Chapter 481: When the Water Is Clear, There Will Be No Fish

Being able to open his arms and let the other party check how many deadly weapons he is carrying represents the trust and friendship of the people in Hive City.

Many transactions, negotiations, and speeches can also be done secretly through the "sign language" hidden under the cloak.

Sure enough, the two held hands for a while, laughed at the same time, lifted their cloaks, and embraced warmly.

"Old Yu, you're not dead yet!" The connector slapped Zhou Chong's shoulder hard enough to kill a tiger or leopard.

"Tengu, I'm not dead even if you die!" Zhou Chong responded with a bear hug that could crush the spine.

This is meeting an old friend.

For hunters, Hive City has a very special meaning.

In Dragon City, the most popular extraordinary profession is Hunter.

Join the extraordinary team or simply go alone, go deep into the wilderness, dance on the edge of the blade, without any restrictions, rely on fists, swords, blood and brains to make a living, as long as you have the ability and a little bit of luck, you can become famous overnight , soaring, how free and refreshing!

In order to manage a large number of free and undisciplined hunters, Chaofan Tower established the "Hunter Association", which is responsible for training, assessment, and assigning hunting areas and tasks. Of course, it can also coordinate the conflicts between different extraordinary teams. Or when doomsday beasts appear, several to hundreds of different extraordinary teams can be organized and put into the battlefield at the same time.

However, the most important duty of the Hunter Association is to collect money.

"Although extraordinary people are unparalleled in power, but without the firepower and logistical support provided by the Red Dragon Army, and without the support of tens of millions of Longcheng citizens, it is impossible to survive and fight in the depths of the fog with their own strength.

"So, a large part of the hunter's harvest should be shared by all Longcheng citizens."

Based on this theory, every time a hunter kills a monster, he has to spend one-third to one-half of the harvest in exchange for "hunting tax, special resource collection tax, hunter association management fee, extraordinary tower Construction tax, red dragon army construction tax, special national debt, etc., etc. are paid in the name of, the higher the realm, the higher the tax rate, and the tax rate of the strong in the divine realm often exceeds 70%.

Recently, Dragon City launched the "Comprehensive Renovation of Old Residential Areas" and the "Nutritious Three Meals for All Teenagers" plan. The showdown has brought more taxes and fees to the extraordinary, especially the hunters who are fighting in the front line of business.

On the other hand, many monsters, especially the relatively rare beasts of hell and even doomsday beasts, the materials in their bodies are unique strategic materials. It does not mean that hunters can sell them to whomever they want, but After the unified acquisition by Chaofan Tower, according to the needs and importance of various departments and projects, it is used where it is most needed.

This method of exclusively buying and selling, in many cases, cannot reach the market price, and cannot satisfy the hunters who are licking their blood.

For the overall development of Dragon City, high taxes and fees, as well as exclusive buying and selling, are both reasonable and necessary.

Human civilization is an inseparable whole. Without the strong backing of the general public and the Red Dragon Army, it is indeed impossible to defeat the monster civilization by relying on hunters alone.

But for hunters, risking their lives, paying the price of bruises all over their bodies, and even watching their comrades die tragically in the mouth of monsters, there may be a lot of hidden wounds left, and they finally killed the monsters, but they have to hand over more than half of them in vain. Materials, feeling psychologically unbalanced, is also human nature.

Over time, there will always be people who want to play around the edges.

For example, the flesh and blood of sword halberd demon pigs and iron armored rhinoceros, such bulky, heavy, but relatively cheap materials are fine.

Once encountering small but priceless rare materials, such as the crystallized nerve balls of monsters, heart blood, eyeballs, spinal cords, etc., hunters often do not report to the Hunters Association.

Instead, he hid it secretly, took it to the black market in Nest City, and secretly exchanged for the resources he wanted.

Or exchange them for chips in the arenas of the various monsters in Nest City, and gamble in the arenas.

It doesn't matter how you win or lose, the key point is to wash all the chips. When the Transcendent Tower audits all Transcendents in the coming year, there will be no troubles of unknown sources of huge wealth.

This gray industrial chain connected by smuggled monster materials is an important economic pillar of Hive City.

How could the Survival Committee and the Transcendent Tower not know about the hunter's little trick.

But when the water is clear, there will be no fish. If smuggling and black market transactions are severely cracked down, on the one hand, it will seriously dampen the enthusiasm of the hunters.

On the other hand, if the hunters don't come to the black market to trade, the food, drink, gambling and the thriving tertiary industry in Nest City will all be finished.

You must know that most of the nearly one million people in Nest City rely on the tertiary industry for their livelihoods.

Countless Longcheng citizens who are stressed out by zombies and monsters and feel depressed, have to go to the nest city to relieve the pressure every now and then, so that they can continue to struggle to survive in this cruel alien world.

