NOVEL NEXT Chapter 192
After deciding on the plan, Lu Junzhi could only agree to let Chu Muxi attend the party.
“Zhou Xu and I will also go to the banquet and act accordingly,” Lu Junzhi said, noting that they had another identity, but they were not part of the same faction as Chu Muxi.
They were planning to go deep in many directions.
Chu Muxi expressed his dissatisfaction: “Then who are you going as? Why haven’t you told me yet?”
Lu Junzhi smiled and replied, “You will know when the time comes.”
Currently, there were a total of four forces in the central city of Black Star. One was the smuggling arms dealers headed by the Cardo family, who had been in the Black Star the longest.
They were also the earliest force in the Black Star. Over the years, more and more forces had poured into Black Star, complicating the situation.
As the saying said, a skinny camel was bigger than a horse. Even though the power of the Cardo family had been shrinking over the years, it still maintained the strongest control over Black Star.
The second force was the local mercenary organization association. There were five leaders at the top of this organization, said to be the five most ferocious gangsters who had been notorious in the Alliance. They had committed many serious crimes.
The Alliance had originally captured them all, but on the way to prison, their starship was hijacked, allowing the five to take the remaining men to the Black Star.
For them, Black Star was like a river for them to swim.
The mercenary organization they established only issued tasks and drew commissions.
There were two ways to join the mercenary association. One was to join directly and become a member of the organization, a process that involved strict reviews.
“I heard that in the early days of the mercenary association, the review standard was to see whether previous cases were big enough and cruel enough,” Chu Muxi remarked, surprised to hear that there was such an assessment standard. His experiences in Black Star had shown him what a group of evil people looked like together.
The second way was to not join the organization and become a free mercenary, taking on tasks at will.
The advantage of the first type was greater opportunities and protection.
The second type offered greater personal freedom, with life and death depending on luck.
“Who is the third force?” Chu Muxi continued to inquire.
Lu Junzhi poured him a cup of hot tea. Chu Muxi picked up the teacup and took a sip, his eyes brightening. “It tastes good. What kind of tea is this?”
“Zhou Xu bought it. Do you like it?” Lu Junzhi raised his eyebrows.
Zhou Xu was someone who enjoyed eating and drinking, and always looking for something special. Every time he went to other places, he always searched for local delicacies first.
Although they were there to perform a mission, they did not neglect food and drink.
He still wanted to satisfy Chu Muxi’s simple desires as much as possible.
“It tastes good. There’s a faint fragrance of flowers in the tea, which is nice. Let’s take some with us before we go back,” Chu Muxi suggested to Lu Junzhi, trying to lighten the atmosphere.
Lu Junzhi nodded, his expression doting. “Okay, let’s enjoy ourselves then.”
“Yeah,” Chu Muxi responded.
Just as they were talking, Zhou Xu knocked on the door. “Boss.”
“Come in,” Lu Junzhi replied.
Chu Muxi slipped out of his arms. Lu Junzhi looked at him with amusement, but Chu Muxi glared back.
Zhou Xu entered and whispered, “The brothers over there saw that Casey is coming to where Young Master Chu lives.”
“Huh?” Chu Muxi was stunned.
He had been working for Casey for a long time. Casey had always known that he lived in the slums. Although he had been persuading him to stay in his shop recently, he had never seen where he lived.
What did he want to visit at this time?