Haidu: Top of the Tower

Chapter 29 Amelia's Proposal

The desperation that was originally prepared for Milady has now become a battlefield for her to gallop.

In order to seal off Milady's road in the fourth round of "Tearing down the east wall to make up the west wall", the committee has spent a lot of thought. , there is no more score card.

But in this way, it fell into Milady's arms: as long as she kept the score card on her body, no one from the Gaota family would be able to compete.

In addition to the arrangement of the score cards, from the other family players who were destined not to qualify, two of the best players remained; they wandered in the hall, and from time to time cooperated with the Gaota family to attack Milady.

It stands to reason that if a person wearing shoes is besieged by four barefooted ones, everyone can only be a mutton sheep.

However, neither Siyado nor the committee expected that what Milady is most afraid of is one-to-many—since the fourth round, she finally had the opportunity to display the true strength of the "trick of fate" without hindrance up.

Even if Li Wei only had the supernatural power to destroy organs with his bare hands, he still showed embarrassment when facing multiple organs that cooperated with each other at the same time, let alone Nava whose organs could be controlled by Milady?

Later, when the "Arkana Star" reported on this game, it commented: "... I seem to be watching a symphony performance. As long as Milady raises her cane, objects in the hall respond. Even if the organs provided by the committee are not actual combat organs, under her arrangement, they can protect and contain her one by one... Can you imagine how to use a few brass balls to defend? When Milady contestant When receiving the immobility penalty of 30 seconds, she always maintained a defensive circle formed by the heavy ball whistling and swiping, which opened my eyes. I think she still can't get out when she can try to get out, yes A demonstration against the enemy."

This misunderstanding was obviously not limited to the reporter alone; soon, the two contestants from other families were also discouraged, and most of the time, they just watched from afar.

It seemed strange to say that since the committee hoped that Milady would lose the match, wouldn't it be more secure if everyone who didn't make the rounds stayed to help?

During the siege, Milady even had time to think about this question.

Under the eyes of the audience, the siege needs to look normal and natural, which should only be a supplementary reason.The most important thing is that in previous years, the trials that seemed to be harmonious and helped each other, from the organizer, the supervisor to the participants, in fact, no one and whose interests are truly unified, right?

Take the Huiqi family as an example, one patriarch and two clan members qualified for the Huiqi family, and one clan member failed to qualify; the Huiqi patriarch was very smart and didn't let the person who didn't qualify stay - what good would it do to stay?
In the end, if Luo Geng wins, he will have a few thanks; if Milady wins, he will have an enemy.

It's better not to participate in this troubled water and just wait for the sinking battle: during the session, the patriarch only needs to sink one person to qualify, which means that there is still one "target to sink" in his hand.This year, there is one more malt from the Fengjiao family, and Luo Geng may be the only one in the Gaota family who can qualify, this "target that can be sunk" has become a hot commodity - no matter when Whether it's in exchange for benefits, building relationships, or selling favors, the patriarch will make a steady profit without losing money during the meeting, and he will be clean and double-faced.

Milady has long realized that her path is a thin, tortuous line between the selfishness of the big families.

Sometimes the thread stretched out on its own, surprising her, and sometimes she had to work hard to pull the thread out just a little bit more from the ambiguity of the world.

For example, the text message sent to Lu Ranzhou.

Once the trial contestants returned to their residences, they would enter a state of complete isolation from the outside world. At least for Milady, no one would make an exception for her.The only chance for her to send a message to Lu Ranzhou is in the competition venue under the gaze of nearly a thousand people, and Xiyado can't let Xiyado notice it.

She didn't even have a pen and paper, even if she did, how would she send the letter in full view?

Milady is the focus of everyone's attention at the moment, if she throws something into the auditorium, she will definitely——

In the distance, Nava's low but sharp inhalation suddenly and clearly passed into Milady's ears, interrupting her thoughts.

She soon realized that at this moment, she was no longer the object of Li Wei and Nava's attention; the two of them were standing outside a triangular pavilion, looking up at the auditorium on the second floor, with ugly expressions on their faces.

Who is upstairs?

Milady followed their gazes and froze for half a second.

...tea rose.

No matter how far away she was, and no matter how many people there were, she could recognize that short round face at a glance.

Tea Rose doesn't look much like his son, but the expression he wears on his face all the year round seems to foretell what Luo will look like in the future: when he treats the low-ranking members of the Gaota family, the level of amiability is subdued. , it is the faintly pursed indifferent corners of the mouth, and both parties know that he is condescending; when he asks people "how is your home", he is always like a pilot, ensuring that the tower machine Every gear is running as usual.

A decision that probably took him three or ten minutes left Itami in the crystallization of pollution for the last four years, causing her to die in false peace of mind.

When she died, Tea Ross probably didn't know who she was; maybe, but he didn't think Itami's death was worth showing to the family doctor.

If it weren't for the slap Milady slapped on the face of the High Tower family, he wouldn't have looked down at her hatred, and he wouldn't even have known who they were.

Today, his case cracked.

A real, angry Tea Rose, cracked from the usual self-confident shell, was staring at the hall, as if slapping the two unsatisfied clansmen in the field with his eyes—as for Milady , he didn't look at her, as if refusing to acknowledge her presence with his eyes.

When Li Wei and Nawa each manipulated the mechanism and charged back with almost panic momentum, Milady felt faint sympathy for them for the first time.

Tea Rose can stand on the second floor and send a silent signal to the clansmen in the hall; then, can she also?

She stood in the triangular pavilion where she almost fell into the trap of the Mengsheng patriarch before, and sighed.

"He wants us to clean up, and he wants you to work hard," Milady asked. "What's the difference?"

