Chapter 225: Officer Sibel
“Ding, ding, ding.”
"Boom, boom, boom, boom."
"Ding-dong, ding-dong..."
After testing the sound for a while, this group of casual players who were always thinking about how to play new games happily played the percussion version of "Gong Xi Fa Cai"...
Music knows no borders, just like an old farmer who knows nothing about foreign music can tell that "The Last of the Mohicans" is a sad and solemn elegy, the festive rhythm of "Gong Xi Fa Cai" does not require any cultural identification to be understood.
Of course, because the "instruments" used by the players are really ridiculous and out of tune, the percussion instruments of this song "Gong Xi Fa Cai" are seriously out of tune, but the general tune is still there, and it can bring out the cheerful and lively atmosphere, which is especially in line with the festive atmosphere that is currently permeating the city of Innadli.
Passersby stopped and looked in amazement and wonder at the undead who were composing cheerful music with wine bottles, thin iron sheets, scrap saw blades and dried pumpkins, their jaws dropped and their eyes drooped.
The visiting delegation of Count Odysseus across the road also couldn't keep their jaws.
Master Parker, Master Parker's friend Master Gray, and Master Parker's sister Phoenix Carmen Odysseus, these three noble sons who usually pay great attention to their manners and temperament, have dull expressions on their faces that are no different from the common women carrying vegetable baskets beside them.
Seeing that the percussion music of "beat culture identity" shocked all the "NPCs", the group of leisure people who were doing performance art became more excited. After playing a not-so-standard song "Gong Xi Fa Cai", they immediately played another song "Good Luck Comes".
The melody of "Good Luck Comes" is more passionate and lively, carrying the fighting spirit of the Chinese people in the era of struggle. There is no beautiful voice of a female singer to neutralize the fighting spirit. The rhythm of the pure music is very powerful. Passers-by with a little natural musical sense nodded and shook their legs when listening to it. They felt that they would feel uncomfortable if they didn't move with the rhythm.
After the powerful battle version of "Good Luck Comes", many citizens even came forward to throw coins in front of the doors of the undead - the music performed by these undead was really not much worse than the street singing of the bards!
"Damn, there is such a good thing?"
The casual player used the identification spell on the copper coins thrown by the citizens and found that this kind of NPC coins can be exchanged for player currency at the city hall. He was shocked and immediately shook out the bag of dried pumpkins and spread it out in front of the performance booth...
These casual players don't stay in the city every day thinking about causing trouble. They usually do some tasks to improve their reputation and have a demand for game coins and equipment. For example, in large-scale events like territory wars, casual players will also join in the fun.
Playing performance art can also earn you some money, so these players are even more excited. They don’t care about the order of the performances, and the next song they chose as the “finale song” is “Majestic”...
...It's also a good thing that these players can't sing accompaniment, otherwise this matter would be difficult to resolve...
Before leaving, the visitor from Odysseus's family also sent his followers to throw a few silver coins into the cloth bags spread out by the dead.
The group walked for a long time in silence before Phoenix said quietly, "These Tarantan Undead are indeed very special."
"I told you so!" Master Parker slapped his thigh in disgust, "These undead are really weird! There are even some undead who can serve as archons!"
The undead mayor whom Master Parker met in Westham had a great impact on his worldview. Even though it was immediately overshadowed by the impact of the black magician Yang, Master Parker still couldn't forget it.
Phoenix deadpanned.
When she heard her brother mention that Charlie Rex allowed the undead to serve as archons, she felt it was absurd.
But the situation in Westham described by her brother Parker made her feel that the Undead Archon seemed to be a good idea - not everyone could handle the autumn tax payment scene in an orderly manner. At least Phoenix knew that most of the noble children who usually surrounded her to fawn on her and tried to use family connections to get an official position could not do this.
Phoenix accepted the mission to visit Innadri for his father during the holiday celebration, partly because he wanted to avoid those fools who had little ability but no self-awareness.
Phoenix walked in silence and raised his head to look in the direction of the city hall.
Knowing how to paint and play music proves that these seemingly dirty and ugly undead have cultural qualities that are not inferior to those of the nobles. Although this is very destructive to the worldview, it also indirectly proves one thing: it is very likely that Charlie Rex did not arrange the position of archon to the undead out of fear or flattery of the black magician Yang.
Charlie Rex made such a choice because these undead do possess talents that match those of the Archons.
This is important.
This shows that Charlie Rex may not be completely controlled by the black magician Yang, and the series of policies he implements are all based on his own will.
But... based on the information currently available, it is difficult for Phoenix to make a clear determination.
The reason is simple: Charlie Rex's personal life is too simple.
