Chapter 259: Business Is Booming

"Okay, I'll trust you this time!"

After looking at Iris for a moment, Carl nodded and agreed to the other party's plan.

But he was not the kind of person who would hang himself on a tree.

As soon as he agreed, Carl prepared to make new equipment.

No matter what, it is always right to arm yourself.

Not only that, after remembering the chaos in the camp before the psychic warlock appeared, Carl also made amulets for everyone that could resist the influence of the enchantment spell.

According to his thinking, knowing the enemy's means and not trying to make up for it, isn't it waiting to be slaughtered by the same means again?

...

Late at night, Storm Bay.

After a week-long crackdown on prostitution, those taverns operating gray industries became lively again.

Joanna also realized the rumors on the street. After confirming that the offending drow had fled, she released the owners of those taverns.

Mitris directly resigned from the acting director of the police department, and found someone to renovate the bar, intending to take over the previous "tavern" and become the largest broker in the underground of Storm Bay.

Today is the first day of the opening of the bar, and many adventurers came to see the situation.

The three floors of the entire bar are almost full of people.

The Yueling maid temporarily served as a waiter, and high-quality drinks and various fruit plates were lined up to be delivered to the guests.

However, when doing business, it is inevitable that there will be bad guests.

Just when the ordinary guests were toasting, a not-so-harmonious voice suddenly sounded.

"The Bar of the Next Life? This name is a bit unlucky. Will you die after drinking a glass of wine here?"

The voice was extremely arrogant, and there was a hint of drunkenness.

Some adventurers nearby frowned and looked over. Some people knew each other, but more adventurers didn't know who he was at all.

"Who is this guy? Don't you know that this is owned by the strange mechanic?"

In a booth, a young adventurer who had just arrived in Storm Bay came to the leader of the adventure group he had just joined and asked about the origin of the troublemaker.

His leader snorted coldly and then introduced:

"Humph, that guy was once the most famous underground broker in the old Storm Bay. You can buy any information from him and issue any task to him.

But now? Ha! He is just a stray dog ​​who can't tell his own weight and is about to lose his own doghouse."

As he said, the senior adventurer took a puff of the cigar in his hand and narrowed his eyes in enjoyment.

The young adventurer next to him couldn't help coughing because of the spicy smoke, but he also lit a cigarette and smoked it like his boss.

He thought his boss's smoking posture was very handsome.

As if he heard the conversation of this adventure group, an adventurer in the booth next to him came over unceremoniously with his own cigarette and naturally joined the discussion.

"Not only that, I heard that the mechanic originally wanted to hand over the Afterlife Bar to him, but he didn't like it! Ha, now, all his people have run away, it's really retribution!

I asked this guy to do something, but later I found out that he not only took advantage of both companies, but also deliberately made trouble for me to make it more difficult to do things. Such people should be killed directly!"

As he was talking, Mitris came down from upstairs with a group of Cyberman bodyguards behind him.

Seeing her appear, both the original "tavern" owner who pretended to be drunk and the owners of other ordinary taverns looked much more serious.

They came here not to congratulate the Afterlife Bar for its opening, but to cause trouble!

Quickly scanning the crowd, Mitris stretched out her hand, and the bodyguard next to her in a black suit immediately picked up a microphone and handed it to Mitris.

Clearing her throat, she said:

"Thank you all for coming today. I just remembered that there are still a few things I haven't explained clearly to you about the Afterlife Bar."

At this point, Mitress paused, taking in the expressions of ordinary guests and those who were about to make trouble, and then she spoke again:

"Everyone should know what the Afterlife Bar is for. We mainly provide venues here, so if you have any business related to drinks, you can come to me later.

Those who want to find a beautiful girl to spend the night with can flirt with girls in the bar by themselves. There is a hotel next door. You can do whatever you want there, but try not to kill anyone."

Almost at the same time when Mitress finished these two points, several people who had already started to move towards Mitress were immediately pulled by the people in the same booth with him.

They are the owners of several other well-known taverns in Storm Bay, and they provide drinks and call girls.

These people had been persuaded not long ago to find something to do today when the Laisheng Bar opened to cause trouble for Mitress.

But now that they heard this, their thoughts immediately changed.

They were making trouble only because their interests might be damaged, but now that they heard Mitress said she wanted to talk about the wine business and that she was not opposed to other call girls coming to solicit customers, several people were a little unwilling to take risks.

