Before coming to the Federation, Leach had thought about finding people from the Rebels, after all, if you want to find people, it is a good idea to turn to civil organizations without the slightest foundation.

A large part of the reason for this intention is that Wright has a good evaluation of the rebels.

However, when I heard the shopkeeper say this, my heart was a little shaken: Could it be that Wright's evaluation was wrong?

"Could there be some misunderstanding here?" Out of trust in Wright, Leach still felt that the shopkeeper's statement was a bit extreme, probably because the rebels were hindering him from doing business.

"Misunderstanding?" the shopkeeper became excited, "Guest, don't you know, it turns out that we are not only very prosperous here, but also very good security, although it is not to the point of not leaving the road behind, but everyone is quite peaceful, and there will rarely be chaos." ”

"Everything has changed since they came!"

"In the beginning, they ganged up everywhere, guests, you think, the good people here are living well, how could they join any rebels for no reason, so they are all those who are idle here. In fact, at that time, everyone should have thought that those gangsters would definitely not be good birds even if they even took that gang of gangsters, so they should be wiped out before they develop!"

"But it's too late to say this now, at that time, the big guys didn't care about themselves, and no one cared about them at all, so that later their power grew stronger and stronger, and now even our local officers and soldiers don't dare to confront them head-on. ”

"Far away, after the gang gathered all the local thugs together, they probably felt that it was almost enough, and began to organize people to go to the shops on the street to make trouble. In the past, those little gangsters were fighting on their own, and they couldn't make any waves at all, and they weren't very greedy, and those small businessmen who had no power and no power pinched their noses with the idea of breaking the fortune and avoiding disasters, and they endured it, as for those who had a little bit of power, they all directly beat the gangsters who came to the door to make trouble. ”

"But ever since the professed rebels brought the thugs together, their destructive power has skyrocketed, and all but a few of the shops with strong backgrounds have been murdered. And as they become more and more confident, their appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and they are no longer satisfied with that little favor, but they have begun to blatantly ask for high protection fees from merchants. ”

"Didn't you report to the police?" asked Tali interjected.

"I reported it, but it didn't work. The shopkeeper sighed, "Guest, you may have never dealt with those thugs, their ears are smart, as long as they find that there are officers and soldiers, they will run faster than anyone else, and once the officers and soldiers retreat, they will come back and continue to make trouble, and it will become more serious, and over time, everyone can only succumb to their authority." ”

"Guest, I have learned over the years that gangsters are not terrible, what is terrible is that gangsters have an organization. I don't know what channels they have, after they have accumulated a certain amount of wealth, they don't know where to buy some guiding weapons!"

"Isn't it said that it is difficult to get a guide weapon, do those people still have an official background? No, doesn't it mean that the rebels are mortal enemies with the official of the Federation?" Originally, Leach had already been said by the shopkeeper and began to doubt Wright's judgment, but when he heard him say this, he suddenly felt that the so-called "rebels" in the shopkeeper's mouth were probably impostors deliberately created by the federal officials, with the purpose of discrediting the rebel organization among the general public.

"Not what you think. After listening to Leach's questioning, the shopkeeper not only did not follow the doubts, but explained, "The guiding weapons that are difficult to get you mentioned are all new ones, and those that the gangsters get are all old guiding weapons that have been obsolete for a long time, and I have heard the customers in the store say that they seem to be available on the black market in Palmeira." As for whether the gangsters bought it from the black market, then I don't know. ”

After explaining, the shopkeeper continued the previous topic: "Although the gangsters are holding some very old guiding weapons in their hands, their number is much larger than that of the officers and soldiers here, and in the initial confrontation, it ended in a great defeat for the officers and soldiers!"

In this way, the thugs acted more and more unscrupulously, and by the time reinforcements from other places arrived, Kelmos had been turned into a miasma by them, and he would never return to his prosperity. ”

"And then, was the group of thugs all wiped out?" Regardless of the shopkeeper's embarrassed face, Tali hurriedly asked.

"That's good!" the shopkeeper's fat face was full of sadness, "At first, the gangsters suffered a big loss because they were too arrogant, but then they learned to be smart, and they even took advantage of the lack of reinforcements to move the gathering point to the wild!"

"In this way, once they are short of money and things, they will run back to rob their houses, and once the officers and soldiers want to arrest them, they will flee outside the town, which is more difficult than before, which is why there is such a strict check in and out of the town of Kermos, in order to prevent those guys from sneaking in and causing trouble. ”

"I want to ...... Still doesn't work, am I right?" guessed Leach as he thought of the street scene he had seen along the way.

The shopkeeper nodded: "Guest, what you said is not wrong at all, although the inspection is very strict, but that group of thugs still come and go as they want, many people speculate that they have dug a secret passage in the town in advance, and the town has their internal response, if you don't find out the internal response and the secret passage, the town of Kelmos will never return to its original prosperity." ”

Speaking of this, the shopkeeper seemed to suddenly remember something, and hurriedly said: "It's all my fault, you complained to the guests when you patronized, and you forgot the most important thing!"

"I don't know what's going on?" saw that he was sweating profusely and looking nervous, Leach asked curiously.

"That's the case, didn't I tell you just now, everyone suspects that there are ghosts in the town, and the officers and soldiers are also suspicious, so they will arrest people and go back for interrogation every once in a while. Unfortunately, the chef at our inn was taken away just yesterday, so in recent days guests have had to go to the restaurants in town if they want to eat. ”

With that, the shopkeeper kept rubbing his fat hands together and stared nervously at Leach's face like a prisoner awaiting trial, trying to see how he would react.