Mamon Youth Development Program

The second day of sailing, 12:00 noon.

The weather was clear and cloudless.

There are sparkling waves on the calm sea surface, the white and light cyan of the wave tops are mixed with the different shades of blue, and the reflection of the white clouds in the sky also changes with the waves.

On the deck, Viper stood leaning against the railing, his movements were soft, casual and natural, as if he had put his whole body weight on the railing.

Under the dark cloak is fair skin and indigo hair fluttering in the wind. He is pursing his lips tightly at this moment, showing no emotion or anger. He is leaning sideways as if looking at the sky. For some reason, he is already fair His skin was paler than before, with a slightly transparent feeling.

It seems that this is really a very normal, beautiful and harmonious picture, if we ignore the inner activities of the characters in the picture...

In fact, Viper himself is not in the mood to appreciate the rare sea scenery.

...He feels like he is dying here now...

Stephanie would have screamed if she saw it.His face was pale and his limbs were weak. He had to rely on the railing to stand firm. If it weren't for the fact that the people here were not very familiar, Viper would probably have climbed on the railing by himself.

Why didn't anyone tell him that he would get seasick——!No matter if it was yesterday or today, the reaction was so serious, it felt like he was about to die, he would probably die here, because of seasickness...

This is a bit too low-!

Staring at Lal and Luche who were smiling on the deck with a bit of resentment, Viper endured the damn dizziness.

Why didn't even Lu Qie come to accompany him to get seasick!Forget about her being a pregnant woman, it's better not to have anything to do.

"Hey! Viper, you've been here all morning, what are you doing here?"

"Viper, I have something to ask you."

Hearing two voices that sounded almost at the same time, the irritated Viper tried to concentrate, snapped his fingers and used his tentacles to hang Scaru up directly, leaning on the railing and looking at Verti who came to him.

"Viper!? What are you doing!? Hey! Put me down quickly!"

"What's the matter with you?" Viper asked, rubbing his head and feeling a little better.

"Hey! Did you really listen to my uncle, you bastard!"

He looks in a bad mood?Verti pushed his glasses, but it had nothing to do with what he was about to say. "It's about... a certain mission before."

"Put this uncle down! Are you deaf, you bastard! Hey, what is this, huh huh—!"

Viper, who was already seasick, was annoyed by Skaru's yelling, and directly wrapped him into a squirming indigo rice dumpling with his tentacles.

Basically, he could think of what Verdi wanted to say, and Viper didn't hide any more. He just took out the things he got at the beginning from the bag, opened the isolation cover that Stephanie gave him, and threw it into Will. God's hands. "It just so happens that I also want to know about this thing, so let's talk about it here?"

"No..." After looking at the isolation cover in the bag taken back by Viper with great interest, Verdy checked the props returned to him, there was no damage, and then pointed to the empty stern. "Go over there and talk."

"...Okay." In fact, Viper, who didn't want to move at all, followed behind Verti. He controlled his body and floated a little higher than before, feeling a little better.

Skaru, who was left on the deck by two people to blow the cold wind, silently watched the two people walk towards the stern.

"Master...he has been completely forgotten."

"It seems so~" Lu Qie put down the black tea in his hand.

"Useless guy." The killer standing on the other side looked down at Scaru.

"I don't want you to say——!" Skaru silently froze when the killer glanced at him because of his yelling.

Why... there are so many scary people around me...

On the other side, Viper and Verdi stood opposite each other.

Verti played with the props in his hands, under the glasses, a pair of green eyes stared at Viper in front of him.

Want to know, want to know anyway.

Verdi always thought that all he needed to care about in his life was machines, and these things were all he needed.

Whenever, at any moment, he only needs to immerse himself in his science and research.Everything beyond that doesn't need to be cared about, and doesn't need to be cared about.The reason is very simple, because he is Verdi, and Verdi is such a person!

Why did he take part in such a weird mission, because he needs research funding!And once he has sufficient funds, he will never participate in this kind of mission again.

However, in this place, he met the person he dreamed of.

It's not that I haven't heard of the existence of supernatural powers, but those people are more cautious than one another, and they hide deeper than anyone else, and those who are easy to find have strong backing or strong strength, so it is really difficult to start.

When I came here this time, I actually saw Viper, the illusionist with superpowers. Verdi felt that his blood boiled the moment he saw him. His long-cherished wish was to be realized in this kind of place. ?

He has been observing this illusionist named Viper from the very beginning, and he has seen everything about him.Every word, every little action, Verdi will record them, without missing a single one!

He saw everything that amazed him, illusions, abilities, God!This person is the best material, the best experimental product, he no longer wants to quit this task, one day, he must be thoroughly studied from the inside out!Don't miss every corner.

