[Comprehensive] Road to Trench

Facts have proved that even if he loses his memory halfway, it still can't stop the master of the mage tower and its butler from having a tacit understanding.

"Now the American side has almost been laid, and the next step is to wait for the sales to gradually increase, and the customer base on the European side is also being established step by step..." Holding the August Taobei sales monthly report compiled by William Butler , Alex compared the purchase volume and focus on purchasing products in various regions, and turned the globe to look for possible business opportunities, "Next..."

The girl glanced across Europe and leaped to the far east.

The connection between the wizarding world and ordinary people's world should be said to be estranged, but it is not far away. At least, when a country is strong, the development of its own wizarding world will not be far behind.

Russia, Japan, Korea, and…

Alex's eyes fell on the country shaped like a rooster.

This year is 1992.

She blinked.

If I remember correctly, there will be a speech on the Southern Tour at the end of the year... (Hey, what is the Southern Tour?)

Dissatisfied with the master's distraction, the majestic butler of the mage tower did not say a word, but just watched his master quietly, and the invisible sense of oppression filled the space.

"...Okay, okay, I got it!" Alex, who originally planned to wait until Christmas to settle the matter, raised his hand and surrendered, "I will apparate to the East tomorrow."

After receiving a satisfactory answer, Butler William put away his coercion and drifted away, leaving the silver-haired mage thinking sadly. Among the people I know, who knows the current situation of the Eastern wizarding world and can be her Eastern guide. of……

Alex went through his social circle, and the result was that in the next few days, Bucky was surprised to find that his little girl suddenly seemed to be a different person, and she no longer stayed at home except to go out to Agana. Instead, I go out briskly with a shoulder bag after breakfast every morning, and don't return with obvious fatigue until nightfall.

Although he was a little puzzled, Bucky didn't delve into what Alex was doing. The child had her own opinions, and he believed that she could handle them well.

But if he knew what his little girl was doing these days, he might not be able to be so relieved: jet lag of seven hours in a row for a week, almost completely compressing sleep time, even adults can't stand it, let alone children!

It was still very late at night in London, England. Alex, who had just laid down and closed his eyes for four or five hours, opened his eyes. Without turning on the light, he changed his clothes lightly by the moonlight on the window sill, and took out the simple copper The key was inserted in mid-air.

Silently, the huge mage tower gate appeared in front of her. Alex pulled out the key and stepped into it. The tower gate closed automatically and dissipated into the air.

At the same time, the flower growers in the East Eighth District have welcomed the gentle yet warm sunshine in the morning. When passing through another exit in the Mage Tower, Alex closed his eyes in advance to avoid being caught by the sudden brilliant sunshine. Sunlight can irritate the eyes.

But when she arrived at the destination, she did not encounter the bright sunlight that she could still feel through her closed eyelids as expected.

Opening his eyes in doubt, Alex was surprised to find that his destination - a hotel room, was completely pitch black.

No, it can't be said to be pitch black, it should be that the direction she is facing is pitch black - the curtains with good light-shielding properties are tightly drawn, firmly blocking the sunlight out of the window.

Only the soft light in the adjacent bathroom let her know that she was not in a certain time zone in the middle of the night.

Due to the existence of Zongsi, a tracking magic targeting minors, and being in a community of ordinary people with few wizards, Sirius, the only adult wizard within a kilometer radius, took Harry to his I live in an old house, and I don’t live upstairs, which means that if Alex uses some kind of magic, he can’t even find someone who is responsible for it... Cough cough... In short, the convenient and fast apparition is impossible. It was used, but she needed to go back and forth between the two places many times in a short period of time, so after much deliberation, the final solution was another key to the Mage Tower.

Alex used the remaining materials at hand to make a third key with access to the Mage Tower, and handed it to Mihail who accompanied her to the Flower Planter.

Unlike her, who needs to go back in order to avoid worrying her family because of her sudden disappearance, Mihail moves very freely, it seems that because his parents are not at home all the year round - Alex and Mihail are on video with each other on the bark He agreed immediately, and in the next second, another adult male almost screamed, "My lord, if you do this again, I'm going to tell Lord Gellert!" Alex was about to ask if he was in trouble, but Mikhail had calmly turned around. The head smiled and said: "You tell me, anyway, he can't come out to attack me."

Unlike the English in the conversation just now, he said this sentence in another language.

Unknown male: "..."

Alex: "... Mihail, you can actually speak Chinese?" And you even know the dialect words "恐" and use them so accurately!

