Yama Reborn-Chapter 582 - 579: You Should Accept Punishment

Chapter 579 [You Should Accept the Punishment]

"Why did you suddenly decide to play such a game here? Supporting a small warlord?"

Lu Xixi and Chen Nuo stood side by side on the balcony of the Mayor Mansion, looking at the courtyard below.

The Empress yawned out of boredom and asked Chen Nuo, "I didn’t expect you to have such an interest."

Chen Nuo squinted at the scene below, where Enke had already changed his clothes and stood before the remaining dozen or so men he brought.

Enke had changed into a mercenary army uniform—borrowed with Chen Nuo’s permission.

Clearly, Enke was giving a pep talk or painting a rosy picture to his remaining men.

Soon, Chen Nuo saw those dozen or so fellows, initially listless and aimless, gradually standing a bit straighter.

"I’m just making a small probe," Chen Nuo shook his head. "Let’s see in a few days, maybe my probe will have some effect."

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Once again, Enke did not disappoint Chen Nuo’s slight admiration for him.

His performance exceeded Chen Nuo’s expectations, and indeed, this guy did have a certain innate cunning.

He first donned the mercenary’s military uniform, gave a speech to his remaining dozen men, lied to them, claiming he had joined the mercenary forces and that they would make him the leader here to control the town.

Very soon, those desperate dogs announced their allegiance to Enke—after all, during this time, everyone wants to cling to a big tree for survival.

Enke then ordered everyone to change clothes into mercenary uniforms.

He borrowed fifty sets of uniforms.

Once they wore the mercenary uniforms, the dozen men showed a significant boost in morale.

It’s simply the feeling of finding a shelter after being lost.

In the second step, Enke sent people in town to find deserters.

Since he is a local, he clearly knows who among the deserters are locals in the group he brought.

How big can a town with tens of thousands of people be?

During the search, those who resisted and refused to rejoin were shot dead.

Finally, they found a dozen people.

Enke organized these people into two teams and then sent people to re-summon the local heads and influential figures.

Originally, after the grain robbery incident, these local bigwigs didn’t want to negotiate with Enke, a desperate man.

Faces have already been torn, and you are already like a desperate dog; what’s there to talk about?

At this time, the mercenary uniform on Enke played a role.

People might ignore Enke, but no one dared to ignore the hundreds of armed elite mercenaries stationed in town.

Hearing that Enke found a new strong backing boss, these local people could only pinch their noses and come for a meeting again.

Enke deceived them, claiming he would be the mercenary agent in the town.

Now the President is finished, and the Government is finished.

But you shouldn’t gloat.

Because no one cares about the refugees outside now!

Thousands of refugees, and possibly more later—at that time, thousands of ravenous refugees will invade the town.

Do you have a way to survive?

Then cooperate with me, listen to me!

Give money and food!!

Thus, he indeed gathered a sum of money and a batch of food.

The money is not much, the food is not much, but he has the starting resources.

Enke’s next step was to use this money to find the mercenary and purchased some weapons and ammunition.

Light infantry weapons are really not expensive... especially in such little war-torn countries.

AK light weapons can be sold by the pound.

The mercenary army in this military action swept multiple tribes and captured a large amount of light weapons and ammunition.

They were piled somewhere only to be disposed of after the war or sold at low prices to arms dealers.

Since Enke came with cash...

The leader of the mercenary army stationed in town wouldn’t refuse this extra income.

Soon, Enke gathered enough weapons and ammunition to arm three hundred people.

The final step was recruitment.

With weapons and ammunition at hand, Enke started recruiting at the Mayor Mansion.

From the local bottom-level civilians, he recruited one hundred and fifty young and strong men.

Then... he took a step that amazed Chen Nuo.

He didn’t continue recruiting in town.

He went to the refugee camp!

In the refugee camp, among the refugees of several different village tribes, he chose two small tribes that historically bore no grudges with the town, and suffered the heaviest casualties in this turmoil.

Then, from these two small tribes, he recruited over a hundred people.

Finally, he assembled a force of three hundred armed men.

With a three hundred-gun armed force in hand, Enke summoned the town’s heads and influential figures again.

And made an announcement:

As the mayor of this city, I will exercise the mayor’s rights and duties.

The duty is: I will protect this city!

The right is: You damn pay me taxes!

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Thus, in a few days, a black man who was hiding in his room, crying and drinking waiting for death, already became the mayor of the fourth largest city in this country, a small warlord.

He even had the presence of mind to have his three hundred armed men follow the mercenary army’s camp for training every day.

Originally, he wanted to hire someone from the mercenary army as instructors, but they refused such requests.

Lending you the name is no problem, but they won’t get further involved.

And the military uniforms didn’t use those of the mercenaries anymore, as lending fifty sets was already the limit.

Enke ordered a batch of military uniforms from the local garment factory.

But his army followed the mercenary army daily to exercise together—this action was enough to intimidate the town’s people.

It’s not like there are no smart people locally.

Some discerning eyes saw this trend and even some intended to take advantage of this authority vacuum period to replace Enke.

But Enke acted very quickly!

During negotiations, he killed two people who wanted to oppose him on the spot.

Took out a gun and shot them dead with no hesitation.

Yeah, that’s how simple and brutal African coups are.

One week later, the new mayor Mr. Enke visited his sister, who was sent here for further treatment.

Then, in his capacity as the city’s mayor, he promised the hospital assisted by the International Medical Organization to continue ensuring the hospital’s safety and supporting its operation.

