The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 94: Rope or hook

"Come on, kids. Look up and watch."

The stall owner wearing a pure white smiling face mask put his arms around the shoulders of the two children and made a voice as low as the abyss: "Come and see your father for the last time.

"This is the father who brought you here...put you on the gambling table and lost you to us. He is also the coward who broke the rules and left you here to escape."

Hearing this, the little girl immediately cried louder.

The boy's eyes were also slightly red.

But he still stubbornly looked at the middle-aged fat man who was dragged all the way and fell into a coma - or in other words, he might have been dead for an unknown period of time.

As if to imprint his figure in my memory.

"Old rules, then. Kids."

The stall owner made a deep voice and slowly said word by word: "I've seen enough, just give him a farewell."

As he finished speaking, a tall and fat man walked out from behind. The fat man was wearing a large shirt, but even so...the tightly buttoned shirt was too tight, revealing his fat belly covered with hair.

His left hand holds a string of cables, while his right hand holds a hook.

He spread his hands and stood in front of the stall owner without saying a word.

The little girl let out a mournful cry like a bird and quickly looked away.

Annan whispered to Isaac: "What are the rules here? Do you want children to kill their fathers with their own hands?"

"It's not that outrageous."

Isaac also lowered his voice: "It's 'forgiveness or not'."

"What do you mean?"

"This man has reached the point where he wants to gamble his children, which means that he is probably doomed. He is using his children to gamble on a chance to make a comeback - to see if he can use his children to make a comeback. Save it yourself."

Isaac lowered his gaze slightly.

Perhaps because of the dim surrounding environment, his green pupils showed a kind of indifferent green like a wolf: "Like that man...it is obvious that he has no debts and has not broken any rules. , selling me just for money - or in other words, just to throw me away and put me on the gambling table, is a very rare case.

"Because the 'person' who serves as a bargaining chip must legally belong to him. In other words, only parents can bet on their children. Although there is no penny belonging to him to spend on me, he still Considered my 'father'.

"As long as you are human, you should not do such a thing."

As he said that, Isaac sneered: "As for paying for his own life...it's just because he is a hopeless fool. After completing his original goal - throwing me away, he didn't I have time to stop.

"In other words, the gambling table has such magic power. It can easily destroy a person's intelligence and rationality, causing him to scream and fall into **** in hopeless madness. Even if it is a transcendent person's Curse, it is difficult to do this as easily as a gambling table."

"...So, you said that man is dead?"

"These two children are obviously his biological children. And the fat man looks like a businessman."

Isaac stretched out his hand to hold Annan's shoulders and pointed at the two children with his chin: "If I guessed correctly, that man should have lost the goods.

"In our case, the fleet is not allowed to pass through the controlled waters as long as it does not pay the pirates a fee. Generally speaking, it is a gold coin for everyone on the ship. This is not a small sum.

"Then, naturally there will be some caravans who will give pirates a large sum of money in one go in exchange for passage rights for a long period of time. And the cost will be reduced a lot."

...Annan raised his eyebrows.

Can this protection fee be paid monthly or yearly?

“Because transporting goods requires paying large amounts of tribute to pirates. Then there will be some captains who want to avoid this situation - so they will simply cooperate with pirates.

"When transporting goods, they will also deliver some things to the pirates in the controlled area. They will be used to compensate for the tribute... Generally speaking, they are some 'big jobs' that cannot pass the subway security check."

...a big job?

Annan was a little curious: "What about?"

"For example, the 'Portable Poison Bucket' that will continuously release poisonous mist when poured with water, the 'Explosive Dust', the powerful gunpowder used by the dwarves to blow up mines, and the Destruction Wizard who was **** alive. These are all Something that was relatively common in my time."

Issac narrowed his eyes: "Now...there are also black fire, honey lips, some weird spells. And artillery."

"...artillery?"

"That's right. It is a weapon that can sink ships hundreds of meters away without pouring a curse. It only requires some gunpowder. In the past, it could only be placed on the shore, but now it can be miniaturized and installed. On board.

"For the extraordinary, bombardment at that speed does not mean much, but for these pirates, it is a sharp weapon - because when they fight, their purpose is not to kill people, but to destroy the ship. ”

Isaac explained.

The ability of pirates to control a sea area depends on the number of their ships. As for the pirates themselves, they can be used as a resource... As losers, it is also a normal act of attracting talents for the good players to join the victors' camp.

"If I'm not wrong...this guy must have been robbed by another group of pirates who got the news while smuggling private goods."

According to the maritime trade procedures of Denisoya and the entire Misty Continent - ships that cannot provide "merchant ship certification" and do not obtain official "armed permission" have strict load capacity restrictions. Moreover, the cargo on the ship must be counted when leaving and docking.

Every month, information will be sent to each other to confirm whether the information is consistent.

This is so that when key goods are lost, the great nobles of Denisoya can confirm the specific link where it was lost. And take advantage of the situation to find the pirates responsible for the corresponding area and regain these goods from them.

So those ships that smuggle private goods must disguise the goods - generally speaking, a large number of empty buckets are prepared on board when drawing offshore. ~IndoMTL.com~ Then travel to another collection point, drop off the "private goods" and fill the empty buckets with ballast water before transporting the apparent cargo to its destination. Then go to the destination port to unload the cargo.

——In other words, as long as these pirates get the news. Then they come over and steal your private cargo, but do not touch the main cargo on the surface. These ship owners have no temper at all, and they have to fill up the water themselves.

Because these private goods have not been registered publicly. Then they are "goods that don't exist." As illegal cargo, if it is robbed by pirates, it will be in vain.

Even if another wave of pirates files a complaint against the mayor, there is nothing they can do.

Because there is no way to prove that it was another group of pirates who robbed the goods, rather than the shipping merchants.

"So, no matter what the truth is... in the end, only the shipbuilder can compensate for the losses."

If they couldn't repay the debt, they would have to pay it themselves - they would be executed as a deterrent.

It is also the final function of their lives.