Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 24 Gamblers
At the end of spring, Jimu Island ushered in a continuous spring rain.

The sky is gloomy, and the light rolling between the clouds is the last spring thunder.

The rainwater has connected into silk threads, as if to weave the heaven and earth into a net.

Stores hung kerosene lamps at the entrances, and the orange lights exuded a psychedelic brilliance under the refraction of the rain.Because it is located on the edge of the Federation.

This is a tradition following Mu Island. Whenever it rains in spring, the goddess representing the harvest will come to this beautiful island. Only by hanging a bright lantern at the door can the goddess be attracted to stop.From candles to kerosene lamps, and soon electric lights, Tsukijima still adheres to this tradition.

This also makes Jimu Island always have a hazy beauty in the spring rain.

But this beauty has nothing to do with sailors hanging out in bars.They are just passers-by on Jimu Island and may never come here again.

This is one of the many bars on Jimu Island specially opened for sailors, gangsters, and down-and-outs.The walls, tables and chairs of the bar were covered with an unknown black greasy substance, with various hairs stuck to it.The bar smells of sweat, body odor, and bad beer, creating a unique and haunting olfactory signature.

The sailors who were stranded at the pier due to the sudden heavy rain gathered together. They came from different fleets, and they didn't even know each other at all, but this did not prevent them from bragging to each other. You can find news from all over the world in Sailors I heard it from my mouth, but I can only tell the truth by myself.

They never care whether what they hear or say is true or not. It is just bragging to vent. Not many people will take it seriously. Sometimes they gnash their teeth at their bosses, deacons, and congressmen one second ago. , and the next second he was happily chatting about other things.

In front of the bar counter of the bar, a different person was sitting.He was not dressed like a sailor doing hard work, with a black tie tied into his straight suit, and although the leather shoes on his feet were stained with a little dust, you could still see the owner's love for them from the reflected light Meticulously maintained.

He held a black hat in his arms. There were no water stains on the hat, nor on his clothes, and his shoes were dry.

He was sitting at the bar before it started to rain.

Standing behind the bar, he noticed this man, but out of professional ethics, he never asked about the guests' affairs.

Ding Ling Dang.

The bar door was pushed open again.

The visitor put away the black umbrella and placed it in the storage box at the door, which was already filled with various umbrellas.

He pushed past the drunken sailor and came to the customer at the bar.

"How's it going, Lev." The customer immediately welcomed the visitor to his side.

Lev shook his head with a bad expression.

"How could they do this!" the customer said angrily.

"You have the right idea, but you are really unlucky, Thors." Lev sat next to his friend and asked the bartender for a glass of gin.

"I never expected Mirage to move so fast!" Thors rubbed his face in pain.

"Don't be so sad, Thors, after all, it's business matters..."

"This is all I have, Lev. How could they go back on their word!"

"After all, due to the Mirage Riot, the deacons' steel consumption increased sharply, and the steel market on Tulip Island suddenly came to life." Lev said, shaking his wine glass.

"This is not the reason why they don't sell me the place!" Thors roared with a distorted expression, "This is fraud! I have already contacted the fleet! I bought the factory! I have even opened up the joints! Now you tell me , have they gone back on their word?"

Thors's roar was suddenly drowned in the drunken madness of the sailors.

The dim incandescent lamps projected their crooked drunkenness onto the dirty walls, making people dizzy.

"I'll pay three times! Isn't three times enough?" Thors's eyes were already bloodshot, and his voice was hoarse, as if he might go crazy at any time.

"Thors, calm down." Lev exhausted his strength and finally pushed his friend back on the stool, "Their profits have increased by six or seven times in the past few days, let's wait until this period passes? Lev said so, but he had no hope.

He knew exactly what kind of person Thors was.

Thors was a gambler, a gambler gone mad.He was originally a sailor who traveled between Blue Flower Dan and Sun Shadow Orchid, and he was only a temporary sailor. He would climb on any ship wherever there was a shortage of people.More than ten years ago, on a rainy day, he suddenly sold all his assets and found Lev.

He set up a fleet by himself, specializing in the spice business between Lanhuadan and Jimu Island.

Lev was startled by such a desperate move, but his subsequent actions showed the man's determination.

At the time, this seemed like a crazy move.It had only been 20 years since Mirage invaded, and it had only been about ten years since the Federation was established in the wasteland. At that time, people were still confused, and even the daily necessities of food, clothing, housing and transportation were not necessarily met. Thors But are you planning to start a spice business at this time?
A gambler is a gambler.

No matter how Lev discouraged him, Thors insisted on going his own way.

He took all his belongings to Blue Flower Pill alone, and used his connections in the fleet to build up a small fleet of his own little by little.As the situation stabilized, the nobles returned again using deacons as a carrier. They were dissatisfied with their poor life and began to pursue high-quality life, such as art and special diet.

Spices are slowly becoming popular.

As a result, Thors became a famous and wealthy man.

What Lev never expected was that after more than ten years, Thors was still the gambler he used to be.He even completely abandoned his spice business and planned to enter the steel industry.

In his words, the demand for spices fluctuates greatly with the mirage, but steel is a rigid need.

Lev didn't believe that Thors would abandon everything for the sake of stability regardless of obstacles. He believed that this was Thors' intuition, a gambler's intuition.

This friend of mine is not born with the kind of cautious character that "cannot put eggs in one basket". It is entirely his luck that he can achieve such results in the mall.

It's a pity that he didn't have good luck this time.

The originally ordinary steel market is booming with the massive invasion of mirages in the new year, and judging from the current trend, this enthusiasm will not subside in a short time.

"Why don't you go look elsewhere?" Lev suggested.

"Other places have been controlled by various forces. Only Tulip has a chance to enter." Thors shook his head.

Lev guessed wrong. Thors's gamble this time was not based on intuition, but because the mirage encounter rate on the waterway between Lanhuadan and Jimu Island had increased abnormally in the past few months. It made him faintly feel that the active period of the mirage is coming, and it is different from the previous active period.

When he was a sailor, he transported several ships of steel and learned about the market for steel.

In order to gain greater benefits, he stepped in immediately.

I didn't expect the mirage's riot to come so quickly.

The dock bell rang, and a ship entered the harbor.

In order to appease his friend, Lev proposed to go out and have a look.

"Whose ship is this?" Thors stood at the door of the bar, looking towards the pier through the rain curtain.

Lev looked up and recognized the ship, but Salinger must have retired and he didn't know who was on the ship now. As he thought about it, he said to Thors:
"The ship from Gloria Island."

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(End of this chapter)