Pale Emblem

Chapter 97 Goldfinger

After sending off the tailor and his little apprentice, Maddie returned to the living room and saw the broken pottery all over the floor. He shook his head and sighed: "Ruth and Jessica can hardly get along with strangers. Victor, look at the goddess of the earth. For the sake of it, think of a way." After speaking, he took the broom and dustpan and started cleaning the living room.

Victor didn't have time to help, he sat on the sofa with Ruth and Jessica sandwiched between him.They thought they had driven away foreign enemies.This time, he is as docile and well-behaved as the little white rabbit.

Victor treated them very tolerantly and said, "I'm sure they can adapt to life in the town, it just takes a little time. Maybe, we should stay in Water Snake for a few more days."

"I'm afraid not. The mixed-race children in Braun Town have never had much contact with outsiders. I worry that the people in Jinsha Town will use them, or even sell them. The longer the time drags on, the bigger the variables will be. In the end, all the awakened people we have worked so hard to cultivate have become We have no one to use for other people's subordinates." Maddie said while sweeping the floor.

The Adventurer's House spent resources and trained nearly 300 mixed-race awakeners and professionals.Most of them are young and talented, and everyone has a chance to advance professionally.For Victor, these half-breeds are undoubtedly a force that can be mastered and relatively reliable.But it's hard to say after a long time. The local forces, armed caravans, Redmane Corps, and adventure groups in Jinsha Town will definitely find a way to absorb them.Under the combination of hard and soft, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be mixed-race people who choose to change their flags.Maddie's years of hard work are equivalent to making wedding dresses for others.

However, Sister Ruth was also important to Victor.In the process of treating them, the knowledge memory in Victor's mind is also being reorganized.

Victor thought for a while and said, "Didn't the tailor say that it takes four days to make clothes? I will try to prepare a few potions first, to reduce the aggression of Ruth and Jessica, at least to prevent them from hitting people casually. . This way, we can leave for Jinsha Town and gather our lost companions."

Maddie asked worriedly: "Is four days enough time? You have to make the disguise mask first and help us all make a facelift."

Victor shook his head and said, "The production process of Dr. Cole's rubber mask is very complicated. If the materials are available, it will take me 12 days at the earliest to make five pairs of rubber masks. But I have an alternative method, it is definitely no problem to help you temporarily change your appearance, Just wait until Harvey buys all the materials I need."

Maddie breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "That's fine. We can all go to Jinsha Town with a different face. In addition, we have to figure out a way to create a map these days... Drilling in the woods in the wild, there is no direction. Run, I don't want to go through it again."

"Oh, by the way. I found an interesting person... The tailor's little apprentice, Stephanie. Do you think there is anything special about her?" Maddie asked enthusiastically.

Victor recalled for a moment and said, "Stephanie... her name is very special, not like a child from a poor family."

"No, no, no, I'm asking how is her skill?"

"The skill is very sensitive. But I haven't practiced martial arts."

"Yes, she is born with agility." Maddie said both excitedly and regretfully: "Stephanie has a rare agility trait, if she is given resources, she can become a [-]% hidden hunter, and maybe even promoted to Venerable... It's a pity. Her talent can only be a little tailor in Water Snake Town."

Maddie had been training secret hunters in Braun Town, and he was also a preacher.He said Stephanie's talent was good, and that's right.

Elderly preachers are not very competitive, but they always hope that there will be successors.

Victor has always believed that the way to train professionals is wrong.Because the power of the professional is too easy to enhance, resulting in a mismatch between the mind and the ability.The vast majority of professionals have not yet fully mastered their own blood secret ability, and they are busy with the next promotion.When they encounter the bottleneck of promotion, and then go back to practice the basics, they will gradually become old.

It is good to have the ability to secret blood, but it is even more important to master your ability to secret blood, such as arm command.

What about high talent?

The easier it is to advance, the more blood secret abilities, the harder it is to master, and the easier it is to die in battle.

If Stephanie embarks on the path of being a professional, she will either die halfway, or lose her youthful spirit and waste her talent in vain.

Steady and steady practice of the Secret Art of Origin Blood is the correct way for warriors to improve themselves.

Victor has already thought about it. He will use the second-level source blood secret method to train those mixed-race awakened people, and then cultivate professionals from them, and open up a different path.

