Chapter 150: Owner of the Hotel

Ten o'clock at night, on the way back to the "Golden Chicken Hotel" from Market Avenue.

Louis, the gang thug who had previously followed Baron Brignell, accompanied Lu Mi, turning from the main road with clusters of yellowish light into a small street where darkness occupied the mainstream.

He looked at the few street lamps that were broken for some reason and had not been repaired for a long time, and said as if unintentionally:

"The Baron has talked to the people of the Poison Thorn Gang. From now on, the 'Golden Chicken Hotel' truly belongs to our Savard Party."

Lu Mi sneered:

"The Poison Thorn Gang is so easy to talk to?"

What do you mean by that? Are you hoping that both sides will fight? Louis increasingly felt that Xia Er was a dangerous guy, with blood flowing in his body that loved strife.

He believed that with the personality traits and style of conduct Xia Er had shown, there would be no lack of trouble for the Savard Party in the future, time and time again.

By then, the Market District, which was already tense due to the rapid rise of the Poison Thorn Gang, would surely become increasingly chaotic.

As a veteran gang member, Louis had always upheld the belief that if you could bully ordinary people, don't engage in fighting and killing. After all, everyone only has one life. He had witnessed several companions die in gang wars and police pursuits. Their families could still get a little care at the beginning, but as time passed, their situation became more and more miserable.

Of course, if he really couldn't escape, he wouldn't lack that ruthlessness. Every gang thug who could follow Baron Brignell had grown up from street fights and alley brawls; their brains might not be flexible, but their skills and guts were absolutely not weak.

Louis let out a slow breath:

"You showed enough strength to protect the 'Golden Chicken Hotel,' and the Poison Thorn Gang didn't want to make things big and be targeted by the police, so after the Baron paid Wilson's medical expenses, this matter was considered over.

"During this time, you also need to stabilize. If you really attract the attention of the police, you won't be able to withstand an in-depth investigation."

I don't really care; at worst, I'll change places to hide before the official Beyonders surround and capture me. You Savard Party can run, but the priest can't run from the church... Lu Mi muttered in his heart using lines from one of Aurora's books.

Louis continued:

"The Baron asked me to tell you that since you live in the 'Golden Chicken Hotel,' it's under your management.

"And for members who have their own territory, we have always stopped giving daily expenses."

His subtext was that apart from those 1,000 Jin Bang, the Savard Party probably wouldn't give you any more money in the future; find a way to get the necessary income from your own territory yourself.

Lu Mi froze for a moment and answered quite amusingly:

"Alright."

While speaking, the two stopped outside the "Golden Chicken Hotel."

Looking up at that old, earthy yellow building, Lu Mi suddenly had a strange and absurd feeling:

This is my territory?

Everyone who lives in this kind of broken place is a poor ghost; what can they use to pay protection fees?

Forget it, it's a good thing if they don't cause me trouble like Charlie; I can't make money by relying on them!

In silent muttering, Lu Mi said goodbye to Louis and walked into the hotel.

Having already had two drinks, he didn't intend to go to the underground bar again and returned all the way to Room 207.

No one had been here.

After reading Aurora's sorcery notes for a while, Lu Mian heard familiar footsteps, followed immediately by a *thump-thump-thump* of knocking on the door.

He opened the door and, not surprisingly, saw Charlie.

Charlie's face was ruddy from drinking, and he said with a smile:

"Can you believe it? I'm about to have a new job! I went to White Coat Street tonight and treated those waiters to drinks. They introduced a hotel manager to me, who told me that they are short of a few waiters, formal waiters!"

"If that manager finds out that you became a lover with a former female guest of the hotel, got involved in a murder case, and were just released, would he still consider you?" Lu Mi hit him with a blow.

Charlie's smile instantly became stiff, and he rubbed the muscles on his face:

"He should give me a chance.

"Xia Er, I didn't come to find you for this matter. I want to ask, how do you plan to deal with Miss Yisansi?"

"What do you mean how to deal with her?" Lu Mi asked back with a smile.

Charlie piled on a smile:

"Will you stop her from leaving Luan Street?

"If you let her continue to be a streetwalker, how much money should she pay you each time, and how often?"

Lu Mi chuckled:

"She loves to do whatever she wants; it has nothing to do with me. I have plenty of ways to make money."

"I knew it! Praise the Sun, praise Saint Vief!" Charlie was excited, "The first time I saw you in the bar, I knew you were a gentleman with brains and ability!"

"Based on the judgment made by the fool instrument?" Lu Mi mocked.

Charlie smiled sheepishly:

"That's one aspect."

He then waved his hand:

"I'm going to tell Miss Yisansi this news!"

Running a few steps, Charlie stopped, turned his body, and asked exceptionally cautiously:

"Will the Poison Thorn Gang come again?"

"Baron Brignell and they have negotiated; the 'Golden Chicken Hotel' is really the territory of the Savard Party." Lu Mi replied casually, "And the one responsible for this place is me."

Charlie's joy was beyond words, and he enthusiastically opened his arms:

"Praise the Sun, praise Saint Vief, praise you, Xia Er!"

After saying that, he ran into the stairwell.

