Versatile Mage: Thunderstorm

Chapter 90 They are all new and ignorant
"Wise choice."

Li Yu clapped his hands in praise.

The second brother smiled silently. Does he have any choice?

The most capable boss was lying at his feet, and he was just a mid-level water-type rookie...

Vote now!
Better to die than live.

"We agreed to stay for a year."

"no problem."

Li Yu nodded, there would always be a way after a year.

"Then what should I call you?"

Li Yu thought about it.
"Since I'm paying you, just call me boss or big boss from now on."

"Well, boss, we two brothers will be under your care from now on."

"What about you two? What are your names?"

Since entering this hall, we started fighting after just a few words. Only now do I remember that we didn’t exchange names.

The second brother briefly introduced himself and the other two.

"My name is Li Wenyou, and that's my big brother Yan Mu."

"that……"

Li Wenyou paused and cautiously asked:
"Can you let my brother go now?"

"Oh."

Li Yu lowered his head, picked up the still sleeping Yan Mu, and threw him over. Li Wenyou hurriedly caught it.

"Don't worry, he just fainted temporarily due to the concussion, the injury is not serious."

"concussion?"

Li Wenyou's mouth twitched. Isn't this serious enough?

Looking around, he saw that in this short but fierce battle, all the decorations in the hall had been destroyed, and the messy debris made it impossible to stand here. If this hall had not been renovated by him in advance and equipped with corresponding defensive arrays, the fire brigade and the Magic Association would probably have appeared at the door.

Seeing Li Wenyou's difficulty, Li Yu summoned a tiny whirlwind and cleared a space in the hall so that Yan Mu could lie down successfully.

"Now can you introduce me to the Brotherhood's industry?"

"Please wait a moment." Li Wenyou stood up and left the room.

After a while, Li Wenyu, who had returned, walked in with a stack of information in his arms.

"I will give you a brief introduction to the business status of our fraternity. Of course, there are also detailed information for you to check out."

"There are a total of seven legally registered businesses under the Brotherhood, including two shopping malls, a hotel, three magic shops, and this dance hall."

"As for the less legal ones, there are only two magic shops that are run on the underground black market. Because it is a bit troublesome to run their business, they have never obtained the corresponding certificates."

"The total net profit is about 10 million yuan a year."

After listening to Li Wenyou's introduction to the Brotherhood's industry and briefly flipping through the information, Li Yu's first impression was...

“Your business scope is quite broad!”

Shopping malls, hotels, dance halls, magic shops, their business clients include ordinary people and magicians, and even the underground black market is involved.

Moreover, what makes Li Yu most worry-free is the other party's business scope. It has nothing to do with pornography, gambling, drugs, or various violent plots. Apart from doing some common tax evasion, even the illegal business of the underground black market is just receiving and selling stolen goods, and then reselling some magic scrolls banned by the Magic Association. Compared with many magicians who violate taboos, this is really not a big deal.

After taking another look, Li Yu was filled with doubts and frowned.
"You're prepared to sell all these properties for 30 million?"

Data shows that many of these industries have only been established for one or two years and have just passed the most difficult start-up stage. Now is the rising period and a great opportunity to start making rapid profits. They are absolutely hot commodities and even if they are put up for sale, they will not be sold at a low price of 30 million!

“Are you sure there are no problems with these industries?”

Li Yu glanced at Li Wenyu, whose eyes were wandering.

Hou Ke finally answered helplessly,

"After all, our brothers are in some trouble and need to leave the Magic City temporarily and cash out in a hurry."

"If you hadn't suddenly appeared, I would have been planning to sell the business slowly over the next few days."

"But boss, don't worry. I guarantee there is nothing wrong with these properties. You can ask professionals to check them."

"What trouble did you encounter?" Li Yu's focus was here.

"Research Committee."

Li Yu: "..." "Are you talking about the Research Institute of the Magic Association?"

"Those mad dogs who are so arrogant and reckless?"

As an important subordinate department of the Magic Association, the Research and Development Committee is responsible for the research, development and application of most magic and magic arrays, the forging of new magic tools and magic weapons, and plays a vital role among all departments of the Magic Association.

