Chapter 17 Closing of the Transaction

"Ahh

There was a scream from the internal treatment room of the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce, and the crossbow bolt that had been bleeding all the time was removed.

A red-hot soldering iron burned the bloody wound. This is the only way to disinfect in this era. Bahrain was in a painful cold sweat, and at this moment he finally realized the feeling of Nikita burning his thighs yesterday. It's really the same fate as the mandarin duck.

Farah lifted Bahrain to his feet and poured a jar of red liquid into Bahrain's mouth.

This red so-called life elixir is actually only used to stimulate the acceleration of the body's metabolism.

"Wizard, can you move? I need you to fight!" Raymond had already changed into a leather armor and came to Bahrain's bed with a long sword in his hand, and Farah behind him passed Raymond and put down a dozen tubes of moon spring water at the head of Bahrain's bed.

"Okay!" Balin nodded, "You are responsible for protecting me, and I will provide long-range witchcraft suppression!"

Raymond put Bahrain's other arm in his hand, and the three of them quickly reached a small terrace on the second floor. Raymond kicked over the tables and chairs on the terrace, pushing them to the fence of the terrace to build a makeshift shield wall.

The probe looked down from the terrace, and the civilians near the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce had been scared away by the warring sides. Dozens of attackers armed with bows and crossbows relied on the cover of the surrounding buildings to shoot at the guards on the first and second floors of the Chamber of Commerce. There is a steady stream of attackers coming here in the distance.

Bahrain identified a recent attacker, and this time he had learned wisely and stopped trying to cover it with fireballs. Instead, he tried to conserve mana as much as possible, and a scorching ray slammed into the target. Immediately set it on fire to the fire.

Mortals have little power to resist witchcraft, which is why wizards are at the top of the natural food chain in this world.

Feeling a slight mana drain, Balin didn't wait for the mana drain to end before taking the Moon Spring water, so that there would be another danger of constantly losing combat effectiveness like yesterday.

Young wizards are also slowly learning to grow through battles.

The wizard hid on the terrace on the second floor, working with Raymond and the others to unleash his sorcery downwards. With the suppression of witchcraft in Bahrain, the pressure on the guards near the gate was finally relieved. However, the terrace on the second floor attracts a large number of crossbow arrows.

"Evacuate, change places" Bahrain whispered, Raymond nodded, and covered the Bahrain evacuation terrace with Farah.

The three of them quickly found a second-floor windowsill, and through the windowsill, Balin silently counted the number of people and calculated the trajectory of the eight fireballs. Raise your hand and release eight fireballs.

The attackers, who were still concentrating on the terrace below, suddenly noticed that eight fireballs flew out of another window on the second floor.

A roaring explosion sounded, and eight fireballs hit their targets accurately. And Bahrain and others have already evacuated the window again.

Three times in a row, eight fireballs flew out of a window and hit the target. At this time, Bahrain was like a sharp sword hanging over the heads of the attackers, and no one knew where the next witchcraft attack would come from. And any attacker who tried to get close to the building was fired by crossbow arrows from all directions.

But the attackers also knew that they had to go inside the building, or they would fall prey to the wizards' wanton hunt. The attackers quickly divided their men to find tables, door panels and other items from nearby houses, formed a simple shield wall, and forcibly began to climb the outer walls of the buildings.

At this time, the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce, which was very different in numbers, could no longer stop the attackers with Bahrain's witchcraft alone, and Bahrain projected a fireball towards the group of shield walls below, blasting the attackers under the wooden planks into pieces with a bang and retreating from the window.

"Withdraw?" Bahrain saw that nothing could be done, so he proposed to retreat. He knew that an old fox like Raymond must have a way out.

"Yes, it should be withdrawn!" Raymond nodded, leading Balin to join a scar-faced man.

"What about my money?" asked Barin

"Or according to your method, divide the five carriages. One of them was loaded into a wooden box and I personally escorted it. The other one will load you with gold coins, and it's not our problem how you take it!" said Farrah with a sneer.

It is clear that this woman has treated others in the same way as others, and Bahrain has placed them in this way, and now she has placed Bahrain in turn.

"You think the agents below will let you take the wooden box with you?" Ballin knew that he was wrong, and he didn't tell the difference, just testing Raymond's plan. The wizard had always suspected that Raymond's involvement in this series of events would not be too small.

"There are too many similar wooden chests, who can tell?" Raymond smiled.

Bahrain said secretly, and that was indeed the case.

Raymond soon had five wagons ready, one of which contained a box of gold coins. The wizard didn't have time to count them, so he could only hope that Raymond wouldn't cheat.

Bahrain joined forces with DHS agents and said, "Guys, there's not enough people. You carry the wagon with wooden chests, and I will drive the other one to attract the attention of the enemy for you!"

The DHS agents didn't know what Bahrain really thought, and hugged Bahrain one by one with some admiration.

Bahrain glanced at the female reporter who was looking a little ugly on the side, and beckoned her to act with him. After the five carriages were equipped with the corresponding personnel, the gates of the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce on all sides were opened, and the five carriages galloped out from four directions.

