Chapter 21: The Scapegoat

Wirt was very fond of his new dealer, even more so than Cross, who was considered his heir.

Of course, Werther knows a lot about the world, he knows how to show his affection appropriately to enhance their relationship, he knows how to hide his affection appropriately to ensure that they keep their proper distance, and he knows that he should never let emotions like liking and love affect his judgment.

At the same time, he found that Chen Mo was not mature enough in the same place, but despite this, his new dealer was humble enough and very good at learning, and had both emotional personality charm and rational calmness, which deepened his affection even more.

The two also have a very common language on bad tastes and grudges.

At the beginning of coming to the Ark, Chen Mo found benefits that could be reaped from the casinos everywhere here.

However, it is much more difficult to actually operate this kind of thing than to think about it in his head, and it took a lot of gambling money, he chose the Taoyuan field, and it is obvious that the big field often does not care so much about the winning or losing of the guests, and then he spent almost all the money, alchemy materials, and items, and found a way to get rich from the strict rules specially designed for the half-breeds.

He went to the table with great ambition, and found that the girl at the table who was originally wearing uniform had been replaced by an old man in a wheelchair, the old man's hands were snow-white, his fingers were short, but surprisingly flexible, he placed the last chip on his body, and then lost it in a situation where the probability of victory was guaranteed.

Ten bets and nine cheats, ten bets and nine losses.

Chen Mo began to comprehend this truth very deeply from the moment he was empty-handed, this has nothing to do with rules, numbers, probability, and games, it is simply the crushing of the banker's thousands, and even if he knows, unless he looks at some kind old men in front of him, he will not lose, and he does not see the old man's methods and the process of making thousands.

It's like a math problem, there is only the result and no process, and the math teacher won't even give you a single point.

So at the sincere invitation of the old man, Chen Mo became a dealer in Taoyuan.

This was later considered by the old man to be one of the most correct choices he had made in his later years, within half a year, Taoyuan's revenue rose by nearly two percent, not only that, with the initial mutual understanding of the two people and the trust relationship established by the alchemy contract, Wirt and Chen Mo cooperated into the intelligence industry of the Ark, and the huge income that followed gave Chen Mo an almost inexhaustible alchemy material that he could never apply for in the academy. The rest of the matter can be imagined, he stubbornly piled up his alchemy level with a high amount of money.

"I never suspected where so many alchemy materials came from, after all, the alchemy black market has my eyes, and every time you go there to buy something, it's when you get dividends in the casino and intelligence."

The old man smiled bitterly every time he thought about it, and complained to the young man pushing the wheelchair behind him.

"I just thought that you were hiding some information, or adding some blockage to my intelligence dividends, but I didn't expect you to start from the casino, if you count the ones you ignore, Taoyuan's rising revenue should be thirty percent."

Chen Mo also choked at the old man who kept this loss on his lips and was speechless: "It took you half a year to see that there was a problem with the hotel's operating accounts, and I didn't give a cent of my dividends in terms of intelligence that month. ”

Wirt hummed disappretently, but the smug look on his face could be seen, and he didn't often show his feelings, but the person behind the wheelchair was a rare exception.

Maybe the perfect account can cover up a lot of things, but the peach source is the work of Wirther's life, the whole hotel has become a part of Wirt's life, the flow of gamblers of different sizes, the time required for the flow of money on the table, and the relaxation that the guests who win and lose in the room afterwards, these things are interconnected and corroborate each other, and the sense of dissonance of the accounts is gradually revealed.

"That old fellow from Angers is here, you called him?"

"Sort of, Laurent is in a mess right now, I need enough manpower to do the next thing, and the academy's executive department and individual student unions will be very useful."

"Are you so sure that Gattuso and Ange will listen to you? Not to mention that the Gattuso family is a bunch of crazy people, Ange looks like he is dressed in a dandy coat, and we all know what kind of monster it is. ”

"Laurent and Gattuso are already half-torn apart, the headmaster will definitely prevent the other school directors from knowing the inside story before things get completely out of control, and now that both sides are in big trouble, the temporary cooperation can bury the estrangement, and when the time comes, they can liquidate together regardless of the threat of dragons and other families."

"I know all this, Ange has only lived for revenge for so long, and the half-breed civil war before the resurgence of the dragon king is definitely not what he wants to see, but I am worried about other situations." Werther had finished speaking, but the meaning was far from over.

"yes." Wirther is right when he says that there are naturally other ways to settle the conflict than to put aside the dispute and induce cooperation.

For example, find a scapegoat and pour out all the anger of both parties on the sheep.

Chen Mo is now the best scapegoat, he has the information that Laurent wants, and at the same time he has offended Gattuso, as long as he gets the information to save George Laurent, the two sides will not continue to die in this matter, and Chen Mo's blood will also become the foundation of Gattuso's prestige.

What a wonderful idea.

Wonderful nature is not aimed at Chen Mo.

A warm smile spread across his face: "That's why I've been working hard since I escaped from the academy, trying to minimize the possibility of this kind of thing." ”

Although Elizabeth, as Laurent's current acting head of the family, is not the person with the most voice and leverage in the family now, this girl is the one who is most likely to be affected by Georges Laurent's disappearance and completely ignore Gattuso's side.

Chen Mo raised his hand and rubbed the cross pendant hanging on his body, the alchemy he took from Gattuso had been carefully trained and repaired by him, and the cracks on it disappeared without a trace, and the texture was like jade: "I have already seen that girl, there is no mistake in the information, Mr. George is indeed very doting on this daughter." ”

"But she will definitely not affect the decision to negotiate because of her father, it can be seen that the girl is the first time to do such a thing as us, which can be regarded as immature, but Laurent is a family of scheming after all, and she will adapt to it."

"And that's not all." Wirther shook his head: "Her butler will be the heart of our negotiations, and it will also be difficult. ”

"Is there anything special about that butler?"

"That's an old man of the Ange level, a notorious dragon-slaying mercenary in his day, and the godfather of Georges Laurent."

"Name?"

"Alfred, the last name is the information that was not obtained."

Chen Mo's face twitched slightly:

"It's really special."