Chapter 1500: Twilight Event (22)

After nearly two years of efforts by the Wei En Engineering Group, the renovation of Cat Getan's East District has been completed by a small half, but the main objects of renovation are still residential houses. Many commercial streets controlled by mafia families have not yet started construction.

Nightclubs, casinos, shopping malls with intricate interpersonal relationships, and even markets with heavy traffic all need time to clarify the interest relationships, and except for some old buildings that have not been renovated since Cat Getan was built, which are unstable in architectural structure, the commercial buildings built later have become the landmark scenery of Cat Getan's skyline, and are not suitable for being demolished and rebuilt like those dilapidated residential houses.

Although Cat Getan is chaotic, it is not poor. The East District is a concentrated embodiment of this phenomenon. Although there are high-density low-end residential areas where the poor struggle to survive like the living hell before, there are also high-rise buildings and golden beaches with bright lights at night.

Golden Beach is by the sea, south of the East District wharf area, consisting of a beach about twenty miles long, the Golden Cup Square on the only way to the beach, and four main streets distributed in a well shape. This is the most prosperous commercial center in the East District.

Including the Golden Cup Bar, Golden Cup Nightclub, Golden Wine Casino established by the Golden Cup Group controlled by the Falcone family, the Guli Commercial Street controlled by the Spencer family, Chinatown occupied by Chinese mafia, and the Golden Beach Market located in the center of the well shape controlled by the Lawrence family.

Golden Beach Market is the largest underground market in the world and the only black market in a semi-public state. Things that can be bought here include but are not limited to stolen goods from all over the world, smuggled goods, contraband weapons, contraband drugs, certain images that violate humanitarianism, and human organs.

Of course, due to the gradual transformation of Cat Getan mafia towards the traditional cold chain logistics industry, the Golden Beach Market has become not as prosperous as before, but it is still the place where the lower nine streams of Cat Getan are most densely active.

Driving south all the way from Yosier Street, passing through the right ramp of Guli Street, you can find the entrance to the Golden Beach Market in a dark alley with Lawrence family buildings on both sides.

After pushing open the dilapidated iron door, the scene inside suddenly opened up. The neon signs of various bars made people dizzy, the towering buildings were brightly lit, and looking down along the street lamps, thieves wearing jackets, hats, and backpacks in front of them put dilapidated cardboard boards in front of their feet, on which some names of items were written, and motorcycle gangs supporting motorcycles gathered in twos and threes to pick stolen goods.

At the end of this street, there is a bar called Silver Thorn. After opening the door and passing through a somewhat narrow corridor, the dazzling light of the disco ball left a striking scar on the surface of the black leather clothing.

When a slender figure walked into the bar, everyone's eyes looked at her, and then moved away at the same time within a second.

"Catwoman, good girl, you haven't been here for a long time. Where did you make a fortune recently? You wouldn't have forgotten us old buddies, would you?"

A strange-looking thin man sat at the stripper bar drinking. Catwoman walked over and sat down and said: "Collapse Head, you are still working here? I thought you would have gone to the Golden Cup Bar long ago."

"There's no way, the boss there is too powerful, I can't afford to provoke him, it's better here." The man called Collapse Head laughed a few times, and when he turned over and exposed the other side of his face, he could see why he was called "Collapse Head."

The whole right side of his face from the forehead corner to the right eye was missing a large piece, becoming a pit. The scars on it showed that this mutation was not born, but caused by injury later. It looked very strange and terrifying.

But everyone knows that in Cat Getan, if you see a very obvious serious wound on someone's exposed limbs, you must raise your vigilance.

Even when Batman was mixing in the bottom layer of the East District, he would be anxious because a cold was about to lose his ability to work. For ordinary people, even if some small injuries affected their work efficiency, it was very likely to make them fall into a vicious cycle, and the final result was nothing more than going to those basement doctors to find some fun for their remaining lives.

Anyone who can survive a serious injury in Cat Getan and live well is a ruthless person among ruthless people. After all, they don't have medical resources like the Wei En Group. Just the rain with dark attributes in Cat Getan is enough for them to drink a pot.

If these people are lucky enough to survive, the ugly scars will become their armor, or even weapons. At least in Cat Getan, when someone sees a person like Collapse Head, the instinctive reaction is to take a detour, because there is another possibility more terrible than being injured later—congenital disability and mental distortion caused by disability, this type can be listed as a villain type in Batman's main magazine, and no one wants to provoke them.

But fortunately, this Collapse Head is not a lunatic. He didn't chat with Catwoman for a few words before complaining: "The market recently is really getting worse and worse. With the progress of the renovation project, the Wei En Group has laid more and more security equipment here."

"When have thieves seen such high-end things? Last time Little Fidel didn't know why and bumped into it. He thought his infiltration was seamless, but he was actually locked by the robot long ago. That ghost thing is more accurate than the most accurate gunman in the mafia, and Little Fidel was shot dead on the spot."

"Originally, the market in the East District was the best, with many people and easy to steal, so it could support the four great thieves and so many other thieves, but now the situation has become like this, there are fewer targets, and there are still so many thieves, so they can't be divided at all. Many thieves in the East District have to go to other districts to steal things."

"They are unfamiliar with other districts, and it is easy to fight when they see peers in those districts. In just a few months, the customers who came to me to sell stolen goods have decreased by half. If this continues, they won't even be able to fill their stomachs."

