Ti had moved into the afternoon, within Jiang Shu’s Magic House.
"Kirie, can I trust you?" Jiang Shu looked at Kirie Tsukimiya with a serious face.
Kirie Tsukimiya felt like she was facing a formidable enemy, fearing that her little scheming had been discovered by the Wizard using his Mind Reading Technique. She was imdiately filled with fear and trepidation.
"Yes... I suppose." After what seed like a long while, she responded with a quivering voice.
"Good, can you help ?" Jiang Shu was still serious.
Kirie’s reaction was swift, quickly displaying her loyalty, "Of course, you can fully trust , both in my ability and my loyalty."
"Really?" Jiang Shu found Kirie’s words a bit odd, but he didn’t pay much attention.
There were many odd things about Kirie Tsukimiya, but that didn’t stop her from being a good girl.
Right, that’s true.
"Yes, yes." Kirie Tsukimiya kept nodding.
Jiang Shu first explained the situation, "I’ll be on a variety show on Tuesday, you might have seen it, called ’Entertainnt First Line’..."
"I don’t watch variety shows, my teacher said those are for fools to watch," Kirie interrupted him bluntly. "Fools spend ti watching variety shows, so they won’t have ti to think about why they are so poor, and that makes them very obedient."
"..." Jiang Shu felt a bit awkward, sensing the word "fool" was virtually written on his forehead, but he was very clear, Kirie’s way of thinking...
Was correct.
In fact, he had realized this a long ti ago.
In a Cyberpunk world, ten percent of the people held ninety percent of the wealth, which ans that ninety percent of the people were marginalized by the upper echelons of society. If those ninety percent were not given a way to feel secure, conflicts would inevitably arise with the elite ten percent.
In other words, Lonely City had to make the ninety percent contentedly accept their fate of being "discarded," thereby avoiding conflict with the elite ten percent.
Lonely City provided the ninety percent with opportunities to climb to the upper echelons of the pyramid, but the opportunities were too few and far inadequate to assuage the dissatisfaction of the marginalized masses.
Once exploited by those with ulterior motives and agitated, these people would quickly turn into flas, burning everything in Lonely City to the ground.
In a wasteland world, if any part of Lonely City’s self-sufficient system failed, it would inevitably have a butterfly effect, leading to trendous turmoil.
Therefore, to ensure their worry-free lives, the elite class adopted ans that were both soothing and narcotic in nature, which were low-cost and quite effective.
Firstly, satisfying entertainnt. Occupy the marginalized population’s ti with a vast amount of aningless TV dramas, movies, and reality shows so they wouldn’t have ti to reflect on society.
Secondly, venting entertainnt. Each major district had a zone like EF, which lacked regulation over violent incidents, and also opened up underground special industries, branding these social hazards as "Wanderers" and tossing them into the "trash bin," where they banded together, chasing petty gains all day long.
As a transmigrator, although Jiang Shu was one of the ninety percent, he saw issues much more clearly than ordinary people.
Of course, he wouldn’t admit that he was part of the "fools," and thus he slightly countered Kirie’s radical view, "I think, watching a little bit..."
"Just ans reducing the ti for thinking a little bit." Kirie remained blunt.
"Fine, I agree with your view, I never watch variety shows." Jiang Shu found he simply couldn’t refute Kirie, a researcher, with his magician’s skills, so he decided to join her side.
"Right. I understand, you already sleep so much every day, and if you watched these things, how could you possibly co up with such ingeniously crafted magic..." Kirie began to mimic the flattery techniques she read about in the book, but there was still one thing she managed to say—
How could anyone co up with these exquisitely intricate magic tricks, or how to harness the residual witchcraft power in this world, or how could they build a vast dark empire beneath the ground?
"Uh..." Jiang Shu looked at Kirie, who was starry-eyed and full of admiration and didn’t know what to say.
He recalled the days when he didn’t have to handle Deception cases or prepare for performances, nor did he have to teach Su Xiaoou; it seed like all he did was laze around in bed wanting to do nothing, which made him feel slightly embarrassed.
B: Stop scolding, stop scolding.
"Yes, that’s right, I always use my ti very efficiently," Jiang Shu suddenly spoke, "The reason I sleep a lot is because I expend more energy than the average person handling daily matters."
C: Matters = scrolling through short videos
Kirie, of course, did not see the barrage of comnts from the Tablet Spirit nearby, and upon hearing Jiang Shu, she adopted an expression of ’as it should be.’
Matters = Managing the underground dark empire.
Hmm, that’s right.
"So, what do you want to do?" Kirie asked tentatively, lightly biting her vermilion lips.
"Discuss so issues, and help make so props," Jiang Shu continued, and then suddenly rembered sothing, "Oh right, for installing the shower and that electric wok last ti, I’ll pay you together with that, and for the props custom-made for this ti, I’ll also foot the bill."
"No, no, no need!" Kirie extended both hands, waving them and saying, "Just tell what the problems are, what your requirents are, that will do."
"Uh, no, you must take the money," Jiang Shu exclaid righteously. He couldn’t always freeload; having freeloaded from Sister Suo and now Kirie, how could he always be on the take!
B: Adhering to the principle of white-knighting through and through, advancing through self-reliance, retreating through tough mooching, oh yeah!
Jiang Shu darkened his face and silently kicked little B to the side.
"Fine then..." Suddenly graced with the favor of the wizard, Kirie was sincerely alard, but dared not say any more.
"Can you get that kind of black paint you ntioned last ti?" Jiang Shu asked, "I also need a hot air balloon, so reliable high-strength glass railings, the retractable kind, and a few chemical agents."
"I can." Kirie nodded, she could do her best with these things, but she added, "Only common chemical agents would do; those rare elents, I can’t procure."
"Right, I know," Jiang Shu nodded, "I’ll give you a list, all things that are easy to synthesize and produce, and I’ll also ask you about so matters when the ti cos."
"Okay, and..." Kirie took out a small box from her pocket, with a black tallic texture, and handed it to Jiang Shu, "Here, these custom cards you ntioned, they’re done."
"Great, thank you," Jiang Shu said, a look of delight crossing his face as he took the box and opened it to have a look.
Inside were two playing cards, each with a different design on the back and the face. Overall, they were both black.
He picked them up and felt the cards; he didn’t know what material they were made of, but they felt nearly identical to normal cards, yet were very flexible and had a certain strength.
"Are these hard enough?" Jiang Shu asked Kirie.
"You can try; ordinary weapons definitely won’t damage them," Kirie replied, "Anyway, it’s more or less what you need."
Hmm, Kirie was very clear that these cards were probably the Witchcraft that this Great Wizard Jiang Shu used to assist his sorcery, and she, too, was already advancing further and further on the path of aiding a wizard.
There was no turning back.
Tired at heart.
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