The next day, Ronnie dragged his tired body to work. He ran into Peggy as he entered the Institute, and now that he didn't hate Peggy as much as he used to, he greeted her whenever they met, as in "Good morning, goodbye!" and other routine things like that. As soon as she saw him, Lily joked, "Boss, what did you do last night? why are you so listless?"
"It'll be clear when you have a boyfriend."
Lily thought for a moment before realizing, she glared at Ronnie, "Stinking rascal!"
Crockett, who was on the side, spoke up, "Boss, there are almost two hundred thousand people using the Enlightenment Chip right now, but the number of people has been increasing more and more slowly over the past few days, and it only increased by more than two hundred yesterday, so if things keep going like this, the outlook isn't optimistic."
"So what do you have in mind?" Ronnie asked.
"Should we publicize it? not many people know about it now, most of them are from You City."
"Publicity? that's not our strength, who would be a good person to call?"
"Boss, should we ask your beautiful wife to come out and help with the publicity?" Lily suggested.
Ronnie heard the word beautiful and immediately thought of the Holy Virgin Saria, "It would be nice if we could get her to do some publicity, but she doesn't seem to want people to know about our relationship,"he shook his head.
"Then call your sister, your sister is pretty too."
Ronnie got angry, "Why are you always calling my family? why don't you do it yourself?"
Lily said with a hurt face, "I'm trying to think of a way for you to do it, if I'm pretty of course I'll just do it."
"Why do you have to be pretty to get publicity? there are ways to be ugly."
Lily's face fell as soon as she heard Ronnie call her ugly, and she stood up and spat a mouthful of thick spit at him and threw a punch at him. The punch landed hard on his nose and blood spurted out. Still not relieved, Lily was about to lunge at him again, but luckily Crockett was there to stop her, "Lily! are you crazy?!"
Ronnie held his hand over his nose, eyes wide. He was embarrassed that he couldn't hit a girl. To lighten the atmosphere, Crockett coughed twice and smiled, "We can promote it outside the city-state, the 'Free World' has a population of two billion people, there are more stupid people over there, it should be more marketable, and it can still bring in revenue for the city-state."
When he finished, neither of them answered. After a long time, Lily shrugged, "It depends on the ugly man, we all grew up in the city-state, we're not familiar with the outside.”
"I'll think of something," Ronnie said slowly as he wiped the blood from his nose. He felt that this matter could only be handled by the Baron, but it would require the approval of Park Hye and Alice. When he returned home from work and saw Catherine who had been picked up, he hugged and kissed her and then mentioned the publicity to both of them. When Alice heard what he had said, she asked with a skeptical look, "Does it have to be you? can't we find someone else?"
Ronnie thought about it and said, "Well, who do you think would be better?"
Alice thought for a moment before saying, "How about Butch?"
"Good, then who's in charge inside the city-state?"
"I'll do it! I just don't know how to do the publicity?" Park Hye, who was standing on the side, volunteered.
"I'll go with you!" Alice agreed and added a moment later, "Ronnie, can't you come with us?"
Ronnie didn't want to go, he was most afraid of showing his face, but he had to agree under his sister's lechery. He got four more, Lily, Crockett, George and Brown. Seven people spent half a month touring the three city-states of Wei, Yin, Hai to promote the chip, the number of people using the chip reached more than 600,000, including the Baron in the 'free world' to promote more than 300,000 people. The Baron's promotion was done by Vinique, who was an expert in this field, and she also brought huge returns to the family, and her status in the family rose sharply. Vinique divided the same chips into three categories to sell, and priced the three categories with different services and packaging, so she made money for the rich and sold the product to the common man at a thin margin. She ended up selling three times as much as Ronnie and seven others. "What a job! I can't believe my classmate is so good,” Ronnie felt he had found the right person.
Lily, who was happy to continue with him, looked at him and said, "Shame on you, you couldn't catch her even after wasting half a month of spit.”
Since the last time he was beaten and bleeding, Ronnie was a little scared of her and didn't answer, he turned to Crockett and said, "We're only producing one million chips in the first phase, it seems we need to increase production again, this is something you're going to do, you don't need to follow the publicity in the back, the six of us will be fine".
