After all their asking around, the answers they got were a headache.
They even ran into a certain Jing Fang pretending to be Jing Yuan's cousin. The guy tried to run the moment he saw Jiang Yu, clearly having been taught a lesson before.
Finally, Stelle found a little stall whose owner was a kindly auntie.
After gathering information, Stelle understood perfectly well how to survive Aurum Alley's food scene: absolutely do not drink Soda Bean Juice!
Auntie Gao, who ran the stall, was very friendly. Seeing Stelle, she greeted her warmly. "Oh my, are you a tourist from offworld? May I ask, do you like Aurum Alley?"
"I only just got here." Stelle pulled out the angler's all-purpose answer, which fit perfectly here.
"Then I'd better give you a proper welcome!" Auntie Gao said. "...Please don't mind my chatter, dear customer. Since you're from the outside world, do you know about the Interastral Peace Corporation? Do they have a good reputation?"
Hearing this, Stelle frowned slightly and began to think.
But her empty Stellaron brain held few impressions of the Interastral Peace Corporation. All she knew was that Topaz was pretty nice, they worked with the Fragmentum Factory, and they worshipped Qlipoth...
"Oh!" Stelle sounded as though realization had dawned on her. "Findie's ads are really annoying!"
Looking at the gray-haired girl before her, Auntie Gao blinked, her eyes filled with deep confusion. "Findie? I don't know what that is."
With that, Auntie Gao raised a hand to scratch her head. "So you don't know much about the Interastral Peace Corporation either..."
"You can think of Findie as another kind of Diting, except much more annoying," Jiang Yu's voice chimed in. "As for the Interastral Peace Corporation, that's hard to say. The few people I know inside it are