gentlemen with canes were standing there, also looking at the game table.

Enliss said, "That person, I remember, was the one who persuaded Master Boris to produce the wand!"

"Wand?" Maya asked strangely.

"It's the business that almost caused Magic Gear to go bankrupt... right?" Liti said uncertainly.

She didn't know the inside story, but she could roughly guess it from Enlis's reaction.

"Ah, he is that liar!" Maya cried after hearing this, and she rolled up her sleeves filled with righteous indignation, "Let's settle accounts with him!"

"No, no!"

"stop!"

Enliss and Liti hurriedly grabbed Maya.

None of them knew how Maya had the confidence to settle accounts with two big men.

Moreover, Maya's movements seemed to have alarmed the passers-by around, and they looked towards this side curiously.

Enliss and Liti noticed this immediately, they looked at each other and nodded, covered Maya's mouth who was still about to move, and quickly dragged her away from the street.

"Listen, Maya, I'm not angry!" Enlis said to her friend who wanted to avenge her after making sure that she was out of the man's sight, "Although I know it's not good to think so, but because of him, Only then can I meet Mr. Angel and live the life I am now."

As for the previous Boris, although Enliss was also very grateful to him—he had raised her for at least so many years—but Mr. Boris always looked at her in the wrong way, like a pig farmer looking at his piglets Yes, it made Enlis feel scared.

Maya and Liti knew how Enlis felt.

"That's right, the former owner of the workshop always smelled stinky," Maya immediately agreed with Enlis' statement, she paused, and asked strangely, "So, you want to thank this Liar?"

Liti almost wanted to support her friend's EQ.

"There is no reason to thank a liar! Besides, that person may not just want to cheat a sum of money when he ruined the workshop," Liti said. "The two people stood there just now and looked at the game table. Enlis was worried Are they attacking Mr. Angel?"

"..." Enlis nodded.

"It makes sense! Those two people really look sneaky!" Maya recalled, and she asked dissatisfiedly, "Then why are you stopping me? This kind of thing should warn them not to do bad things!"

"Are you a member of the Street Volunteer Committee?"

Letty smiled and complained.

Then she looked at Enlis worriedly and said, "If you're worried, why don't you take a peek at what they're talking about?"

"peep?"

"I've seen similar magic recently..." Liti said shyly.

After she said this, it was not surprising to see the two friends staring with expressions of seeing a ghost.

"You know magic?!" Maya exclaimed.

"Well, it's not considered learning. It's just that after playing the game table for a while, I felt that my magic power seemed to have increased a lot, so I went to a second-hand bookstore and bought a magic book to try it out. It seemed quite useful—"

"Damn it! You are showing off!" Maya shook Liti's shoulder and said, "Everyone obviously started playing the game table together. It's fine if your score is far higher than everyone else's. You can even do magic! Why are you so good? !"

"Liti, you are amazing!" Enlis also said adoringly.

No, it's you who are amazing.

Letty thought.

Letty was actually lying.

What she said to Enlis before that she had never touched magic items was all a lie.

Liti's family is a family of witches, the kind that was discovered in the age of magic and would be tied to the fire. Even in modern times, Liti has always been rejected by the world, so Liti has been carefully taught by her mother and grandmother. He concealed his magic power, showing his ignorance of magic.

Until touching the game table, Liti accidentally overplayed her game and exposed her "strength".

Liti easily obtained a high score, and even gained a group of fans in the leaderboard competition of Magic Gear.

Let Liti breathe a sigh of relief (and even a little reconciled), even so, her ranking is always hovering at No.3 and No.4, which is far away from the top two.

Moreover, all the students who are addicted to the game table have improved their magic scores, making Liti unremarkable.

Among them, No.2 Kata has passed the magic appraisal with dignity, making everyone think that this is normal.

... Besides, there is Enlis.

In order to match the improvement of the game ranking, Liti decided to show corresponding performance in the test, so she "improved" the test score, but found that she couldn't pass Enlis at all!

It was one point last time, and it is still one point this time.

Thinking about it carefully, from the beginning of school, it seems that no one can pass Enlis.

It made Liti want to use magic to see if she could win by cheating.

Ah, this is a joke.

Liti barely struggled away from Maya's restraint, she looked at Enlis and said, "The magic I accidentally read last time can spy on other people's malice, do you want to try it?"

"Hmm..." Enlis looked a little hesitant.

Liti didn't urge her either, she even grabbed Maya who was about to speak.

Liti felt that it was natural for Enlis to hesitate.

Enlis is different from her witch reserve, she is a really gentle and kind child, so she may not be able to do such a thing of voyeurism, and it is only natural to refuse.

But it doesn't matter, if Enlis refuses, she and Maya will go to see it secretly later.

If those two men are really dangerous, tell Enlis's current guardian directly.

That black robe shouldn't let potential enemies go!

Liti was thinking in her heart.

"I want to see!" At this time, Enlisi replied.

