Chapter 866 Invitation

"call……………"

After bathing, Mary changed her clothes and walked out of the room and came to the living room. She flipped through the notebook in her hand and thought carefully about the subject matter of the next new book - this was also Mary's habit. Although her adventure with Duanmu Huai was indeed thrilling, from the perspective of literary and artistic works, it was still It requires some artistic processing. Many times, Mary made up a story and substituted it into the materials she collected.

After all - this story is purely fictitious and any similarity is purely coincidental.

For example, in the story about ghouls, she would also hide the name of the city where she was located, and organizations like the Countermeasures Bureau would also change their names. After all, many things are confidential, and even if everyone knows it, you can't write it out directly. In any case, if you write it out, you still need authorization from the other party, but many times this is very difficult...

"Hello, Mary."

Ann's voice sounded, and Mary looked up, only to see her, Gu Leiya, Lorena and others walking into the living room with teacups in their hands, smiling and waving to herself.

"Thank you for your hard work, are you sorting out the materials again?"

"Well, that's right..."

"Where did you and Mr. Knight go this time? What kind of monsters did they encounter?"

Hearing Mary's answer, An came over excitedly, while the other girls were also looking at Mary curiously. It’s no wonder they had this reaction, because only Duanmuhuai could go to Mary’s world, and others were strictly prohibited from entering. And more importantly, Mary is a writer, and she will write the entire story in a book and publish it... This ability is the only one in the Tribunal.

In Ann's words, her narration was basically "Mr. Knight and I went somewhere, encountered super disgusting monsters, and then I killed them all with a magic 'bang'."

Basically nothing was said.

So for the girls in the Inquisition, it was interesting to listen to Mary tell stories.

And Mary did not disappoint them. She quickly told her experience this time. After listening to Mary's story, everyone couldn't help but sigh.

"Vampires, werewolves, and ghouls who eat humans for a living... Hey, if there were these races in Manalia, I would also find it very difficult."

Ann crossed her arms and sighed helplessly, while Lorena thought for a moment and looked at Mary.

"Miss Mary, in your opinion, do those ghouls... really deserve to die?"

"As far as I'm concerned? To be honest, I can understand their desire to survive, but it's a pity that these ghouls eat people, and they only rely on eating people to survive - so although they did show some touching things, Thoughts, but I think their final outcome is this.”

"………………"

After hearing Mary's answer, the girls were also silent. To be honest, they have read a lot of stories about Mary's world. It is not as complex as the Mech Universe, nor as grand and gorgeous as Forerunner or Reaper, but the human entanglements hidden in it do make people hesitate. For example, like Mary The little ghoul girl mentioned, if they were there, they might not necessarily take action... Although I know what Mary said, but...

Fortunately, they don't have to face this choice.

It has to be said that the girls were relieved in their hearts. Although they had been to many worlds with Duanmu Huai, the only world that was so difficult was the world where Mary was. Fortunately, Duanmu Huai didn't let them follow, otherwise they wouldn't know what they would do.

For a moment, the atmosphere couldn't help but become solemn.

"Ah, forget it, let's not talk about this anymore."

An clapped her hands vigorously to dispel the somewhat heavy atmosphere.

"Tell me something interesting. Did you and Mr. Knight ever date in that world?"

"Dating?"

"That's right, we should go out together, have dinner together and so on."

"Let's have dinner together..."

Hearing Ann's question, Mary silently turned her head and looked out the window - where, illuminated by the brilliance of stars, the star rings outside were clearly visible.

"Indeed, Mr. Duanmu invited me to a hotel for dinner. I heard that the chef in that restaurant is very skilled."

"Oh oh oh, what then?"

"Then...he ate ten steaks, drank two bottles of red wine and several meals..."

"……………………"

Hearing Mary's calm reply, the other girls who had gathered around to listen to the gossip were immediately speechless.

Generally speaking, having dinner together is to enhance the relationship with the woman.

Do you really think this is a buffet dinner?

"Forget it, it was the same when the nobles of Manalia invited him to the banquet. He was obviously surrounded by wealthy ladies who were eager to come forward and talk to him, but in the end, Mr. Knight only focused on the delicious food in front of him..."

An stretched out his hand to hold his forehead and sighed helplessly.

"Mr. Knight, doesn't he have any romantic cells in his mind? He has a lot of violent cells."

Hearing Ann's complaint, Mary did not speak, but returned her gaze to the notebook.

She didn't think Duanmu Huai had any romantic qualities at all. After all, she still remembered that after she got drunk that night, Duan Muhuai stayed with her in her room all night, just because she grabbed his clothes and wouldn't let him go... ...Well, but this is Mary's personal little secret, and there is no need to share it with others.

After all, it was somewhat embarrassing.

In the next few days, Duanmu Huai regained some leisure time. Although he was the judge and the ruler of Arkham City, basically these things would be done by others. Duanmu Huai only needed to look at the report and stamp it. If it was not a particularly troublesome matter, he did not need to deal with it.

As for the black bead, it lay very peacefully in Duanmu Huai's inventory, looking like a useless thing - maybe it was really useless?

