Chapter 477: The Imprisoned
Apart from the people from the Nanfeng Organization, who else would risk their lives to infiltrate Town No. 7 at this time?
You know, although appearance is easy to change, identity is not so easy.
Those who can grab a stall in the central market are not ordinary mercenaries. They are at least mercenaries with some status. Ordinary mercenaries are squeezed out.
"No wonder those rumors spread so fast."
Su Xia glanced at the stall owner. Spreading rumors directly from the center of the town, how could this speed not be fast?
Most of the mercenaries who traded information with this man had been observed beforehand, such as the mercenary just now. He was suspicious in his heart and his defenses could be broken with just a few words.
Moreover, there must be something in that ball of paper that can increase the mercenary's suspicion.
The more suspicious you are, the more cautious you will be.
The more cautious you are, the more careful you will be about the people around you.
Su Xia stared at the stall owner and looked at him carefully for a long time, and finally a system prompt popped up in front of him.
[Name: Li Qianmian]
[Race: Human]
[Camp: Resistance Camp·South Wind Organization]
[Psychic Level: 3.9]
[Titanium particle level: Level 50]
[Remaining life: 100%]
[Psychic Talent: Dexterity]
【……】
[Character description: Li Qianmian, a northerner, fled to the south with his parents in his early years. Later, his parents were killed by wandering mercenaries. He vowed to never reconcile with wandering mercenaries.]
[His psychic gift of 'skillful hands' gave him the ability to fabricate things that ordinary people could not achieve. He used this ability to make human skin masks, and could make almost perfect human faces. He made a living from this for a long time .]
[Later, because he was suspected of being a masked stranger, he was hunted by the mechanical tribe and had to enter the wilderness area]
[After entering the wilderness, Li Qianmian joined the Nanfeng organization under the introduction of a friend...]
【……】
This stall owner is indeed a member of the Nanfeng organization.
It was neither Chu Tang nor Mu Yang, but a name that was very unfamiliar to Su Xia.
Li Qianmian should not have been a famous figure in the past.
Speaking of which, he was unlucky as he was actually suspected of being the masked weirdo.
His ability is indeed strange. He can actually make a nearly perfect human skin mask. No wonder he would be suspected.
Su Xia shifted her gaze and looked at the slave in the cage again. After looking at him carefully for a while, the character information popped up in front of her.
[Name: Li Wuxin]
[Race: Human]
[Camp: Resistance Camp·South Wind Organization]
[Psychic Level: 3.2]
[Titanium particle level: Level 48]
[Remaining life: 100%]
[Psychic Talent: Personality Disguise]
【……】
[Character description: Li Wuxin, a native of the northwest of the mainland, an orphan, grew up and went to the southwest to do business. Later, his caravan was intercepted by wandering mercenaries, and the rest of the caravan members were brutally massacred. He luckily escaped, and from then on began an endless struggle with the mercenary organization.]
[The talent "Personality Disguise" allows him to perfectly disguise different personalities]
[After joining the Nanfeng organization, he and Li Qianmian hit it off and became good friends]
【……】
It was another name that Su Xia had never heard of, and it was still a level three creature, and had also awakened its psychic talent.
I have to say that the current Nanfeng organization is indeed very powerful.
At the beginning, when Su Xia just rescued them, there was not even a single level three creature in the entire organization.
And now, there are two level three creatures just carrying out the infiltration mission, and both of them are members with very strange talents.
Between the two of them, one can make a camouflage mask and the other can disguise his personality, and their cooperation is perfect.
"If they just wanted to spread rumors, their mission has been quite successful." Su Xia nodded secretly, "There are still two days left. I don't know what they are going to do. I hope they can be more stable."
There were more than a dozen iron cages on this stall, each containing two or three slaves.
Su Xia looked at it carefully several times and was sure that those so-called slaves were all members of the Nanfeng organization in disguise, and half of them were psychic creatures.
Such an infiltration team can definitely be called the elite among the elites.
And, here are just the rest.
How many slaves had been bought before this?
Most of the slaves who were bought would quietly lurk in the buyer's organization, waiting for the critical moment to deal a fatal blow to the buyer's organization.