"Ah, you really don't...well, you want to see?!" Liti looked at Enlis in surprise, "But this is peeping at others! It's not good!"

"But I can't trouble others all the time, I also want to protect Mr. Angel!" Enlis said firmly.

Having said that, Enlisi paused, and showed an embarrassed expression to Liti: "Although I say this, I am troublesome for you!"

"Enlis is no trouble! It doesn't matter if you rely more on others!"

Liti hugged Enlis tightly.

"Liti..." Enlis was also very moved.

Maya rubbed her arms beside her and said, "Wow, you two are so disgusting."

When I am moved...

So, why would I make friends with this thing?

Liti restrained herself so that she didn't show any distaste for "this thing".

"This thing" is obviously not conscious, but she is very interested in Liti's magic: "So, what should we do next? Go find that liar and pull out a hair?"

"...This is almost equivalent to being exposed!" Liti said.

A witch wouldn't be so mentally handicapped!

As weak girls with poor physical strength, the highest element of their magic lies in silence.

"Everything that passes by will leave traces, we don't need to get too close to them." Liti glanced at the direction of the game table just now, and grabbed Enlis and Maya's arms, "Let's go to our usual place first!"

Enlis Maya and Letty's frequent meeting place is a part-time coffee shop florist on Central Avenue.

When Enlis was short of money, she often came here to do odd jobs with Liti, and the shop owner liked them very much, so he would provide free black tea to the girls.

Now that Enliss had pocket money, she didn't mind coming here to order a small cake.

Girls today don't just drink tea.

"Please give us two cups of clean boiled water, a small leaf of bergamot, a small bottle of salt, a scented candle of violets, a small bouquet of lily of the valley and a rose," Lily asked skillfully Said, "Finally, can you lend us a small mirror you used? Ms. Ruxiang, we will pay for it!"

The hostess of the flower shop laughed when she heard this: "Are you going to do divination?"

There are often girls doing tarot divination in her coffee shop, and she is also used to providing various props, so it is not surprising.

"Yes, love divination!" Maya replied confidently.

She became smarter at this time: "So you must not peek!"

"Hehehe, it's okay to take a peek, because it has absolutely nothing to do with you, little Maya." Ms. Ruxiang said.

"?What's the meaning?!"

Ms. Rue was obviously just teasing Maya.

Of course, it was impossible for her to peek at the divination ceremony that the little girls thought was very important, and she thoughtfully placed the seats of these children in the innermost part of the coffee shop, where there was a wall of flowers blocking them, so no one could see them.

"Okay! Let's start!" Liti said seriously.

"First, light the candle, dry the lily of the valley petals on the flame, put them in water together with the leaves of bergamot, and set aside for later use," Liti said, "Don't drink it, it's poisonous!"

"I'm not a dog, so I don't put everything in my mouth," Maya protested, but she seemed to want to taste it. "Where are the roses? Do you want to put them in too?"

"No, that's used to deceive Ms. Ruxiang." Liti said thoughtfully.

"Then we use salt to sprinkle the pattern of summoning little monsters on the paper, so that they can spy on our enemies for us," Liti said, and first drew a magic circle on the sticky note she carried with a pen.

Then she handed the salt shaker to Enliss: "This step must be done by you, because you are the person involved."

Enlis took the salt shaker.

"Maybe this step is a bit difficult to operate, but try to do it as quickly as possible, and it must be done before the candle burns out." Liti said.

Enlis did it right once.

"As expected of Enliss," Liti said, she held up the mirror, "Now, put the magic circle sprinkled with salt on the candle, and recall the appearance of your enemy—"

Enlis did as Liti said, showing an expression of reminiscence.

Litty pointed the mirror at the candle that was smoking, and while muttering something in her mouth with incomprehensible incantations, she adjusted the direction of the mirror, shining the candlelight into the two teacups on one side .

Immediately, two patterns of magic circles appeared on the sparkling water surface of the teacup.

Then the pattern, as if burning, turned into the faces of the two men the girls had just met.

"Wow~ wow!" Maya exclaimed.

But it wasn't just this that surprised her the most, she heard the reflection in the water glass talking to herself:

"...So, all failed?"

"That's right! That black robe refused to sell the beta version of the game table! The official version of the game table is not only expensive, but has already been ordered by the Roy family's lady, and there is no stock at all!"

"Then wouldn't it be better to just use the leased one?"

"Leasing is not possible, leasing must sign a magic contract. If you dismantle it casually, you will be backlashed by the contract!"

"Can't someone find someone to terminate the contract?"

"That's the contract of a mid-level mage! We've had people read it, and it can only be canceled by a high-level mage who specializes in rune literature! Do you know how high that kind of mage's asking price is? Just helping to identify it is equivalent to Bought five official game tables! Not to mention dismantling, we might as well wait for the goods to arrive!"

"So you gave up?"

"Peppa's family gave up, and there are a few others who are similar to him who want to give up too! Anyway, leasing can also be used, and the cost is still low, why do you have to buy it?"

