Chapter Twenty-Six: Slate Street
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Behind every prosperity is a complex entanglement of interests that few people know.
The stone street in the Crimson District.
This is the most prosperous commercial street in the entire Crimson District, and there are countless kintors circulating here every day, and so huge profits make countless people flock to it, because they are trying to get their own benefits in it.
Everyone's means and ways of pursuing interests are different, formal and informal, and the purpose is the same.
666 Slate Street.
This is the end of the stone street, a secluded place away from the prosperity of the stone street, and when new people come to the stone street to pursue their dream of profit, the old people here will tell them that if you want to put down roots here, the first thing you should do is to visit the owner there.
Because the owner there is the master of the order behind the prosperity of the stone street.
His name is Ambofen, the new owner after the reshuffling of order behind the stone street more than a decade ago.
The brutality of competing interests between businesses is often unbelievable.
Kidnapping, assassination, arson.
They do whatever it takes, they do anything.
And all of them are for the sake of winning the competition for interests.
But you don't see much of this in Stone Street, because it's a place where its rules and order have been formed, and everyone follows them.
The stone street of a long time ago is not what it is now, and the chaos of commerce has gradually depressed the place, and when a shrewd businessman arrives here, he discovers a huge business opportunity hidden in it.
While the other merchants were busy fighting against each other, the merchant scattered his wealth, bribed the sheriff of the place, recruited a group of capable mercenaries, and announced that the rules were set here.
The rules of a savvy businessman are simple: he maintains stability and mediates competition, and what they need to pay is 10% of the profits of the business.
Some are against it, some are in favor.
When blood flowed on the stone street, and violence and brutality suppressed a qiΔ, everyone began to recognize the reality.
The shrewd merchant's risky investment succeeded, and not only did he bring himself great gains, but at the same time, the stone street ushered in a prosperous and stable new life, but he also died, usurped to death by a man who was in this position.
The sheriffs in this area didn't care who owned the order in the stone streets, all they needed was a steady stream of profits from there.
Although the shrewd merchant died, the rules he made were passed down, and for many years, countless people followed this position, because it was the highest symbol of status and wealth in Slate Street.
More than ten years ago, after the death of the owner of Slate Street, a series of open and secret battles were triggered, and the ignorant An Bofen quietly came out of the picture, no one knew the past of this mysterious young man, but they all knew the cruelty of this young man's methods of ascending to power, and most importantly, the big man behind him.
Since the development of Slate Street, the huge profits behind the prosperity have been coveted by the powerful people in the royal capital, and behind every contender there is a big man, because they all want to take this profit into their arms.
The magnates set the rules of the game, they choose their own spokesperson, let them fight but cannot interfere, and the result of the competition cannot be opposed, because this is their own choice, their own vision. own problems.
And the big man behind Ambofen is rumored to be a prince, a prince with real power.
666 Slate Street is located on a high ground, there is a gorgeous mansion here, and standing on the balcony of the mansion, you can see the prosperity of the stone street in the distance, as if everything is in your own hands.
Therefore, this place has always belonged to the owner behind the stone street for generations.
More than ten years have passed, and Ambofen has also passed from his youth, and now he is more like a polite and courteous nobleman, as if the cruel and ruthless young face of the past has long disappeared.
His study.
Ambofen listened quietly to his subordinates' returns.
Earlier, when Bane returned, he told him that his plans had been disrupted by a young man, a young man who sounded a little troublesome, and Ambonfen didn't care about this kind of accident, and after all these years, he had known that no matter what he did, he couldn't always be happy.
There are no ups and downs, but it makes people suspicious.
But the plan was interrupted by an accident and still needed to continue, so he sent his own subordinates to investigate and monitor, and he needed to know the information about the "accident".
"You say, there's nothing wrong with that young man?"
After listening to the report of his subordinates, Ambofen bent over, and the hand on the table touched the short beard of the lower baza, and he was a little puzzled.
"Yes, according to my investigation, this young man is not the descendant of a certain powerful person in the royal capital, it seems that he is a young nobleman who has traveled from other places."
Guillen replied in the affirmative that he had been working under Ambofen for nearly a decade, which was his confidence in his intelligence profession.
"Bane, didn't you say he was good at swordsmanship?" Ambofen asked, turning to his almost forgotten subordinate in the corner of the study.
"Yesβ" Bane replied respectfully.
"How good?" Ambrofen tilted her head in curiosity.
"I don't know, but I tell me in my heart that I'm not sure I can win him." Bane said honestly.
"Huh? It seems that the other party should have the level of a mid-rank swordsman. Listening to Bane's words, Ambofen nodded, as if appreciative.
"So, my lord, what do we do next?" Ji Lungong on the side asked.