However, due to their special status and contributions, the staff of the Research and Development Council have a kind of arrogance. Once they set their sights on a target, they will always ignore the consequences and will not give up until they achieve their goal. Coupled with their terrifying authority...

If possible, Li Yu, who had heard something about the style of the Research Institute, did not want to deal with them for the rest of his life.

But Li Wenyou's nod gave Li Yu a headache.
"How did the Research Institute target you?"

As soon as the words came out, an answer popped up in my mind and I looked at Yan Mu.

"His natural talent?"

But soon Li Yu shook his head again. Although Yan Mu's natural talent was interesting, his fighting ability was not too outrageous. Those arrogant guys in the Research Institute would not look down on him.

"So, boss, why don't you just let us go, so as not to attract the attention of the Research Institute and cause yourself more trouble."

Li Wenyu stood next to them and suggested with a look of "I'm thinking of you".

"Ha! You're worried about the Research Institute and you're still involved in organized crime?"

Li Yu sneered. To the Magic Association, the Brotherhood's business was something they could manage or not manage, but if they held on to it, no one else would be able to say anything.

He has clearly provoked the Research Institute, but is still doing a business that is not quite appropriate. Isn't that actively inviting the Magic Association to come?
"Boss~"

Li Wenyou sighed.
"Is it possible that whether the Institute will punish us or not has little to do with whether we are involved in the underworld?"

With the power of the Research Institute, is it necessary to go through legal procedures to deal with these two small fry with no foundation?
Besides...

"We had no choice but to go to the underworld."

"A last resort?"

"Aren't you happy collecting protection money? How could you be forced to do so?"

"Protection fees?"

Li Wen was confused at first, then he smiled.

"Boss, you may have some misunderstandings about us. Although we collect protection fees, it is not forced. It is purely a practical need."

"Practical needs? Lack of money?"

"How can it be!"

"Protection fees are just a few dollars, and most of our income comes from legitimate industries."

"Our protection fee is already very generous. We are not the social scum that Shuiyun Society is, who are trying to suck our blood out of us."

"What does this have to do with Shuiyunhui?"

Li Yu asked to explain in detail.

"Boss, let me tell you about this in detail..."

The matter is not complicated. Generally speaking, the Brotherhood's area was part of the Shuiyun Society's territory a few years ago. All merchants in this area, whether ordinary people or magicians, have to pay the so-called protection fee to each other. If they don't pay, they will be harassed all day long. For some reason, the Magic Association did not step in to discipline them, and ordinary policemen could not fight against magicians. In the end, everything was left unresolved. Therefore, many merchants could not stand it and moved away directly.

Eventually, Li Wenyou and Yan Mu came here to settle down. They accidentally had a battle with the Shuiyunhui. The Shuiyunhui was powerful, so in order to avoid being at a disadvantage, the two began to recruit people to fight against the Shuiyunhui, and gradually drove the Shuiyunhui out of this area.

Afterwards, the two men who became the de facto bosses were supported by the merchants here and became behind-the-scenes managers. The merchants paid the corresponding fees regularly, and they were responsible for settling the troubles when Shuiyunhui came to cause trouble.

This protection fee is a real "protection fee"!
"Boss, our protection fee is less than two million a year, which is only a fraction of the salary of our employees. It doesn't matter if we waive it, but there are still rules. We can't work for nothing, right?"

Li Yu understood. If what Li Wenyu said was true, there might be something fishy going on in the Magic Association here!
It is precisely because of the inaction of the Magic Association that the underworld has been rampant in this area, forcing local merchants to hire the underworld to fight against the underworld, using black to fight black.

"My store hasn't even opened yet, what do you mean by coming to collect the fees?"

"Ah? When? I don't know!"

Li Wenyou had a confused look on his face, and Li Yu responded with a look that said "keep pretending".

After all, according to Dongzi's statement and Li Yu's inquiry, the third brother's gang seemed to be quite familiar with doing this kind of thing and they were obviously veterans.

"Maybe it was done by the new brother?" Li Yu said leisurely from the side.

"Uh-huh..."

Li Wenyou laughed awkwardly.
"probably."

"The newcomer is ignorant."

(End of this chapter)