Realm of Power

Jinghu City has winding mountain roads, a touch of clear water in the mountains, and dozens of acres of grape fields around Jinghu Lake. As the origin of Purdo wine, not all wines are rumored to come from those dozens of acres of grapes. field of Purdo, but this This does not affect the fact that the surrounding area of ​​Jinghu City is occupied by more than 300 wine shops, large and small, extending up the mountain with distinct layers of wine shops. Each of them claims to be a real Purdo wine, and large quantities of wine are just like this. Purdo's mark spread across the continent

Although you cannot buy real Purdo wine, being able to buy the so-called Purdo wine from Jinghu City is also a kind of bragging rights. No one has stipulated that only the wine brewed from dozens of acres of grapes is Purdo wine. , otherwise, strictly speaking, the only real Purdo wine that can be preserved at present is the former Falcon royal family, because in the previous two hundred years, Purdo wine was only supplied to the imperial royal family in limited quantities.

At this moment, in the quiet conference hall of the gorgeous villa on the outskirts of Jinghu City, all the light sources have been turned off, replaced by a ray of sunlight shining from the round window at the top of the conference hall, and this ray is like a straight line of sunlight. In the middle, a bottle of Purdo wine with the Erdo logo in a crystal bottle sheds a soft, colorful light in this cold and silent world.

"My God, this has to be the best wine bottle polished with colorful sunstones."

"A wine bottle made of such an expensive gemstone has absolutely no possibility of forgery except for the genuine Purdo wine of that year. Moreover, the spire has been professionally polished. The time when this bottle was polished was about 280 years old. Around nineteen years ago, it was the period of the first emperor of the Falcon Empire." In the conference hall, some people were talking in low voices, while others were walking around silently. No matter what they are doing, every once in a while, everyone's eyes will fall on the beautiful and graceful figure bathed in soft light on the main seat of the conference hall.

Some of his obsessed eyes never even moved away.

Serena, the director of the Imperial Bank's Mirror Lake City Branch, is twenty-nine years old. She is gifted with a face that will make any country beautiful, and she is even more charming and charming enough to make every man lose his mind.

No matter how cold she is, her every frown and smile can captivate everyone. She is known as the Ice Beauty among the three beauties in the Imperial Bank. Her suitors are all over the empire, and she is also known as the second Sokutus Dailan. And everyone who is familiar with this title knows that , the woman who single-handedly established the Imperial Bank three hundred years ago, not only meant the coveted beauty and temptation, but also meant the first person to truly use financial means to allow the Imperial Bank and the Imperial Military to open up new territories. The legendary figures who are juxtaposed on the expansion land

There is even a saying that wherever the Imperial Sword can reach, there is the Imperial Bank. Where the Imperial Bank can reach, the Imperial Sword may not be able to reach. And Serena is the first to take first place in thirty-two subjects. Graduated financial wizard! Since joining the Imperial Bank, she has stood out among countless elites with her superhuman intelligence, and finally sat on the throne of the Imperial Bank's Mirror Lake City Branch Manager.

Although Jinghu City is just an inconspicuous branch head, within the Imperial Bank, the status of the Jinghu City branch is second only to the Imperial Bank headquarters, because starting from the founder Sokutus Stellan, The joint meeting representing all forces within the Imperial Bank has always been held in the inconspicuous small city of Jinghu City. To a certain extent, the Imperial Bank headquarters is the nominal external decision-making body of the Imperial Bank, but it really makes decisions. What the Imperial Bank is heading towards is the Imperial Bank Joint Meeting held in Mirror Lake City every three years.

This arrangement of two headquarters, one light and one dark, was personally drawn up by Sokutus Stellan, the founder of the Imperial Bank, and any modification is not allowed.

