"Well, she is an excellent card maker." Carlos said.
"No, you are a kid, your primary goal in school is to study, study!" Bai said madly, "Is there a student like you who comes to school to kidnap the teacher?"
"You have seen it now, haven't you?" Caruso looked at Bai with a smile: "If the teacher is interested, you can also put forward conditions to me. As long as they are reasonable, I will try my best to meet them."
"No, I'll let it go!" Bai waved his hands quickly: "I still like to be a free man, it's good to guide students, don't think of me!"
Caruso nodded and didn't force it.
"What exactly do you want my daughter to do?" The man suddenly raised his head and looked at Caruso: "What do you want to exchange this for from her? Tell me clearly!"
"You are such a person who takes risks yourself. I'm sure you want her to do something very dangerous. I tell you, even if I lose my legs, I won't allow it!"
{“I wonder if you are qualified to care about your daughter’s future.” Caruso said calmly.
"What do you mean?" The man was stunned.
"Richard Salazar never went to a college. He was born as a card maker's assistant, then became an adventurer. He joined the Warrior Guild and was marked as a warrior." Caruso looked at him silently. "When he was 22, he married a service staff of the Adventurer Guild. When he was 24, he gave birth to Alita."
"In the same year, your wife died of childbirth complications. You began to hate Alita. When she was eight years old, your savings were almost gone, so you abandoned her and started your business."
"Unfortunately, you are not cut out for it. At the age of 32, you lost everything. This was all your companions' money."
"At that time, you embarked on a wrong path. You started pretending to be rich and approached the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Your looks, adventurer temperament, and experience accumulated from doing business, even if it was wrong experience, made the daughter of the wealthy businessman deeply fascinated. Even her father couldn't see through your disguise and let you marry into their family."
This middle-aged man is quite handsome, otherwise he wouldn't have given birth to a daughter as beautiful as Alita.
"After you married her, you repaid your debt first. You still had a conscience in this regard. Unfortunately, you didn't stick with it for long. You started your business again. Sometimes, we are not afraid of your squandering, but we are afraid that you want to prove yourself. You failed just like before. You wanted to do steel business, but the steel price plummeted and you lost everything. After you sold a lot of steel, a dramatic scene happened. The steel price rebounded."
"You had a mental breakdown at that time."
[Damn, why is it the same as me buying stocks? ]
[I don’t know why the stock market is always staring at me. When I buy, it goes down. When I sell, it goes up.]
"You..." Richard looked at Caruso in disbelief: "Why do you know this?"
Caruso said calmly: "You underestimate the operation of the state machinery. I wanted to investigate you, but it didn't even take three days."
This kind of small matter is a piece of cake for someone like Ryan. If he could do Caruso a favor, it would be a great deal.
"Damn steel prices!" Richard got excited. "I was right to want to do the steel business. It finally went up, didn't it? If, if I waited a little longer..."
="Excuse me, you have the mentality of a gambler, not a businessman." Carlosso said: "You should hold on."
"But what if the price of steel drops further? What should I do!" Richard shouted, "What is the price of this thing? Isn't it you dirty nobles who set it?"
"It's not determined by the nobles, but by the supply and demand relationship in the market." Caruso shook his head: "We do have the ability to manipulate, but since you can't afford it, don't participate in this game."
"If you had thought about continuing after failing, I would have admired you, but you didn't."
"What do you know? If I don't sell it, the debt at that time will crush me. You are just talking nonsense! At that time, who can hold on? How many people can withstand that kind of pressure?" Richard waved his hand and said, "Go away. I am not afraid of offending you nobles with my life."
"So I say, your gambler's mentality is totally unsuitable for business." Caruso ignored him and continued: "You shouldn't bet everything."
"After this failure, you have nothing and your wife has kicked you out of the house."
"At that time, you were burdened with a lot of debt, and you were confused and didn't know what to do."
"At this time you received the news that your daughter became an A-level card maker."
"You thought of your daughter, and you wanted to use her, so you went to the dungeon to adventure, hoping to get her a material as a gift so that she would take care of you for the rest of your life."
"No, I didn't!" Richard glared at Caruso: "I just wanted to make it up to her."
