Chapter 16: River's Unease
"It's a good ship, the best ship I've ever seen in my life. River drank all the drinks in the cup, and naturally the waiter at the café took the initiative to come and fill up, River stretched hard and said with a smile: "In the past ten years, I have spent nearly half of my time on the boat every year, and I have long regarded the ship as my second home." Home, I always have to do my best to protect it, and I will do my best to stop anyone who wants to destroy this ship, so don't worry, the people of the association will leave the task of guarding to me. ”
"So, you're worried that we're a factor of instability?" Catherine asked with a strange smile, "That's why you invited us to sit down and negotiate?"
"How is it possible, how can I have the ability to sit down and negotiate with the four legends. River shook his head with a smile and said, "And you are guests invited by Marquis Snape, even if anyone has the possibility of harming this ship, you have no such possibility, because if the Marquis has this idea, no one will say anything if he buys the ship back and smashes it for fun, and there is no need for you to damage the Jeff." ”
"Well, the four legends?" the three girls turned their heads to stare at Freya together, "You're also promoted, why didn't we even see it?"
"It's hard to see the Sharpshooter and Mechanic advanced in the first place. Freya held the ice water aggrievedly and said: "It will only be revealed in battle, you don't see anything strange, woo woo, I want to and sour grass juice." ”
"Well, I also found it in the information. River nodded, "Otherwise, even if I'm a legend, I won't be able to see it like everyone else." ”
"I'm curious, Mr. River, why have you been on the ship for ten years?" Catherine leaned back into her recliner and stretched her folded legs as she asked, "With Mr. River's status as a Legendary Ranger Shooter, there could have been a better choice." ”
"There's a lot of money, you basically don't have to do anything for a trip, it's an income of 20,000 gold coins, you are an adventurer, even if it's a gold adventure group, it's only an income of more than 100,000 yuan after two or three months of hard work, except for the loss, everyone has another point, and the result is about the same as my income from lying down and resting every day." River suddenly laughed even more as he spoke, shook his head and said, "Just kidding, it's really boring, but I can't help it, I suffer from gout, and I often feel cold sweat when I have an attack, and I can't even walk, and when the pain is the worst, I really want to cut off both legs." In this case, it is also the best choice to spend a quiet life on this ship while recuperating. ”
"That's a pity. Catherine sighed sympathetically: "But that's fine, at least you don't have to risk your life anymore, and it's a good choice to live a peaceful and stable life." ”
"When I was younger, I didn't want to live a dull life. River squinted his eyes and said, "But the older I get, the more I feel that a dull life is true happiness, which not only makes my body and mood better, but also my temper better." You look at the way I look now, I haven't been angry for three years, hehehehe. Well, but I've been in a bad mood for the past two days, and I'm a little worried about the safety of the Jeff. ”
"What?" Catherine was stunned and asked, "Is there any problem?"
"A businessman is the most well-informed kind of person, more well-informed than most people. River sighed, although he was sighing, but there was still a habitual smile on his chubby face: "I got the news yesterday that someone may be playing with the idea of these four floating boats, maybe they want to take one of them." ”
"Take away?" Pannis suddenly interjected, "What can they do with taking away?"
"No one can figure it out, and there's basically no use for something like a floatboat. River said: "If you transport people, you can use up to two or three hundred people at a time, and if you transport materials, the floating boat is not suitable for carrying cargo, and if you use it as a weapon, basically a few crystal cannons can knock it down, and it has no effect except for smashing people, and you can't figure out the reason why someone wants to take it away, so many people think that this is probably a false information, which is released in order to interfere with our business decisions." ”
"This kind of false information is too weird. Catherine frowned and said, "What is the specific content of the information?"
"I don't know. River clapped his hands and said with a wry smile: "The intelligence of our association is synthesized from a seemingly inconsequential clue, and then a special person is responsible for summarizing and analyzing it, so it is impossible to say what the content of a certain piece of information is in the normal sense." Like me, I can't even figure out how this message was analyzed, let alone what clues were analyzed. ”
"But you're not a little bold. Lina was carrying a lens that reflected the sunlight, and said lukewarmly: "I dare to continue sailing even though I think someone might cause trouble." Or is your association just using us passengers as bait to lure out snooping enemies?"
"Miss Lina, what do you think we should do?" River asked with a smile, "Stopping the voyage for a piece of news that I don't even know if it's true or not, or even vague in itself?"
