Chapter 310 Take back that eye and give you everything you want
"Lyle... Gold Merchant?!" The black merchant with glasses looked at Lyle as if he were looking at a ghost, his face full of suspicion, "You are not kidding me, are you?"
"What do you think?" Lyle said, "The letter is right in front of you. Can't you tell whether it's real or not, Torrey?"
As one of the managers of the headquarters, Torre certainly knew that the content of the letter from a branch boss was true, but he was still reluctant to believe that the smug guy in front of him had become a gold merchant.
Oh... it's not quite accurate to say that I have become a gold merchant. The correct answer is that I can become a gold merchant only after completing this transaction. I just have the rights of a gold merchant now.
But so what? This guy has indeed got the opportunity to become a gold merchant. You know, with the distribution of benefits in various jurisdictions already a foregone conclusion, such an opportunity is very rare. So after reading the letter several times in a row, Torre said sourly: "Heh, it turns out that the Bishop of the North Rhine died. No wonder you can... Damn, what kind of shitty luck do you have?"
He couldn't help but curse halfway through his words. After all, Torre had been guarding the headquarters for so many years and had never had such an opportunity.
Lyle said with great excitement: "It's not just luck, it's also strength."
"Haha, don't be complacent." Torre said, "You haven't succeeded yet. What if you bet on the wrong horse, and the person you support fails to successfully take over the post of Bishop of the North? Then you will know that you made a mistake. Do you think the new bishop will let you go? At that time, even if you run to the ends of the earth..."
"Why are you talking so much nonsense?" Lyle tapped the table impatiently. "Sign quickly! Give me the stuff! You're just a small clerk, and you're complaining to me."
Torre immediately glared at Lyle, but he had no choice. Once Lyle became a gold merchant, his status would be completely different from his.
So no matter how unhappy he was, he had to suppress his anger and go backstage to get his things.
Torre's reaction naturally made Lyle feel very happy, and he couldn't help but hum softly.
"Oh, you seem to have a grudge against this guy?" Bai Wei's voice sounded in his mind.
Lei immediately showed an expression of trepidation: "Ah, Lord Visas, you are awake."
"I haven't slept yet." Bai Wei said calmly, "Tell me about it."
"Well, it's not an interesting story..."
"I can tell whether it's interesting or not." Bai Wei said, "Are you teaching me how to do things?"
"Of course not!" Lyle was almost scared and shook his head, "How dare I teach you how to do things? You are my light! My sun! My..."
"Stop talking nonsense."
“…Oh.” Lyle scratched his head.
As mentioned before, Bai Wei also has a character in Lyle.
His character is that he has just awakened from a long sleep that spanned a thousand years. Because he has slept for too long, he is a little bored, so he is very interested in the current world and is also quite interested in Lyle, a humble little man.
Of course, this character setting is not new. Bai Wei also used this character setting against Ulu at the beginning.
The biggest advantage of this character setting is that one can legitimately learn about things that are unknown to oneself from the host's mouth.
For example, now is the first time that Bai Wei has come to the headquarters of the black market. If he directly asks Lyle what the situation is here, it would be a bit uncool. But if he pretends to be interested in Lyle's experience and lets him describe this place from his own perspective, then everything will be different. Not only will Lyle not feel "How come Lord Visas doesn't know anything", but he will also think "Lord Visas cares about me a lot", thus making him even more fearful and more loyal.
Just like now.
"I do have a grudge against that guy. When I first came here, he not only laughed at my background, but also took my quota, causing me to lose a lot of money." Lyle looked at the entrance to the small room that Torre entered and spoke in a low voice, "Later, I went to him to argue and wanted to get my things back, but I failed and he beat me up."
The place where they are now is a window similar to that of a pharmacy.
The black market traders purchase goods here that can only be manufactured by the headquarters, such as various contraband items, fake body parts of Visas, and the "Seeds of Contract" that only gold merchants can possess.
This means that when he was a copper merchant, he would be cheated by people at the headquarters even when purchasing goods at the headquarters. He really deserved the name of a black marketeer.
