Although Hodge Town is called "Town", its actual area and population are similar to a city in Kane's plane world, except that there are no city walls. Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi are orphans and live in the North District Windmill where the Sheriff is located.
Street, and this "Akaia's Cauldron" store is in the southern business district. It is normal that Bai Xiaowen has never been seen before.
"I have some private property disputes, but for some reasons, I personally cannot come forward," Bai Xiaowen said, "so I want to find some... professionals to help me deal with it."
"Professionals? What are you referring to?" Akaia's expression was a little intriguing, but her tone was more solemn.
Bai Xiaowen added: "Problems can be solved through non-legal means. When necessary, professionals who don't mind getting a little blood on their hands."
Akaia frowned and flicked the Plantagenet Empire gold coin in his hand: "Young gentleman, for the sake of the gold coin, I can provide you with a clue. However, I declare in advance that I am
A law-abiding businessman.”
Bai Xiaowen nodded slightly: "Of course, I'll just pretend I've never been to this store."
Akaia nodded: "Okay. In fact, the professionals you are looking for are in Blackwater Lane, where we turn left at the end of our street. They have a unified organization called Crow. People like me
A decent businessman would never want to deal with those maggots."
Bai Xiaowen got the information he wanted, nodded his thanks, and then took out another Plantagenet Empire gold coin.
"Second question...are there any hidden religious sites in Hodge Town?" Bai Xiaowen asked.
"Isn't the North District Cathedral a religious place?" Akaia frowned and said, "If you are talking about a hidden church, there is also a small church in the business district, but not many people go to worship because the residents of the South District
Not many people have faith.”
"What I want to ask about is not the church of the Lord of Light." Bai Xiaowen said.
"Then I don't know," Akaia shrugged, "It seems that I can't earn the second gold coin, young man."
Bai Xiaowen nodded thoughtfully and left "Akaia's Cauldron".
Walking on a remote street, Li Shuyi asked: "I roughly understand the intention of the two questions you just asked. The second question is about asking about Voodoo. I won't talk about it until I get the news. The first question is about asking about Voodoo.
This question should be a clue to the main mission, right?"
Bai Xiaowen nodded.
"Do you suspect that the mastermind behind this is this underground organization called Crow?" Li Shuyi asked.
"It's not certain yet," Bai Xiaowen said with a smile, "However, for the case of a large number of missing people in this city, apart from the Sheriff, the only place where we can get clues is from underground gangs. Speaking of these underground gangs, for so many
I don’t believe it if you don’t know anything about the disappearance of people.”
As the two walked and talked, Li Shuyi speculated: "I think the crow organization is inseparable from the missing persons case. Even if it is not the mastermind behind the scenes, it must be at least a peripheral organization that kidnaps people under the orders of the mastermind behind the scenes."
Bai Xiaowen smiled: "Don't rush to beat him to death with a stick, go and take a look first before talking about it."
When they reached the end of the street, they turned left and entered Blackwater Alley.
"Hey, where did these two little lambs come from?" A strong man with scars on his arms stopped the two of them. After looking at them carefully, he said in a mocking tone, "This is not a place where good babies should come."
Li Shuyi glanced at Bai Xiaowen, and when she saw Bai Xiaowen nodded slightly, she immediately took a step forward, reached out and grabbed the scarred man's arm, pulled hard, and bent her knees to push him!
With an egg-breaking sound, the strong man's eyes almost bulged out, and his body quickly bent into a prawn. Li Shuyi followed up by kicking the big man in the crook of the leg, and the man fell to his knees heavily.
Before the scarred man could curse angrily, his neck felt cold, and a noble sword was placed across his neck.
"Who are you!" The scarred man said with a bit of stern expression, taking in the cold air and enduring the pain, "If you dare to kill me, you can't even think about hanging around in Hodge Town. We crows will never let go of any enemy.
!”
Bai Xiaowen said lightly: "You are just a maggot in a manhole, do you really think you are great? Listen, we were entrusted by Sheriff Yahan to investigate the missing persons case in Hodge Town. The Crow Organization is our main target of suspicion...
...If you don’t want to die, just lead me to your boss.”
