Me? The director of the Asylum of All Heavens!

Chapter 18: Showdown and Deception of Intelligence

Following the instructions in the pattern, Lin Zizhi and his companions came to the Ascension Corridor, a chaotic neighborhood full of dirty deals.

As soon as you enter, you will enter a world of feasting and revelry, with the exciting aroma filled with the decadent sounds of pleasure.

All the guests who came and went wore masks, looking extremely mysterious.

"Are you sure you can get information here? Could that Jellicle be a pimp who tricked you into spending money here?"

Harley Quinn looked at everything around her with curiosity. From time to time, she lifted some curtains and watched in a very rude manner.

"Hey! What are you looking at?"

Lin Zizhi grabbed Harley Quinn and stopped her from doing something too rude.

Lloyd Folger turned around and said, "We have limited time, so why not split up? Harry, you try to get some information about Jinx first, and I'll go to the casino to earn some money."

"Understood!" Harley Quinn stood at ease, stood at attention, and saluted him.

"What about me?" Lin Zizhi sniffed his nose and shivered in his wet clothes.

"As you wish." Lloyd Foldger sighed.

"I have a good idea." Harley Quinn raised Lin Zizhi's chin with a wicked smile and tore off his human skin mask. "How about you come with me to apply for a job here?"

"What? I don't want it!" Lin Zizhi stepped back repeatedly.

"You have such a pretty face and a great figure. It would be a shame if you didn't do this job." Harley Quinn laughed and stretched out her fingers to unbutton his shirt, revealing Lin Zizhi's smooth and attractive abdominal muscles.

Lin Zizhi was stunned for a moment. He hadn't noticed his figure because he was wrapped in bandages.

In my memory, I am just a psychiatrist and I don’t have any fitness habits. How could I have such angular abdominal muscles?

The subtle differences in this body always gave him an indescribable sense of disharmony.

At this moment, he suddenly discovered that the scars on his body that he had just woken up had completely healed, and the few remaining scars could be rubbed off easily.

"I also have the ability to heal myself?" Lin Zizhi was stunned.

Lin Zizhi was delighted to discover that he also had superpowers.

After all, no one wants to be just a supporting role in their life.

"Hi, man." Harley Quinn casually grabbed a masked guy passing by.

"Hi, my name is Pym, how can I help you?" the masked guy asked shyly.

"We want to work here. Can you show us the way and let us meet your person in charge?" Harley Quinn asked bluntly.

Pym looked at Harley Quinn and Lin Zizhi carefully, nodded, and waved for them to follow: "Of course, please follow me."

Just when Harley Quinn was pulling Lin Zizhi to leave.

"Can I borrow some principal? I'll pay you back with interest later." Lloyd Foldger said casually.

Harley Quinn took out her wallet and slapped it on Lloyd Folger's chest, then pulled his collar close to his ear and said:

"This is my freshly-earned salary, and it's not even warm yet! If you dare to lose it all, I will strip you naked and throw you into the sea to feed the sharks! Do you hear me?"

The sweet smile combined with the perverted threat made Pym, who was leading the way, shudder.

"Trust my skills." Lloyd Foldger smiled slightly, took Harley Quinn's wallet, took out the money inside, and returned the wallet to Harley Quinn.

"Let's go!" Lloyd Folger waved his hand and continued to walk deeper.

Lin Zizhi watched Lloyd Folger walk away and could only resign himself to following Harley Quinn.

"Hey, what do the guys here do? Is there any job that doesn't require selling your bodies?" Lin Zizhi asked after swallowing dryly.

"You have such a good look and figure, this job must be very profitable, but if you really don't want to, you can also try security work. Our place is called Rose Mask Mansion. The biggest feature is that guests wear masks to hide their identities. So there are many Piltover nobles who come here, and naturally the more security personnel the better." Pym explained.

On the other side, Lloyd Foldger walked through the streets filled with poisonous fog, where skinny guys were everywhere, addicted to the glimmer and puffing smoke.

No matter what was Hilco's original intention in using the glimmer, the fact is that he abused the glimmer to control the lower-class people, and this is a black spot that he cannot wash off.

Alchemical prosthetic limbs are hung on the stalls like bacon, and the atmosphere is filled with a weird dystopian cyberpunk atmosphere.

The popularity of alchemical prostheses in Zaun also stems from the conflict seven years ago. The people of Dirk suffered heavy casualties. In order to survive, the living people had to use prostheses to replace their damaged limbs.

Just by observing the living conditions of the people in the bottom city, Lloyd Folger analyzed a lot of useful information. Soon Lloyd Folger found the so-called gambling house.