They had naturally met Mitress, and several people who were mainly engaged in the pimp business were arrested by Mitress a while ago.

They had a natural fear of the "officials". Once there was no conflict of interest, there would naturally be no other conflicts.

However, Mitress had not finished her words.

"We mainly provide a freer information exchange platform for everyone.

On the first floor, everyone can discuss anything they want; the second floor is only open to members, and the environment is more private; the third floor is only open to VIP members, and we will provide exclusive rooms for customers to discuss things. If justice is needed, we can also provide notaries.

Please note that anyone can apply for membership and VIP membership. We encourage those smart guys to earn commissions by relying on information advantages, but we will also crack down on those who try to defraud."

After hearing this, the low-level informants who had lost their source of income because the "tavern" was about to close due to the squeeze also sat back in their seats.

Most of them were information collectors supported by the tavern owner, but after listening to Mitress's words, they began to consider the possibility of working alone.

Afterwards, Mitress said some polite words that everyone needed to abide by the law in the bar.

But all these words were automatically filtered out by the adventurers as wind around their ears.

In the end, the only ones who were still determined to cause trouble for Mitress were the tavern owner and a few people who were bitter and resentful because the casino was closed.

But there were only six of them in total.

When Mitress passed by them, these people rushed forward, intending to teach Mitress a lesson.

But as two black blade lights flashed, these people were knocked unconscious by the back of the mantis blade.

‘Hmph! If it weren’t for the customers here, I would have cut your intestines in two! ’

Thinking angrily, Mitress changed her arms back to their original positions and signaled the younger brothers behind her to ask the sheriff on the opposite side to come and take the people.

Soon, several criminals who intended to commit crimes were detained.

…

In the second half of the night, Carl distributed the prepared equipment to the first batch of drow who were on night watch.

Most of these equipment were made using giant runes. Every time they were activated, they needed a certain amount of time to accumulate magic power to restore the effect.

This is different from the principle of most current equipment and props, and it is not so convenient.

But considering the current situation, these equipments are enough.

Karl didn't expect these drow and fire elementals who haven't obtained a profession yet or are only level 1 or 2 to kill many enemies.

Their only task is to hold on until Karl and the others react.

"Should we prepare some invisible rune stones for them? If they can't win, they can always run away, right?"

These days, Karl has been translating and trying the giant spell fragments found in the giant ruins every day after falling asleep.

Not to mention, he actually researched something systematic.

Those equipments with long charging time and can only be used once each time were born for this reason.

Fortunately, they also have the advantages of simple production, short production process, and no need for synchronization, otherwise Karl would have given up this research direction.

Thinking of invisibility, Karl naturally built giant runes headed by cloud giant series runes in his mind.

But when he carved the runes on a piece of experimental rock to try the effect, the rune stone just flickered, but nothing happened.

Carl, who didn't believe in evil, tried to activate the rune stone again, but found that a phantom appeared above the rune stone.

That was the image that Carl had just tried to activate the rune stone effect, but it was only the size of a palm.

"Hmm~, is the effect of this arrangement and combination an illusion? Maybe it can be used in the recording of fantasy dramas in the future, write it down first!"

The combination effects of different runes are different, and Carl is still exploring this aspect.

Taking out a notebook, Carl wrote down this rune string with strange effects on paper.

Just as he was about to get up, he suddenly felt a little dizzy.

Taking out the pocket watch made of Eberron and Khyber dragon crystal, Carl looked at the time and found that it was time for him to go to bed.

"Is it already this time without knowing it? I almost stayed up all night! My life is important! Go to sleep!"

Standing up, Carl naturally walked into his usual seat.

Hope and Ying had adjusted their seats to supine mode and got into their sleeping bags.

Feeling that Carl had returned, the two opened their eyes and looked around, then continued to sleep with their eyes closed.

In order not to disturb everyone, Carl carefully got into his position and closed his eyes.

It was quiet all around, and the patrolling drow and fire elementals tried not to make any noise.

In the distance, the sounds made by giant lizards seeking mates appeared and disappeared.

The fluorescence emitted by mushrooms seemed to become dimmer due to the influence of time.

The rising water vapor gathered on the cave and eventually turned into rain and fell down.

The sound of the drizzle was a catalyst that helped people fall asleep. Unconsciously, everyone slept more soundly.

When Carl felt that he had fully recovered and opened his eyes again, it was already noon.