The big and small forces in the southeast city are basically gathered in this tavern today, which is crowded and looks very lively.

However, Zhang Heng knew that the person who could really make up his mind was not here, but was sitting on the second floor, and they asked the middle-aged Jews to preside over the meeting, quietly listening to the quarrels and noises downstairs, and only speaking out when needed, and their voices were the real voices, and they were also the voices that Zhang Heng wanted to hear.

The middle-aged Jew sneered when he heard this, "Is Mr. Lockyd the one you can see if you want to?" ”

However, as soon as his words fell, he saw a young girl walk down from the second floor, looked at Zhang Heng, and said curiously, "Are you the gladiatorial champion of the Flavi Amphitheater, that mysterious Oriental from the distant empire?" ”

"Sounds like I'm right." Zhang Heng nodded.

"Rumor has it that you are the embodiment of a god on earth, with wings on your back and can soar in the sky, but you don't look like a normal person." The girl seemed a little disappointed.

"In order not to scare my friends, I put my wings away."

The girl let out a sneering laugh when she heard this, "You men like to talk nonsense, but for your sake of treating us as friends, come up, grandpa wants to see you." ”

"It's better to be respectful than to obey." Hearing this, Zhang Heng stood up from his position and followed the girl to the second floor.

The middle-aged Jew's face showed a look of unwillingness, but he knew the girl and knew that it was Lockyd's decision, and the most important rule as a member of the Jewish gang was to never question Lockyd's decision, so he closed his mouth and said nothing, just respectfully watched the two go upstairs.

The girl leaned into Zhang Heng's ear as she walked, and whispered, "My grandfather hates dishonest people the most, so you must not lie when you see him in a while." ”

"Thanks for the reminder, but I've always liked to tell the truth." Zhang Heng replied.

"Well...... I think we'll find out soon. "Girl.

The two quickly climbed to the second floor, and to Zhang Heng's expectation, there were only four people on the huge second floor.

Three of them sat at a long table, and on the main seat was an old man in his early sixties, of typical Jewish appearance, with short brownish-black hair, but most of them were white, with a wide forehead, hooked noses, deep eye sockets, and sharp eyes that seemed to be able to see through the hearts of all people.

Needless to say, he should be the current boss of the Jewish gang, Lockyd, and also the most important figure in the entire southeast city, the history of Lockyd's rise is a living legend, he was born in an ordinary Jewish civilian family, his father died very early, his mother had to start a leather and meat business to support the family's three children, and as the eldest son, Lockyd, also began to make money early, he worked as a thief, worked as an apprentice in a blacksmith shop, walked the streets and alleys to collect urine for the laundry, and also cleaned the sewers......

He did everything he could to make money, and it wasn't until he joined the Jewish gang at the age of sixteen that his life gradually improved, but then fate played a cruel joke on him, his mother and sister died of the plague, and his only remaining brother died in the gang conflict.

Until the age of thirty, Lockyd was only an inconspicuous minor player in the Jewish gang, with only five subordinates at most.

Then there was the legendary World War I, when the boss of the Jewish gang was betrayed by his own men, assassinated, and fled all the way to the temple with no one by his side, and it happened that Lockyd and his two brothers collected money at the market in front of the temple.

The three of them protected the boss who was already cornered, no one knows how they withstood the enemy who was several times their size, and when the follow-up help arrived, they had all become bloody people, and Lockyd's two men didn't even survive until the doctor arrived, only Lockyd carried it, and then he was also appreciated by the boss of the Jewish gang at the time, and rose all the way, and finally succeeded in taking over the first major force in the southeast city after the latter's death.

All the street kids in the South-East Side look up to Lockyd as their idol and hope that one day they too will be able to fight their way like Lockyd.

On Lockyd's left is a man of about the same age who is closing his eyes and recuperating, he is the boss of the second largest force in the southwest city, the Golden Crown, with money and rent collection as his main income, not as good as the Jewish gang in numbers, but still more than the wealth, and more than half of the real estate shops in the southwest city belong to the Golden Crown.

Rockyd's right-hand side sat a young man, different from the two people around him, he looked very young, he was about the same age as Zhang Heng, with an innocent smile on his face, which made people suspect that he was just someone's family here, but in fact he was the mouthpiece of the hive, the third largest force in the southwest city.

No one knows who the boss of the hive is, and no one knows how many people there are in the hive, what the business is, the only thing that is certain is that the hive is the oldest force in the southwest city, they are everywhere, anyone around you can be a member of the hive, even the golden crown and the Jewish gang have a lot of hive people, so nothing in the southwest city can be hidden from the hive, and it is rumored that all the assassins in the southwest city are related to the hive.

The young man here is one of the few people in the hive who is responsible for communicating and negotiating with various forces, and the microphone is his self-proclaimed.

As for the fourth person, he didn't sit at the table, but stood aside and poured wine for the three people present, looking like a waiter in a tavern, but Zhang Heng's gaze stayed on him the longest, because Zhang Heng found that he couldn't see his strength at all.

No wonder the three of them sat on the second floor with such a big grin, and they didn't arrange any additional guards.

"Zhang Heng, in the southeast city recently, no, it should be said that your name is being discussed everywhere in the entire city of Rome," the first to speak was actually the microphone of the hive, he smiled and said, "Two months ago, you were a gladiator in the Victor Arena, and after you were free, you immediately began to work for His Majesty the Emperor, it is said that Your Majesty values you very much, when you were still a gladiator, he visited you privately, and you naturally don't want to mess up this first errand."

"So when you joined the patrol, you immediately started to do things, first forced the handcuffs and his men to do something to you, and then supported the thief called soap to be your puppet, very smart, because the identity of the patrol team can't directly annex and digest those territories, otherwise it would have attracted our attention a long time ago, and you are very cautious, and you also found five gangsters you knew before, and set up an anti-patrol alliance, one can check and balance soap, and the other can also take the opportunity to get rid of the unstable factors in the two forces, Then you swelled up your patrols.

"Your actions have succeeded in attracting the attention of Mr. Lockyd, and we have extended an invitation to you, but unfortunately then you went to your political ally Clinder, and then there was rumor from the Senate that His Majesty the Emperor wanted to do something to the southeastern city, and I am right, by the way, you had a fokachabo cake in the morning, honey with bread, and you don't like bread because it's a little too old."