Bahrain galloped away with a nervous female reporter towards the southern side of the city, where the unique construction of the Golden Gardens made it impossible to create a road for horse-drawn carriages, and it was difficult for horses pulling carriages to walk on steep slopes.

Fifty thousand gold coins is not a small amount, such a large fortune requires four strong men to carry it in terms of volume and weight alone. How could such a transaction be carried into such a crowded place as the Golden Garden. As a result, Bahrain has purchased a two-storey ordinary stone house in the southern district early this morning. I didn't expect it to come in handy so quickly.

The carriage was uneventful, and it seemed that the attackers had some special ability to discern if there was something in the carriage that they needed. In this era, horse-drawn carriages were indispensable for many people to travel and carry goods. As a result, many of the slightly better homes have dedicated places for horse-drawn carriages.

Bahrain jumped out of the carriage and quickly locked the iron gatekeeper, and then secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The female reporter who entered the house finally let go of her hanging heart and helped Balin into the bedroom upstairs. It's not a golden garden with a state-of-the-art sewer system, so there's an indescribable smell in the whole house. Bahrain, which has been living under the sorceral light for many years, is a little unaccustomed to this.

At this time, the battle in the sky was over, and the panicked crowd gradually took control of the situation. After resting for a while, the refreshed female reporter sat down next to Bahrain and asked softly, "What exactly are the things in the wagon you are transporting?"

Bahrain was silent for a while while while lying on the bed and said, "This is related to the safety of the Star Sea, you still don't need to know!"

The female reporter looked at Bahrain's eyes with blazing eyes, and said with a somewhat serious face: "We said before! I have taken such a big risk for you, you should fulfill your promise!"

"Wooden boxes in the grocery store!" Balin thought that sooner or later this matter would be exposed, and it was up to him to expose it.

"So, you have already planned to transport the wooden box to the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce? Why? As far as I know, the relationship between the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce and this wooden box seems to be very deep, or are you working for the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce?"

Shaking his head, Balin said: "I just guessed that today's attack was aimed at wooden boxes, the entire DHS building was destroyed, and the only place nearby that can resist and have a full armed force is the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce." That's why I arranged to transfer the wooden box to the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce!"

Valentina suddenly smiled: "You're lying! When I was asked to report the news from the Golden Garden, you clearly said that you were arranging for someone to pick you up in the direction of the Department of Homeland Security, and you would take your things with you." So you've had an agreement for a long time, right?"

"What do you want to do, blackmail me?" Bahrain looked at the sunny girl with a blank face, and it was really not a fuel-efficient lamp.

"I want you to arrange a fixed press seat for me in the Golden Garden, and I need you to provide me with the latest news you know in the future!" The female reporter finally stopped pretending to be innocent, directly exposing her ambitions.

Bahrain squinted at her, and the young female reporter was a little flustered by his gaze. Suddenly, Balin also grinned: "Yes, of course." But you still have to do me a favor, or let's do it a little bit together. Give me an interview when the incident subsides. I just need you to do a little bit to highlight my contribution to the Golden Council for these two days! and you will be the only journalist I will interview, forever!"

The female reporter smiled with satisfaction and nodded: "Deal!"

At the same time, the escort team agents escorting the wooden box back to the DHS's temporary office near the Knights of Truth in the Golden Garden were told that the wooden box had been dropped.

The first suspect is, of course, Raymond. It didn't take long for the Department of Homeland Security to get a definitive answer through the interrogation of the captured attackers: the attackers did have a device that could probe the location of the wooden boxes within a certain range. At this time, they had already determined that the wooden box had been taken away from the sea of stars by someone on the witchcraft flying carpet, and judging from the path of departure, it was the carriage driven by Raymond himself!

They didn't know exactly what was inside the wooden box, they were just mercenaries hired by a wizard outside. And the wizard who hired them is dead, and the rest either die at the hands of the fifth-level wizard or escape, and none of them are left alive.

The trail seems to have been broken, unless the rest of the Thanksgiving Chamber can be found.

The fifth-level wizard was reluctant to intervene in the intelligence work of mortals, and since the wooden box had been dropped, there was no point in him leaving it behind.

But the entire Golden Council knew that I was afraid that there would be trouble in the future. It is clear that Raymond and the wizards who attacked this time are not the same group, so what will happen to the wizards who are left after the wooden box is taken away by Raymond? Since the first attack was unsuccessful, will there be a second attack? Who are they? Will they stop at the next attack if they can't find the real wooden box, or will they think that the Golden Council intends to hide and launch a third or even fourth attack?

Mortals have always been so helpless when it comes to wizards, on the one hand, they publicly announce that the wooden box has been taken away by Raymond, and on the other hand, they also seize the time to find clues. The Golden Council is not out of the way to get rid of the wizards, as long as there is enough evidence against the Tower of Babel, the Golden Council can ask the Tower of Babel to come forward, even if those wizards come from another wizarding shrine and the Tower of Babel can hold the Sea of Stars. But now, embarrassingly, apart from Raymond, the Golden Council does not know who is the main messenger behind the series of attacks in the past two days.

Finding the truth behind this series of attacks is already the only way for Golden Garden to do so far.

