[You have a message from Eden. Please check it!]
The Heaven Lineage's notification chimed in his ears, but Xia Xiu had no time to check his Lineage messages, because he was busy beating people up.
"B-big brother... we... we won't do it again. Please let us go..." A burly man, his face bruised and swollen from the beating, clung to Xia Xiu's leg and loudly begged for mercy with a miserable expression.
The ground around Xia Xiu was a scene of misery. A group of burly men lay sprawled every which way, and besides the men howling in pain, bent and melted steel pipes and iron rods were scattered across the ground.
Xia Xiu kicked away the burly man clinging to his leg with a look of disgust, then addressed them in a contemptuous, arrogant tone:
"Don't think you can scam me just because I'm not from around here. Cheating at cards was bad enough, but you actually tried to rob me after you got exposed. Who do you think you can take on with those pathetic fighting skills? Pah-"
With that, Xia Xiu took some gum out of his pocket and started chewing, then left with a defiant look on his face.
Xia Xiu was currently in Aalsmeer's Underground Dark Street, a gathering place for gamblers, sex workers, drug users, and other such people.
He had already been hanging around here for three days and two nights.
For him, letting The Qualified come to him was more convenient than actively seeking them out and joining them. Besides, since he was going to be a mole, he naturally needed to establish his persona first.
Building a persona tested not only his acting skills, but also his everyday behavior and clothing.
Take his current outfit, for instance: a newsboy