Lorenzo had already vaguely sensed something was wrong, as if a group of people were setting a trap for themselves.
He stretched out his hand directly, took down the Winchester hanging above his head, pulled the iron ring of the handguard, and heard a clear click, and the bullet was loaded.
"Wait a minute! This thing can fire?"
Oscar said in astonishment, he had always regarded this thing as a commemorative handicraft, but who knew it was really a weapon.
"What did you say!"
Lorenzo looked fierce.
This is what Hercule emphasized to him, just like the Rat King is really just a big rat, and this Winchester is really a shotgun, not some ridiculous craft.
"what happened?"
The shrike at the door didn't understand what was going on, but after seeing Oscar, he vaguely realized that as Arthur's most trusted subordinate, he also knew Oscar's identity.
"You! You! And you! Don't talk yet!"
However, Lorenzo did not give him a chance to ask. He asked everyone to quiet down while he thought about the cause of all this.
That woman.
The woman shrouded in darkness.
Lorenzo couldn't help but recall the impressive fragrance.
For a woman, this is not a soft and comfortable smell. All Lorenzo can feel in it is the cold wind of the north, which collects sharp snowflakes and carves his face.
"So, Oscar, is your competitor him?"
Lorenzo cleared his mind and pointed at Shrike.
"Nordro and the purification agency compete with each other on [Bayi Chinese website www.81zw.xyz]."
Oscar did not answer himself, but judging from his expression as if he had eaten a fly, Lorenzo guessed correctly, and the reason why he was so anxious just now was probably because he knew that the purification agency would also find him.
It's a pity that after all his hard work, it ended up like this.
"Lorenzo, you said yes!"
Oscar said to Lorenzo in a panic, it seemed that he was really afraid that this business would be taken away by the purification agency.
Seliu's reaction was not big. She came here just to cooperate with Oscar, but what happened now was different from what Oscar said to her before. Seliu was a bit incapable of acting.
Shrike also came to his senses at this moment. Even if that idiot Kestrel is here, he should know more or less what happened.
"Arthur agreed to your request, we will cooperate again, and there is a job here..." Shrike tried to win back Lorenzo's heart, but was severely interrupted by him.
"Wait a minute!"
Lorenzo said, and then he looked at Oscar with a confident look on his face.
"Like you said, I owe you this, Oscar, and I will help you."
Oscar was stunned, he didn't expect Lorenzo to agree to him so simply, but before he could be moved, he heard Lorenzo say to Shrike again.
"Our cooperation will continue."
The scene fell silent again.
"Lorenzo, what are you thinking about?"
Oscar asked, somewhat at a loss. From this point of view, Lorenzo's cooperation with the purification agency should be terminated.
But Lorenzo didn't care about this, and looked like a villain who had succeeded.
"Don't get excited first. Let's talk about this matter slowly. In the end, won't it still have to be entrusted to me?"
Lorenzo said nonchalantly.
"So, one job, two wages, what's the problem?"
…
After Lorenzo sat down, the carriage became slightly crowded, and different atmospheres were mixed together in the dull air. Everyone had their own little thoughts*.
In Seleu's words, she temporarily abandoned the light and turned to darkness, so she sat in a row with Lorenzo and decided to give up on the next thing.
She was not good at arguing with others, so she chose to leave this kind of troublesome matter to Oscar, a smooth-tongued guy. After all, he was the one who proposed all this in the first place.
Opposite her and Lorenzo, two competitors, Oscar and Shrike, sat side by side. Shrike was obviously unable to resist Oscar, and his cheeks slowly twitched, as if he was holding back something.
Also, Shrike has always been a rigorous and serious guy, and Oscar is like an old version of Lorenzo, always talking nonsense. To use a sentence Seleu often used to describe Oscar, it was probably "Damn old man"
thing".
"So are you sure you want to do this? Lorenzo."
Shrike asked. He felt that Lorenzo's behavior was becoming more and more ridiculous. He seemed to want to turn the competitive relationship between the two parties into a cooperative relationship.
"Otherwise? After all, it's not your fault. When I was offered a job, I couldn't refuse it. It was a bunch of messy things. Now that we've been arguing about it, I know it's related to Gallo Nalo, but the rest
No information whatsoever."
Lorenzo moved his gaze back from the car window and looked at Oscar and Shrike sitting together.
On one side is the mysterious Nordero, and on the other side is the purge agency that he knows a little about. But in fact, due to the degree of mystery, Lorenzo feels that the Nordero formed by this group of businessmen is even more terrifying.
They have no influence in Inverg, but outside the territory, no one knows how much power they have, and these huge wealth and power are not essentially serving North Dro, North Dro is just
A tool, a cover to conceal their existence.
Those who built the country.
This is the essence of Oscar and Nordero.
Although Oscar helped him, Lorenzo still knew too little about this mysterious country builder. Not only that, he also knew too little about the world.
Old Dunling cannot represent the entire world, it is just a microcosm of the world. The real world is at the end of the railroad tracks, where there are things far beyond Lorenzo's imagination.
"So, instead of choosing who to choose, why don't you take me to see the client and let me know what I want to do first, okay?"
Lorenzo asked.
Seeing Lorenzo's serious attitude, both Oscar and Shrike fell silent.
Indeed, this matter involves huge interests, interests that neither the purge agency nor Nordero are willing to give up, and currently the only person who can decide these interests seems to be Lorenzo.
After experiencing so many events, Lorenzo has perfectly proven his extremely terrifying one-man combat ability. Instead of sending an army, it is better to put a fully armed Lorenzo into the battlefield.
This is why this job must be done by Lorenzo. No one can replace Lorenzo, at least for now.
"All right……"
The two of them made a compromise, but Shrike looked at Lorenzo, still a little unhappy, and asked.
