"How's the news?"

Gruger, who was at his desk, looked up and lifted the curtain, revealing only a balding subordinate. The latter looked at both sides, and after confirming that there was no one, he hurriedly walked over, leaned over and whispered to Gruger behind the desk: "Boss, they are not willing to accept the Ducats you sent, nor are they willing to give up their current territory, and the people we sent were beaten back by the black stork." ”

"This bunch of garbage. ”

Hearing the defeat and the defeat came to his mind, Gruger slapped the table angrily, and the unsealed inkwell was turned upside down and fell to the edge of the table, staining a black page.

He hurriedly reached out to pick up the bottle, shook off the ink on his hand, and said with a gloomy face: "The recent year has not been good. The five of those rabbit cubs can't beat the other one, and it's too useless. ”

"Take this and give it to Aris, that he may send fifty of his good men to help me. ”

"Boss, will Aris's fox promise us?"

"You just go, don't worry if he agrees or not. Gruger opened the drawer and pulled out a letter that had been prepared, a heavy palm-sized envelope containing ten gold leaves that he had specially put in.

When his subordinates walked out, Grujie's face suddenly became gloomy, he stood up, walked two steps, felt irritable again, sat down behind the desk again, subconsciously leaned his arms on the table, and suddenly felt a wet elbow: "Hey!"

He raised half of his arm, which was all blackened: "Damn it." ”

Gruger cursed, stood up and took a towel to wipe it, but he couldn't wipe it clean, he was upset, and kicked the edge of the table, but the chair behind the table collapsed.

"Forget it. ”

With a sigh of relief, he stepped forward and lifted the curtain to open the door, where members of the Brotherhood and recruited craftsmen were repairing the West Street building.

After being taken away from West Street by the Black Stork, Gruj, who had learned the hard way, thought carefully about why the power of the Blue Brotherhood was cleared out of West Street by the Black Stork so easily. In the end, he thinks that it is one thing to have a lot of fools under his hands, and that the location of the meeting place and the shop are also problematic.

So as soon as he returned to West Street and stabilized the rights at hand, he began to renovate the real estate pattern set up by the former brotherhood on West Street.

Change here, change there. Grujger's vision was for his main residence and direct jurisdiction to focus on both defense and offense. He chose a house on a higher ground in the city, near the city walls, and prepared to transform it into a fortress that could be both offensive and defensive.

But things didn't go well. The place he had chosen was close to an enemy-occupied area that had not yet been recaptured from the Black Stork, and he had been annoyed by the frequent harassment he had been subjected to lately.

"The grandchildren of the Black Stork. ”

Gruger swore and walked out the door, just as two craftsmen came in with a painting. He stretched out his hand to stop the two of them, and painted the entire street of houses on West Street, which almost covered most of the slums, this is a hand-drawn detailed drawing that he recently ordered from someone, but he didn't expect it to be delivered so quickly.

"Put the painting in my room. ”

He pointed to the office behind him, which had replaced the main door with two pieces of linen, and instructed two craftsmen to hang the map on one of the walls of the room.

"The drawing is not bad. ”

He first touched the canvas, and the paint that had not yet dried was accidentally pressed out by him with a fingerprint: "But next time we have to let them dry before bringing them in." ”

Gruger walked around the drawing twice, adding two lines to it.

The line on the left starts from the north side of the slum and continues to include West Street to the third below the inner city walls. This is the strongest area of the remnants of the Black Stork, led by a former Black Stork leader named "Eagle Eye" Murby, who now claims to be the leader of the Kherson Black Stork's branch in Darune, with about 100 people under his command, including about 30 experienced old gangsters who came to Darune from Kherson.

These guys who have fought in the chaotic area of Kherson are all brave and ruthless, and they have a mature organizational framework in their own right. After quickly co-opting the remnants of the Brotherhood, this new gang that had risen rapidly in the slums had gained a foothold and became a formidable force to be reckoned with in West Street.

In order to estimate the strength of the two sides, Grujie tentatively fought with him twice a few days ago, but his men were not angry, and they were all driven back, with heavy losses.