He lived in the dormitory of the city hall like the operators of the city hall, and had no mansion of his own. After becoming a lord, there was no woman around him - even if he had ambitions for the identity of a wife and did not consider getting married for the time being, it was impossible for him not to even arrange a lover, right?
Except for not wearing a robe and being barefoot, in Phoenix's opinion, Charlie Rex's life was almost the same as that of an ascetic - only the ascetics in the church would be as ascetic as he was.
Only ambitious people and extremely pure idealists will strictly restrain themselves before achieving their goals. This is Phoenix's experience after serving as the supreme governor of the Odysseus territory for nearly ten years and meeting countless people.
What kind of person would it be, Charlie Rex?
After staring at the direction of the City Hall for a while, Phoenix made a decision and said resolutely: "It's time to go meet the undead lady."
The city of Innadli does not have a mayor yet, and the person regarded by Charlie Rex as the ruling arm is an undead spirit called "Ms. Zhao Jie".
According to the information obtained by the visiting delegation of the Odysseus family after entering the city, this "Ms. Zhao" is wise, shrewd, kind and generous, and has a very high reputation among the officers, operators and clerks.
The accommodation and reception staff for the delegation were arranged by "Ms. Zhao". Apart from the fact that they were not grand (pompous) and formal (luxurious) enough, and that made people wonder whether Charlie Rex's financial situation was not optimistic, Phoenix could not find any other faults.
The City Hall of Innadri City, like the Town Hall of Westham, has an earthen platform in the courtyard for the undead to "appear" or "disappear". When Master Parker saw the earthen platform when he entered the city yesterday, he almost had PTSD. He threw a tantrum and refused to go to the City Hall with his sister. Phoenix had no choice but to tell his unruly brother not to cause trouble in the city, and he went to visit the undead lady alone with several followers.
A female official dressed in a smart formal suit received Phoenix Carmen Odis who came alone. She politely invited this important guest into the reception room and quickly arranged for someone to invite Ms. Zhao.
While waiting, Phoenix inconspicuously looked at the Director of Education who called himself Sibel.
With his proper manners and the calmness and confidence that emanates from him, he looks like a well-educated elite from a respectable family.
But she certainly knew that this Sibel's identity was not decent at all - before being employed by Charlie Rex, this woman was just a prostitute who was not worthy of being in public.
It was no secret that the noble sons who were sent to the Odysseus territory by their families for refuge had angrily accused Charlie Rex of employing prostitutes countless times in semi-public occasions. The women who appeared in the city of Innadri, such as Sibel, Shirley, and Phoebe, who used to work in clubs, were not strangers to the noble sons.
Phoenix was not a shallow person who would be angry about being entertained by a prostitute. Unlike her brother Parker who never grew up, she had been exposed to many shabby things in the upper circles of the kingdom after becoming an archon. Why did the nobles of the kingdom look down on nouveau riche who were not yet five generations old? Because if they did not become wealthy for a few more generations, the low-class atmosphere of their ancestors could not be completely purified.
Most of the so-called nobles and respectable families have roots that are not respectable even for more than a dozen generations.
The Bartles family was "promoted" from a bandit group, and the Odysseus family was not much better...
Sibel was a sensitive lady. She could feel Phoenix's probing gaze, but she was already used to similar or even more impolite scrutiny and didn't take it seriously.
While she was chatting and waiting with this noble lady, a subordinate came in to ask for instructions. She did not deliberately avoid him, but handled the Education Department's affairs, which were not considered secret, in front of the guest.
"Increase lunch allowance... Yes, just let them know. Even if you are not keeping up with your studies, as long as you are in school on time, you will get lunch allowance. Two eggs per meal, and you can take one home..."
"I know the eggs I bring back might be taken away by my family, but it doesn't matter, I'll just leave them in school for now..."
"Apply to the Logistics Department and write a report..."
"Okay, thank you for your hard work."
The subordinates left the reception room. Sibel smiled at Phoenix apologetically and said, "I'm so sorry, we are always short of staff here, so we don't have much time to enjoy tea quietly."
Phoenix nodded slightly to show that she didn't mind, put down the teacup, and asked casually: "Isn't the funding Charlie allocated to the Education Department sufficient? Do we need to apply for it at any time?"
"It is enough, but we are responsible for a lot of students." Xibeier is a little proud of herself, and said with a bright smile, "Mr. Rex believes that without enough educated people, Innadelli cannot develop. We are almost open to recruit students without tuition. We have to recruit all the people of the right age in the city into the school, which is a bit tight."
Phoenix deadpanned.
...It is even more difficult to tell whether Charlie Rex is an ambitious man or an idealist.
