The Ring: Sell Dung Beetles in Junction

Chapter 278 Going Bankrupt
"It's such a let-off..." Patch said, "I forgot that when you were king, you couldn't change anything, you could only be forced to give up."

Nameless smiled: "What about you? Are you ready? To what extent are you ready to pay for Tanis?"

"Yeah, I've made up my mind." Patch looked firm, "Then risk your life for her."

"Ambition!" Wuming shouted, "It's the first time I've seen you willing to sacrifice so much, brother, I'm willing to help you."

A circle of puppet soldiers surrounded him, and the Epilepsy Volcanic Demon also stretched his head over the rock, looking at the two people hiding under the rock.

"You seem a little too loud," Patch said.

"It's okay, it's okay." Wuming walked out with a smile, "We are volcano's partners."

"Partner..." Patch grinned strangely, "Indeed."

Wuming swaggered into the volcano mansion.

Tanis had just danced to a song, and she wasn't sitting in the hall outside the guest room, she probably went to wash and change her clothes.

Wuming just knocked on his guest room and switched back with Ashmi.

Then they knocked on Laya's room.

After knocking for a while, the door opened.

Laya in human form saw Wuming sleepily, and was a little surprised: "Ah——you didn't expose it, did you?"

"How could I be exposed?" Wuming asked back.

"I fell asleep while covering for you."

"It's okay, I caught up." Wuming said, "The investigation you commissioned has a result."

When Laya heard this, she sat upright.

But because of the hunchback, it's not too upright.

Nameless said: "Before that, I want to confirm first, are you going to listen to the truth, or white lies?"

Laya clenched her fists tightly:

"I want to hear the truth, and I want to be a hero who bravely faces uncleanness."

Nameless nodded: "There is a secret passage hidden behind the guest room, leading to the hidden snow area behind, inside the volcano."

"The volcano really has a secret..." Laya murmured, "My mother never told me about it."

"Behind the volcano, I saw a lot of snake people." Nameless continued.

Laya was stunned: "Many... snake people?"

"Many, snake people." Wuming said, "It's just snake people like you. If it wasn't for the different clothes, I wouldn't be able to tell them apart."

Laya frowned, as if she had heard something very confusing, but she couldn't think of a reasonable explanation after much deliberation.

"Master Tanis—did my mother lie to me?" Laya murmured, "Then I was really... born because of my mother's favor?"

"I didn't investigate this point, and then something happened, so I withdrew first." Wuming said.

Laya came back to her senses: "Thank you Uncle Wuming."

"You're welcome, the deal is considered complete and we're happy to cooperate." Wuming said, "What are you going to do next?"

Laya hesitated for a while, then timidly asked:
"Uncle, can you tell me how to enter the secret passage?"

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Wuming came out of Diaros's room and saw Tanis having a good conversation with Patch.

At least Patch had a smile on his face and seemed happy.

"Sure enough, people rely on clothes." Wuming smiled and said to himself, "You two, I still have some business to do, so I'm leaving first."

Tanis suddenly interrupted Wuming:

"Mr. Unknown, you are very strong, do you really not intend to embark on the path of an unclean hero?"

"I'm a businessman." Wuming said, "Heroes and the like are not necessary—too poor."

After speaking, Wuming bowed to Tanis and left the volcano.

Wuming went back to the academy, and then brought Boxerian and many stone diggers, preparing to go to the hermit village on the other side of the Boiling River, thoroughly convince the demihumans and magicians, and give them mining training.

"There are people on our side who want to teach?" the stone digger said, "It's not easy to leave."

"Stop first, the mine over there is more important." Wuming said, "It is related to the big project of Stone City."

"Boss, once this course is interrupted, it is easy to waste all previous efforts." The miners said, "If those little guys don't finish learning as soon as possible and leave the mine, they will forget everything they have learned in a few days, and the previous costs will be wasted."

"It's okay, we can afford it." Wuming said, "Now mining volcanic rock is the most important thing."

The miner asked: "Boss, how is your business in Yatan? Those of us who work hard in Ningmgfu in the lake area and support Yatan are all a little dissatisfied."

"Hey, we're all in the same caravan. We're all brothers. What's wrong with a little loss?" Wuming comforted the miner, "When the business of the Asian altar begins, it will be the turn of the Asian altar to feed back the Lake District and Ningmgfu."

Wuming said: "The reason for suspending the business in other regions this time is also to bring the volcanic rocks from the Yatan here as soon as possible. When the Stone City project is completed, the money will come."

At the anonymous request, the stone miners who were originally located in the lake area and Ningmgfu all rushed to the Boiling River.

The face of Selian and Burke was quite useful, and they went forward and whispered a few words together, and the demihuman queen and magicians fell collectively, and began to learn to dig stones.

