Gotham, the sin capital of North recent years, as more and more people from all over Europe have come here to make a living, various gangs have gradually formed. They sell drugs and smuggle arms here, and because of disputes, every block here is stained with blood, making every night restless. These are Harper Wright's original words. However, when Yin Xiu and Luo Wei came here, they found that Wright had actually tried his best to beautify this place with words, because Gaotan was far more chaotic than he described. There is garbage everywhere, rats in the sewers, and homeless people walking on the roadside without any clothes on. Fortunately, Wright told them that this was only the downtown area, not the fascinating "upper class" area of Gaotan, otherwise Yin Xiu would feel that the entire city would be burned down. After wandering around and turning in the alley twice, they finally arrived in front of a pub. The pub's sign was written in crude English, which translated into something like "Cooper Brothers". Just from the blackened, cracked marks and dense bullet holes on the outer wall of this tavern, one can tell that things are not peaceful here. Yin Xiu and Luo Wei pushed the door open and entered the pub. Before they even sat down, they attracted everyone's attention.
A man with a trough nose, red face and cowboy clothes walked up to us and raised his hand to reveal a black pistol tied at his waist. He shouted, "Hey, you two, why don't you build railroads on the West Coast and steal your boss's clothes to come to the tavern? There's no opium or women with bound feet waiting for you here." After he said this, everyone in the pub burst into laughter. The cowboy was very proud, as if the laughter was cheering and applauding him. He put his hands on his hips and waited proudly for the response from the two Orientals in front of him. But Yin Xiu and Luo Wei ignored him and just sat down side by side at the bar. "Two whiskeys, topped up." Yoon Soo tossed out two coins. The bartender behind the counter glanced at the two of them and made no move to pour drinks. Like the cowboy, he put his hands on his hips and held his chin high. Seeing this, the cowboy became even more proud. He walked to the bar, leaned over, put the two coins into his pocket, and whistled again. "You are not welcome here. Are you two deaf or blind? You still don't understand the situation? Hmm?" The cowboys are becoming more aggressive. Yin Xiu finally glanced at him, but said disdainfully: "If I had known, I shouldn't have come in person." "But we can't find any other helpers, right?" Luo Wei laughed. "It is precisely because we can't find any help that we two have to sit here and listen to the barking of wild dogs." The cowboy had originally wanted to see how Yin Xiu and the others would react, but he didn't expect to be called a wild dog directly, by two Orientals at that. The others couldn't help but laugh when they saw the cowboy being humiliated. They enjoy watching the fun, no matter how big it is, as long as it is fun, and they don't care whose fun they are watching.
The cowboy's face flushed red, and he blocked Yin Xiu's way and asked angrily in a hoarse voice, "Who do you call a wild dog?" "Not specifically about you." Yin Xiu pushed his head aside and stood up from the chair. "I mean, everyone here, male or female, old or young, every one of them is a pure wild dog." "Oh shit!" The cowboy raised his hand, but before he could swing his fist, Yin Xiu slammed him onto the table and he fainted. No one saw clearly when Yin Xiu made his move, but they were all drunk and naturally did not notice it. More importantly, they were all blinded by anger at this time. No one knew who yelled first, and the tavern was in chaos. The burly men picked up chairs or bottles of wine, and those who couldn't find anything tried to grab Yin Xiu with their bare hands. Yoon Soo raised his hand. Crackling! Clap clap clap! Ding ding clang clang! Luo Wei just sat at the bar stool and watched the show from beginning to end. By the time Yin Xiu sat back at the bar, the only two of them and the bartender at the counter were the only ones still standing in the entire pub - the other bartenders were also sleeping peacefully. "Whiskey, two glasses, topped up!" Yoon-su knocked on the table. The bartender was stunned at first, then he remembered to pour the wine. He opened the bottle tremblingly, and the red wine splashed out of the wide-mouthed cup. Yin Xiu shook his head and said, "This kind of service attitude is not acceptable nowadays!" "Yes, yes, I made a mistake, two bosses!" The bartender bowed repeatedly, fearing that he would fall asleep in an instant like the others and wouldn't even be able to see how Yin Xiu made his moves. Yin Xiu first took the wine glass, drank half of it in one breath, and then glanced at him. Just this one glance frightened the bartender and he didn't know what to do. "Don't scare him." Luo Wei smiled and tried to sound gentle, "We are looking for someone." "If you're looking for someone, you should put an ad in the newspaper, or go to the hotel, or find the police," the bartender suggested sincerely. "Are you teaching me how to do things?" Even Luo Wei, who was always a good guy, changed his expression. "Now I am asking you, not you asking me. Do you understand? Unless you also want to sleep on the ground like those people, you'd better answer my questions honestly." The bartender immediately raised his hands above his head and said in a trembling voice, "Boss, just ask me. I will tell you everything, whether I know it or not."
