Witch Wind

Chapter 80: Dismissal from Mawell (Part )

Tom and Jerry cursed in frustration. Several intelligence officers ran back and forth, and finally, relying on the face of the Kingdom of Ingish, especially the face of the banknotes issued by the Royal Bank of Ingish, they hired more than 30 cargo trucks from the port management office of the Dongyun people.

Xing Tianli brought more than a hundred people and a large amount of luggage, including a large number of "self-defense weapons", and then they got on the car and headed towards the Commercial Office's residence.

Xing Tianli sat next to the short driver Dong Yun, cursing the horrible weather in Black Borneo in a low voice.

It was already night, but the temperature here was almost the same as that in Pinghai City at noon, and it was even more humid, so humid that it felt as if someone had wrapped a piece of wet cloth tightly around you.

The car window was open, and the car was moving fast along the road. The wind blew in, but the wind blowing on the body was also a wet and hot air flow. The wind blew, and the body became wetter, so many buzzing insects stuck to the wet skin and diligently raised their long, colorful mouthparts with different patterns.

Xing Tianli's skin was dense, and these little bugs almost twisted their own mouthparts off, but still couldn't penetrate his skin.

While cursing the damn weather in Black Borneo, he looked at these incredibly active little bugs with curiosity - hey, it was really an eye-opener. Xing Tianli didn't recognize many of the other bugs, but he saw thirty-seven different species of long-legged mosquitoes that sucked human blood alone.

Among them, there are two kinds of long-legged mosquitoes with black and white as well as green and red striped legs. Their bodies are as big as the thumb of Xingtian carp!
If a decent person is bitten by such a poisonous mosquito, the lethality will be comparable to that of a wasp, right?
With a flick of his finger, an invisible vibration on his skin shattered all the water vapor and small insects into pieces, sending them flying far away. Xing Tianli muttered, "That old queen mother is a bit stingy. In such an environment, after being stationed here for so many years, she just sent away an earl?"

The car slowly climbed up the hillside along the avenue. When it reached the top of the mountain, you could see a winding road slowly descending. Along the way were small courtyards with white walls and black tiles, dotted in the dense gardens full of colorful flowers.

On every corner of the winding mountain road, there is a reinforced concrete sentry post. Each sentry post is heavily guarded with barbed wire, chevaux de frise, and hundreds of Dongyun soldiers stationed there.

Looking east from the top of the mountain, you can see a road going down the mountain and then heading straight into the jungle.

In the jungle, clusters of lights are gathered together. Judging from the area and number of the lights, there are at least three to five thousand people in those settlements, and as many as hundreds of thousands. Each settlement is like a mushroom circle in the jungle, separated from each other by a long distance.

After leaving Black Pearl Harbor and driving along the avenue for more than thirty miles, the flat concrete surface turned into a terrible gravel road.

These gravel roads are as wide as thirty to fifty meters in some places and only a dozen meters in some places. There is primitive jungle growing wildly on the roadside. As the convoy drives forward, one can often see green eyes flashing on the roadside. Those are the brave beasts watching in secret to see if there is a chance to catch a bite of fat meat.

In the convoy, each car was accompanied by two port guards from Black Pearl Harbor.

Whenever such green eyes appeared on the roadside, they would fire a few shots. Often, they could hear the beast's painful wails, which quickly faded away with the sound of branches rubbing against each other.

The gravel road was full of potholes, probably because of the long-term use of heavy-duty vehicles on it. In many places, the road surface was completely damaged. When vehicles were driving on the road, everyone was shaken all over the place, looking very embarrassed.

From Black Pearl Harbor to Jinshan Town, the headquarters of the British Trade Office, is only about 150 miles away.

At nightfall, Xing Tianli and his companions got on the car and set off. They staggered all the way and took more than three hours. It was already past midnight when they finally arrived outside Jinshan Town.

Jinshan Town, as the name suggests, has a golden mountain next to it.

