Chapter 1,660 Gangster Casino and the Last Grave Robber
The rest in the morning was enough. Both Shade and Dorothy still had things to do in the afternoon. After bidding farewell to Dorothy at the intersection, Shade carried the sleepy cat to the Prophet's Association.
, and then informed Luvia about Yin Luna’s sudden visit at noon today and what was wrong:
"It's very unusual. Yin Luna is usually positive and cheerful. I rarely see her so troubled."
The purple-eyed girl patiently listened to Shade's narration, frowned and thought for a moment:
"Are you sure you didn't say anything wrong at noon?"
Shade immediately denied:
"It's probably not my fault. After all, she looked unhappy when she came to see me at noon. I asked her what she had done in the morning, and she said she went to the warehouse area to investigate what happened last night."
"Is it because you are worried about us? But this time it is not as dangerous as the Battle of the Chosen...Leave this matter to me, I will communicate with Yin Luna."
Luvia said, and Shade nodded, but was still a little worried. But he thought that Tifa told him to visit Miss Carina on the weekend and bring flowers and gifts, so the visit time can be set at
Sunday. Sunday is also the time when Yin Luna goes to the witch for training. Shade should still be able to meet Yin Luna.
"Also, besides Yin Luna, I have to worry about you. I saw you last night and you were stared at by that corpse."
The purple-eyed girl continued, looking at Shade with worried eyes:
"You don't need to explain to me that you are okay. I can make my own judgment on whether you are okay or not. Dorothy took a nap with you in the morning. You do look better, but you can't completely rest assured. In the past week, you should not come into contact with those who will
You should also be careful about relics that affect your mood and those that can evoke your empty mental memories of last night. I think you should be fine after a week."
She seemed to have plenty of experience in dealing with such negative emotions. Shade knew that Luvia was concerned about him, so he nodded in agreement:
"Yes, it is an angel-level relic after all. I will be careful and tell you as soon as possible if anything happens. I don't want to recall that kind of indifference anymore. However, you must also have some confidence in me."
After that, Shade returned home, put little Mia on the cushion on the window sill of the living room on the second floor and let her take a nap. Then he went to the Green Lake area from the basement alone. The clues about the tomb robbers from Bad Eye Barry should have been
Having found it, Shade was looking forward to meeting the bold group of tomb robbers.
As for the information dealer's identity as a ring warlock and the smell of water ghost pheromones on his body, we can investigate together if we have time.
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The last time they met, Bad-Eyed Barry gave Shad a business card with his address in the city. It was not the gang leader's residence, but a four-story detached house located in a slum in the southeast of the city.
building.
The neighborhood is the oldest residential area in Green Lake City, so the buildings are also very old. In addition to being dilapidated, there are even a few buildings that are crooked. After Shade got off the carriage and entered the alley, he heard that in fact all the buildings here were
Buildings all tilt to varying degrees due to unstable foundations.
The city's gangs and shady shops are hidden here, and police patrols will not go deep into this area. The numb poor have long lost their longing for the future because of the hardships of life. But this is also the whole city.
, the only place where you can’t feel the tense atmosphere arising from the negotiations between the two countries.
After all, for the poor people who live a difficult life, Delarion, Kasenlik, peace and war, borders and trade routes have nothing to do with them.
Bad-eyed Barry's four-story building is the base of his gang - this is what Shade, who has never been in contact with such gangs, thinks so. Shade followed the dilapidated building signs, stepped on the muddy ground, and walked in the afternoon fog.
When they arrived, two bare-armed men holding sticks guarding the place downstairs refused to let Shade in.
It wasn't until Shade took out his business card that one of them opened the door and led Shade in, and warned Shade not to walk around or talk nonsense.
After entering the building, Shade discovered that this was the Rhodes Casino. The choking smell of tobacco was suffocating, but the interior decoration was much better than the dilapidated building on the outside. All kinds of people gathered here, fighting each other at the gaming table.
Shade even saw a well-dressed nobleman leaning on the table with a cane decorated with gold ornaments, and a fat-bellied businessman, gambling among a pile of banknotes.
Foreigners would not be willing to come to such a place unless necessary.
The first and second floors here are Rhodes Casino, and the rooms on the third floor are where the casino gangsters rest and eat. The fourth floor is offices to maintain the daily operations of the casino. The bad-eyed Barry is on the fourth floor.
In the office on the first floor, when Shade followed the man who led him in to the end of the stairs, he happened to see a man who had been beaten so hard that he couldn't straighten up and was dragged down the stairs from the fourth floor.
"Look who's here, Captain Rades' friend!"
The one-eyed man welcomed Shade with an exaggerated tone and clapped his hands behind the desk. Everyone else who was in the room temporarily left, and the man who led Shade upstairs closed the door.
Shade sat on the chair outside the desk and glanced at the windows on the wall and the small doors on the left and right sides:
"Good afternoon, have you found out the news about the tomb robbers?"
"Yes, here."
He took the document bag to the table and pushed it to Shade. Shade touched it:
"Maybe I misunderstood, but why is it so thin?"
