Chapter 992: Black Market Intelligence
Just as Leo predicted, before the mutation of the world occurred, the port of Venaya, which had begun to accept mutant families, has now been regarded as a holy place of salvation by the current mutants, and all mutants who have the ability to pass through all kinds of dangers will invariably choose the port of Venaya as a shelter.
According to the intelligence of the black market, it can also be seen that Venaya Port has indeed given these mutants considerable protection, which not only guarantees the personal safety of these mutants, but also gives these mutants special treatment that is not available elsewhere, such as allowing them to return to the state of normal humans without using their own mutant powers.
This special treatment is undoubtedly very attractive to any mutant, although for administrative reasons, places like the United Kingdom have given some administrative support to mutants, so that they can live like normal people, but this is only an administrative level of care, and the discrimination and hatred of mutants among the people have never stopped, even weakened, even mutants, even mutants will discriminate against each other because of the implicit and explicit mutation status.
Therefore, most of the mutants themselves expect to be able to turn back into ordinary people and live like ordinary people, even those who have gained great power because of mutation.
Now that Venaya Harbor has a way to make mutants return to their ordinary appearance, this incident makes mutants feel as if they have been reborn, and Venaya Harbor has naturally become the preferred haven for mutants to escape persecution and pursuit.
Of course, some people will doubt whether Venaya Port can really make mutants return to the state of ordinary people, and the black market headquarters of the Vilya Continent specially sent their most powerful subordinates to infiltrate Vinaya Port to collect intelligence, and the result is that Vinaya Port does have the ability to make mutants turn back into ordinary people, but the success rate is not particularly large.
However, even if it fails, the mutant's form will change more or less, becoming more human-like, which is undoubtedly a lifesaver for those who have to cover their bodies by various means.
In the eyes of these fully mutants, even if they can't be made back to their normal form, as long as they become like individuals, they will be satisfied.
Therefore, even if Venaya Port is not the force that accommodates the most mutants among the various forces in the Velonon Continent, in terms of regional density, Venaya Port is the area that accommodates the most mutants in the Velonon Continent.
According to the statistics collected by the black market, the current Venaya Port has accommodated nearly 40,000 mutants, plus the mutant family group of Venanya Port itself, making the total number of mutants in Venaya Port reach more than 60,000, and most of these mutants have obtained various strengths and weaknesses because of mutations, which also makes Venanya Port the city of the Virune Continent with the most extraordinary mutants.
The fact that Venaya Port was able to master the most transcendent mutants was not beyond the expectations of most people, and in their opinion, it was the most incredible thing that Venaya Port did not become the city with the most mutants.
However, to everyone's surprise, the second largest concentration of mutants after Venaya Harbor turned out to be Lan Xi's Cage City.
At the beginning of the establishment of the United Kingdom, the Kingdom also hoped to be able to clean up the largest slum in the Kingdom of Cage City, and even in the entire Velon, and even promulgated a lot of policies for this purpose, and forced the merchants in the United Kingdom to make some coordinated changes to these policies, because of Rupert Fitz's astonishing methods, these actions of the Kingdom did not make the merchant class within the Kingdom too disgusted and repulsed.
Originally, the kingdom thought that everything would be executed smoothly, and the abscess in the core area of the kingdom of Cage City would soon disappear, but as a result, these policies fell on the policy beneficiaries.
Less than 1 percent of the people who moved out of the city with their families were reluctant to leave the city, preferring to continue to stay in the small, dark, dirty, and even dangerous slums of the city.
The reason why the residents of Cage City rejected the good intentions of the kingdom is not that the various resettlement policies promulgated by the kingdom cannot be implemented. Do a set, the people of the cage city do not trust the kingdom, but because the people of the cage city have lived in the cage city for a long time, they have adapted to the special living environment of the cage city, leaving the cage city is equivalent to the fish leaving the water, lucky to be able to find a puddle for the time being, barely survive, while others can only struggle on the edge of life and death, either become the meat in the mouth of others, or will die in a corner one day.
In addition, the cage city is still an extralegal place, and the laws of the kingdom cannot be applied to the cage city, and the cage city can formulate its own laws and form its own law enforcement forces and army.
Therefore, the kingdom's policy of cleaning up the cage city had to be abandoned, but in order to avoid conflict with the kingdom and ease the relationship between the two sides, the cage city people agreed to join the kingdom's army and jointly resist the empire.
These are all publicly available intelligence information about the cage city, but there is another information in the black market, which shows that the United Kingdom Prime Minister Rupert Fitz is actually secretly controlled by the cage city, and he secretly controls the cage city with a population of one million through the cage city business association, the cage city trade union, the cage city welfare committee, and some underground churches controlled by him.
Although the Cage Reform and Clean-up Plan was nominally presided over by the Prime Minister of the Kingdom, the actual implementation of the plan was carried out by King Philip's cronies, and the Cage Reform and Clean-up Plan was in some ways a private power struggle between the Prime Minister and the King, which ended in a complete victory for Rupert Fitz.
It is precisely because of Rupert Fitz's covert operation that Cage City has completely become a semi-autonomous area within the kingdom, and the contact between here and the outside world is almost under control, basically the people in Cage City do not know much about the world outside Cage City except for the workers who work outside, and the people outside Cage City know very little about the situation in Cage City.
However, some forces that are particularly concerned about Rupert Fitz will still spare no effort to find a way to investigate the situation in Cage City, and the black market is one of them, but the internal control of Cage City is very strict, and it is almost impossible for foreign forces to gain a foothold in Cage City, let alone find out any confidential information.