Collapse Head sighed deeply and said: "Who let me be dizzy with blood? If it weren't for some hidden bitterness, who would be a fence in this damn city, isn't it enough to be bullied by the mafia?"

Catwoman also sighed and said: "The work of a thief is not easy to do either. Since those bosses started to transform into cold storage business, the high-end jewelry they can get is less, and the inventory of the safe is naturally not much. Going once a month doesn't have new things, and I rely on selling previous inventory to make ends meet."

Catwoman asked for a drink, and while drinking, said: "I came to find you actually to ask, do you have any research on some, um, how to say, some god-god-god things?"

Collapse Head heard that Catwoman had something in her words. He looked left and right, beckoned to her, the two came to the back door of the bar, Collapse Head narrowed his eyes and looked at Catwoman and said: "Why, do you have a way?"

"Good girl, we have cooperated for so many years, you really have to help me! My wife and her sister are doing odd jobs at Mother Penny's, but they don't have your talent, and they learned it as adults, the technique is not good and they can't earn much money. My daughter is still in elementary school in the fifth phase of the renovation project, and the whole family is waiting to eat. If you have any way, you must tell me!"

Catwoman shook her head and said: "It can't be counted as a way, I have a good friend who helps in the church, he heard Father Daniel say there, the mysterious world recently had a mess, those mages and witches are as anxious as ants on a hot pot..."

Collapse Head opened his mouth and widened his eyes to look at Catwoman, saying: "There really are mages, I only saw a gypsy witch who could make the water in the cup spin a few years ago."

"Of course there are, Mother Chen in Chinatown next door can even make small knives fly, I have seen it."

"But what does it have to do with us that these god-god-god people have trouble?"

"I heard they lost their power and were so anxious. And Cat Getan has the key to their power recovery. Old Father Daniel said that within the next week, they will come to Cat Getan one after another."

Collapse Head smacked his mouth, asked with some uncertainty: "But they shouldn't be easy to deal with, right?"

"Can it be harder to deal with than the Cat Getan mafia?" Catwoman leaned her body forward, stared at Collapse Head and said: "Don't forget what they came here for, they have no power now, and they are very anxious!"

Collapse Head's eyes turned quickly. As a senior fence, he naturally knew what kind of people were easy to get, outsiders with no defense, especially outsiders who were anxious to catch transportation, were like lambs to be slaughtered in the eyes of thieves.

"How to say?" Collapse Head asked further.

"We can't do it scattered like this now." Catwoman first threw out the main keynote, and then said: "They have quite a few people, and they also have a certain danger, and it is a large influx in a short period of time. If everyone rushes up to steal, stepping on two hands in one step is looking for trouble, right?"

Collapse Head nodded, feeling that what Catwoman said made sense. The last time Cat Getan experienced such a sudden influx of so many outsiders was when Batman became popular in Metropolis.

But at that time, Mayor Luo Yin strictly cracked down on theft in train stations and airports to preserve Cat Getan's tourism industry, and the mafia also strictly guarded against thieves to slaughter guests, so they couldn't drink much soup.

But this time, these people are not here for tourism, they are just here to find things, and they might even make a mess in the city. They stay for a short time and don't follow the rules, so they definitely won't be welcomed by the city government and the mafia. Perhaps it is an opportunity for thieves.

Collapse Head thought so, and immediately made a decision in his heart. No one who can live well in Cat Getan with such a serious injury is a fool. He immediately opened his mouth and said: "I will go to the Golden Cup Bar now to find Golden Hand, he is the head of all fences and brokers in the East District, and knows almost all thieves in the East District."

"That's not enough, you have to find someone who knows all the thieves in Cat Getan."

Collapse Head opened his mouth wide and stared at Catwoman, saying: "Your appetite is so big? Don't joke with me, Catwoman, you must tell me the truth, who is coming this time?"

Catwoman hugged her arms and smiled and said: "Mages have money, but they have been out of touch with ordinary society for a long time. The magic props on them can sell for some money, but not much. Have you heard of vampires?"

Collapse Head frowned hard and said: "Of course I have heard of them. My father told me that decades ago they dared to bite people blatantly on the street, but since the mafia developed, most of those flying mice have been killed."

"Vampires will come to Cat Getan with mages, and they are not those low-level mice. Have you heard of the thirteen clans of the blood

"The vampires are coming to Cat Getan together with the mages, and they aren't just those low-level rats; ever heard of the thirteen clans of the Kindred? Old European aristocrats who have lived for five or six hundred years on average—anything you pull off their bodies is a priceless antique. How many of these bumpkins in the East End would be able to recognize any of them?"

Flathead gasped, but he had to admit that Catwoman made sense.

Although Catwoman was one of the four great thieves of the East End, that was only because she was born there; Catwoman mostly operated between the wealthy enclaves of the West and South Ends and museums, where there was nothing but old money, and a thief had to have a certain level of discernment and art appreciation to steal quickly and accurately.

By comparison, these people in the East End mostly targeted nouveau riche, gang bosses, the wealthier among the poor, and the occasional out-of-town wealthy merchant doing business there; you could ask them to pickpocket or steal cash, but recognizing antiques was a bit too much for them.

Flathead knew the opportunity was rare, so he gritted his teeth and said.

"I'll go find Golden Hand; he has a way to contact the bosses of the other districts. At worst, I'll have the kids under me go find Boss Cobblepot—he's the favorite in front of Falcone, and if the Godfather gives the word, can't we round up a bunch of thieves?"