Chapter 9: Jack and Joe

When the dwarven craftsman once again threw a shouting and struggling goblin into the coordinated-aligned teleporter, our Lord had already begun his day's work.

It has been three months since the Demon King started his life in another world, and it can be said that this is the happiest three months in Liu Xinming's ten years. Every day he told Celia the story that his mother told him when he was a child, and drank and chatted with old Jack, at this time, he seemed to have returned to his former home, with a loving grandfather and a lovely sister. And it's all so peaceful and harmonious, it seems that it will never collapse, completely different from the terrible place it once was.

"Big Max" is his current name, now he is an acquaintance of the neighborhood, every day you can see the tall figure swaying into the ancient battlefield, an hour later he carried a mountain of scrap to the exchange station of the bullet farm, the life of Jack's family has changed qualitatively, old Jack no longer has to drink the inferior wine that has begun to damage his body in the dim light, and he has a lot of time every day, and the demon king uses the steel plates scavenged from the ancient battlefield to make a lot of furniture like he did handicrafts when he was a child, The roof was repaired, and even the other day the slum sand pavement was covered with the same metal pavement as the outside.

Everyone said that Max was the last gift from God to Old Jack, who had lost everything. Jack had already said about this one day when he was drunk, and these past events strengthened the Demon King's determination not to leave this little scavenger family.

Jack Baker's great-grandfather was a general of the Rhodok Kingdom, known as Chaves Baker of the "Immortal Spear". Because he found out that his daughter was insulted by the king's second son, he killed and killed his mouth, and in a fit of rage, he slaughtered the entire second prince's mansion, and even killed the prince in front of Emperor Rhodok in a hurry.

Surrounded by thousands of forbidden troops, Chavez escaped from the royal city of Rhodok with all his might, and fled to the eastern town of the ruins, which was still completely under the control of the Brotherhood of Bitter Springs, and hid in one of the first scavengers. And this collection is several generations.

As for Old Jack, he didn't actually make any mistakes, he didn't have a wife for seventy years in his life, because he was afraid of betraying his great-grandfather's empire and still didn't leave the ruins, insisting on the scavenger project, which became more and more difficult after the "Immortal Old Joe" moved in.

When he was young, Jack was strong, and he was the most capable of the scavengers at that time, and the "high-end goods" such as the lamps in Jack's house and the wooden bed that the demon king slept in before were all purchased by him little by little for decades.

Until one time a mysterious blonde woman came to the slum where Jack was. The woman stumbled all the way, and on a rainy night, she collapsed in front of the door of Old Jack, who was just over sixty years old at the time.

The old man took the woman in, and seven months later, she gave birth to a girl on that wooden bed. The old man was very happy, at that time the woman named Sara was like his daughter in his heart, and he named his "granddaughter" "Celia", the most beautiful name that this uneducated scavenger could think of, and in the dilapidated yard now, the old man spent almost all his savings, and invited all the neighbors around him to celebrate, and the cheerful crowd did not disperse until it was completely dark.

Late at night, when the old man and his family were already asleep, the neighbors heard the sound of something breaking through the door, and they didn't pay much attention to it. Two waves of fierce slashing followed, mixed with the crisp sound of gunpowder guns and the fierce cries of newborn children.

The old man's "daughter" died, and he didn't know why until she was buried by the neighbors, but he only knew that the person who was frantically rampaging in his yard that day was from that person's subordinate - "Immortal Old Joe".

Until today, Jack's limbs have been shot and torn to varying degrees, although he did not lose his life with the help of everyone, but it is extremely difficult to do his old job, so he barely pulled Celia to the big one, and the two of them have become more and more sad, and the neighbors are also too busy to take care of themselves because of the lower and lower metal purchase price set by Old Joe, except for silent sympathy, in fact, there is no other way.

That day, the Demon King remembered that Jack had drunk a lot, but not a single tear had been shed. Maybe the hardships of these years have squeezed out his last tears, and maybe if it comes out again, it will only be blood.

Thinking about these things, the Demon King left the dilapidated house of Jack's family early, he was going to do a little more today, it was better to sell more money to replace his broken bed with a better one.

Shining in the lifeless sunlight of the ruins is a poor demon king who cheers himself up and picks up more scrap metal to improve his life...

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In the middle of the Immortal City, there is a building that is completely different from the surrounding low slums and old urban areas.

It was a tall castle, or rather, a fortress would be more suitable, and the entire deck of an abandoned battleship was forcibly fastened to the ancient fortress made of stone with rivets, and it seemed that small holes were artificially left in the cracks of these metal blocks, and if you looked closely at the entire fortress, there were three hundred and sixty "war boys" guarding each such shooting hole in three shifts every day, and if it entered a state of combat readiness, the entire fortress would have enough firing space for 500 guns in each direction to fire at the same time, The power of the Bitter Springs had only been attempted by the Brotherhood of Bitter Springs fifty years ago, but the tragic casualties of the Brotherhood had left the fortress with a terrifying nickname, the silver armor plates of which were still shiny and clean even after decades.

The "Silver Meat Grinder" is Old Joe's home, the newest and strongest and most authoritative war leader in the Immortal City, "Immortal Old Joe", who has been living here since fifty years ago, and this morning, when he was woken up by the rapid knocking of his men, he was actually in a very good mood.

Now that the sun has just risen, you don't need to look at the gold pocket watch you snatched from a fugitive nobleman on your waist and know that it will not be more than six o'clock, and you dare to disturb yourself at this time period and be so hasty and urgent, then there is only one possibility - Old Joe's "big business" has come to the door

Thinking like this, Old Joe looked back at the woman who was still asleep on the bed, shook his head, and slowly put on the respirator he had been wearing like a skull mask all these years, and put on his own officer uniform full of ghost who knew where it had been snatched. After dressing, the terrible man, while letting out a mocking mad mocker filled with a breathing apparatus, raised his beautifully carved pistol "The Confessor" in the direction of the bed

"Touching ——!"

After solving the "hidden danger", the refreshing old Qiao stepped into the corridor that was still lit, ready to meet the currency of the country that he needed to exchange for this "big business".