Chapter 33: The Crazy Ticket (2)
April 10, 599 in the misty calendar, is destined to be a special day for Mu Yan.
According to Glazer, he was going to "get back" the old man's property. But in his opinion, the errand is not as simple as it seems.
Back then, how did Uncle Liu Huang treat Lu Su after borrowing Jingzhou......
And he is probably playing the role of "Lu Su" now.
Therefore, on the way to Hosdi, Mu Yan's mind was full of idioms and fables such as "raising tigers for trouble", "appeasing and nurturing adultery", and "farmers and snakes".
Half of this is due to his brain supplement, and the other half is caused by the old man's explanation before going out.
It stands to reason that he came to "take back" the property, and the Glazer should have taught him how to talk to people calmly, but in fact the old man said so.
"Kabole, you can simply understand that a boxer who knows some spells, about the level of the domain, but the Heru people have no domain, so they are faster and more explosive, so you have to keep a proper distance and find his weak period to attack and control, after all, you are not very skilled in 'elemental fusion' now...... Don't look at me like that, do you think I taught you elemental fusion to let you reason with them? What is the teachings of the mage? Spells! Isn't explosion and burning a mage's romance? β
This was no longer a hint that for the first time he found Mr. Glazer to be such a "romantic" person.
In a moment of thought, he came to the outskirts of Hosdi.
"I hope it goes well."
Sensing that the mana consumed by the rush had fully recovered, he refreshed himself and walked straight to the inner block, intending to talk to Mika, who seemed to be the most sensible, first.
As he passed 17th Street, the man at the gate of the chΓ’teau caught a glimpse of him and immediately reported the situation to Carbole.
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Twelfth Avenue, shining gold coins.
Uno looked up at the gold-encrusted sign, and there was a sense of unreality, he had even come to talk to the group of green-skinned dwarfs one day.
"Uncle Ricky, are you really not going in with me?" He whispered to the air next to him.
"Leave me alone, just go with confidence."
A vague fluctuation came through Unno's mind.
He no longer hesitated and stepped into the bank.
The first time he came to shine the gold coin, Uno was very nervous, especially after seeing the bright gold coin through the floor, this nervousness seemed to be doubled.
"In the near future, I also have so many gold coins...... No, more than that. β
He thought so, and then picked a window where there was no one in line.
"Hey, I'm looking for Moraby."
The dozing goblin opened his eyes, looking annoyed.
"What's the noise? Have you made an appointment? β
"What? Still need to make an appointment? Unoult frowned. I have business to talk to him. β
"There's been a lot of business lately." The goblin muttered and shouted back. "Fat ratio! I'm looking for you to talk about business again! β
Morabi came at the wheel again.
Uno didn't talk nonsense, opened the box and gave him a glance, and then looked at the other party's petrified expression, and his heart was secretly refreshed.
You guys have it today, too!
It took Morabi two seconds to recover from his shock, and he moved his fat body to open a two-meter-high door on the illusion wall and invite the other party in.
Uno hesitated for a moment, then felt someone touch the back of his neck, and then walked in with confidence.
Five minutes later, he was ushered to the highest standard of the hospitality room, with a floor of white marble and a chandelier carved from a large piece of rare illuminated crystal.
"Then I'll be blunt, Mr. Moraby." Uno put away his envy. "I heard that you are familiar with the Grey Hats, so if this ticket is sold on the black market, how much money will I get in the end?"
Morabi crossed his fingers, and four gold rings encrusted with crystals collided with each other, making a noisy grinding sound, as unquiet as the heart of his owner.
Uno, believing that goblins are not good at calculations like the Tallinns (he thinks that small heads = poor computing skills), waits patiently.
In fact, he was very wrong.
Morabi had been calculating quickly since he saw the ticket, but instead of calculating how much the other party would get, he was calculating his own gains.
At the same time, he is still estimating what kind of data can make the other party interested and ensure that he can make the most profits, not so much calculating the numbers as speculating on psychology.
"500,000 gold coins, Mr. Uno."
In the end, he gave such an answer, and used honorifics.
"So much?" Uno exclaimed, and then smiled heartily. "Then it's decided, why don't you just buy it, and then sell it for as much as you want?"
Morabi had never thought that someone else would be so upright, and he almost agreed, but fortunately reason stopped him.
The Shining Gold Coin belongs to the official body of Hosdi, he is just a supervisor, how can he come up with so much money? This guy in front of him doesn't look like a person who can keep secrets, and if the news leaks, it will be a big trouble.
So he pretended to be embarrassed.
"Mr. Uno is joking, how can I come up with so many gold coins. Moreover, this figure is only an estimate, and how much it can actually be sold depends on the auction. Of course, you can also be there for the auction......"