Crockett had a difficult look on his face, he realized that he had fallen in love with Alice after half a month of contact, he suggested to Ronnie, "You tell Lily to go back! she's a girl, I'll just cover here."
"Great!" Ronnie couldn't imagine that he was so aware of the situation and was very pleased with his gentlemanly behavior, "Lily, go back, here you will only talk back to me and you won't be able to help at all.”
"You ..." Lily was so angry that she wanted to run up and slap him twice, but she didn't spare him, she flew up and kicked him in the ass, "Ugly man, remember, the next time you say something like that, I'll castrate you."
Ronnie bared his teeth in pain but still smiled, "I'll remember, don't worry."
Park Hye couldn't bear to see her husband being bullied and said, "Why does she keep kicking you? do you always joke around like that at work?"
"She's a man-child, nobody wants her, so she can only use me as a punching bag," Ronnie replied in a whisper. He was still afraid of being overheard by Lily, who had just walked a short distance away. The six of them arrived in Chen City and immediately split into three groups, Ronnie and Park Hye in one group, George and Brown in another, and Crockett this time in a group with Alice, he was overjoyed and always felt that half a month of dedication had finally paid off. He does not usually talk much, but when he touches the girl he likes, he can talk a lot and his mouth is like a river. Alice had already guessed what was on his mind and had to interrupt, "Crockett, I already have a boyfriend.”
"Then I can play fair with him, everyone in the 'New World' is free as long as they are not officially married."
Alice didn't say anything after hearing this and could only remain silent. Crockett, encouraged by the fact that she didn't really object, went on, "Once the three of us were busy solving a technical problem until the next day, and then Lily fell asleep on Ronnie's back."
"Crockett, have Ronnie and Lily always had this kind of relationship?"
"What kind?" Crockett asked curiously.
"Like siblings, and like two kids playing."
"Lily didn't really have a personality like that before, she came from the capital, those who could get into the capital were the best scientists in the 'New World', she came from the capital because of an experimental accident that caused disfigurement. She later had a facelift and even changed her name, I still don't know why she joined the boss' team, she's much more famous than the boss, I just joined the team because I saw her name."
"Ah! Is she that good?" Alice was very surprised.
"Yes, her original name was 'Emily'." Crockett said as he searched the name with his watch, only to see the description on it: "Emily, gender: female, born 2618, recipient of the 'Order of the Holy Virgin of the Second Class', one of the nine scientists who invented the 'Warp Engine Cosmic Spaceship', the female genius of the New World. "
After reading the above introduction, Alice felt many emotions in her heart. It seemed that the city-state was indeed a place of hidden dragons and crouching tigers. She wouldn't dare underestimate anyone in the future. Then she asked, "Does Ronnie know her original identity?”
"If he didn't check on purpose, he shouldn't know, the boss was always confused, when we went for interviews, he just came up with the questions for the exams and didn't ask us where we came from,” the duo walked and talked, and before they knew it, they had arrived in the 1250 city-state of Chen City. They entered the cafeteria on the first floor of the Central District, and the centerpiece of the place was the "Dream Forest", where a five to six meter tall tree stood, and the sound of birds chirping came from the tree from time to time. The forest was surrounded by a stream with fish swimming in it. Alice saw this and exclaimed, "Why is the center of all the city-states so beautiful? each City-state has its own special features."
Crockett laughed, "Haha, when you go to Zi City, you'll know what true beauty is."
"You've been to Zi City?" Alice asked.
"Yes! I also met the Holy Virgin Saria there."
"Can anyone go to Zi City?"
"No, you need an invitation to go there."
The two became more and more chatty, forgetting all about business. It wasn't until Ronnie sent a message asking, "Sister, how's it going over there?"
Only then did they remember there was business to be done and hurried off. It wasn't until five in the afternoon that the six reunited at the spot where they had split up. A few words were exchanged, and all felt that they had reaped a good harvest this time, and for the next twenty days or so they went to another large group of city-states before returning to their own You City.