No one knows why Sokutus Stellan, known as the uncrowned queen, set it up like this

Even after Sokutus Stellan passed away, she chose to be buried east of the city of Mirror Lake City, close to the magical vineyard. Some people say that this was the legendary woman who finally chose to return to the mountains, but in There is a completely different theory among the senior officials of the Imperial Bank. That theory is that Sokutus Stellan chose By choosing to bury yourself in Jinghu City, you are guarding something. Just like a servant, you choose to accompany your master. However, the mountains of Jinghu Lake are not big or small. It is not that no one wants to find something in the mountains of Jinghu Lake, but They all came back in vain. After more than two hundred years, this statement has become more and more like an absurd legend.

What finally brought Mirror Lake City to the center of world attention was the triennial Imperial Bank Joint Meeting, which included almost all the major families in finance and politics.

Some families even continue from the founding of the Imperial Bank three hundred years ago to the present day. In the past three hundred years, the five big bosses of the imperial military, Caesar Sauron, Varisien, the Yelu family, the overlord of the northern grasslands of Central Asia, etc., have families. After declining and being expelled, some families fell into various conflicts and collapsed. In the end, three hundred years later, there are still seventy-nine families. And these seventy-nine families are all prominent in the history of the empire, and these seventy-nine families are also prominent. The nine families became the leading force in the empire's collapse.

At this moment, Serena stood quietly in front of the newly opened huge floor-to-ceiling window in the conference hall. Her long white fingers held a light cyan ceramic coffee cup that was smoking lightly, and she looked at the blue sky on the top of the mountains with full eyes. It is a blue lake that is as blue as the sky. It is Mirror Lake and the resting place of founder Sokutus Stellan. Fifty years ago, the Imperial Bank bought that piece of land at a high price that the imperial royal family could not refuse. The amazing area where Purdo grapes are produced was bought and now It is the private property of the Imperial Bank. Naturally, the Purdo wine has also become the possession of the Imperial Bank. However, even the Imperial Bank, which is rich and powerful, cannot do as much as the Falcon Empire royal family used expensive sun crystal to create the outer bottle of Purdo wine. This It’s not a matter of money, but that the Sun Crystal was completely exhausted 170 years ago. This is why the subsequent Purdeaux wines cannot compete with the previous Purdeaux wines.

Purdo wine without the Sunstone can no longer be considered a real Purdo wine. Even the imperial royal family, which has monopolized it for more than two hundred years, has no more than ten bottles of Sunstone Purdo wine in its collection.

And now, at the resting place of founder Sokutus Stellan, a bottle of Sunstone Purdo wine that is absolutely impossible to appear quietly appears there. As the resting place of the founder of Imperial Bank, it is also the resting place of countless tomb robbers. The place where countless wealth is believed to be buried, a total of 300 Imperial Bank weapons Installation personnel are stationed, and 1,400 cameras monitor the entire process. Not to mention people, even a fly will be grabbed and its wings are picked up. And now, a bottle of priceless Sunstone Purdo wine is just placed there in such a grand manner. Sokutus Stellan’s tombstone has caused the entire Imperial Bank’s senior management to explode.

"Could this be a prank? It's just a bottle of wine. We're too nervous." Someone murmured in a low voice. The monitor video on the big screen has been played back and forth dozens of times, but no one has seen the bottle. Who put the Sunstone Bordeaux wine on it? This bottle of Bordeaux wine seemed to appear out of thin air. One second it was empty. The next second, the Sunstone wine exuding colorful colors in the sun appeared on the tombstone. This is It's like a magic trick that makes everyone open their eyes and can't see why.

"Using a bottle of Sunstone Purdo wine, which is more valuable than gold, to play a prank, even the imperial royal family would not have such a skill, let alone, Sunstone Purdo wine was no longer produced 170 years ago, and the Empire On the royal side, most of the Sunstone Purdo wines are in It was hidden during the time of the first emperor. No one except the first emperor knew where these Purdo wines were hidden. The imperial royal family only had less than ten bottles left," Serena said in a clear voice, seemingly calmly. Underneath his face, there are test reports tumbling in his mind.