Su Xia did not reveal his identity and quickly left the stall, leaving only a few nanorobots as eyes.
He has no plans to contact the Nanfeng Organization for the time being. After all, the Nanfeng Organization has made complete arrangements. If he shows up now, it is likely to disrupt all their arrangements and even expose some of the infiltrated members.
"Continue to observe. It would be best if we can find the dozen or so imprisoned members first."
Su Xia moved calmly, controlling the nanorobots to roam around the huge market, analyzing useful information from the conversations of the surrounding mercenaries as he walked.
It was already past eleven o'clock in the evening, but the market was still as busy as ever.
Bright chandeliers were swaying on the top of the market shed.
Under the lights, people were crowded together, and all kinds of sounds were intertwined, still so noisy.
There were more and more mercenaries coming to the market, either to sell or to buy.
Su Xia walked around the market for several hours, until two o'clock in the morning, when she had basically finished visiting the entire market.
There were some goods in the market that even made him want to buy them, such as a land contract south of Coral City.
"There are a lot of abandoned lands in Coral City. Qi Lang always said that those lands were private and he had no right to move them. I didn't expect to see a land deed here."
This matter is somewhat ironic.
The land that even the city lord could not move was actually being sold publicly in this mercenary town, and the price was not expensive, it could even be said to be low.
When dealing with the demolition of the slums in the east of the city, Qi Lang told Su Xia that those lands were privately owned by many wealthy businessmen in the city.
You have to know that those lands did not originally belong to them. They originally belonged to the residents of Coral City who lived there. They just took advantage of the chaotic time when the war just ended and used various channels and means to forcibly take them away.
In order to ensure the prices of food, land, houses, etc., those wealthy businessmen would not sell the land even if it meant leaving it barren.
But now, a land deed appears here. What does this mean?
"Is there anyone in the city colluding with these mercenaries?" Su Xia pondered for a moment, "Or are those merchants forced to take out a land contract and pay money to ensure the safety of their caravans?"
Su Xia noticed that the one who sold the Coral City land contract was not some small mercenary organization, but Wang Teng's subordinates.
On that contract, there is the mark of Wang Teng’s organization.
It seems that the second guess is more likely.
In order to protect the safety of his caravan, a merchant in Coral City reluctantly took out the land contract and handed it over to Wang Teng's organization as a tribute.
In this way, the land that the city lord Qi Lang could not get was taken by these mercenaries.
Ultimately, the knife must be drawn before those businessmen are willing to give up the land.
If Qi Lang dared to take action, those businessmen would do the same thing.
But the problem is that Qi Lang didn't dare.
He has made a lot of mistakes in the past year, including several missteps on the issue of the masked man alone. Now he has become more timid and lives cautiously every day, fearing that his position will be lost.
"I wonder if his secretary Chai An is capable." After all, Su Xia has been hanging around in Coral City, and he also wants to make this city a better place.
If the top levels are all rotten, then the bottom levels are completely hopeless.
He never counted on Qi Lang. That guy was a hopeless piece of shit. Moreover, Qi Lang had done a lot of evil things. His best destination was prison.
Su Xia looked at the land contract of Coral City again, then looked away and slowly left the central market.
During this time, another nine groups of nanorobots were searching other parts of the town.
There's more to this town than meets the eye.
Under the town, there is a world with many connections, such as the underground area of the Colosseum.
There are quite a lot of similar underground areas, as well as numerous underground exchanges, casinos, bars, etc., and many areas are connected by passages, like an ant nest that has been magnified countless times.
Such a complex area made Su Xia's search much more difficult.
After investigating until four in the morning, Su Xia finally made a breakthrough discovery.
[Discover a heavily guarded underground prison]
The sixth group of nanorobots returned important news to Su Xia.
This group of robots had been searching in the northern part of the town, from the ground to the underground, checking room by room, exploring inch by inch, and finally made a discovery.
The place they returned Suxia to was deep underground in the north of the town.
The ground building here is an ordinary-looking entertainment club.
The world underground is extremely unusual.
The underground area of this club is not connected to other underground areas. It is an independent space, like a vertical shaft, straight up and down.
There are only two ways to enter the deep underground. One is to take the elevator, and the other is to go down through the spiral stone stairs at the edge of this vertical cylindrical space.
