674 “Supplier” and "Intermediary"

The boss of the Bubblegum Gang, who was the short, bald old man whom Luke had killed first, had inherited some of his master's habits. One of them was that he didn't like surveillance.

This villa was their daily residence. They probably didn't want to live under surveillance.

Walking closer to the villa, Luke narrowed his eyes at a pair of enormous stone sculptures at the entrance.

They were statues of two dogs!

Their ears were long, their mouths drooped, and they had horse-like faces. They looked very simple and honest.

These were bloodhounds, also known as St. Hubert hounds and one of the oldest hunting dogs.

It had an extremely developed sense of smell. It could even track a scent from two weeks ago, and over long distances. The record for the longest scent tracked was 220 kilometers.

It wasn't a rare dog, but Luke had seen tattoos of this dog head quite a few times before.