Lord Hunter needs a commission

To be honest, Novigrad did not give Charlotte a bad feeling at first sight.

There are not many people in the station, but after all, this city is not the terminal of the train, it is just a temporary station, so it is understandable that there are not many people.Although to a large extent, not many outsiders dare to come to this strange city.

After Charlotte walked out of the station in Novigrad, he realized that it seemed that Novigrad was not as good as he had imagined, or worse than the worst he had imagined.

Under the gray sky, there are black chimneys towering in the distance, and darker smoke is rising from the chimneys to connect with the gray clouds.

On the main street, there are dilapidated and waterlogged roads, closed shops on both sides of the street, rusty pipes, half-hanging signs and trademarks, slightly dilapidated dilapidated buildings...

Dilapidated and old, these are the first and second impressions Novigrad gave Charlotte.

Coupled with the unpleasant smell of the air, and the crows flying across the sky, Charlotte was a little suspicious whether the scene in front of him was an industrial city or an abandoned city.

She covered her mouth and nose with her hands, the dirty air made Charlotte, who was used to the air in Livia, a little uncomfortable.But fortunately, under the influence of her abhorrent physique, Charlotte quickly adapted to the poor air quality in a short while.

Although he was sure that his body was able to clean up the smog and toxic gas he inhaled, the bad air still made Charlotte frowned—it was adaptation, but the habit would not be changed in a short while.

If he lived here for a while, he probably would have to get used to it even if he wasn't used to it. "To be honest, I don't like it here." Looking around, Charlotte saw the passengers who got off here as well, put on a mask on their faces early, and then walked through the dilapidated streets as usual, He deftly avoided the foul-smelling stagnant water on the street and walked towards the end of the road. "Okay!" Shrugging her shoulders, Charlotte muttered helplessly, "I'll take a car to the nearest seaport city immediately after finishing the outsourcing work."

He walked towards the end of the road, and after a few minutes, Charlotte stepped into a noisy street.To his surprise, there are still many citizens living in this city shrouded in smog and poor air quality all the year round, and although this city is not as good as Livia, it doesn't look like a city. Kind of empty ghost town.

However, seeing the hidden numbness and haggard expressions on the faces of these pedestrians and vendors at the street stalls, one can know that the smog and poor air quality are not without impact.

Charlotte glanced at it, and then naturally blended into the crowd.

The flow of people is not very dense, but the streets are not spacious at all, and many places are occupied by hawkers with stalls.

Pedestrians are also in a hurry, and everyone is racing against time.

Along the way, Charlotte followed the map of Novigrad that he had memorized in his mind before getting off the car, and started walking towards the branch of the 'Hunter' in this city.However, while walking, Charlotte found that the route in his impression was completely useless, because the road was often blocked.

Either it was the crowds, or the peddlers vying for the place, or a group of vicious guys and another group of vicious guys were dealing with it on the side of the street, and the next moment they disagreed, they rushed over and pulled away with watermelon knives and axes. Melee.

Recalling the introduction of Novigrad's "specialties" I saw from the data: towering chimneys, lingering smog, low-quality air, dilapidated streets, and a lot of powerful people in society, they are gangsters and gangster.

"I withdraw my opinion which is not bad."

The crossroad in front of him suddenly turned into a battlefield of melee, with blood flowing and swords flying.

Some nearby citizens screamed and ran towards the shops beside the street.

And the shopkeepers of those shops also hurriedly began to close their doors, and the citizens who had no time to hide in, after struggling to knock on the closed doors and windows, had no choice but to run to the alleys on the side of the street.

But not everyone was able to find a place to hide, and some were unlucky enough to be involved in it, and they were directly stabbed, and fell to the ground and died.

With his forehead and neck slashed, Charlotte guessed they were hopeless.

"Normally, the 'protagonist' will take the initiative to stop the chaos..." Without slowing down, Charlotte dodged into a nearby corner. "But I'm not the protagonist!"

He didn't intend to be involved, as Vesemir had warned him.

A hunter is just a hunter, not a hero and idealist who wants to do everything.

"Besides, there should be no one to deal with it." Saying that, Charlotte watched three people on bicycles rushing here. "I'll just say..." Then I saw that the three people who got off the bicycle took out their pistols and fired at the crowd of scuffles in public.

The corner of Charlotte's mouth twitched, staring blankly at the scene in front of him.

Chapter 8 Vibrant Cities

Firearms are a good thing. This kind of thing effectively makes up for the shortcomings of human beings in intuitive power, allowing ordinary people to easily kill knights wielding swords.The emergence of artillery made the war move in the direction of a meat grinder, and completely eliminated the group infantry phalanx into the garbage dump of history.

