It's okay for me to bully my wife for the sake of the young master's dignity, right?

Chapter 526 [175] Black Market Investigation

Since the Jokers adopted the policy of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs when they managed District 12 in the early years, the Cloud Group suffered repeated attacks after taking over management rights. Now District 12 is a bit in ruins.

The black market in District 12 is located in a remote, dark alley with a twisted structure, comparable to a maze.

The sunshine at noon was pretty good today, but the rain shelters and messy cables cast heavy shadows in the alley, so much so that the vendors had to turn on colorful fill lights.

In the narrow aisle, Qin Jiandan walked in front of Han Shiyu, looking at the customers and vendors bargaining on both sides.

"This is much worse than the circular market in the Border Town Special District."

"Is the Border Town Special Zone fun? Take me there if you have a chance!"

As Han Shiyu quickened her pace, she accidentally bumped into a man with a weapon on his back. The man wanted to get angry, but when he saw that the other party was wearing a special service uniform and seemed very close to the young master of the Yelong Society, he swallowed his anger.

In this criminal investigation, even if Han Shiyu hid his identity as a city police officer, Qin Jiandan could not hide the fact that he was the young master of the Night Dragon Society. Efficiency was more important than covert investigation, and it would be best to obtain clues about the other party's bomb-making directly from the black market.

The ground was an uneven cobblestone road. Although there had been no acid rain, there might have been a water pipe leak nearby, causing the ground to be very slippery and reflecting the blue-green light from the vendors. Han Shiyu avoided one puddle after another with disdain.

Qin Jiandan stopped in front of a stall with maps and cracking recorders, which was connected to the shop behind.

Qin Jiandan lifted the short door curtain and walked into the shop with ease. The owner was a wealthy woman with a scar on her face who looked tough and had an obvious artificial eye in her left eye.

"Isn't this the Scar Sister Intelligence House?" Qin Jiandan greeted, "How's business lately?"

"Scar Sister" has been doing intelligence business in Dongcheng since she was young, and she still kept her nickname even when she got older. The maps and recorders she placed on the stall were all cover-ups and had no value in themselves. What were valuable were the circled locations on the map and the data in the recorders.

"Isn't this the young master of the Night Dragon Society? I'm fine. I heard that the Border City Special Zone is well built. When I get old, maybe I'll buy a house in the Ecological Tower."

In fact, "Scar Sister" is not young anymore, but Qin Jiandan would not bring up anything that is irrelevant.

Qin Jiandan lowered his voice in the dim shop: "I heard that there are bounty hunters in District 12 making bombs. Do you have any information?"

At this time, Han Shiyu also followed Qin Jiandan into the store. Because the short door curtain was very dirty and black, she carefully bent sideways when entering. That action could send a otaku who had been inactive for a long time to the ICU.

Scar Sister said alertly: "I am discussing something with the Young Master of the Night Dragon Society. The Intelligence Room only accepts one person at a time!"

Han Shiyu glanced at Scar Sister behind the glass counter and shrugged casually: "Young Master is my brother-in-law, I am not an outsider."

Scar Sister used her eyes to confirm with Qin Jiandan, then she turned on the multiple recorders at hand and looked at the large amount of garbled code on them to search. This is a common method used by intelligence dealers. They will write a unique special language, and then use a decoding solution in their artificial eyes to avoid leaking their intelligence or being caught.

For this reason, when intelligence dealers are killed, their artificial eyes will most likely be removed for decoding.

Han Shiyu had no sense of boundaries and looked very closely. Scar Sister was very annoyed, but she didn't say anything to save face for the young master. Anyway, this young female police officer couldn't understand the special text.

"Someone bought related materials on the black market during this period, and they are indeed needed to make bombs. But the buyer did not come directly, and the materials were transferred two or three times." Scar Sister said to Qin Jiandan, "The most suspicious thing is that the buyer may have found a basement in the shantytown. The area is deserted and there are not many neighbors."

Someone is really planning a bomb attack! Qin Jiandan was glad that he came with Han Shiyu, otherwise he would have died before making any money from the Christmas marketing.

Han Shiyu patted the counter excitedly: "Where is the location? Where is the location?"

Scar Sister spread out her right hand on the counter, her palm was covered with black calluses.

"800 yuan. The Night Dragon Club's young master has a discount, but it's not completely free. I took the risk."

Han Shiyu searched her service belt but only found two bank cards.

"I only accept cash." Scar Sister emphasized, "The Intelligence House doesn't have card swipe equipment, and I don't want to leave any transfer records."

Han Shiyu playfully stuck out her tongue at Qin Jiandan: "Brother-in-law, I can only ask you to advance the information fee - I will repay it with my body in the future!"

Qin Jiandan took out his wallet from his jacket, twisted out at least 10 hundred-yuan bills by the thickness, and handed them over from the counter: "The extra is a tip. If you find any information that is unfavorable to the Night Dragon Society in the future, tell me."

Scar Sister took the money and counted it, then nodded with satisfaction: "I know the phone number of the young master's office. I will call you if there is any situation. I will use the extra money to buy cigarettes."

