Merlin left Otis City full of longing for a new life and a new world. He knew that Dulin did not want to kick him out, but was really doing it for his own good, so he had no complaints at all. Mr. Kesma didn't seem to have any intention of teaching them to read when they were in the country. There was no school in Alfalfa Town. It's possible that Mr. Kesma planned to use this method to create fear in the children of the outside world.
Regardless of the truth, Merlin finally took a solid first step. On the train to Namirindes, he didn't seem to find the noise of the train annoying. He opened the window and looked at the vibrant world outside the window, completely emptying his mind and body of all previous actions.
Just when Merlin arrived at Namirinds, a negotiation was going on in a restaurant not far from him.
The negotiation between Chester's boss and Brother Andy. Brother Andy wanted to intervene in the business of Mr. Abel, so there was such a "negotiation".
Abel was born and raised in Namirinds. His father was a blacksmith. When he was fifteen years old, he became famous after stabbing two adults to death with an awl in the blacksmith shop. The leader of the "child gang". After serving a nine-month sentence, his blacksmith father hired a good lawyer and proved through the testimony of some eyewitnesses that it was the other party who provoked him first, so he reduced most of Abel's sentence. In the end, it was only because "considering the fifteen-year-old boy He dared to fight desperately. If he is not given certain education and punishment, it is difficult to imagine what kind of person he will become when he becomes an adult." For this reason, he was finally sentenced to prison for eighteen months.
When he was serving nine months in prison, his blacksmith father bailed him out for one hundred and fifty dollars, ending his sentence early.
From then on, the 16-year-old Abel became a well-known gangster on the street. Because he had killed people, many teenagers around his age admired him. Someone once described Abel at that time like this, saying His eyes are like knives. Looking into his eyes, you always have the illusion that he will pounce on you at any time and give you a knife.
After being released from prison, Abel did not embark on a criminal path full of evil as others thought. On the contrary, he used his prestige and fame to recruit a group of teenagers of the same age and began to act as thugs. career.
In and out of prison, he was transformed into an unexpected person in nine months. He also learned what power, money and status mean to this society because of this experience, so He did not commit crime directly, but chose to serve those with power.
This is a young man with very precocious thinking, because most people are already in their twenties and thirties when they realize this, but he understood this truth at the age of sixteen.
After that, he often visited the police station and even the court, but he did not go to jail, because when something happened to him, the big people behind him would pay or find someone to send a message to get him out. This also made him more and more sure that the path he chose was the right one, and he has continued to this day.
The experience of doing dirty work for so many years has also developed his somewhat twisted character. To put it simply, Abel is a man who can turn his back faster than turning the pages of a book. One moment, he may ask you if there is anything he needs to do, but after answering a phone call, he may stab a knife into your body. He is a very pure person, a person who lives for money and his own purposes, and a very cautious person.
His only advantage may be that he is nice to the people around him, and this is also to maintain his current identity and status.
This time Klaus planned to interfere in his business, which made him a little annoyed. He had had a war with Klaus, and both sides suffered losses. At that time, a rich man moved out of Namirinds and moved to the imperial capital. His things were packed on the train. As a result, the steam locomotive was hijacked by the Andy brothers. The rich man found Abel and promised him one hundred thousand yuan. Send things to the imperial capital.
Abel contacted Klaus through other connections and explained his request, but Klaus, who had never dealt with Abel before, directly rejected his proposal, and the two sides went to war in the wild. The result is not clear to outsiders, but from then on Klaus would try to restrain himself when facing Abel and not mess with this person. And Abel will keep his distance and not take the initiative to approach Klaus.
But this time, the two old enemies had to sit together again.
Abel didn't look like someone who had done bad things. He was wearing very expensive clothes, and his leather shoes were so shiny that his figure could be seen in the shadows. The cheeks are also well maintained, and the chin is blue, giving people a slightly weird feeling, like the weird doctor in the opera "Dr. Monster". He is very particular, probably because he often comes into contact with people from the upper class, so he attaches great importance to his image.
"Mr. Klaus, you rashly interfere in other people's business and intend to rob other people's interests. This is a very despicable villain behavior..." Abel said with a face and shook his head, just like Klaus asked. He was very disappointed.