Chen Nuo observed all of this. Occasionally he couldn’t help but sigh—this guy named Enke is quite capable.

He hasn’t read much, but he has some talent.

His mind is sharp, his means are cunning, and his heart is ruthless enough.

If placed in chaotic times, he could be a small boss.

In this war-torn small country in Africa, facing a group of natives who can’t even do single-digit addition and subtraction, it’s basically a dimensional descent strike.

After temporarily securing this small city, Enke expressed gratitude to Chen Nuo several times, trying to return the favor in some way.

He brought out some gold he had collected.

Chen Nuo declined.

He’s not poor, and his wife is even a rich woman, so he doesn’t care for this little gold.

Moreover, he knows that this guy wants to latch onto him.

Seeing that Chen Nuo refused his repayment, Enke scratched his head in thought for a long time...

Then, he finally thought of a way to please Chen Nuo.

After finding out that Chen Nuo is Huaxia people...

Enke created a document that day.

He sent someone to the mine across the river northwest of town.

The mining company at that mine—a Huaxia enterprise. Hence, a group of Huaxia labor workers congregated nearby.

Enke took out a document agreement and signed it with the company.

This move scared the mine manager sent there by the Huaxia company!

The mining rights were directly signed for 99 years!

The stamp below was the official stamp of the city government!

With this seal, the contract holds certain legal power, even if brought to court by the United Nations!

According to the mine manager:

"I’ve done overseas mining work for so many years, never seen a contract like this!

Oh, wait, I have seen it, in the history books!

The terms Cixi signed with the Eight-Nation Alliance were like this!!"

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Chen Nuo doesn’t want trouble; he plans to return to his country later and doesn’t want to draw attention to this matter.

So he never appeared in this matter. He let Enke handle it alone but instructed Enke not to mention his existence.

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Chen Nuo is still waiting for the Octopus Monster—he believes that following a series of moves, the true secret hidden by the Octopus Monster will eventually emerge, and maybe his guesses could hit this creature’s fatal weakness.

These days, Chen Nuo hasn’t been idle.

He got himself a fishing rod, carrying a bucket daily, and went to the river north of town to fish.

He spent a few hours by the river each day.

Lu Xixi didn’t mind—after all, the Empress doesn’t like water.

After several days of fishing, each day brought catches, ensuring a daily meal of braised fish or grilled fish.

Forget fish soup. The cooks here can’t make a delicious fish soup.

However, Chen Nuo really developed an interest in fishing, gradually becoming addicted as the days went by.

After fishing like this, Chen Nuo reckons he might as well change his nickname to "Emperor He Qiang of Africa".

Finally, at this evening...

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Retracting the rod, a fish leapt from the water, and Chen Nuo swiftly grabbed it, tossing it skillfully into the bucket.

Chen Nuo looked at the sky, then at the fish in the bucket.

He threw the two smallest back into the water, picked up the half-bucket containing four fish, secured the retractable rod under his arm, and ambled slowly toward the woods in his flip-flops.

After taking two steps, Chen Nuo frowned slightly.

"Seriously, hiding and watching someone fish is that interesting?" Chen Nuo looked up toward the woods.

He spoke in English.

After a moment of silence, a stiff voice emerged from the woods.

"Fishing, not interesting. You, very interesting."

Chen Nuo frowned.

At the edge of the woods, from behind a large tree, a figure slowly emerged.

It was an older African man with greying hair.

The middle-aged black man was wearing a dirty short-sleeved shirt and obviously oversized worn-out jeans—clothes usually seen among international aid to Africa.

This person dressed like a refugee.

Feeling the spiritual power’s faint vibrations in the air, sensing the rhythm of spatial energy—it was like ripples left after a stone is thrown into calm water.

Chen Nuo shook his head: "Controller?"

The black man looked at Chen Nuo: "Yama?"

"Yeah~" Chen Nuo looked rather pleased: "Quite rare that for a foreigner, calling my name right the first time is impressive! Usually, foreigners I meet call me, some nonsense like Lucifer."

Chen Nuo squinted at him: "How about you? What’s your name? By the way, I’ve never seen you. I know almost every Controller in the world and have met most of them... who are you?"

"I am Pengpeng."

"I’m Ding Man then!" Chen Nuo grinned.

"I’m really called Pengpeng. It’s my real name! I’ve had this name for decades. Then those damned people from M Country made that movie, with a warthog named Pengpeng, turning my name into a joke." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Alright, Chen Nuo stopped talking.

In Africa, black people often have strange names.

In fact, quite a number are named Pengpeng.

"Got a nickname?" Chen Nuo laughed: "Tell me, let me see if I know it."

"I have no nickname—not among you so-called Underground World Controllers. I rarely interact with other Special Ability Users.

However, in local lore, those folks call me ’Heaven’s Punishment’."

The black man grinned, flashing particularly white teeth.

Upon hearing the nickname "Heaven’s Punishment", Chen Nuo didn’t show any surprise, merely nodded calmly.

"So, Mr. Heaven’s Punishment, what do you want coming to watch me fish and then talking to me?"

The smile on the black man’s face slowly turned cold: "Of course... it’s time for you to accept Punishment!"

"...", Chen Nuo looked at the guy for a full two seconds, then shook his head and muttered, "Idiot."

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[Happy Mid-Autumn Festival everyone.

I’ll take a break for the next two days (16th and 17th) for the Mid-Autumn long holiday. Updates will resume on Wednesday, the 18th.

Hmm, during the break, I want to play some black monkey; bought it and haven’t touched it yet. Heard it’s hard to defeat?]

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