It can be said that it was the birth of these instruments called "firearms" that were the first to deliver the last knife when the glory of the feudal nobles came to an end.

Of course, humans are gifted with destruction and destruction beyond all imagination.

After hacking to death all the old aristocrats who were not flexible in their own society, human beings immediately aimed their 'firearms' at the aliens.After expelling or massacring the aliens, the human beings aimed their guns at themselves, but found that this might lead to their own doom.

So since then, the Federation was established, and most of the rest of the countries were destroyed.

In order to avoid things that would lead to their own death, the federal government issued a ban on guns, restricting the circulation of guns among civilians, and any unauthorized possession of guns is illegal.It's just that some special occupations and groups are allowed to hold firearms and other hot weapons, such as Charlotte is a member of this group.

But it is obvious that this kind of profession that can hold guns within the scope of the law absolutely does not include powerful people in society.But these powerful people in society are also the people who own the largest number of guns on average except for the federal government and special groups-illegal.

But whether it is within the scope of federal law or not, Charlotte is very clear about one thing.That is, under normal circumstances, no one would take out a pistol on the spot and shoot another group of people with knives on a crowded street in a city without saying a word.

Although some of my colleagues took out iron fist bazookas to bomb the fleeing prey in the streets, I have never heard of anyone who would list human beings as targets of fire in the public.

"This is really..."

Charlotte looked at the three gunmen who came on bicycles, took out a pistol and knocked down several people face to face, interrupting the scuffle between the two sides.

Faced with this sudden and unexpected situation, the two groups of men armed with watermelon knives and axes reacted immediately, and bravely rushed towards the three gunmen in unison.

But the three gunmen looked cold and unmoved, holding the pistol steadily, and continued to pull the trigger, firing all the bullets in the pistol in one go.

Charlotte, who is not very good at guns, can't judge the type of guns just by the sound of guns like some seniors who specialize in guns.But he also knows that generally this kind of pistol is enough to fire seven or eight rounds, and three pistols together can produce about twenty rounds.

The two groups of people who were shot together were only about a dozen people.

So they didn't even have a chance to get close, so they were shot and fell in a pool of blood.

After the bullets in their hands were exhausted, the three hotshots faced the corpses lying on the ground, popped out the magazines in their hands, reloaded and reloaded, and fired at each corpse, After confirming that no one survived, he turned around and stepped on his bicycle to leave.

"This is, the killer?" Looking at the three shooters who caused the death of more than ten people, Charlotte choked speechlessly at their simple and skillful movements, and for the first time doubted that she would take Norvig Ruishi's outsourcing task was not a wrong decision. "I knew I should go directly to the Northland—"

Withdrawing his gaze, Charlotte sighed, "—although there will be a cold wind blowing for a while." As soon as he turned his head, before he could react, he saw that when the bloody conflict broke out, he hid wittily Pedestrians and citizens ran out from their hiding places, and rushed towards the fallen corpse.

However, they didn't mean to help with the aftermath, but began to pick up the corpse skillfully, and took out all the valuable things on it.

Wallets, pocket watches, some necklaces and earrings... In rare cases, even the clothes on the corpses were trying to be stripped off.Even in order to compete for the money of the deceased, these pedestrians and citizens began to have physical conflicts and wrestled together.

All of a sudden, another melee was staged.

In less than 5 minutes, the third performance appeared in front of Charlotte.

Unlike the previous incidents of knife fighting and gun killings, just using fists and kicks is not enough to kill another person in a short time.Moreover, more and more people are greedy for money and join the group fight, so that everyone is fighting in the past, and the scope of the fight is getting wider and wider, even involving Charlotte, who can be called a melon-eating crowd.

"How big is this heart!" Charlotte raised his civilized stick and pulled it out at will, and put a few malicious guys who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to stare at him on the ground, Charlotte muttered.

The subconscious counterattack just now, fortunately, he reacted at a critical moment. No one was killed directly, but just broke the bones of the hands and legs of a few unlucky people.This is also a recovery of [-]% of the strength, otherwise, if it is all out, even if it is just a civilized staff, Charlotte can easily cut through steel and smash rocks.

But this ability to deal with 'prey' is a disaster for ordinary people.

However, no one cared... Charlotte found dumbfounded that after she knocked down a few unlucky guys, no one dared to do anything to him and avoided him one after another. Dan became interested and began to snatch the wealth they carried.

