Seven in the evening, Freedom City 4.
The public order here could no longer be described as merely terrible. Along the way, Su Xiao had encountered five pickpockets, and three times someone had tried to rob him when he passed by an alley.
Interestingly, whenever Su Xiao encountered a robber, the process went like this:
The robber rushed out of the darkness → drew a sharp blade → locked eyes with Su Xiao, after which the robber began shaving with the freshly drawn blade.
Ghosts feared villains, villains feared villains fiercer than themselves, the tough feared those who did not care about dying, and those who did not care about dying feared anyone who dared kill their entire family.
That was simply how the dark world's rules worked. It all came down to seeing who was more ruthless. The same went for Freedom City 4.
Su Xiao had come here tonight with only Baha and Dorothy. A'm had gone outside the city, while his side's stronghold fortress had stopped ten kilometers away.
Tide had gone on a long trip, intending to plant Li Xiniwei in the "Judgment Office" as a mid-level official. It was not a simple matter.
The matter had gone through several layers of connections. First, Guy had contacted his business partner, the merchant Azba, whom more people called Slave Merchant Azba.
Azba was a human who specialized in selling Pigheads, mutated beasts, and familiars or humans sentenced to slavery by the Judgment Office.
That fellow had a merchant's cunning and the ruthlessness of someone from the dark world. His most distinctive trait was that every time he arrived somewhere new, that bastard would find a place to visit prostitutes—so thoroughly that he would lose contact.
In theory, given his status as a slave merchant, he had no