Duanmu Huai still remembered that similar things had happened more than once in the game. For example, if a certain task was to expel the devil, the player needed to find the holy book, and then arrange the magic circle according to the holy book, and then expel the devil - this was the regular process.

But some ruthless people were too lazy to arrange the magic circle and directly killed the devil.

Then the holy book is useless, but since the holy book is regarded as a necessary plot prop for expelling demons in this task, it will disappear after creating the magic circle according to the steps, but the player did not create the magic circle, so the holy book was not used, so it could not be discarded or destroyed, and it could only be kept to take up space. Players have complained about this several times, but this BUG has not been fixed.

On the bright side, maybe this bead is actually a task prop for destroying the ghoul, but the ghoul was destroyed, so it was not used?

Well, although Duanmu Huai really wants to think so, it is a pity that it is unlikely—after all, destroying the ghoul did not activate the task at all.

How can there be a task prop?

"Well, that's about it."

Duanmu Huai put the file in his hand aside, then stretched, and now Ogis used his hands and feet to lie on his back again.

"Ojis, do you have to hold me?"

"Yeah."

"Oh... forget it, whatever you want."

Hearing Ojis's answer, Duanmu Huai could only sigh helplessly. Since returning that day, Ojis has basically been like a creeper, always entwined with him. Anyway, Duanmu Huai is tall, and Ojis on him is like a kitten, so there is no big obstacle.

"Ding ding ding......!"

Just then, the communication sound suddenly rang, and then Mia's voice, as innocent and optimistic as always, as if there was no trouble at all, sounded in Duanmu Huai's ears.

"Good morning~~ Master, I have something to report to you~~~"

"What is it?"

"It's Mr. Dardanelle's call, do you want to answer it?"

"Dardanelle? What kind of trouble has he made again?"

Hearing the name of this wandering merchant, Duanmu Huai rolled his eyes speechlessly. In his impression, the other party usually came to him to deal with troubles---well, it was Duanmu Huai who asked him not to call him all the time, so he couldn't blame him.

"Please bring it in."

"Yes~~~"

Soon, the screen flashed in front of him, and then the businessman with a mustache and a shrewd face appeared on the screen in front of Duanmu Huai. Looking at Ogis lying on Duanmu Huai's shoulder, Dardanelle was stunned for a moment, but soon came to his senses and smiled at Duanmu Huai.

"It's great to see that you are still so healthy, Your Excellency the Inquisitor."

"If you have something to say, what trouble did you encounter this time?"

"This... Strictly speaking, it can't be considered a trouble..."

"Hmm?"

"I wonder if the Inquisitor is interested in... attending the banquet?"

"Banquet?"

"That's right..."

While speaking, Dardanelle also explained to Duanmu Huai. The matter still happened in the previous alliance between the High Tower Council and the War Planet and the Demon Planet. At that time, they also sent a message to Duanmu Huai, but Duanmu Huai said that the Inquisition would not intervene in political affairs and directly sent it back.

Now, the four parties including Dardanelle have successfully negotiated and reached an agreement. In simple terms, the planets controlled by Dardanelle will form an alliance with other planets, and Dardanelle's Chamber of Commerce will become the only designated official Chamber of Commerce alliance in this alliance.

If it were in other places, this kind of thing would be difficult to do, but the problem is that the people on those planets were either killed by aliens, demons, or orcs, and there was no formal business organization to find, so Dardanelle naturally accepted the franchise.

Of course, they would hold a banquet to celebrate and then sign a contract at the banquet.

Since the Tribunal has connections with these planets, and Dardanelle also knows that without the Tribunal, he would not be able to achieve what he has today, so he specially invited the Tribunal to attend the banquet.

In addition...

"The Galaxy Business Alliance will also send people to participate..."

"You actually got involved with the people from the Galaxy Business Alliance?"

Hearing this name, Duanmu Huai frowned. The Galaxy Business Alliance is a large-scale commercial organization across galaxies, and it is also a relatively famous commercial alliance organization in this world.

The reason why Duanmu Huai's court did not deal with them is also very simple.

The Galaxy Business Alliance is full of aliens.

In other words, they are all aliens.

They are not ancient races like the Eldar, the Old Saints, the Necrontyr or the Star Gods, nor are they once brilliant civilizations like humans and orcs. Let's put it this way. All the aliens in this alliance are young alien races, that is, races that have grown up in the thousands of years since the destruction of the human empire.

If we use humans as an analogy, the Old Saints are the grandfather generation, the human empire is the older generation, and the alien races in this galaxy business alliance are basically those non-mainstream hooligans who are in the rebellious period of fifteen or sixteen years old and dye their hair in colorful cockscombs and don't know what they are.

Well, in fact, it's almost the same.

Duanmu Huai had never thought of attacking them before, because this alien alliance was too far away from the current territory of the Inquisition, and it was not worth crossing half of the galaxy for it. Moreover, the world of Faerun is still very dangerous now, and it is not good to pick up sesame seeds and throw away watermelons.

But now, they actually delivered themselves to the door?

"You should know the rules of the court."

"Of course I do."

"That's good."

Although Dardanelle didn't say anything, Duanmu Huai already understood that he actually said everything.

"Okay, I know."

Duanmu Huai thought for a moment and nodded.

"I will go to the banquet."