This place was developed into a large settlement because an expedition team led by Yingji found a piece of gold nugget with a diameter of more than three feet in the river nearby!
Natural gold nugget, extremely high purity, over three feet in diameter!

These pieces of information combined together were enough to drive everyone crazy, so with the support of the Dayu Dynasty's Black Borneo Expeditionary Force, Jinshan Town developed at a very fast speed. In just two years, it developed from a primitive jungle into a large town with a population of more than 100,000.

In the mountains across the river from Jinshan Town, a gold mine with astonishing annual output has developed.

Among the property deeds in Xing Tianli's hands, there is a 124% stake in the large gold mine outside Jinshan Town. Ten years ago, before the Dongyun people attacked Black Borneo, the gold mine in Jinshan Town could produce 2021 million taels of pure gold (99 tons - the largest gold mine in the United States, with an output of more than tons in ) per year.

According to the contract held by Xing Tianli, he should be allocated 600,000 taels of gold every year. After ten years, he should have 6 million taels of gold. Moreover, this was the output ten years ago. Over the years, the population of Jinshan Town has continued to increase, and the number of workers in the gold mine has also soared. The total amount of gold mined each year should be even greater.

The convoy entered the town.

The structure of Jinshan Town is very simple. The earth-wood wall encloses a square area of ​​15 miles in length and width. In the middle of the town, there are six main roads, three horizontal and three vertical, which evenly divide the town.

The Commercial Office of the Kingdom of Ingis is located in the most central area of ​​the town, next to the middle intersection.

The reinforced concrete wall is two meters high, and the black-painted sliding steel door is three inches thick and extremely sturdy.

The convoy stopped outside the gate of the Business Office. Tom and Jerry ran over and punched and kicked the heavy gate for a long time, making it bang loudly. The dogs of the neighbors were so frightened that they started howling wildly.

After a long, long time, a lazy voice came from inside the door: "Asshole, if you don't want to be shot, get out of here. No matter how important your business is, come back after dawn."

Xing Tianli narrowed his eyes.

Tom shouted angrily, "Damn you guys, didn't you receive the telegram? The new Commercial Counselor, Mr. Li Li, has arrived. You bunch of rubbish, what are you doing?"

The lazy voice was obviously hesitant. He was silent for a while, then said in a slick tone, "Hey, hey, hey, what new commercial counselor? I don't know about this news. It sounds like he's a big shot? But the heads of the Commercial Department are not here. I don't know whether the big shot's story is true or not!"

"Why don't you go find a place in town and stay for the night? Or tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow. Anyway, no matter what you have to deal with, you have to wait for the officers to come back before we can solve it for you."

"I suggest you go to the tavern run by Madam Black Feather, which is on the second street corner in the north. Turn right. She has the most well-behaved and obedient Dongyun girls in the whole Jinshan Town. Hehe, if you want to try wild game, there are also native girls from the cannibal tribe that have just been caught in the jungle."

Hearing this, Tom became even more angry and started cursing.

Behind Xing Tianli, the nine people of Tata had formed groups of three and three and were in an attacking posture. The faint fluctuations of spiritual power jumped and stirred among them, and they all looked at Xing Tianli, with the light in their eyes flickering rapidly.

He Duo, He Xi and others were so angry that they directly pulled out their guns.

They are the descendants of Hou Tu and are naturally hot-tempered. They grew up in the Yiduli Mountains and learned how to kill, burn, and rob. After they became adults, they left the impoverished Yiduli Mountains and went to the adventurer's paradise of the International Concession in Pinghai City to build a career.

After their bloodlines were stimulated by Xing Tianli, as their strength continued to increase, the influence of the witches' blood essence on them became more and more obvious.

They are now easily furious.

The person inside the steel door heard the "click" sound made by He Duo and others taking out their guns. He shouted twice hurriedly, and a light cough was heard from the two five-meter-high reinforced concrete sentry towers on the left and right of the steel door.

