Ningfeng Harbor.
Five-Color Narcissus Company office building, Chairman's office.
Although bearing the chairman title, Hibiscus looked perplexedly at a thick stack of docunts on her desk. Everything in sight was nothing but procurent plans, special dicine production progress, regulatory permits, market research conditions... Simply dazzling and all-encompassing. A glance made one's head spin, but Hibiscus still did her best.
As long as one was willing to learn, these things weren't difficult. Moreover, she could always ask netizens—anyway, the major strategic direction wouldn't be wrong.
Everyone continued being busy after the Hermit Island journey.
Hibiscus was grateful that when she initially operated under the doctor identity, she'd at least learned so enterprise-related knowledge and wasn't completely clueless. Now she could finally get started—at worst, diligence could compensate for clumsiness. Just relying on magical girls' ntal agility should be enough to handle it.
During the team's startup phase, they still lacked people who both knew about magical girls and were trustworthy, so the 4 founders couldn't afford to be idle.
Jin Ruochu single-handedly handled infection disease special dicine "Purification Series" product developnt.
She was doing quite well.
Although drug regulation processes were slow, it had already spread among the privileged class. There were many troubled by infection diseases who had long been impatient and didn't care about waiting for procedures. Moreover, many so-called "longevity dicines" and "anti-aging drugs" were essentially their own laboratory products without strict procedures—luxury items exclusive to the wealthy, which unlike commoners actually counted as bonus points. In short, thanks to Jin Ruochu's efforts, the special dicine was spreading in small circles, earning nurous good reputations.
No helping it—after all, Magical Girl Hyacinth's healing technique was too extraordinarily skillful. Integrated into dicine, it worked subtly like moistening rain, curing diseases without hidden dangers—practically perfect.
As long as the effects were strong enough, that was all that mattered. Strength trumped everything.
Although "small-scale" promotion, the revenue benefits were substantial, even quite profitable.
The sales line managed by Jin Ruochu had accumulated 30 million yuan in inco, giving the company finances a big boost and gradually addressing the nouveau riche's financial hidden dangers.
Facts proved that having world-class giant enterprise Changfeng Pharmaceutical executive experience was different. In terms of influence managent, no one could compare to the unlucky young lady—she single-handedly beca a money-printing machine.
Hibiscus wouldn't underestimate special dicines made from healing spells, but the rapid short-term expansion was entirely due to Jin Ruochu's efforts.
Worthy of being a protagonist.
In the original storyline, she was clearly set as an all-around multi-talented character, yet from beginning to end only displayed combat talent. Netizens joked she was "always at the center of events—either fighting or on the way to fight," causing everyone to overlook her abilities.
The protagonist walking a path of deeply developing her own talents gave Hibiscus quite a sense of achievent.
Thanks to you running around everywhere, I can sit comfortably in the office reading docunts.
Of course, relying only on herself and Jin Ruochu was far from enough. The other two companions were equally indispensable, or rather, they shouldered the arduous task of "defending the territory after expanding business operations."
Nan Zhiyi had full responsibility for the company's basic operations, including but not limited to taxation, personnel, raw materials, custors... She was simply superhuman.
Actually, she hadn't been without mistakes—occasionally forgetting about tax reduction benefits and such minor flaws, becoming quite self-reproachful at tis, requiring Hibiscus's comfort before letting it go.
How did I end up doing ideological work too?
Compared to Jin Ruochu, whose initial stats were extrely luxurious and who grew into a "quasi-complete entrepreneur," obviously Nan Zhiyi hadn't had good platforms or big shots to carry her before. However, relying on Five-Color Narcissus Company's from-scratch experience actually gave her error tolerance opportunities. The biggest gap between people wasn't IQ, but invisible barriers like background, platforms, and social class—she just happened to lack opportunities least now.
The Salvation Church in the original storyline rose from humble beginnings entirely through Hyacinth and Dandelion, at least proving certain talent.
Do I have talent?