Those abilities that are different from ordinary people, those unscientific existences that are beyond common sense, he will use scientific principles to explain all these!

"I've had this vision from the beginning, what do you want to do? Verdi." Viper asked. "I advise you to put away your crooked thoughts. What exactly is that thing? What exactly do you want to do?"

Withdrawing his overly eager gaze, Verdi said: "You should have tried using this. The energy stored in it is less. How do you feel?"

After silently staring at Verti for a while, under Verti's puzzled eyes, Viper faintly uttered a word. "Consulting fee..."

"..." In the end, I was just struggling with this? "One-tenth of the reward for this mission will be given to you."

"The illusion will change the moment it is used. Although it looks like it's just an enhanced appearance, according to my feeling... it makes the ordinary illusion have a sense of reality."

"Illusion... the physical feeling...?" Aroused a bit, Verti stroked the stubble on his chin. "What is that? Illusion can also become a reality? The previous illusionist didn't even mention it."

"...consulting fee."

"...It's still the same price as before."

"How could a mesmer of that level know the domain of entity illusion." Viper said sarcastically. "If you talk about it too specifically, you won't understand. Entity illusion is an important branch of the illusionist's entity. You haven't even met the guy you saw before. Even if you find that the power of illusion has increased, you don't know why."

"...Really." After being slightly stabbed by "you won't understand", the scientist who thought "it's okay if people say that kind of thing is not scientific" ignored the illusionist's tone a little haughty. "How about you being my experimental subject...?"

Viper glared at Verdy instantly, his eyes sharp.

"The principle of this device is what I thought of from a piece of information I got by chance. You also know its function. I have been trying to understand the essence of the ability of illusion and strengthen it, but in fact I I don't know which aspect of the illusion my device has strengthened, and I can't understand this effect, so naturally I can't continue to study it."

"Moreover, there were some problems with the funds and equipment in the middle, and my research had to be terminated." Verdi's tone was a little more regretful. "So, this is the culmination of all my research in this area."

"I don't need you to cooperate with my experiment now, nor do I want to treat you like a white mouse that I want to fiddle with. I don't have that high confidence to control a world-class illusionist."

"It's just an invitation to cooperate with me, just use my device and tell me all his subtle changes, okay?"

After Verti asked his own question, he fell silent, leaving Viper room to think.

Viper just thought about it for a while, and he could vaguely see the benefits that Verdi's research would bring to him after his success.

As if thinking of the possible benefits in the future, the illusionist slightly hooked the corner of his mouth.

"What price are you going to pay? My worth is not cheap."

Having achieved his goal, the scientist could no longer control the upward curvature of the corners of his lips.

"I will share [-]% of all benefits with you."

"Twenty percent?" Viper raised an eyebrow. "No, I want [-]%."

"Thirty percent?" Verdi staggered and almost fell, holding on to the railing to stabilize his body. "Don't be kidding me! I don't have enough research funds on my side! How much do you think a poor and poor scientist can have!"

"No money? Why do you ask me if you don't have money? Don't you understand how valuable this is after the completion? Seven achievements in your own hands can already recover all the assets you invested and double it several times! No matter what aspect Few people in the whole of Italy can understand the market better than me, [-]%, otherwise I will definitely not agree. You can struggle on your own!"

"You don't understand at all! Do you know how much money is spent on a research? Do you know that scientific research is burning money! Do you know how much my current budget deficit is!? It's me who is lurking Would you like it?! If I hadn't tried so hard to hide it, I would have been caught by various usury debtors to sell my organs! Do you know how many times I wish God would throw research funds from the sky and hit me on the head? Although I'm a materialist, but at this time I can reluctantly accept religion! I hope you can give a price acceptable to both parties, Mr. Viper."

"Do you think I will believe your nonsense? You should give me a share here, and I won't give it away! Scientists always have some research results. Find a seller for those unimportant and unnecessary things Isn’t it right to sell it? You can keep yourself safe by leaving some loopholes in it. Do you think I don’t understand the value of technology in the current market?”

"Do you think I didn't do that?! The important thing is that this kind of money is still not enough—!"

Verti shouted and attracted the attention of everyone on the other side, Viper also fell silent, and the stern was silent, only the gasping sound of the scientist after shouting.

After a long silence, Viper spoke again with a low voice, like the calm before the storm. "...Let me see your transaction records."

"...What do you want to do?" The scientist, who had finally caught his breath, looked at Viper warily.

"Don't worry about those, let me see, otherwise everything I said before will be as if it never happened."

