Chapter 1336: NO．240：Change and the Unchanging

NO. 240: Changes and Unchanged Aspects

It concerns work, yet also life, and even more so, one's life path.

Faced with such an opportunity, an unconventional appearance does not hinder the progress of the plan.

Even with Ludaofu Xiangzheng, Zhouri Ningjing, Thus we output: Thus we output: QiuChuan Misei, Bixiketuxe·Shihuaiya, and even MuHai Xingzi present at the long table, he could still maintain a steady rhythm in the formal greetings.

Of course, everyone being serious is also a factor.

In fact, Aomo could clearly see that this meeting was a product of the original arrangement, intended to confirm.

With the year-end approaching, to confirm the current preparations of each department, ensuring the stability of next year's development plan's pace.

This is largely a meeting held once a year, and the ease of many staff members reminds one of this, but the unfamiliar tension on the association's side also yields a special gain.

——Held deliberately on this day before Ma Ji Jiniàn and Meng Zhi Bei, it obviously also carries the meaning of an emergency突击 test.

Such attentiveness is not surprising, after all, after taking away the【First Crossing Special Zone】title from Jiemen Qu in Tianmen City, Jiemen Qu's economic and cultural center has consistently shifted toward the【Horse Girls】domain.

The title is not merely a title, but also responsibility and benefit.

Even though the traverser population base has now grown so large that even being分流ed by various meanings by half still allows Jiemen Qu to hang that special zone title year after year, continuing its economic development strategy.

Such stability ultimately stops at the surface.

With Tianmen City's development flourishing, anyone can see Jiemen Qu's lack of successors in the「Otherworld Development」large industry circle, yet the far-sighted here are also extremely few in feeling uneasy, for Jiemen Qu is a happy federal district.

Its happiness lies in having not only【Traversers】, but also【Horse Girls】.

The narrow Earth cannot accommodate more otherworld visitors, so directly constructing Tianmen City beyond Earth is the federal baseline for otherworld development that will not waver for nearly three hundred years; naturally, Jiemen Qu finds it hard to resist and must seek an alternative.

Horse racing is precisely this alternative.

Though everyone knows the value of【Traversers】far surpasses that of【Horse Girls】, especially in technology, power, and art, Horse Girls are merely local athletes touched by otherworld horse racing, not even a dimension, and together they seem like extortion.

But please do not forget how this world's wealth can manifest miracles.

While Jiemen Qu's value curve in the otherworld development field continues to decline, the horse racing field is experiencing explosive growth.

Even this growth momentum has now reached the point where, relying solely on wealth returns, Jiemen Qu can challenge for a top-three federal economic special zone.

The leap from 7th to 2nd place is not merely a matter of several times the gap.

Nowadays, everyone knows Jiemen Qu is the birthplace of Horse Girl culture, and also knows it is the earliest federal autonomous region to issue new laws for Horse Girls, while Jiemen Qu's strong support for the association's promotion is also spreading the horse racing industry globally and even beyond Earth.

Such mutual achievement has long been inseparable, making this period particularly special.

The horse racing venue was attacked by terrorists, and it happened in Jiemen Qu——such an event occurred, and the criminal organization has not yet been truly brought to justice.

During this period, that annual year-end meeting was specially rescheduled for this, held before two important matches, which is hardly surprising.

What is strange, however, is the meeting participants excluding Aomo Lindun.

The attendee list was decided two days before the meeting, but this morning, everyone received a meeting update message.

This was originally a hastily changed meeting time, already advanced by a week, yet even five hours before it began, such an even more hasty content addition appeared——some people were quite interested in the name appearing in that message and the proposal hanging after it.

Others simply thought it was pure nonsense.

Moreover, Zhouri Ningjing, upon seeing the young Aomo at the meeting, was utterly shocked, as if she had not even glanced at the message.

Regardless of her reaction to【others glancing back and forth between her and Aomo】, Miss Zhouri Ningjing in black at least still grasps the bigger picture.

She, like MuHai Xingzi, Ludaofu Xiangzheng, and others, despite her eyes revealing much, her actual conduct at the long table was only formal greetings.

Even when other attendees deliberately mentioned everyone's private relationship with him, she likewise adopted a strictly business attitude, not adding any trouble for either side.

That consistent bureaucratic demeanor, which even the person concerned looks down on, aside from slacking off at work, has also found another outlet.

Regardless of motive, Xiao Aomo is pleased with the result and has given some feedback, such as, before she came to find him after the meeting, he first typed a simple explanation in text form and sent it to her email.