But Bai Wei would not defend Lyle, and said jokingly, "Did you really go to him to argue?"
"Well, I brought a stick, but it didn't work." Lyle said embarrassedly.
At this time, Torre turned back and placed two golden contract seeds on the table.
"That's all." Torre said unhappily, "Take it and go."
When Lyle heard Torre's tone, he immediately became angry.
This damn guy, I bullied him so badly in the past, and now I can just ignore him. But the problem is that Lord Visas has already known about his bullying in the past. As Lord Visas's chief believer (he thinks so), what if Lord Visas thinks he is useless?
Besides, it would be fine if you dared to treat me like this before Lord Visas came, but do you still dare to do this to me after Lord Visas came?
Then didn't Lord Visas come here in vain? !
Lord Visas is watching!
Thinking of this, Lyle felt that he had to do something to restore his image in Lord Visas's mind.
So Lyle did not take the seed of the contract, but pressed his body against the counter, stared at Torre, and said, "Why, you don't dare to be greedy for mine this time?"
Torre replied with a dark face: "Do you think I'm an idiot? This is the seed of the contract, who dares to covet this thing!"
"Oh, really?"
"You still think it's fake?" Torre said, "And how long have you been a black marketeer? Don't you know that each gold merchant has two contract seeds?"
Lyle knew that Torre really didn't dare to tamper with the seed of the contract, but so what? He came here to cause trouble.
"What about last time?" Lyle asked, "Does the things you embezzled last time not count?"
At this point, Torre also understood what Lyle meant, but he forced himself to say, "That's the rule."
"What rules?"
"When you first become a black marketeer, you always have to learn a lesson. We are telling you that you cannot trust anyone in this world, even the black marketeers themselves." Torre said stubbornly, "If you don't understand this, then you deserve to be cheated... Everyone does this, and I'm not the only one."
"Is that so?" Lyle pushed forward. "According to what you said, when I really become a gold merchant, I can find ways to find you... I mean, educate you."
Lyle's blatant threat really gave Torre a headache. It was not easy for a vengeful gold merchant to deal with a small clerk like him, so he did not dare to continue to be stubborn. He could only raise his hands and admit defeat: "Okay, okay, I admit defeat. I will give you back what I stole from you before."
"Just giving it back to me is enough?"
Torre gritted his teeth and said, "Double it!"
“Just doubling it is enough?”
"That's not enough?! What else do you want?!"
Lyle pointed at the seed of contract in front of him and said, "I want this thing."
"I already gave it to you!"
"Two isn't enough," Lyle said. "I want more!"
Torre was shocked: "How is this possible?! This is the rule!"
"Is it also a rule that you embezzled my things a few years ago?"
"This is different!" Torre said, "This thing is a real-name system. If one is missing, I can't stand it, and neither can you."
"In that case..." Lyle slowly stated the real purpose, "Then tell me, how did this come about?"
Torre's eyes widened little by little. At this point, he understood what Lyle meant, but he subconsciously wanted to say that he didn't know, but Lyle spoke first.
"It's no use playing dumb." Lyle said, "I know that some gold merchants will bypass the headquarters and trade directly with the people in the Contract Land in private. Now I'm going to do the same. I'm going to buy the Contract Seeds directly from them. You just need to tell me where their people are. Isn't it simple?"
Hearing Lyle say this, Torre's expression immediately became uncertain, which made Lyle even more proud.
Lyle knew that his request was "over the line", but so what? He just wanted to cross the line, to see Torre in trouble, or even to see Torre refuse, so that Lord Visas would understand that this matter was not easy to handle.
Then he would find ways to get it done.
Wouldn't that establish my image as a "capable man" in Lord Visas' heart?
If it is the kind of thing that anyone can do, how can his value be highlighted?
Thinking of this, Lyle had begun to expect that Torre would refuse righteously, and he would find this guy again in private like last time. But unlike last time, this time he didn't have a stick in his hand, but Lord Visas!
