Chapter 217: My Money?!
Hun Tong came to the dining table.
The dining table had gold plates laid out on them, containing sliced bread, cow milk, salmon, chicken eggs, bacon, fusilli, and more.
To Hun Tong’s left, there was also a small cup that contained gold level sea salt. Each grain of sea salt was worth twice its weight in gold.
Hun Tong sighed, “The war just finished, I can be simple.”
He sat down and began to enjoy breakfast.
Not long after, noise could be heard from the city government building’s gate.
It was those merchants.
They were led by the five great merchant alliances, once again assembling in front of the city government building’s gate, demanding an explanation from Hun Tong.
Hun Tong turned a deaf ear and calmly ate.
His personal manservant was restless and impatient, “My Lord, the seafloor treasure salvaging matter, can I report it to you?”
Hun Tong shook his head, drank some milk, and smiled, “No need, my loyal servant. Forget that order, don’t be worried, you need to learn patience right now. Whether it is bitterness or happiness, all of life is beautiful.”
“Therefore, don’t tell me how much we got out, why don’t you give me something to look forward to?” When he said that, Hun Tong couldn’t help but laugh.
As a matter of fact, he had made a prediction.
It would absolutely be a tremendous sum that would far exceed everything he had earned in his life!
The main contributor of them was the Wealth Church.
During daily operations of Two Eyes Island, the church was also a gigantic gold eating beast. When Hun Tong made money, he often donated a portion of the profits to the church.
Because the Wealth Church monopolized Two Eyes Island.
Asking a clergyman to use a divine spell required payment.
Every time the Wealth Church presided over a large prayer, a priest did a burial, or other such things, the church would charge a big expense.
The masses always gave aid and support to the church.
The divine spells the Wealth Church were best at were contract spells. These divine spells can restrict cooperating parties and establish a base of trust.
Therefore, every merchant alliance big and small were also a source of Wealth Church funds.
“The Lightning Pirates stole almost everything from the Wealth Church.”
“A good robbery.”
“Without them, how could this sum of riches fall into my hands?”
“Apart from this, every store large and small has been pillaged, the two mercenary corps’ encampments also have many ill-gotten gains.”
“Many of the island’s inhabitants were rich, and although not worth attention individually, the pirates robbed the entire island. After adding up these little things, the total must be considerable.”
Hun Tong couldn’t help but sink into a wonderful daydream, overlooking his manservant’s increasingly difficult to mask fretfulness.
After finishing breakfast, Hun Tong spryly walked to the storehouse.
When he pushed the door open, he came to an empty room.
“Eh?” Hun Tong stared blankly at it.
In his imagination, this storehouse should have piles of gold, silver, and jewels. But the sight before him was completely different from his expectations.
Hun Tong couldn’t help but blink.
“Did I go the wrong way?”
He took a few steps back out of the room and looked at the room sign.
“Room 3, that’s right.”
Hun Toing blinked again, then glanced at his manservant behind him, “I should have given the order.”
“Yes, master/ Last night, you ordered that all of the treasures fished out of the sea were to be delivered to storehouse 3.
“Furthermore, you also specially reminded your subordinates that if room 3 was not enough, we could use storehouse 5 next door.”
Hun Tong frowned as he questioned, “Then, where’s the money?”
“Where is the seafloor treasures?”
“Where are my valuables?!”
The manservant turned pale, and overflowing with cold sweat, he swallowed his salvia and croaked out, “Feudal Lord, my master, this is precisely what I wanted to report to you! I don’t know why, but after the alchemy puppets searched everywhere several times, uh, they only found a few copper coins on the seafloor.”
“Those few copper coins were put in that corner of the storehouse.”
Hun Tong: …..
The news startled him.
His eyes went wide.
He felt incredulous!
“How is this possible? He turned around, looking at a corner in the room.
Suire enough, there were three copper coins there.
Copper coins were circulated in ordinary marketplaces.
The deep sea salvagers weren’t perfect and had left behind three coins.
Hun Tong rigidly gazed at these three copper coins; he stared at them!
Storeroom 3 was deathly still.
His manservant didn’t dare breathe, for fear a violent rage would descend upon him.
Hun Tong’s eyes coldly flashed.
These three copper coins were so unsightly.
They seemed to be ridiculing him, telling him that his beautiful dream was shattered!
Nothing would have been preferable!
“Impossible!” Hun Tong suddenly shrieked, causing thee manservant to almost faint from fear.
Hun Tong raised his arms and shouted like an enraged lion as he rapidly ran two loops around the empty storehouse 3.
This is impossible!!” He shouted again; his yells already filled with killing intent.
He strode over to his manservant.
The manservant groveled at the spot, imploring, “Master…”
But a moment later, Hun Tong passed by him and quickly left the storeroom.
He flew into the air without a moment’s break, rushing out of the city government building, out of the new island, and into the skies.
Hun Tong had a flying battle skill.
Like a beam of light, he shot through the clouds and entered the Golden Flash.
“It’s Hun Tong.”
“He flew away!”
“Don’t tell me he wants to run away? How long will he keep hiding?”
The merchants around the city government building exploded like a pot, as one after the other, they verbally attacked Hun Tong.
