Chapter 344: Sudden Change
The Red Willow Bar has three floors, the first floor is used to greet ordinary guests, the second floor is a private room, and the third floor is used to entertain VIPs. As its name suggests, the bar is deeply rooted in the city's soil, so it has an extremely wide range of customers. With Sean's ability, he can only get the box on the second floor, and don't even think about the VIP area on the third floor.
When you come to the reserved box, there are still a few minutes before the agreed time. After Alan and Adele were seated, Sean called for drinks and took advantage of the time to briefly introduce Roger to Alan. Roger's chamber of commerce was not textiles, but slaves. The slave trade is the most profitable way to make a living, especially the beautiful female slaves, as well as the strong and brave war slaves.
Needless to say, the role of slave girls was the product of the continuous evolution of the civil war in the empire. Many aristocrats were willing to buy large quantities of slaves from slave traders to serve as cannon fodder troops, as a way to reduce the battle losses of their main forces. The source of war slaves was mostly prisoners of war, or some warlike natives. Roger made his fortune by trading slaves, and the slave trader and slave hunting were often carried out from place to place, so he also did some business such as weaving or handicrafts.
One is to resell the scarce goods in the two places, and the other is to cover up their own slave trade. After all, in the imperial constitution, there was a prohibition on the slave trade. Although many local imperial constitutions were not in use, Roger was a cautious businessman who took adequate precautions to protect every sale.
A knock on the door interrupted Sean and Allen's conversation. The fat man got up and said, "It should be that the guests are here." โ
He went to open the door, but there were several strangers behind it. Sean frowned, and an old man with a face wrinkled like bark said, "I am Mr. Roger's representative, Bach." โ
Alan frowned when he saw Sean walk into the box with someone who was clearly not Roger. Sean came up behind Allen and whispered Bach's identity. Alan nodded, looking up at Bach. This old man's aura is very ordinary, and he doesn't have half a source power. The two behind him lit the fire, but the source power was only between the seventh and eighth levels, and it should be a role like a guard.
After Shaun served Bach a drink, he stepped back behind Allen, clearly respecting him. So Bach's eyes fell on Allen, slightly surprised. Alan coughed lightly and said, "I thought Mr. Roger would take the time to visit." โ
Bach replied, and one of the guards behind him sneered: "How can Mr. Roger have time to pay attention to you guys from the countryside?" โ
"Hal, that's rude!" The old man drank lightly, but instead of blaming his subordinates, he agreed with the guard's statement. The arrogance of that attitude surprised Allen, and also made Adele next to him angry.
Adele subconsciously clutched the sniper rifle on her lap, and now, the magic weapon was wrapped in a tarp, and the fangs were still baring. Alan patted the back of her hand lightly and smiled: "It doesn't matter if Mr. Roger can't come if he has something, since Mr. Bach is his representative, then this business is the same with Mr. Bach." โ
As he spoke, Allen's mind raced. With Roger's power, there's no reason not to know what he did yesterday, according to reason. Raiding Singh's turf and taking his place, he himself has shown his strength to Violet Harbor. Like Wino, his willingness to work with him is also based on this.
In other words, Allen now has no influence even over Violet Harbor. But at the very least, Bach shouldn't have put on such a condescending posture. After all, Alan and he are not in a hostile relationship, and the business is negotiated, which is not harmful to Roger.
Unless Roger didn't plan to negotiate this deal in the first place, let alone cooperate with Sur City in the future.
What drove the slave trader to do this, and he made such a decision without even meeting him, which did not seem like the way a merchant should be. Alan thought to himself, and at this time, Bach spoke: "Listen to Mr. Sean, you have a good batch of fabrics on hand. โ
Alan glanced at Sean, and the fat man spread the fabric sample he had brought with him on the table. Bach took it, his eyes moved slightly, and he quickly returned to normal. He nodded, "Your fabric is pretty good, let's say, how many?" โ
"We didn't have a lot of horses with us, only a thousand. If the cooperation is smooth, Mr. Bach can rest assured in terms of supply. Alan said.
The old man nodded and said, "Then I will promise to come down for Mr. Roger, and we will give the price of one thousand silver coins for each piece of fabric, what does Mr. Allen think?" โ
"A thousand silver coins?" Sean said angrily: "Mr. Bach is joking, in the past, when we cooperated with the Chamber of Commerce in Storm City, we didn't have more than this money. Now we don't have to pay for this intermediate link, and even if we deliver the goods to Violet Port ourselves, you can only pay half the price you used to. โ
"Also, this is our new product. Such a weaving technique is more than this money anyway! โ
The fat man gasped with excitement, and Alan had a thoughtful expression. Bach said quietly: "We will give this price, since you can't accept it, then it seems that this business is not negotiable." โ
He simply got up and said "farewell", and left the box with the guard.
