198. The Bear in the Heroes Gang

In fact, as soon as she entered the old town, Sonia noticed the difference between this and other urban areas. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The biggest difference is the number of pedestrians on the street and the number of shops that are open.

As Colombo's most vibrant nightlife area, the Old Town is home to the city's workday in the early hours of the morning. This is very much in line with the biological clock of Colombo's wealthy class.

So when Sonia and Monica entered the old town from the famous Seven Colour Street, she immediately found that it was unusually deserted, that is, there was no traffic and no shops. On the wide streets, there are only a few cars passing through, mostly vehicles carrying garbage and consumables.

According to the address on the note, the bald White lived at No. 55 on Purple Street in the Seven Colors of the Old Town.

However, the public carriages only stop at the parallel Seven Colours Street, with a stop on the northernmost Red Street. To get to the southernmost side of Purple Street, you need to traverse almost the entire intricate streets of the old town from north to south.

Sonia and Monica plunged headlong into the labyrinthine twists and turns of the alley, soon losing their way in the twists and turns of the road and the myriad of forks in the road.

As many of the city's residents abandoned the low-rise houses of the old town and moved to the nearby new town under the persuasion of city officials (who believed that reducing the population density of the old town was also a way to reduce the difficulty of management), Sonia and Monica found that many of the houses and courtyards were dilapidated, like ruins that had been damaged by time, and compared with the tall and shiny buildings lining the streets, it was as if they were in two different worlds。

In this kind of tunnel, because there are always tall fortress-like buildings around, many places are always in shadow even during the day, and the light can only be felt during the limited time when the sun shines vertically at noon.

And because there was no one to ask for directions, after a painful third detour back to the same place, Sonia decided to go off the beaten path.

She carefully climbed Monica up to a sturdy-looking house, and then tried her way out of the maze along the roofs that were next to each other.

I have to say that this is a very dangerous move. Not only because many houses are already classified as seriously dilapidated houses, but if you step on the roof, you will fall directly into the house. It is also because these uninhabited areas are actually the best places in Colombo for illegal trade.

Inside many seemingly uninhabited houses, goods belonging to various gangs are actually stored. These goods include unpaid food, tobacco and alcohol obtained by smugglers, high-grade magic items that have been dispersed from various channels, strong drugs that have been nowhere to supply for the time being after the fall of the Green Cross cult, and boys and girls kidnapped from all over the country by guys who have completely lost their conscience.

And the guys who guard these goods are also hiding near the goods.

Therefore, when Sonia pulled Monica to stand on the roof, many dark eyes were fixed on the two of them, and some of the more grumpy guys picked up the alchemy crossbow and aimed at the two girls passing on the roof.

Soon, however, the performance of the two girls on the undulating roofs calmed down many witnesses.

Such a performance can only mean that both girls are extremely strong fighters. Although I don't understand why someone would do something early in the morning and make everyone uneasy, the difference in strength between them is too big to calm down the most ferocious thugs.

Sonia didn't realize that her actions had almost made the two of them targeted. She didn't even notice if there were people in the houses she was passing by.

After standing on the high place, Sonia was very happy to find that in fact, the street was not far away, but the two of them who were blocked from view could not see it at all.

Using the extremely efficient upper house method, the two of them got rid of the interference of the complicated road very smoothly, and almost walked straight to Purple Street. The only problem is that it seems to have broken the roofs of quite a few houses along the way.

Sonia can be sure that the bald White must be at home now. Because the steward of Valentino Palace told her that White had left early after playing last night, and that he still had a game to play tonight. This means that he will hardly be able to go anywhere today, and will have to prepare for tonight's game at home, or rely on his status as a finalist to get a meal. Now that he is not in the Palazzo Valentino, he must be resting at home.

"Let's hope it's not so bad luck that he's not home!" Sonia looked at a wooden sign nailed to an inconspicuous alleyway on Purple Street, with red fifteen written in bold letters, and pulled Monica inside.

However, although there are signs at the entrance of the alley on the street, the houses in the alley still do not have any identity signs. Later, Sonia heard that the municipality had installed house numbers for all the houses, but every time they were installed, they would all be pried off within three or two days. And all of these people are half-grown children, and it is said that someone has launched a long-term effective house number acquisition campaign with the price of two tokens and one house number.

Afterwards, East said it was likely a task by the local gangs to make it more difficult for strangers to get acquainted with the terrain in the Old Town. No matter which gang you are, you don't like to be raided by the police station, and you can easily be blocked in the house according to the house number.

