Chapter 288 New Colleagues

Russell waited in the office until almost noon when he heard a knock on the door.

He reached out and pointed into the void, using the temporary authority granted to him by Delphinium to open the door.

"Sorry Mr. Ultramarine - we're late!"

The panicked voice of the Paradise Bird came from the door: "I'm really sorry for keeping you waiting for so long!"

"Ah, it's okay."

Russell sat in the delphinium's seat, and his tone was as calm and gentle as the delphinium: "I have nothing to do today... sit down first, three of you."

This is a lie.

He is unusually busy today. Normally, I wouldn't be as busy as these two days in a month.

But there is no need to tell the kid Paradise Bird about this kind of thing... Since Paradise Bird is already late, talking about this kind of thing will only add to the distress and guilt of the little pigeon.

and……

Russell glanced over and knew that Delphinium's jealousy was probably due to loneliness.

Because following the Paradise Bird were two men with haloes above their heads.

The bishop was accompanied by two angels, which was not even at the level of "business" - this was probably the standard of the cardinal's order.

Fortunately, those two angels are considered "local angels". We have been getting along with Russell for two months, and our relationship is relatively harmonious, so Russell does not feel any pressure.

One of them has a black halo - that is "ignorance". He has a rare black aura, which is said to be a very rare talent among angels.

From the waist down, there are snake tails and pure black matte long hair. In terms of temperament and appearance, it will remind people of classical and feminine women.

He always smiles gently, and because his eyes are scary and his eyesight is extremely low, he always wears glasses and squints.

The other one is a famous lazy dog. His codename is "Horn."

On his head is a light yellow halo that reminds people of "earth".

That was a man with a canine kinship. His pupils are light brown, indistinguishable from those of a wolf, and he also has wolf ears and a low-hanging wolf tail.

Russell knew that although the other party's psychic disease appeared to be mild. But it's actually considered moderate - because his pupils are really the same as those of a wolf. Therefore, the eyesight is much lower than that of ordinary humans.

When he saw Russell, he couldn't help but yawned greatly.

While yawning, he waved to Russell in advance: “Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh… Morning.”

"It's half past eleven, brother."

Russell was speechless for a moment: "What time did you go to bed last night?"

"Didn't sleep."

Horn rubbed his eyes and said in a sleepy voice: "I'll finish my work and go back to catch up on some sleep."

"...What big thing could keep you up all night?"

Russell's expression suddenly became serious: "I remember you are a guardian angel?"

"It's the variety show "Quick, Quick, Quick Escape", which is pretty good."

The big white wolf sat down on the sofa and said lazily: "I watched the third season from the first season last night, and I didn't sleep all night. Let me tell you, it's really good."

After that, the Paradise Bird sat next to him very reservedly. Wuming, on the other hand, moved to the other side by himself.

"The one where eight people are found to escape from different agency secret rooms within a limited time in each issue?"

Russell reacted immediately after hearing the description of the horn: "You are quite lucky then. The fourth season is not good, I suggest skipping to the fifth season. I don't think the new mechanism added in the fourth season will work... It was quite novel the first time that there was a mole from the organizer in the team to interfere with the escape, but later I found that the routines were all the same, and it would only make people bored after seeing it too much. Fortunately, the audience voted with their feet. , the support for removing this mechanism was as high as 86%, so the fifth season was directly canceled.”

Instead, Horn was stunned for a moment: "Hey, you actually know?"

"Well, that variety show is under the control of the emperor. He even invited me to participate."

"Aren't you going? I remember that the bonus is a floating car. Don't you still have a car?"

"I don't want a car. If I buy a car and learn how to drive, I might be arrested and become a driver."

Russell confidently poured himself a glass of iced Coke: "Mao Mao, I just need to huddle in the back and play games... If I really want to go out, there are plenty of people to give me a ride."

The horn was suddenly startled: "It makes sense! It seems to be true. Whoever learns to drive or owns a car in a group must drive..."

"Right?"

"But you're too late, I've already finished studying..."

"Then next time you go out, you will drive."

After Russell finished chatting with Lazy Dog, he greeted Wu Ming familiarly: "By the way, Wu Ming... have you bought your prosthetic eyes? If you do, remember to ask me to help you install them. The technology is not reliable either. Charge - I installed Delphinium's new prosthetic body for her. After all, the eyes are not like arms and legs, and the technical difficulty of perfect nerve connection is still quite high... Don't be embarrassed to trouble me. I’ll tickle you then.”

"Don't be in a hurry, just save money slowly."