Fortunately, the black market has been in the cage city for a long time, and has already gained a firm foothold in the cage city, and has some connections with the high-level leaders in the cage city.
For example, Cage City has mastered a way to restore the out-of-control mutants to their normal senses, and for example, Cage City has been engaged in the research of the family mutants before the world has changed, and the acceptance of mutants is far higher than that of other regions, and even Vinaya Harbor is not comparable.
It is precisely because of these advantageous conditions that they play a role in the shadows, and then Cage City has become the second sanctuary in the underground world after Venaya Port, and the only place it is inferior to Venaya Port is that it is too dirty and crowded.
However, even so, there are still many mutants and their families who escaped from Miria City in the north have chosen to settle down in Cage City, which has caused the number of mutants in Cage City to increase rapidly, and Cage City has also formed the entire Velun Continent, and even the first army of all mutants in the Velen world.
It has to be said that the situation of the mutants in the south of the Vilun continent is far better than in the north, and the worst place in the environment is Miria City and its surroundings.
According to the intelligence collected by the black market, from the northern end of the Dibia Mountains to the swampy area at the southern end of the Hanosa Alliance, this area of Miria City, which occupies one-third of the land area on the west coast of the Veron Continent, can be said to be the most mutated and the most chaotic area in the entire Veron Continent.
In this area, the ratio of mutants to normal humans, from more than 30 to 30 at the beginning, to more than 30 to 1 in reverse, is enough to show that this has become an area occupied by mutants, and what is more serious is that more than half of these mutants are semi-out of control, or even completely out of control.
The normal people who still live in this area can be said to be miserable, they can only huddle together to keep warm, mainly those mutants who are not out of control and some other people with extraordinary powers, forming a small force similar to a tribe to resist the attack of the out-of-control mutants.
These normal people did not think about going south to the United Kingdom, or north to the Hanosa Union, but the policies of these two countries change frequently, and the acceptance of mutants is conditional, and because of the Great Plague, they do not want to take in the refugees of Miria City, so as not to spread the plague to the country, so both countries are now sealing their borders.
Although the black market still has several offices in the Miria City area, it is difficult to transmit news from there due to border blockades and other problems, so there is not much information about Miria City in the black market.
There is a lot of overlap between the intelligence files in the black market and the intelligence information of the United Kingdom, and Leo doesn't need to spend too much time reading and sorting out, he has already read all the materials in the entire archive, and the useful information has also been included in his brain database.
After that, Leo was about to leave the archive room and return to the hotel accommodation, when he walked to the door of the archive room, about to open the door, and walked out, he suddenly stopped moving, and took two steps back, and then saw the door of the archive room open from the outside, followed by a middle-aged man carrying a metal box.
"Archive, RAND 375 filing cabinet. The middle-aged man put the box directly next to the staff, knocked on the table, attracted the attention of the staff, and then said without emotion.
When they heard the file cabinet number that the middle-aged man said, the staff in the intelligence room couldn't help but be stunned, and at the same time, Leo was also stunned because of the file cabinet number.
When Leo was reading the materials just now, he found that in the file cabinets numbered with the name of Rand, all kinds of intelligence materials were far more important and valuable than the information in other file cabinets.
Subsequently, the staff quickly came back to their senses, did not ask more, directly through some prescribed procedures, opened the metal box, took out a stack of file bags from it, checked the sealing wax on the file bag, and quickly recorded the information on the cover of the file bag in a specific form, after doing all this, he put the files in the vacant trolley on the side, pushed them to the specified file cabinet, and put the files into it one by one.
Just as the staff put the last file into the filing cabinet and turned to leave, Leo was already standing in front of the filing cabinet, opened the cabinet, took out the files again, and re-read the contents through the scanning of the spirit network.
After reading it, Leo couldn't help but fall into deep thought, and began to think about the source of these intelligence materials.
The content of these intelligence materials is not any special secret information, but some extremely ordinary political, commercial, military, and people's livelihood intelligence materials that can often be seen in outside newspapers, and even a complete newspaper is mixed in one of the files.
However, these seemingly ordinary intelligence materials have become less ordinary due to the current environmental conditions and the source of intelligence information.
The contents of these intelligence records are not the affairs of any country or region on the Vilun continent, but what is happening in the Minsk continent and the Moisan continent, and it is something that has only happened recently.
Because of the gray fog sealing the sea, the connection between the Mozan continent, the Minsk continent and the Vilun continent has been severed according to common sense, and it is impossible to obtain intelligence information from other continents.
But now the fact is that the black market has obtained intelligence information from other continents, and these materials are all up-to-date, and one of the Minsk mainland newspapers also mentioned that Her Majesty has recently been very interested in the development of the airship and intends to invest a lot of money in this project.
"They should have a way to safely pass through the gray fog at sea. After Leo put these files back in their place, he couldn't help but have a guess in his mind, because only in this way could he explain how these materials came to the Velon.
Leo didn't think much about it, and after restoring the filing cabinet, he turned around and walked out of the archive room, although the door of the archive room opened next to the staff member, but he completely ignored it, until Leo closed the door and left the archive room, he looked at the file room door suspiciously, as if he felt something, but shook his head again, and his attention returned to the work in his hand.
Leo quickly walked out of the black market, returned to the hotel where he lived, and walked to his suite, where Sylvia was dealing with the papers in her hand while playing with the two little ones who had woken up.
"What's the catch?" asked Sylvia when she saw Leo walking in from the outside.
Leo nodded, and said without concealment: "I suspect that the Black Market has mastered a way to safely pass through the gray fog. ”