"Could you tell me the details?"
Bai Wu poured a glass of water for Ye Weiming and Ruan Qingyun, and his expression gradually became serious.
From the moment he saw the beauty mole, he felt that those old perverts in the upper echelons were a bit too perverted.
In addition to the disappearance of Liu Chengzi’s two companions, before leaving the tower, Xue Ci and Yun Shu from the interrogation team informed him that a girl had recently disappeared.
This time, even the short sister-in-law may be involved.
It's normal that my short sister-in-law was noticed by those perverted perverts given her beauty.
But Bai Wu was puzzled as to why he had only noticed it now? The short wife was slightly older than the captain, so if they were in love, it would be a relationship between an older sister and a younger brother.
When my sister was in her prime, she might not have been as feminine as she is now, but she had her own charm that she doesn’t have now.
Ruan Qingyun began to tell the details:
"About a week ago. In fact, I mobilized my own people before you. Although I am not as powerful as your captain, I also have my own influence. At the bottom, he may not be as well-informed as I am."
Bai Wu knew this. Anyone who dared to name the Gui Tui Mo Firm must be both rich and capable.
"It's just that my people, all those who investigated them, disappeared one after another. Even those who didn't disappear were because they found nothing. The other party's response made me feel that they were not the lower-level forces. The lower-level white forces are the Investigation Corps. I have a good relationship with them. In the lower-level underworld, small and medium-sized forces can be ignored. There are a total of five major forces."
"But if you follow them up, their big boss is only a third-tier person, and most people won't offend me."
Bai Wu nodded. To offend Shorty was to offend Shorty. Judging from Qin Zong's trust in Shorty, Shorty had basically secured his position as deputy group leader.
This is not something that ordinary nobles dare to provoke.
Although he has the word "short" in his name, he will be looked down upon by the taxi drivers on the third floor, but the words "short" are not written on his face. There is no rule in this world that if you are less than 1.6 meters tall, you must be 59 meters tall.
"It's not a bottom-level force, it's a fourth-level or even fifth-level force." Bai Wu said.
"It seems so at the moment."
"So the boss lady didn't look for the captain, but came to me? I'm also a member of the Survey Corps."
"You will command my people. There are many secret spies in the Guituimo Office. What I want to rely on is your brain." Ruan Qingyun said.
Bai Wu probably understood.
This is no small matter. It has only been a short time since I traveled to the tower, but I have heard of so many cases of missing women.
"Can't let the captain know?"
"He is also investigating this case, but he doesn't know that I have been targeted. He is a person who does everything by himself. With his current status, he doesn't need to do many things, such as investigating outside the tower, but he will still accompany you to do it, so if you can avoid causing trouble for him, try not to let him know."
Bai Wu thought about it and felt that Shorty was indeed that kind of person. This could be seen from the fact that the squad leader would go to the white area to carry out the mission.
However, this also shows that the captain is not satisfied with his current strength.
"I think it's wrong to deliberately conceal some things for the sake of others. Many stupid decisions are made out of good intentions for the sake of others. But I agree to help you, the boss lady, investigate these cases. But if I find that these things are more serious than I thought, I will still tell the captain."
Ruan Qingyun stared at the white mist for a few seconds, then nodded and said:
"Okay, I'll listen to you."
"So, what can we learn from this? Where did they usually monitor you? Were you alone at the time, or were you followed by people from the agency?"
"I have a few colleagues from the firm protecting me, but their faces are different every time, so sometimes I'm not sure if they are monitoring me."
Intuitive judgment
Bai Wu chose to trust the short wife's intuition and said:
"Then take me with you this time."
"you sure?"
"About what time?"
"From 3 to 4 pm, one of the office's bases is in the North District. We will pass through a busier area in the North District. That place is like a combination of a talent market and a bargain hunting port. It is also the most chaotic place in the North District, and there is often a lot of intelligence mixed in here."
"Then let's go together."
Bai Wu looked at the time and stood up.
Ruan Qingyun didn't expect this big boy to be so efficient:
"Not preparing for what?"
"They monitored us several times but didn't take action. I guess it's because you, the boss lady, have a special status, or they are waiting for a perfect opportunity. I'm more inclined to the latter, so there's no need to prepare anything. Just do what you need to do as usual."