Solemn Burke finished his work, and Wuming sent them back to the academy to attend to Lani's affairs.

Ashmi was also sent back to the elevator and continued to take care of Blazer.

Everything is thriving and stable.

Until a Kaidan mercenary found Wuming and said something like this:

"Boss, we are going bankrupt."

"Ah?" Wuming didn't react for a while, "What did you say?"

"It seems that we are...going bankrupt." Kaidan mercenary repeated boldly.

Because the incident happened too suddenly and the development was too strange, Wuming still didn't enter the state, and became more and more confused:

"who are you?"

"I'm the bodyguard guarding the elevator." The Kaidan mercenary said, "Aren't all your Kaidan mercenaries used there?"

"I know, I mean—why did you say it?" Nameless said, "Where's Patch? Isn't he the accountant? How come I never heard of it? What the hell happened?"

The nameless series of questions became louder and louder.

The Kaidan mercenary shrank his neck: "That... seems to be because Boss Patch... took the money and ran away."

"What?!"

Wuming hurriedly asked Kaidan mercenaries to find out.

The beginning of the matter was that when it was time to pay wages, neither the Asians nor the Kaidan mercenaries received the notice of wages.

There were a lot of people who were looking forward to getting their salaries, but many of them went to Paqi immediately if their salaries were not paid on time.

It was only then that Patch had disappeared for a while.

At first, everyone thought that something happened to Patch, maybe he was kidnapped, or there was some accident.

But soon found that Patch's room was tidy, and the lock of the money box was not opened violently.

"Can't some gangster take him away?" Wuming said, "The money box can also be opened by threats of violence."

"We thought so too, and it's a big deal. We wanted to come to you as soon as possible." Kaidan mercenary said, "But the people from the camp on the other side of the volcano came back and said that Boss Patch asked them to come back to receive their wages. They saw Boss Patch carrying an extra-big bag into the volcano. They never knew that Boss Patch was so strong."

The Kaidan mercenary took out a letter:

"Then we found this in Boss Patch's room—a letter."

To be precise, there was only one piece of letter paper, and it was folded randomly, as if there was no intention of hiding it from being seen by others.

The beginning of the letter indicates that this is reserved for Nameless:

"Sacrifice to this extent."

The inscription is Paqi's name, and the handwriting and writing habits are indeed Paqi's. At the end, a shiny bald head is drawn, showing a big cheap smile.

"Patch, you fucking!"

Sparks erupted from the nameless gaps in the armor, burning with genuine anger.

Wuming suddenly recalled Patch's treacherous smile before, and Tanis's somewhat abrupt question when he left the volcano mansion.

Wuming grabbed the letter in his palm and burned it to ashes.

Never expected that he was asked to help his brother in this way.

"Calm down, calm down." Wuming patted his helmet, pressed the sparks back, and looked at the Kaidan mercenary, "Don't we have a lot of business, if we continue to operate, we shouldn't be unable to sustain it. Tell the miners to mine quickly and go to Stone City to make a fortune."

"This is also a problem." The Kaidan mercenary said with a bitter face, "The caravan from the volcano camp came back with the miners."

Wuming's eyes are a little dark:
"Huh? Something happened on the side of the Boiling River? Didn't they get the ore?"

"I saw that they mined a lot of ore and came back."

"Isn't that okay?" Wuming said.

A miner also walked slowly at this time:

"Let me answer this question—boss, we've finished mining."

"Is that a good thing?" Wuming said.

"It's not that we have finished mining, but that we have finished mining the volcanic rocks in the boiling river." The miner explained.

"Ah?" Wuming didn't understand, "How is it possible? Isn't it said that the Boiling River has the most abundant reserves of volcanic rocks?"

"For ordinary people, it is indeed the most abundant, and it is almost everywhere." The miner said, "The one who surveyed you is obviously not a professional miner. For ordinary people, the Boiling River is undoubtedly the best place to collect volcanic rocks. Ordinary people don't need such a large amount, and the mining point is enough for special purposes."

"Tell me in detail." Nameless said.

The miner said: "The demihumans almost didn't need to receive training, and they directly emptied the volcanic rocks of the Boiling River. For those ores that were difficult to collect, we used a little bit of stone-digging magic, and they were also mined-the Boiling River does not have volcanic rock resources that can be collected in large quantities, and the volcanic rocks are most abundant near the volcano.

"The volcanic light is the hot gas-rich volcanic rocks used to burn the little golden tree. It should have a quarter of the volume of the Boiling River, not counting the volcanic rocks that have completely turned into a part of the land."

Nameless hindsight:

"It means that the volcanic rocks in the boiling river are not enough for us to dig?"

