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Although just across the river from downtown, Riverfront is one of Samsara's most dangerous community rallying areas, in part because the river separates it from Chamber of Commerce territory. To make matters worse, the riverside slum borders the most dangerous part of the quarantine area.

Decades ago, the Chamber of Commerce would still patrol the streets here, but when the undead and living corpses created by the founder of the gravediggers, Jean Aostaat, began to wreak havoc from here and nearly engulfed the entire town of Samsara, the Riverside became a serious problem for the Chamber of Commerce.

The Chamber simply withdrew from the riverside district and set up defensive checkpoints on three bridges in the area. These checkpoints ensure that anything entering the riverfront from the quarantine zone cannot cross the river and disturb the citizens of the downtown or South New District.

The guards guarding the checkpoint will not prevent residents from entering and leaving the area, but they will also not deal with the crimes that are happening in front of them. As they say, the inhabitants of this place are on their own.

Despite the dangers and poverty of the riverside slums, the people living in the riverside have managed to carve out lucrative careers for themselves.

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riverside area occupies the upper reaches of the time canal, and there are often some strange, bizarre, and precious ancient relics in the time canal that connects the Shifeng basin, which flows into the Shifeng canal from the Shifeng area, and at the same time, this river is also the main road for smuggling certain valuables!

The people of the riverside area take advantage of the natural geographical advantage, rely on the water for draft, rely on the abundant resources in the canal and smuggling to make a living, and often see representatives or officials of the chamber of commerce going to the riverside to obtain the goods they need or buy illegal goods smuggled in.

The Riverside Flea Market is famous for selling items salvaged from the Temp Canal.

This flea market is filled with all sorts of genuine and fakes, and it takes a keen eye and enough negotiation skills to tell them apart.

This is exactly how Hassen Faber makes a living.

He spent more than a decade working at the Riverside Flea Market, where merchants called people like Hasen brokers, and Hassen called himself an "antique hunter".

"Hassan, Hassan!" Hasan Farber searched the street for a shout behind him, and he didn't have to look back to hear the distinctive shrill voice of the antique dealer Fazioli.

Hassan turned around and saw a stocky, pointy-nosed Fazioli catching up with an item wrapped in sackcloth.

"Hasson, good thing!" Fazioli swept the items in his hand and winked at Hasan Farber, "Come to my shop, let's have a good taste!"

Hasenm nodded silently and followed behind Fazioli.

Fazioli Giovinco runs an antique shop in the riverside district, just down the street next to the flea market, covering a large area, which is passed down from his ancestors, and Hasen also grew up on that street, and the difference in identity did not prevent the two from becoming friends, Hasan often takes tourists to visit the Fazioli antique shop, and the antiques in the store are about five times the cost price. 'Sell at a low price' to customers, you know, the antiques and items salvaged in the riverside area are generally at a premium of ten or fifteen times, and Hasen and Fazioli insist on only five times the premium, which has earned them a lot of good reputation!

Arriving at the antique shop, where there were no customers, Fazioli placed the items on the table and ripped the linen open to reveal an intricately shaped music box.

Hassan picked up a magnifying glass and studied the appearance of the music box while asking, "Where did you get it?"

"Levitas got it this morning!" replied Fazioli, "he said it was from at least the Great Rift!"

Hassan let out a contemptuous breath from his nose, "What can't you say from Levitas' mouth, how much did it cost to have such an elaborate clockwork mechanical product during the Great Rift?"

"15 Chamber of Commerce Coins!" Fazio's color changed, "I've been deceived again?".

"Not really!" Hassan fiddled with the music box, "Not at the price!".

He took the music box in his hand and studied it over and over again, "Although it is not a product of the Great Rift period, it is also decades old, and this clockwork process was the mainstream craft forty or fifty years ago, by driving a steady speed mechanism through the gear set, so that the internal cam drum rotates at a constant speed." "

"When the cam drum turns, the bumps in turn run over the edges of the soundboard, plucking the reeds and producing a series of preset notes to form a melody. "

Hazen is not a 'hunter of antiques', and he can talk so well about this ancient music box, Fazioli nods his head when he listens.

"However, due to technical limitations, the movement of the music box cylinder speed controlled at that time was not very accurate, and it was generally between 17 and 30 seconds in a turn, and only the main part of a piece could be expressed. So to finally identify the age of the music box, you only need to verify how long it has played music, and many people who make fakes tend to ignore this detail!

Hassan opened the lid of the music box, made a "huh" sound, and leaned forward to take a closer look, "There are words here!".

Fazioli leaned over and asked, "What was written?"

"To my beloved daughter, Catherine! D!" Hasson read out the lettering engraved on the inside side of the music box.

"Catherine? D?" Fazioli remembers in his mind whether there is a name named K. D's celebrities.

Hassan didn't think much about it, he reached out and grabbed the crankshaft on the side of the music box, and did not rush to turn, but sighed and praised: "The texture and feel are good, well-made, according to the standard of that era, this music box is K· D spent a lot of money to make it!".

He began to turn the crankshaft slowly and carefully, although the music box is well preserved, after all, it is a product of more than forty years ago, and it is difficult to guarantee that the internal mainspring has aged, and if you try too hard, it may cause damage!

To Hassen's surprise, the music box worked smoothly, and a melodious and elegant piece of music sounded softly from the music box.

Listening to the music, Hassan and Fazioli fell into a certain quiet and strange atmosphere, and neither of them spoke, until dozens of seconds later, when the music stopped abruptly, and the two suddenly came back to their senses.

"Not bad!" said Hassan, "You've picked up something good, and you can sell it to the old men in Uptown for a good price!"

"They say I've got a lot of eyes, and I've got a talent for it!" Fazioli smirked as he put the music box away.

Hazen chatted with him again and left the antique shop, after which he was hired by a certain lord in the upper town to go out of town to identify antiques for him, and when he returned to the riverside a week later, he received news of Fazioli's disappearance.