Two searchlights, one on the left and one on the right, cast their bright light down. Four machine guns extended out and locked onto Tom and Jerry standing in front of the door.

The man inside the steel door shouted, "Hey, you guys pulled out your guns? Ahaha, you still say you are new officials? This doesn't look like it, this doesn't look like it. You are impersonating officials, robbers?"

"Hey, hey, leave now, Jinshan Town is not a place where you can..."

Xing Tianli strode up and stomped on the steel door. The heavy steel door fell off the door frame with a bang, hit the ground flat, and sank half a foot into the ground.

The top of the steel door slammed down hard, almost brushing the nose of the man behind the door as it hit the ground.

The steel door was so dangerous that it rubbed the toe of his boot and sank into the ground. The toe of the man's leather shoe was crushed by the steel door, half an inch away, revealing his hairy toes without socks.

Xing Tianli kicked very hard. Although the steel door just brushed against the man's face, the strong wind it created was extremely violent, almost like someone slapped him in the face. The man's face gradually swelled and turned red, and his two eyeballs also gradually turned red and bloodshot due to the strong wind.

He stared in amazement at Xing Tianli, who stepped on the steel door with one foot and left a footprint on the door with his right foot. His body was trembling and he was unable to speak.

"He Duo, He Xi!" Xing Tianli said loudly, "Control the Business Department. All the people, no matter what they are doing, please get out as quickly as possible and meet me, the new boss!"

Xing Tianli smiled brightly: "Since they don't give me face, then, don't give me face at all!"

He Duo and He Xi were a little slow to react. The nine Tata people, who had long been unable to hold back their anger, cheered and rushed into the Business Office like a gust of wind.

From the two watchtowers came the sound of rifle bolts being pulled.

Xing Tianli sneered without even looking up: "I suggest you be smart. If you dare to fire a shot, I don't care who you are or what your background is. I say that your entire family, young and old, will be dead!"

At the sentry post on the left, a dissatisfied man muttered, "Hey, you really know how to talk?"

Xing Tianli took out a thick stack of banknotes issued by the Royal Bank of England, with a face value of one hundred gold coins. There were at least three or four hundred bills in his stack.

Thirty to forty thousand gold coins, according to the official exchange rate, is equivalent to three to four hundred thousand taels of Yuchao official silver.

This amount of money, no matter where in this world, is enough to buy the lives of thousands of people. Think about it, Xing Tianli's uncle Li Kuisheng, his annual salary is only more than thirty taels.

"Dear sir, it's our fault. You have the final say here!" Extremely sincere apologies were heard from the two watchtowers, along with hurried footsteps. Eight middle-aged men with bare chests, wearing thick hunter pants and emitting a pungent smell of insect repellent, came running down with guns on their shoulders.

These guys were very well-behaved. They lined up in a row in front of Xing Tianli and gave him a standard British Royal Army salute.

They looked at the banknotes in Xing Tianli's hand with extreme fear.

They knew very well that those powerful people might not be able to do anything to them. But if a powerful person who held so much money and had a bad temper wanted to kill their whole family, he could definitely do it easily!
He Duo and He Xi, along with more than a hundred sturdy men, waving guns, also rushed into the Business Office.

Accompanied by angry shouts, shrill screams, and women's hysterical cries, the business office, which covers an area of ​​more than 50 acres, became lively for a while.

Xing Tianli stood at the gate, and only then did he become interested in the structure of the Business Office.

Well, there is a six-storey main building in the middle, and two six-storey auxiliary buildings on both sides. The three rows of buildings are arranged in the shape of a "冂". A huge pool has been built on the open space in the middle, with some brightly colored tropical fish swimming in it.

Outside these three buildings, there is a large forest of flowers and trees, surrounded by more than twenty three-story buildings.

Originally, the lights in these small buildings had been turned off and they were all dark, but with the actions of He Duo and others, the lights in several small buildings were lit up, and people were kicked, beaten, and yelled at as they were violently driven out.