After saying that, he sat down on the chair weakly, muttering: "I owe her..."
"You haven't visited your daughter for so many years. Do you want to make it up to me now?" Caruso said calmly.
"You... do you put everything together with pros and cons?" Richard looked at Caruso with a complicated expression: "Everything you analyzed just now was from the perspective of pros and cons."
"Isn't that right?"
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Chapter 94 Unqualified Father
For some reason, Caruso felt that Richard's eyes were somewhat sympathetic.
Caruso was a little puzzled. Why did this person feel sorry for me
With Caruso's family background and abilities, he is the only one who has mercy on others, but no one else has mercy on him.
[This matter... How should I put it? I can't explain it clearly.]
[Ka's analysis is theoretically correct, but this is entirely from a rational perspective]
[Mr. Ka, please believe in your feelings sometimes]
[In fact, Mr. Ka already has some feelings for Nimer, but he himself cannot realize it]
[The training at the Kolia family is terrible]
"It was indeed my fault when I gave up on her." Richard took a deep breath, "But do you really know everything? I didn't abandon her because I had squandered all my money. I simply couldn't afford to support her at that time! Instead of suffering with me, you should learn card making and have a good future."
"The reason why my savings were spent so quickly is because I wanted to give her the best of everything! Otherwise, how did she lay such a solid foundation?"
"I go to see Alita secretly every year. I just don't dare to face her... I know she misses me a lot after she left me. She's not doing well. I'm her only relative. But what do you want me to do? I'm a father, a father with nothing. Am I going to see my daughter with nothing?"
"I admit that I don't have the ability to do business, but I always want to work hard, because I want to give Alita more..."
*1%3#3-～7>2+6-"At the lowest point in my life, I met the love of my life. I didn't lie to her. I told her I was a loser, but she was still willing to accept me." Richard closed his eyes and said painfully, "She lied to her father, married me, and helped me pay off my debts."
"At this time, she gave me another sum of money and asked me to invest..."
"I admit that after meeting her, I forgot about Alita and lived happily with her."
"She's so nice to me, so nice that I don't want to cause her any trouble..."
"So, when I couldn't stand the pressure anymore, I didn't tell her, but sold the steel instead."
"You know what? At this moment, she looked at me with disappointment. She was not disappointed that I lost money, but why I didn't ask her to share the burden."
"She said that I always had someone else in my heart and never considered her as my own."
Gulp gulp…
Richard opened a bottle of cheap ale and began to drink.
"Huh..."
He exhaled a breath of turbid air, his voice a little hoarse: "I owe her, I owe it to my daughter."
"I didn't give Alita the right kind of companionship, and I didn't love my ex-wife with all my heart."
"All I could do was hide the debts I had incurred from my steel business from my ex-wife, and then die."
"It was at this time that I heard the news about Alita. She was full of energy and as rebellious as her mother. This gave me hope to survive."
"I owed her too much over the years, so I entered the dungeon, thinking of giving her some gifts, and then I would leave her and take risks to pay off my debts."
"I never thought that the dungeon was extremely difficult, or I no longer had the ability to be an adventurer. Just like that, I left my legs in the dungeon."
"After Alita knew this, she changed. She was no longer the high-spirited Alita, nor was she the rebellious card maker. Instead, she became the person she hated before."
"At that time, I wanted to die, but Alita came to me and said that I owed her my whole life and that my life was hers. If she didn't let me die, I couldn't die..."
"Seeing how filial my daughter is, the people I owe money to also came to her."
"Two years. It took her two full years to pay off my debt."
"Damn it, the interest rate is too high, and the nobles are all vampires!"
Caruso did not refute.
Their bank has a high interest rate...
"For the past three years, she has been locking herself in her laboratory, making endless cards and paying off debts... I don't know what the meaning of my life is."
"At this point, I'm still holding her back."
"I see." Caruso nodded calmly: "Then you are qualified to know her future."
"I am Caruso Kolia from the Canglang Province. In the future, she will serve the Canglang Province. Don't worry, my father doesn't need a lover. What he needs is an S-level card maker. Or rather, I need an S-level card maker to help me."
