Chapter 538 Revenge (5)
Liduo thought about it again and again. The Star Mercenary Group is currently just a pure military group. If Liduo is not counted, its strength can only be considered moderate. It is completely incomparable with the strength exposed by the Lei family. Therefore, it is not realistic to confront the Lei family in an all-round way, let alone destroy the Lei family.
Liduo can indeed kill all the leaders of the Lei family personally, and then the Lei family will be on the verge of destruction, without Liduo having to do anything.
But if this happens, the main city of Tianjing will probably fall into chaos for a long period of time, which will be a disaster for many ordinary people who work hard to live in the main city of Tianjing.
Because whether it is the power vacuum that causes the Lei family's original subordinates to start fighting for power, or other forces taking this opportunity to swallow up the Lei family's industry, fighting and chaos are inevitable.
Since the Star Mercenary Group cannot swallow these benefits, it is simply making wedding clothes for others and will lead to such bad consequences, so it is better not to do it.
So Liduo decided not to make a move on the Lei family's regular industries. After all, the Lei family's regular industries were too deeply rooted in the main city of Tianjing.
Then we can only take action against the Lei family’s underground industries, but it is also not realistic to deal with all three industries, the underground black market, the underground auction house, and the underground arena, at the same time. We can only choose one. Which industry is more appropriate to attack?
Finally, Lido decided to take action against the underground arena.
Among the three industries, what Lido hated the most was the underground arena, because it was truly hell on earth!
Regardless of whether it is the underground black market or the underground auction house, although they are the industries of the Lei family, they actually have interests in many forces, and the underground black market and the underground auction house can be said to complement each other. Even the underground arena and the underground auction house are inextricably linked.
Of course, the main reason why Liduo did not choose these two industries is that as long as there are no major problems with the Lei family, even if Liduo takes down the underground black market and underground auction house, the Lei family will be able to rebuild quickly, it’s just a matter of moving to a more secretive place.
However, you can leak the news of the underground auction house to the City Lord’s Mansion. No, you should first tell the people at the official auction house and see their reaction. If they are indifferent, then find a way to leak the news to the City Lord’s Mansion.
After all, Li Duo was also worried that some people in the official auction house were in collusion with the Lei family to give rise to this underground auction house, because no matter from which angle you look at it, the Lei family is too bold...
Well, we can first leak the news about the underground auction house, observe the reactions of the official auction house and the City Lord's Mansion, and at the same time, find out the detailed information about the underground arena.
Lido spent a whole week monitoring the underground arena and found that the management of the underground arena was very strict and every aspect was carefully considered.
For example, if a guest wants to enter, he not only needs to buy an admission ticket, but also needs to show a special badge before he can buy the ticket. This should serve as an invitation letter. A stranger without a badge needs to be guaranteed by someone with the badge before he can buy a ticket and enter. Only when the stranger has been guaranteed to enter three times and has spent money in the arena can he get a badge that belongs to him exclusively.
It seems that the underground arena has very high requirements for guest screening and confidentiality, and even uses a recommendation system. I believe that when the underground arena first opened, the Lei family must have spent a lot of effort to select guests who would definitely be interested in the underground arena and send out the initial invitation badges.
Then there are various duels in the arena, including fights between various beasts, fights between ordinary people, fights between ordinary people and beasts, fights between summoners and monsters, fights between summoners, two-person fights, and multi-person fights.
Among them, the fights between summoners and between summoners and Warcraft are divided into fights of the same level and fights across levels, and are also divided into unarmed fights and weapon fights.
There were no fights involving monsters, probably because monsters were too conspicuous and easily noticed, and also because monsters were difficult to control and highly dangerous. It would be bad if the dark magic elements hurt the distinguished guests.
Likewise, there are very few fights between summoners and Warcraft, because Warcraft is also not so easy to catch. It is not easy to find Warcraft, and it is even more difficult to capture it alive.
Therefore, the most common fight in the underground arena is the fight between people, while the fight between summoners, especially the fight between high-level summoners, is the hottest show, with not only a large number of spectators but also a large number of bettors.
