The lone wolf of Freyrdrand

: Offering a Reward

Bilgewater is a very strange port city.

This is a disorderly city, there are no law enforcement officers, almost everyone is equipped with weapons, even children are no exception.

Lothar looked up at a house on a cliff that was obviously transformed from a boat, wondering how the person who built the house sent the boat up.

“The houses people live in here are quite different from those in other places.” Nami followed closely beside Lothar, which Lothar told her in advance so that the two would not get separated.

Nami looked at another even weirder house. It was actually made of the skeleton of a giant anglerfish. Just filling the gaps in the bones with wood, it became a house. The hideous fish skull was the facade of the house. , its huge mouth is the gate.

“Although Bilgewater is a port with prosperous trade, there are still a lot of poor people, and all the money MTAyMzA1 has fallen into the hands of big men.” Lothar grabbed Nami’s hand, kicked away a short man who wanted to pickpocket him, and said Nami said what he saw in Swain’s notes, “Those poor people don’t have the money to buy expensive building materials, so many people use local materials, and use abandoned ships or sea animal bones to make nests.”

“It looks very hard. Why don’t those big shots give them money?” Nami asked suspiciously, “Is this a human custom?”

“Will you mermaids give money to other people?”

“We don’t have such a thing as money.” Nami said, “I only learned the word money after I went ashore.”

“Then there is always something in exchange.”

“The sea has given us everything we need, and we don’t need to exchange anything else except moonstones.”

“No wonder mermaids can hide from the world and live alone.” Lothar was a little envious of Nami. If he had been a mermaid when he was a child, his life would have been much easier.

“Mr. Lothar, where are we going next?” Nami glanced at the various steaming delicacies at the roadside stalls, and her eyes were dazzled by the colorful sights, “Tide, are these food? Coral is even more colorful.”

“Do you want to eat something?” Lothar asked.

“Can you? Mr. Lothar, aren’t you very short of money?””How much does it cost to buy some food, besides, I’m hungry, so I’ll take a look and help Syndra bring back some of her favorite food, otherwise she will get angry again tonight.” Lothar has already smelled this street All kinds of strong aromas came, and I turned here deliberately, “Well… I probably don’t want to eat raw food Syndra, let’s look at cooked food.”

“Cooked food” Nami looked at the bubbling boiling soup in the pots with some fear, and the iron plates sizzling with oil, and hid nervously behind Lothar.

“By the way, you are a mermaid, and you can’t eat cooked food at the bottom of the sea.” Lothar used a copper herring to buy two skewers of grilled squid tails and twice the orange juice. I don’t know what kind of squid it is. It’s blue and very big, one is actually thicker than Lothar’s arm, and the suction cup on it is as big as a coin.

Nami nervously held the skewer that Lothar gave her, the heat from the squid’s tendrils made her unable to eat.

Lothar took a bite, and the taste was unexpectedly good. The squid tendrils were very fresh, sweet and chewy: “Eat it, it’s delicious, it’s not too hot.”

Nami looked around, and after making sure that no one was looking at her, she faced Lothar, carefully took off a little bit of the mask, exposed her small mouth, and blew into the squid whiskers.

“She still listens to me very much. She knows to be careful not to be seen by others.” Lothar found that he began to like this mermaid girl a little bit, at least she won’t cause trouble for herself.

“Hot!” Nami’s lips were just glued to the squid’s whiskers, and she left quickly. She covered her mouth and looked at Lothar with teary eyes.

“Is it hot?” Lothar took a bite of the squid skewer in Nami’s hand, and said strangely, “It’s not hot.”

“It’s obviously very hot!” Nami insisted.

Lotha thought for a while and said, “Maybe it’s because you are a mermaid. You have never eaten cooked food. You are a little afraid of being hot. It’s okay. If you feel hot, wait for it to cool down for a while before eating.”

Lothar continued to take Nami on the streets of Bilgewater. The city was very dirty, and you could see pedestrians vomiting or beating together on the street at any time, and prostitutes and transvestites in scantily clad clothes smoked on the streets. Very heavy tobacco. There are even many vastayas, mostly toad people, lizard people and other races.

Lothar feels that this place is simply two extremes compared with Ionia. Swear-mouthed like a resident of Bilgewater and covered in dirt.

Lothar also noticed a situation – gangs.

Bilgewater is a lawless place, and the organizations that control it are all kinds of gangs, big and small. The gang members are easy to recognize, because most of them have their own gang logos, tattoos or hats, and they have already seen more than a dozen different gang logos just walking through a street in Lothar.

However, the sign Lothar saw the most was an iron hook.

The Hook Gang, [Pirate King] Planck’s minions, is the most powerful gang in Bilgewater.

According to Swain’s notes, the power of the Hook Gang is completely incomparable to any other gang. The Hook Gang controls all the tax revenues of all ports in Bilgewater. More than 80% of the taverns, brothels and casinos charge more than 60%. For the protection fee of the store, other gangs can only divide up what is left over from the Hook Gang.

The facts Lothar observed are indeed true. When people from other gangs see the Hook Gang, they basically take the initiative to detour, and it seems that they don’t want to provoke them.

“It seems that the iron hook gang is really difficult to deal with. I don’t know if there are any powerful warriors or mages in the iron hook gang. It’s better to keep a distance from them.” Lothar didn’t want to make troubles. Walking through the chaotic and complicated streets, I finally found my destination.

Bounty House.

If the whole of Bilgewater is an industry controlled by major gangs, then the bounty house is a place that no gang will touch.

In other words, this place was funded and built by various gangs.

It has only two functions, posting bounties and receiving bounties.

Bilgewater is a place where enmity happens every day, and conflicts happen all the time. If there is no way to fill the lack of law, then Bilgewater, a lawless place, may soon fall apart.

So, the Bounty Institute was born.

Anyone can post a bounty here anonymously, and anyone’s head is fine, as long as you can afford it.

Similarly, anyone can receive a reward order to complete it. As long as you bring the target back, you can get the money.

The profession of bounty hunters also emerged as the times require. They specialize in receiving bounties to make money. The influence of powerful bounty hunters in Bilgewater is no less than that of gang bosses or fleet captains.

Lothar wanted to make money by accepting bounties.

This method is very fast, as long as you complete the task, you can get money, and the bounty hunter can also accept the task anonymously, so you don’t have to worry too much about being missed.

Lothar didn’t intend to accept the bounty today, and he didn’t hide his true face today, he just came to the bounty office to take a look in advance.

Lothar looked at the huge bounty announcement tower in front of him, with thousands of reward orders pasted on them, arranged from top to bottom according to the amount of bounty. The method of receiving is also very simple, just tear it off, and bring the target and the reward order when receiving the reward. This is done to prevent multiple bounty hunters from receiving the same reward at the same time.

There are rewards for everything on the bulletin board, most of them are begging for life, but there are also rewards for finding treasures.

The biggest one offered a reward,Hanging high on the top of the bulletin tower, there is a portrait of a fierce-looking man painted on it.

[King of Pirates] Planck is offering a reward of one million gold sirens.

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I know that you all want my life, but you don’t say it, but you want to throw me to feed the skinned eels in your heart.

But Lao Tzu is stronger than you, much stronger than you, so strong that you despair, so strong that you covet everything in Lao Tzu’s hands and go crazy, yet you dare not resist Lao Tzu.

I hate hypocrisy the most, so I will give you a chance. I issued this reward order for myself. One million gold sea monsters. Let’s see if you can scrape them together and let them cut them off. Lao Tzu’s head! Hahahahahaha!

——Planck