Chapter 246 - 246: 114. Legacy of the Black Bone_4
Translator: 549690339
“What a strange person…” The security personnel shrugged slightly, turned around and pressed the close button, shutting the sluice gate on the floor.
“Clang.” The gate closed.
Noland Lee walked out of the warehouse and stretched lazily in the afternoon sunlight.
He took the stairs on the outside of the building directly to the fifth floor, entered the dormitory, put down his backpack, took clean clothes and went to take a shower.
Half an hour later, Noland Lee put on clean clothes and packed the items to take to the Cat Society, and came to the company reception.
“Help me pass this map to Captain Kent… By the way, did he leave any messages for me?”
As Noland asked, he handed over the map given to him by Kent.
The receptionist took the map, tilted her head, and thought for half a second before saying:
“Huh? …No. After Kent came back, he went straight to the medical office on the third floor with Fars Scott and hasn’t come out yet.”
“Later, if Kent asks about me, you can tell him that I went to the Cat Society in the next sector.”
“Alright.”
In an alchemy society without mobile phones and pagers, the receptionist acts as a communicator.
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With his clean Identity Card, he could pass through the entire lower town of Union City.
Sector 8 is controlled by the Life Essence Society – Cat Division.
Its neighboring sectors 9 to 11 are respectively the sectors of the Dog Society, Plant Society, and Stone Mining Society.
Order in Sector 8 is guarded by the Cat Society security personnel.
Sector 9, belonging to the Dog Society, is the territory of the Ferocious Hound Gang.
Sector 10 of the Plant Society is guarded by the Plant Society Security Company.
Sector 11 of the Stone Mining Society is the territory of the Razor Gang.
A security company, followed by a gang sect, then another security company, and another gang sect.
This defense force layout seems bizarre to Noland, the traveler, but it’s quite normal in the eyes of the locals in the Golden Federation.
Interestingly, gangs like the Ferocious Hound Gang and Razor Gang don’t target other divisions within the Life Essence Society; instead, they attack security companies not affiliated with the Life Essence Society.
This is like the Life Essence Society playing both good cop and bad cop, giving a sense of legitimately and lawfully using gang sects to compete with other alchemy factions for wealth and resources.
Such a peculiar social construct not only exists in Union City but also in other cities of the Golden Federation, where intertwined forces of good and bad have emerged.
It cannot be denied that the “Three States” theory advocated by the Alchemy Cathedral has a significant impact on the social construct…
Noland used his identity card to pass the Cat Society security personnel’s inspection and smoothly enter Sector 8.
He followed the signs on the road and found the Alchemy Kitty Store opened by the Cat Society.
It was a large store with a spacious five-story structure and an open first-floor grand hall.
Various products filled the store, attracting customers of all ages, while meowing sounded from the display cases.
All kinds of kittens in the display cases “put on a show” to attract customers, hoping to be taken home and raised.
Noland’s gaze swept over the cats in the window and then connected with a staff member,
That staff member must have received instructions from Elemental
Judgement.
When she saw Noland, she hesitated for a moment, then came forward with a smile, leading Noland into a guest room on the third floor of the store.
Sitting in the elegantly decorated guest room, after a short wait and while tasting dessert and tea, Noland met Mion Philia, a woman he had met once before.
Philia was the female cat person who initially verified Noland’s identity, and she was more polite than Sandra “Betty” Davis, the first female cat person.
Noland had a good impression of Philia, and now he was pleasantly surprised by her human form.
Philia wore a simple and neat beige strapless dress, and her fair arms and smooth shoulders were covered by a semi- transparent silk shawl.
Her features were distinct, her eyes bright, her demeanor serene, her chest rising and falling slowly as she breathed evenly.
Out of politeness, Noland put down his teacup, stood up, and said to her:
“Hello, Miss, it’s our second meeting.”
“Greetings, Mr. Ray Lee, I am Mion Philia, an employee of the Alchemy Kitty Store. Of course, you know my true identity, so there’s no need for us to introduce ourselves.”
Philia smiled politely and invited Noland to sit down.
Noland quickly got over his appreciation of her beauty and didn’t feel restrained by it.
“Just call me Ray.”
After sitting down, he cut straight to the chase, picked up the backpack at his feet, and put it on the tea table between them:
“You need clues about the Blackbone Hermit, right? I brought them here. Open and have a look.”
“Okay, please wait a moment.”
Philia raised her hand to touch the pendant around her neck, grabbed a cluster of light from the glowing green jade, and placed it on the backpack.
The light cluster merged into the backpack, and one by one, the contents were brought out and laid flat on the tabletop.
“Blackbone Hermit’s black bone piece, insect flute, injector storage box.”
Philia recognized the items in front of her at a glance, speaking somberly:
“Ray, can you disclose the specific location where you met the Blackbone Hermit?”
“Of course, it was near the vertical shaft entrance of the third underground level in Sector 7.”
Noland described the general course of events but left out details of the specific combat actions.
For example, he did not divulge how he blocked the alchemy beetles, or what methods he used to kill the Blackbone Hermit, skipping over such details..
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