"Because they are all dead and only one is still alive."
The one-eyed man put his hands together on the table and briefly introduced:
"After that visit to the island to rob the tomb, although the people who came back made a lot of money, they all went crazy one after another. The remaining one's mental state was not very good either. You are lucky to have investigated in time. If it had been a few weeks later, he said
He might also die."
"Is the other party still living in Green Lake City?"
"Yes, the specific information is in the file bag. However, there is a high probability that you will not find the stolen things. The guy who is lucky enough to survive until now is already penniless. If he still has valuable things in his hand, he will not be able to find them.
I would have sold it for money a long time ago."
"It doesn't matter, at least there are clues."
Shade took out his wallet, paid the balance, then stood up with the document bag and prepared to leave. But the one-eyed man behind the desk stopped him:
"Are you interested in doing something for me? It's also related to the central island of Green Lake. Maybe you can solve it while investigating the tomb robbers. I can offer a high price, and you will be satisfied."
"No, I'm not interested. I just want to find tomb robbers."
Shade said, after pulling the door handle, he saw a strong man standing outside the door blocking the way, preventing him from passing through the door.
He turned to Bad-eyed Barry and said:
"Are you sure you want to offend Captain Rades' friend?"
The strong man in front of him finally gave way. Shade uttered a curse word in the local dialect, put his hands on his waist, and left along the stairs.
When he left the casino, no one blocked his way, and he came outside smoothly. But Shade didn't go far, but walked around in a circle, and then he saw what he had just seen in the garbage pile between the two houses.
The man I met on the stairs was beaten badly and dragged out.
He was thrown here like garbage. Although he was still conscious, he could only moan and couldn't move.
In order to test whether he could still move, Shade threw two coins in front of him. The man came to life immediately. He quickly picked up the coins and held them in his hand. Then he looked up at Shade. He was beaten.
His eyes, which were swollen and purple, were squinted, which looked ridiculous.
"what you up to?"
"Why did they hit you?"
"Because I saw them insulting women and then I stopped them."
Shade turned around and left. The man on the garbage pile quickly changed his words:
"I owe them money. Damn it. I thought I could win the bet today. I just had bad luck today. Damn it. I always have bad luck."
"Tell me about bad-eyed Barry, you know what to say."
Shade shook the two 1-pound bills in his hand. The man looked at the bills and nodded immediately:
"Bad Eyes Barry is not a local. He came here from other places more than 20 years ago and became powerful after killing a local gang boss whose name is no longer known. He is now very famous in Green Lake City. Intelligence
, casinos, illegal drugs, smuggling, he does everything. I heard that even MI6 and Gray Gloves can buy information from him."
"He's not from here?"
Shade was slightly surprised:
"You can't tell the accent from the accent, but that's right, after all, it's been more than 20 years."
"No one knows his origins. We can only confirm that he also lived in Delrayon before."
The man continued, catching the banknotes that Shade threw to him:
"No one dares to offend him here. Anyone who offends him will die. If he owes him money, he will be even more cruel. He is a very stingy guy. And this man is very wise and will not provoke the church, the city hall and the army.
He would also donate money to help the poor in the slums in spring and winter, so for so many years, no one wanted to overthrow him."
"Which god does Bad-Eye Bali believe in?"
Shade asked again. This was very crucial information, but the man thought about it and shook his head:
"I don't know. I have never heard of such a person praying... But it is said that someone saw him praying in the windowless room on the fourth floor of the casino. I have only heard this statement.
, not sure.”
Shade looked at him suspiciously:
"How do you know this kind of thing? Don't tell me, you heard this from the tavern."
The man smiled awkwardly:
"I thought about getting some valuable things from the casino, selling them, paying off the money I owe, and then leaving Green Lake City. Maybe I can live a normal life."
Shade shook his head, threw the other banknote to him, and then turned and left.
Seeing that Shade was so generous, the man stumbled up and wanted to catch up with him and say a few words to him. But by the time he chased him outside from the garbage pile between the two houses, Shade had disappeared.
.
Shade didn't have a hobby of prying into other people's privacy, and it had nothing to do with him that a strange ring warlock worked anonymously as an information dealer and gang boss. If it weren't for the fact that he cared about the water ghost, Shade actually didn't want to know who Bad-Eyed Barry was.
After getting information from the man in the garbage dump, Shade planned to go to the innermost room on the fourth floor of the casino to take a look. But the time was not now, but after the sun had set. He would wait until the low-level warlock was no longer here before taking action.
After all, the most important thing now is the whereabouts of those tomb robbers.
Bad-Eye Barry's investigation was quite detailed. Although the description of the situation of the dead tomb robbers was not particularly clear, at least the current address of the living one was indeed true.
The address of the insane tomb robber is also in the slums southeast of Green Lake, but it is located on the bank of the Duin River. A series of low shacks is located on the east bank of the Duin River, with crows circling in large areas, and the background of the shacks is
Gray foggy sky.
This is in sharp contrast to the relatively prosperous urban area on the west bank of the Duin River.