After all, even she in her previous life knew the meaning of this dialect only because of the popularity of the sentence pattern of "啊" on the Internet.

Mihail, a German, can understand the local dialect better than her white-skinned and yellow-core flower-growing family, she couldn't allow her to be surprised.

"If you can't even speak Chinese, how can I be your tour guide?" The blond boy's smile was brighter than that of the sun god, and he kept this smile and looked at a person who was not in the video screen next to him and said, " Let him come out and talk to me about whether you hate me or not."

She didn't know if the unknown man vomited blood, she only knew that she was more surprised that it was Michael who accompanied her to the flower planter than anything else.

She originally wanted to ask Mihaier if there was anyone around him who knew more about the current situation of the flower planters—after all, after a summer vacation, she had more or less noticed that Mihail's identity was unusual. From the sales and popularity in Europe (outside the UK), we can know that it is not easy for Mihail himself and the power behind him to promote the popularization and development of a new thing so quickly.

Of course, what happened later proved that it was very correct for Mihail to recommend himself as her tour guide: for some reason, Mihail had a very deep understanding of florists, and many of them only learned from those who had become old. He is clear about the things that he vaguely remembers in his memory.When cooperating with the local wizard community of the florists—since the florists themselves haven’t unified the domestic appellations for non-ordinary people, so they temporarily borrow foreign concepts—without Mihail’s help, Alex felt that he was understanding It will take more than half a year for the florists and wizards to form.

Not to mention negotiating a preliminary cooperation contract as quickly as it is now - but speaking of being able to complete the drafting of the preliminary contract so quickly, Mihail's "uncle's old friends" who seem to know the laws of the wizarding world are one of the reasons. We are currently in a stage of rushing to attract investment, which is also an extremely important factor... Alex knows intuitively that if he misses this period of time, if he wants to get such good preferential policies and official support like now, I'm afraid It's not that easy...

After recovering from the memories that only happened a day or two ago, but seemed to have passed inexplicably for a long time, Alex opened the curtains, and the bright sunlight immediately fell.

It was difficult for her eyes adapted to the darkness to accept such stimulation, and she subconsciously narrowed her eyes, but she couldn't help but want to open them to look more carefully:

Because, it's... warm.

She remembered that she didn't close the curtains before she left the room yesterday, and there would be no one who closed the curtains after she left, thinking that she might not be used to the light when she came the next day. .

Even with the strong support from the government and the friendly support of legal counsel from both Tony and Mihail to help perfect the cooperation contract, Taobei and Wang Wang's entry into the Flower Planter and Wizardry World was barely completed before Alex started school.

Two or three days before the start of school, the contract was finally signed, and the next step was the supply (the source of the supply will be handed over to the construction puppets in the mage tower) and sales. Anyway, the most difficult time has passed. With the newly announced contract, Alex let out a long sigh of relief.

"Since we're done with our business, why don't we go play for a while?" Mihail, who had been secretly planning a two-person tour for a long time, suppressed his subordinate saints and kicked out the contract within the time limit that made people vomit blood. Taking the opportunity to suggest, "It's rare to come here. There are too many things to see in the 5000-year history... There are also many things to eat, such as donkey rolls, crystal cakes, steamed buns, sliced ​​noodles, mutton, steamed buns, fried eel noodles..."

He reported a bunch of them in one breath, and Alex was taken aback for a while: ... Did this cross talk master learn the names of the dishes he reported?

Although I can think of the delicious food in my memory just by listening to the name, and even which store is more delicious, but after thinking about it seriously, Alex still swallowed the overflowing saliva and reluctantly refused the temptation: "No Time... I have to write a new rune matrix, there is no floo network here, I have to make a new teleportation circle with local characteristics."

"Miss Barnes doesn't need to worry about this. We also have our own... Well, in your terms, is it express delivery? We also have our own means of express delivery!" Just after signing the contract, seeing the political achievements in hand, so The man who introduced himself as Taoist Zhang smiled and said, "For example, the five ghosts carry Dafa. People in the world have misunderstood this. They think it is to remove wealth. In fact, it is a usage figured out by those crooked ways. , this Taoism was originally used to help move things. In addition, puppetry, spreading beans into soldiers, etc. can be used to do these things, and there are many chores in the cave that need to be dealt with..."

Although Taoist Zhang didn't make it very clear, both Alex and Mihail heard what he meant: ordinary people think that these Taoisms are used to fight against the enemy, but in fact...they are very similar to those of the Western wizarding world. The "cleaned up" is a status...

