"Boss, there's a real prize among them... I can't see her face clearly, but that figure is better than any of the ones we caught before!"
A vicious-looking man in his thirties stared at the gloved girl among the three in the alley, his eyes gleaming.
The man called "boss" wore a gray-black flat cap and a thick cotton coat, with a red birthmark on his face. After taking a close look, he nodded excitedly. "She really is good... Judging by her bearing, she might have been a wealthy young lady... Excellent. Snatch her and take her back. The boss will definitely reward us."
"Boss, Mr. Capim doesn't like us calling him 'the boss'..." the vicious-looking man who had spoken earlier corrected him.
"Shut up! Get to work!" The birthmarked man snarled in embarrassment. He rose to his feet, prepared a handkerchief soaked in medicine, and called his subordinates over to surround the three girls.
Elsewhere, the three young ladies passing through the alley were Xio, Hazel, and Freya, who had brought them to inspect the scene.
After visiting one of the Huili Gang's leaders under Xio's guidance, they had learned that the kidnappers had powerful Beyonders backing them and seemingly even official connections. They were not someone a gang controlling only a few streets could afford to provoke.
That leader did not know who the other side was either. He only knew that the Huili Gang's boss and the heads of several other gangs had gone to negotiate with them, but nothing had come of it. They had instead instructed their underlings not to clash with those people.
However, that group was fairly "law-abiding." They rarely entered territory controlled by gangs to abduct people, usually striking at the boundaries between different neighborhoods... Therefore, they had not provoked too much