"Well-" Ambofen groaned a little, thought for a moment and said, "It seems that we need to deal with the trouble first, but I need to be more detailed about his information, I don't like trouble, especially the trouble of negligence, understand?" Gillen? β
Gillen nodded and said, "I think it will only take three days at most." β
"Three days?" Ambofen waved his hand, dissatisfied: "It's only one day at most." β
"Butβ" Guillen said with a slight frown.
As if seeing what Guillen was worried about, Ambofen smiled: "I don't need you to know too much, I just need to know if there will be any trouble in killing him." β
"Then a qiΔ is as the adults wish." With the purpose of intelligence, Gillen also put his mind at ease.
"Boss, what about me?" Seeing that his colleague had a task, Bane was a little anxious to stand up, he had already been on a business trip on the things his boss had explained, and now he urgently needed to make up for it and save his image in the boss's heart.
"Go to the Clifford brothers tomorrow, I want to have a deal for them."
After explaining the matter, Ambofen scattered two of his men.
He needed to be quiet for a while, for he had other things to think about, and as for the young man's troubles, it was probably just a minor matter.
Because he doesn't have enough value for him to take to heart.
Charan was on his way to 666 Slate Street, as he inquired where his target was.
It's not difficult to ask someone, especially if they're a celebrity, and you may know more than you think.
Is Ambrefen a celebrity? Yes, at least in Slate Street he is the most famous.
Xia Lan was a little surprised, because the Ambofen he knew did not seem to be a small person, on the contrary, he was a big person, at least in the eyes of the people on the stone street.
As he approached, he saw several "acquaintances".
"Bane?"
Gillen and Bane were on their way back to Slate Street after leaving Ambofen's quarters, when they ran into a man.
The night was dark, and they saw a man in the distance, but they didn't see his face clearly.
As he walked in, Gillen could see clearly by the light of the magic street lamps a little farther away, and Bane stopped.
Guillen thinks it's his instinct that Bane knows the man who is coming, so he calls out to Bane.
"Why are you here?" Bane frowned and looked at the person in front of him, as if he was facing a great enemy, stretched out his arm to stop Gillen behind him and said vigilantly: "Gillen, this is that young man." β
"What?"
Gillen's heart suddenly chuckled, he only knew about this young man from the investigation under his command based on analysis, but it didn't mean that he had seen him, maybe in Gillen's heart, this young man didn't let him pay attention, he just simply did his duty.
Now he could see this young man clearly, the standard noble young master's attire, with a long sword at his waist, the only thing that made people strange was his face.
Cold, unforgiving.
"I think it's a coincidence, why are you in front of me." The young man was calm, and the hilt of the sword reached out to his waist and began to slowly draw.
"What are you going to do?" Seeing the other party's sword drawing action made Bane's scalp tingle and asked, and the hand that protected Gillen couldn't help but tremble a little.
Guillen couldn't figure out what was going on, but he could know that the young man had no bad intentions.
"Gillen, go back and tell the boss about the matter here." When the opponent's long sword was completely removed, Bane pushed Jiren away behind him and shouted angrily. "I'll try my best to stop delaying him, it's up to you for my life! Fast! Fast! Fast! β
Bane said the word "fast" three times in a row, and the stunned Gillen immediately knew what was going to happen, so he turned around and ran.
"Can you run?"
As soon as the young man finished speaking, the scabbard in his hand flew out of his hand, turning into a silver light and running directly towards Gillen, who was running towards the wolf in the distance.
"No!" Bane roared at the young man's movements, but he couldn't do anything.
He could only watch as the silver light hit Gillen, he heard a scream, he saw Gillen fall in the distance!
"Why?" Bane clenched his fists and looked at the young man in an angry voice.
Yes. Why?
Out of nowhere, out of nowhere to kill.
This happens so that death has no choice but to rest in peace.
"Want to know?" The young man raised his sword and looked at him with an expressionless face.
"Yes!" Bane replied subconsciously.
Suddenly, the young man in front of Bane vanished, his eyes widened, and he felt a chill in his neck.
"A lot of people want to know, you're just one of them."
The voice of the young man was behind him.
But Bane couldn't move, couldn't speak.
His tall and burly body fell to the ground with a "boom", and the vicious and ugly head seemed to have broken the thread from his neck, and kept rolling towards the bottom of the stone street.
He's not a mid-rank swordsman!
That was Bane's last thought.
If the sword is fast enough to cut off a person's head, then he will feel less pain and fear.
Xia Lan continued to walk towards his purpose, until he was close to the dwelling, and his footsteps suddenly stopped in midair.
"Enchantment?"
As if sensing something, Xia Lan retracted her steps and muttered to herself in some surprise.