Chapter 67: Hongmen Banquet! The Scent of Gossip! (2/5, requesting data)

Biscuit immediately pricked up her ears to eavesdrop; she couldn't hear the specific words clearly, but she could tell the person on the other end was a woman.

And she shouldn't be much older than him, considered Luo Ge's peer.

A feeling called "gossip" welled up, and Biscuit raised her eyebrows at Machi and Shizuku beside her:

"I smell the scent of gossip."

Machi, Shizuku: ...

The two looked at each other and helplessly shrugged their shoulders.

This made Biscuit somewhat surprised; could she have guessed wrong?

Luo Ge heard every word Biscuit said, and while suppressing the black lines on his forehead, he continued his call with Zhu Di.

The two chatted casually for a few sentences, then Zhu Di got to the point, her tone becoming a bit lower.

"I don't know if you're free recently; there's a gathering coming up that might require your presence."

"A meeting?"

"Yes, this is a relatively important meeting; I'm afraid I can't hold them down on my own."

After an explanation from Zhu Di, Luo Ge finally understood what kind of meeting this was.

This meeting was a gang conference organized by several second-rate gangs, primarily inviting a portion of second-rate and third-rate gangs.

The third-rate gangs were purely there to make up the numbers, while hoping to gain some recognition by attending such a meeting.

So that their families could establish friendly relations with other families and seek better development prospects.

The real main event lay with those few second-rate gangs.

Third-rate gangs were just small-time operations; if you just gathered a few people and took a name, that was an unranked gang.

Then the difference between a third-rate gang and an unranked gang wasn't large.

The main difference was that a third-rate gang had a little bit of fame locally and had their own piece of territory.

This territory was usually not large, sometimes even as small as a single shop on the street.

Second-rate gangs were different.

In an average city, a second-rate gang was already a significant organization, usually having members in the triple digits.

Some exaggerated top-tier second-rate gangs would even have four-digit membership; this level could almost be equivalent to a first-rate gang.

The original Eila family was considered to be on the lower end among second-rate gangs.

After some operations by Luo Ge and the others, even some veteran second-rate gangs were now unwilling to provoke the Eila family.

However, the interests involved in Manhake City and the surrounding cities were not small.

So other second-rate gangs were unwilling to see the Eila family swallow this big cake all by themselves.

This meeting was initiated by several second-rate gangs that wanted a piece of the pie from the Eila family.

And they specifically sent invitations for the Eila family to send someone.

It could be said that this meeting was held specifically for the Eila family.

The resources of these few cities alone naturally weren't worth them doing this; the main reason lay in the nearby Meteor City.

Occupying the cities around Manhake was equivalent to controlling a portion of Meteor City's resources.

First-rate gangs might not care much, but these second-rate gangs valued it quite highly.

This led to this "Hongmen Banquet."

And the location of the meeting was also a place Luo Ge was familiar with—Yorknew.