No matter how good the goods were, they couldn't do business that way.
The person on the other end continued.
"But I have one condition."
"What condition?"
"I don't accept electronic bank transfers. I don't trust electronic banks, or any corporation. I only accept cash and credit chips."
"You don't accept electronic
bank transfers? If you don't trust me, I can have Rogue send you both the deposit and the balance. Surely you trust Rogue?"
The person on the other end replied.
"It's not Rogue I don't trust. It's the corporations controlling the electronic banks. Electronic bank transfers can be traced, and money kept in an electronic bank can vanish just like that."
"People in our line of work are thorns in the corporations' sides. One careless mistake, and they'll destroy our families and take every last cent. So I have to be careful."
There was some truth to what he said.
For ordinary people, keeping a little money in an electronic bank was fine.
The tiny sums ordinary people earned were barely pocket change. The corporations controlling the electronic banks wouldn't bother with those crumbs.
But anyone who wasn't an ordinary person, who worked in a lucrative profession outside corporate control, needed to be careful.
At the very least, they couldn't put their entire fortune in an electronic bank.
Otherwise, if they ever crossed a corporation, it could freeze their money whenever it wanted.
There was no point complaining about abuse of power. Even the referees were on their payroll. How could anyone compete with them?
So Su Xiao fully understood the Bolivian arms dealer's concerns.
But...
"If you don't trust electronic bank transfers, how do you want to do this? Surely you don't expect me to have a shipping company deliver cash and credit chips to you? That's