"Hmm. Lina was speechless, pushed her glasses and said: "I can't help but admit it, what you said is also reasonable, it is indeed impossible to cancel the voyage for this kind of problem, and you can only secretly strengthen your vigilance." ”
"It's hard to even tighten the guard. River said, "There are so many people on board, and all the cabins have been carefully inspected three times, and there is no way that anyone is hiding on the ship." And the guests on the ship itself, except for a few, are only three high-level professionals, and they are only gold-level, and even if they join forces, they will not be able to take control of the ship from me. So we can't even start to strengthen our vigilance, we can only make each guard more vigilant, and be prepared for changes at any time, and we can only do so far. ”
"Are you trying to hire us?" asked Catherine, "Hire us to deal with this crisis?"
"No, no, no, you're mistaken. River shook his head and said, "It's not a crisis at all, and there's no need to ask for help." I'm just talking to you about this because I want to talk to you about it first, and if you really find any problems during the voyage, you must let us know as soon as possible. Of course, it's the same on our side, as soon as there is any sign, we will ask a few people for help. ”
"Oh, I see. Catherine curled the corners of her mouth and whispered: "Just find a few free spies to give early warning, if there is no problem, you will save this expense, and if there is a problem, hire us, you really deserve to be a businessman, this account is really fine, how can you not suffer." ”
"Hahahaha. River smiled heartily, waved his hand and said, "That's an exaggeration, I'm just leading the problem to a win-win outcome, not a calculating." ”
"Okay, we won't pursue it, after all, we are on the ship on vacation this time, and we really want to officially take over the mission, but we don't want to, and it's good to do it now." Catherine let River go and agreed to his request: "However, this time Grandpa Snape changed his itinerary temporarily, and you should have provided the news." ”
"No, we're not going to do that. "But when it comes time to notify guests, we will notify each guest, and we will never selectively notify guests because their identity is more important," River said. And the passengers who can board our floatboat, each of them has a lot of status and status, just like this group of guests, there are the chancellor of the Falar Empire, the vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, a city lord of the Sea Country, and a gentleman in the top three of the wealth list of the City of Knowledge, these people have not provided any information, and it is impossible to provide early warning for Mr. Marquis alone. So this time Mr. Marquis decided not to ship on the ship, it should be up to him to decide. ”
"Don't be so nervous. Catherine said, "I'm just asking." ”
"Actually, the most important thing is that this almost absurd news is strictly controlled between several high-level decision-makers of the association, and the rest is only known to the four of us Legends who are responsible for the safety of the four floatboats, and then there are five, well, I seem to have missed one person. The smile on River's face faded, and he narrowed his eyes into a line to look at Maggie, who was sitting on the sidelines and doing nothing, until he stared at her stiffly, and then said, "Little Maggie, it seems that you have heard some secrets that you shouldn't have heard, how do you think I can keep this secret alive?"
"Wow. Maggie's face changed greatly, and she waved her hand in a panic and said: "I haven't heard anything, I don't know anything, what someone wants to rob the ship, what Marquis Snape, what high-level decision-makers, I don't know anything about this, I really don't know, don't kill me." ”
"Look, don't you know everything?" River pulled out a longbow from under his chair, put the arrow in Maggie's direction, and whispered, "Don't blame me, if you want to blame, blame you for knowing too much." ”
"Whew, don't kill me. Maggie hugged her head and curled up in her chair: "Obviously you deliberately said it in front of me, woo woo woo, ahhhhhhhhh ”
At Maggie's scream, the longbow stretched continuously, and three arrows slashed past Maggie like lightning and shot overboard the ship. Not far away, a large bird with four meters of wings was rushing towards the floatboat.
The three feathered arrows were connected in a string, the first one accurately pierced the bird's head, followed by the second and third feathered arrows and hit the tail of the first arrow in succession, cleverly changing the direction of the feathered arrow's flight, so that the powerful first arrow flew back to the float boat with the victim in reverse, and landed just on the table of several people.
"Hahahaha, little Maggie, you're so funny, I'm sorry for myself if I don't bully you a few times, don't cry, I'm going to invite you to eat stewed bird meat today." River instantly regained his usual kindness, and said with a laugh: "And everyone from the adventure group, in order to thank you for agreeing to help at the critical moment, I have a treat at noon, and the stewed bird meat is also a good game meat." ”
"Isn't the food all free?" said Lina, pushing her glasses, "It's really a businessman's style." ”
"Hahahaha, it's pierced. River jumped up from the recliner and laughed and said, "Let's go, let's eat." (To be continued.) )