Extraordinary Puppet Master

After Carlin entered the bar, he found that there were quite a lot of customers inside.

There are well-dressed Zhongcheng residents, all of whom are small clerks or clerical workers. Compared to most civilians, this kind of job is considered very respectable.

There were more downtown residents in the bar. Carlin even saw a few drunkards lying on the ground, but everyone else ignored them.

After the two of them entered, most people just took a look and stopped paying attention. It obviously showed that they were not the first to come to the bar in this way. Everyone was used to a group of people who would wrap themselves up tightly every Saturday. Real weirdos come here.

Elena did not stop after stepping through the door, but went straight to an iron door next to the bar.

Carlin followed her and observed everything in the bar.

There is a bartender with a mustache behind the bar, who looks to be in his twenties, and there is a row of reward notices on the wall next to the bar.

The portraits of these reward warrants include fraudsters, robbers, and murderers, and they also include the seal of the Wayne Sheriff's Department.

In addition, some other reward orders are followed by "Please contact XXX". The content of these rewards is even more diverse, including rewards for missing persons, searches for cats and dogs, and even rewards for investigating extramarital affairs. They are obviously private private commissions.

Wayne City is an important port city in the Kingdom of Brent, with a population of more than two million in the urban area alone, but the police force is seriously insufficient.

Most police officers in the city are deployed in the Midtown and Uptown districts.

Xiacheng District, which accounts for more than 90% of the population, has relatively few police officers, which has led to the proliferation of various crimes and even affected Zhongcheng District.

In this way, we had to look for private power, and finally maintained the dignity of the Midtown and Uptown districts, and supported many detectives and bounty hunters just by offering rewards.

At this time, a conversation in the bar also reached Carlin's ears.

"Hey, did you hear that someone disappeared in Zhongcheng yesterday? I heard he was the son of a watch shop owner!"

"How did I hear it was a grocery store?"

“It’s obviously a watch shop!

Forget it, I won’t talk to you about this. You know, my brother-in-law works at the police station. Today he told me that this is the fourth disappearance case in Zhongcheng District in two months. The three missing people are all 18 or 9 years old. There is no distinction between men and women in age.

You must not have guessed that they have one very special thing in common - they were both orphans from the Manlin Road Orphanage, and they were both adopted ten years ago! "

For a moment, Carlin's heart skipped a beat, and Elena stopped and turned to look at Carlin and whispered: "I remember that you also lived in the Manlin Road Orphanage when you were a child, and you were adopted by Mr. Westmin ten years ago.

Ten years ago, the Manlin Road Orphanage was destroyed by a huge fire. In the end, only eight orphans survived, including you. All eight of you were adopted, and you were eight wealthy families, right? "

Carlin also frowned after hearing this. Things at the orphanage were very big that year, not only the fire, but also some scandals about the interest groups behind the orphanage were exposed. For this reason, the entire city of Wayne also conducted a huge rectification activities.

Carlin didn't pay attention to how many real effects it had, but the words of the two drinkers just now made him think.

‘Maybe someone is targeting those orphans now? ! ’

While thinking this, Carlin whispered to Elena: "You are right, but you know, I have been taking care of my father for the past six months, and I am not sure about this kind of thing. Do you have any news?"

"I'm not sure," Elena shook her head, "But don't worry, with the rangers as your backing, there won't be many in Wayne City who will take the initiative to deal with you, but you still have to pay attention."

"Thank you."

After hearing Karin's thanks, Elena said nothing and just continued to walk towards the iron door next to the bar.

When passing by the bar, she took out a red badge and showed it, placed two gold pound notes on the bar and handed it to the bartender with a mustache and said: "This time I brought a new person."

The bartender nodded, put away the money and took out a red badge and handed it to Carlin.

"Please inject your own spirituality."

‘This seems to be a way of authentication.’ Karin thought without stopping, taking the badge and injecting a touch of spirituality into it.

Immediately, the badge gave off a glimmer of light. Although the light was very inconspicuous, it did exist.

The mustached bartender nodded and made a gesture of invitation.

At this time Elena said to Karin: "Let's go. From now on, when you come to the market alone, just show him the badge. The entrance fee is one gold pound per person."

After saying that, he opened the iron door, and a corridor suddenly appeared in front of him.

Carlin followed him without saying a word, and after a while of twists and turns in the building behind the bar, he came to an iron door again.

When Elena opened the door again, a thirty-meter-long dead-end alley appeared in front of Karin.

"Is this the market?"

"Yes, this is it."

It was a little different from what he had expected. Carlin thought that the Transcendents were conducting transactions somewhere in the bar building, but he did not expect that the market was just an alley.

The alley in front of him was different from the dirty alleys in the lower city that Carlin remembered. It was cleaned very clean.

A kerosene lamp was hung every two or three meters on the walls on both sides. The light of the fire swaying in the wind dispelled the darkness and illuminated the entire alley.

You can see street stalls placed on both sides of the alley. Sparse figures are walking through the alley, stopping in front of a stall from time to time to communicate with the stall owner.

At a glance, Karin found that there were less than thirty people in the market, and he immediately had an intuitive impression of the scarcity of extraordinary people.

An alley more than thirty meters long and five meters wide can already meet the market's venue needs.

"Surprised?"

Elena seemed to sense Carlin's mood and said softly to him: "Actually, this situation is normal. There are not many extraordinary people in Wayne City.

If it is the steam city of Kelland, as the capital of the kingdom, there are many extraordinary inheritances there. It is conservatively estimated that the number of extraordinary people exceeds three thousand, and various secret markets and association gatherings emerge in endlessly.

However, as an important port city, Wayne City's resources are not as good as those of the Steam City, but they are still quite abundant.

Come on, let me take you around and get familiar with this place. "

Karin didn't say anything, and just continued to follow Elena, shuttling between stalls, while Elena explained to him some of the products on the stalls.

There are no specific products on these stalls, just labels.

Plants, medicinal materials, animal parts, finished medicines and some unknown ores, as well as some products whose names look like alchemy equipment.

Karin was dazzled by the names of various products, and from time to time, new extraordinary people came to the market from the bar.