Chapter 298 Let’s Bet Again (2/2)

Hugo shouted, ”If you have the guts, go then. I swear that the next day someone will find a stinking corpse in a ditch!”

”So that's the way the Comanche Casino operates?” Li Du came to the realization and suddenly smiled.

Harris instantly turned to give his cousin another slap and flared up at him, ”Just shut up and get away from me!”

Hugo held his face with one hand and ran away like a bereaved dog.

Li Du made a caustic comment, ”You know I can do that, I just need to let the Flagstaff police know that I’m going to donate half of my earnings to them—then they’ll protect me, right?”

Harris wore a cold grin, exposing his pale teeth. Fine, I understand, he thought.

”Well, you want to negotiate, right?” asked Harris. ”How do you want to negotiate?”

Li Du turned to the group of old man and asked, ”Mr. Martin, what happened?”

Martin gave an account of the incident, ”We returned from the hunt and wanted to take a break at noon. Then two mule deer came running in our direction, so we shot them—”

”Hey, old fellow, that's our prey,” Harris snarled. ”Our prey!”

Martin snapped a curt reply, ”Fine, you can take them away.”

”We wanted to capture the two deer alive,” said Harris. ”Old man, you killed them, you have to compensate us.”

Li Du immediately understood that these people had deliberately plotted against the group of old men.

He even suspected whether the group of wild boar earlier had also been a trap they had set up to extort hunters, but their plan had been thwarted by him and his friends.

The old men had enough life experience to know that the Native Americans wanted to extort them, so the two sides had gotten into a heated argument.

Li Du knew a direct confrontation would be useless. He indicated for the old men to stay calm, and turned to Harris. ”Pal, it’s a misunderstanding, there are more than two deer on the mountain, you can go hunt more.”

Harris sat on the shoulder of one of the mule deer and crossed his legs. ”Misunderstanding? This is not a misunderstanding. They have robbed us of our prey and we need to talk.”

Li Du asked stoically, ”What do you want to talk about?”

Harris smirked. ”Pal, I'm a reasonable man. I like to reason with people to agree with me.”

Li Du almost laughed out loud upon hearing this. He tried hard to keep a straight face while holding back his laughter.

Harris noticed the slight change in his expression, he raised his eyebrows and said, ”Any problem with that?”

A faint smile still lurking around the corners of his mouth, Li Du said, ”Nothing, so what’s your argument? I'm all ears.”

Harris said in a grave tone, ”They robbed us of our prey, pal. This is not right, absolutely not right. This is a very, very bad thing to do.”

”So?”

”So, we need to ask for compensation,” said Harris conceitedly. ”Do you want to hear about my terms for the compensation?”

”Wait, you claimed that they robbed you of your prey,” said Li Du factually. ”Who can prove that? I can also claim that the two deer were their prey.”

The choleric Harris froze for a moment. ”What?”

”I said, you wanted to snatch their prey,” replied Li Du. ”These two deer were not driven here by your men—they stumbled upon them.”

Harris immediately flew into a rage and yelled, ”F*ck you! With your weak limbs? These old turtles? They are able to chase the deer?”

Li Du pointed at Harris and tried to reason, ”Don’t cuss, I said you’d better not cuss. Why are they not able to chase deer? They're all good hunters.”

Harris suddenly gave a loud cackle. ”You claim that you are good hunters before us, the Comanche? This is priceless!”

Li Du also smiled, but with a hint of craftiness. ”How about this: Let’s compete with each other. How about another bet? What do you say?”

Harris’s condescending laughter came to an abrupt halt!