Han Shiyu said with a smile on her face but no smile in her eyes: "I hate e-cigarettes. If you smoke in front of me, I might kill you!" Scar Sister frowned, thinking that there were not many normal people around the young master, but she had worked in the intelligence house for many years and knew that normal people in the world were a minority.

"Brother-in-law, I'm hungry!"

After leaving the intelligence house, Han Shiyu urged them to eat. Qin Jiandan also felt a little hungry, so he bought some mixed meat and tofu skewers from a nearby stall.

Han Shiyu stared at the portion Qin Jiandan gave her suspiciously. Seeing that Qin Jiandan was eating it with great relish, she took a bite hesitantly, and then immediately made an expression that said "it's unpalatable".

Following Qin Jiandan up a long flight of stairs and out of the Black Market District, Han Shiyu asked from behind: "Brother-in-law, you always eat food from the outer city. Will the quality of the meat become bad?"

Qin Jiandan said angrily: "My flesh is not for you to eat!"

"Hehe, that's not necessarily the case!"

Although she was disgusted, Han Shiyu still ate all the skewers that Qin Jiandan gave her, at least to fill her stomach.

When Han Shiyu reached the middle of the stairs, she playfully threw the skewers down one by one, all into the big metal bucket used to hold garbage at the end of the black market area, and she threw them quite accurately.

Qin Jiandan walked to the top of the stairs and walked forward for a long time. The view ahead gradually became desolate.

"The suspect may be hiding in the shantytown of settlement No. 53. Most people in this area have moved away. Just like Scar Sister said, living here is very suspicious."

Under the control of the Joker Group, the people's livelihood in District 12 is in decline, and there are many places called "shantytowns" that are actually slums. The Cloud Group has rectified some of the shantytowns, but some of them are located on the edge of the city. They were originally the hardest hit areas by the black fog and there is no need for rectification. The guiding spirit of the Night Dragon Society is to relocate the people as a whole and try to arrange for them to be in a safer place.

In addition to the high-quality houses in the ecological tower, the Border Town Special Zone also has more economical low-rent housing. Qin Jiandan plans to arrange all these "border residents" to the Border Town Special Zone. Although it is also located on the edge of the city, the future is promising.

Han Shiyu asked: "Have the original people from settlement No. 53 been captured by my brother-in-law and used as weapons?"

Qin Jiandan frowned: "Why should they be treated as wetware if they haven't committed any crime!"

"Because we're poor." Han Shiyu rubbed the dirty water from the black market on the dry sand as she walked. "People are poor and have low aspirations. If we don't control them, they'll easily take risks and commit crimes."

"I can't punish them for a crime they haven't committed." Qin Jiandan said seriously, "Mu Yue doesn't look down on the poor like you do."

As the number of buildings around them decreased, some dust from the endless desert blew in. In the marginal areas, the protection of the central tower's bright skylight would be reduced to a minimum, which could only be said to be better than nothing.

"I don't look down on the poor," Han Shiyu said, "it's just that the poor are more likely to become the criminals I hate. Brother-in-law, you've been homeless for a long time, why are you still so nice to the poor?"

Qin Jiandan said: "People should not forget their roots. Just because I have been caught in the rain, I want to hold an umbrella for others. And the poorer and more mentally distressed people are, the more likely they are to cause the invasion of black fog. If you don't pay attention to them at ordinary times, when they turn into Yin beasts and come to eat you, it will be too late for you to pay attention to them."

Han Shiyu didn't comment. She pulled out a heavy and high-tech pistol from her service belt. The gun was black with an orange energy display window on the side. It was currently fully charged.

"Thermostatic pistol?" Qin Jiandan asked curiously, "Isn't this thing used to attack heavy armor? Are you using it to arrest criminals?"

Han Shiyu patted the slightly bulky but still manageable melta gun with one hand: "This gun has three gears, which can fire melta beams of different energies, namely wounding, lethal, and "super cool" gears."

"It's not your gun that's so cool, it's the prisoner you're aiming at that's so cool!"

Ahead was the suspicious location given by the intelligence house. Among the rubble of a group of demolished shantytowns, there were a few inconspicuous, lonely, short buildings. The visibility around was getting lower, and it seemed that the sound of some processing parts was mixed in with the sound of the wind.

"I forgot to ask you just now," Han Shiyu held the hot melt pistol in one hand and pointed the muzzle towards the sky, "My brother-in-law should rush in with me to catch the criminal, right? Otherwise, if I am raped and then killed by the criminal, how will you explain to my cousin?"

There are indeed H-manga like "The Female Detective Caught by Criminals" sold on the black market. Qin Jiandan frowned.

"Stop talking nonsense. I'll rush in first to prevent the criminals from detonating the bomb out of desperation. You stay a little further away to prevent anyone from escaping in the chaos."

"Of course not!" Facing the impending danger, the orange in Han Shiyu's eyes burned even more vigorously, without any trace of nervousness or timidity.

Xiao Chengzi made a forward shooting motion: "If anyone dares to run, I will let him know what it means to be awesome!"

"Don't use the highest gear at the beginning! What if the prisoner also has a bomb? It's better to keep him alive than to get burned!"

(End of this chapter)