"... Tsk!" After a little thought in his heart, Verti pressed a few times on the computer at hand with a sullen face, and a clear form appeared in front of Viper's eyes.

The number of transactions is high.

Viper doesn't have the ability to use his own eyes. After a certain amount of training, he can roughly see the value of the goods sold by Verdi through these detailed information. After seeing the amount of expenditure, Viper was puzzled. Can you afford the expense?And there will be a very rich leisure.

How bad is this person going to do business to make such a terrible deficit in his financial expenditure?

Viper looked at the last column with some curiosity, looking at the sales amount of those research projects.

……

………………

…………What's this?

Could it be that I read it wrong? Viper scanned the form back and forth, again and again, and fell silent.

"Verty..." He raised his hand and grabbed Verdy's shoulder, and the moment the hood rose and fell, Viper's eyes flashed past Verdy's face.

That's... Verti's anger at being spoken in such a tone of hidden anger disappeared in an instant, and only the beautiful color that he couldn't see clearly but was indeed surprising was left in his mind.

Can humans...can use such brilliant colors as eye pupils?

Verti stared directly at Viper's hood in a daze, and the words he spoke were also dull like a machine. "……What's wrong?"

"In my life—I have never seen—a stupider—stupider than you!"

"You wasteful bastard!"

The mesmer's soft voice was mixed with unconcealable anger, and the brief roar reached everyone's ears completely and clearly.

Luche paused, and the black tea was poured out of the cup. Lal frowned and looked at the stern. Clonello, who was fiddling with his gun, slipped his hand and shot down a seabird.

Still in a daze, Verti argued for himself, saying how hard he had worked so hard to get the price.

Viper directly took out the paper and wrote a contract, and handed it to Verdi with a gloomy face.

"What are you doing?"

"Sign." Viper pointed to the empty name column, not to be refused.

"...This is...you will sell all my research in the future, and I must give you a [-]% commission? Why!?"

"Just because you didn't even sell for half of the market price! Idiot!"

"--How can it be?!"

After some quarrels, Verdi finally believed Viper's words in front of the pile of evidence Viper presented, and cursed those people who had made deals with him before, but he didn't know that Viper had already set off fireworks in his heart, the scientist Sure enough, he doesn't know how to do business, this guy is so easy to deceive!

Verti's purple number grew rapidly, and he seemed to be one of Viper's most foolish benefactors.

"Then... let's settle it like this." Viper put away the contract between the two, feeling dizzy again, and was about to find a random place to rest for a while, but he heard the noise of the ship's bow louder than louder.Those idle and boring guys who practiced martial arts started fighting again.

"It seems that I'd better stay here for the time being." Viper leaned against the railing dejectedly. "I don't want to be drawn into the battle by those inexplicable guys as soon as I go out."

Verdi pushed his glasses and said with a sneer, "It's just a group of reckless people with strong limbs and a simple mind."

"Only this time, I reluctantly agree with you."

The noise over there was louder than louder, and Verti showed a look of disdain and disgust on his face. "It's so noisy, it's because they always do that that I can't do my research properly."

"If you are not satisfied, it is right to quit this mission directly."

"Forget it then." Verdi said, at least until Viper quit, he would never quit this mission.

"why?"

"Because I have an important research to be conducted here."

"Really?" Knowing in his heart how much importance scientists attached to the research he was doing, Viper snorted, and he was not interested in paying attention to things that he shouldn't be paying attention to.

"In the first place, why did you become a scientist?" Viper asked suddenly.

Verde looked up, eyes covering his expression. "Then why do you want to be an illusionist?"

"..." Viper was silent for so long that Verdy thought he would not answer. "Because there is no choice."

"Then it's the same for me, because there is no choice."

Their path is very simple, either accept this profession, go farther than anyone else, live a more beautiful life than anyone else, and finally become really obsessed with this profession.Or... to die.There are only these two paths, it's just that simple.

"...Hey, Viper." Verti opened his mouth suddenly, he thought of something and was eager to confirm it. "Aside from illusion and life, what do you really care about? The so-called money is actually just the sustenance of desire."

Viper turned his head to look at him, but didn't answer, so Verdy continued talking. "You...you are not lost while you want to live."

"You, you are not confused..."

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaf to the kid said, Viper said. "Confused? Me? Do you want to be a full-time psychiatrist? Verdi, be your scientist and stop saying such stupid things. It will make people doubt your IQ."

The sound of fighting outside had died down, and Viper left the stern without hesitation.

Behind him, the green-haired scientist took out a few sheets of paper, opened them, and added a few more lines to the bottom page.

Ah, sure enough, if it is the world's strongest illusionist, he can't restrain the desire to explore in his heart.