Chapter 182 [0180] Dragons and Snakes Rise From the Land

If it weren't for Lux's reminder, Sarah might have taken a long time to wake up from the joy of successful revenge.

However, after Lux gave her a shot of prevention, when the emptiness of successful revenge came, Sarah immediately found a new goal for herself.

Organize Ionian trade.

Sarah agreed with Lux's opinion that Ionian trade was a good opportunity for Bilgewater.

Although Sarah, who grew up in Bilgewater, was accustomed to pirates, she herself had never engaged in plundering - in her opinion, being an armed merchant was a very good idea, better than being a pirate in terms of safety and profit.

However, when she began to seriously think about trade-related matters, an increasingly chaotic situation broke out and quickly swept across Bilgewater.

Gangplank was finished, but Sarah, as the initiator, underestimated the impact of "Gangplank finished in front of everyone". Even if she responded immediately, the situation in Bilgewater still became worse.

People who saw the end of Gangplank can be roughly divided into two types.

The first type fell into panic and couldn't extricate themselves. Their idea was "Gangplank is so powerful, he can die at any time"; the second type was ignited by Gangplank's death and fell into madness. After all, in their opinion, "Gangplank, who has ruled Bilgewater for so long, seems to be just like this."

No matter which type it is, it is the source of the chaos in Bilgewater.

So, when Sarah wanted to invite several powerful social groups to negotiate and hoped that everyone could sit down and talk, no one paid attention to her.

Everyone was busy playing the game of big fish eating small fish - they all hoped to eat the next Gangplank.

In this case, Sarah simply gave up the first plan to solve the problem peacefully and turned to the second plan - the Siren under her command quickly went into martial law, and the sailors under her occupied the repair shop and shipyard at the slaughter dock while expanding their influence.

With Sarah's official end, the whole Bilgewater was in chaos.

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Lax, who was in Bilgewater, saw war for the first time in her life.

Although the pirates and gangs in Bilgewater could not follow orders like the regular army, this did not prevent them from robbing various "strategic locations" like the regular army.

And this competition undoubtedly brought great trouble to Bilgewater.

When a fishing boat goes out to sea, in addition to the basic tithe, it also needs to pay protection fees to many people - the Iron Hook Gang was quickly destroyed under the tacit sweep of all forces, and then all the forces involved were declared "successors" and began to actively collect protection fees.

And the popular area of ​​the Slaughterhouse Wharf is watched by four or five gangs of all sizes. The bosses who are tired of collecting protection fees simply closed down. They no longer purchase the harvest of fishing boats. The sea monsters and fish that cannot be sold are piled up on the wharf, making the Slaughterhouse Wharf, which originally smells bad, even more smelly.

For these bosses with family backgrounds, this choice is understandable.

But in Bilgewater, people with savings are rare.

Without these sea fish and sea monsters, Bilgewater fell into a strange famine - fishermen stopped fishing because they were exploited too much, and sea monster butchers stopped working. Now there is no fish for everyone to eat on a daily basis.

Luck, who was in it, for the first time truly experienced the ignorant and chaotic state before Shurima was established in those stories of Karya.

Gangplank is an absolute bastard.

But this bastard... in a sense, is a symbol of order in Bilgewater.

No matter how rubbish the order is, it is still order.

Without this order, the flags on the city walls can only change.

In the chaos, Lux simply took out the investment that Gangplank gave her and built a small shelter in White Harbor to provide protection for the helpless Bilgewater fishermen and dock workers.

Naturally, there were also people who wanted to take advantage of it.

As for this bastard who asked for help from civilians, Lux had no scruples at all. After destroying two waves of blind guys in a row, this place finally became a rare safe haven.

"Karya, is this war?" In the dead of night, looking at the quiet shelter, Lux couldn't fall asleep. "When I was a child, Demacia was also at war, but I have never seen such a scene..."

"Because the war did not burn to the Demacia capital, and the order of Demacia is still there." Karya said gently, "Why, do you feel a little bit unacceptable?"

"I always feel a little guilty." Lux scratched her wet golden hair, "Maybe things don't have to go this far."

"No, as long as Gangplank is finished, things will definitely go this way." Karya saw it clearly, "It's mainly because you subconsciously substituted the situation you have seen in other places into Bilgewater, so you made a little wrong judgment."

"Wrong judgment?" Lux was a little confused, "What wrong judgment?"

"Bilgewater is different from other places. The social structure here is very primitive and unstable." Taking this opportunity, Kalja began to teach Lux, "As a pirate city, the only rule here is Gangplank's will, so with Gangplank's demise, this place will inevitably become a mess."

"But in Zaun, the only law used to be what the Alchemy Baron said..." Lux blinked, still a little confused, "But after the Alchemy Baron was eliminated, Zaun did not appear in this chaos."

"There are two main reasons for the stability of the situation in Zaun." Kalja explained, "The first is that before the Alchemy Baron was gone, an organization representing the interests of Zaun workers had been established; the second reason is that Zaun's bottom line is much higher than Bilgewater, and there is a complete social organization. Most people have detailed social positioning, and the middle-aged have old people and young children."

"..."

Lux thought about it and found that the facts were indeed as Kalja said.

"In Zaun, workers have to work in factories and miners have to mine in mines. Most people are producers." Kalja continued, "In Bilgewater, except for fishermen, sea monster butchers and operators, most people are not producers - if the alchemist baron is just an exploiter, then these thugs can only be regarded as looters."

"Looters?"

"Yes, they grab whatever they want without order and rules." Kalja snorted, with a little more disgust in his tone, "In Zaun, we eliminated those exploiters; but in Bilgewater, looters are still alive and well. Everyone relies on their own abilities and the big fish eat the small fish. How can Bilgewater not be chaotic?"

Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. The chaos in Bilgewater taught Lux an extremely vivid lesson.

Kalja's Little Class - Sea Monster Butcher:

The guys who are responsible for cutting up sea monster bodies are not only skilled in using knives, but also can distinguish the usable and unusable parts of different sea monsters. They are an important part of Bilgewater's fishery industry.

PS. Today's chapter - I started the full staff inspection and accounting and found that there are so many people in the community where I live...