It’s a pity that Lyle’s fantasy was very beautiful, but Torre’s response was very skinny.
"Well, I can tell you."
Lyle was slightly stunned: "Can you tell me?"
"Yes, I can. But I can only tell you his location." Torre said, "Whether you can reach an agreement with him or not has nothing to do with me."
Seeing that Torre agreed so casually, Lyle understood that this was most likely another "unspoken rule" that he didn't know about, that is, gold merchants could bypass the headquarters and do business directly with the contract land.
Damn, is there really no one who follows the rules?
Lyle couldn't help but curse in his heart, but he didn't want to continue to find fault. After all, it was Lord Visas's mission to find the whereabouts of the contracted land. He couldn't put the cart before the horse because of wanting to prove himself excessively. He could only get the position from Torre quite depressed, and then turned around and left.
Looking at Lyle's leaving back, Torre's expression immediately turned gloomy.
"What an idiot." He sneered twice. "You are still the same as before, believing everything I say. Don't blame me for cheating you. After all, you were the one who threatened me first. You don't even know who you should not offend at the headquarters, so you deserve..."
Torre had only said half of his words when he saw Lyle turning back, so he had to hold it back.
Lyle walked up to Torre and held out his hand.
"What are you going to do now?" Torre asked puzzledly.
"You just said that you took my things last time, and now you have to give them back to me." Lyle said expressionlessly, and then he felt that he missed something, and then added, "Double."
Torre: “…”
…
Ten minutes later, Lyle walked out of the inner room with satisfaction, holding a large bag of "spoils" extorted from Torre.
Logically speaking, he would not be interested in such things given his current status, but Lyle was never a person who forgot his roots, and he wanted it no matter how much money it was. In addition, Torre looked like he had eaten shit just now, which made him feel that this bag of loot smelled surprisingly good.
The only problem was that in order to get rid of him, this guy Torre gave him two extra limbs of Visas.
If it were in the past, he would definitely be very happy, but now... Lyle was not sure whether it would be considered blasphemy to present two fake corpses in front of the real Visas.
So he asked Bai Wei carefully, and was relieved only after getting Bai Wei's indifferent answer.
After all, he just wanted to save money so that he could better contribute to Lord Visas' rebirth.
"Lord Visas, shall we go find the messenger from the contracted land next?" Lyle asked cautiously.
"Don't you have anything else to do?"
"No, no, no, of course not." Lyle shook his head repeatedly.
He just felt that things were too simple now. He just needed to find the messenger of the contract land and force the other party to tell him the specific whereabouts of the contract land.
This really could not achieve the effect he wanted, which was to make Lord Visas realize his "ability", so Lyle decided to exercise his own subjective initiative.
"Lord Visas, do you need any offering?" Lyle asked.
"worship?"
"Yes, a great being like you must be worshipped, just like the gods." Lyle said with a beaming face, "You may not know that the black merchants have actually been paying tribute to the eight major churches to ensure that they will not attack us, and those tributes can be found at the headquarters."
"Oh?" Bai Wei asked with interest, "What are they?"
"For example, give it to the fair-skinned little boy in Rhine. They like it. For example, give it to the brain of the Church of Eternal Nightmare..."
"brain?"
"Yes, the people of the Church of Eternal Nightmare like to eat human brains, and they must be 'alive'. You may not know how to..."
"Okay, stop talking." Bai Wei interrupted Lyle indifferently.
Lai, who was describing the story with great excitement, suddenly choked up, thinking he had said something wrong.
"Compared to those, I want eyes more." Bai Wei said slowly.
"Eyes, eyes?" Lyle scratched his head. "Do you prefer eyes? What kind? Boy's or girl's? I can give you either..."
"No, it's mine."
Lyle's head suddenly tilted to the side uncontrollably, and then he saw a huge convoy slowly approaching the edge of the nameless town.
Star Relic Sect.
"My eyes are there." Bai Wei said slowly, "Help me get them back, and I will give you everything you want."
(End of this chapter)
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