The Conspiracy of the Elites

Chapter 356: a memorable experience money is power

Knock! Knock!

Hearing the knocking sounds being amplified by the hidden sound amplifiers in the apartment, Clark was finally jolted from his sleep. Reflexively looking to the side, he saw his student sleeping peacefully.

As he intended to shrug and go back to sleep, he heard the knock again, this time much clearer. His eyes finally became sharp. Turning around, he quickly picked up his gold wristwatch.

04: 35: 54- pm.

He was shocked, he facepalmed immediately on seeing the time. I slept over, directly from 1 hour to 2 hours and some minutes.

Inwardly lampooning about how he slept over, he finally stood up. Quickly dipping his hand into his bag, he retrieved a light casual top which he draped on before quickly making his way to the door.

Who is it?

Opening the door, the first thing that presented itself before him was an old woman. Though she was old, she preserved her skin well as they still glowed a bit despite the coldness of the weather.

Besides the old woman stood a familiar girl, the neighbor who he met as soon as he arrived. Connecting the hidden dots immediately, he bowed slightly.

Good afternoon, ma.

A wide smile quickly lit up the old womans face on seeing the new neighbors gesture, a twinkle of approval shining in her deep, old, and wise eyes. You are exactly like my granddaughter described.

Welcome to Kings City.

Thank you, ma. Clark replied humbly.

Youll go for a tour today, right? To check out the city.

Ignoring why the old woman was concerned about such trivial matters, Clark answered honestly. Hearing his answer, the old womans smile grew even wider.

If you want, my granddaughter here can be your guide. She grew up with me here, so shes conversant with all the memorable places of the city loved by the young ones like you.

Clark was dumbfounded for a moment. Is that how trusting the people here are? After taking some seconds to recollect himself, he answered simply.

Ok.

20 minutes later, 2 men and a lady came out of the bungalow building. The lady was dressed in baggy sweaters to fight the cold, but her lower body was on a tight pair of jean trousers, with a pair of sneakers to match it.

Clark and Albert were dressed in similar clothes. Baggy sweaters, a pair of track trousers, and a pair of pedestrian shoes.

Pinky asked for their opinion on which location they wanted to go to, the ladys name was Pinky. Clark didnt have much of an opinion, he just added that he would visit the Calibri estate before returning.

As already observed from their first meeting, Pinky was a vibrant extrovert. So they didnt even have to put in effort to make the walk not boring, her mouth fired off at the pace of a machine gun.

She gestured at various things that she thought were nice to her 2 new neighbors, while at times greeting the people that they met on the way as they made their way through the cold street.

Theyve not eaten in 8 hours, so of course, Clark and Albert agreed when she suggested that they go to a restaurant first.

Here in the restaurant, Clark experienced another marvel of technology. As soon as they ordered their food and it was placed before them, they seemed to have been teleported out of the restaurant and were now before the starry sky.

They were in space!

Clark knew and his implant already emphasized it again that it was a virtual simulation, but he still felt like he was there physically.

Seeing the blank space that extended all the way to the ends of the world, the nine planets, the moon, the stars, the milky-way galaxy, he felt like he suddenly transmigrated into a fantastical world.

At various intervals, they would see stars streak past them like burning meteors, making Pinky erupt into soft but strangely loud giggles.

Just like the way the stars illuminated the void, so also did they illuminate the world at their table. In such an atmosphere, Clark had the most memorable fast-food experience of his life.

Despite leaving the restaurant already after eating, he was still left in a daze. Albert was much more composed like this was a normal occurrence to him.

Leaving the restaurant, they went to some other locations. Pinky who was the guide seemed even more excited than them despite already experiencing all these countless times in the past.

They visited a casino that hovered in the sky, a computer games internet caf where they experienced complete virtual immersion in the game, and a virtual battle arena.

Pinky didnt exactly like the last place, but when Clark and Albert heard her description of it, they insisted to go there.

It was a battle arena that was also hovering in the sky just like the casino. Inside it, visitors could pay and register to become a character in the arena. There, they would fight against themselves in a realistic setting.

Clark noticed some soldiers among the group of people taking part in the virtual arena battles, and they could make real cash through the money placed on them by spectators.

Clark was severely tempted to take part in it, but he held himself back. He didnt have a tangible reason; he just wasnt in the mood to engage in such things until he met his girlfriends father.

From the virtual battle arena, they finally visited the famous Woods Calibris estate. Only his estate where he lived was close by. Though the headquarters of his business empire was also in Kings City, it was pretty far from Clarks location.

Visiting the billionaires estate, Clark confirmed again how filthily rich he was.

From the position that he looked at the estate from, he could only see a fraction of it, and this fraction was already bigger than any estate that hes seen or even heard of.

He grew dizzy just from the sheer size of the estate.

Outside the estate was quiet, but he knew that a lot of activities were going on inside. The ridiculous size of the estate made it look like a city of its own, the boisterousness inside was on a whole other level.

He saw skyscrapers towering into the skies, walls like those used to fence the mansion of a giant, gates like those guarding the entrance to paradise, he was sincerely intimidated by the shocking display of wealth.

At the very zenith of the estate hovered 5 battleships silently. Their metallic armors reflected a bright silver sheen on Clarks face as he looked at them.

Though they were currently hidden, he knew that the exotic cannons that could obliterate him out of the face of the world in a single shot were hiding inside their thick armors.

Money is power; he confirmed this today again.

That night, after he got back to his newly rented apartment, he fell into a dream.

[I missed win win mission, I feel so bad.]