"Alas......"

Remembering the bad things of the last few days, Grujie took out a cigarette and lit a fire, but he only held it in his hand, and let the smoke rise and drift over the lines drawn on the right.

He squinted, staring at the line he had drawn.

Inside the line is a semicircle much smaller than the one on the left. The leader is a small black stork leader who came from behind, calling himself the "Black Viper", and most of the original big leaders have been chopped up and fed to the dogs. Gruger tried to occupy his two gambling houses, but was not met with too much resistance. He guessed that the other party's manpower would probably not exceed forty, and there had been a lot of correspondence with this black viper recently, and there were many submissions in the other party's reply, but Gruger had not yet made up his mind whether to suppress or collect, and just kept it at hand.

He thought about it for a moment, put out the cigarette in his hand, opened the drawer, and was about to fetch a piece of stationery to deliver another letter to Alexey, but he didn't want to see a stamp on the envelope.

Printed with a seated lion, the seal was the seal of the city magistrate, and was usually used to send personal letters. It's not for Gruger, who doesn't have that much face. This was a warning from the squad leader in charge of the slum area the other day, and when it arrived, there was no stationery inside, just an empty shell with a seal on it.

Putting the finishing touches on the mage was not an easy task, and if it weren't for the critical situation at the time, Gruger would not have made such a decision to ask Alexei to kill the leader of the Black Stork recklessly.

As a result, the leader of the black stork was not killed, and the largest infield on West Street collapsed completely, and the people inside were also missing, which gave Grujie a headache.

Of course, he knew where the missing man had gone, but he didn't dare to find Alexey's leggacy.

All the sheriff wants is money, and the mage wants his life.

Not to mention just killing a fast hand and a double swordsman, not to mention just losing a dozen untouchables, even if he didn't kill a single person, even if half of the population of West Street was missing, Gruger didn't dare to open his mouth to go to the mage's errand fee, let alone die to find the mage to beg for help.

He made it all together, and together with all the mercury in the storeroom, plus thirty ducats, he sent Alexei as a commission.

In normal times, he would have been suffering for months for this huge amount of money, but in order to settle the family of the missing person who came to the door, the commission paid to Alexei was not so much. He found the Chamber of Commerce in the city and took out a loan, and spent it in a few days.

Five days ago, Gruger, who wanted to regain lost ground several times and failed in the attack, specially attached a letter to the commission for the remaining Murby, promising a higher reward, but the mage refused. However, between the loss and the gain, Gruge also went to the intermediary who introduced him to Ishia, and used the topic to accuse him of the bad behavior of Ishia disappearing without completing the task, and received a large amount of compensation for the loss of the contract.

And after spending in recent days, this payout is running out. Gruger was so anxious about this that he kept looking for foreign help, hoping to get the entire West Street back under his command within a week, and restart a few infields as soon as possible to make up for the huge funding gap in the gang.

"So, he's in a tough situation right now. ”

Alexei took a slight sip of the ale in the glass, which was a little astringent and not very to his taste.

Sitting across from the mage was the janitor he had seen in Grujger's vault a few days earlier. The blue armband on his sleeve was half torn, his forehead was wounded, his hair was messy, his eyes were red and swollen, and his bloodshot eyes were far less refreshed than they had been when he first saw them. Alexei took a slight sip of the ale in the glass, which was a little astringent and not very to his taste.

Sitting across from the mage was the janitor he had seen in Grujger's vault. The blue armband on his sleeve was half torn, his forehead was wounded, his hair was messy, his eyes were red and swollen, and his bloodshot eyes were far less refreshed than they had been when he first saw them.

"Looks like you've not had a good time lately. ”

"That's right, as you can see, a bunch of villains who tend to be inflammatory. A few days ago, he nodded in front of me, and when the wind blows, he becomes Gruj's dog again. ”

"So, I'm the culprit. It seems that you didn't come to me for nothing. ”

"Say it. Alexei shook the glass and smiled, "And what do ......you want? Pay what?"