Erica followed Ibaraki out of the ice house's warehouse, but her weak body couldn't climb over the high wall of the yard, and she could only look enviously from below as she watched Ibaraki climb up the wall in three or two steps.

"You can think clearly, if you follow me, you will be a thief like me in the future. Ibaraki walked to the other side of the wall and moved the ladder there, and Erica didn't hesitate to hear this, and stretched out her little hand to grab the ladder and climb up step by step.

"I don't belong to this family, maybe it's better to be a thief like Brother Zhenyou. ”

"Then let's go, I'll take you to my house, it's not as good as the big mansion here, but it's better than sleeping on the streets. ”

"Hmm. ”

Early in the morning, when the servants opened the warehouse door, Erica was no longer to be found.

"Mrs. Jinzen, Erica is gone. ”

Tsuzen Himuro seemed relieved to hear the news, as long as Erica was still in this family, she would have to live in the shadow of that incident, and now that she is gone, it is a good thing for herself, Takaya, and the entire Himuro family.

"It's gone, it's gone, that beast can't survive even if he escapes from the ice house, it's winter, let her freeze to death outside, does Xiao get up too......?

It wasn't until morning that Ibaraki and Erica made their way from the Icehouse to a small room in the countryside on the other side of the city.

Pushing open the unlocked door, Erica saw a dilapidated, dim, and damp Santsubo room, which was Ibaraki's home, with only an old quilt and leftover snacks and drinks piled up in the corner, not even a decent piece of furniture.

"Ah~ The window was blown open again. Ibaraki walked to the window and picked up the newspaper on the ground that had been blown in half by the cold wind, "You can rest here, I'll go and borrow some newspaper from the landlord, that guy lives in the city, so he won't be back until about noon." ”

"Oh. Erica walked into the house after Ibaraki left, it looked even worse than the warehouse she had lived in, but for some reason, she felt at home like she had never felt before, the cold of her body was never as cold as the cold in her heart, and gradually, she got used to the temperature, but her head became heavier and heavier.

"Erica, hey! Erica!"

I don't know how long it took, but Ibaraki's voice woke Erica in a coma, she had no strength in her body, her brain was swollen as if it was about to explode, and her nose was so stuffed that she could only breathe through her mouth.

"You're finally awake, I've been calling you for a long time, are you okay?"

Ibaraki immediately sensed that something was wrong, and immediately tested the temperature of her forehead with his hand.

"Wow, that's hot! You have a fever?!"

With Ibaraki's economic conditions, let alone going to the hospital, it is difficult to even buy some fever reducers, so Erica had to pretend to be okay and shook her head: "It's okay, there are common things, and it will be fine soon." ”

"No, you can't go out with me to steal things like this, I'll take you to the hospital. ”

"But Brother Zhenyou, don't you have no money......

"I borrowed some from the landlord just now, of course I have to pay it back, and when you get better, we'll go and pay him back when we get the money. Ibaraki reached into his pocket and pulled out a few bills from inside.

There are no clinics in the countryside where they live, and they have to go to the city to find a larger hospital, which is not enough money for hospitalization, but it should be possible to simply buy some medicine.

"Brother Zhenyou, what did you plan to do with this money?" asked Erica weakly on the way.

"Hmm...... To celebrate your work with me, I was going to buy something to eat to commemorate it, but it doesn't matter, we're going to make a lot of money in the future, and then we'll leave that house together and find a better house to live in, haha, I've always thought about this kind of thing before. ”

That night, ordinary antipyretics could no longer alleviate Erica's condition, and she had to choose to be hospitalized because of the high fever.

After three days, Erica's condition improved, and a kind nurse had been bringing three meals to the two of them during these days, but even this could not allow Ibaraki to get enough money to pay for the hospitalization in such a short period of time.

"Erica, wake up. In the middle of the night, Ibaraki sneaked into Erica's hospital room, woke her up, and said seriously, "Hurry up, get out of here while no one finds us." ”

"But the cost hasn't ...... yet."

"Have you forgotten what we are? From now on, this is the first task of your job. ”

It was the last day of December, and it happened that on Chinese New Year's Eve, the hospital was also very loosely guarded, and after escaping from the hospital, no one could find out their whereabouts, and the hospital would not go to great lengths to find out for the two children.

"Erica, we're out, huh...... Go home. ”

"Brother Zhenyou, can you stop calling me by that name. ”

"Hmm, what's wrong?" Ibaraki wondered.

