Baltimore is located about 50 kilometers northeast of DC.
It was once the third largest city in the United States. It had the earliest railways and excellent port resources, and was an important hub for the Great Lakes region's industries to enter sea transportation.
But that was a long time ago.
Baltimore today has become increasingly distorted and chaotic.
The middle class and wealthy people who first lived here, faced with the influx of a large number of African Americans, chose to leave and simply stopped interacting with African Americans.
The white people moved to another area, leaving the original urban area to a group of poor African Americans.
The whole city was thus split into two parts.
One part is the wealthy and middle class, who live in new areas with good public security and supporting service facilities.
Most of the old districts are full of crime, and the African-American community, which makes up nearly half of the city's population, stays here, rotting day after day.
When it comes to crime rates, cities like Chicago and Detroit have to admit defeat to Baltimore.
That is to say, Baltimore has a population of less than one million and has no advantage in absolute numbers, which is why it failed to grab the crown of the sin capital of the United States.
Even so, you can imagine how chaotic the old town here is.
But it is still a good place with extremely convenient water and land transportation. It is only about 150 kilometers away from Philadelphia in the north and a little over 300 kilometers away from New York.
Chaos means there are many uncontrolled places, and the convenience of the land and water network allows large quantities of illegal drugs to be transported to other places by roads, trains and ships.
Luke entered the old town in the night.
A moment later, he came out of an alley, no longer hiding his figure, but changing into an African-American vest.
It belonged to a peddler in New York. The original owner had turned it into experience points in the system several months ago, so there would be no harm if it was used once.
The biggest feature of this peddler is his ferocious appearance and strong body, which is a bit similar to Mike Tyson in his previous life, so Luke kept it.
Now when Luke walked in the old town, many people just glanced at him and then paid no more attention to him.
A strong African American man wearing a very ordinary gray and black pullover with his hands in his pockets. He was not a suitable target for robbery.
If they really go there, it will be hard to say who will rob whom.
Luke walked into a bar not far away.
Most of the neon lights that made up the bar's name were broken. All that could be seen was a J, followed by a Br some distance behind it, and an a vaguely visible in the middle.
At the side of the door, two African-American men smoking just glanced at Luke and ignored him.
Luke pushed the door open.
A seven or eight meter long passage appeared before our eyes. The brick-red walls and dim lights made it look dull and depressing.
At the end of the passage, a heart-pounding bass sound mixed with gibberish lyrics could be faintly heard from a door.
When he pushed open the second door, waves of sound surged into his ears.
After scanning the hall for a moment, he walked to the bar and tapped the counter with his knuckles: "A bottle of beer."
The bartender handed him a bottle of beer, took the money, and ignored him.
Luke turned half a circle and looked towards the stage in the middle of the hall.
The stage was a disc with four cross-shaped walkways extending outward, on which two women were dancing passionately.
One is white and the other is African. The common point is that they are severely lacking in clothing, have broad minds, and have large bodies. When they swing their bodies, it feels like the mountains are shaking and the earth is trembling.
Many people around the stage whistled and offered money to tempt
They draw near to themselves.
The two female dancers cleverly used their dancing moves to put themselves in a position where they could receive the money but not be pulled away by anyone.
When dancing here, you must absolutely avoid this dangerous situation.
The consequences of being pulled off the stage could be a bruised face at best, or even death at worst.
The bar owner has enough deterrent power, but he can't stop those idiots from getting drunk and doing whatever they want.
Although Luke was facing the stage at this moment, his focus was already on the virtual projection of the light-colored sunglasses.
A large number of micro drones began to conduct reconnaissance on the bar. They flew in silently from various gaps and searched all the hidden areas of the building.
At the same time, Luke's ears were collecting and analyzing the conversations of those around him.
He simply ignored most people who were out for fun and focused on those whose behavior was unusual.
Like two men leaning against each other, talking about "tomorrow's goods" and "twenty-five thousand".
And from time to time, there were individual thugs who would go in and out through a small guarded door. Occasionally, they would take the money they had just received and spend it on the stage or bar.
But these small fish are not Luke's target.
Until he catches the big fish, these small fish won't come within his fishing range.
Suddenly the music stopped, and the two sweaty female dancers walked back to the center stage with only the clothes on their waists and banknotes pinned on them like flowers.
The two women stood up, blew kisses to everyone, and then slowly sank down the stage.
Without the music, all kinds of noisy sounds were heard.
The sounds of whistles, scolding, shouting, and conversation mixed together, and everyone's ears were filled with a buzzing sound.
Then some who went to the toilet took the opportunity to force themselves to drink or take drugs, and some who hugged each other and ate and touched each other wildly also seized the opportunity to continue.
This is a break and also the prelude to the next carnival.
Luke also found his goal.
In a luxurious booth, one of the people was called "Boss" by others, and another called him "Rama Boss".
Iron Hand Rama, a boss with a murderous iron hand, is also the big boss of this bar.
At the same time, he is also Claudia's "big customer".
In the past two years, Claudia has provided him with up to five tons of goods, and the few times Haji came, he just had to hand over the goods to Rama.
In transactions among merchants who have no integrity and no bottom line, it is quite rare to see a model where payment is received first and goods are delivered later, or goods are received first and payment later.
Therefore, Luke set his sights on Rama.
Even if it is finally found out that there is no one behind Rama, he will still get a lot of experience points.
Once you have found your goal, all that remains is waiting.
In order to avoid alerting Rama's possible boss, Luke did not intend to attack this person directly, but to get the information first.
At this moment, the music in the bar started again, and an electronic music song "Toxic" sounded: "Baby, g, A guy like you should wear a warning..."
Three female dancers, dressed in shoddily made blue stewardess uniforms, rose from beneath the circular stage.
Luke just raised the beer in his hand and took a sip. He glanced casually and saw the female dancer standing in the center, twisting her waist and walking slowly to the front.
puff!
He spurted out a mouthful of beer.
The bartender just glanced at him and found that he just spit out and put the bottle back on the bar, and didn't say anything.
If this wasn't a bar, he wouldn't care if the customer spit out half a bottle of wine.