Since the other party has decided to attack Ai Sao, Bai Wu believes that no matter how high Ai Sao's status in the underworld is, she is nothing but a floating duckweed in the eyes of the big forces.
The reason why they didn't take action may be that they had other plans.
…
…
Ruan Qingyun admired Bai Wu's style of doing things as soon as he said they would.
She took Bai Wu to a better clothing store at the lower level and bought Bai Wu a set of fashionable clothes that were popular among the lower-level miners.
They are probably all styles from the third layer a few years ago, but the resources of the bottom layer are like that. The so-called "middle class" at the bottom mostly wear things that the third layer doesn't want.
Bai Wu didn't care. The proprietress paid the bill and had a bite of the soft rice from Ai Ge's house. It was sweet and delicious.
The flow of people in the East District is mainly in the East Square. To leave the tower, you need to go to the teleportation stone tablet in the East Square.
People in the northern district basically gather in the "stinky ditch", which is what Ruan Qingyun calls the combination of a bargain hunting port and a talent market.
The stinking ditch is not really a stinking ditch. Although it is indeed dirty and messy, that is not why it is called a stinking ditch.
Bai Wu's home is in the western corner of the southern part, and it takes some time to get to the stinky ditch in the northern area.
When the two arrived, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.
The stinking ditch is very large and is divided into two parts: the task market, also known as the talent market, and the other is the street stall area.
Unlike the Mercenary Association, most of the tasks of the Mercenary Association are outside the tower, while most of the tasks issued by the Stinky Ditch Task Market are inside the tower.
Originally, Ruan Qingyun thought that Bai Wu would be interested in the strange and bizarre goods, but Bai Wu didn't even look at them. Instead, he looked towards the task market.
So Ruan Qingyun took Bai Wu to the mission market.
This really opened Bai Wu's eyes. One of the tasks was as follows:
"Buy a game of retribution for the daughter of an old friend. Price is negotiable. Go to the Good Man Casino in the North District at 4pm every day, table number 4."
Bai Wu didn't quite understand.
Ruan Qingyun said: "Don't understand?"
"What is the retribution in this life?"
"It's just jargon. Retribution in this life means crippling someone. The daughter of an old friend is the wife or daughter of your enemy. In addition to retribution in this life, there is also reincarnation, which means buying your life. There is also another kind of commission, called the red spider lily. To put it simply, it means cutting off the roots."
Bai Wu frowned: "No one cares?"
"Of course I can. But there are many things that I can't control. All the commissions you see have middlemen. The only thing the Survey Corps can catch are middlemen. If the middlemen are caught, it is guaranteed to cause more chaos."
"Now, several squad leaders of the Survey Corps have reached an agreement with several major forces in the stinking ditch to reduce the number of commissions per month to a certain number. This is also a compromise, because there are too many people at the bottom, so many that the Survey Corps can't manage them all."
Ruan Qingyun looked slightly disappointed:
"Your captain left us because he wanted to gain power in a larger system and rectify the lower levels. I am also trying to arrange my own spies at the lower levels to cooperate with him."
Bai Wu roughly understood that there were very few cases written on the commission.
For the majority of people at the bottom who ignore the law, they would kill people themselves and would never issue a commission.
So although there are many commissions for Stinky Ditch, there are many more real crimes than that.
It is not that the upper echelons are corrupt and evil, and the lower echelons are clean. Most of the time, the lower echelons hate each other, but both the lower echelons and the upper echelons have big problems.
Bai Wu now understands more clearly what the captain meant by "Don't think about these things until you have enough power to change the system", as well as the helplessness contained therein.
He stopped thinking about it because the "watchers" appeared.
Just when Bai Wu discovered that someone was staring at the short sister-in-law, Ruan Qingyun naturally walked to Bai Wu and said softly:
“Here they come.”
Bai Wu was slightly surprised. The short lady's observation ability was not much worse than his own.
In the Choushuiditch mission area, Bai Wu discovered about three or four people who were looking at the people around them, and most of their eyes were on women.
The time spent on my short wife was the longest.
They come from an organization you have already interacted with.
The organizations I have come into contact with
The Survey Corps certainly can't do that, and the Guards shouldn't do that either. The Tower God Society
Bai Wu quickly noticed the tattoos. Although these people did not expose too many tattoos, he could recognize that they were the tattoos of the Tower God Society just by looking at a part of them.
