Chapter: Chapter 334
“Nothing important, just wanted to tell you that a big business is coming tomorrow,” Miss Bai said in a low voice, rubbing her slightly red hands.
Leticia’s eyebrows shot up, a big business?
“Is it inside information?”
“Not exactly inside information, but it’s an open secret. Almost all S-class and A-class heroes already know, right?” Bai Ling explained. “You probably know the reason too, don’t you?”
What else could it be? Leticia’s memory wasn’t so bad that she’d forget what happened earlier that day. That huge explosion was likely the reason the Hero Association decided to make a move.
“Alright, I guess I should prepare myself too,” Leticia stretched.
“Do you need to prepare to deal with those small fries? I thought you’d just walk over and wave your hand, and they’d all be captured.”
“You’ve got a silver tongue, but the preparation I’m talking about isn’t for them. My real enemies are my teammates, aren’t they?” Leticia grinned dangerously. The combined strength of the heroes was definitely far greater than that organization’s. Plus, the current situation was a pincer movement. It would be abnormal if the other side wasn’t completely routed.
So, at this time, her own teammates were actually her enemies, enemies trying to snatch the spoils.
Towards Leticia’s wicked thoughts, Miss Bai couldn’t help but step forward and lightly hit Leticia on the head, “Behave yourself. We are all comrades, don’t scheme against each other.”
“Nonsense, I’m a demon! Who said I’m comrades with you humans?” Leticia said, crossing her arms unhappily. “And can you stop touching my head? I’m already short enough, and if you keep doing that, I might get even shorter.”
“That’s okay, I like short girls…”
“You better just go die then!”
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The next day, early in the morning.
“As expected, I received a mass message first thing in the morning. I didn’t expect the Hero Association to understand that organization so deeply, even marking down their strongholds one by one.” Leticia, wearing a large white robe and a mask diagonally across her face, held her phone and looked at it intently.
Just moments ago, the Hero Association had issued a top-level mission. This mission had no limit on participants, and its sole objective was to completely annihilate the organization that had just crossed the line.
It was obvious that the Hero Association wasn’t idle during normal times. Their intelligence work was excellent. The locations of most of that organization’s strongholds were already known to the Hero Association. It was estimated that the organization itself wouldn’t have expected the Hero Association’s reaction to be so swift and fierce.
Putting away her phone, Leticia got up from her chair, preparing to go out and make some quick cash.
But just as she was about to set off, Miss Bai arrived.
“Wait, Leticia.” As soon as Miss Bai teleported into the room, she immediately called out to Leticia, “The situation has changed.”
“Huh? Don’t tell me there’s no one in any of these strongholds?” Leticia tilted her head and looked at Miss Bai.
Miss Bai quickly shook her head, “No, no, it’s just that the association just received intelligence. The intelligence pointed out the location of a certain high-level leader of that organization.”
“You mean…”
“The association asked me to contact you. We’re going to catch that big fish,” Bai Ling stated her intention. Although, in principle, she wasn’t a hero, Miss Bai was kind-hearted. Plus, she wanted to act with Leticia, so it wasn’t surprising she joined in.
Leticia didn’t have much of a reaction to this temporarily changed mission. To her, catching small fry and catching big fish were all the same, as long as the reward was sufficient.
However, since it was a big fish, its surrounding guard force would surely be considerable. In that case, wouldn’t the reward she received be even greater?
“Without further ado, shall we set off now?”
“No rush. The association received information that the big fish will be at a deserted warehouse on the edge of the West District at 2 PM for a transaction. Our mission is to storm the transaction site, disrupt it, and capture the person by the way.”
“Is this a case of ‘killing the chicken to warn the monkeys’? This kind of behavior clearly tells other organizations that have connections with that organization not to get involved in this matter, otherwise, we heroes will beat you all too.”
But to Leticia’s surprise, Miss Bai shook her head.
The reason for choosing that time to act was simple and realistic: the Hero Association only received information that the person would appear at the deserted warehouse at 2 PM, and they had no other intelligence.
To catch this big fish, they could only go to this location at this time.
However, this made the whole matter feel full of conspiracy.
“Could it be a trap?” Leticia asked uneasily.
Miss Bai still shook her head. “The association’s judgment is that this is most likely not a trap. I think if they can make such a judgment, they must have obtained other intelligence to verify… Also, can a trap threaten the two of us?”
Bai Ling’s statement was incredibly realistic. In the entire Central City, what could threaten the two of them that such a crumbling underground organization would possess? It was impossible that they also had a divine artifact hidden, like Elder Eagle, right?
Even if it was a divine artifact, Leticia wasn’t particularly afraid. She was now a God Slayer. The value of personally killing a god was right here.
“You do have a point. So, are we just going to sit here and wait until the afternoon?”
“How about we go to the West District first to scout it out, and get familiar with the area so we can act faster later?” Miss Bai offered her opinion. “Besides, we haven’t had the chance to properly explore the West District, so it would be good to go sightseeing there.”
“However, if that’s the case, I’ll have to change this outfit,” Leticia said with a hint of helplessness as she looked at her battle suit.
Since they were going sightseeing, she certainly couldn’t wear this. After all, wearing this out would definitely attract a lot of attention.
They couldn’t alert the enemy. If the big fish sensed danger, it wouldn’t be good.
“Go ahead and change. How about a light yellow dress?” Bai Ling asked with sparkling eyes, wanting to see Leticia in other colors. “Or maybe pink, or green would be fine too!”
