In the North City of Atlanta, when Li Mochen and his group entered the Cardinal Club hall through a secret passage, they happened to meet Franks who came in from another passage, and his right-hand man Philippe Luxemburg.
"What a coincidence."
Franks gave Li Mochen a warm bear hug: "You're here for human resources, right? I've heard about your situation. It's not very easy to integrate five ships' escort forces in such a short period of time.
It’s easy to handle. Now the entire human resources in Atlanta have been wiped out by you. There isn’t much left. Many of my friends are complaining.”
"Today I plan to visit the human resources market here, but that's not all. I'm also very interested in this auction."
Li Mochen felt worried when he thought about the rapidly expanding armed forces under his family.
As Franks said, Rising Sun Retail Company under his name, as well as Rising Sun Security, which was renamed from Blood Hand Security Company, are recruiting people on a large scale throughout Georgia.
However, there are only a small number of magic professionals above level nine, and there are even fewer people with clean backgrounds who can pass the triple loyalty review of Jeremy Burt, Li Tailai, and Alyssa.
In this regard, Li Mochen would rather be deficient, even if he cannot recruit enough manpower, than bring in those unreliable guys.
His current situation is different from before. He is currently being hostile to some members of the Dragon Cult, the Medici family, the Wildenstein family, and some business competitors, so he must be extremely careful.
At present, Rising Sun Retail Company has only completed the formation of 65 defense teams and five extrajudicial combat teams. However, due to the lack of reputation of the acting chief security officer Zhang Wei, the company is completely in disarray.
Then there are the troops named ‘Rising Sun Security’, which are actually his private army, and the escort forces also under the banner of ‘Rising Sun Security’.
Among them, the three armed forces headed by Li Tailai, Sampson Brutt and Thompson Adams are in pretty good condition. These three teams have enough backbones, and they only need to add more people. Currently, there are three
Fifteen combat teams and seven extralegal teams.
The problem is that Li Mochen has encountered a huge setback in the formation and recruitment of escort forces. In the past half month, he has not even hired a single outlaw above level 15.
If this continues, even if Li Mochen transfers Li Tailai's team to the sea, there won't be enough manpower.
According to the conventional configuration, five armed merchant ships must hire twenty extra-legal combat teams. But so far, he has only completed six of them.
However, the number of high-level outlaws can be exceeded by Li Mochen. Li Tailai and the Lawrence brothers are currently at level 17 or above, and there are two others whom Alexandra Candela agreed to second.
However, as the leader of the fleet, his overall strength should be superior to that of all members.
"Then you have to pay attention, Andre, you are like a balloon that is about to burst."
"Of course, I will pay attention."
Li Mochen understood what Franks meant. But after he finished speaking, he looked at the other side with a strange look in his eyes: "Franks, will you also come to the Cardinal Club?"
"Ha, just because I have the black market on Laurel Street, can't I come?"
Franks burst out laughing: "You know who is behind this Cardinal Club, right? So my Laurel Street can only deal in low-end and mid-range equipment and magic materials. But the things that are really useful to our level,
You can only buy it here. Andre, if you have time at nine o'clock, go to the A7 auction hall on the second floor and have a look, the lot you want may appear there."
Li Mochen's expression suddenly condensed, and he replied seriously: "I will go and have a look."
Cardinal Club A7 Auction Hall is usually dedicated to auctioning various magical artifacts, but what he is most in need of right now is manpower.
However, Li Mochen knew that this leader of the Teutonic Cross had deep roots in Atlanta, especially in underground transactions, and had information channels that even big families and powerful forces might not have access to.
This made Li Mochen feel a little bit of anticipation in his heart. He decided to go over and have a look when the time came.
Li Mochen is not worried about spending money now, he is only worried about not being able to spend it. If there is something that he can use in the A7 Auction Hall, Li Mochen will not hesitate to spend a lot of money.
"Anyway, let's find all the people as soon as possible."
As Franks spoke, he patted Li Mochen hard on the shoulder: "Do a good job! I'm counting on you for my two ships."
This person did not go with Li Mochen and walked out when the elevator descended to the sixth floor. Li Mochen took a group of people and went straight to the human resources market on the fourth floor.
Unfortunately, this time he was disappointed again. The pile of resumes that Cardinal's human resources manager took out had nearly a 70% overlap with the resumes recently submitted to Xuri Retail and Xuri Security. The difference was that
There is a guarantee from the Cardinals Club here, so reliability is not a problem, but Li Mochen also has to pay a heavy sum to the club for this.
Then in the slave market on the third floor, Li Mochen also found nothing.
There are also many extralegals here, but the price/performance ratio is extremely low. It takes 10 to 20 million gold shields to win a slave of the thirteenth level magic profession. But they either have exhausted their potential or lack the will, like Isadore
This situation is unique.
Hazel's eyes were opened, however, as she saw many humanoid races that had unlocked the magic of disguise. In addition to the common elves, half-elves, dwarves, and even Medusas.
Isadora Weeks, who was dressed as a maid in the back, had complicated eyes. No active slave would have a favorable impression of this kind of place.
"My textbook says that all races in this world should be friendly and equal."
When the group of people had reached a third of the slave market, a sarcastic smile appeared on Hazel's lips: "There should be a lot of humanoid slaves like this in America, right?"
"Hazel, are you being cynical?"
Alyssa smiled at this: "You only need to think that thousands of years ago, our ancestors were enslaved by various human beings and even used as food, you will feel much better. Even now, ordinary people in America
Can people have equality and friendship in front of those humanoids with advanced magical professions? In the final analysis, it is nothing more than one party being strong and the other weak. The so-called law of the jungle, the outside and the inside of this world, are completely different rules.
"
Hazel was stunned when she heard this, and then fell into meditation.
Li Mochen originally planned to have a serious talk with Hazel, but after he heard Alyssa's words, he stopped fussing and walked forward.
It wasn't until they arrived at a magic material shop on the first floor that Li Mochen bought his first harvest after coming to the Cardinal Club.
They were two special medicine bottles, each with a ball of blood inside.
"According to your request, the customer, ten drops of the blood of the legendary Titan Saint Warrior, which can be confirmed to be of the Hyperion line, and ten drops of the dragon's blood of the young blue dragon, the total price is 14 million gold shields."
The manager of this magic material store emphasized to Li Mochen again: "We only accept cash or checks from Red Bird Underground Bank."