Chapter 65 Devious Blackbeard
Nearly one hundred thugs hired by the Black Tiger Family split into groups of three, forming a type of formation that could protect one another while quickly advancing in the pitch-black alley. Their movements didn’t differ much from the most elite imperial infantry corp, yet the equipments in their hands were something the most elite imperial infantry corp rarely enjoy. Only the group of imperial guards who was direct subordinate if the royal family could have such extravagant equipment.
Not to mention the rest, merely the manufacturing cost of each of the thirty killing crossbows, the arrows of which could penetrate rhinoceros knights, was more than five thousand gold coins. The thugs hired by the Black Tiger Family were truly a group that had rich combat experience, an elite army that was invincible in the area surrounding Dunerk.
Lin Qi urgently moved forward under the escort of these family subordinates with a gloomy expression. Enzo, whose neck was strained a little, stumbled next to Lin Qi while cursing all the way. Baltic brought several men carrying huge axes with gloomy expressions and walked at the rear of the group, taking precautions against the attack from those ancestral spirit warriors of the Dark Spirit Continent.
Lin Qi and Baltic were incomparably astonished. Even on the Dark Spirit Continent, any ancestral spirit warrior among those aboriginal tribes was extremely precious, why were there so many ancestral spirit warriors in Dunerk? Who was the person behind them?
Lin Qi originally suspected Ya and Ling to be helpers called by Arthur, but now he doubted this judgment. Arthur didn’t have the strength to recruit ancestral spirit warriors of the Dark Spirit Continent; he should still be able to recruit several ordinary aboriginal warriors of the Dark Spirit Continent, but as for these ancestral spirit warriors who could contend against Heaven Knights once they burn their souls and longevity, how could Arthur subdue them?
Ancestral spirit warriors of the Dark Spirit Continent were the same as wild beastmen warriors and berserkers of different tribes of Five Dalian Island and Odin Ice Origin; they were the proudest warriors in the world. They were proud in the sense that they would kneel in front of their ancestors and elders, but in front of strangers, even if they had to die, they would die standing. It was simply impossible for strangers to obtain their loyalty.
“Damn it all!” Lin Qi grumbled, “We have to tell the brothers to seal off all the entries and exits around Dunerk. Those two girls and the people with them, we have to get rid of them all. Damn it, ancestral spirit warriors, where did this group of freaks come from?”
While cursing the main culprit of tonight’s events, Lin Qi nervously turned his head to observe Baltic. He feared that Baltic would gave the entire harvest from a moment ago to Old Man Blackbeard. Once the huge sum of spoils was in Blackbeard’s hands, it would be very difficult for Lin Qi to take even one gold coin.
Aware that to a father, nothing could surpass his child, Lin Qi admittedly treated money like his life, but he also knew Blackbeard was a vicious and greedy man. Blackbeard had the ability to extract big handfuls of coppers from the so-called oil extracted from sand, refined gold in the soil, and even a dead man’s ash; even Lin Qi couldn’t match that level of ability..
The group was advancing in the hidden alley when a troop of men and horses suddenly came rushing from ahead.
The tall Blackbeard was at the front. His hand was carrying a huge machete. He was wearing a set of white pajamas in a very amusing way; the button on his chest wasn’t attached properly, exposing his black chest hair. His feet also simply wore
a pair of satin slippers. The snow in the alley hadn’t been swept clean, so Blackbeard’s slippers were already covered in mud and melted snow. The originally white satin had already become a dirty black.
Blackbeard hurried over with Tie Chui, Tu Dao, and several hundred ‘servants’ of the ancestral residence. Any member of the Black Tiger Family knew all the streets in Dunerk like the back of their hands. This remote and hidden alley was the nearest and most secluded path from the port to Black Beech Hill, so Lin Qi followed this road to retreat and Blackbeard also hurried over through here.
Once the father and son met face-to-face, Blackbeard grabbed Lin Qi’s shoulders and shouted in a low voice, “What actually happened to make such a big mess?”
Lin Qi used the most concise words to narrate tonight’s events; of course, all the blame was pushed to Ya and Ling. Lin Qi even added a few details to describe Ya and Ling’s aloof, overbearing, and disgusting expressions.
“Two extremely rich foreign beauties? Spirit practitioners as well?” Blackbeard wrinkled his brows and suddenly slapped Lin Qi’s head ruthlessly. “You stupid thing, don’t tell me you’re someone who stirs things up then just leaves them like that? Hah? Leaving such a big mess then letting your old man clean it up? Can’t you use your brain, thinking of how to cast aside your responsibility and obtaining the biggest benefit while you’re at it?”
Lin Qi was dumbfounded. He spread his hands, smiled bitterly, and said, “But, old man, I already obtained a very big profit. Those two girls have already been stripped clean by Uncle Baltic. Oh, damned all the gods above, that money is mine, you can’t…”
Fine, Lin Qi didn’t finish his words because Blackbeard’s eyes, which were flickering threateningly with gold light, already observed Baltic. Lin Qi knew that although Uncle Baltic doted on him greatly, he was even more loyal to Blackbeard. Baltic would give tonight’s harvest to his father and wouldn’t secretly give it to him.
Shaking his head helplessly, Lin Qi sighed. Fine, at least he still had some profit tonight with the several hundred thousand gold coins he had won from the silkpants. This amount of money was enough for him to enjoy an exceptionally extravagant life for several years.
Blackbeard coldly snorted. He once again ruthlessly slapped Lin Qi’s head. He wrinkled his brows and pondered for a while, then his eyes suddenly shone with a threatening light. He laughed softly and said, “Aha, dear Lin Qi, for your beloved father, you and your friend, dear Mister Enzo, if you are willing to suffer a little, then your beloved father can give you half the revenue!”
Lin Qi and Enzo’s eyes suddenly brightened. Half of the harvest from those two girls? Aha, for the sake of dazzling crowings, what could a little suffering be counted as? Lin Qi and Enzo shouted in unison, “Old man, what do you want to do?”
Blackbeard abandoned his huge machete in excitement and strongly rubbed his hands. He proudly commanded, “Tie Chui, go to the water prison and kill one hundred beastmen captured last time and arrange their corpses along this alley. Oh, their bodies not only have to have sword wounds, but also arrow wounds, understand?”
In one move, Blackbeard snatched several huge swords and axes from his subordinates’ hands. He moved like the wind, quickly making several cuts and stabs on Lin Qi and Enzo’s bodies. Lin Qi and Enzo howled miserably at the same time. Blackbeard was very accurate with his hands. All the wounds were on the places where their flesh was thickest, and the deepest wound wasn’t more than 1.7 centimeters. But when a sword cut the flesh, it was truly painful!
After letting Lin Qi and Enzo’s blood dye dozens of swords red, Blackbeard threw the swords to Tie Chui to let him put them around the corpses of the beastmen.
Following Blackbeard’s order, the subordinates of Black Tiger Family present took out their purses one after another. The several hundred people quickly collected two thousand gold coins and over ten thousand silver coins, while there were only several hundred copper.
“Very good, everything is complete.”