The miner said: "It is enough to supply Stone City for one month, but it will be hard to say in the future. We originally wanted to dig into the inner circle of the volcano, but found that there was no way. The places where the volcano and the royal city were glued together, the soldiers of the royal city retreated for some reason. Now they are all occupied by the volcano's puppet soldiers. Those puppets will attack us and prevent us from approaching the inner circle of the volcano."

Kaidan Mercenary added:
"According to the people who came back from the volcano camp, the volcano mansion has strengthened the original broken bridge."

Nameless took a deep breath, digesting the sudden news.

"Have we no other business?" Wuming said, "No other source of income?"

The miner and Kaidan mercenary looked at each other and shook their heads: "We don't know either."

Nameless felt a little headache.

In fact, there is only one person who leads the overall situation and understands the development of the entire caravan, and that is Paqi.

Wuming often works as a hands-off boss, running back and forth on the front line in various places, and he is actually not that familiar with the operation of the entire caravan.

But Wuming estimated that he was not very optimistic.

In order to collect volcanic rock as soon as possible, he moved miners from other regions here.

Before Patch defected, Wuming heard that the condition of the caravan was not very good.Yatan has been unable to make ends meet and needs business subsidies from Lake District and Ningmgfu.

It is estimated that only Haida's witch borrowing business and the atonement business are still operating normally.

However, these two tasks are tasks that require a small number of talents to preside over them, and the scale cannot be expanded at all.

"Calm down, calm down, don't panic." Wuming patted his helmet, took out a pyroxene, put air on himself, and froze his head,

"Anyway, look for a time machine first—have you ever seen a weird big hand?"

"Is the boss okay?" the miner asked the Kaidan mercenary.

"The blow is too big, you must be crazy." Kaidan mercenary said.

"Don't you know where there are weird big hands?" Wuming asked.

Kaidan mercenary said: "I have seen some on the snow mountain before, but I guess it has nothing to do with what you are looking for, boss."

Nameless said viciously:
"Then there's nothing I can do. I'll go to the volcano to collect debts. Patch, you are unkind, so don't blame me for being unrighteous."

Without another word, Wuming went straight to Huoshan's mansion.

As expected, the Sinner’s Bridge where the camp was stationed had changed again, and a section of the broken bridge, which was not too far away, was blown down again. Now it is inconvenient to build a bridge temporarily even if you want to build a ladder.

But when Wuming was alone, he never had to worry about how the caravan went. The dazzling fire erupted from his legs, pushing him up to the other side of the bridge.

On the other side of the broken bridge, Volcano has deployed a large number of troops in advance, and a large number of puppet soldiers and Iron Maidens are piled up on the way to the main entrance of Volcano's mansion.

It can be seen from a distance that the gate of the volcano mansion has been tightly sealed.

Wuming didn't plan to salute first and then fight this time. The dazzling fire exploded from his mouth, and then turned into a bright white line of fire, smashing the puppets along the way, and blasting towards the volcano mansion.

But the blazing line of fire bombarded the main entrance of the volcano mansion, but did not break through the main entrance like breaking through the defense line of the puppet soldiers.

"Volcano..." Wuming clicked his tongue, stopped using fire, walked to the main entrance of the volcano, and switched to black flames.

But the black flame was blocked again.

A golden shield protected the entire Volcano mansion, and Wuming was stunned to see it, and cursed casually:

"Patch, are you human? You want hair on the protective shields in the store?"

But no matter how much they scolded, the front door just wouldn't open.

Wuming was trembling with anger, pointing at the main entrance with trembling fingers: "You wait for me, you wait!"

He had to go back and clean up the mess. If he had to deal with the volcano like Wang Cheng did, his caravan would probably be gone after the volcano opened.

Wuming kicked the front door, turned and left.

At this moment in the volcano mansion, Patch heard the silence outside the door, and piled a big bag of runes in front of Tanis:

"Stolen rune, should the volcano take it?"

"Are you really going to betray your compatriots?" Tanis looked at Patch with admiration.

"That guy made me realize, the necessary sacrifices, the dangers I need to take, and so on. It's life-threatening to provoke that guy." Patch smiled, "Besides, there are people on both sides who can abandon their compatriots at will. Why don't I just go to the volcano, at least there is a pleasing hostess here."

Tanith was unmoved by Patch's compliment:
"But you have betrayed the volcano before, how can I trust you?"

"Hmm..." Patch was a little embarrassed, "It's all a misunderstanding."

Tanis stared at Patch, the atmosphere was a little stiff.

"I trust you," Tanith said.

Patch breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

Tanith said: "Then please complete your unfinished tasks, unclean hero."

The smile faded from Patch's face.

(End of this chapter)