"You really..."

Hearing the gnashing of teeth in the teacup, Enlis was relieved.

"It seems that they have nothing to do with that black wizard!" Maya laughed.

"Yes, everything is in Mr. Angel's calculation." Enlis said briskly.

Liti made a silent movement, allowing the conversation in the water glass to continue:

"... Forget it, you hopeless guys! At this point, let's increase the rental of game tables!"

"Huh? Increase?"

"That's right! The boy in the alchemy workshop is obviously getting carried away. He wants to fill the entire city with game tables, and he doesn't want to see if he can get back his money! So we try to give him an order and see when his capital chain breaks!"

Enlis frowned upon hearing this.

This method is the same as the wand.

"Enlis, is it alright?" Liti asked worriedly.

"It's okay, these things are in Mr. Angel's plan." Enliss said.

Liti nodded, but she didn't put down the mirror, only to see the head in the water glass shaking, as if the scene was changed, and the conversation continued:

"What's going on? Yixue wants to wholesale a large number of game tables?!"

"Uh, it hasn't reached the point of mass wholesale... I heard that two old guys, Owen and Hume, were responsible for the trouble. They went to the opening ceremony of the magic gear and thought that the game table is very good for raising children's interest in magic. So get ready to experiment."

"That's almost the same as preparing for wholesale, right?!"

The voice of the man in the water glass became louder: "With the order from the school! How many alchemy workshops can be revived!"

"Calm down! The situation is not that bad." The third voice interrupted politely.

Enlis sat up straight at once.

She felt that the voice was a bit familiar, and she had only heard it somewhere recently.

The voice said: "I think this is an opportunity instead."

"Chance?"

"You see, whether or not a game table raises children's enthusiasm for magic, it's always a 'game'! A game that's being played by everyone on the street, and we can get the papers to cover it more, say' How much money does someone spend on the game table?" "Someone is addicted to games and stays around the game table in the middle of the night" to form public opinion first... and the mayor and the branch president of the Magic Association want to put this "game table" in the school Wouldn't it be ridiculous to try it out?"

"Um--"

Enlis grasped her skirt tightly upon hearing this.

"How could they do this?!"

And Maya jumped up from the chair directly, her action hit the table, smashed the head in the water glass, and completely disappeared the conversation in the water glass.

Maya didn't care about this, she shouted to Enliss: "So the school is going to let us play the game table... No, in this way, won't we be unable to play at school?!"

"Not only that, if the disadvantages of the game table are everywhere, my mother will definitely not let me go to the workshop in the future." Liti also immediately thought of the consequences.

"No! They must not be allowed to do this!"

Maya grabbed Enlis's hand and said, "You must tell that dark wizard about this, and let him stop those villains!"

"I know!"

Enlis nodded solemnly.

Enlis did not eat the crepe in the end.

With a great sense of mission, she hurried back to the workshop, and saw Angel with bloodstains all over his face and small paw prints with ink.

"Mr. Angel?" Enlis was taken aback by Angel's appearance.

"It's okay, I settled the bill with Mithril." Angel reassured her.

How do you make the accounts like this?

Enlis thought strangely, but she had no time to ask this.

Recalling what she had heard before, Enlis said anxiously: "By the way, Mr. Angel, I have something to-"

"By the way, I saw that you are reading the basics of runes recently, so can you write the first rune '_'?" Angel suddenly asked, "Show me a gesture?"

"But?" Enlis asked, "The first rune...?"

Basically, Enliss couldn't bear to disobey any of Angel's requests. Although she was anxious, she obediently wrote the rune that Angel requested in the air.

The runes she wrote left shining traces in the air, and then a square frame jumped out, inside which was a grid made up of densely packed square frames, filled with runes.

"Hey, doesn't this use a game table?" Enlis was taken aback, "Also, are these runes meant to be written?"

"No, you just need to find the same outermost runes and connect them," Angel said.

He demonstrated that he found two identical runes and linked them together.

The runes uttered their syllables, then exploded in flames, and they all perished.

Enlis stared at this scene dumbfounded, and subconsciously wanted to find another two identical runes to connect.

"This is actually a little game called Lianliankan... No, it's a learning method called Lianliankan to identify runes," Angel said, "There are 2876 runes in total. It must be very troublesome to learn, so This may increase your enthusiasm for identifying runes."

It doesn't matter if you can't improve your enthusiasm for learning. When you concentrate on playing Lianliankan, you will also generate a lot of magic power.

And these magic powers will be recycled through the magic power base station.

When Angor said this, he glanced at Mithril angrily: "Because the Shoucai Mao refuses to budget for the base station, I had no choice but to open the network in the workshop first, so that everyone can experience the benefits of the magic network."

"Hmph!" Mithril turned her head away.

"Enlis, what do you think?" Angel asked cautiously.

Enlis stared blankly at the "learning method" in front of her, and smiled: "...It's very powerful, Mr. Angel is indeed very powerful! No tricks are effective against Mr. Angel!"