“We’re going to fight, not play!” Leticia glared at Bai Ling. “Of course, I’ll choose pants, right?”
…
The West District was a relatively vibrant place in Central City, unlike the East District where Leticia and Bai Ling resided. Due to some historical remnants, many underground organizations preferred to set up strongholds and operate here.
When they had sent Yue Xiaoyin back before, the two of them were in a car and didn’t feel anything special. But now.
“I can feel it. There’s a lot more malice mixed in the surrounding gazes compared to our side,” Leticia said, hands in her pockets, her expression a little gloomy. The surrounding malicious gazes really couldn’t improve her mood.
“The local customs here are much simpler. Just bear with it, it’ll be over soon.” Miss Bai stayed close to Leticia, trying to shield her from some of the malicious glances.
However, this action only caused the people here to cast even more malicious gazes. In their eyes, such two girls were undoubtedly delicious prey.
After all, this was the West District.
As long as one didn’t go too far, as long as no lives were lost, the Hero Association would often turn a blind eye, because this place was designated for these wicked people to live.
Tracing back to the source, it all had to do with the founding of Central City back then. Central City was actually a very young city. When building this city, it wasn’t just ordinary residents who contributed.
The underground organizations that also contributed manpower and resources were rewarded with operational power in the West District. As long as they didn’t cross a certain line, no one would bother them.
“You two little girls are new here, aren’t you?” A burly man with a fierce face blocked Layla and Bai Ling. He crossed his arms, a sinister grin on his face as he looked down at them. “This place isn’t suitable for little lambs like you. Listen to me, honestly go back to your nests. No one will cherish you here.”
Although the man’s tone and expression were like a pure villain, his words seemed to be urging Layla and Bai Ling to go back. It was unclear if he was genuinely kind.
“I think this guy’s nature is quite decent,” Leticia whispered to Bai Ling so only she could hear.
Miss Bai nodded too. The man’s expression was indeed that of a bad guy, but his gaze towards them didn’t carry the malice of the people around them, which was enough to prove that this man wasn’t among those bad guys.
“What are you two whispering about? Did you hear what I said?” The burly man, seeing Leticia and Bai Ling ignore him and start chatting, immediately showed a displeased expression. He had kindly advised the two girls to go back, why weren’t they listening?
“We, we just wanted to take a look, and it’s daytime, so there shouldn’t be any danger, right?” Hearing the burly man’s words, Leticia immediately shrank her neck, showing a scared expression.
Seeing Leticia so naturally slip into her performance, Bai Ling also tried hard to squeeze out a look of fear, but she didn’t have Leticia’s superb control over her facial expressions. This caused her expression to become quite strange.
In a sense, this could also be considered a kind of fear?
“Heh, you two little girls really don’t know the value of life, to dare to come here and play. Do you know how much your pretty faces can sell for in the black market? Those outsiders won’t be afraid of Central City’s laws.” The burly man let out a cold snort from his nostrils. “Hurry up and get lost, this isn’t a place for you to play.”
After saying this, the burly man left without looking back. In his opinion, he had done everything he could. If that still couldn’t persuade the two girls to go back, then it could only mean that these two girls were truly not afraid of death.
If they weren’t afraid of death, then their death wouldn’t be mourned.
“Wow, can people really be sold in Central City?” Leticia, however, noticed another detail in the burly man’s words.
In her opinion, Central City was undoubtedly a technologically advanced modern city. In such a supercity, were there still human trafficking transactions?
Bai Ling shook her head. She didn’t know much about these things, but such things did exist in places outside of Central City.
The human world didn’t have a strong unified government. Central City was indeed the center of the human world, but other cities had their own laws. They would nominally accept Central City’s jurisdiction, but due to real-world reasons, this jurisdiction only existed in name.
Their information was even not interoperable!
This was quite different from the demon realm ruled by Leticia. Although the demon realm seemed less technologically advanced than the human side, at least the demon realm had a universally recognized co-lord.
And the human side, which seemed developed, was actually mostly a false impression created by Central City. Most people in the world still lived in other cities, and those cities were not much better than the demon realm’s cities.
The present human world wasn’t even a loose confederation.
“In the black market, some things that can’t appear in the open might be sold there. I’ve never been there, but I’ve heard some rumors,” Bai Ling said, touching her chin. “The black market is very hidden, and only a very few people know its location. Perhaps we can go take a look in the future.”
However, today was clearly not the time to discuss these matters. Their task today was to capture a leader of that organization that dared to cross the line.
“Tsk, I think we should change our attire. We’re more conspicuous like this,” Leticia said, running her fingers through her hair, unable to bear the surrounding gazes any longer. She now had the urge to go on a killing spree, to make this place run with blood.
But if she did that, their mission for today would likely fail immediately.
Moreover, she would be disciplined. After all, not everyone here would be a bad guy. If she really let loose and killed, there wouldn’t be many survivors.
So, it would be better to find a more discreet method later.
Like casting a spell or something.
“Yes, I feel the same way,” Bai Ling nodded. These gazes were indeed a bit annoying, and the two of them, being such beautiful girls, seemed to be the focus wherever they went.
On a day like this, the sudden appearance of two beautiful girls in the West District who had never been seen before, and who were coincidingly walking slowly towards the transaction location, seemed to be shouting “suspicious.”
As long as that big fish had any brains, it would definitely cancel the transaction and quickly hide. That would be troublesome.
