by Guohan LIN, 2025-08-19 13:39:57

He wanted to go down and wash himself, so he jumped into the pool, but he forgot that the pool was two meters deep and was submerged in an instant. Beyondbear saw him and said to himself, "Is uncle practicing holding his breath again?" Amandine choked when he entered the water and sank. Fortunately, he had good swimming skills and floated to the surface in a short while. He coughed a few times and said angrily, "Fool, who told you to dig so deep?"
Uwa came over at this time and said after realizing it, "Brother, this pool is not good. The more you wash, the dirtier it gets." When Amandine came out of the pool, he couldn't see his figure clearly and his whole body was covered in mud. The next day he wanted to fill the pool back. Beyondbear refused to agree and destroyed all the shovels. Amandine lost interest in the pool and waited all day for Bald Qiang to contact him. After more than a month, the money in his hands was getting less and less. Beyondbear would spend 300 shillings a day. He planned to go back to his old job of playing stocks while he still had more than 20,000 shillings in his hand as capital. He did what he said. He bought a computer and went online to start speculating in stocks again. But this time he used the identity of Uwa. He was afraid that he would be targeted by the Illuminati if he was too big of a target. According to the information given by Catherine, he made more than 20,000 shillings on the first day. If he continued to play like this, he would be a rich man again, Amandine thought confidently. A year later, his wish finally came true. The three of them moved into a villa again, of course, with a pool inside. He lived a very low-key life and rarely appeared in the public eye. He only contacted Bald Qiang once a year, but it was not a very important matter. He gradually lost his enthusiasm for this kind of cooperation. "Maybe I can set up an organization myself to fight against the Illuminati." Amandine thought.
To build an organization, you must have people. It is definitely not possible to rely on Uwa and Beyondbear. It would be good if these two people don't hold him back. He wanted to recruit people in the form of a company, and he had already thought of a name, called "Umbrella House Commune", which was the name of the company used by his mother Yurina before. One day, Uwa brought someone who made him ecstatic, "Old man, are you still alive?"
The person was Ludes who had separated from them to escape. That time, he asked Amandine and the other two to hide in the mountains, and he led the enemy away. Unfortunately, he was shot in the end. When he was injured, he hid behind a tree. When he came out, Amandine and the others had already left. In the first few years, he looked everywhere for them, but later he gave up. Recently, he got a sum of money and heard that Milner Hotel was very famous, so he wanted to experience it. He stayed there for one night, and when he came out, he ran into Uwa who was buying groceries and going home. More than ten years have passed, and Ludes doesn't look much different, he is still an old man.
"Brother, it's great that the old man was not eaten by the wolf." Amandine patted Ludes on the shoulder and praised: "Old man, you came just when I needed manpower. You are really my soulmate." Ludes said with a little dissatisfaction: "I am so old, and you still want me to do things?"
"It won't be very tiring. You just sit there and help me recruit some people." Amandine didn't want to show up himself, and Uwa couldn't speak, and could only call him brother. Pushing Ludes out was the best candidate. "Umbrella House Commune" opened a week later. Ludes became the boss in public, and Amandine hid behind the scenes to command. They recruited in the name of a security company. There were more than 20 applicants in the first batch, and three of them were girls. Amandine liked two tall men and one girl. The second batch had more people, more than 50 people came, and there was one person who made Amandine very interested. This person was Chris, the toilet man. Chris used to be a soldier. After Amandine was kicked out of the Pride Farm, he also lost his job. Yesterday, he heard that they were recruiting security personnel here, so he came to try. Uwa and Amandine were standing on the second floor. She also saw Chris through the surveillance. As soon as she saw him, she screamed.
 "What? You still think about him?" Amandine asked sourly.
"Brother, please recruit him!" Uwa begged.
"Okay!" Amandine thought for a moment before agreeing, wanting this rival to go back to cleaning the toilet.
After several recruitments, a total of 36 people were selected, and five of them were girls. One of them was a girl named Eliza, who was recruited because she looked like her sister Catherine. Amandine saw that this girl had a strong sense of intimacy, often brought her around, and gave her twice as much salary as others. On this day, Amandine called the old man and Eliza and others to discuss how to take back the Pride Farm. Eliza attended the meeting for the first time and asked in surprise, "Boss, the Pride Farm is yours?"
"Yes, am I young and promising?" Amandine proudly straightened her chest.
Eliza showed an admiring look, "The boss is awesome!"
Ludes laughed, "Boy, stop bragging, wait until you get it back."
Chris flattered him, "The boss is awesome, I often hear people praising him when I'm out."
"What do you praise him for?" Uwa asked curiously.
Amandine also wanted to know how others praised him, and was also waiting for an answer. Chris just said it casually, and the words he heard were not very nice. Most of them were that Amandine was useless, like a stray dog being driven out of the Pride Farm. There were also words like being rejected by an ugly girl, having a wretched appearance, being a stingy person, and so on. Now he had to make up a story, so he had to bite the bullet, otherwise he would have to go to clean the toilet again. "They all say that you, the boss, are broad-minded and helpful. You have a strong sense of professionalism, a flexible mind, temperament, connotation, and exude the charm of a man everywhere. You give people a sense of authority and power. You are a man among men." Amandine was a little unconvinced and asked with his head tilted, "Is this talking about me?"
Chris was afraid of overpraising, so he quickly added, "Boss, you are too modest. In my heart, you are this kind of person."
"Okay, it seems that sweeping the toilet is too unfair to you. You are also a talent. Stay with me in the future!"
"Thank you, boss!" Chris was glad that the flattery just now worked. Ludes interrupted, "You two are praising each other, but nothing has been solved."
Amandine looked at the newly rising talent and asked, "Chris, what suggestions do you have?" After upgrading from a toilet man to a talent, Chris was ready to perform well. He cleared his throat and shouted, "It should be easy to take back the Pride Farm, but it will be difficult to keep it. The Illuminati has tens of thousands of troops in Africa, and we are no match for them."
"Then what do you say we should do?"
"The only ones who can defeat the Illuminati now are the city-states. If we can unite with them, there will be hope."
"Ah, after all this talk, we still have to go find Norforth." This is what Amandine least wants to do. He still wants to take back the gold mine and other industries by his own strength.
 

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