"So, Lorenzo, are you sure you want to meet your employer like this?"
Lorenzo wrapped up his pajamas tightly and looked indifferent.
"What's wrong?"
He was confident.
…
The sun shines through the dome and falls into the auditorium. Looking around, it looks magnificent.
In the surrounding corners, soldiers from the purification agency were scattered, holding unfired thermite rifles, guarding the place like sculptures.
Lorenzo still remembered the last time he came, when he met with the new order headed by Anthony. It was a bad meeting and the beginning of a storm.
I just didn't expect that he would be back here so soon to meet another mysterious employer.
Sitting on the soft sofa, Lorenzo looked around. Although there were few people in the auditorium, everyone's eyes were still involuntarily attracted to Lorenzo. After all, Lorenzo should have been there since the auditorium was built and put into use.
He was the first one to come in wearing pajamas.
Fortunately, there were no funny patterns printed on his pajamas, otherwise Seliu really wouldn't have planned to sit next to him and wait with him.
"So you know, what's going on?"
Lorenzo leaned into the sofa, treating this place as his own living room, not caring about image. To be precise, this guy didn't have any image.
"I only know part of it. Anyway, you also know that Oscar speaks human words to others and ghosts to ghosts. He only needs to tell me the part that touches me enough."
Seliu replied that she knew Oscar relatively well.
Lorenzo nodded, this is indeed what Oscar looks like. He will talk to himself about some weird grand plans, or how to kill monsters faster, but when facing Seleu, he will talk about some girls.
topic, but later he found that this trick did not work well for Seleu. Instead of talking about this, it was better to talk about the interests of the Stuart family.
"Oscar said that after the success of this work, the Viking countries are willing to open safe waterways. You must know that although they have completed internal unification, pirates are still rampant in the surrounding waters, and ships in Nordro need to spend
We have to pay a lot of money to protect it, and there is even talk of giving up the northern channel and taking a longer route."
"Is this so..."
"Yes, and Nordro is also willing to let our Stuart group join the trade. This is a new beginning for us. Although from the perspective of the nobles in Inverg, the Stuart group
The group is still a group of new aristocrats, but you have to know, Lorenzo, as time goes by, we will gradually become the 'old aristocracy' and fall into the same predicament as them."
It seems that after becoming a duke, Seliu did not eat, drink or have fun, but seriously studied a lot of knowledge with Yawei. She also had a general understanding of the entire Stuart group.
"We need change and this is a great opportunity for Stuart to continue to be strong."
Lorenzo nodded while listening to Seleu's words. He felt like a boss, and Seleu was his assistant, reporting to him the current situation of the company.
Well, he didn't know why he had such an inexplicable feeling, and at this moment, Seliu said again.
"After careful consideration, I am ready to join Nordero after this cooperation."
"oh."
Lorenzo still looked nonchalant, but this time this casual look did not last long. His expression gradually became strange, and then he said in hindsight.
"What? Join Nordro? What about the dealer?"
Lorenzo looked like he had just woken up and looked at the girl next to him in shock.
Seleu had the same long pale blond hair and an indifferent expression as usual. Lorenzo rubbed her head. Judging from the touch, it didn't look like she had been hit by something.
Lorenzo's eyes were filled with "What are you thinking about?", and Seleu gave his own explanation in a calm voice.
"This cooperation is just an opportunity. We need closer cooperation with Nordro. Joining them is the best way, and..."
Seleu was silent for a while, and looked into Lorenzo's eyes.
"Besides, Lorenzo, you also need a trustworthy backing."
"What do you mean?"
"Whether it's the Purge Agency or Nordro, they are motivated by their own interests, and you just happen to have overlapping interests with them. This has been the case from beginning to end, but what happens when interests diverge?
Just like you were hunted by the purge agency before, cooperation is only temporary. No matter who you are with, think about the worst, what if Nordro no longer helps you next time? Maybe Nordro will also be there.
How about joining the hunt for you someday in the future?
What will you do then? Lorenzo."
Facing Seleu's questions, Lorenzo's expression gradually became serious. He had already guessed what Seleu wanted to say and what she wanted to do.
Lorenzo wanted her not to do this. He didn't need Seleu's help, but he didn't know how to dissuade her. When the words came to his lips, he didn't know what to say. Maybe he really hadn't woken up. Lorenzo
Lorenzo's mind was a little confused, and at this moment, the sound of hurried footsteps interrupted Lorenzo's train of thought.
Oscar is on the left and Shrike is on the right, like two guards, guarding the people inside.
It was a Viking. You could tell from his build that he was as strong as a bull, his cheeks were carved into a stern look by the cold wind from the north, and his beard was tied together and left in a braid.
"This must be Mr. Lorenzo Holmes."
He walked over directly, stretched out his hand, and shook Lorenzo's hand vigorously.
"Hibald Achilar."
Lorenzo also nodded to him. The Viking didn't care about the vain etiquette and directly dragged a chair over and sat in front of Lorenzo.
"I have a job here that I need to entrust to you."
His tone was anxious. It turned out that this job was really urgent. Even the employer was so anxious. No wonder Oscar and Shrike reacted like that.
"you say."
This development was a bit beyond Lorenzo's expectations. From the corner of his vision, the two doorkeeper-like guys were also a little embarrassed. Maybe they didn't expect this employer to be so direct. They wanted to stop him, but they didn't know if they had a chance.
"This is a commission from the Lodbrok family."
Haybold said that the name of this family sounded familiar, and Lorenzo couldn't remember it for a while.
"We'd like you to help us with something."
He vaguely remembered that the leader who unified the Viking kingdoms seemed to have this surname.
"Scandal from the Lodbrok family."
After finishing speaking, Lorenzo's expression almost wrinkled into a frown, with a sad face.