The scarred man was shocked and angry: "Yahan? That damn Sheriff has been here a long time ago, and Boss Benny also explained clearly that the missing persons have nothing to do with us..."
"Stop talking nonsense." Li Shuyi exerted a slight force on her long sword, and blood suddenly seeped out.
The scarred man could only raise his hands: "Okay, don't be like this... I am willing to take you to find Boss Benny. Can you move the sword away first?"
Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi exchanged a look, and Li Shuyi retracted her long sword. The scarred man walked in front of him with some shyness, and the two of them followed closely.
Walking in the Blackwater Alley, the two of them met some members of the Crow Organization. Bai Xiaowen used his insight to scan a few and found that their strength was similar to that of the Scar Man. They were all ordinary templates and their levels were about five or six.
There is not a single elite member.
Bai Xiaowen evaluated the strength of the Crow Organization and came to the conclusion that he and Li Shuyi could run rampant in Blackwater Lane.
In fact, Bai Xiaowen was relatively confident that the Crow Organization was not involved in the missing persons case. Otherwise, he would not have explained his purpose at the outset.
From the perspective of Sheriff Yahan, when he investigated the missing persons case, he would definitely visit all the gangs in the city, but in the end he found nothing, so he issued a reward order. The scarred man also said just now, the Sheriff
Ahan has been here before and communicated with Benny, the boss of the crows.
Under the premise of knowing this, Bai Xiaowen still wanted to break into the headquarters of the Crow Organization, in fact, in order to subdue this underground organization and take it for his own use! Otherwise, as an awakened person who broke in, his eyes would be black, and how would he start the investigation?
.
Deep in Blackwater Lane, in an underground casino, Bai Xiaowen met Benny, the boss of the Crow Organization.
Benny is a slender man with sinister eyes and thin cheeks. Hidden under a black cloak, he is unreasonably reminiscent of a vulture looking for food.
Bai Xiaowen immediately threw out the insight, prompting that 25 power points would be deducted.
[Skill 1: Shelter of the Night: Activate the stealth skill to make it difficult for enemies to detect. Passive effect, stealth priority at night +1. 】
[Skill 2: Combo: Successfully hitting the enemy multiple times in a row will cause additional physical damage. The more combos, the higher the additional damage. 】
[Skill 3: Preemptive Attack: The first attack without being discovered by the enemy will temporarily paralyze the enemy. 】
[Skill 4: Thief Leader: Passive, additional health points increased by 150 points. 】
After seeing the shared information, Li Shuyi quietly said in the team channel: "Ah, it's actually level eight."
Based on Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi's level 5 Awakener levels, it is a bit surprising that among the matched characters in the spirit world, there are level 8 characters. According to the usual rules, the level of the matched characters in the spirit world will be one to one level higher than the awakener level.
Two levels.
But there are exceptions, that is, if you have a "positioning" item and are matched to a specific spiritual plane, the level of the spiritual world character may be "abnormal", such as being three levels higher, or lower than the awakened person.
Of course, the rules of the spiritual world will also make corresponding balances. Where is the balance point? It lies in the entry point of the awakened person.
For example, the Aaron plane world where Bai Xiaowen performed the job transfer test is a generally high-level plane. Bai Xiaowen had not yet changed jobs at that time. Therefore, the rules of the spirit world were set. Bai Xiaowen's entry point was the northern border, which was sparsely populated and desolate, and Bai Xiaowen needed to deal with it.
All the characters in the spirit world are only level 3 or below. Of course, since he attempted death and attracted the level 7 leader Gloria, he is not subject to preferential treatment by the rules of the spirit world.
The level 8 elite in front of me, Benny, the boss of the Crow Organization, is roughly equivalent to a level 5 or 6 leader. He suffers in terms of priority and skills, but because he has passed the level 7 threshold, all attributes are relatively high, and he has more abilities.
150 points of health bonus.
But this does not pose a threat to Bai Xiaowen.
After listening to the scarred man's grievances and cries, Benny nodded slightly and looked at Bai Xiaowen with his sinister eyes.
"Are you really sent by the Sheriff? I don't believe it."
