Becoming a winner in life starts with becoming a shadow

"Finally back!"

Crossing the boundary gate and looking at the familiar city in the distance, Alexia couldn't suppress her excitement at this moment.

"Yes, finally back!" Claire beside Li De couldn't help but sigh.

Although Claire had only been away with Li De and Alexia for five or six days in the Shadow Reality World.

But for the three of them, it has been five or six years since they last left.

If it weren't for the eternal youth, it is estimated that people familiar with them would be able to see the maturity in their appearance at a glance.

After five or six years away from home, it would be strange if the two girls didn't miss home.

Among the three, only Li De didn't have any special feelings.

After all, the total time he spent in the Shadow Reality World was not as long as any of the time he spent in the Science World and the One Punch World.

Before he got used to treating the Shadow Reality World as his 'home', he got the boundary gate.

Now for him, the anchor point world is no longer the only one.

But how can I put it? Most of Li De's women were born in the real world, so relatively speaking, Li De's ties with this world are deeper.

"Let's go, let's go back to Siyue Chamber of Commerce first." Li De said to the women.

As soon as he finished speaking, Li De drew a huge teleportation magic circle under his feet.

The next second, everyone disappeared from the spot.

When they reappeared, they had returned to the roof of Siyue Chamber of Commerce, in the empty hall built by Gamma for Li De to meet his subordinates.

The reason why they didn't teleport to the conference room was that there were too many people who came back with Li De this time, and the conference room was a bit crowded.

As soon as the group appeared, hurried footsteps sounded outside the hall.

As the door of the hall was pushed open, Xi and Omega walked in.

The two women have been paying attention to the movements inside the Chamber of Commerce since yesterday.

After all, Alpha, Gamma and others suddenly left in a hurry, almost without explaining anything.

The only instruction left for Xi and Omega was to find Elizabeth who stayed in the capital to take charge of the situation if there was an emergency.

Therefore, the two women were actually a little flustered.

After all, in the past, the seven shadows would not disappear suddenly. At most, there was no news from Zeta who was gathering intelligence.

It seemed that this was the first time that they had to put down their work and try for more than a day.

It was also because of this that they sensed the breath of Alpha, Gamma and others, and the two women hurried over.

"Xi, do you and Omega have any urgent business?" Seeing the two women running in a hurry, Alpha asked immediately.

"Sir Alpha, it's not like that, it's just that you and the other adults left in a hurry before, so." Omega hurriedly explained.

"It's okay, it's just that the shadow summoned us temporarily." Alpha explained to the point.

"Xi, Omega, come with me and report to me on the business status of the past two days." Alpha had just finished speaking when Gamma stepped out to the side of the two women and said to them.

It's not that Gamma is a workaholic, nor that she doesn't know the rules, but if she doesn't take action, the situation will get out of control.

Because she just felt that after Alpha spoke, the pressure around Claire immediately dropped.

After spending more than a year with Claire, Gamma could feel that Claire's momentum was increasing day by day, especially after returning to the pirate world, the increase was even more obvious.

This is not to say that Claire has become more and more domineering, but because of the obvious increase in strength due to blood optimization.

After all, Claire is different from others. She has become a real dragon with the accumulation of resources by Li De.

For the dragon clan, the stronger the strength, the stronger the dragon's prestige, and the more powerful the domineering color, the more powerful the momentum will be without knowing it.

Originally, this was a good thing for Li De's team, but Gamma could clearly feel that Claire's attitude towards Alpha was not as easy-going as before.

It was precisely because of this that Alpha spoke first, which made Claire very unhappy.

After all, this is the Siyue Chamber of Commerce, and the owner in the open is not Alpha but Gamma.

In other words, if Gamma spoke first, Claire would not mind, but Alpha spoke first in the manner of the master before her and Li De, which would be a big problem.

At least that's how Claire saw it, so the air pressure around her fluctuated.

Gamma didn't want Claire to speak on the pretext, so he hurriedly took the two women away.

"Yes, Lord Gamma!" Although the two women were a little puzzled, they also noticed that the atmosphere seemed a little wrong, and immediately replied respectfully to Gamma.

"Master, then I will take Xi and Omega down first." Gamma immediately saluted Li De and said.

"Go, you are back, and you can do your job." Li De waved his hand without any concern.

"Shadow, I'm going to be busy too!" Alpha said to Li De immediately after seeing Gamma taking Xi and Omega out.

Obviously, she didn't want to stay either, after all, she clearly felt the fluctuation of Claire's breath.

To be honest, during this time in the pirate world, she had already noticed that Claire's attitude had changed a lot compared to before.

She was not stupid, so how could she not understand the reason for Claire's change of attitude?

Claire’s attitude towards Reed is known to everyone close to her. Although she didn’t know the term “brother control” before, she has been in the One Punch Man world for nearly a year.

Even if Alpha is not interested in Internet terms, there is still Beta who is interested.

Alpha heard the term “brother control” applied to Claire from Beta.

It is precisely because of this term that Alpha understands what Claire is thinking.

Naturally, he understands why her attitude towards him has changed. To put it bluntly, she wants to suppress herself.

Claire is actually very clear that she can’t monopolize Reed, but the strong possessiveness shown by the brother control attribute does not allow other women to have the same status as her in her brother’s mind.

But it is precisely because of knowing that Alpha is unwilling to retreat.

Why?

In terms of love for Reed, she will never admit that she is worse than Claire.

After all, she was the first signer of the slave contract that Reed took out.

In addition, in terms of career, Claire has not done anything to help Reed so far.     I can’t do anything, please give me the first place!

How could Alpha be willing to give in to a woman whose head is full of garbage?

