Chapter 164: Clouds on All Sides
Mu Feng rummaged through the boxes and cabinets at home, rummaged through every corner, and found out that all the valuable items at home were put into a big bag.
He picked up the bag and tossed it around, hesitated for a moment, then ripped open his wife's dresser, grabbed the gold and silver jewelry inside, and put it in.
"Mu Feng, you're crazy, these jewelry are mine, you just give them away, you haven't asked me yet."
Mu Feng's wife is a strong middle-aged woman, wearing tulle underwear, with a waist as thick as a bucket, long hair permed into instant noodles, and her face is painted with gaudy heavy makeup. When she saw that Mu Feng was going to take away all her jewelry and give it away, she immediately reluctantly got up and wanted to take out those jewelry from her bag.
"Smack!"
Mu Feng rounded his arm and slapped his wife in the face, fanning her out and hitting her on the dresser.
"Fool, you know how to stare at a few pieces of jewelry, your head has been cut off, can those jewelry bring you back to life?"
As a blacksmith, his wrist strength is not small, and his wife's face is suddenly swollen like steamed buns.
"As long as I'm the first blacksmith in Larkin Bayde, the money will come back soon. But if we don't get the damn blacksmiths to the mines, we'll soon be hanging from the poles. β
Mu Feng gritted his teeth a little, if he could turn back time, he would definitely not bet on that damn gamble again.
He hesitated, then turned over the bed, carefully cut the bed board with a knife, and took out a stack of certificates from it.
It was a stack of slave contracts, symbolizing Mu Feng's ownership of hundreds of slaves. He didn't have farmland suitable for slaves, so he rented them all to the Shadow Corpse Gang.
The Necros have several aerial farms built on high-rise ruins to feed everyone in Larkin Bayd. A large amount of labor was required, so every slave owner in Larkin Bede could rent out slave labor to them. Although the rent of a single slave is not high, if there are many of them. It is still an extremely stable and generous income.
"Boss, you are crazy, these slaves were bought by us with the money we had saved so hard. Just send them all out! β
Mu Feng's wife watched her husband take out the stack of slave contracts, and her eyes were red.
Mu Feng glanced at his wife and sighed deeply.
"I can't help it, now the Feng family is managing the craftsman registration is Feng Bowen of the Feng family's seventh room. That guy is a guy who has to squeeze oil out of stones, and he is insatiable. These gold, silver, copper, and iron may not be able to impress them. Only these slave contracts would allow him to send all those damned blacksmiths to their strongholds outside the city. β
The Necrons have been expanding the size of Larkin Bed, first establishing a stronghold in a suitable area near Larkin Bayd, and once they have enough defenses, they will transport a large number of slaves there, level the land, and establish settlements.
But the mutated creatures are very sensitive to human encroachment. They will often harass the colony. The unarmed slaves have no ability to fight back against the mutated creatures, and the mortality rate is extremely high.
Mu Feng had already frightened the blacksmiths, and let them obediently say his pre-made confession under Feng Bowen's interrogation. Let the Feng family think that the piece of anodized gold was snatched away.
But he knew that there was no impermeable wall in the world, and there would always be a blacksmith with a big mouth who would tell him that the piece of anodized gold was his bet and lost. Only the dead could not speak, but more than twenty blacksmiths died together. It's bound to get bigger. These blacksmiths are the property of the Feng family, and they will definitely intervene in the investigation.
"Just buy the soldiers who are escorted to slaves. Let them kill all the blacksmiths on the way to the escort, and no one will be suspicious. β
A hint of hideousness flashed in Mu Feng's eyes. For him to live, these blacksmiths must die.
The death rate of slaves during escorts is also extremely high, and mutated creatures will often attack escort teams driven by hunger. More than twenty slaves died inconspicuously.
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It's still House. Lee's room, he was dressed differently than last time, changing into a tight, hand-tailored jacket. It's expensive at first glance.
Li Mu sat opposite him, holding a coffee cup in his hand, and drank it in small sips.
This time, Li Mei did not come, and she is now receiving reinforcements from the Freedom Brotherhood.
Just the two of them. There's no way to send so many blacksmiths out of Larkin Bed. They needed more help, so they contacted the Great Elder and asked her to send some capable people over.
House. Li took out a brown paper bag from the drawer and pushed it in front of Li Mu.
"These are the locations where third-level mutant creatures have been sighted, there are fifteen in total."
Li Mu opened the cowhide bag and took out a booklet from it. He found it to be an atlas, the first of which was a map of the vicinity of Larkin Bede, with fifteen small crosses drawn in red pen. Each fork represents a roost for a mutated creature of the third level.
The back page is a detailed map, which also records the description of the scavengers who met the mutated creatures, and the speculation of their abilities, which is very detailed.
"He's a well-known house. Lee, I'm satisfied. β
Li Mu put the booklet into his coat pocket, picked up a small box that was placed at his feet, and pushed it to House. In front of Lee.