"It really is the Tower God Society. For a cult that dares to attack even the Zhenyu Army and the Investigation Army directly, it is not an exaggeration to kidnap the short wife. However, the Tower God Society may not be the mastermind. The Tower God Society is just a tool. Maybe the person who controls the tool is a ruler of the fifth layer."
Bai Wu has already withdrawn his sight.
"Did you find anything?" Ruan Qingyun's eyes were very natural, as if she didn't realize she was being watched.
"I have discovered something. Have you heard of the Tower God Society?"
"A cult active among the nobility. They hardly ever move among the lower classes."
Basically, there is no activity at the bottom level.
Bai Wu believed that what Ai Sao said had some basis, which puzzled him. According to the information given by Liu Chengzi and the interrogation team, these people who captured beautiful girls at the bottom and brought them to the top should appear frequently.
"Could it be that they are not from the same group? The Tower God Society also knew that the perverts in the upper echelons could no longer control my second brother, so they took advantage of the chaos to kidnap my sister-in-law and finally put the blame on others? If that's the case... then the other party's behavior would cause my short brother to hate the upper echelons. I can't help but think about who the president of the Tower God Society is."
Ruan Qingyun noticed that Bai Wu didn't speak, so she asked:
"in trouble?"
"There is one thing, but I haven't figured it out. It feels like everything is squeezed together. Madam Boss, you'd better hire a few third-level or even stronger masters to protect you."
"You suspect it's the Tower God Society?"
"Well, but I haven't figured out their purpose. I just have a bad feeling."
"Regarding your hunch, what do you think the chances are of it coming true?"
"I don't know. It's too confusing."
A lot of thoughts flooded into Bai Wu's mind. The sudden intervention of the Tower God Society made Bai Wu feel that this time the opponent might take more extreme measures.
Although Bai Wu still had a normal expression, his tone was quite serious, which made Ruan Qingyun realize that the big boy was warning her.
"Do you think I should inform him?"
"Captain? Yes, the Tower God Society once launched an assassination attempt on me directly on the streets of the third floor. They are crazy." Bai Wu said in a low voice.
Ruan Qingyun nodded.
"Okay, I understand. I'll contact him when I get back."
Bai Wu felt a little relieved.
…
…
Outside the tower, a week ago, the white area.
In another seven hours, the mine will have to be closed, because after seven hours, the number will have been in effect for seventy-two hours.
Countless miners are working hard to mine ores, although most of the time, no matter how lazy or diligent they are, they will get the same tower. But if they can occasionally mine some rare ores with colors, they will choose to bring them back to the tower and sell them for a good price.
Therefore, for most people, mining is just a bottom line, and mining good mines is the main source of income.
The senior management in charge of supervision are also happy to see this. Good mines are scarce, but they can motivate the miners not to be lazy and to wield their pickaxes diligently.
Deep in the mines.
A tall and thin man, wielding a pickaxe, said:
"You bewitched my people and asked him to notify me to come and see you, just to make me dress like a low-class pariah and accompany you to mine?"
The other person had a mask on his face, with a distorted smile painted on it:
"The lower class of untouchables? In the eyes of the tower god, people also have high and low status?"
"Of course, people are born unequal. I can listen to the revelations of the tower god, my people can listen to my teachings, and those ants and lowly people are the sacrifices my people offer to me."
The masked man made a "tsk tsk" sound:
"You are even crazier than me, but occasionally doing the work of an ant, swinging a mining pick, will make you more divine, and people will respect you more. They prefer a god who is willing to get stained with dust to a high god."
Seeing the tall and thin man nod unconsciously, the masked man continued
"I contacted you this time to ask you to do me a favor."
"God taught me one thing. People must learn to love themselves before they can be loved by others." The tall and thin man said expressionlessly.
"Of course, I'll do you a favor. A universal request, as long as it's within my ability." The masked man shrugged.
"Not a bad deal, what do you want from me?"
"First, I need a sedative. A sedative for the investigation outside the tower."
"That's contraband. Only the Survey Corps and the Guards can have it."
"You are God's spokesman, you can't get it, right?"
"God is omnipotent, and so am I." The tall and thin man put down his pickaxe, looked at the masked man with a proud expression, and continued:
"That's all?"
"The second request is that I need you to capture a woman at a specific time."
"what do you want to do?"
"Games are all about letting players make interesting choices, and I love giving people multiple-choice questions the most."