Lord of the Mysteries v5c50

Chapter 50 Licensing Bureau
Entering the East Byron Veterans Club, Klein handed his walking stick and hat to his valet Nyuni, and saw Colonel Calvin, who served in the Ministry of Defense of Roon, waiting in the hall wearing an army uniform and carrying a glass of red wine.
The donkey-faced officer smiled and raised his glass to Dawn Downes.
"Long time no see."
"I haven't seen you for some time." Klein walked past with a smile.
Colonel Calvin then stretched out his right hand.
"Congratulations. It's been a very good job. Everyone's satisfied."
"I'm satisfied, too." Klein expressed the meaning of "happy cooperation" with the implication of Rune's style, and extended his right hand to shake the other side.
Calvin took back his hand and looked at Senator Mahut next to Dawn Downes, sighing and laughing.
"When you first introduced Dawn, I didn't quite believe your vision. Now I understand why you became a member of the House of Commons."
"Anyone who has worked with Dawn can easily draw the conclusion that he is an expert in this field." Members of Parliament Macht also accepted the Colonel's praise with Rune's implicit style.
Calvin took his eyes back, drank his lipstick, smiled at Dawn Downes and chatted.
"How much did you make this time?
"Rest assured, I'm not trying to lower the price later, but simply curious."
"Gold worth 20,000 pounds." Klein answered with an intermediate number.
In fact, he earned 25,000, but paid 10,000 to Miss Messenger, only 15,000.
Colonel Calvin nodded:
"Yes, if you need to turn those bars into gold coins, I can introduce you to the people of the Royal Mint.
"How is it?" Did anything unusual happen in the territory of Mesayers this time?
Instead of recalling, Klein said directly:
"Yes!
"There was a place called the Resurrection Square where he was destroyed by lightning."
"I know that." Colonel Calvin responded with a slightly solemn expression.
Then you probably don't know it's the lightning created by this man in front of you... Klein laughed and then said:
"Also, Messanyis seems to be maintaining a fragile balance between multiple forces, but he has actually secretly turned to one side, of course, I don't know who it is."
He didn't want to sell the Church of Knowledge and Wisdom, but only to reveal a little and trust the Rune Army.
"The only certainty is that it's not us." Colonel Calvin gave a deep look.
"It should not be the Intis." Klein helped them rule out a wrong option.
Colonel Calvin said "Hmm":
"Fortunately, most of the forces around Mesanyes are supported by the Intis. If he wants to expand, he can't get around them. Maybe we can sell weapons again."
At this point, he raised his glass:
"The storm is up. May you all make a fortune together."
As believers in the goddess of night, Klein and Senator Macht could only laugh at it without responding directly.
After sipping the lipstick again, Calvin pointed to the second floor.
"Dawn, you're here today to play cards with a big man, Texas."
"Who's the big shot?" Klein asked with great interest.
Calvin looked a little more serious and said with a slightly less obvious smile:
"Admiral Emilius, he has been re-enabled and currently dominates the Ministry of Defense."
Admiral Amelians... The younger brother was removed from the post of governor, the mistress was eroded by the "mother tree of desire", and he lost the position of commander-in-chief of the Navy of the Central Sonia Sea. I worked with him and pretended to be him for a while. Sure enough, for a demigod, as long as he does not go too far and is willing to endure, he will always get out of the trough... Klein recalled all the things that had happened on Olawi Island and felt a little sad for a moment.
Admiral Emilius Levitt still felt guilty. Although most of what happened at that time had nothing to do with him, the change of his mistress was caused by the desire to control him.
"That is to say, in the future, our cooperation needs the approval of the Admiral?" Klein asked suddenly.
"That's right." Colonel Calvin nodded and pointed to the stairway leading to the second floor. "Let's go up."
Coming to the second floor and stopping in front of an opposite dark red door, Calvin looked sideways at Dawn Downes.
"Your task today is to lose money."
Lose money? Klein looked up and down at Calvin, and the corners of his mouth warped a little.
"I will work hard."
Members of Parliament next to him laughed:
"Actually, you don't have to be too deliberate. Admiral Amelias is very good at playing cards. You want to win money. It's almost impossible. Ha-ha, I lose every time. Hey, I just hope I don't lose too much today. Otherwise, I dare not go home."
Klein nodded thoughtfully:
"I only have 200 pounds in cash. Is that not enough?"
"Certainly not enough." Colonel Calvin laughed and said, "You've been given 1000 pounds in chips, and then come back and remember to pay it back."