Even if this woman is Shadow's sister, it is still not possible.

After signing the contract, everyone is the master's slave and has equal status.

For Alpha, Claire's identity as a sister no longer exists from the moment of signing the contract.

This is also the reason why she has always been unwilling to lower herself to Claire.

However, anyone with a discerning eye can see that because of the relationship between close relatives, Li De obviously prefers Claire more on the basis of fairness.

Would Alpha not know this?

Clearly!

But there is nothing that can be done about it, after all, this is an objective fact.

However, as long as Li De does not officially recognize Claire's status as the main wife, Alpha will never give in.

"Go, those who have something to do, go and do it!" Li De waved his hand.

During the time in the pirate world, Li De also noticed the problem between Claire and Alpha.

But Li De chose to pretend not to know.

It's not that Li De is indecisive and doesn't know who to protect, but it's intentional.

Anyway, the two of them were just verbal confrontations at most, and it was impossible for them to fight.

As for the two women forming cliques or something, Li De didn't care at all. He just watched it as a light version of a palace drama. Anyway, there were restrictions on the contract, so nothing serious would happen.

In Li De's opinion, it would be strange if more than a dozen women didn't have their own little thoughts without the contract to control their thoughts.

But this is more lifelike. In addition, the two of them are fighting openly and secretly, which is a benefit to Li De. After all, if you want to get a higher status in Li's heart, you must serve Li De better.

It is precisely because Li De enjoys this kind of service and pampering that he did not interfere in the affairs between Claire and Alpha.

After Li De's voice fell, among the seven shadows of the Shadow Courtyard, except Yita, almost all chose to leave.

This is not because the women responded to Alpha and didn't give Claire face, but because they all had their own things.

As for Yita, she wanted to return to the ancient capital immediately, but she had to wait for Miyano Shiho to go together, which they had discussed in advance.

Needless to say, Akemi Miyano will definitely choose to go with Shiho Miyano.

After the Alpha girls left, Li De took the remaining girls to the conference room.

"Shiho will return to the ancient capital base with Yita, right?" Li De asked Shiho Miyano.

"Yes, Master, I have already discussed it with Yita. After all, a technological research base will definitely be established in the ancient capital." Shiho Miyano nodded.

"That's fine, but Yita, don't make it too big. The ancient capital is too remote after all, and there are monsters all around. We used it as our base because we had no better choice.

But now that we have obtained the boundary gate and can travel to the world where we have performed tasks, our choices are not limited to this world as before. I say this, you should understand, Yita!" Li De looked at Yita and said.

"Master, are you going to find a suitable world as the real rear base?" Yita looked at Li De with a little surprise and asked.

In fact, Li De's choice is also natural in Yita's view.

After all, in the shadow world, there are some constraints at present.

In fact, with the current strength of Li De's team, there is no problem in sweeping the shadow world.

But there is a very troublesome problem, that is, there is no way to guarantee that the Diabolos Cult hidden in the dark can be uprooted during the sweep.

If it cannot be eradicated at one time, it will be quite difficult to completely clean it up later, because those people will hide deeper after experiencing a disaster.

In addition, compared with sweeping the continent, uprooting the Diabolos Cult is the main purpose of the Shadow Courtyard.

This is the main reason why Li De cannot show his strength. After all, Sid's second-year disease is to fight against the Diabolos Cult, so he established the Shadow Courtyard.

The basic purpose of any organization cannot be shaken. In addition, even if it can be done, Li De has no intention of building the shadow world into a rear base.

Why?

Mainly because the shadow world has great uncertainty.

As mentioned before, the Shadow Reality World is prone to intersecting with the First Demon Realm and other worlds, which can easily lead to various emergencies.

If it intersects with the world in the center, which may be the God Realm, that would be a lot of fun.

"I really want to try it. If it weren't for the fact that the world with so many weirdos was not suitable, I might not be willing to give up the power established in that world." Li De nodded and said.

"Then Master, do you have a goal?" Yita continued to ask.

"There is already one alternative world. The real decision needs to wait until I complete the next mission before I can make it." Li De nodded and said.

"In other words, the next mission world is also one of the alternatives." Miyano Shiho couldn't help but say.

"That's true." Li De didn't hide it.

Because he really needs to confirm the environment of the Zanmei world before deciding whether to choose the Zanmei world to attack or the Eight Men world he had visited before.

As for other worlds, either there are gods or the environment is not good.

In fact, the Pirate World can also be used as an alternative, but the theory of the sinking of the world in Vegapunk makes Reed very worried.

Because if the existing islands really sink, then the world will only have the land on the top of the Red Earth Continent.

And the top of the Red Earth Continent is not a place where ordinary people can survive. If there is only that land left in the world, the value of the Pirate World, at least for Reed, will be reduced too much.

Of course, there is another reason, that is, the Pirate World is not so easy to conquer.

After all, there are really many strong people in this world. Just the Five Elders and One Scene are the ones who have become the objects of Claire and other women's accumulation of great achievements.

"I support Sid's idea. With our strength, let alone taking down a kingdom, even a world can do it. Sid should have become the king of the world." Claire was the first to agree.

"Master, I definitely support you to conquer other worlds, but I want to know, will you give up the world we are in because of this?" Alexia looked at Reed very seriously and asked.

"Alexia, you are worrying too much. Unless there is a drastic change that forces us to leave, I will not give up this world. Don't forget that even if we conquer other worlds, we will leave a split body to guard the world we came from.

And with the difference in time flow between our world and the mission world, once the base camp is established, we will be able to cultivate a steady stream of talents. Once we have enough talents, we can conquer this world at any time."