bookrandom Chapter 422 Ambush
Chapter 422 Ambush
Zhou Ning took a deep breath, put his hands in his pockets, figured out the direction, and walked towards Hailu Street as indicated by the road sign.
As a country with the strictest laws, more than 30% of the blocks and streets in the Kingdom of West Falik, whether in the mainland or in its overseas colonies, are named with the suffix "Law", such as Sea Law, Land Law, and Wine Law. Even the red-light district is called the Red Law District.
And the most amazing thing is that their laws are not just verbal, but are witnessed by gods. This is because most of the high-ranking officials of the Kingdom of Sifalik believe in the Church of the God of War, and one of the powers of the God of War is law.
For example, in the Kingdom of Sifalik there was a law that the Pope and the King were sacred and inviolable.
Once this law is recognized by the vast majority of the people, the Pope and the King of the Church of War will be protected by the law and will be truly sacred and inviolable in the true physical sense, making it difficult for anyone to confront them.
For example, if a church or official supernatural person puts up a slogan on a street: Supernatural people are prohibited from fighting here.
Similarly, if this law is recognized by the vast majority of the people, then if the strength of the extraordinary people does not exceed that of the official extraordinary people by much, they often will not be able to display their extraordinary abilities on this street.
Therefore, the super-class professionals of the Church of the God of War are often the most troublesome. They also possess an extraordinary ability called the Law, which is to impose various restrictions on their opponents by praying to the God of War for the authority of "law".
It was the time when the nightlife was just beginning. The streets near Hailu Street were full of brothels and bars, and many dark-skinned natives of the Motley Islands were soliciting business at the door.
At the entrance to the street, a crooked sign read "No fighting among extraordinary people allowed here." It was unclear whether it was a joke or the truth. Zhou Ning followed the address to 121 Hailu Street, a secluded bar in an alley called the Insider's Bar. According to "Hurricane" Spike, this was General Thunder's contact point.
Two rows of fierce-looking northern men stood at the door of the bar, monitoring the people coming and going. Adventurers and pirates who were not in disguise at all came in and out from time to time. Occasionally, a few ordinary tourists passed by, but they were all turned away.
"Perhaps I can use the effects of the transformation potion to transform into a pirate and go in?"
Zhou Ning pondered for a moment, found a secluded place and drank the transformation potion. After trying it several times, he suddenly turned into a gloomy-looking northern pirate.
As mentioned before, unlike the Polyjuice Potion in Harry Potter, the Transfiguration Potion in Apocalypse can be used with a person's hair as a guide, transforming into that person. Alternatively, it can be drunk directly, transforming into a random person for an hour. The effect is somewhat similar to the Delicious Wind Serpent in World of Warcraft. It's quite versatile.
Zhou Ning calmly pushed open the half-open door and entered the bar under the gaze of two rows of big men from the north.
What surprised Zhou Ning was that it was not the pirate's lair he had imagined, but an ordinary-looking bar. There was not even a groundhog fighting ring that was very popular in the major colonies. Instead, there were neatly arranged tables with many people sitting around them. A northern bartender was mixing drinks behind the bar.
There is a pitch-black bulletin board at the entrance of the bar with wanted posters hanging on it, which looks different from the official bulletin board.
Zhou Ning stopped in front of the bulletin board and looked at it for a moment. He found that the board not only had official bounties on pirates, but also had bounties on other people from pirates. The bounty was also written on it. Zhou Ning took a look and found that it was the Northern Pirate Alliance.
I'd heard Rich Burke say before that the Northern Pirates were a loose alliance, sharing resources and collaborating with each other, but also engaging in life-and-death struggles like the one between General Wind and General Thunder. Now it seemed to be true.
The names of General Gallagher and several of his crew members had been removed from the wanted poster at some point, yet his own name was still on it, complete with a portrait of himself, likely created through some ritual. The bounty on his head was 72000 Victar, just slightly higher than that of General Gallagher.
In a corner of the bulletin board, Zhou Ning found the bounty for the target of his trip - "Werewolf" Mason. He was a dark and thin mixed-race man, and it was guessed that he might be a hybrid of a werewolf and a northerner.
What surprised Zhou Ning the most was that in another corner he saw a bounty for his Batman alias, worth 225000 Vectra. Below the bounty was an equally accurate portrait: himself in a Batman suit, crouching on the bow of the Black Pearl.
Damn, at this moment, Zhou Ning really had the urge to surrender himself.
On the other side of the bulletin board, there were some bounty missions, some asking for help in finding people, some asking for help in collecting debts, and some people claiming that they had obtained a treasure map and wanted to form a team - as for the last one, which said that they wanted to organize a team to go to Southeast Asia for team building, Zhou Ning believed it.
It seems that this place is more like an adventurer's bar targeting the Northern Pirates than a contact point.
Zhou Ning ordered a glass of wine at the bar, but did not drink it. Instead, he found a place and, under the cover of the wine glass, quietly observed his surroundings.
Judging by his observation Haki, there were at least seven or eight powerful Super-class professionals in this small bar, likely more, each affiliated with a different elite pirate group. He was startled when he entered, wanting to say sorry for disturbing him and walk away.
Moreover, under the law that "superhumans are prohibited from fighting here", he might not be able to do it smoothly.
What's going on now? Are all the pirates gathering together to capture Telderon Island?
At this moment, Zhou Ning narrowed his eyes slightly and saw the door being pushed open. A dark-skinned pirate wearing a white sailor shirt walked in. It was Mason, the werewolf and General Lei Dian's first mate.
He didn't notice Zhou Ning standing beside him. He walked over to the table opposite Zhou Ning and sat down. He lowered his voice to the lowest point and said gloomily, "The target has arrived at the port and will reach the ambush point in less than 20 minutes. The employer has informed us that we can set off early."
Target? Ambush point?
Zhou Ning immediately thought of the fat noble who wanted to hire people to assassinate Angus Motley. Could it be that these people were hired by him?
If there is a seventh-level summoning scroll and these super-class professionals, there might be a chance of success.
He had no interest in rescuing Angus Motley, but under the red moon, perhaps this assassination was the reason for his ominous premonition. He needed to go and take a look, but he had to stay as far away as possible.
If he could borrow the help of Angus Motley, he might be able to complete the hunting process without bloodshed, which would be much easier.
On the other hand, if you encounter unpredictable danger, you will still have time to run away.
This is the safest and most reliable way to do it. Although my strength is getting stronger and stronger, I don’t know why, the more I know, the more afraid I am of the unknown that I cannot control.
Zhou Ning couldn't help but sigh silently.