Sean frowned and scolded, "How can this be reasonable, is this bastard Roger playing with me?" What are you kidding, we cost more than a thousand silver coins alone......"
Alan just wanted to comfort the fat man, and suddenly his hair stood on end, which was a danger signal!
"Get down!"
Alan jerked out, knocking Sean to the ground. The wall of the box suddenly collapsed in half, and a few bright gun barrels poked out from behind and shot at the tables and chairs. If it weren't for Alan knocking Sean down, the fat man would have had some more bullet holes on his body now.
Adele, who also fell to the ground, snorted, didn't even bother to remove the tarp, and shot directly behind the wall. The rough voice of the sniper rifle instantly overwhelmed the noise on the first floor, and even blasted the unlucky guy behind the wall away, and a scream and the sound of knocking down tables and chairs rang out.
These changes were almost at his fingertips, and when Sean couldn't figure out what was going on, he had already asked Alan to mention it. Alan also pulled Adele up and shouted, "Take Sean away first." โ
He himself swooped back into the gap in the wall.
Meeting Roger tonight, Alan didn't bring Cheonjun with him. So he withdrew the dagger demon salute, and without activating the awakening stance of the source device, he attacked with the prototype of the dagger. The two men behind the wall were busy loading their guns, but Alan was stunned when he counterattacked so quickly. It was a moment of hesitation, and Alan swept by like the wind, and the dagger slashed at their necks, and blood burst out.
After eliminating the two gunmen, Alan had time to look around. There was a cold light in the corner of his eye, but someone pounced in the shadow of the corner. The angle taken is good for the time, if it weren't for the fact that the dagger was not painted like Belmode, so the blade reflected the light and was captured by Allen, I am afraid it would really surprise Allen.
Now it's a different story.
Eren didn't dodge or dodge, and the demon saluted and pulled out a sinuous sword light to meet him. The two daggers clashed in the air, clanging and clanging. The collision of the source force and the blade of the two sides gave birth to the invisible energy of the Dao, blowing out the lights in the room, and tearing out the nearby tables and chairs. Sparks burst out in the dimly lit room, and the person who attacked it obviously didn't expect Alan to be so stabbing and let out a "huh".
Suddenly, there was a fire in the room, and an engraving lit up on Allen's forehead, and orange flames erupted from the dagger. The killer didn't expect him to do this, and his eyes were immediately blinded by the sudden flames. Shouting in his heart that it was bad, he immediately retreated, but there was still a sound of wind chasing him, so he had to hang the dagger. Blood red rays ejected from the dagger, and these source rays were also extremely sharp, and the tables and chairs around them were like paper paste. Being penetrated by the red light and scattered as soon as it is pulled should be some kind of ability of the killer.
The dagger in Allen's hand had already turned into a short knife, and the blood hymn swiped left and right, cutting off those bright red source rays one by one. Originally, he had the opportunity to activate the posture of destroying Miรจ heavy sniper, but in order to take down this killer unexpectedly, he was forced to ask who was behind the scenes, so he turned to using Blood Hymn. But he never thought that this killer also had some real learning, and the source power ray that was like activation, even he didn't want to test the law.
Blocked by the light of these source forces, the killer had already pounced out the window. When Alan rushed to the window, he saw a crowd of people surging below, and there was still a killer. He could only smash his fist on the window frame with hatred and reluctantly leave.
"What, you've been attacked?"
Back at his lodgings, Sean went back to his room to rest. When Willik heard that the three Alan had been attacked, he said hatefully, "I knew I was going with you to beat those bastards who didn't know what to do." โ
Adele rolled her eyes, looked at Alan and said, "This thing is very strange, who do you think could have done it?" โ
"After we took out Singh in a high-profile manner and openly took Dick's territory, there are still people who are so quick to kill us. So this man is not Dick, he should be his friend or partner or something, and that man wants to get revenge on us. Alan flicked his fingers on the tabletop, sorted out his thoughts, and said, "But one thing is strange, the location of the attack is at the Red Willow Bar. How did the other party know that we had business to talk to Roger tonight, I don't think Sean would go around publicizing this kind of thing. Since the other party can grasp the precise time and place, it can only explain two things. โ
"One is that they have good intelligence, but Dick's power here is not so great, and it should be difficult to get this kind of accurate information. Then the rest, that is, the second possibility. Allen's eyes flashed with murderous intent: "The mastermind behind the scenes is Roger himself, if this is the case, it is not difficult to explain why his representative is insincere." Because from the beginning, he treated us like dead men. โ
"It's just that Roger, why did he put us to death? I don't even know what he looks like. โR1058