"I won't let her do anything dangerous. I just want to buy out her abilities."
Richard's voice was a little hoarse: "But, she will lose her freedom... She has done enough for me, I don't want her to lose her freedom because of my leg."
"What is freedom in your eyes?" Carlos asked.
Caruso couldn't ask Richard for a letter like Merlin did.
Merlin's way of recruiting is completely different from Caruso's way of recruiting.
Merlin approached Richard and offered very good conditions. She meant that Alita would be free with her.
After all, her so-called Utopia Plan seemed to be a free organization, but Caruso was different. He was tied to the Canglang Province.
Merlin was telling Richard that it was time to let Alita out and not let her be trapped in her laboratory.
Richard has the blood of an adventurer in his veins. He believes that people should be free and should not be bound by any force.
He himself also hopes that Alita is a free person and can live the way she wants.
And the utopia can just satisfy that need.
"Freedom is freedom." Richard frowned.
"People have to follow the rules. If commoners don't follow the rules, they will be punished by the law. If nobles don't follow the rules, they will be punished by more powerful nobles. If the king or emperor doesn't follow the rules, there will be riots in the country. If a country doesn't follow the rules, other countries will wipe it out. As long as people still have to follow the rules, there is no so-called freedom in the true sense." Caruso said, "I just gave her a job, not made her a slave."
"As long as she follows me, I will guarantee her rights and interests, ensure that she will not be bullied, and let her make cards in peace, making the cards she wants. Isn't that good?"
"In her own laboratory, it's up to her to decide whether she wants to make cards or not. But if she follows you, will she still have the final say on what she wants to do? If you treat her as a machine that produces the same kind of cards..." Richard retorted.
"You underestimate the nobles." Caruso stood up: "Alita is an S-level card maker. I know better than you how to maximize her role."
"Making her a card-making machine that mass-produces one card at a time... that's something only a fool would do."
"You know what? Healing your leg is her only wish right now. When this wish is gone, what will she do? Will she go down the wrong path?"
{$“At least, I gave her a righteous path.”
"Or, can you think of a way out for her?"
"You are her father. What do you think she should do in the future? As a card maker, she must have the support of a powerful force. Whether she goes to the Alchemy Alliance, stays in school, or stays in the Alchemy Castle of the Kingdom, she is in a powerful force. Instead of this, why not choose the Canglang Province? At least I can heal your leg."
"Do you think it's realistic to let her become a completely free person? Will there be a powerful force that will forcibly capture her? How will she protect herself then? Will she rely on her hands that have never fought before, or on you who is lame?"
"Excuse me, if there was no protection from the academy, considering the debt you owed, it would not be up to her, an A-level card maker, to decide what to do."
"Even if she opened a card shop in the capital... Are you sure she has the genes for business?"
Richard opened his mouth. He had never thought about being able to cure his leg, let alone what Alita should do in the future.
Yeah, after curing me, what should Alita do
"She is your daughter. She has the right to choose her own life." Carlos said, "Is the freedom you mentioned what she wants? How do you know if she wants a stable job?"
"Her future is not something you should consider at all. I am just informing you what her future is."
"Excuse me, you have been too self-righteous in your life."
"All your decisions are based on what you think is right. You never care about their feelings."
Chapter 095 Weakness
Caruso said, and left the room with Bai.
It just so happened that doctors and the like from Carlossoyo had already arrived here.
"This is..." A mechanic said in shock, "Oh my God, New Moon Gold, the most difficult material to produce in the third-level dungeon, is actually here!"
"New Moon Gold?" A priest also widened his eyes. "I've seen New Moon Gold, but this is the first time I've seen one that has not lost its sacred effect after coming out of the dungeon. The adventurer who brought this out will be rich! The capital has a great demand for New Moon Gold. Even if you finish making a mechanical leg, the remaining ones can be sold for 5,000 magic crystal coins!"
One magic crystal coin is worth one thousand coins, which means that Caruso earned five million on this trip, not to mention the sword and shield he got.
Nimer and Theresa's gold cards haven't been opened yet.
New Moon and Full Moon gold is a rare material for making robotic arms and manipulators, and it has sacred properties when it is freshly made.