Early the next morning, when Ryan got up, he found that Helis had left his residence and went to handle some matters at the auction house. He was a little surprised that Helis had become so diligent. You must know that Helis was not diligent back then.
people.
At noon, Helis came back. Ryan saw Helis coming in from a distance, and his face seemed to be full of sadness. But when Helis approached Ryan, the sadness on his face suddenly disappeared and was replaced by a happy one.
From the looks of him, he seemed to have something he didn't want Ruian to know.
Ryan couldn't help but frown. Helis must have some troubles, otherwise he would never look so ugly. Ryan thought about the scene with Helis yesterday, and Helis really gave him a forced smile.
"Master He, what happened? I see that you seem to be very troubled." After a conversation, Ruian asked directly.
"No...it's nothing. It's just a small problem at the auction house." Harris was stunned for a moment. He didn't know how Ryan knew about it, but he immediately answered in an understatement.
Ruian frowned again. He understood Helis's character and knew that the simpler Helis spoke, the more troublesome the matter would be. So, he couldn't help but said: "Young Master He, we have a very close friendship.
Don't be afraid to tell me anything, maybe I can help."
Ryan's temperament is different now. His firm attitude and tone of voice give people a very calm feeling, making people immediately feel that Ryan can be trusted.
So, Helis sighed deeply and couldn't help but vent his bitterness to Ryan.
It turns out that Hearst Auction House used to be the only one in Skayas City. There was no competition from other auction houses, so the business was very good. However, in recent years, another auction house has opened in Skayas City, relying on its strong
The financial strength has continuously impacted Hearst Auction House and taken away a lot of business. Therefore, in the past few years, Hearst Auction House has been in decline. The business has gradually shrunk a lot, and its reputation has also declined a lot.
Originally, this kind of ups and downs in business was very normal. If Harris worked hard, Hearst Auction House would gradually get better. The worst thing is to maintain the current situation and not decline.
However, an unexpected situation occurred in the past few days, which suddenly brought Hearst Auction House to a critical moment of life and death. One night a few days ago, a group of masked men rushed into Hearst Auction House and then rushed into the warehouse.
, and robbed all the items stored in the warehouse that were to be auctioned at the next auction.
Hearst Auction holds a small auction every month. Every month, the items that customers deposit in the auction house are all stored in the warehouse, and many guards are arranged to strictly guard them. Helis even arranged
He hired a level 6 swordsman to guard nearby. However, this group of masked men showed superior strength, injuring or killing all the guards at Hearst Auction House, and destroyed all the auction items deposited by customers in the warehouse.
Looted everything.
The value of this batch of auction items is not high, adding up to just over 20,000 gold coins. If Hearst Auction House needs to compensate its customers, Helis can afford it. But the problem is that this is related to the reputation of Hearst Auction House.
If the guests knew that the items they had left for auction at the auction house had been robbed, who would dare to come to Hearst Auction House for auction again in the future?
So after the incident, Helis didn't dare to speak out. He secretly sent many people to look for the masked robbers. He hoped to recover this batch of stolen goods before the auction in a few days.
Auction items.
However, just the day before yesterday, the masked robbers sent people to find Helis. They offered to return the stolen auction items as long as Helis paid a ransom of 100,000 gold coins.
Suddenly, Helis was in a dilemma. He didn't know what to choose. He had only two options now. One was to ignore the robber's request. Then the auction house would break its trust, and the consequences might be that it would never recover or even close down. The other was to obey.
The robbers demanded a ransom of 100,000 gold coins. However, although Hearst Auction House auctioned items at very high prices, they only earned some of the intermediary fees. One hundred thousand gold coins was equivalent to several years of Hearst Auction House sales.
income.
Besides, it is impossible for the Hearst Auction House to raise 100,000 gold coins in a short time. The Helis family has invested many gold coins in the auction house and other industries. There are not many gold coins in existence. In a short time,
It is impossible to sell some other industries for gold coins, so the ransom of 100,000 gold coins cannot be raised at once.
Helis has been worried about this these days. When Ryan came yesterday, he put the matter aside for the time being and received Ryan properly. Today, he had to go out to collect gold coins before dawn.
"Can you find out who these robbers are?" After hearing what Helis said, Ryan immediately asked. Compared to Helis who was extremely anxious, Ryan was much more relaxed.
He didn't care, but in Ruian's heart, whether it was dealing with the robbers or paying the ransom, he felt that he was fully capable of handling it, so he was not that worried.
