Chapter 108: Chapter 107 Pandora’s Fist
After a while,
In a palace in Cuijin City, Gro held a letter, his expression slightly excited.
Though called a letter, it was actually just an envelope without any content inside, but this was enough—the empty envelope could convey sufficient information.
Gro turned to look at the soldier who had delivered the letter and quickly asked, “When was this letter delivered?”
“Just now,” the soldier answered. “Prince, as per your orders, as soon as soone delivered a letter to your courtyard outside the Palace, it was imdiately brought to you without any delay.”
“Very good,” Gro nodded in satisfaction and then pursued, “The person who delivered the letter, where did they send it from? Did you ask?”
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“It was sent from the Old Oak Inn on Boulevard.”
“Old Oak Inn?” Gro’s eyes flickered, and after thinking for a mont, he made a decision and waved his hand at the soldier, “Go call so people, lead a team and follow out of the Palace to the Old Oak Inn.”
“Uh, yes, Prince!” The soldier hurriedly ran out of the palace, took a few steps, thought of sothing, turned his head back and asked, “Uh…Prince, how many people should I bring?”
“Bring as many as we have.”
“Ah, is the other party that dangerous?” the Soldier asked tentatively, slightly startled. “Should we bring more crossbows?”
“What danger? This is because I want it to seem grand and formal!” Gro shouted.
“Uh.” The soldier shrank his neck, finally understanding that he had misunderstood Gro’s intention, and hurriedly ran out.
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Tree-lined Street.
The street was bustling with pedestrians, among whom walked two rcenaries, a man and a woman.
Mura walked ahead while Danis lagged half a step behind, talking.
“I think it’s best not to recruit the Mike brothers into the small team. Although because of Zack and Cole’s incident, our team is severely short-staffed, and it’s virtually impossible to take on missions, the Mike brothers’ reputation is really not good at all,” Danis voiced, frowning thoughtfully before adding, “Not just bad, but downright notorious.”
After hearing Danis’s words, Mura was not very angry but nodded in agreent, “Indeed, their reputation is bad. Fighting, shirking, cheating, threatening sponsors—there are too many such incidents. But that’s not all; most importantly, they both drink like it’s their lifeline, often causing major chaos.”
“So, Uncle Mura, do you still insist on bringing them on?” Danis asked, puzzled.
“It’s a necessity,” Mura sighed, “Our Small Team Leader suddenly lost Zack and Cole, and it’s tough to recruit qualified mbers quickly. If we don’t want to go a long ti without receiving missions, then the Mike brothers are our only option right now.
In fact, it is because of the Mike brothers’ bad reputation that others won’t compete with us, which is a disadvantage but also an advantage.
Uh, I know what you’re going to say—you’d rather have fewer people than involve such scoundrels that could bring us trouble. But I have considered this. Although the Mike brothers have bad temperants and characters, there’s one thing they can’t change—that they are desperate for money, otherwise they wouldn’t be living in the worst rooms and drinking the worst liquor at the inn.
Lacking money is their weakness, and we just need to grasp that. As long as we promise them a sufficiently high split of the bounty, they will obediently listen to us. I’ll just keep a close eye on them, and they shouldn’t cause any trouble.”
“We’ll cooperate with them for now, just to get through the imdiate difficulties, and once we find the right team mbers, we can kick them out. They might get angry, but as long as we throw a hefty Money Bag in front of them, I guarantee they’ll forget everything.”
“Uh…” After hearing Uncle Mura’s lengthy explanation, Danis just shrugged, at a loss for words.
At this point, Mura stopped walking and looked towards an inn on the side of the road, murmuring, “Old Oak Inn? Hmm, as the limping man said, the Mike brothers seem to be staying on the second floor here. Let’s go in.”
“Uh, okay.” Danis followed Mura into the inn.
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Inside the Old Oak Inn, on the second floor.
Richard sat in the room, pleased with the arrangents.
This was the best room in the inn, ostensibly a single room but more accurately a space made by combining almost two rooms, extrely spacious. Of course, this squeezed the adjacent room, making it extrely cramped and narrow. Thus, the neighboring room’s price was worlds apart.
The cramped and narrow room cost only five Jade Kingdom copper coins per day, while the spacious room required a Jade Kingdom silver coin, which was twenty tis more expensive.
However, Richard could easily afford this price, and it seed to be worth it now.
At least, the bedding in this room didn’t have the stench like the previous inns, but a faint scent of lavender.
Pandora pounced on it, sniffed the bedding, happily rolled around, and then lay on the bed motionlessly, looking like a lazy pet cat sleeping, or perhaps… just spacing out.
Richard didn’t bother much, opened his suitcase, took out the “Monroe Chapter,” and started flipping through it. On the way to Cuijin City, he had thought of so things related to mana and spells, and wanted to find so relevant records in the book to confirm.
At this ti, since he had sent the ssage, it had been a while, and Richard was unsure whether Gro had received it, nor when he might co to et. However, before the other party arrived, he didn’t want to waste this ti.
With this thought, Richard’s eyes fell on the pages of the “Monroe Chapter” and began to read.
But just a few lines into reading, a noisy disturbance suddenly ca from the room next door, as if soone had gotten up from the bed and bumped into sothing, creating a “clattering” noise.
This was followed by cursing and roaring, which lasted for a long ti without stopping, and gradually another noise joined in, like an orchestra playing a symphony. It seed like, without any impact, it would continue indefinitely.
Richard slightly frowned, thought for a mont, walked close to the wall, and rhythmically tapped on it three tis.
“Thump, thump, thump!”
The force was light, but the sound was clear, and the other party obviously heard it, as the roaring and cursing abruptly stopped.
Richard’s brows relaxed, and he turned to go back to the table to continue reading the “Monroe Chapter,” but unexpectedly, the noise from the next room resud after a brief pause, even louder than before. It seed that the previous warning had not only failed to diate much but had instead angered them further.
Richard’s brows furrowed deeply.
At that mont, a “thump” sounded nearby, and Richard turned to see Pandora jumping off the bed.
Pandora looked annoyed, as if her sleep had been disturbed. Walking up to the wall, facing the noise from the next room, she swung her fist and hamred the wall, her vigor not like that of hitting a wall but rather like punching a person.
“Thump! Thump! Thump!”
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