Wu Ming said slowly: "I will definitely come to you after I have saved enough. I have already thought about the gift I will give you when the time comes."

He always has a special temperament, like the natural cool breeze blowing in the summer, which can calm people's anxious mood: "But there are some extra flowers recently, so I may have to slow down."

"...Hey, what did you buy?"

Can ignorance with such low desires still have big flowers?

"He donated all the bounty money he received from the company after wiping out the gangs in the Lower City."

The horn said lazily, grinned in front of Russell's gaze, made a thumbs-up gesture with his right hand, and said in a weird voice: "All of us have donated everything, so we are penniless!"

"Ah, as expected of you."

Russell smiled helplessly: "I almost guessed half of it."

According to the moral standards of angels, they indeed cannot accept "money in exchange for human heads."

Even if the person killed is a villain, a murderer or a mage.

But at the time, Russell thought they would reject it or give the money to the church... but ended up donating it directly?

"Who have they donated to?"

"It's different. I donated it to an elementary school, and Wuming donated it to a nursing home..."

The horn waved his hand: "As for the prosthetic eyes, slowly save money. We have all found jobs now."

"……Work?"

Russell was stunned for a moment: "Are you planning to stay on Happy Island?"

"This is what we have to say to you, Bishop!"

As he said that, the horn slapped the Paradise Bird next to him on the back hard and made a crisp snap.

"Don't try so hard, horn."

"Be gentle, brother, don't break the child."

Wu Ming and Russell complained at the same time.

"Sorry sorry..."

After the horn shot, I immediately felt something was wrong. I lowered my crossed legs and drooped my ears: "Bishop...does it hurt if I slap you?"

"No, it's okay..."

Although Paradise Bird felt burning pain in her back, and even a little swollen, she still showed a relaxed smile to comfort the horn: "It's okay."

Immediately, she looked at Russell.

After their eyes met, she nodded slightly and said seriously and slowly: "That's it, Mr. Ultramarine..."

"The church has heard about the 'Godfather' appearing in Lower City. They think this is a new unstable factor and require angels to stay here to wipe out and eradicate the Godfather and his affiliated forces... For this reason The church is willing to give us higher authority and achieve in-depth cooperation with the company..."

Paradise Bird knows that "Ultramarine" is the "Godfather".

But she obviously didn't betray Russell.

Even though the angels around her are all friends of Russell, she is still trying to inform Russell in a way that does not attract their attention.

Translated, what she said means that the church believes that the so-called "godfathers" and "family" still belong to the mages.

The victory in the annihilation in Xiacheng District came too easily, and they doubted how much water there was in it. At this time, the godfather who appeared seamlessly attracted their attention.

Through investigation or other methods, they determined that the godfather was also a mage. So he planned to sell some of his interests and stationed himself on Happy Island for a long time.

"Because the combination of The Godfather and Uptown is obviously much deeper than the previous model."

Wu Ming explained warmly: "According to the church's investigation, the Godfather is a devil who is very good at bewitching people's hearts. Many people who are not Uncoded, and may even include upper-class people and powerful people, may be bewitched by him and do things in secret. Used by the Godfather. To be honest, it would be very difficult for us, let alone uprooting this organization, to suppress its development...

"But Tongshen Island, Holy Blood Island, and Sun Island all have different situations one by one. The church is unable to continue to send people to our side..."

"Actually, they are just afraid of us angels. We are worried that we will take away the power of those old men."

The horn raised his legs again, sneered while shaking, and said bluntly: "So even though they are in this kind of trouble, they are still unwilling to unfreeze more angels.

"Ah, how can I put it... Even though it has been frozen for more than a hundred years, the church is still the same as it was a hundred years ago.

"If it weren't for the Pope to guide us, I guess the angels on other islands would also want to give up. Tsk, are they worthy of commanding us?"

"that is--"

Worried that the trumpet would say more arrogant words, Paradise Bird interrupted him and looked at Russell: "The church asked me to bring two angels to join the special execution department. It said that it had been discussed with Tianen Group, and it was used for Replenish personnel shortages in the Special Operations Department.

"I also brought an order from the board of directors... It said that the bad guy was demoted to an ordinary employee of the Special Execution Department and granted a long leave. You were promoted to deputy minister... The specific transfer order may come in the afternoon. , or it may arrive tomorrow.

"Would you like to order some takeout and wait here for Minister Delphinium to come back?"

Speaking of this, she and Russell looked at each other deeply.

They just looked at each other, but Russell, who had completed the synchronization once before, easily understood the meaning of the paradise bird.

——She had something to say to herself alone and wanted to avoid these two angels.

He knew what to do.