Chapter 172: Chapter 172 - In the Slums
This is Baloerin City, the city of nightmares.
The name was given to this city not because of the evil things that haunted this place nor because of the endless people crying for help.
It was because this city was a city for no dreams. Or in fact a city that works and works all day long.
The residents that stay here work overtime not because they have to but because they want to.
In hopes of climbing out of poverty most people drown themselves in the endless nightmare of working for those that only profit from them.
In the streets of the city which was now filled with the dirt of many people going through this place, there was a commotion.
A lot of people came to see this commotion. They came and grouped and then broke away to only come back and regroup to see this commotion again.
What was the commotion?
The commotion was that there was a very rich looking car in the streets.
So does that mean there aren't cars like this going on in this street?
No. In fact there are a lot of cars like this that go through the streets and people also gather there to look at it. And only look at it.
Because they work a lot of time and don't have much time for themselves, they often tend to look at the simplest of things outside.
Like the blue Halls-Royz Phantom that seems to roll into the street.
The people saw the car and only looked at it without any other intentions and then they slowly faded into the background like they were supposed to.
And just like that the people of this city went on… to work another nightmarish shift.
As the blue Halls-Royz Phantom rode on the streets, another thing could be noticed about it. And that was that the car wasn't alone. There was another car following behind it.
It was a Sage Hover car. Or more precisely it was the Defender 180 in the Sage Hover brand.
The car was completely black in color. It was a very big car that could seat at least 10 people comfortably. Not only that but it had a battery that could go up to 200 miles per charge.
And to put the cherry on top of it, This car was also bulletproof and had the Mana Blast Proof system as well.
As both the cars rode in the streets none tried to stop either one of them.
One they didn't stop because it had a huge car protecting it from behind.
And another they didn't stop because… It was very scary looking.
So everybody gave way to both the cars as it drove into the slums of the city which made the observing occupants curious.
In the blue Halls-Royz Phantom, there were currently four people in it.
One was the driver, one was the bodyguard, one was a huge hulking man and another was a young boy who didn't quite mix in these group of people.
The boy had a glass tablet on his hands that he seemed to play with vigorously. He sometimes turned it left and then right and then his face would become angry like he had lost some kind of game.
The boy was William who had an annoyed face at the current moment as he looked at the view on the tablet.
He snickered in anger as he looked at the tab, "Damn! I think the drone lost contact of him."
"Is that so? Why don't you give me that and let me see if I can do anything about it?" The man sitting next to him, Delmar said to William.
William snickered again looking at the tab before giving it to the big man who started typing in the tab rapidly without any end to it.
After a moment of clicking away on the tab, Delmar had a smile as he said, "Got him."
"Where is he?" William said as his interest got piqued.
Delmar showed him the tab and pointed at a specific location. William couldn't understand what the tab was saying so he took it and looked at it carefully.
But even after careful concentration he still couldn't understand what it was saying, so he called out to the man in front of him.
"Carl, Can you understand which place this is?" William said and pointed the man to the tablet.
The man was big in size and had a bulky physique. He wore a black designer suit and had a 79 Gluger Assault Rifle strapped to him.
The man was Carl Koch, who was the current leader of the group of team hired to protect William.
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Carl took the tablet and his professional eyes glazed at the map on the tablet for a moment before he quickly understood and gave the tablet back while saying,
"The location it's showing is in the slums. We just have to go straight and take some turns before we arrive at the place."
"Alright then, George you heard the man. Go where he said and make sure not to hurt these… people that are walking like zombies."
William looked out the windshield to see people looking at them and walking slowly like they had no life in them.
"Hah! What people do for some money." Delmar said and looked back to the tablet.
A few moments later, the car drove into a part of town where there weren't many people on the streets and those that were there, had ragged clothes and sullen body figures.
William looked at the people and then at the buildings which were festered with people like them and gave a heavy sigh.
'No matter which world it is, the situation for the lesser group of people will always remain as destitute as this.'
Then he looked towards the numerous people on the streets and asked.
"So how are we going to find him like this?"
Delmar looked out the window shield and said, "Yes, it will indeed be a hassle to find him among this crowd."
William looked at the empty figures of the people and suddenly he had an idea.
"How about we do this?"
In the slums of the Baloerin City, there were somewhere around 5000 people who had the cursed fate of being born into Class D.
These people cursed that word everyday as they lived on another day in pain and agony.
Some tried to kill themselves, while others waited for the one next to them to die so that they could eat them.
In this group of people there was someone who blended into them like he was born with them. He too had a sullen figure as he thought about food.
Suddenly there was a huge commotion.
"FOOD! GET YOUR FREE FOOD OVER HERE!
FREE FOOD FOR EVERYBODY!"
The man looked and saw there was a caravan giving food to these sad groups of people and thought that it was another charity organization.
He got up from his place and walked weakly and joined the line of people.
And after a few hours of waiting in the long line he was finally able to get to the front.
But instead of food he found something else.
"I finally found you."
"Most Wanted Criminal - Adam Snider"