In the North City of Atlanta, when Li Mochen and his group entered the Cardinal Club through a secret passage, they met Franks and his right-hand man, Phillip Luxemburg, who came in from another passage.
"What a coincidence."
Franks gave Li Mochen a warm bear hug. "Are you here for the human resources? I've heard about your situation. It's not easy to integrate the escort forces of five ships in such a short period of time. Now, you've almost wiped out all the human resources in Atlanta, and there aren't many left. Many of my friends are complaining. "
"Today, I plan to go to the human resources market to take a look, but not all of them. I'm also very interested in this auction."
When Li Mochen thought of the rapidly expanding armed forces under his banner, he also felt a wave of worry.
Just as Franks had said, his Rising Sun Retail Company and the Rising Sun Security Company, which was renamed from the Bloody Hand Security Company, were recruiting people on a large scale throughout the state of Georgia.
However, there were not many magic professionals above Level-9, and there were even fewer people with clean backgrounds who could pass the triple loyalty checks of Jeremy Burt, Lee Tae-lai, and Alisa.
In this regard, Li Mochen would rather have nothing than substandard people. Even if he could not recruit enough people, he was unwilling to let those unreliable people in.
His current situation was different from before. At the same time, he was being treated as an enemy by the Dragon Witch Cult, the Medici family, the Wildenstein family, and some of his business competitors. He had to be very careful.
So far, the Rising Sun Retail Company had only completed the establishment of 65 defense teams and five extra-legal combat teams. However, due to the lack of reputation of the acting Chief Security Officer, Zhang Wei, the Rising Sun Retail Company was in a state of complete disunity.
Then, there were the troops called the Rising Sun Security Company, which were actually his private army, and the escort forces under the banner of the Rising Sun Security Company.
Among them, the three armed forces led by Lee Tae-lai, Sampson Brut, and Thompson Adams were in a good situation. These three teams all had enough backbones. They just needed to fill in the manpower. Currently, there were thirty-five combat teams and seven extra-legal teams.
The problem was that Li Mochen encountered a huge setback in the formation and recruitment of the escort forces. In the past half a month, he hadn't even hired a single outsider above level 15.
If this continued, even if Li Mochen transferred Lee Tae-lai's team to the sea, he would not have enough manpower.
According to the usual arrangement, five armed merchant ships had to hire twenty extra-legal combat squads. However, up until now, he had only completed six of them.
On the other hand, Li Mochen's side could surpass the number of high-level Outsiders. The two brothers, Lee Tae-lai and Lawrence, were both above LV 17, and Alexandra Kandra had agreed to borrow two of them.
However, as the leader of the ship group, his overall strength should be above that of all the members.
"Then you have to be careful, André. You are like a balloon that is about to burst."
"Of course, I will be careful."
Li Mochen understood what Franks meant. However, after he finished speaking, he looked at the opposite side with a strange expression. "Franks, you will also come to the Cardinal Club?"
"Hah, just because I have the Laurel Street black market, I can't come?"
Franks could not help but laugh. "You know who is behind this Cardinal Club, right? That's why my Laurel Street can only deal in low-end equipment and magical materials. The things that are really useful for people of our level can only be bought here. André, if you have time at nine, go to the A7 Auction Hall on the second floor and have a look. The auction items you want may appear there. "
Li Mochen's expression immediately froze. He replied seriously, "I will go and have a look."
The A7 Auction Hall of the Cardinal Club was usually used to auction all kinds of magical equipment. However, what he lacked the most right now was manpower.
However, Li Mochen knew that this officer of the Teutonic Crusades had a deep foundation in Atlanta, especially in terms of underground trading. He had information channels that even the big families and forces might not have.
This caused Li Mochen to feel a bit of anticipation in his heart. He decided to go and have a look when it was time.
Li Mochen was not worried about spending money. He was only worried about not being able to spend it. If the A7 Auction Hall really had something that he could use, Li Mochen would not be stingy with his money.
"Anyway, get the manpower as soon as possible."
As Franks spoke, he patted Li Mochen's shoulder heavily. "Do a good job! I'm counting on you to take care of my two ships. "
This person did not go with Li Mochen. When the elevator descended to the sixth floor, he walked out. As for Li Mochen, he went straight to the human resources market on the fourth floor with a group of people.
Unfortunately, he returned disappointed again this time. The stack of resumes taken out by the human resources manager of Linnet overlapped nearly 70% with the resumes recently submitted to Xuri Retail and Xuri Security. The difference was that the Cardinal Club was the guarantor here, so there was no problem in reliability. However, Li Mochen had to pay a large sum of money to the club for this.
Then, in the slave market on the third floor, Li Mochen also found nothing.
There were many extra-legal slaves here, but the price-performance ratio was extremely low. Ten to twenty million gold shields were needed to buy a level-13 magical slave. However, they either exhausted their potential or lacked willpower. Isadora's situation was one of a kind.
However, it was an eye-opener for Hazel. He saw many humanoid races here without the disguise magic. In addition to the common elves, half-elves, dwarves, and even medusas were here.
Isadora Weeks, who was dressed as a maid, had a complicated look in her eyes. Any active slave would not have a good impression of such a place.
"In my textbooks, it is said that the various races in this world should be friendly and equal."
When they had only walked one-third of the slave market, Hazel's lips curled into a sarcastic smile. "There should be many humanoid slaves like this in America, right?"
"Hazel, are you being cynical?"
Eliza smiled. "You just have to think about thousands of years ago, our ancestors were also enslaved by various humanoids and even used as food. You will feel much better. Even now, can ordinary people in America be equal and friendly in front of those humanoids with advanced magical professions? In the end, it is nothing more than one side being strong and the other side being weak. As the saying goes, the weak are prey to the strong. This world has completely different rules on the surface and inside. "
Hearing this, Hazel was stunned and then fell into deep thought.
Li Mochen had originally planned to have a serious talk with Hazel, but after listening to Eliza's words, he stopped being nosy and walked forward.
When they arrived at a magic material shop on the first floor, Li Mochen received his first harvest since coming to the Cardinal Club.
It was two special medicine bottles, each with a ball of blood.
"According to your request, customer, ten drops of Legendary Titan Holy Warrior blood, which can be confirmed to be of the Hyperion lineage, and ten drops of Young Blue Dragon blood. The total price is 14 million gold shields."
The manager of this magic material shop emphasized to Li Mochen again, "We only accept cash or checks from the underground Linnet bank."
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