"Jaws Gang?"

In the Three-legged Sea Dog Tavern, Hera stood behind the counter, supporting herself with both hands on the tabletop, her body leaning slightly forward, revealing an elegantly sun-kissed clavicle beneath her collar.

Her crystal clear emerald eyes gazed at Xia Nan in front of her.

Due to her basic professional ethics related to informants, although she was vaguely curious about why he suddenly asked about this, she refrained from asking for the reason with great restraint.

After all, it wasn’t valuable information and you could get the gist by casually asking around any tavern in the Saltwater District. She just planned to make a summary, thinking of forming good relations with the young professional in front of her, so she didn’t even ask for an intelligence fee.

Instead, she let Xia Nan personally pour her a glass of "Tears of the Sea Siren" that she hadn’t had the chance to finish drinking.

Raising the glass for a sip, Hera squinted slightly and tucked the dark green strands of hair beside her cheek behind her ear before she slowly began her introduction:

"The Jaws Gang is a small gang in the Saltwater District, their main territory roughly extends southeast of Crooked Alley to the area near Ropeway Street..."

It was completely different from what Xia Nan had anticipated.

The "Jaws Gang," suspected of kidnapping Baron Farrow’s daughter, couldn’t even be considered a major force in Suo Yu Bay. Forget about the golden location near Wave-breaking Pier, they couldn’t even touch one of the main roads in the Saltwater District like "Ropeway Street".

They could only swagger around a crude neighborhood near Crooked Alley.

Moreover, according to Hera’s revelation, the core members of the Jaws Gang are three to five low-level professionals.

Even the gang leader "Jaws" Lailo’s professional level wouldn’t exceed Level 5.

Hera was very certain about this.

On one hand, given the ambition and conduct displayed by the Jaws Gang over time, if Lailo had broken through the boundaries of a low-level adventurer and reached above Level 5, his subordinates couldn’t possibly remain as "low-key" as they are now and would have started probing various directions to expand their territories.

On the other hand, Hera’s channel had a face-to-face encounter with "Jaws" Lailo last month due to some financial exchanges, which allowed them to assess his strength level.

This was very puzzling.

Xia Nan was puzzled and even wondered if he and Hai Yin had made a mistake.

Perhaps "Blood-nosed Rat" Jerry was indeed telling the truth; he actually assisted a few people from the Jaws Gang by keeping watch this morning, and the gang members indeed kidnapped someone.

However, the person they kidnapped wasn’t actually Baron Farrow’s daughter Ai Li, but rather another unlucky individual.

It was just that the timing was quite coincidental, coinciding with the recent disappearance case of the baron’s daughter, which led to the current situation due to a twist of fate involving Xia Nan and his team.

Otherwise, there’s no reason to explain why such a small, lower-level gang organization would dare to kidnap the town’s special approval officer and baron’s biological daughter in a place like Suo Yu Bay.

Meanwhile, Xia Nan also let out a sigh of relief.

Luckily, they were just low-level professionals. If there had been an Extraordinary Strong Level 10 opponent involved, he would have had to reconsider whether to postpone the plan and dive in after an increase in strength, even if it involved the Secret Realm.

Regardless, even if the Jaws Gang has nothing to do with Baron Farrow’s daughter, the [Surgical Knife] that definitely came from the Secret Realm is a fact and worth pursuing for Xia Nan.

"Do you have any intelligence regarding the core residence of the Jaws Gang? I can pay for it."

In response, Hera merely waved her hand, downed the remaining half of the drink in her glass in one gulp, then placed the empty glass back on the tabletop, and pushed it toward Xia Nan, signaling for him to fill it again.

"Such intelligence isn’t worth a few copper coins; just remember to collaborate with me more in the future."

Xia Nan glanced at Hera, who was smiling brightly at him from across, not saying a word, but just nodded gently and grabbed the wine bottle to fill her glass up again.

Initially, he might have felt puzzled, but it was when Hera introduced the information about the Jaws Gang to Xia Nan earlier. Her sensibility, developed over years in the intelligence industry, led her to some guesses in her heart.

She, of course, recognized the woman who came back with Xia Nan earlier, Hai Yin, a rare spellcaster.

Hera knew that Hai Yin was a druid from the Coral Association and was clearly aware of the relationship between the Coral Association and Baron Farrow.

Now, with the baron’s daughter missing, Hai Yin hurried upstairs upon returning, apparently looking for teammates, and Xia Nan, who returned to the tavern with her for unknown reasons, asked her about the Jaws Gang’s intelligence right away.

Connections formed invisibly in her mind, and if she couldn’t guess the relations, there was no point in her staying in this line of work. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Having learned from Hera the address of the Jaws Gang’s core base, even though he knew in his heart if they indeed kidnapped the baron’s daughter, they most likely wouldn’t stay in their hideout, it was still a clue. Xia Nan expressed his gratitude to the tavern owner in front of him.

"Oh, if Alton comes back first, please leave him a message for me and tell him not to worry."

When Xia Nan returned to the tavern earlier, the half orc Alton was no longer there.

According to Hera, he was off at a casino again.

For Xia Nan, the reason he got involved in this event was entirely due to the Secret Realm, which was a personal matter of his own.

It’s true that the little guy and he were good friends, but precisely because of that, Xia Nan didn’t want this lively character to be dragged into something unrelated to him, increasing the danger unnecessarily.