Chapter 3343
7:00 PM, Freedom City · District 4.
The public security here could no longer be described as terrible. Along the way, Su Xiao encountered five pickpockets, and when passing through a small alley, encountered three robberies.
Interestingly, after Su Xiao encountered the robbers, the process was as follows:
Robbers rushed out from the darkness -> drew sharp blades -> looked at Su Xiao, and then the robbers began to shave their beards with the sharp blades they had just drawn.
Ghosts fear evil people, evil people fear villains who are more evil than them, the tough fear those who don't want their lives, and those who don't want their lives fear those who dare to kill their whole family.
The rules of the dark world were just like this, nothing more than comparing who was more fierce. The situation in Freedom City · District 4 was also like this.
Su Xiao only brought Baja and Dorothy here tonight. Amu went outside the city, and the base camp fortress had stopped 10 kilometers away.
Liechao went on a long journey. It was not a simple matter to insert Li Xiniwei into the "Judgment Office" and become a middle-level official there.
This matter passed through several layers of relationships. First, Caesar found his business partner, merchant Azba, and more people called him slave merchant Azba.
Azba was a human, specializing in selling pig-headed men, Alienated Beasts, and Kin or humans sentenced to prisoner status by the Judgment Office.
This guy had the cunning of a businessman and the ruthlessness of people in the dark world. His biggest characteristic was that every time he went to a new place, this guy would find a place to prostitute, to the point of losing contact.
Logically speaking, with his identity as a slave merchant, he didn't need to prostitute. In his own words, what he sold were commodities. What the commodities looked like when they were imported, they were what they looked like when they were exported. This had nothing to do with character, personality, etc., but rules. Doing business had to have rules, and doing business in the dark world was even more so.
Through Azba's relationship, Caesar used the active ore provided by Su Xiao as a bargaining chip to contact a middle-to-high-level official of the Judgment Office. He was not one of the top few judges, but that old man also had great power in his hands.
Getting a middle-level official position in the Judgment Office was simpler and more expensive than imagined. That greedy old vampire demanded 3,000 kilograms of active ore. After learning this news through Caesar, Su Xiao immediately thought about what was going on.
3,000 kilograms of active ore to buy a middle-level official position in the Judgment Office didn't seem expensive, but this was only the initial deposit. The position that old vampire arranged for Li Xiniwei was his directly managed department.
If Li Xiniwei wanted to maintain his current status, he would have to continuously pay tribute to that old vampire afterward until his wealth was sucked dry. That old vampire would kick Li Xiniwei away, and then arrange other fat sheep in this position to continue sucking blood.
Su Xiao was also puzzled before that this relationship was bought too simply. Looking at it now, this was also a fishing one, and there was no essential difference from the hunter group that used 【Cataclysm Solution】 to fish.
On the Judgment Office side, Su Xiao really didn't care about being fished. Li Xiniwei was not a fish; this was a bomb. Let that old vampire and Li Xiniwei fight each other.
If Li Xiniwei lost, it showed that he was just so-so. If he won, the situation on the Judgment Office side would open up.
Liechao's mission this time was to send Li Xiniwei to the Judgment Office to avoid accidents along the way. After that, she could come back.
Su Xiao walked among the streetlights and pedestrians. The 7:00 PM District 4 was very lively. Dorothy, who had just obtained power not long ago, was curious about everything at this time. It was inevitable that she was a bit floating.
"My dear friend, I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Caesar sat at a roadside stall not far away. After Baja paid the bill, Caesar sat there for a while before slowly standing up. Knowing that someone would treat him, Caesar had to eat until his neck before he would be satisfied.
Together with Caesar, Su Xiao came to the inside of District 4. After arriving here, he saw many guards wearing semi-metallic combat suits and night-vision helmets, carrying firearms. After the head of the guards saw Caesar, he scanned Caesar's sclera with an instrument before letting them through.
Continuing forward, the road became quiet. At the end of this road was a slope passage resembling an underground parking lot. This passage was completely metallic, and there were anti-slip marks on the downward slope.