Klaus is also well dressed, and his taste may be a little lower than Abel's, but the price of his clothes and accessories is not necessarily cheaper than Abel's. He sneered, interrupting Abel's words, "Mr. Abel, we are sitting here today to discuss how to cooperate, not to give you the opportunity to face me and reprimand me." Klaus took out He wiped the non-existent stains on his fingers with a handkerchief.
"What we are discussing is how to achieve a win-win goal!" Klaus acted like a civilized man and a businessman, but Abel, who was familiar with this guy's inside story, knew that he was a villain.
Abel snorted coldly, "If you rob the business that originally belonged to me and plan to divide my profits without my consent, it is a kind of cooperation and win-win. Why don't you trouble Mr. Claus and find a business like this?" , let me also intervene.”
Aaron, who was sitting on the side eating, suddenly raised his hands and let go of the beef bones he was holding. He leaned back, curled up his feet, and kicked hard towards the table. The table suddenly hit Abel. Abel had been behind the scenes for many years. He didn't know whether he didn't react or was fearless, as if he didn't see the table that was about to hit him.
The next second, an arm stretched out from behind his shoulder and held the table tightly.
Aaron's eyes suddenly turned red. He knew that guy, the guy named Spike.
This sudden conflict caused the two groups of people in the room to stand up immediately. They clearly used the table as a boundary to defend Klaus and Abel.
"What? Are you going to start a war?" Abel was not afraid of Brother Andy at all. He took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, put one arm on the table and leaned forward, "Nod your head. I guarantee that only one of us can leave. If not, you'd better put your claws away. Neither here nor Odis is a place for people like you to run wild!"
After speaking, he blew out a puff of smoke and blew it towards Klaus, who felt the smoke blowing on his face. He smiled, as calmly as before, "Is this your choice?"
Abel shrugged his shoulders and stood up, walking directly towards the door of the restaurant. "Before threatening others, think about whether you have such ability..." When standing at the door, Abel looked sideways. Klaus turned his back to him, "There are some people you can't afford to offend, understand? Not everyone is like those fools and can be slaughtered by you. Here, you are just reptiles on the ground!"
When Abel walked out of the restaurant with a smile, he looked at the watch on his wrist. There was another big shot who needed his assistance in the afternoon, and he had no time to spend with Brother Andy here. In his eyes, these two guys are just lions made of paper, and they are scary in appearance. No one who knows them well will be afraid of them.
"Go and bring the car...", Abel ordered, and his driver immediately ran diagonally opposite.
At this moment, three cars drove quickly from the end of the street. Abel just glanced at them, and his heart immediately seemed to be grasped by an invisible hand.
As a person who walks in the gray area, he always has an instinctive reaction to crises. He shrunk his neck and squatted on the ground, leaning against the car on the roadside and using it as a cover. The next second, the guys in peaked caps leaned out of the car window, raised their weapons, and pulled the triggers at the panicked group of people at the door of the restaurant. The bullets shot out at an angle, and in just a few seconds, more than a dozen people fell into a pool of blood.
The three cars started up again and left quickly, quickly disappearing into the noisy streets.
At this time, Klaus and Abel, who was holding a bone in his hand, walked out of the restaurant calmly. Aaron glanced at Spike who was on the ground with a look of pain on his face, walked over expressionlessly, raised his foot and stepped on his face, his toes kept exerting force, and the toes of his pointed leather shoes sank deeply into Spike's eyes.
With a pop, a stream of blood mixed with transparent liquid spurted out from the gap between the toe of the shoe and the eye socket. Aaron frowned, his shoes were dirty. He threw away the bones in his hands, raised his legs hard, and stepped hard on Spike's head...
On the other side, Klaus walked over to Abel, who was already frightened, and squatted down. He showed a regretful expression, "Look, everyone will have a moment of regret. Do you regret it?"
"I know you look down on our brothers and all of us, but do you think I will look down on you? You are just a wild dog eating some meat scraps behind a lion, but you dare to think of yourself as a lion?", Klaus Standing up with a smile, he glanced at Aaron and said, "Let's go, we have other things to do."
Aaron kicked him a few more times before catching up with Klaus.
Just when Abel thought he was let go, a young man in his twenties suddenly ran over on the street. He was wearing a yellowed shirt and a vest. He took out a pistol from his arms and pointed it at Abel, then pulled the trigger continuously without hesitation, then threw the pistol on the side of the road and ran into an alley in the sight of Abel's life coming to an end.
Police sirens sounded in the distance, and the chaotic streets quickly returned to calm.
(End of chapter)