"When we leave, we can take Stephanie with us," Victor said seriously.

Maddie didn't know that Victor planned to use Stephanie as a new test material. He said very excitedly: "Then we can spend money to buy her from her parents. I don't know if her parents are willing to sell her. ?"

Victor looked at Maddie in surprise and asked, "Is there so much trouble? Can't we just take her away?"

Maddie was even more surprised and murmured, "Ah? You mean kidnapping..."

"Who is Victor going to kidnap? Leave it to me!"

Harvey shook the latch and pushed in.He carried a large package on his shoulders and said excitedly, "Victor, everything you want is here, a lot!"

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Water Snake Town, the den of the Thieves Guild.

Sitting behind the desk, the old wolf carefully looked at the pages of drawing paper in his hand, on which were sketched portraits with charcoal, not only lifelike, but also marked the height, waist and other dimensions.

Victor's image is also on the drawing paper. He is 1.88 meters tall, tall and well-proportioned, and the proportions of lines are almost perfect, which is impressive.His appearance can also be called sunny and handsome, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a high nose bridge. If the stubble around his mouth is shaved off, he will look even more handsome.

"Heh, the figures drawn by 'Tape Measure' are real." The old wolf nodded in admiration and turned to the next page of drawing paper.When he saw the portrait above, he slapped the drawing paper heavily on the table and said angrily, "What is this? The face is crooked!"

A confidant glanced at the drawing paper and said with a smile: "When I got the drawing paper from the 'tape measure', I also asked him what the hell he drew? What should a lunatic look like?"

The old wolf frowned, picked up the sketch again and looked at it carefully, nodded and said, "It's very good, looks... she is indeed a female lunatic. You say, if I pass these two drawings to Mr. Anthony, will he? Fire?"

The thug said indifferently: "Head, two female lunatics, one tall and one short, are already very eye-catching. Anyone who sees them can recognize them. What does it matter what they look like?"

The old wolf thought for a while, then nodded and smiled: "That's right... Mundo, you're leaving tonight and bring these sketches to Mr. Anthony. Let's see what he has to say."

Mundo, who was sitting on the sofa, raised his eyelids and said that he heard it.The thug said to the old wolf, "Head, there is another situation."

"When the 'tape measure' handed in things, he said that he did what you asked him to do. He didn't want to cause trouble for himself, and asked Stephanie to stop going to the tailor's shop. Her fake apprentice was fired."

"I checked later, Stephanie is a little finger of Boss Pym, an 11-year-old orphan. She only came to Water Snake Town last year, and was adopted by Boss Pym. Stephanie emerged very quickly in 'Goldfinger', and now she is under her hands. Take 7 or 8 people and manage three alleys."

"Yesterday evening, Boss Pym pretended to be your name and asked the tailor to take this little finger to step on Harvey's nest. It seems that 'Goldfinger' is planning to attack Harvey's group. 'We met face to face. The tailor was afraid that 'Goldfinger' would leak his bottom line and affect his shop. So he said hello to me, don't get him involved."

The old wolf froze for a moment, pointed to his nose and shouted: "Pym pretended to be my name and sent someone to step on Harvey's nest. The tailor thought it was my intention, so he took Pym's 'little finger' in... If Pym leaks his bottom line, will it be counted on my head in the end?"

The thug buzzed, "Yes! Boss Pym did a good job, something went wrong, let's get to the bottom of it. Well, he's done it more than once."

"Benefits!? No benefits, only disasters! Only disasters!"

The old wolf slammed the table and roared for a while before regaining his composure, but his face became gloomy and ugly.

There are only three gangs of thieves in Water Snake Town. Old Wolf is the most famous. He is the "middleman" of the Thieves' Union. Li, he is the most powerful, monopolizing the tavern, hotel business, house leasing and barbarian slave leasing business, extortion, buying and selling stolen goods, selling contraband, etc. in Water Snake Town; finally, "Goldfinger" Pym.His power is the smallest, with dozens of orphans under his command, specializing in theft and fraud.

Old Wolf and Billy and Pym have been friends for decades and have a very good relationship.Billy and Pym were able to gain a foothold in the lucrative Watersnake Town, all because Old Wolf recommended them to the Red Jazz.

