The middle-aged man stopped walking around the train's private room, and he stared at Alberta for a while, and then he smiled slowly: "Young people have a lot of courage...... Did you know that you didn't have any hole cards when you ordered me? ”

After the middle-aged man finished speaking, without waiting for Alberta to respond, he continued: "But I like your style! ”

The middle-aged man sat down in his seat, and then he lit another cigar. He took a sharp puff: "I used to be a businessman...... Once, until I earned a lot of gold coins, ten million gold coins...... 100,000,000,000 coins! Billion Gold Coins...... Until I realized a truth: gold coins...... It's just a product made by humans and other races, like elves or dwarves! ”

The middle-aged man smiled: "Therefore...... When I started to make a decision, I had begun to see gold as less important, until now, gold and wealth were just numbers in front of my eyes...... So I got it...... Wealth is just a number, just a means to profit for you. My name is Williams Ortayat. You can call me Mr. Otayat! ”

When the man who claimed to be Otayat finished speaking, Alberta was shocked! It turned out that this man was the legendary giant, the merchant Otayat. According to legend, the Otayat merchants have assets of more than billions of gold coins and have the power to subvert any medium-sized kingdom in the world......

Alberta said coldly, almost at the same time, "So...... Dear Mr. Otayat, how did you know my identity? ”

The merchant Otayat smiled, as if hearing a very funny question: "Dear Alberta, I am a businessman, and I naturally have the ability to know anything I want to know...... It's not hard for you to find out, as long as you follow your movements, your identity will naturally come out. ”

Alberta still felt the cold, and now the cold sweat was soaking his back. He asked the merchant Otayat, "Dear Mr. Otayat, may you find me and what do you want me to do?" ”

For a long time, Otayat did not speak...... Instead, he slowly spoke on another topic: "What do you think of this war?" ”

Alberta pondered for a moment, then said, "The invasion of the Empire is an act of injustice, and the Duchy of Casdilipa will surely win!" Therefore......"

Before Alberta could finish, Otayat laughed and said, "I didn't expect you to be so innocent and cute......"

Alberta nodded, and he turned to Otayat, "Because you didn't see it, it was we lovely people who guarded the port of Epalai, making it the only port in your empire that has not been conquered!" ”

Otayat thought for a moment, and he smiled: "To be precise, I can't say that I am from the Empire!" Because...... Wealth makes me think, and it is only after thinking that I decide how to act. If I simply say that I am an imperial, then ...... It's too restrictive of my borders. ”

After Ortayat finished speaking, Alberta also fell silent, and suddenly fell into an eerie calm in the private room.

The Otayat merchant was the first to break the status quo when he said, "I have a deal, do you do it?" ”

Alberta nodded and said, "My mother told me not to make deals with the devil since I was a child, because the devil always cares about your soul!" Although mom died early. ”

The Otayat merchant nodded, and moved his mouth: "Well said, it's a philosophical sentence...... But, you don't seem to have much choice. ”

After the merchant finished speaking, he immediately said: "I need you to kill someone, and I want to disguise this matter as if it was this person killed by the Principality of Castilipa!" ”

Alberta asked, "Why me?" ”

Otayat was happy: "I ...... After thinking about it for a long time, you seem to be the best person to do it. I can't do it, and if I do, the Empire will target me. No matter how meticulous I do, the Empire will always find out that I did it. So I need to find a Castilipa man, and you're the one I'm looking for. ”

Alberta didn't respond for a long time: "What if I reject you?" As you said, I'm a Castilipa and I'm fighting for Castilipa. ”

The merchant smiled: "Let's put it bluntly, why do you think the empire can be defeated?" ”

Alberta immediately responded: "With a strong ship and a cannon!" ”

The merchant nodded, "I knew you would answer like this." ”

Speaking of this, the merchant sat solemnly upright, leaned forward and said, "But have you ever thought that when you people are worried that the iron ship will sink to the bottom of the sea, it is the Opperon Empire, who is testing again and again whether the iron ship can be launched!" At a time when there was no steam engine, when you were enjoying the peace and prosperity, the Empire had already paid countless lives to explore the whole world and fight against the ocean! If you keep saying 'strong ships and cannons', then you will always be the ones who will be attacked! ”

