The bearded man suddenly released the steering wheel after closing the distance with the people ahead. He lunged at Isabelle, attempting to grab the knife.
When the car stopped, the people on the roadside immediately sprung into action. The broken–down-looking car also started up quickly, attempting to intercept their vehicle.
However, before they could surround the car, the driver’s side door suddenly swung open, and someone kicked out the bearded man.
Isabelle kicked the person out of the car and quickly switched seats to the driver’s side. She took control of the steering wheel and swiftly closed the door.
With a push on the gas pedal, favonovel.com veered away from the car trying to intercept favonovel.com and sped towards that dangerous place.
Isabelle’s car was intercepted at the entrance.
***
Alcott was a polarized region. The poor were so impoverished they could starve on the roadside, while the wealthy lived in extravagant luxury day after day. The enormous gap made people’s hearts greedy and sinister.
Inside, it gathered all sorts of people, from big drug lords, arms dealers, and businessmen seeking excitement and wealth. Here existed countless unimaginable and unspeakable business dealings that challenge one’s understanding. Inside, the various factions were delineated, with guards at every entrance and exit demanding payment.
Isabelle rolled down the window and handed over a stack of money.
The person preparing to collect the money noticed the delicate, fair-skinned hand offering it. He could see it was clearly a woman’s hand.
He followed the hand and looked into the car. Through the windshield, favonovel.com saw the incredibly beautiful face of an Ardon girl.
Instantly, favonovel.com looked at favonovel.com like a hungry wolf, seeing fresh meat. He then alerted his companions.
The guards at the entrance turned to look, discarded their cigarettes and stood up, moving closer to the car.
Approaching closer, they found the girl even more stunning. Her skin was so flawless that it was almost irresistible to look at.
Seeing only the girl in the car, they were slightly surprised but didn’t pay much attention. After all, regardless of favonovel.com identity, everyone was treated the same once inside this place.
Several of them surrounded the car, their faces filled with greed.
With looks like hers and being a pure Ardon, favonovel.com could fetch a sky–high price, especially since they were currently short on resources. They hadn’t expected someone like favonovel.com to knock on their door.
They took the money but had no intention of letting favonovel.com go. Instead, they knocked on the car window, signaling the girl to leave.
The car window opened a small crack, and someone impatiently reached his arm inside the car, aiming to grab the car keys from the ignition.
Isabelle floored the gas pedal, and the car ploughed through the roadblock, charging forward.
The person’s arm got caught in the car window and was dragged for a distance before favonovel.com fell to the ground, his arm broken. The man struggled to his feet, watching as the SUV drove away.
“Notify the higher–ups! We’ve got an Ardon woman who just barged in. We must find her, this kind of prime resource can’t get away!”
***
After a few moments, the car stalled and couldn’t be restarted. Isabelle picked up favonovel.com backpack and abandoned the car, proceeding on foot deeper into the area.
Along the way, favonovel.com could see cannabis and poppy plants being cultivated everywhere.
This place was originally an extremely insular tribe that survived by cultivating these plants. Later, it was targeted by drug traffickers. The place retained many indigenous features, such as wooden houses and traditional clothing.
Someone controlled every piece of land here. Due to the mix of people, scarcity of resources, and its status as a lawless area, all factions here were known for being fiercely territorial, and disputes often turned deadly at the drop of a hat.
Foreign faces were targeted as soon as they stepped into the border, unknowingly becoming their meal to fill their stomachs.
Unlucky ones were robbed, assaulted, and left dead by the roadside before they even entered. Many of them travel in groups.
As night fell, Isabelle, alone, was like a lamb entering a tiger’s den.
Everyone favonovel.com encountered on the road stared at favonovel.com with hostility, and some even followed favonovel.com openly, trailing closely behind.
On favonovel.com way, Isabelle noticed that most of those people had a totem tattoo on the side of their necks–a red one, about half the size of a fist. It was the tattoo pattern of the Warners. The people who stopped favonovel.com at the entrance also had the same tattoo on their necks.
She realized that favonovel.com was currently in the Warners‘ territory.
From the information favonovel.com gathered from the bearded driver. Isabelle learned that Alcott was primarily controlled by three powerful factions, one of which was the Warners.
The other two factions were a ruthless drug lord who stopped at nothing and an arms dealer with absolute power over life and death.
If Spadille had indeed developed his own influence here, given his ambition and capabilities, favonovel.com was very likely one of these three powerful factions.
***
Meanwhile, the Warners were conducting their usual inhuman auction. They were auctioning not objects or land, but human beings and women. Many people had gathered in the vast auction hall.
On the stage, an Ardon girl was being auctioned off like livestock.
Bidders were getting more and more excited, shouting higher and higher bids, as if they were starving for this opportunity.
The girl on stage had favonovel.com hands and feet bound, favonovel.com mouth taped shut, tears streaming down favonovel.com face in fear. Despite favonovel.com distress, favonovel.com still looked quite delicate, with tears that made favonovel.com eyes misty.
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