But now that there is no sect number, it has become a headache for Sonia. However, there seem to be a lot more inhabitants here than in other places. The two girls soon met an enthusiastic guide who told them where the bald head and his wife lived.

"The Garbage King" Wharton and "Rice Bucket" Marco are both ordinary gangmembers of the Hero Gang, or the lowest minions. As can be seen from their nicknames, the two are basically incapable. Even in criminal organizations, low-level elements like them are very tragic.

No, last night, not this morning, everyone slept late, but the group leader above the two of them insisted that the two of them go out to ask for debts.

If it were a year ago, two people would still be enthusiastic about the job of asking for debts, but since a year ago, two senior seniors in the debt collection industry, in the process of debt collection, were beaten into two in one by unknown people, the morale of all debt collectors has plummeted.

You must know that anyone who borrows from the Hero Gang's loan sharks, once they can't pay back the money, will be pulled into the various industries of the Hero Gang to work and repay the money. In this regard, the boss of the Heroes Gang, the real hero, the most benevolent Lucar boss in the whole of Coronia, said, whether you are a man or a woman, old or weak, I can find a suitable place for you in the Heroes Gang's industry, develop your own advantages, and contribute to the repayment of debts.

Needless to say, young women occupy three streets in the Seven Colors Street heroically, and there are more than a dozen nightclubs of all kinds, and they always have a great demand for fresh goods, and if they are good women, they can also attract some rich people who like to play games of abuse but do not have the courage to really commit crimes. As long as these women of good families play in their true colors, it is enough to make those big guys take out the last child in their wallets.

Young men can also say that in Colombo, the trade of people has always been carried out in the underworld, and no matter how many people, there are high rollers who can swallow it in one gulp.

To put it better for children, whether it is made into X toys after human body modification, or bought back and raised to play slowly, Colombo's aristocrats will take out a lot of coins without frowning.

As for the middle-aged and elderly, the average usurer has nothing to do with them, after all, he can't do any work, and he doesn't have a few years to live.

But Lucar is a business wizard. In the underground fighting arena controlled by the Hero Gang, the beast cannibalism show before each main match can always mobilize the bloodthirsty enthusiasm of the audience to the greatest extent.

Unfortunately, there are pros and cons to everything.

After the malicious efforts of competitors to publicize, anyone who borrows the debt of the Hero Gang, but can't pay it back, will run away desperately, and those who can't run will often die to the death. As a result, at least eight debt collectors were killed and dozens more were injured within a year.

This is also the reason why the hearts of the "garbage king" Wharton and the "rice bucket" Marco are beating wildly and panicking.

This time the debt was owed to a beautiful young widow. Her husband, a small businessman, was unwilling to keep his business small, and before he died, he borrowed a sum of money from the Heroes Gang, intending to take the harvest festival and take the sea route to Colombo to bring in a batch of yellow flower rice wine, which was very popular with women. The wine has not been around Colombo for a few years, but it already has a loyal following. According to his reasoning, the profits from this shipment would not only cover the debts, but also double his capital.

However, the production area of yellow flower fruit rice wine is very remote, and small merchants have to go to the production area in person to contact the purchase.

He spent his last dollar, finished his cargo, and took a boat back to Colombo. However, he encountered a pirate warship under the long-lost thief Horsenbruce, who was in the mountains and seas.

Because of his greed for cheapness, the small businessman took a transport ship from a local navy introduced by a friend. However, this local navy has a vendetta with the men of the great thief Horseenbruce.

The two sides met and started fighting without saying a word. The end result was that the transport ship was captured by the pirates, along with the surviving sailors on board. The hapless merchant was stabbed with a javelin in the chaos of the battle, tied to a stone, buried at sea, and thrown into the windless sea.

These were told to his widow by a friend of a small businessman. After screening, Horseenbruce's men quickly released the civilians on board, so that news of the death of the small merchant could be quickly reported back to Colombo.

In an instant, the sky fell. The woman who went from a young woman to a widow lost her husband and at the same time gained a large amount of debt. The interest alone was overwhelming her.

In order to repay the loan shark, she sold her house and all her furniture and moved to a dilapidated house in the old town.

This usury was originally agreed to start paying interest in a month and repay the principal in three months, but now everyone knows that after three months, the widow will definitely not be able to pay the money. Therefore, the beautiful widow itself has become a high-quality collateral used to repay debts in the eyes of the Hero Gang.

Inevitably having a long night and many dreams, others were the first to take the lead, and today, the Heroes Gang put forward a preferential proposal to let the widow sell meat to repay the principal on the condition of exempting the interest.