Then he had to face another woman in a similar situation.

「Do you not intend to ask me why I am here? 」

MuHai Xingzi, a woman who, even to Xiao Aomo, leaves a striking impression as a sensual figure, though describing her as sensual seems undignified, for she has consistently adhered to the attire fitting a 13+育成RPG's alluring female character.

Even in the rapidly cooling December, that vacuum-necked shirt and extremely short hot pants could be called a walking「do not look」challenge.

Those who succeeded in the challenge should be few, and most were contributed by the council members of this meeting.

「Sorry to disturb you, MuHai Lady, I still wish to discuss the digital trestle project with you, later if time permits. 」

「No problem, wait for me ten minutes. 」

「Alright, then I will wait for you in the A区 lobby. 」The person who suddenly spoke up, wearing a plain wolf head, had pupils like a person's, neither biased nor impartial, focused on the face.

This gathering of Jiemen Qu's various bigwigs had many such non-human members, but Xiao Aomo also had no position to complain about this.

After all, in many people's eyes, his converged divine technique is not pure enough, and his concealment of soul appearance is not perfect enough.

In each other's eyes, everyone has their own non-human aspect.

Even the blonde girl standing before Xiao Aomo seems to have the appearance of a black-armored knight, and aside from the few pure humans, the most human-like are those little girls with horse ears on their heads.

「No need to ask, your reason for being here is self-evident. 」Glancing back at the distant crowd, the stare of the black-haired horse girl in the association's line is that conspicuous, forming a stark contrast with the distant nod of the three-colored long-haired horse girl beside her.

Xiao Aomo likewise returned the nod, then immediately looked up at this senior colleague beside him.

Whether as the head of MuHai Detective Agency or with this 1.70-meter height, he is someone Xiao Aomo must look up to, and if one wishes to delve into the other side she connects to, connecting that named Alphabeast's Royal Knight. Blank Seat……

That is yet another existence requiring one to look up to.

Located in the highest-level holy knight digital beast group——「Royal Knights」, in federal network construction they also have a rising status.

And among them, who understand network conditions far better than many network builders, the only one in the human world with a known and stable联繫 method is Alphabeast, whose spokesperson MuHai Xingzi, will naturally receive much business unrelated to detection.

Moreover, in Jiemen Qu's annual district-level construction planning meetings, in that long row of network management zones, she has a seat as a consultant.

And such she said to Aomo: 「I greatly anticipate your proposal passing, Jiemen Qu's network security issue has never been ideal. 」

「Compared to digital beasts, here there are more strange things. 」

「Hope your words do not include super agents as well. 」

「Regardless of good or bad, existence itself burdens the network environment, I only hope these are still far from affecting the digital world, merely troubling upper-layer shallow networks, 」her tone steady, contrasting with her attire, those black双瞳 gazing at Aomo, reflecting amber light in his eyes, 「but this itself, like the Jiemen Qu situation mentioned in the meeting, is overall progressing toward deterioration, and your proposed concept, is it called electronic monsters? 」

「Yes, CyberKaiju, as long as the proposal passes, 」Xiao Aomo also neither humble nor arrogant, 「just the two companies I know could begin to reconstruct, it would be more reliable guardians and builders than the Digital Beasts of the Steel Empire. 」

"You should know there are also many allies of the Steel Empire at the meeting."

"Friendships tied by interest are most easily eroded by interest."

"Can hollow interest sway them? From ancient times to the present—"

"No need to quote scriptures at me, Miss Mu Hai," interrupting the other's usual recitation of ancient texts and events, Xiao Aomo could still recall from memory the unchanging scenes of their interactions, possessing the efficiency of a second playthrough, "Drawing cakes is not the way to victory; current development is the core of everything."

"You're betting everything on this action supported by the district chief and the association?"

"Busy bees have no time for regret," he said in grand English, then supplemented in the other's familiar Jidong language, "This is merely the first step in the plan; the stake isn't everything, but I have confidence in completing it."

"Do you not need Hai Tuo and A Mei to contribute?"

"Not needed—although I'd like to say so, but at least help me monitor the current shallow network to prevent unexpected incidents."

"I will relay that."

Nodding, Mu Hai Xingzi raised her hand, trying to pat Xiao Aomo's head but missed.

"... I was just about to say you're different from before."

"But this one point remains the same as before."

Xiao Aomo spoke expressionlessly.