Putting me on par with the "Eternal Blazing Sun" and Saint Vief... Are you afraid I won't die fast enough? Lu Mi let out a "ha," shook his head, returned to the room, and continued to study Aurora's witchcraft notes.

Outside Room 408, Charlie knocked on the wooden door.

Yisansi, with one cheek red and swollen, opened the door and saw him, saying plainly:

"I'm not feeling well today; find someone else."

Charlie couldn't wait to say the good news:

"Do you know? The hotel doesn't belong to the Poison Thorn Gang anymore; it belongs to the Savard Party!"

Yisansi suddenly remembered what happened in the evening and hesitated:

"Are you sure?"

"Sure!" Charlie said in his signature enthusiastic tone, "You definitely won't believe it; I heard it from the leader of the Savard Party. Xia Er, Xia Er who lives in 207, he has become a leader of the Savard Party, and the 'Golden Chicken Hotel' is now his territory! He told me personally, oh, those pigs of the Poison Thorn Gang have all rolled away and won't come back again! He also said that the Savard Party and the Poison Thorn Gang have already negotiated!"

Xia Er... that man who threw Wilson downstairs? Yisansi's eyes turned, as if she had come alive from a doll state:

"Was the Poison Thorn Gang really driven away?"

"Really!" Charlie nodded vigorously.

Yisansi froze for a few seconds, gritted her teeth, and cursed:

"Those bitches' sons, those spineless people with rotten asses, finally rolled away!"

Charlie then added:

"I asked Xia Er; he said she loves to do whatever she wants, and it has nothing to do with him. He is a very capable person, so capable that he actually changed my view of people who love pranks like him. Unbelievable, right? He can think of a money-making plan every minute!"

Yisansi was completely stunned.

In her cognition, gang members were not good people; they were all bastards who should go to hell!

Charlie rambled on and said a lot more, but Yisansi didn't listen to a word. All that echoed in her mind was the sentence "loves to do whatever she wants."

After Charlie left, she returned to the room and quickly changed into a lady's shirt and light-colored trousers.

Then, she lifted the mattress of the bed and took out the stack of banknotes that had a full 200 Jin Bang from inside.

Yisansi stuffed all these banknotes into her pocket, pondered for a few seconds, took out more than half, and hid them back in the original place.

She took the remaining 40 Jin Bang, closed the door, and walked down the stairs all the way.

Soon, she walked out of the main entrance of the "Golden Chicken Hotel" and entered Luan Street.

This street had a gas street lamp lit only every long distance. Under the night sky dyed with crimson moonlight, many drunk people walked on the road, sometimes shouting, sometimes singing, sometimes breaking out into a conflict.

Yisansi avoided these drunks and walked timidly along the shadows of the street toward the exit of Luan Street.

During this process, the scene of her trying to escape last time and being caught on the street by the Poison Thorn Gang appeared in her mind.

That brutal beating made her shiver uncontrollably whenever she recalled it.

Yisansi walked slower and slower, as if the people of the Poison Thorn Gang were lying in ambush ahead.

Finally, she arrived at the exit of Luan Street and saw the wide main road outside.

Yisansi stared blankly at the scene that was previously unreachable, having a feeling that she was dreaming and it wasn't real enough.

She subconsciously took another step. She walked faster and faster, in the dark night, under the crimson moonlight.

Not long after, she walked to the nearest public carriage stop.

She still remembered that on her first day in Trier, she walked off a public carriage right here.

Now, she finally returned here again.

There was no public carriage operating in the middle of the night, but Yisansi didn't care at all. She looked at the street ahead, the mailbox in the dark, and the sign with the carriage route, her eyes gradually turning red.

Suddenly, Yisansi turned her body and ran.

She was going back to the "Golden Chicken Hotel" to pack her luggage and truly leave when dawn came!

Yisansi ran faster and faster, only feeling the wind hitting her face, cool and wet.

Her vision became a bit blurry, and she seemed to see her past self in her eyes.

That Yisansi who came to Trier with dreams and enthusiasm was standing under the street lamp ahead, waving gently and saying:

Hurry up and catch up!

…………

Golden Chicken Hotel, in front of Room 207.

Yisansi wiped the corners of her eyes and knocked on the door.

Lu Mi opened the wooden door and glanced at her:

"What's the matter?"

Yisansi asked in a slightly hoarse voice:

"Why did you help me?"

Lu Mi smiled:

"Why would I help you? What do you have that's worth me helping?

"You're not pretty, and you don't have any money."

Yisansi's full stomach of grateful words was instantly blocked back.

She didn't even know how she left the second floor; she was still as if dreaming when she packed her luggage.

Watching her back disappear into the stairwell, Lu Mi laughed in a low voice:

"I'm not helping you; I just can't stand the mockery of fate."

We are all people mocked by fate, but I want to provoke it, want to resist it, until death comes to end all of this!

At this moment, Lu Mi felt that his "Provoker" potion had digested a bit more.

Although he still had a long way to go before complete digestion and needed time to polish it, this meant that he had adapted to the "Provoker" potion, his state had stabilized, and he could consider extracting the power sealed in his body to obtain the "Monk" gift.

Judging from the name, that should be able to make up for his lack of occult means.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 151 =====