Chapter 349 "To Mary"
As a secular force, the Gielgud family has a great influence in Laconho.
With weapons, fighter jets, tanks, private armies, as well as Youle and Franc, they quickly completed the aftermath work required by Lin An, more actively than expected.
In the past few months of anarchy, the Gielgud family has plundered the oil and water of various warlords and consortiums, and eliminated many "landlords". Now cooperating with Lin An is also an opportunity to get out of the water and return to the right path.
Not only that, with the support of the [World Tree] that has begun to take shape, they no longer have to worry about some free mystics who awakened after the arrival of "Comos".
The Gielgud family seems to have wanted to join the mysterious organization for a long time, but they have never found a suitable target.
Under their manipulation, the new presidential candidate for Laconho was announced, although everyone in the presidential palace knew that the candidate was a puppet, and the real decision-makers were the Gielgud family and the [World Tree].
This group of pirates from Boyska took over the position of the Red Poppy Chamber of Commerce.
Speaking of the Chamber of Commerce, Lin An stayed in Ivory Coast in Lacongau for three whole days and did not receive any news from them.
The remaining employees of the Red Poppy Chamber of Commerce took the initiative to relay the current situation to Lin An.
"Our initial resistance was because we did not confirm the life or death of the Chamber of Commerce President." He said, "No offense, Lord Forest Ranger, you are just an unknown mysterious person... We don't know your true strength."
The employee who spoke was a mysterious person. Lin An did not show up in person to prevent the other party from playing tricks. Just like when he met Gielgud, he used [God's One Eye] and data instead.
After the man finished speaking, green glowing words emerged from the cell.
"I wonder if I can send Jacob van Hovwegen to hell."
"Well, you are so humorous."
Lin An understood what the other party was talking about. The Chamber of Commerce President's "Picatrix" belongs to the "Prophet" medium. It is not strong in frontal combat power, but as a source level, it must have a means of resurrection.
As long as the Chamber of Commerce President is not dead, these Chamber of Commerce members feel that there is still hope.
In fact, from the unfounded information, Lin An believed that the Chamber of Commerce President did survive, but he gave up the layout of Nanzhou for consideration. It is suspected that he was expelled and punished by [Black City], and he was temporarily unable to pick up the employees.
In other words, these people were abandoned by their organization.
"To this day, you haven't received any contact from our Chamber of Commerce?" The Chamber of Commerce member asked unwillingly.
"No." Lin An observed his flickering eyes, "Do you think I lied to you? I wish the Chamber of Commerce President would contact me and exchange you with intelligence, mysterious items, or secular forces."
"Mr. Forest Ranger, this..." The member's eyelids twitched, "We have no choice but to let you send it."
"This is your [World Tree] ID card."
The green data emerged, and the employee scanned his data and swallowed nervously.
"You not only found out my name and mysterious prototype, but also assigned me a new code name - Tool_01? Tool No. 1? And this negative number of ash leaves... I don't understand."
"Please use the snake icon to click on the question mark next to each exclusive noun, and the system will automatically go to the corresponding data page."
After saying this, Lin An retracted his gaze and let him explore and think on his own.
Storage and tool are the codes of the World Tree Exchange System. The former refers to mysterious items, and the latter refers to other forces or free mystics under the supervision of the World Tree.
Official employees of the six major departments can spend ash leaves to borrow mysterious items in the exchange system and hire various mystics.
[Burning Mirror] is the first mysterious item with an inventory code name, because it basically has no thinking ability.
Members of the Red Poppy Chamber of Commerce belong to the tool category. Every time they help the employees of the World Tree complete a task, they can obtain ash leaves to offset the initial negative number.
A veritable "tool man".
When the toolman's [Ash Leaves] column returned to zero, Lin An wrote on the surface that he would let them go free, but in fact he had not figured out how to deal with these people. At present, these deducted ash leaves are a big deal.
The ID cards of toolmen are only issued to the mysterious people of the Chamber of Commerce. Those ordinary people were sent to the Gielgud family by Lin An. The almost saturated World Tree cannot accept more outsiders.
After dealing with the Chamber of Commerce, Lin An was only a little uneasy because since the press conference incident, the West Continent region has been strangely calm. There are not many reports mentioning the group of reporters who were resurrected by the voodoo priests and devoured by Mother Kum.
Major newspapers were as quiet as chickens. At most, a few obituaries of reporters who died in "accidental war" were published in the corners of the web pages.
As Lin An told Edward, these unlucky people had no chance of survival. Mother Kum just let them die more happily and "cleanly".
If she didn't take action, Lin An would either find someone to kill these people one by one, or wait for them to completely lose their minds, and their bodies and souls would become mysterious objects - and it would definitely be troublesome to subdue this group of out-of-control mysterious people.
The mysterious people were bound by the divine medium, and rashly killing so many people would inevitably cause their own pollution level to soar.
Although Edward was a "judge" who was good at killing, his time rating was too low.
Before he learned how to control his own mystery, Lin An asked him to feel the tendency of the medium more and control the energy of "Comos" less.
In response, the reporter smiled bitterly.