Xing Tianli walked to the main entrance of the main building and stood there.

He stood on the stone steps, and with the help of the light leaking from the windows of the main building, he looked at the disheveled men and women in front of him.

The Yingji Commercial Office has 150 regular staff members. Not counting the doorman who had just spoken to him through the steel door and the eight guards on night shift, there are only eight people standing in front of him among the 150 regular employees.

Well, there were eight regular employees, but thirteen dishevelled women were standing timidly beside them.

Among the thirteen women, there were two women from Western Land, five women from Dongyun, and six women. They were short and had dark skin, but were tall and well-proportioned, full of wild charm.

Well, they are the native indigenous people of Black Borneo!
In addition to these people, there are several doormen, several gardeners, several cooks, several handymen, more than ninety maids, more than a dozen guards, etc. These people are all external employees of the Commercial Office and are not included in the official list of employees reported by the Commercial Office to the Yingji official.

Xing Tianli blinked his eyes desperately.

Well, am I right?

Ninety or so maids?

He stared with wide eyes at the group of frightened young ladies standing aside, their faces pale and their clothes disheveled.

Yes, that's right, the commercial office of the Kingdom of Indigo in Black Borneo has 150 regular employees, and there are more than 90 hired maids here!
Thirty percent of them had hair and eye colors that varied, clearly of Western origin; thirty percent were short and slender, all Eastern women; another thirty percent were tall, well-proportioned, agile, and full of wild beauty, all local natives. The remaining ten percent or so, judging by their attire and temperament, were all Eastern women.

And no matter what their bloodline was, these maids were all young, at their most brilliant and beautiful age.

Well, they were crowded together, but among them, there were more than a dozen women with rosy faces and bright watery eyes, and it was obvious that they were doing some indescribable wonderful things!

Xing Tianli raised his head, waved his hand gently, and gave a few instructions.

He Duo, He Xi and others were extremely rough. They picked up sticks, pressed the eight serious business department employees to the ground, and whipped each of them on the buttocks twenty times.

The shrill howls continued. Xing Tianli pointed at a red-haired man who looked to be in his forties and said coldly, "I'll give you one night to find those bastards who left their posts. I don't care where they went, and I don't care how perfect their excuses are. If I get up at noon tomorrow, I won't see them."

Xing Tianli smiled: "They can just buy a boat ticket and go back to England."

The red-haired man was beaten with twenty sticks until his buttocks were torn apart. He looked at Xing Tianli in disbelief and screamed at the top of his lungs: "Merciful Holy Mother, you can't do this to us. Even if you are the Commercial Counselor, you have no right to punish us!"

Xing Tianli frowned, looking at the red-haired man who was trying his best to reason with him. After pondering for a while, he shrugged his shoulders, turned around and walked into the main building: "Find me a place to sleep. Oh, this is really, a luxury!"

In the lobby of the main building, in display cabinets made of thick glass, there are huge piles of pearls, huge piles of gold sand, large chunks of coral, and all kinds of rare treasures filling the hall which is eight meters long and five meters wide. Under the light, these rare treasures glow with a hazy brilliance, which makes people's hearts beat faster at the sight.

In the middle of this hall, in a display cabinet surrounded by thick iron fences, a bumpy gold nugget with a diameter of more than three feet was sitting there steadily.

This piece of gold nugget is the origin of Jinshan Town.

It has always been regarded as a symbol of Jinshan Town and has been collected and exhibited by the Yingji Commercial Office.

Even though there was an astonishing amount of wealth in the purple ribbon Taoist robe, Xing Tianli was still slightly shocked by the piece of dog-head gold. It was really too beautiful.

Outside the building, the red-haired man let out a very shrill howl.

He Duo swung a stick and broke his two legs: "Since you don't obey orders, then what are you still doing with your two legs?"

Silent all night.

Early the next morning, Xing Tianli, who had been meditating and practicing martial arts all night, was awakened by an angry roar.

(End of this chapter)