"So it's going to be higher, right?" Uno couldn't help but be a little curious.
"Who knows." He smiled and spread his hands, "Maybe it's higher, maybe it's lower, but it won't be less than 400,000, I promise you." β
"That's it, you have the final say, when can you start? I came here with something. β
"Three days later, Mr. Uno." Morabi replied, "You came here to me in three days." β
"No problem!."
Uno readily agreed.
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After walking out of the sparkling gold coin, Uno felt that the air in Hosdi was much fresher, and just happened to be hungry, so he remembered the two stores on Fifth Street that he had only visited once.
That's a good thing that Port Geol doesn't have.
"Uncle Ricky, do you like vanilla donuts?" He asked.
"Donuts? What is that? β
Uno smiled mysteriously: "The good things that can make you reluctant to leave Hosdi, I can guarantee that there is absolutely no such thing in the port of Geoor." β
With that, he walked towards sweet Sweetet on Fifth Street.
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In the glittering gold coin reception room, Moraby, who saw off the guests, couldn't calm down for a long time.
He agreed so happily! You still want to sell me something in advance! β
"Maybe 400,000 gold coins will do! No...... Maybe lower! β
The thirst for gold licked through his mind like a flame, and he was completely unaware that it was a windfall, instead focusing on the 500,000 shiny gold coins that the other party was about to have.
As if it was money taken from his arms!
"Noβ"
"That's my money!"
"It was taken from the Shining Gold Coins, the money that should have belonged to me!"
Moraby's eyes seemed to be on fire, Uno's smug look at the box, the admiration he felt when he saw the beautiful chandelier, and the excitement when he finally heard the number, all added fuel to the fire.
The most important thing is that he is only one person from beginning to end!
The flame called Greed burned the last shred of Moraby's hesitation, and he didn't hesitate to pull out the Communication Stone.
"Hello, Great Grey Hat." A shrill voice came from the other end.
"Get in touch with Gondor as quickly as you can and get him ...... Ask him to come to me with the shining coins. β
"Yes, Lord Grey Hat."
Moraby paused, then continued: "Check out another man named Uno, who should stay in Hosti for three days, and keep an eye on his movements. β
"Understood." After answering, the person on the other side of the stone hesitated a little and said, "I seem to have heard the name 'Uno'. Is he a tall hipster? There is a front desk on the mercenary union called Uno who just resigned and returned home two days ago. β
"You know him? That couldn't be better, keep an eye on him anyway. β
"Yes."
After the arrangement was made, Morabi breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed on the sofa like a lump of soft meat.
It's not that it's hard to make up your mind, but in his opinion, he is about to have a ticket worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins, and happiness comes too suddenly, and he can't bear it.
Just then, an acquaintance pushed the door open.
Obviously, this is a regular customer, and there is no need to inform the front desk.
"Yo, isn't this Mr. Carbole, the 'Friend of Women', why do you have time to come to me?" He teased.
As the owner of the Carbole winery, Carbole has a high reputation among the women of Hosday for its soft and sweet red wines, but there are not many women who have a voice in this place where men call the shots, so this honor has become a joke in the mouths of others.
"Fat Bi," Carboley's expression was grim, without the slightest hint of politeness. "Should you give me an explanation for the last time about false information?"
"What disinformation?"
"You said that kid is just a fifth-level mercenary, a wizard of about the same level, with a perception range of no more than 400 meters, and then what? My commission failed!! The reason for the failure was 'intelligence bias'! β
Angry, he reached for Moraby's neckline, only to see a flash of white light, and the latter instantly appeared on the other side of the room.
"So what?" The fat goblin opened his squinting eyes and stared at him coldly as well. "You don't know the rules of the gray hat, why, do you still want to get the commission back?"
"Are you embarrassed to ask me for a commission?" Carbole seemed to be amused, "What are those gold coins to me?" Lao Tzu sells a bottle of wine for more than that price. You gave the information, and you found the people, and in the end things failed, who do you say is the blame? If the Glazers come back, don't think I can help you with this! β
Morabi smiled. "Mr. Carboley, what are you helping me with? You told Mr. Glazer that I was a 'grey hat'? Hehe, do you think he will believe you, a villain who intends to usurp other people's property and does not know how to be grateful, or believe me, an ally who helped him when he was poor?
"Besides, I'm a 'gray hat', do you have the final say? Are you sure if Spike is dead or not? β
The Fat Goblin looked at him mockingly.
Kabole's expression stiffened, but he recovered quickly.
"Fatby, you picked yourself so cleanly, it seems that you are ready to welcome Lord Glazer back, right?"