Bai Xiaowen said calmly: "It doesn't matter whether it's true or false. The point is, do you want to die or live?"
Bai Xiaowen's straightforward threat angered several elite members of the Crow Organization.
"Arrogant little guy, go back and drink milk!"
A bald man rushed over, wearing a pair of black iron gauntlets on his fists, and struck Bai Xiaowen with all his might.
Li Shuyi drew out her swords, crossed them over each other, blocked the punch first, then quickly slashed back, chirping three times, and launched a series of slashes. The three swords accurately hit the bald man's throat.
The blood was furious, and the bald man covered his throat and trachea in disbelief, making a gurgling sound, and slowly sat down, until he was found dead on the spot!
This bald man is a powerful mid-level elite. However, Li Shuyi's strength value at this time has reached as high as 27 points. It is more than enough to block his attack without losing balance. After Li Shuyi blocked the opponent's attack, she burst out
The speed of counterattack was incomparable to that of the bald man. One of the three swords triggered a critical hit and killed him on the spot.
Seeing the bald man lying dead on the ground, although the other members of the Crow Organization were even more shocked and angry, there was an obvious fear in their eyes.
Benny's eyes were cold, and his hands hidden by the black cloak quietly touched the dagger.
Suddenly, Bai Xiaowen coughed, and with a flash of white light, a tall and bloated fat boy with voodoo sutures appeared in front of him, accompanied by four skeleton sword and shield hand boys.
Fatty's ferocious face made many people tremble with fear. Some people exclaimed: "This is voodoo..."
Benny glared at him with a stern look, and the man suddenly fell silent. Bai Xiaowen understood in his heart, squinted his eyes and said, "It seems that you are unwilling to cooperate."
Whoa!
Fatty took action, hooked the iron chain, tightly wrapped the man who just spoke, and dragged him over.
An ordinary person might not be able to find the person who screamed among so many members of the Crow Organization, but Bai Xiaowen's insight and memory are extremely powerful, and he found the opponent's location in an instant, and the mental link ordered Fatty to take action.
Bai Xiaowen's indifferent behavior angered Benny even more, and he roared in his throat: "Fuck them all..."
However, when all the members of the Crow Organization were about to attack Bai Xiaowen with knives, an awe-inspiring pressure spread out with Bai Xiaowen as the center! Except for a few elite members, most of the members of the Crow Organization were knocked unconscious on the spot.
, and sat down on the ground.
The elites of the Crow organization who could still remain standing, as well as Benny, the boss, although they were not knocked unconscious, were also in a state of fear.
Bai Xiaowen grabbed the collar of the unlucky guy who was hooked by Fatty: "Hey, now you answer the question..."
After the man was woken up, he had a frightened face: "I, I don't know anything."
"Tell me about the Voodoo you just mentioned," Bai Xiaowen said with a smile. "What do you think this servant of mine has to do with Voodoo, huh? Stop pretending to be crazy or you will be killed by me."
The man said with a mournful face: "I heard from Boss Benny that Voodoo has a modified giant corpse that is very powerful in combat and can fight one against ten... This monster looks very similar, so I...
"He regretted greatly in his heart. He shouldn't have spoken so quickly.
When Bai Xiaowen was questioning this unfortunate guy, Benny and his subordinates finally woke up from the fear/dizziness state. Seeing the unpredictable Bai Xiaowen, these people could not help but feel fear in their hearts, but they did not dare to
Come forward again.
Bai Xiaowen asked a few more questions, and after confirming that the captured hapless guy no longer had any valuable information, he threw him aside, patted the non-existent dust on his hands, and said to Benny:
"It seems that Mr. Benny already knows the gap between you and me, and also understands that I can end your life at any time."
Benny's face changed several times, and finally he said in a harsh voice: "Yes."
"I'm glad that we have reached a consensus, then I will put forward my conditions next," Bai Xiaowen said, "If you can cooperate, you can survive and even get a considerable sum of money. If you don't cooperate...
You should know the consequences."
"...I wonder what your request is? We will try our best to fulfill it."
Benny didn't believe Bai Xiaowen's money at all. His only thought now was that he could save his life.