It can be seen that laziness is a common problem in the eastern and western witchcraft circles. In this regard, the eastern wizards are obviously better than their western counterparts. After all, western wizards have to shake their wands and try to clean up. Every family can have it, and the oriental wizards are powerful. If you come to any of them, you can go to sleep by yourself and leave the summoned ghosts/puppets/ The ghosts and gods take care of the housework... ahem...

Alex thought about it carefully. Different countries have different methods. The Western Floo network is well established. Everyone is used to friends appearing directly in the family space like the living room, so you can open a network similar to the Floo network to directly transfer things Send it to the target person, and the other party will not be disgusted.

But flower growers are different. Few people would like someone to be able to send things directly to their personal private space anytime, anywhere—especially the Taoist priests of flower growers like to put some ecstasy array at their door so that people can't get in. It can be seen that the protection of one's own private space...By the way, one of the reasons why Alex needs a new research system is to solve the problem of shielding Taobei's positioning by various formations...

Alex nodded after he understood: "In this case, let the flower growers solve this part themselves! But we also have to consider that if someone is too lazy to receive the package, they are willing to send the goods directly to them. Well ...Considering privacy issues, and if there is a kind of Huajia Daoshu express delivery, Taobei location is not required for delivery, so Taobei settings must be modified..." Alex thought for a while, and said, "I need Modify Taobei’s built-in system, and change the positioning to be automatically turned on or off, so that if someone wants to deliver directly to the hand, set it to on, otherwise turn it off, what do you think?”

Zhang Daoren thinks about it too. According to the tendency of those guys to stay in the house and stay in the house, the possibility of what this little girl said is not sure, it is quite high...

After discussing this point, Alex remembered his friends around him, and immediately apologized embarrassedly: "I'm sorry Mihail, I don't think I will have time to accompany you to play and taste special snacks in the next time ...Why don't you ask Mr. Zhang's disciples to accompany you, I think they should be happy to entertain you."

No, I didn't do it just to go out to play... The boy with a particularly complicated mood sighed in his heart, told himself to take his time, and then shrugged: "Although I think it's a good experience for me to eat alone, but it's better than eating alone." From this point of view, I hope to experience that joy together with you, Alex... Do you need me to find someone to help you with the magic matrix?" He was thinking in his heart if he could squeeze the abilities of the saints, would he be able to do so at the beginning of the school year? Squeeze out a day or even a day and a half of rest time before...

(Everyone in the Institute of Saints in Germany: Why do you suddenly feel chills down your spine? Could it be that they laughed at the colleagues of the Ministry of Political Science and Law for working overtime every day and caused them to collectively curse?)

Alex's eyes lit up, but he reluctantly rejected this very tempting suggestion immediately: "No... Mikhail, you have helped me a lot, that's enough, I have to do it myself."

Mikhail sighed slightly because his current relationship with Alex was not close enough for her to accept all his help without any grievances, and quickly adjusted his mood: "Well, I think you will be sure when school starts. If we're free, let's find a weekend to go to Hogsmeade!"

Alex just wanted to nod, but immediately realized something was wrong: "After school starts?"

She stared at the blond boy closely: Michael was a student of Durmstrang, why did he think he could go to Hogsmeade with her at Hogwarts after school started?

For a moment, Alex thought a lot.

Inexplicably, the Weasley twins' list floated before his eyes.

The dress robes that I need to prepare, but I didn't need before...

"Next semester..." Alex stared into Mikhail's eyes, tentatively said slowly, and deduced whether it was correct based on Mikhail's reaction to the key words she uttered - this was when he was an illithid. It's good at, "There's a big event...? Something to do with Durmstrang? Grand, event?"

all hit.

Alex's powers of observation and deduction are still so powerful... Mihail, who had never expected and never tried to hide anything from Alex, even though he had a helpless smile of being guessed on his face, his heart was full of fear because of the familiar feeling. The tone became lively: "Okay... I originally wanted to give you a surprise, since you guessed it..."

He immediately talked about the Triwizard Tournament.

Alex's fingers tapped the tabletop quickly and rhythmically, which was her habit of thinking recently: "You mean, this is a competition that attracts the attention of the wizarding world?"

"Yes, it was founded to show the strength of the three major universities in Europe. This is equivalent to a demonstration of successor power, so the attention is very high."

High attention... The movement of fingers tapping on the table did not stop.

"Will there be a report from the Ministry of Magic?"