"How can you tell us if you don't know? Just make it up on the spot?" Yin Xiu bent down and took back the two coins he had taken earlier from the pocket of the cowboy who had fainted on the side. After a pause, he picked out a few more banknotes with his fingers. "You son of a bitch, how did my money end up in your pocket?" Yoon-su nodded slightly and slapped two of the bills on the counter. "I heard that there's a guy called Tie Jin Gang who often drinks here, right?" "Oh, Iron Man, that bastard from Philadelphia!" Knowing that the person Yin Xiu and the other man were looking for had nothing to do with him, the bartender breathed a sigh of relief and ran out from behind the counter in two steps. After pushing away a few pigs who were sleeping unconscious, he pulled a person out of the crowd. "Iron King Kong?" "That's right, Boss. Iron King Kong." Yin Xiu looked at the man in front of him who looked less than 100 pounds, with a pale face and thin body, and was about to fall down with a gust of wind, full of doubts. In fact, during the fight just now, Yin Xiu did not hit this man. He was just hit by the person in front of him and fainted on the ground. After looking at the bartender again to make sure he had made the right choice, Yin Xiu handed over an ice bucket from the bar and said, "Wake him up." Of course the bartender would not hold back in this matter. He took the ice bucket and poured it on Iron Man's face. I don’t know if he was awakened by the ice water or the ice cubes, but Iron King Kong suddenly sat up from the ground. He was still in a daze at this time and rubbed the big bump on his head under his brown hair. "What, what's the situation?" "Nothing, I just want to ask you something." Yin Xiu grinned. This smile was simply creepy to Iron King Kong, just like a butcher discussing which lamb was the best looking with people by the fence. He subconsciously wanted to escape, but as soon as he touched the ground twice, his whole body flew into the air, leaving only his feet flapping unwillingly in the air. Yin Xiu held him in one hand and held a wine glass in the other. He asked casually, "I heard that there is nothing you don't know about Gaotan, right? You are the gossip-monger in this city. Even mice will tell you the news they see." “I’m very afraid of mice.” Tie Jin Gang waved his hands repeatedly, "What I mean is, I'm not a private detective. There may be some things I can't help you two bosses with." "Oh?" Yoon-soo narrowed his eyes at him. "You know what? I've always heard that North America is a place that values efficiency. Smart people are welcome here, and stupid people also have a place. The only thing is that those useless people will soon disappear from this city. Those people will appear in the sewers, at the estuary, or in an ice storage somewhere."
