Steam Capital, Upper City, Skysea Group · Steam Capital Branch
"Good morning, you trash of Rust Iron Hell!"
"Yesterday's Death Lottery hit a full thirty!"
"Thanks to the never-ending gang wars, District 5 alone saw a full ten deaths!"
"But compared to that, there are two even bigger pieces of news."
"First, one of the Church's bigwigs in Upper City suddenly croaked last night."
"Guess what? Someone had punched right through his chest. He died a truly miserable death!"
"The other piece of news is that the gentlemen of Upper City no longer seem satisfied with the current state of Rust Iron District. They're preparing to give the entire district a massive overhaul. So tell me, will this overhaul be a good thing, or a bad thing?"
Click!
Chen Kong reached out and switched off the radio, cutting the noisy broadcast short.
"Why'd you turn it off?"
On the sofa, Isabelle shook the Blue Mountain City soda in her hand and looked at Chen Kong in confusion.
"Because my instincts are telling me that someone deliberately released this news at this moment. It won't be good for either Upper City or Lower City."
"That's true."
Isabelle set down her soda and looked seriously at Chen Kong.
Even as an outsider, she could now smell the "gunpowder" permeating every corner of Steam Capital.
Yesterday's "trial" had been like a sharp blade, bloodily slicing away the last fig leaf covering Lower City.
Lower City had always been chaotic, but its residents had still clung to one final hope.
That was that this was ultimately their territory. The claws of those "White Eagles" from Upper City had not yet been able to reach here.
But after Jack and Vivian revealed the filthy things the Gear Church and the Lower City gangs had done