Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 415 Blackmail
"compensation……"

John smiled bitterly and said with some pain: "I have bought some properties in Bayam..."

"What's the use of me taking such a far-away property?"

Venata interrupted without hesitation, "Your base is over there. How much effort do I have to put in to go there and take over your assets?"

Not to mention continuing to operate it, even if it was to sell it, it would be difficult to sell such a large piece of real estate. That place was a paradise for pirates, and a strong dragon could not defeat a local snake. Even if Vinata wanted to cash out, no one dared to take the risk of provoking pirates to take over this property.

As she spoke, Vinata made a move to pull the bolt of the gun. "You have two more chances. If you can't tell me something that will impress me, I will use you to replenish my life reserve first."

This requirement to limit the number of times directly blocked John's room for bargaining, forcing him to exchange his life for the information or property he considered most valuable.

"No, no, no, let me think about it..."

John looked embarrassed. "It's hard to save money on pirates. We are not as good as those pirate generals. We still have many subordinates..."

"I know you're telling the truth, but then what?"

Venata said nonchalantly, "If this is your answer, then you have one more chance."

She wasn't here to listen to John's pity talk. She had just made a decision to donate a large sum of money to Indo Port and was now short of money. She wanted to pack up all the pirates who came this time and send them to the Loen authorities in exchange for a bounty.

"I won't beat around the bush with you. I remember the bounty on you two brothers in Loen was 8,500 pounds?"

A dangerous smile appeared on Vinata's face. "Now that George is dead, even if you want four thousand pounds, you have to at least pay that price. Otherwise, I might as well shoot you and send you to Conston for cash."

In her heart, she really wanted to shoot John to death. After all, a traditional pirate like this deserved more than eight or ten deaths. But when John mentioned that he could use the ransom in exchange for his life, she forced herself to suppress her murderous intent.

The pirate invasion did cause a lot of harm to the residents of Indo Port, and Venata should take revenge. However, Indo Port is not short of heads or hatred now, so instead of taking a useless head, it is better to take the opportunity to extort some money.

Another implication is that the pirates' high bounties are basically linked to their own rank. For pirates who are not notorious, the bounty is basically equivalent to the price of their potion ingredients and formula. Of course, a large part of the bounties of the four kings and seven generals are paid to them for symbolic purposes, which is not included in this list.

The official organization set the price this way because the three laws of extraordinary characteristics were not widely used. Many people, after killing pirates, could not wait for their extraordinary characteristics to emerge. Because they did not want to get into trouble because of the corpses, they directly handed the pirates' bodies to the official organization, allowing the official organization to enjoy a wave of extraordinary characteristics.

But later, due to the outflow of occult knowledge caused by the approaching doomsday, more and more people knew how to deal with the extraordinary characteristics extracted from corpses, which made the authorities very embarrassed: they couldn't just write on the bounty that it must be accompanied by the extraordinary characteristics extracted after death. After all, the bounty was more likely to be seen by ordinary people.

Therefore, until a few years ago, the authorities had been losing money in terms of bounties. Fortunately, the pirates were fierce and there were basically not many people who could be provoked on the seashore, so the authorities were happy to have some free time. Most adventurers were the type who would rather kill pirates than collect the bounty, and everyone lived in peace.

However, this peaceful situation was disrupted by an annoying guy, that is, the annoying German Sparrow. After this crazy adventurer appeared out of nowhere, he first killed Admiral Blood's second mate "Iron" Maveti, and then sneaked into Tracy's ship in women's clothing, and almost killed Vice Admiral Disease alone. Then, Vice Admiral Disease's subordinates "Trickster" Mithor and "Giant" Ozil messed up the entire Bayam pirates.

I originally thought that this was his peak, but I didn't expect that he would become even crazier later on. Not only did he directly kill Gilchies, the second mate of the "Undead King" who had helpers, in the encounter, but in the end he actually killed a pirate general in the battle to escape from Bayam, and he was the top-ranked "Blood Admiral"!
You know, in the original official organization, it might take several years for someone to come and claim the pirate bounty of more than one thousand pounds. But since Gehrman Sparrow came, he would pick a lucky pirate every now and then to exchange the bounty. The bounty he received alone was more than the bounties issued in the past two or three years combined.

Not only were the pirates terrified, but the church's financial staff were so angry that they wanted to curse:
This guy seems to have never seen gold pounds. He has no idea of ​​self-control at all. Because of him, all the financial staff’s year-end bonuses have been lost!
Fortunately, since Gehrman Sparrow was wanted, he could no longer collect the bounty. Although it was said that he would occasionally return to the seaside to kill lucky pirates, after all, he did not need to be reimbursed by the state, which also made those officials breathe a sigh of relief.

I thought Gehrman Sparrow had finally calmed down recently, but it turned out that the brainless Undead King led the pirates to launch a frontal assault on Indor Port!

It would be fine if the attack was successful. After all, most of the people in Porto are from Feysac. Although Loen officials will not open champagne for this, they will not sympathize with the Feysac people too much. If they die, they die. It's no big deal.

However, with Azik restraining the Undead King, Indogang was likely to withstand this wave of attacks, and the number of pirates killed was at least three digits, including some with huge bounties. Add to that the heavyweight Agaritu, and if the bounty was really paid at the original price, I'm afraid the Constantia Navy would not be able to make ends meet this year.

Therefore, if there are other ways to cash in, Vinata will naturally be happy to do it, but she cannot expose it on the surface. After all, with John's brain, it is difficult for him to come up with similar connections on his own. But once Vinata shows that she doesn't care much about money, she will probably not get any benefits at all.

On this side, John looked at Vinata's face. Naturally, he couldn't tell what she was thinking at the moment, so he was naturally very frightened, and cold sweat began to flow on his face.

Finally, he seemed to remember something, and when Venata's patience was about to run out, he hurriedly said, "I only have two thousand pounds on my hand now, but I can use these two thousand pounds plus the information about Roselle's ruins in exchange!"

(End of this chapter)