The Sunstone Purdo wine placed on the table is just an empty bottle with no wine inside. However, the stopper of the bottle has been tested and it has been opened for no more than three days, and the test of the bottle wall inside shows that no ingredients containing wine have been detected. , Purdo wine is also wine. Over time, it will inevitably have an impact on the bottle wall. But now, there is no trace of wine on the bottle wall. This means that it was like this when the bottle was closed more than two hundred years ago.

Why do this?

"There's no wine in the bottle, there's something else in it

What does it contain that deserves such a precious sunstone wine bottle? "Relying on a woman's intuition, Serena's first thought was this. The contents of the bottle were put in three hundred years ago, but they were taken away recently and an empty bottle was sent over. This is What do you mean? Even if Serena's IQ is higher than that of ordinary people, she still feels a headache at this moment. The three-year Imperial Bank joint meeting is about to be held, and the Imperial Bank's defense force against Mirror Lake City is even more intense. Strong, a large number of additional manpower has been deployed, and various important information is also converging towards the Jinghu City branch. Every move here will cause huge fluctuations in the entire world's finance. A sneeze here will cause huge fluctuations in the world's stocks. It was just a storm. If such a joke happened at such a juncture, I, the head of the Jinghu City branch, would definitely be scolded by the headquarters and even be directly transferred from the Jinghu City branch.

An empty wine bottle appeared in front of the tombstone of the founder Sokutus Stellan in full view of the public, but he was like a fool, completely helpless. From a young point of view, this was incompetence. From a leadership perspective, this was It was definitely a sign of inability to control the situation. A leader who could not control the situation was basically sentenced to death in the eyes of Imperial Bank executives. However, no matter how scared she was, she could not show it. She wrapped herself up with a strong shell,

Calmly mobilized all forces to investigate, tripled the defense manpower at Sokutus Stellan's resting place, and dispatched technical departments to slow down surveillance cameras.

As long as the other party is human, she doesn't believe that she can't find any clues

“Technology slows down surveillance a hundred times and can’t see anything?”

Serena rubbed her temples that were about to collapse. She believed that the headquarters had received the news at this moment. There were countless pairs of eyes staring at the Jinghu City branch. Even in her mind, she was already thinking about who would take advantage of this. Making a big fuss to get him to step down, Deputy Bank President Su Ze, who wants to push himself The old fox whose son supports the director of the Mirror Lake City Branch will not let go of this opportunity. Endoride, the Finance and Accounting Department. Last time, he rejected his request to be transferred to the Mirror Lake City Branch, but this time he was lucky enough to be promoted to the Finance and Accounting Department. The auditor will definitely use the financial chaos of the Jinghu City branch to impeach himself to the Federation. . . . . . . . Dailan, went to Robensam Island, otherwise she wouldn't need to be so passive. . . . Now I can only hope that the head of the headquarters is still thinking about his three years as secretary to the head of the headquarters, and considering that the joint meeting is about to be held, he has tried his best to hide the matter.

"Yes, the bottle seemed to appear out of thin air. The technical department also found it incredible."

"Is incredible the answer? Are you kidding me? Did that thing appear out of thin air?" Serena said sternly. Only because of this little bit of hope did her tight last string not break.

She has personally sent a report to Imperial Bank Headquarters Lai Linxiu. She believes that reporting the facts herself is the best way to deal with this matter, because until now she still cannot explain that she needs technical support from the headquarters, but why This time, in order to investigate the truth about Robbensam Island, the technical department of the headquarters went to Robbensam Island.

A full ten minutes passed,

"Videos of the branch chief and the head of the headquarters!"

The voice of the communications officer interrupted Serena's contemplation,

"You guys go down first." Serena raised her hand to her subordinates.

She turned around and looked at the huge video in front of the conference hall. Her expression remained unchanged, but her heart clenched tightly.

