"Ah." Hearing Stark's question, Daphne also turned her eyes and nodded.

"You guessed right. There are no rules in the Seda stronghold; you can burn, kill, and plunder.

"However, there are some special restrictions. These are the rules set by the Seda stronghold owner.

"First of all, in Seda stronghold, if you don't like each other, you can kill the other party. However, you must go to the dueling house that is set in the Seda stronghold.

"The dueling house is huge. There is no surveillance equipment in there. Two people who are in conflict can fight however they want. There are no restrictions, and they can use all kinds of sinister methods.

"But no matter what, in the end, only one person can walk out of the dueling house."

The dueling house in such a place was indeed so cruel.

Stark nodded slightly after hearing that.

Then, Daphne continued.

"After the first point, the second point is that you can lie to anyone in this stronghold, but you can't lie about the stronghold getting surrounding or being besieged.

"In this case, once the base finds out, it will punish you severely. Usually, it will cut off your hands and feet and throw them into the zombie crowd.

"As for the last point, the third point is that you can't offend the founder of this base.

"If you show disrespect to the owner of this base, you can either get out of the base or be killed on the spot.

"Stark, you must remember these three points. Otherwise, if something goes wrong, I won't be able to protect you."

After saying this, Daphne looked at Stark and reminded him sincerely.

"Yes, I know." Stark nodded.

However, although he agreed on the surface, he did not care about this so-called stronghold at all in his heart.

He would still abide by the rules of the stronghold.

However, if the stronghold really wanted to attack him due to certain circumstances, he would not mind removing one of the top ten strongholds in Manhattan from the world.

"Alright, I know the rules you mentioned."

Stark did not keep her in suspense. He directly said to Daphne, "The reason I came here is for the auction house. You can tell me the route, and I'll go there myself."

"Ah? Why? Do you have anything to auction? It's fine. I'm free. I can take you there!" Daphne immediately responded, indicating that she was willing to take the initiative to lead the way with Stark.

"Not really." Stark shook his head and took out a blueprint. He said to Daphne, "Can you help me collect information about this treasure map fragment?

"If you have it, inform me immediately."

Daphne glanced at the blueprint in Stark's hand. However, when she looked at it, she was shocked.

Wasn't this the item that was activated after the treasure map event: The Treasure Map Fragment?

How did Stark obtain it?

Could it be that he obtained it from the elephant-splitting zombie that he killed previously?

Although she was puzzled, these weren't things that she should be concerned about. After looking at the fragment of the treasure map, she immediately nodded at Stark and said.

"No problem, Mr. Stark. I'll keep an eye out for you."

After Daphne agreed to this matter, Stark also felt relieved. With Daphne worrying for him, he had indeed saved himself a lot of trouble.

Then, he raised his second purpose to Daphne.

"Daphne, I have another thing to trouble you with.

"That is, I want to find out some information. As far as you know, is there any place where we can exchange and gather clues?

"If there is, you can bring me to take a look."

Daphne, who realized what Stark was talking about, immediately nodded and said, "No problem. There is. This place is called a market gathering here.

"There are many people at the market gathering every day. Most of them are there to relax and join in the fun after killing the Transcendent creatures.

"Under such circumstances, there are also many information peddlers. These people sell the information of the Transcendent creatures to the people who need them by recording all the equipment and information they have gathered.

"I'll take you there now."

"Okay," answered Stark.

Daphne then led Stark in a particular direction in the stronghold.

There were quite a number of people at the entrance of the stronghold.

After passing through the crowd and walking for a few minutes, soon, Stark and Daphne arrived at another crowded place.

The atmosphere here was very lively. A large number of people were sitting in the tavern, drinking beer and chatting about the interesting things they had encountered recently or how they had escaped from the hands of powerful Transcendent creatures.

There was no link to their conversations.

Stark went straight to the bar owner.

According to Daphne, the owner of this bar was an information peddler.

"Hello, boss. Do you have any recent clues about mutated monsters?"

Stark's voice sounded above the guy's head.

The bar owner, who was pouring wine, reacted. He knew that business had come. The corners of his mouth curled up as he said, "Dear customer, I believe you are also looking for information about mutated monsters because of the recent treasure map event.

"Then you have come to the right person. I do have such information.

"But... I wonder what price will you pay?"

Stark said, "50 crystals, how about it?"

"50 crystals, that's too little. I bought this information for 180 crystals!" The tavern owner immediately showed an unhappy expression.

However, he also made a concession to Stark. "How about this? I don't want more from you. Just give me 200 crystals, and I'll sell the clue to you. How about that?"

"Deal," Stark said and transferred the 200 crystals to his account.

At this moment, he still had 50,000 crystals left after strengthening his skills. These 200 crystals were simply not worth mentioning.

He had planned to buy these clues with 500 crystals.

Looking at Stark's straightforwardness, the boss opened his eyes wide and knew that he had been tricked.

At the same time, he regretted not asking Stark for more points.

But he had no choice. Since the deal was done, he was too embarrassed to say anything. He directly told Stark the information he knew.

"The place I mentioned isn't far from here.

"After you leave this Seda stronghold, look for an abandoned car. Keep going east for about 120 miles. There's a mountain range in the wild. It's now called the demonic mountain range. There are many ghosts there!

"Just this morning. I just received news that dozens of ghosts had mutated there.

"But I'm still kind enough to remind you. I know that you went there to kill these mutated Transcendent creatures to obtain more treasure map fragments.

"However, I'm not the only one who knows this news. There are already quite a number of Transcendent humans rushing to that mountain range."

"I see that there are you and the girl next to you. If you're not strong enough, you'd better be careful where you go. Otherwise, it's very likely that you'll be robbed by those Transcendent humans and eventually become a dead soul under their blades."

At the end of his sentence, looking at Stark and Daphne, the tavern owner said kindly.