Destroying hundreds of thousands of jobs and almost the only outlet for low-level citizens will not do any good to Dragon City today.

Therefore, as long as the hunters and the gang members in the nest city don't go too far, the Survival Committee and the Transcendent Tower can only turn a blind eye.

In fact, the authorities will choose to let experienced hunters form the first wave of arresting force, which is also based on this consideration.

"Man-eating shark" Zhou Chong and the others used to be frequent visitors to the black market in Nest City. They have a deep relationship here, and they are brothers and sisters with many gang members. They cooperate with each other and have a relatively tacit understanding.

"What's going on now?"

The two finally let go of each other, and Zhou Chong asked the connector named "Tengu".

"Yesterday, the 'red eyebrow' Su Lun of the Golden Tooth Gang brought the meaning of Lord Jin, saying that hundreds of thieves from outside ran into the Golden Tooth Nest City, and some people secretly set up banned drug factories here. These thieves After taking the forbidden medicine, they all became crazy and powerful?"

Tiangou said, "Whether the Golden Tooth Gang or our gangs, everyone hates thieves and gangsters who don't follow the rules of the world, especially these guys who burn their brains out with banned drugs.

"Everyone comes out to hang out, it's nothing more than asking for money. If you want to make money with peace, these bastards are doing trouble in Golden Tooth Nest City. That is to smash everyone's jobs, and even the sales channels of your hunters... yes Bar?

"What's more, even Jin Ye, who hasn't shown up for a long time, speaks in person.

"Then all the gangs will naturally mobilize and launch a comprehensive investigation of the entire Golden Tooth Nest City.

"That's what we think, the other party committed hundreds of robberies outside in one go, and robbed a lot of cultivation resources, so naturally they have to go to the black market in Nest City to sell the stolen goods.

"If the stolen goods are not sold, they will be directly used as raw materials to refine new so-called 'divine transformation capsules'.

"Refining a large number of Shenbian Capsules naturally requires a large-scale workshop, factory, or at least a well-equipped laboratory.

"From our experience in refining various types of genetic agents, the refining process will produce a lot of waste gas, waste water, and consume a lot of spiritual energy.

"So, we focused on investigating hundreds of black markets, laboratories, and private workshops in Hive City.

"Especially in the areas where private medicine refining workshops are relatively dense, we collected groundwater samples there for analysis. As a result, we found that the underground wastewater in three areas contained ingredients suspected to be 'Shenbian Capsules'."

There are a lot of mad scientists dormant in Hive City.

And the cultivating lunatic who tried to use genetic medicine to break through the limit of life.

The pharmacists here are more professional than outsiders imagined.

"Because you have reminded us not to startle the snake, we dare not conduct a search with great fanfare, and we dare not go too deep into these areas."

Tengu continued, "At present, I only know that these areas are located in the 'no matter' zone where the spheres of influence of the major gangs meet. A small underground laboratory or black workshop, we are not sure which underground black workshop the target you are looking for is hiding in."

"It doesn't matter, being able to reduce the search range to such a small size has already saved us a lot of trouble. Next, it's up to us!"

"Man-eating shark" Zhou Chong said, "Everyone prepares, debugs the 'neural tactical data link system', checks the surrounding environment, and locks on to two known targets."

Like the veteran hunters, Meng Chao rolled his eyes, dilated his pupils, and concentrated.

With the interaction of neural data, the walls of the surrounding warehouses seem to become transparent, and their sight can pass through the walls unimpeded, and they can see the panoramic view outside.

Layer upon layer of illegal buildings, like building blocks randomly built by urchins, grow wildly from all directions, swallowing up a large area of ​​the sky, leaving only vents smaller than patios.

The mottled facades of buildings are covered with colorful graffiti, many of which are sprayed with fluorescent paint mixed with monster blood, exuding a strange charm under the dim light, like monsters, Jumped off the wall.

In order to attract business, almost all the buildings are covered with neon lights and display screens, or outline a bewitching human body with extremely charming brushstrokes, or play monster rampage, knocking each other to the guts A bloody and exciting scene.

Many teenagers wearing cloaks, spring pulleys, and ghost masks flashed past the poor streets and alleys at lightning speed. No one knew that there were smuggled materials hidden under their cloaks. Chips, lethal weapons, or crazy drugs.

Someone laughed at the gate of the monster arena, threw small chips into the invisible sky, and hit the ground with a "jingling" sound.

Someone was crying silently next to the garbage dump. After shed the last drop of tears, he clenched his fists and walked into the depths of the darkness with a fierce look in his eyes.

Countless grotesque scenes together exude a deformed, strange, and unstoppable vitality.

This is Hive City.