"No, no," he shook his stubby fingers, "a clever goblin will not expose himself to danger, it has nothing to do with me whether he comes back or not, the gold coins that should be earned will still be earned, and the business that should be discussed will continue." β
"And what if I say so?" Carbole took on a seductive tone. "Guess how much money the winery has made over the years? Excluding those who are thrown out with a little relationship up and down, how many gold coins are left? β
Moraby's Adam's apple twitched, and he forced himself not to count.
But his opponent seemed to grasp his weakness and muttered like a treasure.
"The average cost of a bottle of Reserve Carbole wine is about 23 gold coins, and the price is 79 gold coins...... As for sales, it may only be a dozen bottles a day, but occasionally there will be more......"
"Of course, this is only one of nearly 100 products, and it is also the one with the worst sales, less than one percent of the total profit, compared to the ...... that is the most popular among the Hosty women."
"Enough!" Morabi interrupted him.
His nimble brain would add every number he heard to the calculations, and then convert it into gold coins that would appear intuitively in his mind, which was both a pleasure and a torture for him.
"Let's make a deal, Fatbi." "You crave gold, I want to live unfettered, you have plenty of men, I have piles of gold......"
As he spoke, he popped out a gold coin, which was caught by Moraby.
"While these gold coins still belong to me, they exist under the floor of shining gold coins, let's make a big vote."
Moraby's heart was shocked, he looked at this dark-skinned strong man, the other party's red wine business has been getting bigger and bigger over the years, but he is getting less and less bold, but now he is forced into a corner, and he bursts out with a ruthless energy.
The touch of the gold coin also made him feel a lot more at ease, anyway, it was just a transaction, as long as the fact that he was a gray hat was not revealed, there would be no problem, so he no longer hesitated.
"What do you want to do?"
"It's very simple, you help me find the best killer and kill that kid!"
There is no doubt that Carbole is referring to Mu Yan.
"You're not afraid to be known by Mr. Glazer? Or are you ready to run away? Morabi stared into his eyes. If I poke out some big basket, I'm not interested in pulling up half a gray hat to bury you. β
"It's not like you, Fatbi." Kabole sneered, "Where is the Molabi who used to dare to throw fireballs at someone's head for a gold coin?" I can definitely take out more money than you think. β
"In the past, that fat bi didn't have a single gold coin on his body, so he naturally went out, but now it's different, now he is ten thousand times richer than before."
"But is that enough?" Carbole looked at him, his voice as if there was some kind of magic.
"Just imagine, that money is sitting under this floor, but you don't have the power to use it. But now as soon as I transfer them to you, those golden ones will be yours...... That's money from a vault of shiny gold coins! A lot of gold coins are pouring into your pocket, what an exciting thing, have you ever thought about it before! β
Moraby's eyelids jumped involuntarily, and he admitted that the other party had managed to catch his weakness.
There's nothing more exciting than that, the sea of gold coins beneath the sparkling gold coin floor has always been off-limits, and he knows very well that Kabole has a lot of money there......
Now there's a chance to break the taboo and satisfy the fantasy he's always had......
He seemed to feel his body trembling, trembling with excitement.
"Besides, as you say, who would know that you are a grey hat? Even if I say it, few people will believe it. β
Kaboley's demagogy was seamless, squirming around his heart like a vine.
This sentence also dispelled his last concerns.
"Two hundred thousand gold coins, Kabolai." He stared into the eyes of the owner of the winery. "Whether it is successful or not, I want 200,000 gold coins! I'll arrange the best 'bounty hunter' in Hosdy for you. β
"Why don't you grab it!!" Carbole roared, "You greedy fat pig! Do you know what you're talking about? β
"Don't think that your little trick can hide it from me, you have more than 200,000 gold coins below." Morabi didn't back down. "I have a big business to do, don't waste time."
Kabole gritted his teeth in hatred, as if he wanted to say something, but then he felt a message from him.
He took out the teleportation stone and glanced at it.
"The target arrives at Mika's House and meets Sweet and Mika."
Damn it!
He knew with his feet what the other party had noticed. Those two goddamn stupid thieves!
Judging from the location, you can go to the winery to find him when you pass through 17th Street, why do you have to go straight to Mika's House?
Thinking of this, he painfully threw a bronzing crystal card to the other party.
"Deal!"
"Praise for your generosity, Mr. Carboley."
Morabi took the crystal card and grinned.
"Fat Bi, I hope you don't disappoint me this time." Carbole didn't feel so bad after paying. "I hope this time I don't make any more shit excuses for 'intelligence bias'."
"As you wish, my employer." Morabi held the crystal card and bowed humbly.