When Alberta heard this, he wanted to angrily rebuke the businessman, but he seemed to feel that there was not enough reason to break the businessman's opinion...... After a long time, Alberta said, "Do you mean that as long as the force is strong, you can wantonly bully other kingdoms?" ”

The merchant said slowly: "There is no country in the world that does not attack other countries when the force is strong!" If this kingdom is short-lived, then it will launch a short-lived war of attack! ”

When Alberta heard this, he immediately voiced his objection: "I don't agree with you!" Because...... You underestimate the justice of war and the cruelty of the aggressor's slaughter of a good country! The Empire has turned the world into a miasma, but you think that's how it should be? I have never been able to agree with you. ”

The merchant smiled: "Don't forget, I'm a merchant...... I'm just a businessman, I don't care about the interests of any country, for me, only money is the most important thing! Although I am an Empire person, as long as the interests are sufficient, I can abandon the Empire at will, and if the price of the interests is reasonable, I might as well trample the Empire under my feet! But only if I have that strength. ”

Alberta believed what this man said, and Alberta said slowly, "I can't be like you, there are always people in this world who need honor." I'm that kind of person. Not only do I need honor, but I also need to protect a basic moral base and justice! The Empire's invasion is unjust, and I, I need to be the enemy of the Empire! ”

The Otayat merchant smiled: "That...... You mean disagree? Don't agree to help me assassinate a person and blame it on the Principality of Casdilipa? ”

Alberta didn't respond, instead he smiled first: "Can you please tell me why you found me to do this?" ”

Otayat moved his mouth, and finally he said, "Do you know the person Erta?" ”

Alberta said, "I know too well, he's the instructor who trained me." ”

Otayat continued, "What do you think of this man?" ”

"Witty, decisive and courageous! I think so. Alberta responded.

Otayat smiled noncommittally, and then he said, "A stupid, foolish, and cowardly man. ”

After Otayat finished speaking, Alberta did not answer him. Instead, the Otayat merchant said, "I have sent someone to investigate you for quite some time, but ...... I think you're a great partner to work with. That's all. To put it simply, you have to say no, right? ”

Alberta shook his head, he smiled indescribably, he said slowly, "It seems that Mom is wrong, sometimes, you have to use your soul to attract demons, because there are always people who like the cursed gold coins of demons!" ”

Otayat nodded: "A good analogy. I am a rich man, and I believe that my rich gold coins are cursed, but my cursed gold coins are not easy to obtain even by the devil! Because there are times when I'm scarier than the devil! At least my little granddaughter wouldn't let me tell her stories at night when she was sleeping, because she admitted that I was more terrible. ”

Alberta said: "I can promise your terms, but I at least need to know who you need to kill." ”

After listening to Alberta's words, Otayat smiled: "Sure enough, you are indeed the object of my crush. ”

The Octayat merchant picked up the cigarette from the ashtray that he had not taken a puff of, took a sharp puff, and then said, "Have you ever seen a thrush eat bugs?" ”

Alberta shook his head and said, "No ......"

The merchant thought for a moment, and seemed to fall into the memory, he said slowly: "When I was a child, I used to watch the thrush suck other insects with shells, and I can tell you the scene when the thrush was eating the cicada: the thrush stared at the round eyes, it looked ahead, and landed on the tree, and the branches of the leaves swayed, and the thrush fell on it, and hid in the corner, and it flew in front of the cicada, and quickly grabbed the cicada's wings, and clamped hard, so that the cicada's wings fell off because of it...... The sound of the cicada's chirping became miserable, but the sound of the chirping sounded still a swishing tone......

The cicada's stomach was sucked, and the thrush sucked the cicada's belly hard, and the thick juice and nutritious insect juice were absorbed by the thrush. The cicada was still screaming with all its strength, and at this time the thrush grabbed the cicada's head and separated the cicada's body, and the poor cicada was still chirping...... Immediately after, the thrush sucks the back half of the cicada's body and eats it. Of course, when the sizzling sound ended, the cicada lost its life, and the early insects were eaten by the thrush......"

Alberta listened to the businessman...... He sensed the merchant describing a horrific and bloody scene......

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