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"AAAAAAAAAA!" Adam screamed to the top of his lung as he fell through a wide, cold, and dark metal chute. A couple of minutes passed by as Adam went out from the other side of the chute and landed on top of a pile of colorful animal plushies.

"Welcome to my house Lion or should I say, Adam." An elderly woman greeted him as she slowly walked towards Adam who swam out from the large pile of plushies.

Adam swam up from the pile of plushies to a ceramic tile floor and quickly brushed the top of his head which hits the floor as he slowly stands up to his feet. Adam saw an elderly woman who was walking towards him with both of her hand behind her, the elderly woman was wearing a long bright red dress that has golden embroidery of a large flower that was near her neck.

"How do you know my real name?" Adam asked while looking towards the elderly woman who quickly smiled while staring towards Adam who fixed his jacket.

"There's nothing that I don't know in the Kingdom kid, come on follow me let's talk on the table I don't like to talk while standing around." The elderly woman answered as she turned around and waved towards Adam while she walked away from Adam.

Adam followed the elderly woman while looking around the medium-sized room that he was in. The room has a couple of tall towers of newspapers that was held by a yellow thin rope, a large round wooden table in the middle of the room that has four wooden chairs around it, a large cabinet on the left side of the table that was filled with colorful ceramic tea sets, a small kitchen beside the large ceramic cabinet that have large wooden drawers on top of with a small metal cart beside it, and a large wooden door at the end of the room that has a bright yellow light on top of it.

"Would you like some tea?" The elderly woman asked as she walked towards the small kitchen while looking towards Adam who stands beside the round wooden table.

"Yes please and thank you very much," Adam answered as he looked towards the elderly woman who grabbed a large ceramic teapot from a drawer on top of her head.

The elderly woman looked towards Adam as she poured hot water into the large teapot "Don't just stand there sit down on the chair while I make some tea for both of us.

"Yes ma'am," Adam said as he pulled one of the wooden chairs that were near him and sat down on it, he looked towards the pile of newspapers that were scattered on the table and noticed some of them have parts that have been cut out from.

The elderly woman walked toward Adam while pushing a metal cart that has two ceramic cups and a large ceramic teapot, she stopped beside the table and puts down one of the ceramic cups right in front of Adam and one on the other side of the table.

She poured some tea from the teapot to both of the cups and sat down across Adam "Sorry for the mess I didn't think that a contestant will come here today because the game hasn't even started yet plus no one will know about this place until later in the game, so what kind of information that you want to buy Adam?"

"Information that I want to buy? What do you mean? I don't understand, can you explain what this place is to me? Because I have zero clues." Adam asked as he looked towards the elderly woman who picked up the teacup in front of her.

The elderly woman slowly puts down her ceramic cup on the table after a couple of sips and looked towards Adam with a confused face "So you came here and you don't know what this place is? How did you even found this place?"

"Well I saw a large red exclamation mark on top of this building on the map and so I came here to find out what was the exclamation mark is about, I went to the side of the house and fell down that chute over there after I knock the red door exactly three times," Adam explained while pointing towards the end of the metal chute that was sticking out from the roof.

"Hmmm that is very interesting, so you got a full access map from your Karina. Okay, you're an interesting kid, now let me explain to you what this place is." The elderly woman smiled as she looked towards Adam who slowly picked up the hot ceramic cup that was in front of him.

"How did you know I got the full access map from Karina? I didn't even tell you about that?" Adam asked as he suddenly puts down the ceramic cup on the table.

"You won't be able to find my house this early without that its just impossible, contestants usually found my place after the eight-game because that's where you will need my services." The elderly woman explained while holding her teacup with both of her hands.

"This place is where you can buy pieces of information from me or sell pieces of information to me, but there's one thing that you should know selling a piece of information to me is very very rare nowadays because I have eyes everywhere." The elderly woman explained and smiled towards Adam.

"And I will need Crowns to buy the pieces of information from you right?" Adam asked as he holds his ceramic teacup with both of his hands while looking towards the elderly woman who was smiling at him.

"That's right Adam, the price varies by the value of the pieces of information. It could be cheap as a couple of hundred of Crowns or as expensive as a couple hundred million of Crowns, that's why I was shocked when you're here because you can't afford anything here right now." The elderly woman answered as she picked up her teacup from the table and took a couple of sips from it.

"This is very interesting I like this. Here kid takes this with you, that is one free pass of information which mean I will give you one piece of information for free whatever the price of that information is. Don't use it now safe it, you will need it later trust me." The elderly woman smiled as she reached into her right pocket and puts down a small yellow ticket that has a picture of a dragon in the middle of it right in front of Adam.

"Now scram there's another customer that's waiting for me right now, go to that door that's the exit of this place, and Goodluck." The elderly woman said as she pointed towards the wooden door that was behind her.

"Thank you, ma'am." Adam quickly stands up from his chair while grabbing the ticket, he slightly bowed towards the elderly woman and walked towards the wooden door behind her.

Adam opened the wooden door and saw a small elevator behind the door, he entered the elevator and waved towards the elderly woman as he closed the door. He pressed the only button that was labeled Out on the elevator right side as the elevator quickly went upwards, Adam looked towards his right hand which was holding the yellow ticket "So this is the place that sells and buys information."

TING! The elevator door opened and Adam walked out from it, he looked around and saw that he was in the middle of a large empty alley. He quickly turned around and saw a tall building behind him "This must be the back of those tall walls, what a good day time to go back to my apartment."

"Map," Adam said as a large blue tab appeared in front of his face, he looked around the map and found his apartment that has a small drawing of a house that was colored green on top of it.

"Hmmm is there a GPS on this map? I'm kinda confused about where I am right now. Should I just say GPS?" Adam said as a bright green line appeared on the map that was connected to his house.

"Oh, that works amazing time to go back." Adam smiled as he ran towards his right side.

"He will call me anytime now." The elderly woman said as she slowly lights up a long matchstick with her right hand and pointed inside a long wooden smoke pipe that she was holding with her left hand while staring towards a brown square radio that was sitting on the desk right in front of her.

BEEP! BEEP! The radio suddenly shakes and the elderly woman tapped a red button that was on top of the radio as a static sound came from it "Hello? Can you hear me Owl? Why do we have to use this old machine? This thing is so old! Can't you use a phone?"

"Yes I can hear you loud and clear, this thing is not that old and it's working just fine. Stop complaining." Owl answered as she slowly brought the smoke pipe that was on her left hand to her mouth.

"Are you smoking again? Didn't I tell you to not smoke? It's really not healthy for you Owl you really need to stop smoking because we need you, and sorry I can't visit today because things have been very busy around here." A deep static voice came out from the radio.

"My grandma lived until one hundred and fifty and she was smoking like a truck every single day plus you don't have to come here every week I know you're a very busy man," Owl answered while staring towards the radio.

"No I have to visit you every week it's something that I promised to an old friend, now let's get to the business. Do you think the kid will make it past the first game?" The static voice asked.

"Well I don't have every single piece of information right now but we will see because this is a very interesting one." Owl smiled.