Start a Core Pod

 Chapter 864 Invitation

 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 carefully thought 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 still needed Some artistic processing. Many times, Mary made up a story and substituted it into the materials she collected.

 After all - this story is purely fictional and any resemblance is purely coincidental.

Like the story about the ghoul, she will also hide the name of the city where she is located, and organizations like the Countermeasures Bureau will also change their names. After all, many things are confidential. 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.”

When Ann's voice sounded, Mary looked up and saw that she, Gu Leya, Lorena and others were walking into the living room with teacups and smiling, 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 Dun came over excitedly, and 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 An's words, what she said was basically "Mr. Knight and I went somewhere, encountered super disgusting monsters, and then I killed them all with a magic 'bang'".

 Basically means saying nothing.

 So for the girls in the Tribunal, it is very interesting to listen to Mary's 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 troublesome.”

 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 only rely on eating people to survive - so although they do show some touching thoughts , but I think their... final outcome is only this."

　　　…………”

 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.

I have to say that the girls were relieved in their hearts. Although they had been to many worlds with Duanmuhuai, 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 time, 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.

“Let’s talk about something interesting. Did you and Mr. Knight ever date in that world?”

"Dating?"

“That’s right, we should have gone out together, had dinner together and so on.”

 “Let’s have dinner together…”

Hearing Ann's question, Mary silently turned her head and looked out the window - there, under the radiance 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, and then what?”

“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 way 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 reached out her hand to hold her forehead and sighed helplessly.

“Mr. Knight, you don’t have any romantic cells in your mind, but you have a lot of violent cells.”

 Hearing Ann's complaint, Mary did not speak, but focused her eyes on the notebook again.

She didn't think that Duanmuhuai had any romantic qualities at all. After all, she still remembered that after she got drunk that night, Duanmuhuai 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 is somewhat embarrassing.

In the next few days, Duanmuhuai regained a bit of leisure. Although he was the judge and the ruler of Arkham City, basically all these things would be done by others. Duanmuhuai only had to look at Just stamp the report and it's fine. If it's not a particularly troublesome matter, he doesn't need to deal with it.

As for the black bead, it is lying very peacefully in Duanmuhuai's inventory. It looks like a useless thing - maybe it is indeed useless?

Duanmu Huai still remembers that similar things have happened more than once in the game. For example, a certain task is to expel demons. Players need to find the holy book, then arrange the magic circle according to the holy book, and then expel the demons - this is normal process.

But some ruthless people were too lazy to set up a magic circle and directly resisted and killed the demon.

Then the holy book is useless, but since the holy book is regarded as a necessary plot prop to expel demons in this mission, according to the steps, it will disappear after creating the magic circle. However, the player did not create the magic circle, so the holy book was not used. After using it, it cannot be discarded or destroyed, it can only be kept to occupy space. Players have complained about this several times, but this BUG has not been fixed.

Thinking on the bright side, maybe this bead is actually a mission item used to destroy ghouls, but the ghouls were destroyed, so they are not used? Well, although Duanmu Huai really wanted to think so, it was unfortunately unlikely - after all, killing the ghouls didn't activate the task at all.

Why are there mission props?

 “Okay, that’s pretty much it.”

Duanmuhuai put the document in his hand aside, and then stretched out. At this moment, Ogis used her hands and feet to lie on her back again.

 “Ogis, do you have to hold me?”

"Um."

 “Hey...forget it, it’s up to you.”

Hearing Ojisi's answer, Duanmuhuai could only sigh helplessly. Ever since he came back that day, Ojisi had been clinging to him like a creeper. Anyway, Duanmuhuai was tall, and Ojisi was on him. Ji Si is also like a kitten, but there is no big obstacle.

 “Didi didi...!”

At this moment, the communication sound suddenly sounded, and then Miana's voice, as innocent and optimistic as ever, without any worries, sounded in Duanmuhuai's ears.

“Morning~~Master, I have something to report to you~~~”

"What's up?"

“This is Mr. Dardanelle’s message. Do you want to receive it?”

"Dardaniel? What trouble did he make again?"

Hearing the name of this rogue trader, 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 wanted him to stop calling him all the time when he was fine. , this can’t be blamed on him.

 “Come in.”

 “Yes~~~”

Soon, the picture flashed in front of him, and then the businessman with a mustache and a shrewd look appeared on the screen in front of Duanmuhuai. Looking at Ogis lying on Duanmuhuai's shoulder, Dardaniel was stunned for a moment, but He quickly came back to his senses and smiled at Duanmuhuai.

“It is good to see you still in such good health, Your Majesty the Inquisitor.”

 “You have something to say, what trouble did you encounter this time?”

 “This…strictly speaking, it cannot be considered a trouble…”

"Um?"

"I wonder, Judge, if you are interested...in attending the banquet?"

 “Banquet?”

 “That’s right……”

As he spoke, Dardaniel also explained Duanmu Huai. The matter still stemmed from the previous alliance between the Tower Council and the War Planet and Demon Planet. At that time, they also sent a message to Duanmuhuai, but Duanmuhuai said that the Tribunal did not intervene in political affairs and directly called back.

And now, the four parties, including Dardaniel, have successfully negotiated and reached an agreement - to put it simply, starting with the planets controlled by Dardaniel, they will form an alliance with several other planets. Dardaniel's Chamber of Commerce will become the only designated official chamber of commerce alliance among this alliance.

In other places, this kind of thing would actually be difficult to do, but the problem is that the people on those planets were either killed by aliens, demons, orcs, not even regular people. No commercial organization could be found, so Dardaniel naturally accepted the franchise with a smile.

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

Since the Tribunal is connected to these planets, and Dardaniel also knows that without the Tribunal, he would not be able to achieve what he is today, so he specially invited the Tribunal to come to the banquet.

besides………

“The Galaxy Business Alliance will also send people to participate…”

“You actually got together with 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 business alliance organization in this world.

The reason why Duanmuhuai's Inquisition 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, Old Saints, Necrontyrs or Star Gods, nor are they the once brilliant civilizations like humans and orcs - let's put it this way, all the alien aliens in this alliance are young aliens. The star race is a race that only grew up in the thousands of years after the destruction of the human empire.

If we use humans as an analogy, the Ancient Saints are the grandfather generation, the Human Empire is the older generation, and the alien races in this galaxy business alliance are basically those fifteen or sixteen years old who are in the period of rebellion and dyed colorful cockscombs. I don't know what kind of non-mainstream gangster I am.

Well, actually it’s pretty much the same.

Duanmu Huai had never wanted to take action against 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 Faerûn was still very dangerous. It was a waste of money. Watermelon is not good.

 But now, they actually come to your door?

 “You should know the rules of the Inquisition.”

 “Of course I know.”

"That's good."

Although Dardaniel didn't say anything, Duanmuhuai also understood that he actually said everything.

"ok, I get it."

Duanmu Huai thought for a moment and nodded.

 “I will go to the party.”

 (End of this chapter)