Urban Sims

The next two days.

Zhou Ming visited Duke Morat Hansen and Duke Harold Paris one after another.

In the Kingdom of Yadud, Duke Rudolf, Duke Hansen, and Duke Paris are known as the "three pillars of the kingdom."

The reason is that Duke Rudolf is the richest, Duke Hansen occupies the most land, and Duke Paris controls the most troops.

Zhou Ming cannot give face to these three dukes.

However, after the unhappy separation in Duke Rudolf's mansion, the other two Dukes, Zhou Ming, did not have a good conversation.

Because the other two Dukes also tried to win over him and made similar demands to Duke Rudolf.

I also hope that he will help open a pharmaceutical production factory.

As for cooperating with the royal family, there is no such plan.

They both want to dominate.

However, given the conditions of the Yadud Kingdom, there really are not that many resources to establish two pharmaceutical factories, which will only cause internal friction.

If Zhou Ming agrees to cooperate with one of the three dukes and sacrifices the interests of the royal family, in addition to gaining a reputation as a treacherous person, the number of forces that put him on the "hostile list" will never be less than it is now.

Therefore, no matter which force Zhou Ming cooperates with, there will always be some people who become his enemies and opponents.

Moreover, a little profit cannot be spent at all, and it is difficult to turn an enemy into a friend.

so what should I do now?

How should Zhou Ming deal with the upcoming severe challenges?

It’s still the same eight words: when soldiers come, they will block it, and when water comes, the soil will cover it.

Sure enough, just a week later.

An assassin entered Zhou Ming's room.

Lina is almost kidnapped by gang members.

Zhou Ming himself was also subject to various tracking and secret observations.

After several near misses, although there were no casualties, Zhou Ming had already received the threat warnings from those forces.

As for who these forces are?

Zhou Ming knew without guessing that he must be one or two of the three great dukes.

Or it would not be an exaggeration to prepare for the worst and set all three Dukes as "enemies".

Faced with such a severe situation, how should Zhou Ming respond?

To deal with unruly gangsters, you have to be more gangster than gangsters!

Through investigation, he discovered that several assassinations and kidnapping attempts that occurred around him were all caused by people sent by Earl Hill, the father of his classmate Martin.

Zhou Ming spent three days to kidnap his classmate Martin, Countess Hill, his family's nanny, maid, coachman, and guards guarding the mansion, a total of fifty or sixty people, without anyone noticing. .

In the end, Earl Hill, who was in a state of panic, was kidnapped by a group of mysterious people just after asking Duke Paris for help.

In the basement of an abandoned castle in the north of the city, Zhou Ming reunited Earl Hill's family.

Zhou Ming said to the general who commanded an army of 100,000 kingdom knights: "It's okay to play tricks. I can use all my talent in preparing pharmaceuticals to see who can outsmart whom?"

"Nobles have noble rules, and gangsters have gangster rules. Since you don't want the dignity of nobles and do what gangsters do, okay, let's compete to see who is more gangster?!"

Zhou Ming listed a variety of ways to torture the other party's family, asked people to bring out various tools, and introduced the functions of these tools. If the other party wanted to play, he could play with them to the end!

Earl Hill was afraid.

His job was to be a soldier leading troops in wars. In terms of intrigues, he could only think of kidnapping, assassination, and threats. Unexpectedly, not to mention that they all failed, the other party actually offered more tricks than he did.

Many of the other party's "fantastic thoughts" made him feel even more creepy.

"No, I will never do it again."

Earl Hill made a promise that he would never again use conspiracy to threaten Zhou Ming and the people around him... From now on, everyone will play tricks, not conspiracy.

I don’t know whether his guarantee was sincere or false, but Zhou Ming chose to believe it, and said that he would only believe it once. If something similar happens next time, hum... he would let Earl Hill see: what a real devil is!

After releasing Earl Hill's family, sure enough, the threats and harassment incidents around him were significantly reduced.

Many unfriendly forces were intimidated by him.

For the first time, Zhou Ming used a more rogue method to dispel the illusions of a group of rogues.

This is also the first time in all his dungeon experiences that he has used this method to shock his opponents and make them abide by the rules.

The effect is very significant... After all, powerful people have families, and they are not barefoot bachelors.

They are sometimes afraid of gangsters who do not follow the rules at all.

If things can be solved within the rules, they will give priority to solving them in a more civilized way.

…

In a magnificent ducal palace.

The two are having a conversation.

"Your Majesty the Duke, that kid doesn't take softness or hardness. He's quite smart and cruel. He's not easy to deal with!"

Earl Hill said that after a confrontation, he finally realized how powerful that kid was and that he was not a good person.

"Your Majesty Duke, what should we do? How can we deal with him?"

Duke Paris is in his fifties and in his prime. He has been stationed at the border all year round. He has a military temperament, a hooked nose, vulture eyes, a gloomy and serious expression, and meticulous military attire. You can tell at a glance that he is a ruthless character.

After hearing what Earl Hill said, Duke Paris stood in front of the window and meditated for a while with his hands behind his back.

a long time.

