Chapter 490: Dark Side
"Wow, why didn't we notice it before? These warriors are so abominable." Paimon and Ying walked out of a room with very bad faces.
Inside the house were the bodies of some warriors and some foreigners.
The samurai were killed by Ying, but those foreigners were some foreigners who had smuggled into Inazuma. It is a little doubtful whether they were killed by the samurai, but Ying did not think too much about it at the time.
Since these illegal immigrants have not registered their identities on the outlying islands, they are not protected by Inazuma law, which gives the samurai an opportunity to interfere.
They plundered these illegal immigrants or those whose visas had expired.
Then these warriors would use their positions to squeeze every last Mora out of the pockets of these stowaways, and finally place them in small black workshops like this one.
They claim to be earning money to take home, but in reality they are doing dangerous work that pays little.
For example, the one that Paimon and Ying just entered is the place where some of Inazuma’s most basic secret medicines are processed.
Although some basic secret medicines are basic and everyone knows the formula of these secret medicines, the configuration of these secret medicines itself has certain risks.
As for why these people would do this kind of business, it is naturally because this business is profitable.
Although basic secret medicines are basic, they are still controlled items and still need to be registered when purchased, and they cannot be purchased in large quantities.
Although the official Inazuma company exports a large number of these basic-level secret medicines every year, there is still a shortage of supply. Demand creates a market, so many black workshops have emerged. They sell secret medicines at a slightly higher price than the official ones, but with slightly worse effects.
Make a lot of money every year.
Since most of the people involved are official personnel, and the low-level intelligent judgment is rigid, this leads to the loopholes in this process being exploited to the greatest extent.
This is the so-called management blind spot, and the names they use are all reasonable and legal. Sometimes, outsiders don’t even believe that they can use such high-sounding slogans and do such cruel things unless they see it with their own eyes.
But even if such a thing is discovered, it can only be morally condemned, and there is no way to impose legal sanctions.
At most, they would , and they wouldn't even be detained for long because these guys were just smuggling ordinary goods.
Despite various restrictions, basic secret medicines are actually common commodities.
Of course, it is mainly because they are small in scale and just doing small things. If they really started mass production, Gong Fengxing would have discovered something was wrong long ago.
This time, Ying and her friends found several illegal workshops based on tips from a group of mysterious people. After destroying the related illegal workshops and releasing some people, they didn't even know where to report them.
And it seems that because they have been moving a little too much recently, they have been noticed, so some people have started to silence them. The large number of bodies of the illegal immigrants in the black workshop they just visited seemed to have come from that place.
They also found a group of warriors who looked a little angry and weird, so they killed those warriors who were not weak at all.
When cleaning up the battlefield, we discovered that this group of samurai seemed to be active samurai of the Kanjo Bugyo order.
Because the administrative department of the outlying islands is the Kanjo Bugyo, they were also worried that they would be wanted, so they temporarily returned to the hotel.
"Damn samurai..." Paimon kept muttering after returning to his guest room in the hotel.
"Wait, there seems to be something wrong with Paimon." The traveler seemed to have discovered some blind spots in his behavior.
"Something is wrong." Paimon didn't notice anything wrong.
"Where are the group of mysterious people sent to us? And...those knife wounds..." Ying frowned. She was too angry at the beginning and neglected the details, which were supplemented by Paimeng's muttering just now.
Those injuries did not seem to be caused by guns and wild swords (guns and wild swords were the main weapons of the Kanjo Bugyo, and some people of noble status were equipped with tachi and katana), most of them were caused by wakizashi and katana.
It can basically be inferred here that the person who took action does not seem to be in the same group as the group of warriors behind.
Moreover, this was the first time that Ying and her friends had killed someone. The previous times they had only injured the stationed warriors instead of killing them directly.
"Paimon, would you kill the sheep that produces your milk just because someone steals it?" Ying asked.
"Of course not, what do you mean by that, Traveler?"
"So, Paimon, when you are living a rich life and losing sheep like these won't affect your life, will you fight for these sheep and others?"
"Of course not. Ying, what on earth do you want to say? I don't quite understand."
"...It's best if you don't understand. I hope you, Xiao Paimeng, will never understand." Ying said with a complicated expression.
She had realized that she seemed to be being used as a gun.
" Those guys seem to be trying to bring me into conflict with the Kanjo Bugyo."
"I am a traveler who has just arrived in the country of Inazuma. Logically speaking, there is nothing worth planning for those people."
"Then the other party's target is the 'Kanjo Bugyo'. We can even say that it is someone in the Kanjo Bugyo."
"It's really a headache." Ying scratched his head.
Suddenly, I felt sleepy. I looked at the sky and saw that it was already dark. I looked at Paimon and saw that he had already fallen into a deep sleep.
He also kept saying the vague names of the dishes.
"Oh~ I'm so envious." Ying sighed at Paimon's good attitude, then turned off the lights and went to sleep.
I've been tired all day today. As for what to do tomorrow, I'll talk about it tomorrow. Anyway, this matter is closely related to those "kind-hearted people" who provided her with information.
Tomorrow we will start with those 'kind-hearted people'.
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"Captain..." The intelligence officer handed over a piece of information.
The above is the recent action of the 'net' against the Kanjo Bugyo, as well as the investigation and report on the small black workshops under the Kanjo Bugyo.
"This is a failure on the part of our intelligence department..."
"Don't blame yourself too much. I'm actually quite curious about how the 'network' knew the information that we don't know about... Send the whole story of this matter to Shinsuke Hiiragi and let him correct it himself." Ren Lian Lingyi touched his chin and began to think about the black workshop.
He knew that this matter could be big or small. On a big level, it damaged the image of Inazuma in various countries, but on a small level, it was nothing more than a group of villains exploiting a group of poor people.
It's still the kind that not many people know about. Ren Lian Lingyi doesn't care how to deal with this kind of thing, so he just handed it over to Hiiragi Shinsuke (Kanjo Bugyo). Although Hiiragi Shinsuke is old, his political wisdom is not diminished at all.
