There was a rat scurrying out of the alley.

Emma waited for it to go away, and walked lightly into the alley. Here, stillness allows her to hear her heart beating.

This alley is one of the darkest and most damp places in the city, and no one wants to go into it except for the homeless who occasionally pass by to release the muddy water in their bodies.

Perhaps, there are still some that can't tell whether it's a person or a dog...... Of course, it could also be a cat, the last time she came, there was a one-eyed black cat, she remembered that the black cat stood in her way with half a tail erected, and after looking at each other for a long time, a mouse attracted it into the darkness to relieve her tension.

She tried to hold her breath and try not to inhale too much of the gas here.

In the darkness, she lightly pointed her finger at the wall to measure the distance between herself and the wall, so as not to bump into the wall as she walked. Later, she had adapted to the environment, rubbing her hands together and rubbing the wetness of the moss on the wall.

It's clear that she's not just here for the first time, but also for the second time...... If strangers enter the time to walk on a cup of tea, they will find themselves in a labyrinth with a strong smell of feces and urine that inhabits their brains.

Rats, rats...... There were rats everywhere, gray, black, and white, whatever the color, she didn't like it. Because they were dirty, they would only suddenly come out of the darkness and scare her, scaring her hundreds of times.

She watched one mouse after another pass by her feet, and her childhood self shivered, but now she was no longer afraid of them, maybe she should kick them and make them start to be afraid of herself...... She thought so, but each time, she would just stand still, waiting for them to finish their foraging tasks or fight, and then be dragged home by other rats.

Maybe she can be friends with the one-eyed black cat, if the black cat walks in front of her, these little devils will not dare to be so arrogant. The guy was the king of the long alley, and she remembered the one-eyed black cat with scars all over his body, and sometimes, she preferred to call him the king of the black cats. "A scar is a medal on a man's body," she remembers her father and his brothers saying, "if a man is covered in scars, he must be invincible, and of course, he may be a prisoner in prison." If you encounter someone scarred outside of prison, be in awe and stay away. "The fat uncle next to my father was a man covered in scars, and she once looked at his back, and the sword wounds were dense, like a piece of clothing woven from scars.

Eschewing another army of rats, she turned into an equally dark and damp alley that smelled of horse manure, perhaps with a horse farm next door, and she was almost sure of that suspicion, for she could often hear the sound of horses' hooves from in the vicinity.

Turn left, turn right, turn left, turn left...... It's finally time to see it. When she reached the last alley, a black cat rushed out. Emma hurriedly turned sideways, and she saw it turn around and hiss.

It's the king of the alleys—the one-eyed black cat! it never hurts her, she knows. You just have to stand still and it will walk away on its own, as it has always been before. But this time, she heard its scream and felt something different.

Was it warning herself not to get in the way, or to warn herself not to walk in?" she slowly crouched down, trying to see the meaning in its golden vertical pupils.

"What are you doing with that cat?"

Emma was startled and jerked her head back to see where the sound was coming from. The black cat king fled with a smoke.

Deeper down the alley stood a child with curly blond hair and a dark gray linen outfit?But his voice was clearly an adult, could it be a dwarf?Looking at the notch on his face that did not belong to a child, it was a dwarf, she had seen a gnome perform in the circus, he was so short, maybe it was only to his chest, he must not know that there was danger here, Emma thought to herself. Soon, she saw two tall men behind the dwarf coming out of the shadows of the alley. They were just as tall, taller than two gnomes, and like giants in comparison. The gnomes stood in front of them, and the three of them as a whole looked symmetrical.

"Little sister, what are you doing with that cat?" he said in a kind tone, like a big brother next door, and then he followed the tall man behind him, "Look, what a lovely little sister, isn't it?"

"Yes! Cute pink dress, cute little sister. The tall man agreed.

They seemed friendly, and that's when Emma's first impression. It seems that they like little girls very much, and it is no wonder that she is wearing a pink shirt, light blue silk pants, and dense hair, and in this dark alley, she is even more reflected as a princess. They should be warned to get out of here quickly, or it will be bad for them to be discovered by their father, who never let people near his house. Not on her own, but every time she sneaks in.

The dwarf moved forward, "Little sister, you shouldn't run around, and you shouldn't run here." ”

"Maybe she's lost. The tall man behind him said, "Such a cute little girl would not go into a rat's nest." ”

"Little sister, where are your parents?" the other tall man asked, "tell me, I can send you home, what's wrong with you? Why don't you speak? Can't you speak?"

Emma blinked and moved her lips, suddenly not knowing which question she was supposed to answer him. I'm home, maybe it's you who get lost, she thought.

"Dokikimi, bring her here. The dwarf whispered, and the tall man on the left walked towards her.

No! they ...... They were supposed to be the ones my father was guarding against! They were blonde haired! In the dark, Emma ignored this fact......

Fear stabbed her like a sharp sword, Emma knew that she was in extreme danger, and without making a sound, she bent her knees slightly, as the Black Elvis King did before he jumped.

Just as the tall man walked up to her, she took action, like a black cat. His weight shifted down, and his hand swept over the top of her head, almost touching her hair. Turning sideways to his side, Emma stared at him with wide eyes. "Hurry up!" Suddenly, the gnome, who had been speaking in a kind tone, roared at him. Emma was lower, almost half her height, and slipped between his legs, straightened up, and ran away!

She heard the shouts behind her, the sound of footsteps coming from behind her, if it was just the dwarf, she was not worried, but the person chasing her, the height should also be two of her height, she did not dare to compete with their long legs for speed, so she changed direction one after another, and quickly turned into one alley after another.

The alley was covered with cat shit, dog shit, rat droppings, slippery mud, and the tall men staggered over, and soon had to slow down to control their center of gravity because the ground was slippery under their feet, and if they didn't, they would fall hard. But now, with her brisk and nimble pace, it is equivalent to nothing!

She remembered that there was a door in an alley that could be opened, and she thought about it, and sped up her speed, ignoring the moss and mud on the wall. Then she found the place she had in mind and entered through the door.

This is the back door of a house, and it is obvious that this house has been abandoned for a long time, and there is no one there, so the door is not locked, so naturally the front door should not be locked either. She ran to the back hall, through the hallway, pulling the rotten wood to turn into the courtyard and around the dry pool, and she saw green vines hanging from the walls. You can't climb walls yourself, so you should find the door quickly......

Along the fence, she searched anxiously, perhaps the door was hidden behind the green vines, and she opened them one by one. Behind the green vines are all red walls, like red walls dripping with blood!

She almost brushed aside all the green vines, but ...... There is no door here, it is a dead end!