Hibiscus browsed through the series of reports in her hands while doubting herself. She'd witnessed colleagues' talents, but her own level remained questionable. However, as long as she didn't drag everyone down, that was fine.
You all count as my external brains.
Especially Nan Zhiyi—steady yet not lacking pioneering spirit. She single-handedly managed various company affairs while indeed not delaying expansion in three fields: information technology, dicine, and real estate. A large ship sailed steadily in her hands. As for Hibiscus, she at most counted as a navigator and captain—practical operations were still insufficient for now.
Bang bang!
Suddenly knocking sounds rang out. After the girl said "Co in," Jin Yulu walked over with bloodstains on her body, causing a commotion in the work area hall—everyone was shocked.
Nan Zhiyi from another office even opened her door to peek. Oh, it's not your blood—then it's fine.
The CEO's performance made employees even more amazed. Indeed, our company is quite peculiar.
The executives and boss have a kind of bandit air.
However, speaking of it, those who went into business nowadays were always neither completely black nor white, with quite so shady thods—also normal.
Honestly, if not for factors like high salaries, good work environnt, convenient commute, and openly thriving performance, employees probably would have fled long ago.
Don't look at them all being young girls—they had an air of deep experience, especially when returning from business trips last week, unable to hide their aura of killing intent. Seed like they ca back from the Philippines—could it be they had intense exchanges of opinions with local thugs while discussing business?
High-end comrcial warfare was often simple.
Hibiscus was similarly unconcerned. After Jin Yulu closed the door, she asked leisurely: "If you need support, speak up anyti. Many bullying few is justice."
The girl slightly cald her excited mood, finally making the golden vertical pupils in her eyes stop flashing, then smiled and replied:
"I had so conflict with neighboring city local bosses while salvaging Disaster Beast remains with the Dock Gang. Those guys really lack vision—clearly the harvest was abundant but they insisted on competing with us, ending up beaten badly. These guys have so fighting spirit and understand business sowhat. I subdued them in no ti—they won't be threats in the future, just chess pieces for us."
"Reliable?"
"Instructor, you might have grown up in peaceful city centers so you think many things should follow rules, but society's edge corners are quite jungle law."
Hibiscus quite agreed. After all, Planet Gaia wasn't like the peaceful world where netizens lived. Just the Disaster Beast problem alone left many official institutions with power vacuums, spawning a large batch of grassroots managent forces, or gangs. Gang warfare between them wasn't unusual.
For non-professional matters, no need to specifically interfere with subordinates' decisions—trust their excellence.
"No problem, go ahead and perform."
"On my end, Disaster Beast material sales have gained footing. Many forr friends heard I was doing business and were happy to join. Currently quite smooth..."
Jin Yulu roughly summarized so events. She rarely ntioned previous work, so this ti finally let Hibiscus deepen her understanding. Turns out Special Attack Forces always dealt with various local bosses—our forr captain miss was never honest.
Even Jin Yulu, who had distinguished service and was once promoted as a hero, had experiences walking the line between legal and illegal.
According to her, official institutions tolerating coastal gangs salvaging Disaster Beast remains was actually letting them bear the first wave of most serious infection while staying safe themselves.
Both sides using each other naturally beca familiar.
After hearing this, Hibiscus smiled wryly—indeed the world was full of complexity. No extra comntary needed; what mattered was Jin Yulu opening this route and controlling a considerable portion of Disaster Beast remains, which could help magical girls accelerate early awakening.
She replied: "Maintain the current pace. Accumulating materials is important—we can use them for magical girl practice later."
"Speaking of this, we need another training session to strike while the iron's hot."
"What's wrong?"
Jin Yulu clenched her fists. Fair skin slightly showed scale-like flowing light—clearly manifesting mythical form yet maintaining stable magic power. This was the prerequisite for Origin Internal Compression. In other words, before long she might achieve Magic Power Internal Compression, detonating energy shot into enemies to create hollow spaces—possessing powerful lethality against large Disaster Beasts.