"Of course, the Ministry of Magic will have an exclusive report at that time, including an exclusive interview with the warriors of the three major schools." Mihail said, he felt that Alex didn't ask this to know these things, but he really couldn't guess what she was thinking. I can only vaguely feel that Alex is planning something...

In other words, it is traditional paper media reports...

There is no immediate live report, and the public can only get news from newspapers by buying newspapers...

The school is closed, so no one can see the competition except the students and teachers who come together with the organizer and the participating schools, and the relevant officials who plan to hold the competition...

The fingers tapping on the table stopped abruptly, and Alex quickly gave Mihaier a hug: "My God! Why didn't you tell me about this earlier, Mihail!" She got up almost immediately, "Now I But some are busy!"

Mihail, who inexplicably got a hug and ended before he had time to recollect it: "...can you tell me what you thought of?"

At least let me know where I did wrong!

"No, you didn't do anything wrong! It's better to say that you did a great job!" Alex, who had already rushed to his room with his backpack in his hands, hurriedly turned around, "And if I don't seize this opportunity, William will not let it go I... I will come to you when I think everything through! Without your help, my idea would not be possible!"

Hearing that he would not be excluded, Mihaier breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and saw Zhang Daoren with a smiling face, "It seems interesting but I don't seem to understand it, but I still understand it."

Michael: ...you're still here! ?

"Sorry, may I ask...the one you mentioned just now, the Triwizard Tournament..." Zhang Daoren tried his best to keep a smile on his face. It’s useful, these two foreigners speak Chinese better than the natives, even the contract is all in Chinese), the dialogue he heard this time is also in Chinese, he can understand every word, but he can’t understand how to put them together What do you mean?

"I would like to ask, is this Triwizard Tournament only for the participation of Hogwarts, Durmstrang, and Beauxbatons?" Zhang Daoren asked cautiously.

Mikhail nodded, not understanding what he wanted to ask, but what Alex had told him made him vaguely understand something.

Even her illithid appearance couldn't hide the pride that filled her from the bottom of her heart when it came to the glory she achieved in those international competitions.

With honor, she said so.

She said that in that world, she had never encountered such a supernatural existence as magic, and the theme of the world was peace, which meant that war could only be a last resort.Under such circumstances, in what ways should a country's prosperity be reflected?

The most prominent thing is the economy, but there is nothing easier and more real than those numbers to make people feel the indescribable excitement and tangible glory, and really feel the fact that "we are rising" than when the country's Athletes and athletes from other countries are on the same field, when they compete on the same stage, they overwhelm each other and win.

When the national flag that can be drawn with eyes closed is flying at the highest point of the arena, when the familiar national anthem is echoing on the arena, when the athletes are wearing the national flag and standing on the highest podium, watching the national flag and singing the national anthem in time, watching all No matter where they come from, no matter which country, as long as they are in this arena, their voices are silent, listening to the powerful and unyielding roar of people from that era that has passed...

There is nothing better than this scene to announce to the world: we are back!

It's not just the spirit that strengthens, but also the body!

Today, there is magic in this world, but some things remain the same.

"I'm sorry, but the schools participating in the Triwizard Tournament are limited to those three schools. This is determined by the oldest contract magic, because there were only those three schools in that era, and at the same time, they were also the three best schools in Europe. .Compared with the various magic schools in Europe and America, the qualifications for the Triwizard Tournament are too narrow..." Mihail said regretfully, "The wizarding world in your country has a very long history. In terms of accumulation, your country will not be inferior to the wizarding world of any other country, but your country has been closed for too long, and the information exchange with the Western wizarding world is not..."

Michael suddenly stopped.

When he said this, Zhang Daoren, who was waiting for him to continue, looked over suspiciously, not understanding why this young man who seemed to know his background from an extraordinary background suddenly stopped talking.

Regardless of explaining, Mikhail has subconsciously looked in the direction where Alex is.

He felt that he vaguely guessed Alex's thoughts.

Not long after, it was time to start school.

After saying goodbye to Bucky, Alex pushed his suitcase, and Agana beside him was so excited that he rushed to the ticket gate first, and the familiar red steam train appeared in front of him again.

Skillfully using the floating spell to put the luggage on the shelf, Alex took out a stack of contract papers, and continued yesterday's work before the train left, checking each item one by one.

Other things in the wizarding world are fine, but there are very few talents in finance and law. She asked Tony to draft the cooperation contract, and asked professionals from the Stark Group to do it.

Agana jumped onto the seat with light movements, and lay down beside the little master, with his big head on the girl's lap.

