Versatile Mage: Thunderstorm

Chapter 86 Good news, I was charged protection money!

"Brother, these magic tools are indeed your masterpieces. Each one is exquisite! I believe you will become a forging master like the master in the future."

"Hahahaha... then I'll accept your good words, bro."

After choosing a magic tool from Jiang Jian's masterpiece, Li Yu was sent out by the cheerful Jiang Jian.
"Don't worry, brother. I will deliver what you want within a week."

Jiang Jian didn't care about this at all. He wasn't worried that Li Yu would default on the 10 million yuan debt. He patted his chest and said,

"I trust you, brother, to do things for me."

"Brother, this is my brother's contact information, keep in touch when you have time!"

"Please keep in touch in the future."

After leaving the research institute, Li Yu returned to the dormitory. Before he had time to sit in the empty dormitory, the ringing of his cell phone made Li Yu give up the idea of ​​resting.

I glanced at the contact person——Dongzi.

"What happened?"

Li Yu's voice sank slightly.

A week ago, he brought Dongzi to Shanghai, gave him a sum of money and asked him to find a place to live on his own and do some business. He was not required to contact him unless necessary.

The call came in just one week, so you can imagine that something big had happened.

However, the next moment, Dongzi's excited voice came into his ears through the phone.

"Boss, good news, good news!"

"What good news?"

Li Yu breathed a sigh of relief. Judging from the other party's tone, it was at least not a big trouble.

"Someone came to my house today to collect protection money!"

Li Yu: “…”

Dongzi's excited voice silenced Li Yugan.

He wondered if he was too young, which led to a serious disconnect between his common sense and social experience.

Since when did being paid protection money become good news?
But soon, Dongzi's words made Li Yu change his attitude. It's a good thing, a very good thing!

"Boss, didn't you ask me to try to get in touch with the underground world of Magic City? These people who collect protection fees are the entry point!"

Dongzi's words awakened the dreamer.

Indeed, if it happened to an ordinary person, it would be bad luck to have someone come to his house to pick trouble and ask for protection money, but he was worried that he had no place to get involved in the underground world of the Magic City.

It is not difficult to understand the underground world of the Magic City. The Hunter Alliance, the Inquisition, the Magic Association, the government, etc. all have corresponding means. Even various civil groups such as hunter groups and private hunting lodges are themselves deeply entangled with the underground world.

But Li Yu wanted to go it alone and had no foundation in the underground world of Magic City. As a result, it would take longer for him to truly get involved in the underground world.

Li Yu's psychological expectation was a month, but he didn't expect that he would be given a pillow when he felt sleepy. In just a week, a great opportunity appeared before him.

In the orderly world, typical underworld behavior such as collecting protection fees is absolutely inseparable from the underground world. A few petty thieves who collect protection fees may have just stepped into the threshold of the underground world, but following them will surely lead to the entrance ticket to the underground world.

Afterwards, Li Yu learned from Dongzi the ins and outs of being charged protection money. Since arriving in the Magic City, Dongzi planned to open an ordinary magic shop according to Li Yu's wishes. It took him several days to quickly complete the procedures and site selection process. He encountered this happy event when he was decorating the shop.

"I was wondering why they bought the store at such a low price. It turns out there was some kid causing trouble."

It was not until he was asked to pay protection money that Dongzi realized why the store owner had offered such a low price.

At the end, Dongzi said cheerfully:
"It just happened to be a convenience for us."

"Do you want me to take action?" Li Yu couldn't help but smile. Things were so simple that it made him feel quite relaxed.

"They are just a few petty thieves at the beginner level. There is no need for the boss to take action."

Dongzi refused without hesitation. What a joke! No matter how bad he was, he was still a mid-level wizard. If he needed to ask for support when facing a few beginner wizards, he would be too useless.

"Boss, I'm sure there must be a powerful organization behind these petty thieves."

Dongzi was very confident in his judgment. Although the area where his shop was located was far away from the city center and not very prosperous, it was in the urban area of ​​Magic City after all. There were also several shops run by magicians around it. If there was no backing from the back, how could a few junior magicians have the guts to collect protection fees?

"Please wait patiently. I will follow the clues and lead out the mastermind behind the scenes."