Understanding this, Hibiscus's mouth twitched, thinking who exactly is cheating? Worthy of Magical Girl Protea—overly solid foundation from childhood bearing fruit.
"The Seedling Stage the instructor ntioned requires advancent in at least two of the three elents, right? I already have leads. World Serpent's next stage is controlling semi-beast transformation form; Origin's next stage is Magic Power Internal Compression. Since that's the case, no reason to wait—might as well race against ti to break through shackles."
"Being anxious won't help. Skill upgrades don't equal life tier. The magical girl's first major level isn't that simple."
"...What should I do?"
"We don't lack combat experience or life-and-death trials anymore. Now consolidate foundations through more ditation."
Hibiscus shared so of her insights, finally making the impatient Jin Yulu slightly settle down. After a while, the latter nodded thoughtfully and left to continue being busy.
Give in to mythical magic users—actually balancing business and training. Don't they have two stamina bars? Ridiculous, or rather Protea was exceptionally gifted.
Actually, everyone didn't need much training now—the key was improving proficiency and expanding magic power.
Similarly.
As five-dinsional attributes reached an average of 400, Hibiscus vaguely felt comprehensive physical quality sublimation was about to begin, but still chose to accumulate more magic power.
For example, magic power was equivalent to storage space. Without it, no matter what graphics card, processor, or screen would be useless. More frustrating was that one life sublimation easily fixed magic power at that level. Originally you could grind to level 100 but chose to breakthrough at level 80—still sowhat wasteful. Therefore, she decided to walk a path balancing all attributes. Where was the peak of magical girl power? Just wait and see.
Actually, Hibiscus noticed everyone's magic wasn't far from the next stage.
For example, Nan Zhiyi could actually make domains actively deform, becoming shields—currently the only external armor thod. Jin Ruochu's luck control was also getting stronger.
These naturally gifted daughters, through early systematic cultivation, fully released their potential at breakneck advancent speed. If this continued, would the gap with the first batch of magical girls beco too severe?
Plans needed to be accelerated.
Hibiscus opened a thick "Five-Color Narcissus Hospital Construction Plan"—the key to the plan.
Nothing was more suitable than hospitals for gathering magical girl awakeners from everywhere.
Their company, with Changfeng Group's big shot leading, was establishing general clinics or opening small pharmacies in the forr's large hospitals to sell special dicines, riding the world-class pharmaceutical giant's ship for gradual nationwide deploynt. Although currently just the startup phase, montum was good.
She hadn't forgotten Minase Kaori and others far away in Edo, Eagle Company laboratories, and nurous dostic magical girls. Na lists were available anyti.
The difficulty was first establishing influence for containnt.
Thinking this, Hibiscus opened the system Q&A page: "Continuing from before, regarding the enterprise managent line. Information technology investnt hasn't shown results, while dicine and real estate earn more and more. Can it be faster?"
Actually, she didn't expect any high-value answers, just throwing out ideas to see if there was information that could beco inspiration. The result was everyone's enthusiastic responses.
【Caught an update】
【High-end comrcial warfare often uses simple thods—suggest robbing banks】
【As long as you beco an internet giant enterprise, making money cos faster than damn strong winds】
【Not feasible, at least need spatial magic or skill magic like thieves, assassins, fraudsters...】
【Directly taking by hand is worth how much? I an debt—ruthlessly leverage, 50x isn't too much. You're not planning to repay anyway, right? Borrow a trillion in funding, what can't be solved afterward? Let's be conservative—highest record divided by two, owing a trillion is relatively safe】
Hearing this, Hibiscus's mouth twitched, thinking her group of four already averaged nine-digit debt, so the company's rapid expansion was already extre data in her view.
Yet netizens were bolder—could their world really have super deadbeats?
Fine, understood.
Hibiscus raised her debt threshold expectations to ten digits.