"If it wasn't for you," Nava's voice was almost sharp, "Why would we need to work hard!"

"To deal with you, I don't need to desperately—"

Before Li Weiyi could finish her sentence, Milady had already jumped towards the bone beam of the triangular pavilion, grabbed it, and kicked it like a pendulum, kicking out the arm of the "Hui" shaped organ that was attacking her. Hit Li Wei.Li Wei was hit by the authorities and fell to the ground, but there was no score plate on his body to warn him, so Nawa immediately yelled: "Milady fouled, she used force!"

This time, Milady was indeed asked to stand still and be punished for not moving for 30 seconds.

Milady gave a good-natured smile, and at the beginning of 30 seconds, a few heavy brass balls that had been forgotten all the time rolled towards her, roaring and forming a protective circle around her. .The Gaota family tried several times to rush into the protective circle, but they were almost hurt by the heavy copper ball.

Taking advantage of these 30 seconds, Milady picked up the goddess statue on the ground that had taken away her score card, cut off the Arcana movement between its arms, and put the goddess statue back on the table.

The statue of the goddess wrapped a piece of music with one hand, and once it was placed, the arms began to rise and fall repeatedly. It seemed that it was broken, and it failed to reproduce the goddess ceremony. Instead, it seemed to be holding two flags and waving it around.

Only when an old seaman looks carefully, will he realize that what it plays is actually a semaphore for communication between ships at sea.

The meaning of this semaphore is more complicated, and it takes a lot of time; the most important thing is, can they find it?Milady thought worriedly, even if the audience usually had binoculars, could Lu Ranzhou and the others really notice such a small statue of a goddess?
In any case, until she got a response from Lu Ranzhou, she had to continue to grit her teeth and persevere, letting the goddess send the same message upstairs over and over again.

Fortunately, Lu Ranzhou never disappointed her at critical moments.

"what!"

When the situation in the hall paused and became a little quieter, a voice came into Milady's ears clearly from the auditorium on the second floor.Xiyado seemed to have finally escaped and left. At this moment, Lu Ranzhou was lying on the railing alone, pointing to the hall and shouting: "I saw it, did you see it? Ah, so it is so..."

"What?" asked an audience member next to him, "What did you see?"

"Beer is on sale at the station tavern," Lu Ranzhou said, "Ten copper coins and three cups, happy hour."

It took Milady a little effort to hold back her laughter.

Once she had accomplished her goal, there was no need for her to stay any longer.

As she registered and qualified, the Gaota family would automatically lose; in the few tens of seconds when she withdrew, she was naturally disturbed and attacked by the two of them like a storm—only without Luo Geng. , After Yugan was gone, no matter if it was Milady, or Li Wei and Nawa, they all knew who was the one with the upper hand.

When Milady was walked out of the hall by the staff, she seemed to vaguely hear Rose's angry shout from behind, but when she looked back, she felt that she had heard it wrong.

Tea Ross has long been submerged in the crowd; in the main hall of Grand Central Station at this moment, there are only waves formed by cheers, applause and beating, one wave after another, rumbling against the dome, walls and floor.

Nearly a thousand people in Haidu seem to be sincerely happy for the same thing: this girl of ordinary background and no popularity, but who has shown amazing determination and ability, shattered many arrangements in this planned game And suppression, directly launched an impact on the position of the family patriarch.

Perhaps what Haidu people are tired of is not the big families themselves, or even the trials, but this kind of high-sounding and grandiose: Haidu people know that it is just a show, and the committee also knows that Haidu people know that it is a show , yet the show continues year after year.

The existence of Milady made the "Prosperity Reappearance Trial" return to its essence for the first time in history.

After Milady returned to the player's residence, all the cheers, joy, and noisy discussions... were isolated from the silence.

She had no outside news, and she didn't know how much Lu Ranzhou understood her intentions.But she has already done everything she can, and now she can only calm down and wait quietly.

The final sinking battle was scheduled for seven days later, and Milady was finally coming to an end during this long and difficult journey.

This night, she sat on the terrace, and the moonlight washed her world cool.

In the distant, invisible black sea, Itami was also looking back at her.

Mom has probably been looking at Haidu, looking at herself, and she must be as emotional as she is now, right?

Milady wanted to hear what Itami would say, but when she listened intently, all she could hear was the dim and soft night wind.

All she heard was the slight rustling of the fabric of the skirt when Amelia adjusted her sitting position beside her.

"...You don't seem surprised at all, I will come to you tonight."

Not a single light was on.In the soft and dark night, Amelia sat on another balcony chair. Compared with before, her voice was a little looser like a collar, revealing some of her true emotions.

Looking at the night sky, Milady smiled through her nose.

"What did you do to make the family change their minds, I don't know." Amelia said softly, "However, this is a unique opportunity in your life, and I can assure you of that."

Milady's legs were resting on the balcony railing, and the moonlight streamed down a straight line of silver light along her calf bones.

"You should understand one thing." Amelia asked softly as if persuading: "Even if you defeat Luo Geng, in front of the whole Haidu, we have to let you be the head of the High Tower family, but You don't really think that without our escort, you can be the patriarch smoothly for a year? Let alone the next year."

Milady turned her head, looked into her eyes in the darkness, and asked, "What is the deal you proposed?"

Amelia seemed to smile.

"You need to make sure that the executioner's family can't have a patriarch this year. If you agree, no one will interfere with you in the final sinking battle." She leaned over, and the night was filled with a strong scent of perfume. "As long as you sink Siyado and win again, the Judgment Family is willing to keep you as the Patriarch of the High Tower for a full year. How about it?"

(End of this chapter)