Following the passage that was a full ten meters wide, faint human voices came from the front.
The thick metal doors opening to each other opened automatically, and a heat wave rushed over. Along with it were noisy human voices, including hawking, wild laughter, and even the sound of small-caliber pistol shots mixed in.
The dazzling light of fluorescent lamps rushed toward him, making people unable to help but squint their eyes. After re-examining everything in front, one would find that this was an underground space so large that it couldn't be seen to the edge. Here it was like a market. The ceiling, more than ten meters high, was exposed steel beams, brackets, etc. A large row of lamp tubes that couldn't be seen to the end were fixed on the ceiling, each 20 centimeters thick and over 3 meters long.
Iron cages of different sizes were stacked, leaving paths 3 meters wide. All kinds of vehicles were parked everywhere, and each vehicle had a very long cargo box.
Kin or humans demoted to prisoner status were all locked in iron cages. Alienated Beasts were also treated similarly. Pig-headed men were all wearing neck shackles, and each neck shackle was connected by iron chains.
That's right, this was the underground market, the place where wealth flowed the most and was the darkest in Freedom City every night.
"Caesar, where did you go, over here."
A dwarf wearing small round sunglasses stood on an iron cage. He was slave merchant Azba, the manager of the underground market in Freedom City, that is, the boss here.
Azba's small round sunglasses + suit were his standard equipment. He was pot-bellied, and his sharp nose made people suspect whether he had other ethnic bloodlines besides human bloodlines.
After Azba stood with Caesar, it was really not to say, saying they were friends for many years, absolutely someone would believe it.
Su Xiao looked at the time, it was already 7:20 PM. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was about to take action. That hunter group was in District 2. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang acted alone tonight.
Excluding the 3,000 kilograms of active ore expenditure on the Judgment Office side, as well as buying pig-headed men's residences, superior food, etc., the active ore in Su Xiao's hands remained 5,281 kilograms, of which 1,000 kilograms had to be reserved for the needs when the fortress advanced to T4 level.
The active ore that could be used remained 4,581 kilograms. Su Xiao prepared to use these active ores to buy pig-headed men.
"White Night, are you satisfied with my goods?"
Azba came to a pig-headed man's side. Because of the height problem, he could only pat the pig-headed man's leg hard.
This pig-headed man opened his eyes, and there was no numbness and confusion of other pig-headed men in his eyes. This was a pig-headed man with complete subjective thinking and good at fighting. This was a fighter among pig-headed men, specially sold to various gladiatorial arenas in the Ring City.
The price of ordinary prime male pig-headed men laborers was about 2 kilograms of active ore, older ones were 1 kilogram of active ore, and female pig-headed men were also 1 kilogram of active ore.
Pig-headed men fighters were different. The cheapest ones were also 30 kilograms or more of active ore, and the most expensive ones had their price raised to 58,600 kilograms of active ore, legendary fighter Oink.
Legendary fighter Oink didn't die in the gladiatorial arena, but on the way to lead pig-headed men fighters to stand up and resist. Finally, he was sentenced by the Judgment Office and executed just after going down to court.
That year, the Kin were really afraid. All pig-headed men laborers had to wear shackles when mining, all pig-headed men fighters were imprisoned, and all gladiatorial arenas stopped business.
This situation lasted for 6 months, and then the underground market merchant alliance led by Azba and others all stopped providing financial support to the Judgment Office.
The Judgment Office at that time wanted to drink milk but didn't want to let the cow out of the cow shed. That side was afraid of offending the "Clock Tower," "Kin Alliance," and "Aurora Council," belonging to being greedy and not wanting to offend people.
Finally, two judges died, more than half of the underground market leaders like Azba died, and Azba himself lost a leg because of this, and everything returned to normal.
The gladiatorial arena resumed business, the shackles of pig-headed men laborers were lifted, and the name legendary fighter Oink was gradually forgotten. Only his axe was still displayed in the treasury of the Judgment Office. This axe had hacked to death 3 judges, 57 alliance officers, 62 believers, totaling 19,492 Kin killed.
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