Just like how birds sang in the daytime and snakes and rats appeared at night, for some people, the night in Blackhot City was much more lovely than the daytime, especially in the area near the railway station where people from all walks of life came out after midnight. Of course, if they were unlucky enough to be caught by the patrolling City Guards and magistrates, they could only accept their bad luck. If they were caught after the curfew, they would suffer physical pain, be sentenced to hard labor in Glensburg Prison outside Blackhot City for a period of time, and become the laughingstock of Jianghu heroes during this period of time. For those Jianghu heroes who were used to hardships, such consequences were nothing.
Many people had the same thought. Therefore, after midnight, the bar named "Viper's Treasure" in an alley near the railway station, which had a strong pioneer style, was particularly boisterous. Honest and poor young men like Zhang Tie naturally didn't know how rich the nightlife in Blackhot City was.
Huck and Snade, who had just arrived in Blackhot City, searched around the railway station for most of the night before finally finding this bar named "Viper's Treasure". After the curfew, they pushed open the two doors and entered the bar.
"Viper's Treasure" was not big, and it was the busiest time after midnight. There were more than thirty people in the bar, most of whom were dressed as pioneers. Some of them were talking and laughing loudly while touching the breasts of the old prostitutes beside them. Some of them were whispering in the shadows of the lights in the bar. Occasionally, they would see two people sitting at the table covering their hands with wide sleeves and making gestures with each other's hands. Some would slightly nod in satisfaction, while others would shake their heads. If they couldn't make a deal, they would pull their hands back. This was the way pioneers traded. They didn't talk, but rather used their hands covered by sleeves. This was a way of trade among pioneers. Only the two parties involved knew what to trade and the price to trade with each other. Even if they were sitting in front of you and discussing how to kill you and the price to kill you, you would never know that pioneers had their own set of sign language and communication.
When Huck and Snade entered the bar, many people just threw a glance at them before continuing with their own business. Some pioneers with sharper intuition seemed to have sensed the danger from Huck and Snade, thus they quietly moved their weapons on the tables and beside them to places where they could reach them easily.
The moment Huck and Snade found a table and sat down, a pretty barmaid had already walked up to them coquettishly while twisting her waist. She bent down so that the two could see her breasts under her low-cut dress. "What can I do for you?"
"Two glasses of black pine wine. What do you have?" Snade asked.
"Toast, peas, beef soup, crispy sausage!"
"One for each of us!"
"Okay!"
The waitress of the bar walked away. Seeing the food that the two strangers had ordered, many of the gazes that were secretly cast on them also shifted away. Those who came to the bar to cause trouble rarely had the mood to eat before causing trouble.
The food that Snade and Huck had ordered was soon served by the barmaid. Seeing the food, Snade didn't eat it. Instead, he took out a dried twig wrapped in silver threads and poked it into the food and drinks. After checking the color of the grass root and the silver threads, he started to eat. After a night of hard work, the two of them were really hungry.
Using the roots of the Soul-Eating Thorns wrapped in silver threads to test for poison was a skill that all pioneers had mastered. The combination of the silver threads and the roots of the Soul-Eating Thorns could detect a large amount of poisonous substances, including the "powerful rat poison" that could kill people. This was a habit that almost every pioneer had cultivated before a meal. Therefore, seeing the two of them testing for poison was not strange at all. The boss and the barmaid were also used to it. In the bars where pioneers gathered, besides regular customers, many newcomers would do the same. It was not intentional, but rather a habit that they had cultivated.
The guests in the bar were talking about how the City Hall of Blackhot City had once again raised the price of exploring and drawing the black areas in the north and west of Blackhot City. The price of drawing a rough map of the black areas per square kilometer had already been raised to 46 gold coins, and the price would increase by 5% for each kilometer. These days, several groups of pioneers who felt that they were superior had already formed groups to make money, but it was still unknown how many of them could come back alive.
After eating, Huck and Snade pretended to listen to the news in the bar for a while. They then pretended to leave and called the barmaid to settle the bill. When Huck took out the money, he accidentally dropped his purse onto the ground, causing two gold coins to roll out. Huck hurriedly put away the purse and paid the bill before leaving the bar with Snade.
The moment the two of them walked out of the bar, a guy who had been sitting in a corner of the bar also stood up. After drinking up the glass of wine in his hand, he purposely spilled some on himself before leaving the bar as well.
Everyone in the bar was already used to this.
"Grey Rat Pound has finally found his prey tonight. Heh … heh …" Someone in the bar started to laugh. Soon after, everybody forgot about the three people who had just walked out of the bar. In this world, everyone had their own rules of survival. As long as others didn't affect them, many people would choose to ignore what was happening around them. This was also one of the rules of survival in this age.
The moment Grey Rat Pound walked out of the bar, he looked around and saw Huck and Snade walking towards an alley on the left. Squinting his eyes, he staggered towards them like a drunkard. When Pound approached them, the two people glanced back at him. However, at the sight of Pound's drunkard appearance, they didn't seem to care about him. When Pound slowly approached Huck, he staggered and stretched his hand towards Huck's clothes. The moment his fingers touched the corner of Huck's clothes, Pound heard a sneer.
"You're too slow!"
Pound didn't even have the time to react to what had happened. His hand had already been grabbed like a pair of iron pincers. Just as he was about to pull out the old trick of pretending to be drunk and yelling, a cold dagger had already been pressed against his neck. The blade of the dagger had just cut into his flesh, leaving behind a thin wound. Pound immediately broke out in a cold sweat. Huck then grabbed him like a little chick and pinched his mouth, bringing him to a dark shadow at the side of the alley that was in the blind spot of Pound's vision.