Seeing that Tie Jin Gang was still thinking, Yin Xiu shook his wrist again, and a terrible sound came from between his fingers. "I think you understand what I mean, right?" "But, but no one in this city will kill an intelligence dealer." Iron King Kong was still struggling. "I'm not from this city. I'm just passing by here. When you're walking, you just kick a stray dog to death on the roadside. Will others blame you?" Yin Xiu's eyes became colder and colder. "Ask as much as you want, ask as much as you want. Even if you ask me where my mother is, I will tell you without hesitation, boss!" Iron Man finally begged for mercy. "It's obvious that you love your mother very much." Yin Xiu put him on the bar stool, and Tie Jin Gang's legs dangled on it, not touching the ground. "I'm looking for a Tang person, or a few Tang people." Yoon-soo took out a glass, poured a glass of whiskey and handed it to him. "Tang people?" By this time, Tie Jin Gang's face had regained its color, and only a professional expression was visible on his face. "To be honest, I rarely see Tang people in Gaotan. Generally, the Tang people who appear here are either rich or noble. I occasionally met a few of them at the door of a nightclub. They were dressed elegantly and brought their unremarkable female companions. As soon as they came out of the nightclub, they got into a carriage and left. It was very mysterious. I heard that these Chinese people live in a certain place on Long Island, where some Chinese people bought houses and formed a community there, and also built walls and gates so that ordinary people can't enter. " Luo Wei wrote down the information that Tie Jin Gang said, but he felt that this person was not the one they were looking for, so he asked again, "Anything else?" "besides?" Tie Jin Gang took a sip of wine and frowned because of the spicy taste of whiskey. "And? Oh, there's a martial arts school in Brooklyn, owned by a Tang man, that teaches people Wing Chun. I heard that not only Orientals, but also many white people go there to learn. The master's surname seems to be Liang. Maybe you know him, because you are both very good at fighting. " Then he asked gloomily, "Are all Tang people good at fighting? They beat ten people at a time?" Yin Xiu did not intend to answer his stereotype. After seeing Luo Wei write down this information in the notebook again, he knocked on the bar. "Are there any very special or weird Tang people?" "Evil?" Tie Jin Gang stroked his chin and said, "I heard that in Jinshan, there is a Tang man who always wins every time he gambles. Isn't that weird?" "It's not evil, it's just that the cheating method is sophisticated." Yin Xiu shook his head. Tie Jin Gang continued to think, "Then I heard that there is a Chinese man in Brooklyn who wears a turban on his head. The fried rice he makes glows. Is this weird?" "Fluorescent powder. He added fluorescent powder to the rice." Yin Xiu still shook his head, "This is not weird, but it is a bit weird that someone didn't die after eating it."
"There's a very beautiful woman in the opera house in Queens. When she goes out, butterflies fly around her and land on her. Isn't that weird?" "She just sweats a lot, but she's not evil." Tie Jin Gang really couldn't figure it out, "Then Boss, what kind of people do you think are evil?" "Did I ask you to find someone, or did you ask me to find someone?" Yin Xiu rolled his eyes at him and said helplessly, "It's that kind of Taoist priest, someone who knows Taoist magic, you know?" "Taoism? Taoist priest?" Tie Jin Gang recited these two words and didn't react for a moment. "Well," Yin Xiu changed the words, "Mysticism, those who engage in mysticism, whether you regard them as magicians or alchemists, are there such people?" "Alchemist? Occult?" Tie Jin Gang frowned and fell into deep thought. Yin Xiu and Luo Wei looked at each other and read the same meaning in each other's eyes - this is almost the end. Even though Iron King Kong claims to know everything, it seems a little difficult for him to find a mysterious Taoist priest. It’s just because when Taoists don’t wear Taoist robes, they are often no different from ordinary people. For example, Uncle Ming, if he didn't wear a Taoist robe, he would just be an old man selling glutinous rice. And the majestic Senior Brother A Sheng, was actually a fishmonger in the vegetable market. Even Ma Xiaoyu, who was the Heavenly Master of the Ma family, could not be associated with a Taoist priest on normal days. "Let's go." After shouting at Luo Wei, Yin Xiu took out a few more bills from his pocket and stuffed them into Iron King Kong's chest pocket. "I'm your doctor. If you think of anything, remember to contact me." As soon as he finished speaking, Iron King Kong jumped down from the bar stool. "I remember! I remember! There is such a person. If you can't sleep in the middle of the night and always dream of strange things, go to him. He will give you some water mixed with talisman ash to drink, and you will go back and sleep better than a pig. Is this weird? There was a person who made other people who lived in his house either have a fever or have nightmares. But when he was asked to go over and change the position of the sofa and the bed, all problems disappeared. Isn't this weird? There is a person who often makes women's noises, or talks about things he didn't know before, and is a bit nervous. But after a while, he goes to his place and comes back feeling better. Isn't that weird?" Yin Xiu and Luo Wei smiled at each other. "It's so weird, it's simply too weird." (End of this chapter)