Let’s go back in time a little bit…
During the past two days, Goron had a pretty good life at Baron Kulahan's residence. Being able to reconnect with his biggest support, Black City, is definitely an unexpected help for Gron. This dark organization formed by a growing group of young black-handed ogres, old street prostitutes, slave traders, and arms dealers brought many unexpected surprises to Gron. Through the conversation with Ashe, a boy dressed as a maid, Gronn finally understood what happened in the Black City during the days when he entered the abyss of hell.
His boss behind the scenes has disappeared again, which is certainly not a good thing for the dark organization that has just been established in Black City, especially the newly joined group of human traffickers, headed by the cunning fat Cameron. But quite restless. However, after all, Gronn had a history of inexplicably missing for two years, and during those two years without any news, Gronn's original partner, the goblin businessman Tarkin Hillman, was able to work with him through inexplicable "intuition" The strange "faith" in the little ogre persists, and the old god is waiting for his return. Cassandra, the big boss of the old street, who has established an intimate and ambiguous relationship with Goron that is even higher than a "partner", will certainly not stand on the side of the slave merchant. Coupled with Goron's kin who stayed in the Haunted Gold Mine of Low Tide Port, the new generation of black-handed ogres that have gradually grown up are a force that cannot be ignored. Not only do they have the tyranny that ogres should have, and strong, under the influence of the mysterious radiation of the haunted gold mine, their intelligence has also grown significantly, and some characteristic words that would have been impossible to use to describe ogres have also begun to be used about them. For example... "cunning".
Of course, there is also the top secret of Black City that grassroots intelligence officers like Ashe cannot know, which is the existence of giant monsters and atavistic mutant ogres. The talents and possibilities possessed by these new generation of black-handed ogres born in the haunted gold mine can only be described as "horrible". Just the one-eyed ogre who was born to be a war king. Even a once-in-a-lifetime giant monster can be gathered together in the nursery of the haunted gold mine. When they fully grow up, maybe even the structure of the entire Dota Continent will change. Of course, only a few people in the Black City know about the existence of these alien ogres.
All in all, under absolute intimidation and warning, the slave merchant Cameron finally gave up his completely unrealistic attempt, and the internal fight ended before it even started. Cassandra and Tarkin Hillman did not pursue the matter too much, after all, as leaders. Goron, who disappears easily, does not yet have the charm and authority to make everyone willingly surrender to him. What's more, after the defeat and disappearance of "Bloody Sanga", the Black City took the opportunity to absorb a large number of scattered pirates. Although it rapidly expanded its own strength, it also buried a lot of hidden worries.
These pirate sailors have never even seen Goron's face, so how can they be loyal? It is simply humiliating to have this group of unruly, rough and lawless, but powerful pirates succumb to a group of "prostitutes" and "goblins". Cameron's idea of rebellion was actually due to pressure from his subordinates. And in the end, this cunning fat man was able to calm down an internal fight, and he also made a lot of efforts.
Although the internal troubles have not been completely resolved for the time being, the Black City is still expanding rapidly... and developing vigorously.
In recent years, women from Lao Cai have developed a very terrifying brand effect. Money is hard to come by in major population markets. For a time, once popular commodities, such as elven slaves and discarded aristocratic women, have become unavailable in the slave market.
This is not surprising. Under the mature and advanced education mechanism of Lao Cai, the girls trained even if they are mediocre in appearance, can often be sold for more than a daughter of a noble. They are gentle and considerate. He is considerate and always knows what men need most. It can always give men the peak of pleasure they dream of. They are completely different from those ordinary female slaves and prostitutes who have miserable faces and show no reaction to being tortured.
Of course, other romantic places will not watch their jobs being taken away. They tried every means to imitate Lao Cai, imitate her business model, and steal her education methods. However, there is one thing that these romantic places cannot learn no matter how hard they rack their brains, and it is impossible to give it to the girls under their banner.
That is "hope".
Yes, it is "hope". The word "hope" has nothing to do with women who have been reduced to a romantic place. They can only wait passively, waiting for the end of being abandoned like garbage after old age and sex. Before that, they could only sell their bodies, and then their souls, like machines, just to get bread and oatmeal for their next meal. But Lao Cai is different. She can give these girls hope again, and even give them a conceptual... "home".
Maybe the work done by these women is not any different. The work of the old street women is even more complicated, harder, and more... dangerous.
For example, intelligence gathering, and even personal assassination if necessary, at the cost of one's life.
The work is not different, but its nature has completely changed. When the girls have "hope" and "home", it's as if they have regained their souls. They are no longer zombies, and everything they have done has goals, expectations, and value. Not only will they not be abandoned, but they will also have a strong support behind them when they encounter difficulties.
This is also the fundamental reason for the rapid development of Fengyue affairs in Black City. The old street of Luchaogang is now Black City. Using the power of these brave and dedicated women, a complete set of intelligence collection has been established in a short period of time. The operating system, compared to that, the astronomical monetary gains are nothing.
Of course, it was not all smooth sailing during this period. Each of the old Fengyue organizations in mainland China had a powerful private army. Even if they did not, they could still obtain the power to attack the Black City through mercenaries and killer organizations. And when those private soldiers and mercenaries achieved some victory, what awaited them was an unimaginable violent counterattack and crazy revenge. There is no shortage of manpower in the Black City. The private armed forces composed of gangsters, slave-catching groups, pirate remnants, demi-human slaves, and even elite ogres are a terrifying force that no dark organization can face or compete with.
