Chapter 161 Deception and Scheming
"Foolish Helles, I will prove that I am right..."
Billy murmured these words, walked out of the secretary's office, looked up at the sky, and squinted his eyes at the sun in the sky.
"I don't know why, but I always feel that this sun is suitable for being used as a furnace to smelt metals..."
Shaking his head to get rid of the unnecessary thoughts in his mind, Billy walked onto the street.
After many barbarians either surrendered or were defeated in the battle, Lemuria has now truly become an empire in the High Sea.
Therefore, the population of the Lemuria Empire is much larger than before.
As the saying goes: If the forest is big, there will be all kinds of birds; if the world is big, there will be all kinds of people.
After walking on the street for about ten minutes, Billy rushed out of the crowd with a frown, holding his wallet full of copper coins.
Just five minutes after he entered the crowd, several people set their eyes on the purse around his waist.
And those people are dark-skinned barbarians!
They acted as if they were getting close to Billy's purse, intentionally or unintentionally, trying to use the art of stealing to steal his wealth.
"Damn it..." Billy rushed out of the crowd and came to the door of a tailor shop. He couldn't stop muttering, "The sheriff is such a good-for-nothing. With so many thieves, won't he catch any of them?"
"These damn thieves and good-for-nothings should all be sent to the mining island to mine! And they should be whipped!"
However, his mumbling was heard by the boss sitting at the door of the tailor shop, so the boss immediately came to his side and scolded him: "You know shit!"
Billy was startled when he heard the sudden scolding, and then immediately looked at the owner of the tailor shop with anger on his face.
But when he noticed that the tailor shop owner was a head taller than him, an engineer, and much more muscular, he had to suppress the anger on his face.
"Damn... Why would the owner of a tailor shop be such a burly man?" After a quick glance, Billy immediately noticed the nature of this shop, so there was a hint of disbelief in his eyes when he looked at the owner of the tailor shop.
"Were you secretly calling our beloved sheriff Mr. Renato a good-for-nothing just now?" The burly boss clenched his fists and looked at Billy with a hint of hostility in his eyes.
"Is it... isn't it?" Billy took a few steps back without leaving any trace. After standing in his own safe place, he instantly said with confidence and anger: "There are so many thieves on this street alone. As a sheriff, he didn't arrest these criminals. It's simply..."
Stare~
The air suddenly became quiet, and the eyes of several people in the surrounding crowd instantly turned unfriendly after hearing his words.
Billy, who was extremely perceptive, also noticed this, so he didn't say the rest.
"Heh..." The burly boss looked Billy up and down, then came to him and sniffed him, and immediately showed a look of disgust on his face.
"Tsk~ So it's the engineers... No wonder they said such things..."
The burly boss confirmed Billy's identity by the smell on his body and said in a sarcastic tone.
After hearing the words of the burly boss, the unfriendly looks from the crowd became even more unfriendly.
There was even a faint sound of someone walking out from the crowd and approaching him.
Seeing this scene, Billy's face suddenly changed.
Although I don’t know why these people hate engineers so much, but if I remember correctly, he doesn’t seem to have done anything extremely bad?
"Wait, what are you all doing here?!!!"
Just when Billy was thinking about chasing some of the people away and then reporting them, a vigorous voice was heard, stopping the tragedy that was about to happen.
A cheerful and sunny boy who looked very righteous squeezed out from the crowd.
"I'm sorry, sir." The older boy began to introduce himself: "I'm Renato, the sheriff of Nig Street. May I ask how you are doing?"
Compared to Billy, whose skin is slightly red because he has been in the engineering department for a long time, Renato's skin is much whiter.
You can tell at first glance that the other person is living a very good life.
"Are you the sheriff?" Billy asked with a sneer after looking the other person up and down, especially his dazzlingly white skin.
"Yes, sir!" Renato answered very forcefully and gave Billy a gentleman's salute.
"In that case, my beloved Sheriff Renato." Billy crossed his arms and sneered, "Can you explain why there are so many thieves on Nig Street?"
Thinking back to those brown-skinned thieves who looked like barbarians at first glance, he suddenly became furious.
"I'm sorry, sir..." Renato looked a little embarrassed when he heard Billy's question: "I wonder if we can talk in private?"
As he spoke, he pointed to the tailor shop next door.
At the same time, he looked at the burly boss, as if asking for his opinion.
The sturdy boss nodded with a smile on his face and looked at Renato with eyes full of respect.
"Hmph..." Noticing the unfailing respect in the burly boss's eyes, Billy's expression eased a little and he nodded gently.
Under Renato's guidance, Billy followed him to the backyard of the tailor shop.
"Now, Mr. Sheriff, can you explain it to me?" Billy, who came to the backyard, asked without hesitation.
"About those thieves..." Renato sighed slightly: "They are from the engineering department..."
Then, Renato began to tell the story of the thieves.
According to Renato's narration, those thieves belonged to a gang called "The Black Shadow Gang", and the gang's top boss was the current chief of the engineering department - Billy!
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When Billy heard this, the expression on his face was very shocked and he didn't know what to say.
Renato didn't notice the expression on his face and continued to state the relevant information.
"...It is said that the leader of the Black Shadow Gang, Billy, is very anxious about the development of the engineering department. In order to research the invincible metal warship, he began to frantically collect all the iron and copper tools..."
"...What's worse is that a secretary reported this to Belgium and was persecuted. He was dismissed for inexplicable reasons and sent to a mining island to mine..."
"...The chief engineer Billy also knows the chief judge and the commander-in-chief, and has even met the chief clerk Mr. Helles in person..."
As Renato's narration continued, Billy finally understood that it was the special effect brought about by his previous obsession with studying the invincible battleship.
The reason why Renato is respected by the residents of Nig Street is that he is the only sheriff in this area who dares to confront the Black Shadow Gang head-on - especially since he has no background at all!
...In fact, there is no need to continue telling the rest of the story. It is nothing more than a cliché. Billy finds out that his name has been stolen, and then he starts to clean up. Then he realizes Helles's painstaking efforts, and finally he has a sudden realization...But is it really like this?
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In a dark corner, Helles asked Grace beside him:
"How long do you think it will take Billy to figure out the key and understand Renato's deception?"
"I don't know." Gris had a slight smile on his face, "But no matter what, one thing that is certain is that there is a problem with the sheriff's system."
"The barbarians who intend to overthrow the empire sent many spies..."
Having said that, he closed his eyes slightly and sighed softly.
"Under the control of an unknown guy, those barbarians began to invade the empire from all directions, stealing the empire's technology and influencing the thinking of the people of the empire..."
"It's time to let Kalus take action ahead of time. Otherwise, if this continues, something serious will happen."
"What if His Majesty the God of the Sea blames us?" Helles looked at his child with admiration.
"I will bear all the consequences." Grace's eyes were firm.
"It's okay, I'm still here!" Helles reached out and patted Grace's shoulder.
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However, what they didn't know was that everything that happened in the entire empire was being seen by Sunan, who had already set up observation techniques.