And this involved others, making everything even worse.

Anyone who is beaten up in this mass brawl will have their wealth immediately taken away.And those who grabbed the wealth became the targets of others in the next moment. They came and went like this, and the chaos did not mean to stop at all, but it became more and more troublesome.

In order to avoid being targeted by people who don't have long eyes again, mainly because she was afraid of being unable to hold back and beat someone to death, Charlotte had to retreat several meters back, out of the range that might be involved.

"This city is really, um, very vibrant." Charlotte racked her brains to describe the farce in front of her. "Why haven't you seen the police officer come to restore order?" As soon as the words fell, a police whistle sounded, and a few police officers in blue and black uniforms rushed out from the alley on one side, raised their sticks and pointed towards the police. The person who was fighting in the chaos was beaten down heavily.

Realizing that the police officer was coming, the chaotic and brawling crowd immediately exploded and scattered in all directions to escape.Those who had no time to escape were beaten to the ground by these police officers.

Just when Charlotte thought that these police officers would be the first to restore order on the street, and then block the street to let people deal with the bodies of the dead who had been shot, the new scene in front of her made Charlotte's impression of the city refreshed again.

I saw that several police officers didn't care about the dead bodies on the ground at all, but kicked the people who were beaten to the ground by them, and then searched for their wallets or other valuables, and put them away. into his pocket.

Chapter 9 Vigorous Citizens

The security of a city depends to a large extent on the city's police system.A good police officer system can quickly make judgments on discovered incidents, maintain order and solve problems in the shortest possible time.

But one day, the police officers who are supposed to maintain law and order will be blinded by profit and put personal gain above anything else. If they recognize money but not people, then the law and order in this city will definitely be unimaginably chaotic.

Originally, Charlotte thought this was just empty talk. After all, public security was related to the problems and development of the entire city. Even a greedy mayor and government officials would not allow such chaos to appear in a city under their own jurisdiction.After all, only a stable city can create a better environment and attract investment and development from foreign businessmen.

In simple terms, even a 'hunter' like Charlotte who doesn't care much about current affairs can talk about it.However, the situation in front of her tells Charlotte that there really is such a situation in this world that completely disregards the order of the city and only focuses on her own profit.

These few 'belated' police officers shot extremely fiercely, holding the batons in their hands and hitting people on the forehead.The people who were knocked to the ground by them all collapsed with bloody heads. Although they didn't take out their pistols and shoot like the three gunmen before, they were equally indifferent.

If it is a heavy hand, I can explain it a little bit, but then, they took the wealth from the knocked-down people and put it into their own pockets. colleagues feel ashamed.

God is so pitiful, according to what Charlotte knows, none of the police officers in Livia City are conscientious, I am afraid that there is something wrong with Livia City, the famous casino city and the place where the Gwent Masters Tournament is held. If you can't eat and walk around, it's not as rampant as these police officers in Novigrad.

"It's not hard to imagine how rotten the order here is." Hiding in the corner and leaning out a little, Charlotte watched the whole process of how the police officers who came last maintained 'order' and 'handled' the murder case.

After searching the poor wretch they knocked down to the end, several police officers walked to the tightly closed shops on both sides of the street with uneasy expressions, banging on the doors and windows and yelling and cursing.After a while, the grim-faced shopkeeper was forced to open the shop door, nodding and bowing to the police officer, offering some money.

Not only the shopkeepers, but those citizens who hid in the shops by luck and hadn't left were also robbed of their money or valuables by these police officers.If there is any resistance, hit it with a stick immediately.

One store after another collected them, and the police officers ignored the bloody corpses, but were enthusiastic about collecting 'protection fees'.

Looking away, Charlotte knew she had to leave.

With the speed at which those police officers collect protection fees, it is estimated that they will find themselves in a short time.And according to their domineering attitude, 100% will come to blackmail and blackmail. From the pure appearance, there are quite a lot of valuable things on him.

Although these few carried batons at most, and one or two pistols, to Charlotte, they were just things that could be put down casually.But if he was involved in some messy trouble because of this, the gain would outweigh the loss. He is not a hero, and he will neither have any views on this city nor plan to change anything.

He does not have the ability to change the habits and lives of all residents in a city. He is not a god, not to mention that with the complex and changeable behavior of human beings, even a god cannot change a city that is willing to fall.

Charlotte's figure quickly disappeared around the corner without anyone noticing.

After a while, some citizens who happened to see Charlotte flashing into the corner, because their money was robbed by greedy police officers, couldn't help but get angry.