"We couldn't find out. They all had their faces covered, and our people couldn't see their faces. After they robbed the auction items, they disappeared. In any case, we would not be able to find their whereabouts. If they hadn't sent someone to ask for it,
Ransom, we thought these people had already left Skayas City." Helis shook his head and looked a little frustrated.
"Could it be done by your rival auction house? They took this opportunity to force you?"
"It's possible that our auction house has never offended anyone, except for the constant conflicts with the outside Patch Auction House in recent years. However, we can't find any evidence to prove this now.
It was Patch Auction House that did it.”
"How strong are the robbers? We can catch them all while paying the ransom and get back the stolen auction items." Ruian put forward his own suggestion. In his opinion, this is the best way.
Unexpectedly, Helis shook his head and said: "This group of robbers is very powerful. Their most powerful person defeated the level 6 swordsman guarding the warehouse of our auction house in more than ten moves. So unless I hire a lot of mercenaries to come,
Deal with these robbers, otherwise we in the auction house can't deal with them. But the problem now is that we don't dare to publicize that the auction items have been stolen, so we don't dare to recruit mercenaries to help."
"It doesn't matter, I'll help you then." When Ryan heard that Helis was in trouble, he had already made up his mind to help Helis.
"Thank you." Helis didn't refuse. Although he didn't know that Ryan was the one rumored to be able to defeat a level 7 swordsman, but from his previous experience in school, he knew that Ryan must be very powerful. "However,
I still have to raise the ransom first, otherwise I might not even see these robbers."
"When do they want the ransom to be paid?"
"The night after tomorrow."
"Where to pay the ransom?"
"They didn't mention the place. They just said that a carriage should be ready and parked at the city gate. The number of people should not exceed two people. Then their people would take us to our destination."
"So, I must prepare 100,000 gold coins, otherwise they will not take me to my destination."
"Yes, otherwise I wouldn't have to worry so much." Helis smiled bitterly, his smile uglier than crying.
"How many gold coins have you raised now?" Ruian asked with a thought.
"I have raised all the existing gold coins in our family and asked many relatives and friends to borrow money. Now I have only raised 60,000 gold coins." Speaking of this, Helis looked very tired in his words. It was obvious that he was very tired in the past few days.
He was very worried about raising gold coins.
"Well! You don't need to borrow any more. I'll lend you the remaining gold coins." In fact, Ruian had this idea when he first heard about the ransom.
"What? Will you lend it to me?" Harris jumped up happily, his face full of surprise and a trace of disbelief.
"Yes." Ryan was a little surprised by Helis's fuss.
Unexpectedly, Helis refused: "No, Ruian, forty thousand gold coins is too much. If you lend it to me, I don't even know when I can pay you back."
"It doesn't matter, even if you don't pay me back, it doesn't matter." Ruian smiled, and then said angrily: "I have a lot of gold coins, and these I lent to you are nothing."
Helis was speechless. He looked at Ryan with a look of disbelief.
"Don't you believe it? I'll show it to you." Ruian didn't need to be too polite to his friends, and then he saw Ruian take out a magic storage bag from his arms.
"Magic storage bag." Helis couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise.
Seeing Helis' surprised expression, Ryan couldn't help but joked: "Master He, don't tell me that your auction house doesn't even have a magic storage bag, right? I have seen your auction house auction a magic storage bag.
of."
Suddenly, Helis said sheepishly: "Of course we have magic storage bags, we just keep them for safekeeping and don't use them frequently."
"Waste!" Ruian scolded with a smile, and then said in a sober voice, "Master He, don't tell me that the people in your auction house don't know how to open the magic storage bag, right?"
Helis said again embarrassedly: "That's true. The secret to opening the magic storage bag with fighting energy is too expensive. We have been reluctant to buy it, so every time we use the magic storage bag, we have to go to the magician.
Help and let them put things into the magic storage bag or take them out."
Ryan burst out laughing. He was not afraid that laughter would hurt Helis, because the two of them were really familiar with each other. Heris immediately blushed at Ryan's laughter and couldn't help but glared at Ryan.
"Master He, don't worry, I will give you a secret book for opening the magic storage bag later. I have many such secret books." Ruian said casually. Indeed, he had already bought a secret book before, and then another.
Find one of the secrets left by Camp Oseidon. Therefore, this kind of secret is really nothing to Ryan.
Suddenly, Harris shouted in great surprise: "Ryan, what have you done in the past few years? How did you become so rich?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation.
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