The area north of Qingmang City mainly refers to the northern part of the outer city. Unlike the southern, western, and eastern parts of the city, where a large family is stationed, the northern part of the city is completely in a state of disarray.
There are numerous gangs here, and no one can claim absolute dominance over other forces or command everything. Even gangs that show signs of emerging power will disintegrate within two days.
Anyone with a modicum of insight would understand that while the northern part of the city seems to be teeming with powerful families, they are actually just dogs kept by Qingmang City, providing a place for those who are unwilling to serve the three major families or to run errands for the government to be indirectly exploited.
Therefore, among these gangs, there was also a situation where four gangs stood side by side while the others were dependent on and opposed each other. The Mountain Digging Gang, the Golden Rat Gang, the Water Buffalo Gang, and the Green Snake Gang restrained each other, dividing the northern part of the city into different neighborhoods.
Among these four gangs, the Green Snake Gang is the most loyal and principled, known for its unwavering loyalty. The Golden Rat Gang is the most hated and wicked, with a history of human trafficking and forcing women into prostitution.
The Golden Rat Gang suffered the greatest losses in the months that Captain Wei Jie destroyed, which made countless residents of the northern part of the city extremely happy! During the harvest festival, they all went to the market to sell rat poison, rat traps and other such items.
As for whether this only represents the joy of the people? A thousand-mile dike can be breached by an ant hole, and a tall building can be damaged by termites. The future of the Golden Rat Gang will also come to an end this autumn.
This was also clearly seen by the fifth leader of the Golden Rat Gang, Rat Seven, who secretly ran away on the very first night of Feng Yuezhu's celebration.
Of course, it wasn't about sending the clamorous martial arts genius away on a ferry amidst strange rumors of betrayal by a maid during the Fengyue Festival.
Rat Seven joined his brother Sun Chang, who was also a member of the same organization. Sun Chang was the second-in-command of the Fierce Tiger Gang, a subordinate gang of the Water Buffalo Gang. Their common organization was Bloodwing.
"Big brother! Something terrible has happened!"
In the underground of the only slaughterhouse within the territory of the Fierce Tiger Gang, Old Seven, a hunched-over rat with shifty eyes, wrinkled skin, and a somewhat thin mouth, was practicing Rat Fist among a swarm of rats with glossy, blood-red fur.
The number of rats in the basement was enormous, roughly over three hundred at a glance. They were clustered around a pool of bubbling blood formed by several narrow pipes at the innermost part of the basement, where tiny, hairless rats were squeaking and squealing.
At this moment, a burly man wearing a robe with a tiger descending the mountain design walked in. He had a three-bearded face, prominent cheekbones, and a slightly raised forehead, giving him a tiger-like aura.
Therefore, even when he walked in in a panic with a letter in his hand, he certainly did not come across as weak or incompetent.
"What could possibly make you panic like this? You're supposed to be a Gu Master, how can you be so cowardly!"
Seeing the flustered Sun Chang, Rat Seven scolded him. The latter took a few breaths to calm down and then handed the letter to Rat Seven.
"This is the Blood Tower in the old ghost market in the west of the city. It is said that someone bought my head and then came to kill me."
The Blood Lotus is the assassin's mark of the Blood Tower, which is a secret force in Qingmang City, the absolute ruler of the night, and its biggest reputation is for assassinating the former magistrate and escaping unscathed! They even dare to kill people from the imperial court!
"Hmm, so what?"
After reading the letter, Rat Seven found nothing particularly noteworthy; it simply stated that an assassin had accepted a mission and was preparing to carry out an assassination.
It looks bold and terrifying; after all, for an assassin to dare to remind his target like that, isn't it a sign of confidence in his own abilities?
"Aren't you a Gu Master? Go soak in the blood pool and grow a new heart for yourself. If you're afraid of poison, upgrade your antidote Gu to a poison-eating Gu, or disguise yourself and place a wooden dummy to prevent your head from falling off. Why can't you use Gu to solve other problems!"
Rat Seven is the most obsessed and happiest person in the way of Gu Master. After the Bloodwing Blessed Land Conference, he has been studying every day how to have more Gu and how to refine more Gu.
He had given away all his belongings from his time with the Golden Rat Gang, exchanging them for various materials to use in the art of Gu, hoping to become a Gu master or even a grandmaster of a school.
"That's true, but wouldn't that expose us? Lord Bloodwing said it's not the right time yet."
Sun Chang looked at his older brother and spoke cautiously, but as soon as Blood Wing appeared, Rat Seven's expression turned sour.
The reason for this was simply that when Sun Chang thought he had created a new Gu worm, he showed it to Lord Bloodwing. At first, there was nothing wrong with it, and he even received praise from Lord Bloodwing. However, as the number of times this happened increased, Lord Bloodwing became impatient and bluntly said that he was hopeless, like adding legs to a snake, and that he was rotten wood that could not be carved!
His own brother, with his proud and arrogant nature, was furious with Lord Bloodwing after hearing this. If he hadn't been bound by a restriction preventing him from defecting, his brother probably would have reported Lord Bloodwing to the capital the very next day.
"Him? He's nothing but a fart! That guy has absolutely no vision, completely blind to the greatness and infinite possibilities of Gu, he's not worthy of the Blood Sea True Inheritance at all!"
"My fart-like poison is like thunder, osteoporosis poison, diarrhea poison, hair-shedding poison... What isn't it useful for? Even if it's useless now, what about later? As long as I keep refining it, it might eventually become very useful!"
Old Rat Qi jumped up in anger, while Sun Chang chose to shut up. In fact, he also felt that his older brother did not have the talent. As for the Blood Gu, he could succeed on the first try if he had all the materials and enough energy, but his older brother had to take three tries to succeed.
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