The Catania family has a great influence in the black street, including many warehouses, restaurants, casinos, pharmacies, etc. Trist came to a restaurant.

"Are we on the right track?"

Lu Ban asked.

"I must have gone the right way. I can smell it."

Xia walked into the restaurant and smelled the aroma of food.

This restaurant located in a civilian area has no customers now. The employees are eating their staff meals, which are pizza with only minced meat and cheese on it. Compared with the workers I heard this morning who felt they had made a good deal by eating feed, the difference is obvious.

"Can I have a piece?"

Lu Ban didn't consider himself an outsider and leaned over to ask.

The employees looked at the gangster thugs who brought the three people in, and dared not be angry or say anything.

Lu Ban took one piece for himself, gave another piece to Xiaya, and put them in his mouth.

"It tastes good. It would be better if we add some fruit, like pineapple or something."

Hearing Lu Ban's words, the employees suddenly stood up, as if Lu Ban's words had angered them.

But when they saw the gangster's thugs, the employees sat back down, swallowed their anger, and continued to eat the food on their plates.

"tasty!"

Xia finished a piece of pizza in no time and looked towards the kitchen.

The gangster led the three men through the kitchen and into the cold storage.

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Trist didn't expect that the body was actually put in the cold storage.

Thinking about it this way, the meat used in the pizza that Lu Ban and Xia had just eaten...

When he opened the cold storage, a gust of cold air hit him. Drizzt saw no dead bodies, only hanging livestock covered in frost.

Lu Ban saw the man come to the innermost part of the cold storage and open a door with a key.

Inside that door lay the gangster's body.

The corpse had obviously struggled for some time and was not lying flat like Dr. House. The expression on his face was even more ferocious, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying.

A glass flower bloomed from the man's abdomen. Due to the low temperature, the flower was covered with a layer of frost, making it look crystal clear.

Drizzt shuddered, he walked to the corpse and looked at it carefully.

There were also traces of paint and coatings on the gangsters’ bodies and clothes, which showed that the three cases were indeed committed by the same person.

"Does it smell like perfume?"

He asked Lu Ban.

"have."

Lu Ban nodded.

"Can I take this piece of clothing?"

Trist asked the thug, and the other nodded.

He then removed the piece of cloth stained with paint and checked the contents of the gangster's stomach.

"It looks like ordinary bread, meat and vegetables, better quality than the call girl's."

The examination of the body was quickly completed and the gangster thug locked the door again.

"I'm a little curious, do the employees in the restaurant know that there is a body here?"

Lu Ban couldn't help but ask.

"have no idea."

The thug answered.

"Then at least the pizza isn't made with human flesh."

Lu Ban gave Xia a thumbs up.

After investigating these, it was already late.

The streets in the civilian area are much cleaner than the black streets, at least not as smelly. The sound of factory machines running can be heard in the distance, but it is much quieter than where Trist lives.

People on the street at least look like human beings, and the difference is more obvious when comparing the two.

Dinner was noodles with chicken legs. Trist couldn't eat much and only ate a piece of bread. Lu Ban ate a big bowl and Xia ate three bowls.

"belch--"

She even burped after eating, not acting like a lady at all.

"Why don't we investigate at night?"

Lu Ban couldn't help but ask.

"The black streets at night are not a safe place, and I don't want to get into unnecessary trouble."

Trist was still studying the paint. The color of the paint was light blue, but under the light it had dark green, deep red and other scattered colors. It was very special and did not look like an ordinary paint.

"There must be very few factories producing this kind of paint. This should be a breakthrough. In addition, I have also obtained the information of this gangster. He has no intersection with Dr. House and Flora. The last time he went to the black street to collect rent, he did not go to Dr. House's clinic or the Red Ballroom."

"Where is this perfume produced?"

Lu Ban asked again.

"I'm not very good at smelling perfume, so I can't confirm it, but I can find a perfume store tomorrow and let you smell it for comparison."

Drizzt said.

After dinner, the three of them set out on their journey back to Drizzt Detective Agency.

The orange cat is still sleeping. It probably spends 80% of the whole day sleeping.

"By the way, you two should also attend the banquet tomorrow night. I may need your help."

Drizzt added.

"oh."

Lu Ban responded and looked at Xia again.

"There's a big meal to be had."

“Yeah!”

Xia expressed her happiness.

At midnight, the sound of bells came from a distance, making Drizzt drowsy. He looked at the Flora pendant, trying to figure out what kind of flower it was.

Soon, he saw the flower blooming in his blurred consciousness, just like a glass flower blooming on a corpse. He also felt something inside his body stirring, ready to break out. He struggled for a bit, and suddenly felt a cold gaze locking onto him.

Then Drizzt felt someone shaking him.

"Wake up, look what this is."

He opened his eyes and saw the girl squatting in front of him. The place around him was no longer a stinking alley, but an old but tidy house.

The girl seemed to have grown up a little, and more importantly, she was no longer unkempt. She seemed to have been groomed and her face was clean. Although her clothes were worn out, they were at least clothes. Their lives had improved a lot.

The girl took out something from her arms. It was a sandwich wrapped in paper, with vegetables, sauce and meat on white bread.

"I went to a guest's house today and he brought me the food he didn't want to eat. Look, it's meat. We are so happy."

She spread out the food and handed it to Drizzt.

From her words and current state, Trist could already guess how the other party made money.

"You eat, I've already eaten, I've eaten a lot at his house, there's delicious food on the table, I can eat and work at the same time, he seems to like it."

The girl pushed the food toward Drizzt.

"Oh, and there are medicines. I bought some cheap medicines that should be able to cure your illness. As long as you get better, our lives will definitely get better."

She took out another small bottle of potion and placed it on the table.

The girl opened the curtains. The weather outside was gloomy and there was no sunlight.

But her smile is brighter than the sun.

Her eyes are full of hope and longing for the future.

At this moment, Trist suddenly noticed that there was a pendant on the girl's neck, between her slender collarbones.

The pendant was a small unknown flower carved from wood.

Just like the one I'm holding in my hand.