The later ones are the oldest. Fengyue Organization, which has the longest existence and the deepest strength, has many connections. Invite a group of truly strong masters to prepare to annihilate the top leaders of Black City in one fell swoop. Among them are even the old guild of thieves and killers such as "Whispers in the Shadows". But what greeted them was a fully armed army, a fully mechanized dwarf regiment belonging to the Kuxiong Principality.
Yes, although in the abyss of hell, in order to compete for the abyss contract, Goron and Marcus, the young leader of the Kuxiong family, fought to the death, but in the Blade Tower continent. The arms trade between Black City and the Cool Bear family has entered an extremely sweet honeymoon period. The rebellious intentions of the Kuxiong family have long been known to everyone, and the empire certainly did not sit idly by. Although neither side has shed its last layer of shame and entered a full-scale civil war, small actions on various large, medium and small battlefields and territorial borders have not stopped for a minute. Although the Kuxiong Principality has relied on the industrial and technological revolution launched by the dwarf alchemist Vegapunk? Black Wine Barrel, it has a new concept of weapons and equipment that is an era ahead of the entire continent. However, even if the Kuxiong Principality has a large number of dwarf slave warriors, in the In terms of the number of troops, it is also at an absolute disadvantage against the entire empire.
After the Kuxiong Principality secretly launched a general mobilization for all-out war, inside the military industrial workshop. Dwarf craftsmen who are skilled in forging have taken up weapons, gone to the training ground, onto the battlefield, and changed their profession to become warriors, musketeers, or operators of mechanized tanks and helicopters.
And the demand for arms orders has increased sharply. Naturally, it fell into the hands of the emerging industrial manufacturing base, the Black City Military Factory on the Haishiwan Peninsula. The reason is simple: there are abundant coal resources here. The newly discovered veins produced the finest metal ores and the most loyal and diligent workers. A production workshop with the most advanced equipment. It can be said that the Kuxiong Principality has no other choice at all. If you have to make some nitpicks about Black City, a trading partner with which we are increasingly cooperating. That is the person in charge of the business aspect of Black City. That green-skinned goblin is too cunning and slippery. God knows whether it is his goblin intuition or business experience that is at work. This damn green dwarf is always able to set the transaction price of weapons above the psychological endurance bottom line of the Kuxiong Principality, and sometimes even slightly exceeds it. It is depressing but reluctant. An acceptable point.
In short, the disadvantage of dealing with this goblin is that you will often feel irritable, angry, depressed, and sometimes you can't help but want to strangle that green-skinned dwarf who talks a lot of nonsense. For the kings of the hill of the Cool Bear family Say, it's damn easy to do this. But they will not, no matter how irritated or depressed they are, they will not abandon this partner easily. The reason is that although this green-skinned dwarf has various shortcomings, for the current Kuxiong family, this goblin, the black organization behind the goblins, has increasingly become an indispensable and important partner of the Kuxiong Principality. .
The empire's intelligence organization is not a freeloader, and its attacks on partners outside the Kuxiong Principality have never stopped for a day. Those arsenals secretly supported by the Kuxiong Principality always suffer devastating blows soon after they are established. Not to mention that all the manpower, material and financial resources invested by the Kuxiong family were in vain, the flow of the manufacturing processes and design drawings of those cutting-edge weapons into the empire was a heavy blow that the Kuxiong family could not bear.
Only the Black City, which has established a very detailed and complete intelligence system and confidentiality mechanism, and only the underground arsenal of the emerging seaport town that is located in a remote place where the power of the empire cannot reach, can provide a steady stream of supplies to the Kuxiong Principality. arms support. How could such a collaborator, Cool Bear, tolerate unexpected situations happening to him? So when the enemies attracted by the crazy expansion of the Black City deployed their trump cards, they faced the dwarf corps of the Kuxiong family armed to the teeth, and a group of people who were full of anger at the goblin merchants and had nowhere to vent. King of Dune…
No one was left alive... When the fifth-level war king-level Dark Walkers and the top three mercenary groups in the mainland also mysteriously disappeared during the attack on the Black City, the organizations that united to resist the Black City finally realized that they were facing The opponent was an opponent that we could not defeat no matter what, so most of the organizations were completely disbanded. Many of the remaining organizations chose to compromise and integrate into the Black City after being drastically streamlined and reviewed. There are also some organizations that have chosen to change careers. For example, some Fengyue organizations are planning to sell off their dancers, singers, and slaves as the first pot of gold to enter the slave trade field. As a result, they suddenly and sadly discovered that they had just sold the dancers, singers, and slaves in the field of Fengyue. The mysterious emerging organization Black City that he defeated had already extended their clutches to the slave trade. Although they have not yet occupied the dominant position in the two fields of Fengyue and Arms, the slave catching group and slave caravan affiliated to the Black City are very active and are competing with other established slave merchants in various aspects. A brutal fight for survival space. This field has long been filled with swords and swords, and the situation is in dire straits. There is no room for others to intervene.
And as the losers in the battle with Black City, these down-and-out Fengyue organizations know very well how terrifying the hidden strength possessed by Black City is. Due to the strict blockade of information and the absence of any survivor reports in each battle, they have mistook the intervention of the Kuxiong Principality for the hidden strength of Black City itself, and this wonderful misunderstanding has a profound impact on Black City. It is naturally perfect for the emerging organization, and it is even the result of the intelligence operation carried out intentionally by the big boss Cassandra. This is of great significance to the development and growth of Black City. It not only supports the development and operation of Fengyue Domain from the front, but also helps the slave trade field from the side, which is the most difficult to expand, has the most fierce and cruel competition, and cannot receive direct help from the Kuxiong Principality. .
************(To be continued...)