Even without Lin An's warning, he has now become a half-statue, and can only be moved by being moved around, and has lost the ability to move freely.
Lin An placed him in the cabin of the ship. In order to prevent Edward from being too bored and starting to have wild thoughts, he assigned him an easy task - to register the expatriates stranded at the port.
In addition to the reporter killed by voodoo, many other staff members went to the Ivory Coast of Lacono with them, but did not enter the press conference building and saved their lives.
After the Red Poppy Chamber of Commerce surrendered, except for a ship that came from the high seas and took away the Lions and Irish people from the Ivory Coast, the remaining stranded people became "refugees" without supervision, just like the remaining members of the Chamber of Commerce.
After they repeatedly contacted their own country and company but received no response, Lin An extended an olive branch to them.
This group of expatriates have all received complete higher education, all college students, and are very suitable to go back with him to build Bantu.
Between joining [World Tree] and becoming a pirate wandering the high seas, or a stowaway struggling in Ivory Coast, all the expatriates chose the former without hesitation.
Lin An also told them that not everyone can become a formal employee of [World Tree]. Soon after returning to Kinshasa, Bantu, by boat, World Tree will hold a recruitment meeting, and they can sign up enthusiastically.
After finishing the chores, it was time to leave Ivory Coast.
Lin An took out the inscribed shell given to him by Kum's mother, and its coordinates pointed to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
"I should go."
At 12 noon, he stood in the beautiful Ivory Coast, which was like jasper, and said to the translucent Ms. Noon beside him. She folded her hands gracefully and smiled faintly.
"I wish you a prosperous future, and I wish you to stay cunning."
It was a blessing with regional characteristics...
In the cultural area of the Baltic Sea, they praised a person's cunning qualities and believed that only "cwaniakowa slippery people" knew how to deal with various challenges.
"Mrs. Adamek, do I really not need to tell your brother that you are still alive?" Lin An asked.
The lady gathered her thick hair, revealing a small sun on the back of her head, and the light it emitted gave her a definite shape.
The equatorial noon was scorching, and her appearance was extremely clear, and her power was unprecedentedly strong.
Once the sun set, she fell into a coma and lost consciousness.
"No, our family prefers dead people." Mrs. Adamek covered her mouth, "In this way, we can convince ourselves to live and use the rest of our lives to take revenge. This is how Gielguds adapt to death."
"So, how do you want to avenge your husband next?"
The video of the presidential office was spread by Mrs. Adamek, but to this day, the source of this video is still unknown.
Lin An didn't know who gave it to Mrs. Adamek, and what the message "my gift to you" meant.
The so-called "you" refers to the lady, or... me?
"At first, I played the videotape over and over again, staring at the murderer's face, gritting my teeth and observing his every move, every expression, every muscle movement, wondering how he would behave when I put a gun to his temple one day."
"When I watched it for the fiftieth time, I suddenly noticed some subtle movements of my husband. There was a period of time between him being shot and his death. During this time, he was crawling on the ground with his shoulders twitching."
"I thought he was twitching because of the severe pain, but after careful observation, I found that he took a pen and seemed to be writing something. So I "floated" to the scene of the incident and found a piece of paper under the carpet in the president's office."
Mrs. Adamek pulled out a piece of bloody paper from her chest and handed it to Lin An. The doctor's last words were written in trembling and twisted handwriting.
To Mary:
I don't know if you will see this letter one day.
In the past thirty-five years, I have worked hard for the internationalism that our family believes in. Regardless of whether this death is in line with my imagined ending, I will not change the main line of my life.
My faith in the future of an international community is no less than when I was young, and even stronger.
Now, I also want to tell you that fate has given me the happiness of being your husband in addition to the happiness of a successful career.
Cry for me, but don't avenge me, Mary.
Go to the window from the courtyard, open it wider, let the air enter the room more freely, look at the fresh green grass under the wall, the blue sky at noon, and the sunshine everywhere.
Life is beautiful.
I believe that the world will eventually be cleared of evil, oppression and violence, please enjoy it to the fullest.
Always faithful to you,
Alexander.
"I don't believe in the world my husband described, at least I can't wait for it." Mrs. Adamek took back the paper, "His death allowed me to contact 'Comos'. So, I plan to take action with the extra time given by that planet."
"Action?"
"For example, find a way to continue running our clinic, resume free consultations every Sunday, and help you monitor the Gielgud family. You don't want the World Tree to become the next Red Poppy Chamber of Commerce, right?"
"I'm glad you have a new goal." Lin An bent his fingers, and a line of data appeared, "And, welcome to join the World Tree."
[Name]: Mary Gielgud Adamek
[Mysterious Prototype]: Pushpolnica
[Department]: Consultant
[Number]: Firewatch_58
[Level of Authority]: Pine and Cypress Green
[Number of Ash Leaves]: 5
[Code]: Ms. Noon
Through the data, Mrs. Adamek watched Lin An go away, lifted her skirt with both hands, and performed a noble farewell ceremony.
The white skirt of Pushpolnitsa was like a new wedding dress, washing away the sinister and sad colors on the woman. (End of this chapter)