In order to increase the intensity of the battle, every fight in the Colosseum would not end until one side completely lost its fighting power and fell down. Basically, the loser was dead, which shows the cruelty of the Colosseum.
Of course, there are only one or two fights between summoners every day. After all, the number of summoners cannot withstand large-scale consumption.
Lido also roughly found out the origins of the people participating in the fights, which deepened her disgust for the Lei family. They were simply inhumane!
Some of the ordinary people who participated in the arena were slaves of the Lei family who had made mistakes, some owed debts to the Lei family and were unable to repay and had to sell themselves thinking they would become slaves but were sent directly to the arena, some were secretly abducted by the Lei family from other places, and there were even a few ordinary members of the Lei family!
The Lei family actually has an elf hunting team in secret! With wild elves not appearing these days, their hunting targets are obvious! Kidnapping ordinary people is just a side job for them!
It goes without saying where the spoils of this elf hunting team went. They went to three places: the underground black market, the underground auction house, and the underground arena.
The items on the bodies of the slain summoners were sold on the black market, the remains of the living elves and the elves that died in battle were sold at auctions, and the captured ordinary people were sent to the arena!
There are several sources of summoners who participate in the gladiatorial contests. One of them is the summoners from the forces under the Lei family.
Liduo discovered that these people did not participate in the gladiatorial contest voluntarily. Let’s put it this way, these summoners were all members of small forces recruited by the Lei family, and they were already "dead" in the outside world!
How did the Lei family do it? First, they broke up the small forces they had recruited and assigned them to various parts of the family. Then they ordered them to complete some difficult tasks. In order to complete these tasks, it was inevitable that some people would get injured. The injured had to go to the Lei family's medical center for treatment, and then they were taken to the arena. They were told that they were seriously injured and died, and then they were cremated.
This seems to have become the Lei family's tried and tested tactic. Although not everyone who goes to the medical department for treatment is taken to the arena, the probability of coming out of the medical department alive is only half, which is already very cruel!
For the Lei family, the value of the recruited summoners is squeezed to the extreme. They work for the Lei family during their lifetime, and are deprived of their identity and freedom by the Lei family after being injured. They are forced to fight in the arena to create profits for the Lei family. After their death, their own elves will become hot commodities in the Lei family auction. It can be said that oil is squeezed out of their bones!
This shows that being recruited by the Lei family means heading down a road of no return.
The general public would be deceived by the Lei family's appearance, but other forces in the main city of Tianjing should have noticed it, so after the Lei family came out to recruit the Star Mercenary Group, no other forces came to recruit them.
In addition, there were also summoners who participated in the gladiatorial arena who, like the Star Mercenaries, refused the Lei family's recruitment and were ambushed by the Lei family and were caught in the arena without anyone noticing.
Some were lured in by the Lei family with high rewards, and once they came in, they couldn't leave.
There are so many things, one by one, that it is hard to list them all!
Some people may ask, the captured summoners have power in their hands, why don't they resist? Why don't they attack the spectators instead of fighting each other as the arena wishes?
According to what Lido perceived, all summoners who participated in the gladiatorial fights were given drugs that confused their minds and were shackled after being sent to the arena, so they could not summon elves at all.
Only before they were about to fight would they remove the shackles, remove the confusing potion and inject a potion that would increase fighting spirit, so that when the two combatants saw each other, they would only see the other side in a frenzy of fighting.
The people who escorted the gladiators were all masters. During the fights, the stands and the arena were separated by obsidian material, so the gladiators in the arena could not hurt the spectators at all.
Therefore, for a summoner who has entered the arena, the possibility of escape is basically zero!
Lido has memorized the identities and appearances of all the guests who came to the Colosseum for fun these days, and also found the location of the hunting team by following the whereabouts of the elf hunting team members who sent people to the Colosseum.
Lido decided to destroy the elf hunting team and everyone in the underground arena except the gladiators who were forced to participate in the fights. They were all scum with blood and sin on their hands, and their death did not deserve a pity!
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