Mariano FamilyMariano
Aside from the family's main residence in Zion, their buildings or factories could be found in most medium and large cities across the Fourth Continent. Their firearms industry was the family's main pillar.
The firearms produced by Mariano had the organization's approval. Every one was a fine piece and could be sold for a high price.
Each year, the family also had to submit a certain number of firearms meeting the required quality standards to the organization in exchange for a private estate in Zion and the privilege to conduct business there.
To ensure that the firearms industry could operate normally in a diseased world, every firearms factory had a gentleman from the family overseeing it. Quite a few quasi-gentlemen who had mastered gunplay also patrolled around the clock.
Three days ago,
a major problem had arisen at an old factory built during the early days in Wendell Town, which was about to be shut down.
Wendell Town had once been a mining town. During the early development of the Mariano Family, they had established an early factory there after considering the various material-related issues.
It was still producing some classic firearm models, which were collected at high prices by certain gun enthusiasts. Most of the workshop assembly lines had already been shut down.
After the ore had been completely mined out a year ago, the town had rapidly declined, and the family had decided to close this old factory, which had long since fulfilled its purpose.
Yet, in the week before the shutdown, something strange appeared inside the factory. A group of ordinary family members who had remained in the town, along with a gentleman temporarily stationed in Wendell Town, were all killed.
As luck would have it, a coachman happened to pass through the town and