"This name was given to me by my mother when I was four years old, and it means the black angel of the Ice House family, and I don't want to think about it anymore. She bit her finger and looked up at the moon, but her view was blocked by a vine hanging from the eaves, "From now on, call me Fujitoko." ”

……

In the silence of the two, it was already dawn, and when they came back to their senses, they remembered what they should do now.

"Hey, Fuji Fujiko, let's go find Brother Xiaokai after we change our clothes. ”

"Oh. Ice Room unzipped his tights, and he saw the black gem on his chest again, its color was beyond his imagination, although the surface reflected the light, but the inside was as dark as the abyss, and the more he stared at it, the more nervous he became, as if he was being watched by a pair of invisible eyes in the darkness.

"Fujitoko?"

"It's fine. ”

Ten minutes later, Ibaraki knocked on Yang Xiaokai's door, and in order to prevent him from seeing the crystals on himself and Bingwu, he covered the ring with his gloves, and Bingwu temporarily stuffed the necklace into his clothes.

"Ibaraki, what's the matter?" Yang Xiaokai seemed to have just woken up, and his hair was still messy.

"Brother Xiaokai, there is something I want to tell you, but you must not tell anyone else. Ibaraki looked at the corridor and immediately pushed Yang Xiaokai into the room and locked the door.

"What?"

"Fuji Fujiko and I ...... yesterday" Just when Ibaraki was about to tell Yang Xiaokai about the gun, he lowered his head, but suddenly found that the middle fingers of his hands also had rings made of black crystals similar to his own!

"Hey, hey, are you okay?" Seeing that Ibaraki was suddenly stunned, Yang Xiaokai curiously shook his hand in front of his eyes, and as soon as he raised his hand, he also noticed the black ring between his fingers, "This is ......"

"Brother Zhenyou, should you?"

Ibaraki swallowed and nodded, revealing his black crystals along with the ice room.

"Can't pull it off?" Yang Xiaokai tried to pull off the two rings, but as if something was blocking him from the tip of his fingers, he couldn't move half a minute, "Ibaraki, what the hell is this?"

"I don't know, this morning, they grew out of my and Fuji Fujiko's bodies, Brother Xiaokai, probably yours too. If I'm not mistaken, I'm afraid this thing is on everyone here. ”

Hearing this, Yang Xiaokai immediately bounced up from the bed and rushed to the door of the cherry blossom room next door.

"Sister, open the door!"

After about thirty seconds, Sakuruma opened the door in a ready manner, as if she had already woken up.

"Kai, what are you doing in such a hurry, do you want to tell me something?"

"I didn't ...... Without. Yang Xiaokai looked at Sakura's whole body for the first time, whether it was her ears or neck, as well as her hands and ankles, she didn't find any black crystals, and she didn't look like she saw that thing.

"Huh, Ibaraki and the Ice House are too?"

"Sister, do you have a key card for Xia Cheng's room?" Yang Xiaokai still plans to confirm again, it is good news that Sakura does not have this ominous thing on her body, at least her body is not abnormal, but now she must figure out the origin of the black crystal.

"Yes, she said she didn't need a power supply and was afraid of losing her key card, so she kept it with me all the time. ”

Sakurama handed the door card to Yang Xiaokai, he turned around and opened Xia Cheng's door, and at a glance he saw the black earrings on Xia Cheng's ears while he was sleeping, and among the five people, Sakurama was the only one who didn't have this thing on his body, and it seemed that he could only know something more or less by going to Samusa.

When passing through the elevator, people on almost every floor are discussing the crystals that appear on their bodies, and it looks like everyone's bodies have been unknowingly manipulated by someone, maybe a human experiment.

"Kai, you're going to be fine, right?"

"I don't know, I hope so, I can only go and see Sister Sakisa's side. ”

When the group came to the room of the Hades couple, they were also looking at the crystals on their bodies, looking at Samuzo's frowning, I am afraid that she would not come to any conclusions.

"Sister Samusa, can you see what this thing is?" Yang Xiaokai asked straight to the point.

"Something like obsidian, but much purer, I've never seen anything like it. ”

"You say it's a stone?" Ibaraki looked at his ring in the light, and it looked like a crystallization no matter how it looked.

"It's a naturally occurring stone, and if it's really obsidian, then it's the best of the best, because there has never been a perfect stone like this in the history of mankind. ”

"That must be a lot of money, right?" Ibaraki asked.

"If you really want to sell it, you'll probably get a good price, and your descendants won't starve to death for at least a thousand years, but unless you can cut off your fingers, no, you should say you can get out of this place alive. ”