Chapter 278 Going Bankrupt

"What a surrender..." Patch said, "I forgot that when you were king, you couldn't change anything and had to give up."

Wuming smiled: "What about you? Are you ready? How much are you prepared to pay for Tanis?"

"Yeah, I've thought about it." Patch's eyes were firm, "Then risk your life for her."

"Be ambitious!" Wuming shouted, "This is the first time I have seen you willing to sacrifice so much. Brother, I am willing to help you."

A circle of puppet soldiers gathered around, and the mountain demon also stretched its head over the rock and looked at the two people hiding under the rock.

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

"It doesn't matter." Wuming walked out with a smile, "We are partners of the volcano."

"Partner..." Patch grinned a strange smile, "Indeed."

Wuming swaggered into Huoshan's official residence.

Tanis had just danced a hot song and was not sitting in the hall outside the guest room. She probably went to wash up and change clothes.

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

Then he knocked on La Ya's room.

After knocking for a while, the door opened.

The human form of La Ya sleepily saw that it was Wuming, and was a little surprised: "Ah - you weren't exposed, were you?"

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

"I fell asleep while covering for you."

"It doesn't matter, I caught up." Wuming said, "About the investigation you commissioned, there are results."

When Laya heard this, she sat upright.

But because of his hunchback, he is not very upright.

Wuming said: "Before that, I want to confirm first, are you prepared to listen to the truth or a white lie?"

Laya clenched her two fists:

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

Wuming nodded: "There is a secret passage hidden behind the guest room, which leads to the hidden snow area behind it and inside the volcano."

"The volcano really does have secrets..." Laya murmured, "My mother never told me."

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

La Ya was stunned: "Many...snake people?"

"There are many snake people." Wuming said, "There are snake people just like you. If it weren't for their different clothes, I wouldn't be able to tell them apart."

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

"Lord Tanith - Mother, did she lie to me?" Laya murmured, "Then I was really... born because of my mother's favor?"

"I didn't investigate this. Then something unexpected happened, so I withdrew first." Wuming said.

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

"You're welcome, the deal is considered completed, and it's a pleasure to cooperate." Wuming said, "What are you going to do next?"

Laya hesitated for a while and asked timidly:

"Uncle, can you tell me how to enter the secret passage?"

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

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

"Sure enough, a person depends on his clothes." Wuming said to himself with a smile, "Boy, I still have some business to be busy with, so I'll leave first."

Tanis suddenly interrupted Wuming:

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

"I'm a businessman." Wuming said, "I don't want to be a hero - I'm too poor."

After saying that, Wuming bowed to Tanis and left the volcano.

Wuming went back to the academy, and then took Boxelian and many miners with him, preparing to go to the Hermitage Village on the other side of the Feigun River to thoroughly convince the demi-humans and magicians and provide them with mining training.

"Do we have people here who want to teach us?" said the stone digger. "It's hard to leave."

"Let's stop for a second. The mine over there is more important." Wuming said, "It's related to the big project in Stone City."

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

"It's okay, we can afford it." Wuming said, "Mining volcanic rocks is the most important thing now."

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

"Hey, we are all in the same caravan, we are all brothers, why do we suffer a little loss?" Wuming comforted the miners, "When Yatan's business develops, it will be Yatan's turn to support the Lake District and Nimgefu."

Wu Ming said: "The purpose of suspending business in other areas this time is to transport the volcanic rocks from Yatan as soon as possible. Once the Stone City project is completed, the money will come."

At Wuming's request, the stone miners originally located in the Lake District and Ningmu Gefu rushed to the Feigun River.

Se Lian and Burke's face was quite useful. They stepped forward together and whispered a few words. The demi-human queen and the magicians collectively fell into defeat and began to learn to dig rocks.

After Serlian Burke completed his work, Wuming sent them back to the academy to attend to Lani's affairs.

Ashimi was also sent back to the elevator and continued to take care of Blaze.

Everything is prosperous and stable.

Until a Kaidan mercenary found Wuming and said this:

"Boss, we are going bankrupt."

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

"We seem to be... going bankrupt." The Kaidan mercenary repeated it bravely.

Because things happened too suddenly and the development was too bizarre, Wuming still didn't get into the mood and became more and more confused:

"who are you?"

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

"I know, I mean - why are you saying this?" Wuming said, "Where's Patch? Isn't he the accountant? Why have I never heard of this? What happened?"

Wuming's series of questions became louder and louder.

The Kaidan mercenary shrank his neck: "Well... it seems that it's because Boss Patch... took the money and ran away."

"What?!"

Wuming quickly asked the Kaidan mercenary to find out.

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

There are many people who are eagerly waiting for their wages to be paid. If their wages are not paid on time, many people immediately go to find Patch.

Only then did I realize that Patch had disappeared for a while.

At first, everyone thought that something happened to Patch, that he might have been kidnapped, or that there might be some accident.

But soon I discovered that Patch's room was neatly tidied, and the lock of the money box was not opened violently.

"It couldn't be that some gangsters took him away?" Wuming said, "The money box could also be opened with the threat of violence."

"We thought so too, and this is 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 Pachi asked them to come back to collect their wages. I saw Boss Patch carrying an extra large bag into the volcano, and I 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 a piece of letter paper, folded casually, as if there was no intention to prevent others from seeing it.

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

"Sacrifice to this extent."

The signature is Patch's name, and the handwriting and writing habits are indeed Patch's. At the end, there is a shiny bald head with a big mean smile.

"Patch, fuck you!"

