Wilderness Redemption Tour

A heavy rain in the evening caused Victor's tavern to lose two-thirds of its business. Thinking that no one would come to drink in such bad weather, he planned to close the tavern early and have a conversation with the new special worker in town, only talking about money without any emotion.

Just as he finished wiping the last few wine glasses and was about to close the store, the sudden arrival of three customers shattered his thoughts.

"Sorry for dirtying your floor." The guest walking in front said politely.

You better come to take care of my business, otherwise don't blame me for getting angry. Victor stared at the three men in raincoats without saying a word.

"Three glasses of whiskey, three of tonight's special dishes, and three rooms for the night." The man who spoke just now coughed twice and said.

It turned out to be a big business, but why at this time... Victor complained in his heart that these people came at a bit of a wrong time, but he still showed a professional fake smile on his face.

"Wine is two dollars a glass. Today the kitchen only made stewed fish, which is five dollars a portion. As for the room... ten dollars a night." Victor calmly quoted the price, which was much more expensive than usual.

When Arthur heard the price offered by Victor, the bartender and owner of the tavern, he immediately started to complain. "What? Are you kidding me? Even in Saint Denis, there's no such outrageous price."

Not only Arthur, Lin Yan and Sadie were also somewhat dissatisfied with the bartender's high asking price.

"It's raining so hard outside. I'm the only store still open in the whole town. If you think it's too expensive, then try your luck at Van Horn Trade Port." Victor has been running a store for so many years and has seen a lot. He calculated that the well-dressed people in front of him would never brave the heavy rain to find another place to stay, so he said fearlessly: "You think it's expensive, but I think it's expensive too."

Although Lin Yan and his friends were very unhappy with the bartender's behavior of raising the price, this tavern was the only one within a few kilometers that was still open and could accommodate guests. Just now, when Lin Yan came from the only street in Annesburg, he noticed that even the station here was closed early. If he chose not to be ripped off, he could only try his luck at the nearby Van Horn Trade Port or find an abandoned mine nearby to live in...

"Okay, you win, we admit defeat." Arthur also knew that it was obviously not practical to find another place to live. As the "big bad guy in the West" with a bounty of five thousand, he could only obediently count out the corresponding bills according to the price just quoted by the bartender and put them on the table.

Otherwise, we can't just take revenge without considering the consequences...

Victor, the tavern owner and bartender, grinned, put the money Arthur slapped on the bar into his apron pocket, then turned around and took a bottle of Kentucky bourbon whiskey that had been opened for a long time but still had more than half of it left from the wine rack behind him, set the glasses, and poured a glass for each of the three customers.

After re-corking the bottle, he pointed to the wine rack behind him and asked, "Anything else you want to drink? If not, I'll go prepare dinner for you."

"No more." Arthur drank the wine in the glass and said unhappily.

The bartender smiled, said nothing, and crouched down to get out of the bar to prepare dinner for them.

Lin Yan and Sadie took their glasses and took only a small sip each. Although the temperature was not high tonight, they had been wearing airtight raincoats all the way, so instead of feeling cold, they were sweating all over. Each of the three of them grabbed a handful of almonds from the snack bowl on the bar, found a table nearby, and ate while waiting for dinner to be served.

Lin Yan felt a headache when he thought about raising 2300 US dollars in just one week. Although Professor Dragic said he could give him half first, that was still more than 1000 US dollars.

It has been three weeks since he came to this world, and the total amount of money Lin Yan has handled is over 1000 US dollars. If he wants to collect this amount of money in a short period of time, the safest way is to borrow money from others, except for committing a crazy crime or doing a big job.

Lin Yan rejected the crazy crime first. Now the whole gang is still avoiding the pursuit of Pinkerton detectives. If Lin Yan's problem goes wrong and is noticed by Pinkerton detectives, he will become the criminal of the Van der Linde gang. In the choice between planning to do a big job and borrowing money from others, Lin Yan actually prefers the latter. Not to mention whether there is a chance to do a big job, the target selection and the planning of the entire operation are not something that Lin Yan, a rookie who has just entered the industry, can do alone.

After finishing the whiskey in the glass, Lin Yan finally made a decision - to borrow some money from Arthur and Sadie first. After all, these two were acquaintances and had experienced the whole process, so it was easier to ask them and borrow money.

Borrowing money is easy to say, but when it comes to asking, Lin Yan just can't bring himself to do it. He is shy to begin with, and he doesn't even feel comfortable asking for help, let alone borrowing money.

Arthur and Sadie, who were sitting with him, noticed that something was wrong with him. This man was fine just now, but suddenly became silent and looked like he wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Jamie? What's wrong with you? Are you worried about something?" Arthur asked bluntly without thinking too much.

Seeing that Lin Yan didn't say anything, Arthur reached out and shook him awake. "Jamie?"

"Ah?" Lin Yan came back to his senses and looked at Arthur in confusion. "What's wrong? What happened?"

"I saw you in a daze just now, what's wrong with you?"

"Oh, no...it's okay..." Lin Yan shook his head and forced a smile on his face.

It has to be said that women are much stronger than men in sixth sense. Seeing Lin Yan like this, Sadie immediately thought of the funding agreement between him and the inventor. She has basically been working with Lin Yan these days, so she knows how much money Lin Yan has.

"Are you worried about money?" Sadie asked tentatively.

"Hehe..." Lin Yan neither confirmed nor denied, but just gave Sadie an awkward smile.

Arthur chewed an almond and said incoherently, "More than two thousand is not a small sum. It's normal that you can't come up with it right away. How about we help you?"

Lin Yan touched the back of his head and said stiffly: "...You can lend me some as you see fit. I will think of other ways in the remaining few days."

Arthur didn't say anything when he heard this. He took out a stack of money from his bag and slapped it in front of Lin Yan. "Here are five hundred. Take it first. If it's not enough, we'll talk later."

Sadie was wearing a tan vest and dark cycling pants today. She searched all her pockets and remembered that she only brought some change with her today. "I can lend you three hundred, but the money is in the camp. I'll give it to you when we get back."