On the surface, there are just two or three open-plan rooms with tattered sofas and coffee tables, and the game played there is a simple card game similar to Tarot.

Generally speaking, most of the people who play here are ordinary, low-class people, and the stakes are relatively small.

However, there is another level deeper into the gambling house, where identity verification is a bit troublesome, as those coming in and out are all wealthy guys.

Lloyd Foldger exchanged Harley Quinn's money for chips, but he did not leave the game immediately. Instead, he observed the rules of the game.

With his memory and learning ability, it doesn't take him long to master a new skill.

Lloyd Folger decided to play a few games on the surface first, and then look for an opportunity to sneak into the lower level to play something bigger.

……

At this time in the red light district, Harley Quinn and Lin Zizhi, who had torn off their human skin masks, came in front of the person in charge of the red light district.

"Hi, hello! My name is Harley Quinn, and he is my younger brother Harley Quinn. We would like to ask for food from you." Harley Quinn greeted the madam excitedly as she entered the door.

She was a heavily made-up female yordle, and even considering the long life span of yordles, she was one of the older ones. The heavy makeup could not hide the wrinkles on her sagging skin.

She was holding a pipe and reading the meeting invitation sent by Hilco. She raised her head when she heard the words.

"Are you the newcomers who want to work here?" The madam Babette put down her pipe and looked curiously at the wet and somewhat miserable man and woman in front of her.

The woman had a good figure and a pretty face, but her complexion was too pale and she didn't look like a native of Zaun.

If he could change his noisy habit, the noble lords in the city would definitely like this top-quality stuff.

The man is tall, with well-proportioned muscles, clear lines and a distinctive face. If he doesn't want to be a gigolo, he can work as a security guard here.

"Wait...you look familiar." Babette looked at Lin Zizhi carefully, and her brows gradually frowned.

She quickly rummaged through the papers on the table.

"You're the guy on Hilco's wanted list!" Babette couldn't help but take a few steps back.

"Come on, we didn't do anything." Harley Quinn hurriedly explained.

Lin Zizhi carefully observed the actions of the person in charge of the red light district in front of him, as if thinking about something.

"It looks like you don't intend to report us." Lin Zizhi said confidently.

"Do you know what you are talking about? Hilco's second-in-command is a frequent visitor to my place. If I press the alarm, you will never be able to leave my house." Babette said seriously.

"You took a few steps back at first, seemingly on guard against us. But your eyes didn't evade us, and you kept staring into our eyes, which shows that you didn't have a deep hostility towards us, but more of a curiosity. And your toes were always pointed towards us, without shifting, which shows that you were interested in our conversation. In addition, your arms were slightly open, which is also a relatively honest body language. It seems that you are not that loyal to Silko, or at least you are not very interested in Silko's bounty."

Lin Zizhi's words revealed Babette's psychology, and she simply dropped her disguise and sat down again.

"You're right. I'm not from Silko. The chem-baron I'm with is Madam Margot, who manages all the pimping businesses in Zaun. But no matter whether it's Margot or Silko, I'm just an insignificant little person in their eyes. There used to be people willing to protect little people like me, but the world has changed. Now if you want to survive in the cracks of this hellhole of Zaun, you must learn to read people's expressions and adapt to the situation."

Babette held the invitation in one hand and the wanted poster in the other and sighed in embarrassment.

After much hesitation, she threw away the wanted poster.

"I don't care what kind of conflict you have with Silko. Leave here and I can pretend that I have never seen you. But if you want me to take you in and openly disobey Silko's orders, I'm sorry that I really can't do it." Babette said honestly.

"We have no intention of fighting against Hilco. We are here to help Wei find Bombshell, now known as Jinx. To be exact, I want to know what happened to her that turned her from Bombshell into Jinx." Lin Zizhi sat down naturally on the sofa in front of the desk of the person in charge of the red light district.

Harley Quinn understood Lin Zizhi's intention, and cooperated with Lin Zizhi by getting closer to Babette and looking directly into her eyes to put pressure on her.

"Who are you?" Babette's eyes were evasive for a moment.

"You actually knew what happened, right? But you didn't tell Wei the truth. You know Wei's character, and you asked her to go find Sevika. Do you know that this almost killed her?"

Lin Zizhi put pressure on her with words, while Harley Quinn put pressure on her with body language.

Harley Quinn jumped lightly, sat on her desk, and looked down at her.

"I just wanted to help her..." Babette said somewhat remorsefully.

"If you really want to help her, just tell us what happened to Baobao. You owe them this." Lin Zizhi said coldly.

This sentence became the last straw that broke the camel's back for Babette.

(End of this chapter)