He said: "Let them jump around for a while first."

"In a short time, that factory will be mine, this kingdom will be mine, everything will be mine!"

"No one can disobey the will of the Paris family!"

What?

Earl Hill's eyes flashed with horror.

Although Duke Paris often expressed his dissatisfaction with the royal family and other families in front of him, he did not expect that behind these dissatisfactions was the Duke's huge ambition to replace him.

Earl Hill, who understood the true thoughts of the Duke for the first time today, was very surprised.

Touching the Duke's cold eyes with murderous intent again, Earl Hill knelt down on one knee and put his right hand on his chest:

"I am willing to follow you forever."

As a loyal confidant and vassal of Duke Paris, no matter what the Duke wanted to do, Earl Hill would of course have no choice but to follow him.

The murderous intent in Duke Paris's eyes disappeared and he nodded slightly.

I thought to myself: This decadent and downtrodden kingdom should have a new master long ago!

…

Xia Sui, mid-July.

The hottest season of the year.

The scorching sun burned the dirt and stone roads into smoke, and the light in the air was distorted.

In this hottest weather.

Magic Association.

Hall Gannis, the store manager of Gannis Pharmacy, is finally back.

After getting the news, Zhou Ming hurriedly visited him, apologized to him, and told him what happened between him and Wei Ni during this period.

As well as the news that she had left the Yadud Kingdom for more than two months...all were told to store manager Hall.

"Mr. Hall, I'm really sorry. I never meant to hurt Winnie intentionally."

"If you are very angry, please give me some punishment and I will never resist."

Zhou Ming said this, feeling very uneasy.

Manager Hall didn't speak, he just picked up the magic phone in the corner of the counter and dialed a number.

After calling for half an hour, Hall’s store manager told Zhou Ming:

"Winnie is fine. She went to the Waitrose Empire and is now with her parents. This child has not been easy to worry about since she was a child. Her parents have no time to discipline them, so they can only put her here with me, but I As a grandpa, he can't teach her many principles. Now that she has grown up, his parents will take better care of her."

"But I did cause her a lot of harm." Zhou Ming lowered his head and said.

"It's better to hurt than to stay in the greenhouse all the time. My child, you don't have to blame yourself. You are much better than Winnie. I also understand some of the things you have done recently. It is far beyond my expectation. It is not only for the Kingdom of Yadud It’s of great significance, even to the entire magical world!”

Store manager Hall said that he was surprised when he learned about the 'pharmaceutical production factory' run by Zhou Ming.

This kid actually did such a fantastic thing.

"Mr. Hall, aren't you worried that after the pharmaceutical factory goes into large-scale production, it will be very difficult for your pharmacy to do business?"

Zhou Ming said that the pharmaceutical production factory is probably like a crusher for various large and small pharmaceutical stores.

Manager Hall smiled and shook his head: "Magicians are not businessmen. Magicians never worry about money. The things you do will double the number of magicians in the future, and their average strength will also be greatly improved. This is a good thing for the development of magic. Replacing pharmacists with machines is indeed something that only geniuses can do."

"Leylin, do your job well, don't waste your talents, continue to work in the field of pharmacists, and make greater achievements. I will be leaving in two days. This Ganis Pharmacy also has an affiliated medicinal materials merchant association. , give them all to you, I am getting old and it’s time to retire, so give this pharmacy to the person who deserves it the most.”

Zhou Ming was surprised: "The pharmacy... gave it to me? The things in this store are worth at least several million gold coins, right?"

Manager Hall showed displeasure: "Leylin, I've said it many times, magicians are not businessmen, so don't care too much about money. I gave the store to you in the hope that you can make good use of it and develop greater potential." Function, I hope you can pass this store on, do you understand what I mean?"

"I see!"

Zhou Ming stood upright, bowed deeply and said, "I'm sorry, teacher!" At this moment, he felt very ashamed. He really couldn't compare to Store Manager Hall's selfless spirit.

Store Manager Hall's wrinkled face burst into a happy smile, and he patted his shoulder: "You are finally willing to call me, a half-time pharmacist, 'teacher'."

"Teacher~"

Zhou Ming scratched his head in embarrassment.

Two days later.

After completing the handover of everything, Store Manager Hall left the Yadud Kingdom.

Also went to the Waitrose Empire in the south.

Before leaving, Zhou Ming took off the 'Storm Staff' and 'Space Ring' from his hands, handed them to Hall's store manager, and said they were Winnie's things and asked him to return them to Winnie on his behalf.

"I took the storm staff away. You can keep the space ring. This is something that belongs to me. It is usually used to store some unstable medicinal materials and potions. It is of great help to the pharmacist. You can keep it for use."

Manager Hall handed the ring back.

"This is too precious!" Zhou Ming was taken aback and waved his hand to give in.

"Take it and give it back to me when you don't need it anymore."

"Then I will use it temporarily and I will definitely return it in the future!"

Zhou Ming collected it and sent it more than fifty miles before being driven back by Hall's store manager.

I sighed in my heart: Store Manager Hall, this kind old man, was the best person to him since he came to this world.