Although netizens provided many outrageous plans, thinking carefully, only living on debt was relatively reasonable. Whether they could borrow this much? How to resolve it later? Didn't care about any of that. Don't underestimate the funds Five-Color Narcissus Company could leverage now. Moreover, it always walked the high-end market with considerable connections among the privileged. If willing to finance, it would expand several tis—talk about the rest later.
Repay money? Why repay what was borrowed with skill? Otherwise, what, fight ? Indeed, as long as one's fists were big enough, many things opened doors. The only limitation was mindset.
Moreover, regardless of whether this year could defeat Catastrophic Disaster Beasts, the world was destined for chaos and war. Economic crisis would balance accounts for you.
While Hibiscus pondered, discussions continued: 【Playing with finance ultimately won't go far, plus it attracts too much hatred with high hidden costs. Manufacturing is more reliable】
【Finance opens roads, manufacturing establishes foundation—this is hard truth】
【Honestly, if this were a real worldline I'd still advise you to take money and run, but magical girl worldview has its own solutions, right? Might as well be idealistic】
【That's why I follow this thread】
【Everyone relax. New worldline—no, even in the original the Ti Priestess had principles, otherwise not so many would follow her devotedly. Boss Mu has conscience and integrity, definitely will lead Planet Gaia running into highly informatized era】
【Don't morally kidnap my Hyacinth—she's free, she can do whatever she wants】
【Feel like it's not as good as robbery, I want to see blood flowing like rivers】
【How co there are always Three Kingdoms Kill lines?】
Hibiscus smiled warmly watching otherworld netizens' heated discussions.
Sohow everyone easily got sidetracked into character fans conflicting with other character fans. Lately, they'd started discussing viewpoints like "Manjusaka's managent talent setting is first," "Dandelion's performance is best," "Actually Kale isn't bad either," even causing a long string of controversial comnts.
Didn't matter.
Half of the strongest cards were already in her hand—this was called first-mover advantage. What's most important in the 21st century? Talent.
More excellent magical girls would join the Salvation Church banner next, so action should be accelerated.
Netizens' heated discussions incidentally revealed so Catastrophic Disaster Beast attack details: the terrifying natural disaster codenad Aurora, although mainly ravaging Siberia, would simultaneously trigger large-scale Disaster Beast cluster events worldwide, especially economic center port cities would suffer heavy damage. Official organizational power would further weaken, having to leave more grassroots power vacuums.
The general trend was inevitable. Moreover, many people didn't think they could defeat Aurora—hiding would be good enough.
Disasters couldn't be avoided.
Hibiscus called Jin Ruochu, who was away on business, telling her: "Borrow money ruthlessly for , don't worry. Debt doesn't weigh on the body—raise targets to ten-digit levels, be bold."
Unexpectedly, the other party agreed imdiately. Of course, key points still needed asking:
"What? Dr. Mu finally had a change of heart."
"...This year's Disaster Beast attack intensity will be quite fierce. Many industrial chains around them will collapse massively. Plan ahead. Cash flow can survive economic crises, even if borrowed. Having money in your pockets at crucial monts is most important."
"Can I understand this as a ti magic prophecy?"
"Of course."
"Understood." Besides this, Jin Ruochu didn't ask anything else—one reply was enough. Actually she was equally bold, just lacked companions to go crazy with.
Since the boss said to play big, then go all in. Anyway, magical girls often acted faster than they think.
Hibiscus had thought she'd go through arduous consultations, even prepared that if Jin Ruochu slightly opposed and convinced her, she'd give up. Result—you're all ruthless people. Indeed, after experiencing big scenes, hearts opened up. In everyone's eyes, re debt compared to Hermit Island's bloodshed?
How bold the person, how big the debt hole.
Continuing like this definitely wouldn't work—couldn't contribute nothing to society while leaving a pile of leverage, right? Actually Hibiscus still hoped to create sothing.
She edited a new ssage: "Is there a possibility you could directly post so technical descriptions to help research? Otherwise, relying just on investing in electronic information laboratories is too slow here—earning revenue would take forever. Online waiting, quite urgent."