"I have already seen the sunstone wine bottle. From now on... the Mirror Lake City branch has canceled all investigation activities. Also, I will rush there within two days. Remember, give up all investigations!" A crisp voice came from the video

In the video, in the black starry sky, it is as bright and dazzling as the performance lights of an opera house. The flashes of light are as bright as fireworks, reflecting the outline of an island. It looks very lively, just like a banquet.

Is this the mysterious Robbensam Island? Serena hesitated

The head of the Imperial Bank, Lai Linxiu Dailan, appeared in the video with a complex and serious expression. The face of the middle-aged woman from China and Bia is by no means unattractive. In fact, the head of the Imperial Bank has always been a woman, and there really is no such thing. What an ugly girl; but what is impressive is her heroic demeanor, which is no less than that of a man, especially her bright eyes, which make people feel that she is a woman who dares to act and is never indecisive; her age does not seem to matter. will be over forty

Lai Linxiu is her name, and Dailan is the common name for a certain group of people in the Imperial Bank. They are the descendants of the original founder Sokutus Dailan.

"Cancel all investigations? Mr. Headquarters, are you sure you want to do this... The joint meeting is coming soon, what if at this time...?" Serena's delicate body trembled slightly, her face full of shock, even if Lai Linxiu announced that she would be withdrawn from her job. ministerial The position would not be so surprising. She had followed Lai Linxiu for three years and was very aware of the general manager's unchanging style. But this time, she unexpectedly heard a hint of hesitation in Lai Linxiu's tone. , is it an auditory hallucination? Or is it the influence of your own emotions?

After three hundred years of agreement, no one from dozens of big families and powerful forces dared to break the agreement. It seemed so absurd, but this was the reality. Everyone was waiting for the person who made the secret agreement to appear, and even took the risk to kill the hunter who founded it. When the Eagle Empire was overthrown, they also wanted to see if they could force the secret agent out. Only the head of the Imperial Bank knew that the secret agent was the same person from beginning to end. The emperor of the empire,

As a result, they jointly challenged the authority of the empire, but there was still no news about the secret person. This made many families feel lucky, or the secret person did not exist in the first place. This made all major families dare not have the slightest intention to resist. The secret agreement is simply a vacancy

So someone was ready to make a move,

As a result, Mingyue Weiyang was born, and with her unparalleled strength at the pinnacle of martial arts, she not only severely damaged the empire, but also severely damaged other families who were ready to take action during the empire's collapse. There are rumors that Mingyue Weiyang's magic sword that can kill hot weapons with one hand has Say, that's it The sword left by a generation of emperors on the abandoned sword stone at the top of the Temple of Heaven caused panic among the major families. Some people speculated that Mingyue Weiyang was the one who made the secret contract, but Mingyue Weiyang suddenly disappeared and disappeared, and Mingyue Weiyang did not show the secret contract he had signed. Sunstone Purdue Bottle

At that time, Lai Linxiu was still very young and did not know these secrets. She was even a little fan of Mingyue Weiyang.

The secret covenant holder has the ability to decide the life and death of the major families. This is a very absurd statement, but no one in the major families dares to violate it, because the generation of family heads who signed the secret covenant have all confirmed this without exception. The secret covenant is an agreement between the major families and the secret covenant holder, and also an agreement between the major families and the Imperial Bank. Only with the secret covenant can these families be qualified to enter the Imperial Bank. After decades, Lai Linxiu became the general manager of the Imperial Bank. Only then did he learn about the existence of the secret covenant from the previous general manager, and only then did he know why Mingyue Weiyang was rampant and hit many major families hard, but most of these families just shouted in their mouths, and almost no one really dared to cause trouble to Mingyue Weiyang, because the major families regarded Mingyue Weiyang as the secret covenant holder.

"Execute the order. As for the joint meeting, I'm afraid there will be accidents." Lai Linxiu sighed, and his long and thin phoenix eyes suddenly burst into a strange light.

The secret covenant has appeared in the world.

That person really crossed over three hundred years of time. . . Is he back?