Killing is as normal as eating and breathing for Claire. The bloody battle with the orc Longga Yotong when she was escaping has made this originally thin slave child accustomed to blood and killing overnight.
After dealing with the malicious people who followed her, Claire didn't even try to cover up or hide the body, because there was no need to do so in the dark street. In this lawless place, people died all the time, including robbery, murder, abduction, etc. When crime fills this dark corner, no one will take the time to take a second look at a corpse on the ground.
After bypassing a street, Claire walked along the stairs to the underground passage below. Although the location is remote, this is the busiest place on the black street. Many hotels, brothels, and casinos are concentrated here, and drunkards and homeless people are all here. He was thrown out by the thugs in this underground passage. Ordinary people had to pay a tip of ten lien before entering. Because of this rule, not many idlers would come here. This underground passage with a large number of shops gathered On the contrary, the passage is a place with better security in the underworld.
After handing it over to Shi Lien, the thug guarding the door, Claire walked straight down. The Black Street is a rather strange place in the free city. Even the security forces in the free city are not interested in taking care of the affairs here. Firstly, because the Black Street is located in the lower class area, it will not threaten the safety of the wealthy people in the upper class district. Second, the underworld will hand over a large sum of money to the security forces every year to ensure that it can continue to exist. This is also one of the reasons why the underworld can exist in a free city for a long time.
The last time the security team concentrated its efforts on the underworld was to arrest Claire not long ago. Under the pressure of the upper-level giants, the city security team did not dare to be perfunctory and sent a large number of personnel to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the underworld. In fact, there was no need at all. The security team took action. After Claire's reward was released, gangs of all sizes in the underworld were searched all over the streets, stimulated by the high reward.
Of course, for the nearby residents outside the Black Street, this place is an out-and-out purgatory. There are endless robberies and murders every day, but for some bankrupts and penniless people, the underworld is the only place where they can stay in the free city. Eradicating the regulations in the free city, any bankrupt who cannot pay taxes will be directly beaten into a slave, and escaping into the underworld becomes the only way for these bankrupts to avoid becoming slaves. Of course, once they enter, they may never be able to escape. Step out of this street.
Although the black streets exist in such a strange way in the free city, for Claire now, it has become the only place where she can blend in with the crowd.
Claire opened the door of a hotel in the underground passage. The fact that this store sells alcohol is just a superficial appearance. In fact, this hotel is an intelligence trading station, and its owner is Fenrisemen, a famous gang leader in this dark street! Specialized in inquiring and selling all kinds of secret information, including market information, black street gang information, city security team information, and even some information about the upper-class areas of the free city are occasionally collected by Fenrisem.
Although Claire has been living a low-key life of almost seclusion in the underground sewers, Claire has not stopped collecting information about the upper area, especially about the great slave merchant Felibos and the arena champion Gerkat.
A previous opportunity allowed Claire to successfully connect with the biggest intelligence dealer in the underworld. Under Claire's heavy-money offensive, Fenrisemen finally determined that Claire was not an undercover agent of the city's security force or another gang. He gradually relaxed the restrictions and began to provide various news to Claire.
Intelligence is also an important resource in a free city, but this information is also divided into three, six, and nine levels. Some small gang members can only get some market information in the lower areas and inside information between gangs. For the big shots in the upper areas, The information has always been the most difficult to get. After all, the upper-class areas are places where only the most respectable people can enter, let alone those in the underworld who might be thrown into the slave market if caught. Even if It's because some small nobles and small businessmen didn't have the opportunity to step into that field.
There is no way to deal with the two people Claire particularly wants to know about, the 'Intelligence Rats'. One is one of the three giants of Free City. One is the eternal undefeated champion in the arena. Either of them is a big shot who can kill him as easily as strangling an ant. No matter how much money Claire gives, Fenli Semen will not dare to blatantly let people collect information on the two of them. At best, it's just a side shot.
After entering the hotel, Claire suddenly found that the atmosphere in the store was a little different today. There were no customers, and even the waiters and bartenders were quietly doing their own thing without daring to say a word.
"We have no business today. Come back in a few days." A bartender stepped forward and said immediately after seeing Claire.
"I'm here to find the mouse."