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

Wuming suddenly recalled Patch's somewhat evil smile before, as well as Tanis's somewhat abrupt question when he left the Huoshan Mansion.

Wuming took the letter into his palm and burned it to ashes.

I never expected that he would be asked to help his brother like this.

"Calm down, calm down." Wuming patted his helmet, pushed Mars back, and looked at the Kaidan mercenary, "Don't we have a lot of business? If we continue to operate, it shouldn't be unsustainable. Let the miners quickly mine, go Make a fortune over there in Stone City.”

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

Wuming's eyes were a little dark:

"Ah? Something happened over there at the Feigun River? Didn't they find any ore?"

"I see they brought back a lot of ore."

"Isn't that okay?" Wuming said.

A miner also walked over slowly at this time:

"Let me answer this question - boss, we have finished mining."

"Is that a good thing?" Wuming said.

"It's finished. It's not that we've finished mining, but that we've 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 volcanic stone reserves in Boibun River are the richest?"

"For ordinary people, it is indeed the richest, literally everywhere." The miner said, "The person surveying you is obviously not a professional miner. For ordinary people, Feigun River is undoubtedly the best place to collect volcanic rocks. ——Ordinary people don’t need such a large amount, just pick some for special purposes.”

"Tell me more details." Wuming said.

The miner said: "The demi-humans mined the volcanic rocks in the Feibun River directly without receiving any training. For those ores that were difficult to collect, we used a little bit of rock digging magic and mined them all - Feibun River There are no volcanic stone resources that can be collected in large quantities. Volcanic stone mines are most abundant near volcanoes.

"The volcano alone, the hot volcanic stones used to burn the Little Golden Tree, should be a quarter of the volume of the Boiling River, not counting the volcanic stones that have completely become part of the land."

Nameless hindsight:

"Does this mean that the volcanic rocks in the Boiling River are not enough for us to dig out?"

The miner said: "It is still enough to supply Shidong City for one month, but it will be difficult 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 soldiers of the Royal City did not know the places where the volcano and the Royal City were originally stuck. Why did we retreat? Now it is all occupied by the puppet soldiers of the volcano. Those puppets will attack us and prevent us from approaching the inner circle of the volcano."

Kaidan Mercenary added:

"I heard from people who came back from the Huoshan Camp that the original broken bridge was reinforced at the Huoshan Official Residence."

Wuming took a deep breath, digesting the sudden news.

"Do we have no other business?" Wuming said, "Do we have no other source of income?"

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

Wuming felt a little headache.

There is actually only one person who leads the overall situation and understands the development of the entire caravan, and that is Patch.

Wuming often acts as a boss and travels back and forth to the front lines in various places. He is actually not that familiar with the operation of the entire caravan.

But Wuming didn't feel too optimistic in his estimation.

In order to collect volcanic rocks as quickly as possible, he moved miners from other areas here.

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

The only ones that are still operating normally today are probably Haida's witch loan business and the marriage atonement business.

Both of these tasks require a small number of talents to preside over, and the scale cannot be expanded at all.

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

"Anyway, look for the time machine first - have you seen the weird big hand anywhere?"

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

"The blow is too big, it's crazy." said the Kaidan mercenary.

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

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

Wuming said viciously:

"Then there's nothing we can do. I'll go to Huoshan to collect the debt. Patch, if you're unkind, don't blame me for being unjust."

Wuming said nothing and went straight to Huoshan's official residence.

The Sinner's Bridge where the camp was originally stationed has indeed changed again. The broken bridge that was not very far away has been destroyed by bombing. Now it is inconvenient to build a temporary bridge using a ladder.

But when Wuming was alone, he never had to worry about where the caravan was going. Dazzling fire erupted from his legs, pushing him up and up to the other side of the bridge.

On the other side of the broken bridge, Huoshan had deployed a large number of troops in advance, and a large number of puppet soldiers and iron girls were piled on the road to the main entrance of Huoshan's official residence.

It can be seen from a distance that the door of Huoshan's official residence has been sealed tightly.

This time, Wuming was not prepared to be polite before fighting. A 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 Shanshan Mansion.

But the blazing line of fire bombarded the main entrance of Huoshan Mansion, but it did not break through the main entrance like it broke 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 using black flames.

But the black flame was blocked again.

A golden protective shield protected the entire Huoshan Mansion. Wuming was dumbfounded and cursed casually:

"Patch, are you human? Do you think the protective shields in the store are hairy?"

But no matter how much I scolded him, the front door would not open.

Wuming was trembling with anger and pointed at the front door with a trembling hand: "You wait for me, you wait!"

He had to go back and clean up the mess. If he followed the example of Wangcheng and followed the volcano, his caravan would have been dispersed if the volcano had not opened.

Wuming kicked the front door, turned and left.

At this time in the Volcano Mansion, Patch heard silence outside the door and piled a large bag of runes in front of Tanis:

"Should Huoshan keep the stolen runes, right?"

"Are you really going to betray your compatriots?" Tanith looked at Patch with admiration in her eyes.

"That guy made me realize my consciousness. Necessary sacrifices, risks, etc. If you provoke that guy, your life will be in danger." Patch smiled, "Besides, both sides are people who can abandon their compatriots at will. I Why not just take refuge in the volcano, where at least there is a pleasant hostess.”

Tanith was unmoved by Patch's compliment:

"But you have betrayed Huoshan before, how can I trust you?"

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

Tanith stared at Patch, the atmosphere a little stiff.

"I believe you," Tanith said.

Patch breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

Tanis said: "Then please complete your unfinished task, unclean hero."

Patch's smile disappeared.