Alex patted its head with one hand, and the other held a pen to compare the key points of the contract one by one.

When the car body shook, the long siren sounded, the motionless scenery outside the window began to move backwards, and the train slowly drove out of the station, Alex suddenly woke up.

Rubbing her temples, she threw the contract back into her schoolbag and yawned.

Why in the world is there such a thing as jet lag?

Thinking of the seven-hour jet lag, Alex began to complain: the sun has risen in the east when England is still midnight... Is there anything more irritable than not being able to sleep well?

There may be fewer freshmen this year, and Alex was looking for a box located in the last few compartments of the carriage. Until now, no one came to knock on the door when the train started, so she simply took out a thin blanket and a small pillow from the suitcase. Fall back to sleep.

In the dilapidated house covered with weeds, the black-haired man stood in front of the protective circle that had been destroyed and almost completely collapsed. He saw that the box that was originally protected inside was opened and was empty.

Crack... somewhere the old house could not withstand the soaring magic pressure and broke.

He suddenly came back to his senses, snorted coldly, walked out of the room with big strides and disapparated.

The locket was replaced by someone, Nagini didn't know where it was, and who took the ring away, the notebook was in Malfoy's place, the gold cup was given to Bellatrix for safekeeping...but Bella was caught Entering Azkaban, then the gold cup should be in the vault of the Lestrange family...

Just after his figure disappeared from the door, the whole room suddenly collapsed, burying everything here.

Alex suddenly woke up from his sleep.

The early warning magic circle she left in the Gaunt family's old house was destroyed due to the collapse of the attachment.

Standing up straight from the car seat, brushing the hair hanging in front of his eyes behind his ears, Alex said in a deep voice, "Actulus."

The demon hunter appeared from the air, bowed slightly, and then disappeared from the air. After receiving the order, the demon hunter, who had the telepathic ability with the partner, set out to investigate the situation in the old house of the Gaunt family. The reason for the collapse.

It would be fine if it collapsed naturally, but if it wasn't... Alex's eyes darkened when he thought of the dilapidated old house that had been maintained for more than ten years when he went to see it last time.

Look at the time again, just lying down for less than 5 minutes.

She lost sleepiness after this interruption, so she simply put away the pillow and blanket.

While the blanket was being folded, the shell necklace she took off and put aside lit up.

Agana pressed his paw on the pendant scallop, and connected the other party's request for dialogue.

"Alex." A projection of Michael with three heads and a height of ten centimeters appeared on the scallop.

"Ah, Michael, you came just in time!" Alex put the folded blanket aside, took out the document just now, and pressed Taobei's teleport button to pass it over, "The contract has been passed on to you, the Ministry of Magic You still have to deal with it, I hope there will be time."

"Don't worry," a scaled-down document appeared in the Q version villain's hand. He looked down and flipped through it while saying, "The Goblet of Fire will arrive at Hogwarts in two months, we will have time."

"Not necessarily... If you want to support the new system, the existing network is not enough, I need to upgrade the network, but in this way, the cost of research and development and maintenance will increase... A payment model must be opened, but I am not sure Will the launch of the paid model at that time cause a rebound and resistance from the user base." Alex frowned, after all, it has been free until now.

"You're digging into a dead end, Alex." Mikhail didn't seem worried about this at all. "The premise of boycotting is that they can find a second similar product."

"The premise of looking for similar products is that this product is necessary for life." Alex grabbed a piece of parchment anxiously and scribbled something on it, "Give me five years and I can guarantee that Taobei is more than [-]% Necessities in the life of wizards, but now I don’t dare to think about it. Forget about it, anyway, you have to pay for death or life...” Thinking of the personal inventory that will be used next (that was her previous life as a spiritual suction Strange collection!), and the black face from the head steward of the mage tower, the silver-haired girl shivered subconsciously.

If there is no double or even triple return, William will definitely tear her up!

The butler of the Void Tower has never been cowardly, and there is no pressure to fight people, even if it is its master standing opposite it.

"Where are the contestants?"

"It will be announced together with the entry conditions as a supplementary condition. Both Beauxbatons and Hogwarts have indicated that there is no problem. After all, they are helping to expand their reputation. Our principal will not refuse." After quickly flipping through the contract, he raised his head , with a bright smile, "No problem... just wait until October 10."

By the time……

He thought of Alex and the various measures he had detailed, and said seriously: "Alex, believe me, you are changing the way of life in the wizarding world that has remained unchanged for hundreds of years."

Moreover, no one can resist this change.