Claire said something, and the bartender naturally knew what it meant. For a moment, his face became a little embarrassed: "If you can't do it today, we have no business, so get out quickly."
"You are not an internal affairs officer┉┉"
"I said there will be no business here today, so leave immediately."
Claire, who has been here several times, is very aware of Fenrisemen's rules. On the surface, the bartenders and waiters in the hotel are foreign service personnel responsible for serving ordinary customers. Foreign service personnel are not qualified to receive special customers who want to buy information. Foreign affairs personnel must immediately notify internal affairs personnel to receive them at the first opportunity. If foreign affairs personnel receive and make decisions privately, the consequences will be tragic.
Claire felt something was wrong today. When could a foreign service officer take care of the internal affairs staff? Claire didn't want to continue arguing. Now that she knew something had happened to the 'Information Rat', Claire didn't want to muddy the waters to avoid getting into trouble. She turned around. Just when he was about to leave, a man wearing a black dress and a black mask that only exposed the part below his nose suddenly came down from the second floor. When the bartender saw this man, he immediately lowered his head and stepped aside like a cat and mouse. went.
"Are you a customer of Fenrisemen?" The man said directly to Claire without even looking at the bartender.
"No, I'm leaving now┉┉"
After saying that, Claire was ready to run away. It seemed like something big had happened here at Fenrise Gate.
"Please wait!" The man in black dress said immediately: "If you want to buy information, then please come over. There are some personnel changes in our store today, but business is still going on as usual."
Claire stopped and hesitated. To be honest, except for Fenrisie who accidentally hooked up with the Internet, Claire was like a rootless duckweed in the dark street and in the free city. There was no connection at all that could help Claire hook up with another person. information dealer. If you choose to leave now, your relationship with Fenrisem will definitely be completely severed next.
Seeing Claire's appearance, the man made a gesture of invitation: "Don't worry, our master also hopes to get to know more customers to expand his network and make our name known. As long as you can pay enough for the information you want, I guarantee you won't be disappointed.”
Claire thought for a moment and judged from the man's words that Fenrisemon had probably stepped down and the store had fallen into the hands of another group of intelligence dealers. But to Claire, it doesn’t matter who the intelligence dealer is, as long as he can help her get the correct information about Felibos and Gerkat.
At the other party's invitation, Claire chose to go upstairs. Even if there was an emergency, Claire was not afraid, because she still had the biggest support. The power of the mysterious gem could not be stopped by the entire free city's urban protection circle. The price of using gems is that you have to spend more time hiding in the waterway to recover.
When Claire went up to the second floor, she found that the second floor was full of people. On one side was a man also wearing a black dress and a mask, and on the other side were Fenrisemen's former subordinates, but they all looked uncertain and frightened. At this time, Claire also noticed something. The men in black dresses all had a black rose-shaped emblem on their chests.
The next second, Claire's eyes were instantly attracted to a woman sitting in the center like a star over the moon. This was a beautiful woman with an unusually coquettish and charming look. She was wearing very revealing clothes with a pair of protruding breasts that seemed to be able to Her plump breasts stretched out her clothes, but the woman's whole body exuded a suffocating sense of oppression. Although she looked young, her eyes seemed to have seen through everything in the world and were full of vicissitudes of life.
"Relax Mr. Misai, we just have some personnel changes today and it will not affect our business."
The name Misai is the pseudonym Claire is using now. After all, the wanted order against Claire has not been withdrawn so far. Even if Claire's previous crimes are withdrawn, it is impossible to continue to use the original name.
"As long as I can get the information I need, it has nothing to do with me who is the owner of this place." Claire also immediately made her attitude clear.
The woman played with a gold coin in her hand and looked at Claire with a meaningful smile and said: "Then please let me introduce myself first. I am LeBlanc! The owner of the Black Rose! From today on, this information transaction will also be The new boss of the station, if Master Master needs any more information, please continue to provide me with information in the future.”
"I asked you to get information about the three giants of Free City, can you?"
"Of course!" LeBlanc replied confidently: "The purpose of Black Rose is never to disappoint wealthy patrons! As long as you can pay a sufficient price, Mr. Misai, there is no news that we can't get." (To be continued...)