It's just that they didn't dare to be angry with the police officers, so they informed the police officers of Charlotte's location, with the idea of ​​dragging Charlotte into the water as well.

Even darker, he imagined that Charlotte would definitely be severely exploited by several police officers, and if he resisted, he would be beaten.This kind of thought that it doesn't count if you are unlucky, but you have to pull others to be unlucky, kept appearing in the minds of several citizens who reported, making them appear sinister.

But immediately, several police officers who ran to the corner turned around and walked towards the "enthusiastic" citizens who reported with sullen faces, and directly raised their batons and beat them hard.While typing, he cursed 'TMD, dare to lie to LZ', 'Kill you a turtle grandson', 'Fuck you XXX ancestor' and other swear words.

That corner was a dead end, and there was no one in it.

Then the police officer, who felt that he had been fooled, angrily beat the few citizens who dared to play them like monkeys to the ground and beat them to the ground, making them scream.

After a while, the person waiting to collect the corpses came to drag away the corpses on the street and clean up the blood.Several police officers handcuffed the citizens who dared to 'deceive' them and dragged them back to the security station, intending to squeeze their remaining 'value'.

……

Charlotte, who had already left, naturally didn't know that just as he climbed over the wall at the end of the dead end to the opposite alley, someone behind him tried to make him follow the bad luck, but suffered retribution.

Even if he knew, he probably would have said at most: "You deserve it!"

After climbing over the wall and jumping to another alley, Charlotte had to spend a little more time walking along the alley to another street, and then re-planned her route.

With the spell-like ability of [Recognize Direction], he took down the map of Novigrad from Vesemir before coming here. Even though Charlotte is not very familiar with the city, she will never get lost.

But because of the 'blockage' just now, I have to take a long detour now.

In the same way, even if you change the route, what you pass is no different from the street you saw just now.

The mental state of pedestrians and citizens is exactly the same, as if the whole city is in this indifferent state.On the side of the street, from time to time, there are some gangsters who are not good at first glance, looking at the passers-by.

Some of the three hands are also circulating in the crowd, frequently reaching out to commit crimes.

Walking and walking, Charlotte was also stared at by these three hands.But the three hands that dared to reach out to him were touched by him mercilessly with the civilized stick, and they screamed in pain.

They won't die, they won't break their hands, but the subtle sword energy inspired by [Heart-Sword Disease] extending along the civilized staff is enough to make their hands hurt for a while, and they need to be punished a little.

After the misfortune of the three guys who were about to reach out, the eyes of the three hands still hidden in the crowd flickered, and they turned their attention away from Charlotte.

They knew that Charlotte was not easy to mess with.

In the next section of the road, Charlotte was no longer harassed by these three hands.

It's a pity that troublesome things still exist, some gangsters, some conflicts, some group fights, this city full of "social vitality" always has various emergencies that hinder Charlotte, so that he has to go back and forth again and again. Change course one at a time.

After traveling more than half an hour longer than scheduled, Charlotte arrived at the branch of the 'Hunter' in Novigrad - outside the manor named "The Count of Monte Cristo".

Chapter 10 Heidi and Edmund

The red bricks were piled up to form a one-meter-high wall pier, and the iron bars painted with black paint formed the wall.

On the outside of the wall, there is a clean and tidy street, the ground is neatly paved with gravel roads, and intact street lamps stand on the street.Inside, there is a verdant garden, and flowers that compete with each other are planted on the lawn.

Looking in through the balustrade of the wall, one can see an exquisite four-story house at the end of this garden.

This is the Manor of the Count of Monte Cristo, and also the branch of the 'Hunter' in Novigrad.

To be honest, after walking here in Novigrad for a while, Charlotte thought that all the streets in this city were as dilapidated as before, where water-logged potholes and open sewers could often be seen.

But only after stepping on the street where the Count of Monte Cristo's estate is located, it seems that the roads he walked before are all illusory.

Now here, there are no indifferent and numb people, only a gentleman in exquisite clothes with a haughty expression and a beautifully dressed lady holding a parasol.

There is not a single bit of dirt on the road, and there are green belts at intervals on both sides of the street, with a tree planted on it.Even the street lamps are not the kind of dilapidated and half-destroyed ones we saw before, and there are no traces of paper or other things pasted on the lampposts.

When did this start?

Oh, by the way, it started from the street entrance more than 100 meters away.

It seems that I have stepped into a city within a city, stepped into a completely different place from the indifferent and numb surroundings, full of various "social vitality", and walked into a completely new world in a blink of an eye.