Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!

"Does that mean they are trustworthy individuals?"

Then, the things he had heard didn't seem impossible to secretly assist with.

Albert thought to himself and nodded to show his understanding, "I never expected that within the lord's domain, there would be hidden dragons and crouching tigers, to the extent that even people from the Arbitration Place would actively seek cooperation."

He hadn't been here for long, but had already fallen in love with this small garden in a chaotic world. If there was anything within his power that could help, he was willing to lend a hand.

After all, he had heard that those people were strangers in the city and even the enforcer from the Arbitration Place appeared to lack subordinates or informants in the city. With such rash actions, they would most likely face setbacks here.

While their battle group was not the top in the city, years of establishment had given them some understanding of the "rules" that should be followed in the Lower City.

They might not be like fish in water, but at least they wouldn't step into traps.

He decided to go and greet some old brothers…

…

Within the Lower City, the terrain was complex and Kuang Xin and his group found the slightly choking smell of machine oil in the air to be rather uncomfortable to breathe.

Compared to the strange sulfur-laden scent outside the city, the air quality here wasn't much better either.

"The smell we noticed when we came into the city last time isn't quite the same as now..."

"Nonsense, last time we took the main roads under the guidance of that jackal, and we didn't duck into these narrow alleys."

"Speaking of which, this mission is our first proper encounter with the minions of demons, so we have to be careful."

This mission was issued to them by the enforcer from the Arbitration Place.

The target was a group of Believers worshiping deities.

Players who had come to understand some of the background stories of this world had long known that there were no real gods in this world.

The so-called gods were merely demons from the high-dimensional spaces who wield various powers.

But ordinary people didn't know this.

While Blackwater City did not heavily suppress all information about demons, the understanding of common people, with their limited cognitive abilities, about demons—and indeed the truth about this world—was very limited.

For those who live day to day in dire straits, even among the ordinary populace, the poor can only hope for the existence of omnipotent, kind-hearted gods in this world to save them from their misery.

Without a concrete entity to place their faith in, their aimless "prayers" can only "communicate" with the demons in the high-dimensional space in the end.

However, the power of demons is not infinite; they choose their "Believers" based on their preferences and viewpoints, so not every prayer to them receives an answer.

In most cases, not receiving a response is the norm, or even if one does receive a response, it may just be the most rudimentary, hard-to-say whether it's a "curse" or a "blessing."

Those "Believers" who do not receive a response, or who have very limited demon power, are difficult even for the enforcers carrying out missions for the Arbitration Place to track down accurately through the investigation of demonic energy.

Now, Miss Franca from the Arbitration Place had tasked them to investigate a large, but extremely loosely organized group of Believers in the Lower City.

"To investigate such an organization, do we first have to disguise ourselves as poor people of similar circumstances?"

"And then what?"

"Then it's just trying our luck... The intelligence says their recruitment is quite random, it's all about who has better luck."

"That's not a bad idea," Gu Lan stroked his chin and thought Dai Lian's suggestion made sense.

"Let's spread out and try individually then. Sticking together will only raise their suspicions."

…

Kuang Xin lay in a dark corner of the Lower City, his ragged clothes stained with blood, and his exposed skin showing many scabbed-over wounds as he groaned weakly.

Before him, a pair of slender legs wrapped in black silk stockings suddenly appeared.

The skirt, adorned with thick ink blue flowers, fluttered in the wind around the legs. Kuang Xin's gaze traveled up the legs until he saw a striking face with a scar.

It was very familiar...

A viper.

Standing beside her, with a smile on his face, was Zhou Wenjie.

"You... you guys?" Kuang Xin's face showed some confusion, "What are you doing?"

Wen Jie had his own path, and they had theirs; when their paths didn't intersect, they didn't keep in touch all the time.

After receiving the mission, they hadn't contacted Wen Jie or the battle gang he was with.

But now...

"Those guys are not as naive as you think," Viper said with an emotionless face.

Although she had received a message from her "adoptive father," the former gang leader, that she should help this group of rootless folks in the city, Viper still felt a headache when actually facing them.

"Coming onto someone else's turf without any preparation and trying to blend in, you're really not taking your opponents seriously."

In The Lower City, the most important thing is to be cautious.

Any detail can become a deadly specter.

Those who underestimate others have long been ground into dust by the gears of this steel mechanical city.

"So you know about our mission... what we're supposed to do?" Kuang Xin looked at them with some surprise but didn't dwell on the question, focusing solely on the mission at hand.

"What should we do then?"

Viper's expression turned colder, as all the justifications for their source of information she had prepared were unnecessary, "What to do? Follow me! Have them all join up, don't embarrass yourselves here!"

The bedraggled gamers, in a deserted corner, gathered around Viper and Wen Jie. Viper coldly spoke to herself, "Regarding what you're about to do, I've been entrusted by a certain party to offer you some assistance..."

'A certain party?' The gamers thought in tandem and an image flashed simultaneously in their minds.

'My Lord!'

Apart from their own lord, who else would care about the life and death of these gamers?

The lord is awesome!

If it's the handiwork of the lord, then there's no need for doubts.

Furthermore, Viper and Wen Jie were no strangers; they probably wouldn't harm them.

The few gamers looked eagerly at Viper, their faces earnestly waiting for her next words.

"Please speak."

Seeing these people so amenable and not requiring much explanation, Viper internally breathed a sigh of relief, but her face remained serious.

"You who are new to the area, thinking you can infiltrate that organization is an impossible task! In fact, regarding your target organization, we have had word of them for some time. But the individuals they recruit are all thoroughly and slowly scrutinized before they are approached. Your new faces will never gain their trust."

At these words, Kuang Xin's face fell in disappointment, "Then is the mission a bust?"

Viper glanced at him and remained silent.

If she had sought them out, it obviously wasn't without reason.

"Indeed, it's extremely difficult to infiltrate them actively, but it's not entirely impossible. Newcomers may not have a chance, but those old faces lurking in The Lower City still have a good opportunity. Next, I will fabricate identities for you and temporarily kidnap the original owners..."