Inside the cargo box, there was nothing but piles of yellow sand and rocks, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Given their identities, the members of the Cao Gang naturally didn't dare to obstruct them easily. They led them around the water pavilion stained black by oil residues, and then a fortress-like building constructed from enormous shipwrecked keel and rough slabs appeared in front of them.
This was "Shunfeng Hall", the headquarters of the Cao Gang in the Capital.
Even before approaching, the air became turbid and stagnant.
The salty taste of the water mist, the smell of silt from the river bottom, the pungency of poor-quality tobacco, and a faint metallic blood scent mixed together to form a unique "aroma".
The light inside the gate was dim, illuminated by whale oil lamps hanging from the corridor columns.
The dim, flickering flame barely lit up the scene inside the hall:
