Phyllis was in her room, packing her bags, about the Manchester side of the affairs had been completed almost, so to speak, everything used to fill the facade is ready. Anyway, this smelter was not supposed to make money from it, all it needed was the shell of being a proper and legitimate company. Yi Chen needed to go back to LD to deal with things over there, so he didn't have the time to waste in Manchester.
In particular, Yi Chuan had been very puzzled lately, according to the star power that had accumulated in his body, the strength had far exceeded the time when Yi Chuan had first converged into a star core, however, in the recent week Yi Chuan had never been able to get the star core to take shape in his body. Although his physical body had been restored to its most perfect state, Yi Chuan, who was used to having superhuman strength, still felt that something was lacking.
Everything was because of the existence of that weak fae true qi, every time the star core was about to take shape, it always couldn't wait to come out and push a little bit, and then it completely destroyed the balance of the four elephants' cycle, and it was a lost cause. Therefore, Yi Chuan was not very happy lately, and did not want to stay in Manchester, a city with no special features. Perhaps, Yi Chuan's evaluation of Manchester is a bit too much, but he does not like football, indeed for such a vaguely about some broken city does not have any good feelings.
Someone was gently knocking on the door of Yi Chuan's room, from the heavy-handed approach, as well as the thick yet penetrating sound coming from the door, it could be heard that the one knocking on the door was one of the two brothers, Phil or Gore. Both of them were born with supernatural abilities, able to control the power of the earth and air, so their every move in their daily life was always branded with their own power, making it easy for Yi Chuan to distinguish them. If it was Jester knocking on the door, then it would definitely be a series of sharp knocks, and the sound would be sharp and high.
Easily dusted 'hmm', "Come in, what's the matter?"
Phil walked in, bowed gently and said, "Boss, the head of our factory union would like to see you. Would you be willing to see him, please?"
Easy Dust thought about it and said with a hmmm, "How much longer is the train?"
Phil replied, "Two bells to go, and it takes thirty-seven minutes to get from the hotel to the railway station."
Easy Dust stood up, put the crystal box on top of the table into an inner chest pocket, straightened his shaggy hair and his own pencil-thin white tuxedo, moved his neck, put on an amiable, approachable smile in the mirror, cleared his throat, let out a few soft syllables, and contentedly followed Phil out the door.
The president of the factory union was a dry, thin, man in his fifties over a hundred and ninety centimetres tall, with a long, clipped head, a curved hawkish nose, and two grey eyes that revealed an odd look. Gore and Jester were sizing him up politely but forcefully from five metres away beside him, and Jester's gaze, in particular, had a faint hint of a critical look in it.
But the president of this union seemed to be confident of his instrument, and was not moved by the two men's gawking. Indeed, his black suit, though not an expensive branded item, was neat and straight, and a small silver chain ran from his strap into a buttonhole, with a tiny badge at the end proving that he belonged to an old organisation, 'The Brotherhood'.
For his part, Yi Chuan directly used his Yuan Shen to penetrate this figure who was in charge of the interests of thousands of workers in his factory, well, Yi Chuan found a bit of something very interesting, he smiled up and said with his hands in a false invitation, "Have a seat, Gore, ask the waiter to bring some drinks over. This is ..."
The man answered and sat down on the couch across from Easy Dust and said in a low, strong voice, "Call me Vest, Huskin Vest."
Yi Duan hmmm'd and nodded gently, ''So, Mr Vest, what is it that you are looking for me for? Are you displeased with me? Or what does your organisation want from our new boss? Are you asking for an increase in wages? Are you asking for an increase in benefits? Please don't be formal, go ahead, we C's are a generous people, and I'm even more so, make your request, I won't deny the reasonable requests of loyal, hardworking people who add a gold coin to my fortune."
Vest squeezed out a smile on his dry, thin face as he nodded and said, "You are a good boss, dear Mr Yi. However, I didn't come here to make these demands. The benefits you are giving us now are already enough to satisfy even the most demanding workers, if we still make monetary demands, then it would be us who are too ignorant."
Ezra leaned back, twisting his upper body a little to sit more comfortably. Gore pushed a small trolley of wine over and, with his own hands, mixed two glasses and handed them to Eadan and Vester. Eaduan raised his glass in a gesture, and Vester returned the gesture with a smile and took a sip, then looked at Phil with a bit of surprise and signalled, "Good wine, Mr Eaduan, you have a very good bartender."
Yi Duan smiled smugly and said, ''So, Mr Vest, may I ask, what do you need? Or rather, do you want me to give you a little bit of the company's shares? I am a generous person, for knowing people like you, I will never be stingy, one more friend is one more doorway in the future, isn't it? How many shares do you need?"
Vest shook his head with a bit of surprise and said, "I marvel at your generosity and frankness, but I didn't come here for these ... Let me get right to the point, I feel that I have reached the age of retirement, and I think that I should recommend a trustworthy and reliable young man to take over my position. After all, although the factory's union president isn't a very big or senior position, it's an important one for the workers of this factory ..."
Yi Dust made a slight gesture and laughed loudly, "No problem, no problem, haha, I have absolutely no problem with you recommending a young man you recognise to take over your position ... Of course, as the chairman of this particular department of the trade union, he should be recognised by all the workers, shouldn't he it?"
Vest nodded and smiled, ''Then, there is no problem, his name is Ove, a loyal, reliable and capable lad, I hope he can assist Mr Yi well. You may rest assured that Ove has a high reputation within the workers of the factory, and it can be said that his reputation even surpasses mine. Wrongly, even in the industrial area of Manchester, who doesn't know that Ove is a good chap?"
Yi Dust narrowed his eyes slightly, a unique glint of divine light flashed by, and said with a smile, ''Dear Mr Vest, is Mr Ove here yet? Let me meet him, haha, after all, he is the next union president of my factory. Or are you letting such a lovely young man languish out there all by himself? Phil, ask Mr Ove to come in."
Phil strides out and about a minute later Phil walks in with Ove.
Tall stature, a strong body that was almost comparable to the majestic stature of Phil and Gore, inverted triangular upper body, thick arms revealing infinite vitality, handsome and simple face still vaguely hung a trace of freshness that had not yet been tainted by the world, but at the bottom of the eyes there was a hint of odd, and Easy Dust and the others were able to understand the hatred.
Easy Dust smiled, wasn't this lovely, loyal Mr Ove, who had a high reputation, the lovely werewolf Mr Ove who destroyed other people's flesh, transformed madly under the moonlit night, and slaughtered hundreds of people?
Yi Duan stood up, enthusiastically walked over, shook Aoife's big hand and said warmly, "Aha, Mr Aoife? Well, Mr Vest really didn't recommend the wrong person, we C country people are concerned about the feeling of the first sight, the feeling you gave me is simply wonderful, wonderful."
Vest stood up as well, and as if he had accomplished a great thing said, "So, Mr Yee, do you have any more questions?"
Easy Dust put on a businessman's face and said, embarrassed, "So, there's only one problem, in order to rely on the legal process and not let those at the local level fish for our slip-ups, we simply need to hold a general election of workers, don't we?"
Vest and Ove's eyes showed a look within them that was as expected, Ove didn't seem to be very used to talking to a 'person' like that in such an intimate way, and drew back his hand, stuttering a little, "So, very well, universal suffrage? There's no problem, those brothers inside the factory will support me, well, Mr Yi, don't worry, everything will be fine."
Eden pulled the two men to sit down and personally poured them a glass of fine white wine from Porto, France and said, "So, to show my respect and support for the new Mr President, I will be raising the wages of the workers after Mr Ove's election, by one pound per hour, per worker, to a higher level of pay, do you agree?"
Aoife naturally wouldn't refuse, and Vester smiled, "Mr Yi is too generous, you are simply the most generous boss I've ever seen, I believe that after you take over the operation, the factory will definitely take off." After saying that, he looked at Aoife.
Aoife understood that it was the time for him to state his position, nodded and said, "Please rest assured, I will discuss with the workers to improve the production efficiency, of course, a lot of production machinery needs the boss to invest in updating it, you see ..."
Yi Dust frowned, damn, investing in updating machines? It's not like we're really here to open a steel mill, but ... thinking of Aoife's true identity and the not-so-weak power he sensed from Vesta, Yi Dust smiled, "Then, I'll discuss it with the other major shareholders, and we'll update the required production machines as soon as possible, of course, the daily management, we still need Mr Aoife's strong co-operation."
Aoife naturally nodded, and Vest also said yes next to him. It was natural, updating the machinery, it was impossible for one shareholder to have the final say anymore, especially this steel mill, how to say it was also Fata Deo occupying 55% of the shares, it was better for them to contribute more money.
Yi Duan asked Vest in a general offhand manner, "Mr Vest, so after you retire, may I ask if you have any plans?"
Vest seems to have not thought that Yi Duan has this problem, slightly hesitated for a while, this only organised the words to say: "After retirement? Well, I think I'm going to travel around B country once, after all, I'm very interested in B country's ancient fortresses ... Then well, probably go back to the European continent to travel a little bit, practically speaking, I'm a person is a medieval fortress crazy lovers, may have to go to all over the Europe to visit those fortresses of the plenums and explore some of the wonders of it. "
Yi Duan gently applauded and smiled, pulling out his chequebook, signing a blank cheque and handing it to Vest, "Mr. Vest, this is a little something."
The corner of Vest's mouth tugged a bit, and with a seeming smile, he excused himself and said, "This, there's no need for it. Mr Yi, to be able to receive your strong support in the matter of Ove being the union president, we are already grateful, this ..."
Yi Duan said in a serious manner, ''I am a businessman, so businessmen always like to use money to measure all things. I think Mr Vest is a person worth interacting with, especially with the addition of Mr Ove's relationship, in the future, in business, in many ways, we will need the support of people like you who have fame and power in the local area, so a little bit of a small token, wouldn't you be happy to accept it?"
Vest licked his lips, glanced at Yi Duan's eyes, and saw a full-blown adulterer's oily gaze, he smiled reassuringly, took the cheque, and put it into his own waistband without ceremony, at the same time pointing at Aoife and saying, "Then, I'm not too polite, Mr. Yi, next time there is an election for the Labour Party in Manchester, I still hope that you will be able to ... Well, the opinion of a big boss with financial power like you is necessary for our help and support ..."
Yi Dust revealed a look of understanding, a shrewd face halfway through his calculations, revealing a smile.
Aoife and Vest laughed at the same time and took their leave at that.
Waiting for the two to be escorted far away by Gore, Easily Dust rubbed his chin thoughtfully and said, "My dear Jester, do you think that our factory is a werewolf or a thousand-year-old vampire's lair? What a hilarious place."
Jester frowned, "That's not true, it's impossible for them to gather too many in one place, right? I'm afraid that they have approached you for certain interests, this Aoife, his strength is still not weak."
Yi dust corrected him, "Not not weak, but very strong, you do not underestimate him, in the future, if you really start a conflict, if you still hold the idea that he is merely not weak, you still kill yourself before it is too late.... Of course, and they start a conflict with this kind of thing, I will not let him happen! ... Haha, they use us, why don't we use them?"
Jester gave a puzzled look.
Yi Chen said viciously, "As long as we give them a little bit of sweetness later, so that they feel that they must rely on us to do certain things, in case someone touches our interests, are they afraid that they won't help us out behind the scenes? There's no need to have to be a well-bred dog to be sent out to bite."
Jester and Phil nodded their heads in unison, agreeing with Yi Duan's statement.
As for Vester and Ove, after walking out of the hotel where Yi Chen was staying, Ove said a little hesitantly, "Deacon, I do feel that, this Yi Chen is a little bit impenetrable to the eye, a little bit mysterious, what kind of person is he really?"
Vest said with a shrewd face, "Of course you can't see through him, if it wasn't for your sister's accident you wouldn't have awakened yet, you simply don't understand a lot of things, so how could you possibly be able to see through such a multi-layered identity and background?"
Vester bragged as if to say: "Yi Duan, C country people, more than three years ago smuggled to B country, used half a year's time to obtain the legal right of residence, and then began the gangster's fight, with money and violence to attract a group of capable henchmen, and now became LD's triad leader in the more powerful one... ...Oh, that Big Dog Bear's territory, was also taken over by him ... As for now, because of certain plans that have nothing to do with us, started the cooperation with the Mafia family of R. Do you think that such a wonderful person, have you ever seen?"
Aoife licked her lips and sighed, "So I see, I looked at him and I had thought he was a nice guy. Turns out he's kind of mysterious."
Vester said conceitedly, "Mysterious? We're the most mysterious being in the world, he's just a greedy, ruthless businessman. But I like businessmen, because if we give them enough benefits, they will give us desperate effectiveness, understand? Once you're officially in office, encourage those damn human workers to work their asses off, he's definitely not looking at a brat like you when he's offered us such a big capital."
Aoife nodded understandingly, and said with sudden doubt, "If he knows who we really are, there's no telling what he'll do."
Vest laughed: ''Humans like them, if they know who we are, they will either be scared to death, or they will hate to lick our arse to ask us to give them some favours ... Of course, I'm sure that this Yi Duan guy is the second kind, right? Hey, hey, hey ... Aoife, you have to work hard and try your best to manage a good relationship with those people of Easy Dust, if you can fight for the power to represent the Labour Party in the regional election, we will do all we can to help you to become a big shot in this region, and that's what the parliamentary group promised to give you, do you understand?"
Aoife nodded as Vester surveyed him like a pet and said, "It's been a long time since I've seen a perfectly fine orc like you, I really miss the medieval times, they were wonderful ..."
The two had already walked into an isolated street, Aoife looked at the infatuated Vest with strange eyes, Vest licked his lips and said, "You can't imagine the full force of what we do as we please, the power that controls almost the entire dark world of Europe ... Oh, the wonderful blood of beautiful virgins flowing down your throat! Feeling ... our glory, need fresh blood like you to restore ah."
...
Yi Chuan separated out a trace of Yuan Shen and collected it back, yucked a mouthful and said, "Damn, it turns out to be an old vampire who has been living since the Middle Ages until now. Hmph, hmph ... is really looking forward to the modern gods and demons war it, just do not know now the strength of the Dark Council and the Holy See in comparison, who is a little stronger ah."
Seeing Jester boredly fiddling with a wisp of flame in his hand, Yi Duan asked him fiercely, "Jester, are you a deacon belonging to that class of the Inquisition?"
Jester instinctively opened his mouth to reply, "Holy ..." He snapped his mouth shut and gave a hard look at Easily Dust, who let out a string of heart-stoppingly strange laughs, looking at Jester unable to lift his head ...
In his mind, Eldritch began to formulate the following unpleasant scenario: "What is Jester being hunted by his own people for? Well, colluding with the Dark Council? Hmm, practising black magic? Holy shit, he wouldn't have raped the Pope's daughter, would he? That's awesome ..."