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Beneath all of Heaven Dou City, in the deepest darkness before dawn, a silent upheaval played out like a pot of boiling poison.
The charred pillar of smoke stabbing straight into the sky from the Chen Residence became the fuse that ignited every shadow.
Deep in Vermillion Bird Avenue, in the basement of the White Dove Tavern.
A greasy account book was snapped shut by a withered hand.
"Withdraw! Everyone withdraw! Abandon the warehouses in North Third District! Burn the account books! Burn them all!"
The hunched intelligence chief let out a wheezing hiss like a broken bellows, his cloudy old eyes fixed on the map on the wall. "Those lunatics have turned Heaven Dou into an Asura Field!"
"The 'Night Watch Dogs' (City Patrol Division) will scrape over every brick like a comb tomorrow. If we don't leave now, we'll all be buried with them."
Across the street, in the secret chamber on the top floor of Bronze Sparrow Terrace, a cloying sweet scent of incense drifted beneath the crystal lamps.
"Scarlet... what a fine Scarlet Sect!" The pale, beardless fat man crushed a pigeon-blood ruby ring in his fist, crimson powder mixing with the sweat running down his palm.
"The hidden lines I spent half my life building have all been stabbed through by that shit-stirring rod of theirs!"
"The 'Embroidered Uniform Envoys' (royal inner guards) will definitely purge every connected informant tomorrow... prepare the 'death carriages'! Now! Immediately!"
He roared and kicked over the incense burner. "Tell Qing Fuzi, I can't swallow those 'scented' crystals of his! Let him rot in the gutter by himself!"
Deep in the filthy sewers, at the Iron Rat Gang's den of filth.
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