At around 12 a.m. in the middle of the night, most of the legislators and government dignitaries finally returned to the Golden Garden one after another. The Golden Council convened a joint session in the House of Lords, where representatives of the Knights of Truth, the Cash Drawer, all members of the Cabinet and officials from various important executive branches gathered.

First of all, the casualties of the attack were reported, the current predicament faced by the Golden Council, and the reorganization of the special investigation team on the grocery store attack, headed by Wilson, the chief of staff of the Speaker, and the appointment of senior officials from the rest of the functional departments to join it, Bahrain's appointment as the chief analyst of the special investigation team is a recognition of the excellence of the financial analysis of the female accountants he has trained in the past two days, especially the female accountants he has trained.

At the same time, the work plan for the aftermath was also proposed, and Bahrain was keenly aware of the business opportunities. What is most needed for the aftermath work? Of course, it is gold coins! And what Bahrain does is precisely the treasury business.

Bahrain submitted a bill on the financial sector on the spot. The bill simply reads: "Bahrain takes deposits from the population and promises to pay interest, which is then lent to the government in the form of loans for reconstruction work." ”

This immediately won the support of a large number of glorious councillors, but in the special political structure of the Golden Council, it has always been difficult for the gold members to obtain financial funds from the appropriations committee controlled by the cash cabinet.

As soon as the Bahrain bill was introduced, it gave all parliamentarians and government officials who were struggling with how to deal with the Appropriations Committee a way to bypass the Appropriations Committee.

The Bahraini proposal was therefore adopted immediately. The members of the gold coins in the cash locker gathered together and looked at the wizard with a sneer. They wanted to see how the wizard could absorb deposits from ordinary people with his clever tongue. You are an outsider, although you are a good member of parliament now, but what do you use to guarantee the safety of other people's deposits?

It's something that takes decades of reputation to make possible.

First of all, he scattered a full 500 gold coins in the form of charity, invited builders, found a few vacant land, and quickly built a simple greenhouse for the citizens who had lost their homes.

Subsequently, builders, stone merchants, timber merchants, and other businessmen from the city were invited in the name of charity fundraising, and more than a dozen refugee representatives were invited from the shantytowns. Everyone gathered together at the reopened Desert Pearl Hotel.

Bahrain proposed on the spot that he be on the front line, and the businessmen present signed a framework agreement with the refugee representatives. The refugees raised 20 percent of the house prices themselves, and Bahrain was able to call on the socialites present to donate generously to the refugees. Bahrain demanded that the refugee representatives commit themselves to repaying the funds over the next three years and to bear 12 per cent annualized interest.

At the same time, in order to ensure personal **, many celebrities are not as generous as they appear, and they do not want others to know how much they have given out. But that's exactly what Bahrain wants.

The next day, Bahrain set up a platform for public fundraising outside the house he had purchased in the southern district, and invited His Excellency the Respected Chief Officer, to supervise it. Yesterday, the celebrities who participated in the banquet came one after another, and Bahrain issued a deposit certificate jointly signed by him and His Excellency the ** official with a unique witchcraft fluctuation seal for each investor who came. The place where the currency is deposited is jointly supervised by ten councillors.

Soon the news was passed on, and Bahrain asked Valentina to do an exclusive report on it, and the whole fundraising campaign was written in full swing.

On the third day, led by the refugee representatives, the refugees also came to pay the down payment for the house. A long line lined up three streets under the scorching sun.

However, this fundraising is still far from the total amount of funds needed for the entire construction.

Bahrain sent people to visit and lobby from house to house, but this time Bahrain did not invite any more supervisors, who seemed to be confident in his credibility and usually only vouched for his reputation.

However, to everyone's surprise, in just three days, Bahrain raised another 30,000 gold coins. Not only did it fill the funding gap for the construction of resettlement housing, but there were also more than 4,000 gold coins left.

Everyone has always thought that this was really a miracle, and each of them gave the public credit to make up for the mystery in the grand scene of the previous two days.

However, what no one knew was that Bahrain had already had 50,000 gold coins stored in the treasury.

Bahrain successfully solved the problem of resettlement housing for the people, which immediately caused a huge repercussion in the entire Sea of Stars. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Bahrain set up a Bahrain microfinance office on the basis of houses in the South District, and invited builders to start expanding on the basis of the original building.

This week, Bahrain, which has done a thriving job in the financial sector, has not slackened the work of the special investigation team. Under the coordination of multiple departments, a large number of agents cast a net to investigate. However, the Golden Council eventually had to admit that there was a traitor within itself.

Several times DHS agents have surrounded the attackers, and the key people have been able to get out without danger, and the key clues are always abruptly interrupted.

Clues were pieced together, and the final target was Edgar in the east of the Star Sea. There is ample evidence that the Thanksgiving Chamber of Commerce and the Edgar royal family have had close economic ties recently.

The Golden Council has also been mired in heated debates this week. On the one hand, many legislators found in this attack that the number of citizens who originally had citizenship rights in Xingchenhai was too small compared with ordinary free people, and the staffing was even more stretched in the event of a large-scale group and body incident.

A power game under the citizenship system is in full swing.