Billy the porcupine was a senior gangster in the gang when he was young. He gained a firm foothold in Water Snake Town, but his courage became smaller.But the "gold fingers" do business without capital. They have the smallest power and the greatest courage.

Pym got into a lot of troubles, and it was Old Wolf and Billy who helped him wipe his ass.He has always been respectful to the old wolf.

However, in recent years, Pym did not know how to rely on the mayor of Water Snake Town.His attitude towards Old Wolf and Billy changed, and he became arrogant.

After all, the mayor is the real big man in Water Snake Town, and even the underground king, Sir Red, does not dare to oppose the mayor of Water Snake Town.

The gang of thieves can't provoke noble officials from all over the place, and secondly, they can't provoke adventurers.

Only half-elves who are brave by nature will be adventurers, they are true outlaws.In order to win over and appease the adventurers, the city-state council has done a lot of things.Thieves in Water Snake Town also need to avoid conflict with adventurers.

Harvey and the others did not go to the inn run by the Adventure Union. "Goldfinger" Pym thought they were not adventurers, and regarded them as "fat fish".

However, even if Harvey's group didn't have the protection of the Adventurer's Guild, they were still desperados!
"Mundo, don't rush. I'll talk to Pym first."

The old wolf waited for two full hours before "Goldfinger" Pym came to his lair.

He was a squat old man, dressed in old clothes, with sparse gray hair and a bald, amiable smile on his face all the time.But who would have thought that this seemingly loyal and friendly old man was the biggest thief in Water Snake Town.

As soon as he entered the door, he took the initiative to say hello: "Old wolf, I heard about it. But the little finger stepping on the fish nest is not what I meant. I didn't know in advance. Just now, I asked Stephanie specially. I, want to make a big deal by myself."

Pym put all the blame on the head of the child, which is also the consistent style of "Goldfinger".

The old wolf sneered and said, "Old man, we have been friends for decades, is it interesting that you tell me this?"

Pym brushed his poor hair and said with a smile, "We came from that age too. Who doesn't want to do big business? Who doesn't want to be famous? I remember we sneaked into the adventurer's hotel and stole them. Jin Zi. Did the 'parents' control us? The 'parents' didn't care, they couldn't control us."

"Stephanie is a clever kid, and she has learned almost my skills in just one year. I really like this little guy... But, the kid always grows up and leaves home. Stephanie will be 12 soon, She will be able to marry in a few years. Now she has to save a dowry for herself, according to the rules, I can't stop her."

"I mean, let her try it this time. I have explained the rules to her just now. If she succeeds, the family will only take [-]%, and then [-]% will be given to you, and the rest will be her own. In the end, she will carry it herself. I think I never raised this child. Whether the master killed her or sold her has nothing to do with us. "

The old wolf raised his head and gave a haha, and said, "Pim, I'll tell you, you're wrong. What you're looking at isn't a 'fat fish', it's a meat-eating tiger! You have to feed the tiger yourself, don't feed me Take it too!"

Pym asked with the same smile: "Are they adventurers?"

"seems not."

"A noble official?"

"...Probably not."

Pym said slowly: "They didn't go to the hotel run by the Adventurer's Guild, nor did they visit the mayor, they just rented a commoner's hut. As for me, I didn't cross the border, and I didn't have any bad rules. Why do you stop me? following me?"

"I said, it's a meat-eating tiger!"

"I also said, Stephanie missed the bottom, she carried it herself."

The old wolf finally changed his face and said sullenly: "Pim, in the past few years, you have become not like yourself. You keep saying that your children will 'leave home' when they grow up. You have also released several 'leavers'. What about the children and the others?"

"Don't think I don't know, they've done a few big deals, you let them 'leave home'. But the union in Uttar Pradesh didn't see anyone at all!"

"You can't see people when you are born, and you can't see corpses when you die... You fucking look so ugly!"

Pym and the old wolf looked at each other for a long time, then stood up slowly and walked towards the door step by step.Before going out, he turned his head again and said meaningfully: "They may be hung in iron cages outside the city of Northland; maybe they have gone to other places to be 'parents'... In short, children who grow up and leave home , 'Parents' don't care. Judging from our decades of friendship, I advise you, don't check some things too carefully... It's not good. "

(End of this chapter)