This space is dark and cold, as if it could lead to hell.
On the stairs, every few meters, there is a fully armed mercenary standing guard.
The security here is much stricter than those private underground prisons Su Xia had discovered before, and even stricter than most prisons in Coral City.
There are more than a dozen sensing facilities at the staircase alone.
If the identity is not verified by the mechanical equipment at the staircase, then the next second, the sensing facilities will sound an alarm and attract the mercenaries guarding the surrounding area.
Not only that, on the stone staircase that spirals downward, there is also a sensing device every few meters.
In such a tightly guarded place, the people imprisoned are naturally not ordinary people.
"The guarding is really strict. I hope they are here." Su Xia saw the specific situation of this dark underground space through the vision of the nanorobot.
Passing one guard after another, we walked down the spiral stone stairs and arrived at the depths of this shaft-like space.
Soon, Su Xia saw a cell.
The cell was in terrible condition, with a hard and cold stone floor and only a thin layer of straw in the corner.
There was a broken bowl on the ground, with some grayish-yellow paste in it. It was extremely disgusting, like pig food.
A ragged man collapsed in the corner. He was skinny, covered with wounds and blood on his face. He looked extremely miserable.
There were two mercenaries standing in the cell.
One of them looked indifferent and said coldly: "Tell me, who are you and why are you spreading those rumors?"
The other one had a cold smile on his face, revealing a row of creepy fangs, and said, "If you don't tell us, we brothers can whip you again . I believe you will tell us eventually. If you tell us now, you can avoid the pain."
"I...I fuck..."
The man lying in the room gnashed his teeth and spoke with a trembling voice, his voice full of pain and anger: "I really am a member of the Black Wolf Organization. Are you all blind... Don't you know how to investigate... Just ask anyone from the Black Wolf Organization and you will know... Damn it..."
"You still haven't said anything yet? Looks like we have to keep fighting!"
"You...I'm going to kill your mother..."
"Hey, hit!"
A trace of ferocity flashed across the two men's faces, and they waved the creepy iron whips, and with a snap, they hit down fiercely.
The man on the ground screamed in agony.
With just one whip, a horrible bloody mark appeared on his body, with blood dripping and skin torn.
But his mouth was not idle either. He kept cursing while being beaten. He used all kinds of ugly words to curse all the women in the two men's families, with the mother of the two men as the center and their eighteen generations as the radius.
On the side, Su Xia, who saw this scene, had a very strange expression on his face.
He received a system prompt that the guy who was being beaten was indeed a member of an organization called "Black Wolf" and not a member of the Nanfeng organization's infiltration team.
The reason he was arrested was just because he told some gossip he knew in a bar at noon, and he was mistaken for a member of the Nanfeng organization.
"They would rather kill the wrong person than let him go. The top leaders of the mercenary organization are already seeing enemies everywhere."
Su Xia shifted his gaze away, no longer paying attention to the cell, and continued to walk deeper into the underground space.
Along the way, he saw more than a dozen members of the mercenary organization who were detained. All of them were arrested because they spread those rumors during conversations.
Judging from the situation, it would be impossible for them to be released.
Even though he knew that he had arrested the wrong person, the person in charge of this town would not admit his mistake and would just continue to make the best of it.
It is impossible to admit mistakes!
Doing so would damage the reputation of senior management.
The top people cannot be wrong, the only ones who can be wrong are the poor people at the bottom.
More than ten minutes later, Su Xia arrived at the deepest part of this underground area.
“Tick…”
A drop of cold water dripped from the top stone wall, splashing a crystal water flower on the ground.
The temperature here is very low, dark and cold, so cold that it makes people feel like they have entered an ice cellar.
At the end of this underground space was a large cell, five or six times larger than the cells Su Xia had seen before.
The conditions in the cell were equally poor, with the floor covered in dirty straw, much of which had dried blood stains on it.
Unlike those single cells, there were a total of sixteen people imprisoned in this large cell.
All sixteen of them were covered in blood, their clothes were torn, and they looked like they had suffered extremely inhumane torture. Several of them had their limbs broken.
They leaned on each other, all silent and still, as if waiting for some destined ending.
