Zhan Taiyi's card room should be one of the most luxurious places in the entire city of Dali.
Although the furnishings here are in Simeng style, they are absolutely impossible to see in Simeng - the entire indoor columns, table edges, chair backs, and various large and small places are filled with dragon pattern decorations. .
On a pair of large red and gold characters in the center, the four characters "Wealth, wealth and destiny" are written in flying colors, surrounded by Simeng Taka gold dollar coin labels. Zhan Taiyi leaned on the back of his chair, holding in his hand The long gold-coated copper pipe lights up and goes out.
"Lieutenant...General...Sir..."
The man behind him who was tied to the pillar was dying. His clothes had been torn to pieces and were stained with blackened blood, but he could vaguely see that they were the uniforms of the Dead Fleet.
The wounds on the body are all flesh injuries. Under extremely powerful and cruel whipping, the person's skin will be ripped open by the hemp rope, just like being rubbed back and forth with a rough file.
The man's weak voice was not too quiet, and several people at the card table could hear it clearly.
But everyone at the table subconsciously glanced at Zhan Taiyi first. If the lieutenant general didn't speak, they could just pretend they didn't hear him.
When the man shouted for the third time, Zhan Taiyi had just touched a mahjong tile and held it in his hand, but he still didn't play it.
"What do you remember?"
Zhan Taiyi asked slowly, placing the Dongfeng card he just picked up in front of him sideways, and took a deep breath from his pipe.
"Lieutenant General... I did not expect that the materials would be taken away for no reason. I did not expect..."
The man's voice was as hoarse as an old bellows. Zhan Taiyi sighed and stood up.
The lieutenant general was wearing a long coat today - when he went to the Siyang Palace on behalf of the Blood Harbor, he did not wear any Simeng-style clothes, but in this Dali city, he liked this kind of clothes very much.
Zhan Taiyi, who originally had a rather bookish long gown, did not wear it properly. Instead, he opened the buttons wide and put it on his body like a casual nightgown. He showed off a few strings of gold jewelry around his neck, which made him look even better under the candlelight. Extremely eye-catching.
"The thing that robbed the Deadman's fleet? Raven's Bay?"
Zhan Tai blew the smoke from his mouth onto the face of the man tied to the pillar: "I asked you to pick up the escort by yourself, did you go?"
The man was choked and coughed violently several times, and shook his head:
"Lieutenant General, it was my fault. I shouldn't have been lazy and left everything to strangers..."
When he coughed, it was obvious that the muscles in his body were involved, and he showed an expression of pain and an unbearable whimper.
Zhan Taiyi smiled, turned around and looked at the people sitting at his card table and said:
"Everyone heard it. It seems that someone in a place like Crow Bay robbed the belongings of the Dead Man's Fleet and the materials prepared for the emperor. All the major cities in Blood Harbor are under the control of a few people. I don't know if there are any clues. Can you share something?"
The people sitting at the card table are obviously from different countries.
Just like Zhan Taiyi is now the talker of "Dali City" in Xiaosimeng, Xue Gang, these people sitting at the card table also speak for their group's activities in Xue Gang to a certain extent.
Dali City already existed before Zhan Taiyi came to Blood Harbor.
But after Zhan Taiyi arrived at Xue Hong Kong, Dali City and the talents from Simeng behind them who were from Xue Hong Kong became prosperous in just a few years with the rapid development of Zhan Tai Yi's power.
"Lieutenant Admiral Abdul, maybe your Star and Moon Fleet can provide some clues?"
Zhan Taiyi smiled and asked a bearded man.
The man he asked was obviously from Olimar. His beard had been tied into a strand and hung down from his chin. He wore several large rings on his hands. He smiled awkwardly and said: "Vice Admiral Zhan, Crow Bay has always been a fleet of dead men." Our territory has always been Dali City’s territory, so why would we, the people in the oasis, go there if we have nothing to do?”
The oasis he mentioned was the city where the bandits from Olimar's birth to Blood Harbor gathered.
"Yeah?"
The smile on Zhan Taiyi's face did not change. He raised the pipe to his mouth and took a puff, then suddenly frowned.
The tobacco in the pipe obviously needs to be reflowed and replaced, as it is slightly clogged.
A servant immediately presented a golden needle to the side, raised it above his head and knelt beside Zhan Taiyi.
He took the golden needle used to pass the pipe, but turned around and handed it to the man tied to the pillar.
"Bite."
The man was stunned. Zhan Taiyi had already put the needle into his mouth.
Immediately afterwards, Zhan Taiyi turned the pipe in his hand, and the hot pipe head, which was still sparkling, was aimed at an open wound on the man's body and was pushed into it.
"Hmm! Uh-huh-huh--!"
! "
The man subconsciously bit the golden needle in his mouth tightly, and the hot pipe stuck to the flesh and blood, raising a faint wisp of white smoke.
If the temperature were higher, you could even smell the aroma of meat.
But the man didn't even scream.
His blood-stained face had turned pale, and his lips could not help but tremble, but he still held the golden needle, which was as important as his life, firmly between his teeth.
Looking at this cruel scene, Lieutenant General Abdul at the card table did not look away, but he obviously did not enjoy it as much as Zhan Taiyi.
"A few days ago, Olimar's merchants were ambushed by Simeng. Olimar's people have already discussed the results with the emperor. The emperor is not very satisfied."
Zhan Taiyi looked at Abdul: "One bad news is acceptable, but if the materials are lost, two bad news are very unappetizing. Since the Xingyue Fleet cannot help in finding materials, I don't know if Abdul Can the Vice Admiral take the Star and Moon Fleet out of the harbor and cause some trouble for your motherland, Olimar?"
When mentioning the matter of confronting Olimar, Abdul's expression finally relaxed a little, and he showed a somewhat cruel smile: "Of course, what does the emperor want the oasis to do? To choke Olima's trade routes or to directly raid them?" coastal?"
For those who survive in Blood Harbor, their biggest enemy is their place of origin.
"Olima felt that Blood Harbor destroyed Olima's merchant ship because they wanted to intensify the conflict with Simeng. He insisted that Simeng had no reason or purpose to fall out with Olima for no reason, so they were fooled. Simeng’s plan to divorce is too stupid.”
Zhan Taiyi shook his head and sighed: "So, you have to help your motherland and let them see Simeng's face clearly."
"The emperor's intention...isn't it for me to take action against Olimar?" Abdul was a little confused.
Zhan Taiyi smiled and said: "Of course not. The emperor hopes that Oasis can take action against Simeng. Of course, it is best to make Simeng feel that this has nothing to do with Blood Harbor and that it is Olimar's action."
Abdul thought for a moment and figured out that Zhan Taiyi's intention was to ask him to pretend to be Olimar's people to invade Simeng.
"Why don't you let the people from Dali City also go to fight Olimar? How about we both eat?" A glimmer of wisdom flashed in Abdul's eyes.
After hearing his advice, Zhan Taiyi sighed, raised his wrist and flicked out a gust of wind from his palm, flipping the Dongfeng card that had not been played for a long time into the river of cards.
"Because I'm going to get the Emperor's materials back. Why, I'm going to Dali City to fight Olimar, and Oasis is looking for the materials?!"
Abdul immediately stopped talking.
As a lieutenant general, he knows better than ordinary people how Zhan Taiyi got to where he is today.
It was precisely because he didn't know why, but he actually had a way to help the emperor become stronger step by step.
The materials he handled, almost all the people he touched died tragically without distinction. Oasis didn't have as many strangers as Dali City, and he still...
You should listen to him first.