"Take me to your boss. We have something to talk to him about!" The man who grabbed him didn't seem to have much patience. He threw him to the ground and said straightforwardly.
"I don't know what you're talking about, I'm just … ah …" Pound, whose mouth was covered, lowered his head and stared at his right hand in disbelief. Just now, he felt a chill on his right hand. Lowering his head, he saw that the aorta on his right wrist had been cut open by a dagger and was spurting out blood. The wound looked like the mouth of a monster that was spitting out blood, scaring Pound so much that he almost fainted.
"Before your blood runs dry, you have less than ten minutes to waste!" Playing with the dagger, Snade smiled at Pound.
"Our boss is Bresse, a LV 6 Black Spider. We have more than ten brothers. If you offend us, the Black Hand Gang, you will regret it …" Pound fiercely shouted. However, he didn't notice the disdainful look on Huck's face when he heard this.
"Maybe, but you only have two choices now. Wait for death here, or take us to your boss and ask him to save you …" Snade said casually.
… …
Half an hour later, in Bresse's lair near the railway station of Blackhot City, Huck and Snade were surrounded by more than ten members of the Black Hand Gang, who were holding weapons and wearing unkind expressions. Bresse, the boss of the Black Hand Gang, was constantly releasing his Battle Qi, which gradually condensed into the huge shadow of a hazy, two-meter-high black spider behind him. All the members of the Black Hand Gang and Pound, who was pinching the vein on his right hand, were watching Bresse with admiration and excitement. A LV 6 fighter who had already condensed his Battle Qi was enough for Bresse to lead the members of the Black Hand Gang to live a good life near the railway station of Blackhot City and tear apart anyone who dared to challenge the Black Hand Gang.
"What should we do?" Huck asked Snade.
"You two, I've asked all the necessary questions. Our Black Hand Gang doesn't have the black-haired brat you're looking for. None of the pickpockets in the vicinity of the railway station are like you've described. Now that you've hurt my men, it's time for you to give us an explanation. It's too late to regret!" Bresse grinned and waved his hand. Immediately, all the thugs of the Black Hand Gang slowly approached Huck and Snade with weapons in their hands.
"Kill them all. They've seen us before. If even one of them escapes, it will be troublesome!" Snade said.
Hearing Huck's words, Bresse's face changed. With a furious roar, he punched towards Huck's head. The moment Bresse moved, all the members of the Black Hand Gang raised their weapons and attacked Huck and Snade.
Huck took a step forward and stomped on Pound's head, causing it to explode like a watermelon. He then punched towards Bresse's fist. The moment their fists collided, Bresse's face changed. In a split second, a huge figure had appeared behind Huck. However, compared to his black spider, the figure behind Huck was a huge centipede with many legs.
"Thousand-legged Centipede, a Class 7 Warrior, impossible …" Bresse yelled in horror. Then, their fists collided. Huck's fist completely shattered Bresse's arm, then punched Bresse's chest and came out from his back.
With only one move, the pillar of the Black Hand Gang collapsed. The members of the Black Hand Gang at the front didn't have time to react, while those at the back immediately dropped their weapons and turned around to escape.
Like a snake, Snade twisted his body and drilled through the gaps between the weapons. In a split second, he appeared behind the two escaping members of the Black Hand Gang. Like a venomous snake, he gently slid his dagger across their necks. Before the two fell to the ground, Snade had already appeared beside the remaining members of the Black Hand Gang. Almost at the same time, he slid his dagger across their necks. After several flashes, before the one who had run the furthest could run seven steps away, everybody stood still, including those who had attacked Snade earlier. All the members of the Black Hand Gang started to spurt blood from their necks and tracheas before falling to the ground at the same time.
From the beginning to the end, it took less than five breaths of time. In the house of the Black Hand Gang, there were only two people standing. The strong smell of blood began to spread in the room.
"What should we do?" Huck, who had just killed a bunch of people, asked Sneijder the same question as if he had just done something trivial.
At this moment, Snade had just licked the blood off his dagger with his tongue. "Let's deal with these corpses first. We have to hide them for at least two days!"
"Isn't it better to burn them?"
"Those people in the bar have seen us tonight. Unless we can kill all the people in that bar, if something happens to the Black Hand Gang tonight, someone will definitely link it to us. However, after two days, if we set a fire here again, nobody would think of us! "Snade said cautiously and shrewdly. "These guys always hang around the railway station. This is their nest, so they must have plundered a lot of things. If we search around, we might be able to get some good stuff. Since that black-haired brat dares to run around the railway station at night, he must be very familiar with this place. He must come here often. We will stay near the railway station these days. Once we see him, we will find a chance to take him down!"
"What if we can't find that brat?"
"If we can't find him in a week, then we will escape from the Andaman Alliance and the Blackson Human Clan Corridor. The farther, the better. Don't let the heads find us. Otherwise, we will die miserably!" Snade said gloomily.
"Fine!"
… …
An hour later, Huck and Snade left the base of the Black Hand Gang. Before they left, they locked the gate of the base and pretended that it was empty. They believed that in a short period of time, no one would dare to break into the base to see what was inside due to the reputation of the Black Hand Gang. Two days later, the Black Hand Gang would be completely destroyed by a big fire, leaving no evidence. According to common people's thinking habits, who would have thought that the Black Hand Gang had already been destroyed two days before the fire?
"Black Hand Gang, what the f * ck is the Black Hand Gang?" When they left the nest of the Black Hand Gang, Huck fiercely spat towards it.
… …
When the Black Hand Gang was destroyed, Zhang Tie had ignited his Shrine burning point. He didn't even realize that he had been involved in a huge crisis because of a small wooden plate.
At this moment, Zhang Tie felt that his life was full of hope, and his youth was no longer miserable …
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