Originally Hibiscus hoped to slowly climb the technology tree with company finances, but ti waited for no one.
Answers quickly erged:
【Congratulations OP, you finally understand the internet's correct usage: being a qualified freeloader (dog head)】
【Should have done this long ago, just that Hyacinth never ntioned it. Now thinking carefully, technology from decades ago isn't all classified. Even if still classified, just telling research directions would suffice—at least bypass those ti and money-consuming projects. Indeed has so feasibility. Although I'm just a programr, I understand a bit. Let look for useful docunts...】
【Simple, I'm IT industry, have lots of materials. OP wait, I'll grind out a ten-thousand-word research report before getting off work tonight—should be useful】
【Why before getting off work? Slacking during work hours, huh】
【Lol, how many slacking masters are in this thread? Suggest bosses pay good attention】
【Masters among the people indeed】
【Can't stand it, the mighty Ti Priestess trying her utmost couldn't achieve it, finally humbling herself to ask for help. Thinking of the proud villain bowing her head gets excited. Let our knowledge pour ruthlessly, hiss hah hiss hah~】
【Outrageous】
【Don't go crazy here】
【Don't celebrate too early. Even with more advanced scientific knowledge, it might not be enough—whether you can understand is another matter】
【Must have a good scientist to implent these materials】
【We can certainly support with information technology knowledge far surpassing current Planet Gaia levels, but receivers and executors should preferably be trustworthy or easily controlled】
【When in doubt, use magic. Recomnd a list: Summoning system, Encyclopedia, Beat, can fully understand knowledge. Skill system, Divine Craftsmanship, Xiang Yunwei, can make anything. Skill system, Master Imitator, Lin Rubai, miraculous products can be replicated. Domain system, Eternal Classroom, Kelly, as the na suggests, are you afraid...】
This netizen rattled off nas like counting family treasures, obviously quite familiar with various magical girls—thoroughly versed.
Big help.
Hibiscus was simply dazzled—hadn't expected such special magic to exist in the world. Sounded ordinary at first listen, but careful consideration revealed that under certain specific conditions they were practically miraculous. So might even hand-craft chips—never mind if thods were primitive, just ask if they worked.
Moreover, they were mainly concentrated in skill magic, so it was mostly supportive?
Thinking carefully, actually ti and causal systems both had certain supportive functions, rarely causing direct damage. For frontal combat, mythical and elental systems were needed.
Her understanding of magic improved sowhat. However, fundantally everyone at high levels was similar—all would be capable of independence later.
The netizen-provided list solved urgent needs, with one more reason it was greatly useful: according to the tiline, these girls were all in laboratories, with clean backgrounds from good families—worthy of great responsibility.
Perfect for handling Eagle Company while resolving everything together.
Hibiscus had always harbored doubts about directly confronting a super-giant private military group. After all, the other party had abundant funds, vast background, many troops, especially that General Quincy controlling top destructive relics was troubleso. But now it seed there was another reason for war—to rescue magical girls, and to grasp talent in her own hands. Otherwise the Salvation Church couldn't develop long-term.
Beep!
[System notification: Received suggestion "Conduct Research Based On Technology Tree Guidance" reward: Free Attribute Points 30, Exchange Points 200]
[Received suggestion "Purchase Private Island As Cover" reward…]
Sure enough there was reaction, with many notifications related to research—in a sense, the sa series.
The girl stared at the discussion page only she could see, thoughts imdiately active.
Borrowing was just ans—the real goal was leading Planet Gaia's information technology progress, which should also help Anti-Disaster Beast combat. Although it sounded grand and seemingly impractical, people should have dreams.
But regardless of what grand enterprises were in Hibiscus's mind, they couldn't bypass one problem: first managing Hermit Island well. Without a major rear headquarters, plans were impossible to discuss.
Prerequisites for developing it had to be carefully handled.
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