Chapter 295 - Poisonous Scorpion (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Meng Chao went around the market with great interest.

He found all sorts of poisonous monster organs that were difficult to find elsewhere, but in which he was interested due to his nature of a harvester.

After he went through the market once, Lu Siya appeared at the entrance.

But her getup left Meng Chao slightly stunned.

She had a ponytail with a baseball cap over her head. She wore a tracksuit and a pair of sneakers, which made her look like a university student who did not put on any makeup.

Speaking of which, Lu Siya was just in her twenties.

But she usually wore thick makeup, which made her look like a skilled, strong woman. She usually gave Meng Chao the impression that she was too mature for her age.

When he saw this youthful and pretty Lu Siya, he blinked for a long time before he dared to go up and talk to her.

“Big Sis Ya, what’s with this?”

“There are all sorts of bad people in Golden Tooth Lair. Dressing up less conspicuously will avoid us a lot of trouble,” Lu Siya explained.

‘So you do know how to keep a low profile!’ Meng Chao shouted out in his head, but he thought better of saying it out loud. Instead, he looked behind Lu Siya. “Where are the fighters from the abnormal beast research department?”

“They came in through another entrance.” Lu Siya looked at Meng Chao with an intense gaze. “Don’t worry. I have a mini camera and signal flare on me. I can contact the main team at any moment. The moment we find the target, we’ll definitely be able to control the situation. Enough with the talk, let’s go in!”

They passed through the market and entered a supermarket that was opened under a tall apartment complex.

They moved through rows of shelves positioned in such a complicated manner that the place looked like a maze. They passed two corridors that led them down two basement floors before they started walking up. Then, their field of vision widened and became bright. They saw a small impluvium.

Towering but old apartment complexes surrounded it.

The residents did not open their windows wide. They were also packed closely to each other. At first glance, the place really looked like a concrete hornet nest. Meng Chao could not help but think about just how small and cramped were the living spaces behind the windows.

He was only able to see a small patch of gray sky when he raised his head up. That patch of sky was practically perpendicular to his head.

Countless pairs of eyes looked at the people in the impluvium. Their gazes were curious, aloof, or gloomy.

The expressionless faces made everyone look like criminals who were out for a breath of fresh air.

‘So, this is a lair.’

Meng Chao had never come to a lair before.

Even though there were no laws that forbade those beyond the lair from coming into contact with those in the lair, the lairs were the final symbol of the darkest, bloodiest, and lawless era decades ago.

Many of the citizens who had struggled through that age and were finally able to move out to small public renting houses like the ones in Blessed Heavenly Garden warned their children repeatedly to never go to the lairs, or else, they would end up being corrupted.

Meng Chao remembered a few delinquents, who were ignorant and incompetent, from his middle school. To them, going to the lairs was a sign of glory. If they skipped school and went to the lair, they would brag about it for more than a month, even if they had just wandered around the outskirts of the lair and ate one Hundred Poison Banquet.

He looked at the buildings that reminded him of a maze and the branching alleys and realized that he did not know where he should go.

But Lu Siya had already contacted someone living in the lair.

“Miss?”

Soon, a strong young man with a vivid double-tailed venomous scorpion tattoo on his arm appeared in the impluvium and bowed a little to Lu Siya.

That was not a normal tattoo.

It was the emblem of a gang.

During the bloody age when zombies ran rampant, when law and order collapsed, and everything operated based on the law of the jungle, the survivors chose to protect themselves by forming organizations.

To seize precious water, food, energy, living space, and other resources, practically all the organizations that managed to survive had great fighting strength. They then used various means to ensure and strengthen the loyalty of their members.

That was how gangs came to be.

As the city developed, some of the gangs grew larger and more successful. Their leaders obtained a vast amount of resources and used them to unlock the shackles in their genes. They challenged the limits of their lives and became superhumans who could control spirit energy. Their heads also became clearer because of that, and they upgraded their gangs into various companies, industries, and organizations.

In the end, with Battle God Lei Zongchao as the witness, the nine great companies signed a contract of peace and created laws to restore Dragon City’s order. Thus began a brand new era.

And many of the middle-sized and small gangs either gradually merged with the mega corporations of the nine great companies or disappeared without a trace.

Now, it was hard to find the appearance of tattoos in more than 90% of the regions in Dragon City.

The surviving gangs were only able to maintain their last operations in the three lairs.

Sky Pillar Corporation began its business through the mining industry.

No matter when, those who could become rich through mining were not kind people.