Senior Barristers of Roon, on the face of it, earn about 1,000 pounds a year... You corrupt people... Klein looked up and down at Calvin again.
The colonel, unconscious, raised his hand and tapped on the door.
Waiting for a while, the opposite door squeaked back, revealing the scene inside.
It was a large hall with thick soft carpets, not much furniture, and it looked rather empty.
In the center of the hall, there is a card table for more than a dozen people, surrounded by luxurious high-backed chairs.
On the edge of the hall, there are furniture inlaid with gold, statues carved with marble, tea tables with books and newspapers, and a set of leather sofas.
Klein looked up and saw Emilius Levitt sitting at the top. The admiral had not changed much. He combed his black hair neatly, had dark blue eyes, drooped his lips slightly, had no beard on his face, had an old-fashioned stern temperament, wore dark blue clothes with shoulder stamps, and had no sloppy details at all. Very serious.
Turning his eyes, Klein found another "acquaintance":
He has thick but untidy black eyebrows, short and hard hair of the same color, dark blue eyes near black, high nose like a mountain peak, mouth around the extension of a large beard, deep contour, long face, cold lines, very tough taste.
This is the deputy director of MI9, Chunas Kolg!
This is one of the goals of Klein's return to Beckland. He is the middleman between the Devil's Sect and one of the Royal factions in human trafficking. He is an accomplice in the fog of Beckland.
The deputy general, with unusually broad shoulders and tight white shirts and black waistcoats, was concentrating on playing Texas poker.
There are two, no, three demigods on a card table. How can we play this card? Interesting... Klein found a seat and sat down to watch the others on the cards table.
In the process, the waiter brought in a large stack of chips, totaling 1,000.
In the first few games, Klein looked at the cards and threw them away. He was very cautious. He didn't seem to get good cards. He never added or followed them.
Admiral Emilius's style is just the opposite of that of him. He is not conservative at all. He almost follows all of them and keeps pouring more and more attention on them. He is very aggressive.
Every game in which he participated rarely reached the showdown stage. Most people could not bear the oppression and the dignity of the general. After following one or two rounds, they abandoned their cards one after another. Among them, some people tried to catch Emily Levitt's bluff. As a result, they met four nine of the general's faces and turned pale. It's like being sentenced to death by a judge.
Chunas Kolg is another style. He loses one from time to time, but the total amount of chips is small and has no great influence. When he loses the next one, he often succeeds in emptying the chips that won him last time, forcing the other party to spend money to buy new chips.
Why? Why cheat with ability when playing cards with extraordinary people or even ordinary people in middle and low sequence? I don't know if anyone else can see it. One is the pressures of the "arbitrator" approach, the other is the "bribery" of the "corrupt baron". Klein looked down at the bottom cards of only Red Peach 5 and Plum Blossom 9 and shook his head slightly invisibly.
He couldn't help thinking seriously about the ability of the "diviner" approach to help if he wanted to cheat.
"Turn all your opponents into secret couples? In this way, we can win as much as we want to win and remain invincible. It has no practical value, nor is it planning the death poker contest.
"Unfortunately, there are no mosquitoes here. Otherwise, I can control their spiritual lines, make them secret and even help me to see the cards of others...
"Faceless people can only change themselves, not their cards...
"The magician's illusion? Playing cards with ordinary people, mid-low sequence extraordinary people, the effect should be good, but here are two demigods...
"Change cards with clown's wrist ability? It's no use. Licensing and shuffling are all done by waiters.
In a flash of thought, Klein found that only the ability of the "diviner" itself seemed to be useful.
He threw out two boards, signaled not to follow, and then picked up a metal chip and let it flip back and forth between his fingers.
At that moment, Emilius Levitt suddenly looked up at him, then retracted his eyes and launched a pile of chips.
Sure enough... Klein nodded in his heart without any surprise.
When he worked together last time, he knew that Admiral Amelians could distinguish between ordinary people and extraordinary people from their different "positions", and suspected that the other party could even judge the level of an extraordinary person, that is, position.
However, Klein is not too worried about this, because the "Sophist" has a certain "secret" ability, which is one of the special reasons why he can converge the fog on himself when he arrives at Sequence 4, which makes him sure that the other party cannot find his own rank, but did not interfere with him in advance, suspicious of Amy. Reese could see that he was an extraordinary person.
Therefore, he simply took the initiative to show a little problem, it seems that it is easy to see through, easy to grasp.