Hun Tong had flown into the Golden Flash for the sole purpose of inquiring into the war detection images.
His eyes were very bloodshot and wide open as he attentively examined these images.
He had definitely used the light beam cannons to attack the pirates and fishmen, causing them to cry for their parents, and caused those treasures to fall into the seawater.
Why weren’t they there?
How could there only be three copper coins left?
“Who?!”
“Who was it?!”
“I must see who dares take my money!”
But the images contained no valuable clues.
The Golden Flash had strong detection capabilities, but not underwater, it was more partial towards range.
It could at most observe three meters under the water.
However, it was an experimental magic ship from the Sheng Ming Empire, and since it was planned to be mass produced, it definitely had all kinds of alchemy components paired up with a standard hull that could adapt to different battlefields.
However, at present time, a suitable underwater detection module hasn’t been developed yet.
Naturally, Hun Tong knew of this shortcoming, that was why he spent a lot of money to get a Gold Eye.
With that gold level component, even if the Golden Flash couldn’t detect what exactly was underwater, it could lock onto high value targets and guide the light beam cannons in accurate bombardments.
This was also the reason why Hun Tong didn’t detect the deep sea salvagers being active on the sea floor.
War Merchant had outfitted the Deep Sea Monster with deep sea salvagers, and no other puppets of a similar type, illustrated the capabilities of these deep sea salvagers.
These alchemy puppets were amazing at fishing out resources from the ocean.
During the battle, many of them had been destroyed by the light beam bombardments, but they had been retrieved by Zi Di.
And this bit gave Hun Tong a clue.
After examining the images fruitlessly, he then accessed the bombardment records from the battle!
All at once, his eyes went red.
He found the culprit!
“It sems you are the thieves!!”
“Naga! A group of naga shaped alchemy puppets!!”
“It was you who stole my treasures, hateful, abominable!”
Hun Tong roared.
It would take a good while for him to slowly calm down.
His face twisted with malevolence and his eyes emitted a threatening cold light, “Damn it, Were those alchemy puppets from the naga priestess?”
He first suspected the naga priestess.
“No, that mysterious necromancer is also a suspect.” Hun Tong recalled.
The Iron Lump had been seized by mysterious alchemy puppets, and those alchemy puppets obviously belonged to that necromancer.
Since he had one group of alchemy puppets, they having another group of them was very normal.
“But I didn’t notice any of these treasures being sent to the Iron Lump?”
Hun Tong guessed for a long time, unable to determine an exact culprit.
“Damn it, damn it!”
He clenched his fists and ferociously smashed the helm.
With a definitive culprit, how could he get back this immense sum?
If he had a target, perhaps he could pursue them with the Golden Flash.
Too sullen.
His painstaking plot had was now another’s belonging.
Hun Tong gloomily wanted to cough up blood.
His scheme was very good. During the battle, he had once controlled the overall situation, and according to that development, he would become the biggest winner and absorb everything.
But the Devil Gold Coins, the sudden emergence of that giant fishman, and so on had caused his grand plan to go up into smoke.
When the battle ended, Hun Tong wasn’t frantic.
Because in his plan, the immense wealth on the seafloor would help him rapidly rise once again, and his future accomplishments would be far greater than the ones he had before the battle!
This sum of money to him, to Two Eyes Island, was very important!
Essential!
But it was gone.
It was all in vain.
Another had fished it up.
Unfortunately, Hun Tong still didn’t know who!
Hun Tong couldn’t help but clutch his stomach and close his eyes.
Sorrow.
Sorrow pervaded his soul.
As a pious Wealth Church believer, the pain of losing a fortune was a hundred times more painful than bodily injuries.
The loss was disastrous, too disastrous.
Hun Tong couldn’t breathe for a moment.
“What can I do?”
He slowly opened his eyes, blankly looking at the magic images.
The images were a panoramic view of the new island.
The pirates’ pillaging and fishman army’s attack had left a ruin so horrible one couldn’t bear to look at it.
Hun Tong’s mind cooled.
In his original plan, he would use a small part of the seafloor riches to wantonly rebuild the new island.
But now he couldn’t.
No money.
“What can I use to rebuild?”
“Do I have to use my old capital?”
He had a bit of savings, but it was a cup of water on a burning cart.
“Damn it, under these circumstances, how can I face those troublesome merchant alliances?”
Before he didn’t think they would be a problem, now his brows were wrinkled deeply.
In the magic images, groups of merchants assembled at the city government building’s gate, point at the Golden Flash hidden in the clouds, shouting and screaming at him.
“If I had known this earlier, I wouldn’t have given the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps such a big reward!”
Hun Tong felt great regret.
Without money, everything was different for him.
“Eh?”
At that moment, Hun Tong saw a group of people disembarking off a ship and headed towards the city government building.
The leader was Long Fu, joined by Shi Qi.
Apart from this, there were also some people carrying some chests.
Hun Tong saw familiar chests.
Last night, he had filled up these chests with silver coins, using them to reward Shi Qi in an attempt to snatch him away.
“They are looking to give me money, for what reason?”
“Do they think the reward is too much and want to return some of it to me?”