"Click".
House. Li opened the box, took out a roll of gold coins wrapped in kraft paper, tore open the kraft paper and examined it, and finally nodded with satisfaction.
"Sir, why don't you use a check from Huixin Bank, it's much more convenient to use. In this part of Larkin Bayde, carrying large boxes of cash is too dangerous. β
"I'm used to using cash, and those printed pieces of paper make me feel very insecure."
Li Mu had a natural smile on his face, drank all the coffee in his cup, and was about to get up and leave.
The reason he didn't use the checkbook was because he had given the blacksmiths checks. Although Huixin's checks are not named, they are printed with a specific number and watermark for anti-counterfeiting. The cheque numbers in a checkbook are consecutive, although they are paid to House, who has little to do with the Feng family. Li, Li Mu still doesn't want to leave this hidden danger.
It was his last cash, and there was not much left in his checkbook. Feng Leshan's cunning and robbery of the accumulated property has been squandered by him.
"Wait, sir."
House. Lee said suddenly.
"What's the matter?"
Li Mu was silent, but his heart was a little tense.
"Recently, something big happened to the Feng family. They have lost a large piece of anodized gold, and they are all over the world looking for thieves. β
House. Lee also stood up, walked to the edge of the bookcase, and removed two wanted sheets from them.
"Oh? Someone actually dares to head the Feng family's things? β
Li Mu's face showed a surprised expression.
"Well, Master Mu Feng of the forging workshop said that there have been two strange people stepping around their forging workshop before, and they have also depicted their appearances. The Feng clan has a bounty of three hundred gold coins per person, if Mr. is interested, you can learn about it. β
Li Mu took the wanted list and found that on one of them, he was drawing a portrait of himself after changing his face, and Li Mei was wearing a gas mask.
Annoyed and angry, the Feng clan suspected that blacksmiths and thieves were colluding. All the blacksmiths in the forge have been reduced to slavery. It looks like it's going to be transported to a ruined base. β
"yes, these blacksmiths are really pitiful."
Li Mu threw the two wanted lists on the table.
"It's a pity that I've been hunting mutant creatures lately. I'm really not interested in this business. β
House. Li pressed the two wanted lists with one hand and looked at Li Mu.
"Didn't you notice, sir, that although this man is not dressed together, he is wearing a gas mask that is very similar to your companion last time?"
Li Mu narrowed his eyes, and a chilling momentum poured out of his body.
γFury Offensiveγ
House. Li's eyes opened suddenly, and the masseter muscles on his cheeks bulged, resisting the urge to retreat.
"Whoa" sounded. But the books on the bookshelves in the room fell to the floor.
"What do you mean?"
Li Mu put away his breath. Staring at House. Li said word by word.
House. Li exhaled slowly, as if he was about to exhale the pressure he had just been under.
"Don't get me wrong, sir, I just wanted to advise your companion to change a gas mask recently to prevent unnecessary accidents."
"Thanks for the reminder."
Li Mu finally looked at House again. Lee glanced at it. Turn away.
He had just closed the door, House. Lee sat back in his chair, and even now, his legs and stomach were shaking uncontrollably.
The shivering feeling of facing the beast made his heart beat faster.
On the edge of the bookshelf. The air twisted, and a man in black appeared, who had just been forced to knock off the books on the shelves by the powerful momentum.
"It's like confronting Agent Thomas."
House. Li took a sip of coffee and calmed his heart again.
"No, this should be some kind of special skill, his current strength should not be as good as Agent Thomas."
"You are so reckless, such a bold temptation, we will most likely be killed by him."
"I have a gut feeling that if I don't test it now, I won't have a chance in the future."
House. Lee's eyes narrowed, thinking
"Something's going on?"
"Nothing."
He shrugged.
"This man is so hidden, I'm starting to suspect that he's our colleague."
Opening the box that Li Mu brought, he grabbed a tube of gold coins and held it in his hand. Tear off the layer of vellum paper and let the gold coin roll to the ground.
"However, the man showed a very small flaw. That's the vellum paper that wraps these gold coins. These kraft papers are anti-rust kraft paper, and Larkin Beide can't produce this kind of kraft paper at all, only in Xinlinfen. Although this piece of paper alone doesn't mean much. But I still suspect that he is a new person from Linfen. β
House. Lee picked up the piece of vellum paper and put it under his nose and sniffed it.
"Could it be the bounty hunters of those security contractors?"
"It's unlikely, the bounty hunters should be staring at those marauder leaders, what to do with the information about spending so much money on mutant creatures, it doesn't make sense." House. Li Haokan's eyebrows furrowed: "Didn't those skinners look for some members of the Brotherhood of Liberty who had infiltrated Lakin Bedri recently, so they lied to them that this person was from the Brotherhood of Freedom, and sold his information to Redbeard." Let the marauders test his roots. (To be continued.) )