"Then leave it to you."

Li Yu was not worried. Dongzi's mid-level mage's cultivation seemed not good enough, but this was within the corresponding mage circle. If he was in a vast crowd, even in a big economic city like the Magic City, a mid-level mage could still stand out from the crowd.

………Two days later.

Magic City, Magic Shop.

Dongzi was sitting on the only chair in the store, with five energetic young men kneeling in a row below him. If the store had not been closed early, he would probably have been surrounded and watched by the neighbors passing by.

Looking at the spirited young men in front of him, Dongzi chuckled. The malicious smile made the young men's hearts skip a beat, fearing that their appearance would become a relic of their past.

"Please introduce yourselves. What are your names? What is the Brotherhood? Why are you looking for trouble with me?"

The five guys looked at each other, this was not the first time they had collected protection money, the magicians in this area were not very strong, and they did not ask for much, so they had always been invincible with their numerical advantage. Even if they occasionally ran into a tough guy, they would choose to surrender under the intimidation of their brotherhood name and their boss.

Who would have thought that we would encounter such a tough problem this time?

Just thinking about the five people made them feel depressed. The mid-level magician in front of them didn't play by the rules!
The general process of resisting protection money is to take direct action. If they cannot defeat the enemy, they will bring up the name of the brotherhood behind them. If that still doesn't work, they will temporarily retreat and let the stronger ones take action.

As a result, this person, who had a smiling and weak look two days ago and said that the shop had not been renovated yet and would be renovated today, ended up closing the shop and slapping five people in the face as soon as he arrived. It was useless even if I brought up his background.

"Hurry up, I don't have much patience."

Dongzi's impatient voice dispelled the extra thoughts in the minds of several people. One of them glanced at Dongzi cautiously.
"Brother, we have said everything we need to say."

The number of Brotherhood members, their strength, their sphere of influence...

They have already explained all the more important things clearly, except for telling when each brother will go to the toilet.

"Oh!"

The solid wood counter was slapped hard, and several people were startled. When they looked up, they met Dongzi's angry eyes.

"You put TN... Nonsense!"

"Two or three mid-level mages, a dozen beginner mages, and a bunch of ordinary people who aren't even magicians dare to collect protection money here? You are fooling fools!"

Let’s not talk about the official power after calling the police. As the most economically developed region in the country, the average military strength of the Magic City is not much worse than that of the Imperial City where aristocratic families are everywhere. The Brotherhood is even more miserable than when he was in the Qinling Hunter Town...

Still dare to collect protection money?

Even if you boasted that your boss was a high-level wizard, I would probably believe it.

If it really doesn't work, there's no problem with your collusion between officials and bandits!

"Tell me! Who else do you have to rely on?"

Dongzi's voice turned cold, and the murderous aura that he once had in the wild was inadvertently revealed, and several innocent guys were almost frightened to the ground.

"Brother... No, uncle! Uncle!"

"We really... really don't know what kind of backer we have!"

The Brotherhood is already the strongest in this area!
Although I really want to say this, it is obvious that the other party does not believe it.

However, given their status, they are not sure who their backers are.

A few entry-level first and second-level mages can only bully ordinary people. In the Brotherhood, they are just thugs who know a little magic, otherwise they would not be sent out to run errands.

Being at the bottom of society, how could they be qualified to know about such a high-sounding thing as having a backer?

"You don't know? I didn't expect you guys to be so stubborn!"

"You are loyal, right? It seems... I can't keep you here."

Dongzi refused to give in, flames already burning on his palms, and several people seemed to have seen the murderous intent in his eyes.

With a "swish", one of them hugged Dongzi's thighs and cried.

"Brother, we really don't know!"

"How about we call Third Brother and the others over, and you can interrogate him in person?"

"call out"!
The flames disappeared like a breeze, and the young man, who had closed his eyes and did not feel the flames burning on his body, quietly opened his eyes, touched his body carefully to make sure he was intact, and then burst into tears of joy.

"Cry! Why are you crying?"

"Hurry up and call your third brother over here!"

"Yes Yes Yes!"

The young man quickly agreed and started making a call. In a matter of life and death, his movements to sell out his teammates were incredibly smooth.

(End of this chapter)