Chapter 998: Life is like a feather and death is like smoke
"Hey, stop! You two little cubs, stand for Lao Tzu!!" On the street not far from the arena, three figures were speeding quickly.
Running in front of them were two ragged, unkempt children, whose necks, hands and feet could be seen everywhere, they looked to be only twelve or thirteen years old, and they were little beggars who could be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of Shenjing.
Most of them are abandoned children by their parents, because their parents cannot afford the cost of maintenance, as well as heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes, so they are abandoned, and some lucky ones survive and grow up on the streets, and then are adopted by gangs of all sizes that survive at the bottom of Shenjing, and eventually become beggars, thieves, helpers, and even accomplices in the abduction and trafficking of women and girls.
Of course, some of them are abducted and stolen children by these gangs, some of whom cannot be sold, so they simply make some disabled and let them beg on the streets, and some of them are trained to become gang members, who regularly have to pay their share to the gang every week, and if they fail to do so, they will be severely beaten.
These are the darkest and most evil corners of this prosperous and powerful empire, and even the scorching sun cannot shine into these cold and remote places.
It is precisely because of such cruel exploitation that these children do not hesitate to take risks in order to get money, and such a grand world's first fighting law conference is naturally their goal.
It's just that they don't dare to steal those high-ranking monks, so they only dare to hit the "helpers" and "guys" and "grooms" with their ideas.
Chasing after them and scolding loudly was the short guy who sold Li Chengfeng the war report, and when he ran, he broke the string of copper coins he was wearing around his waist, and for a time thousands of copper coins scattered in all directions, causing a commotion among the people around him.
The short gang is a person who has been poor since he was a child, although he received a silver ingot from Li Chengfeng, but he still did not give up the scattered copper coins, he frantically chased around, and after staring at the two little beggars who each robbed a lot of copper coins, the short gang immediately chased after the two little beggars to force the two little beggars to return the money to themselves.
But where is the little beggar with huge survival pressure willing to hand over the money he snatched, and the three of them chased and fled, rushing out of the arena all the way.
Seeing that the three of them chased and escaped two streets, the chasing short gang saw that these two little miscellaneous hairs actually ran so fast, and when they saw that they were about to catch them, they all lowered their heads and dodged them, slippery like loaches.
The short guy ran out of breath and cried out through gritted teeth, "I know you!!!Three at the foot of the slope, stinky rocks!!You can't run!!"
One of the two children had a leg broken by a thief since he was a child, so he walked a little high, and the other was an abandoned baby when he was picked up, thrown into the gutter by his parents, and there was nothing but a smelly and hard stone beside him.
The kid who ran on his feet but was not slow at all turned his head and shouted: "Short-footed hair, you iron rooster, how about borrowing this money from our master! The children of the rivers and lakes have the friendship of wealth, didn't your father and mother teach you!"
This short guy called Short-footed Hair was so angry that he was angry: "You two rabbit cubs, don't let us catch us, otherwise, I will teach you to take off a layer of skin!!"
When the two thieves ran to an intersection, the two of them did not say a word, and they each fled to the alleys at both ends with a tacit understanding.
Short-footed hair hesitated slightly, gritted his teeth, and chased towards the high and low feet, he hesitated like this, and the high-low feet had already thrown him more than ten meters away, and the short-footed hair scolded: "The little rabbit cub is lame and runs very fast!"
This low-footed thief quickly walked around a street with short-footed hair, and when he saw that short-footed hairy had chased closer, he drilled into the alley next to him, and got into a dark and narrow alleyway.
But when he chased him to the mouth of the alley and was about to turn a corner, a stick suddenly hit him from the corner, hitting the unsuspecting short foot hairy head and knocking him to the ground.
He struggled to get up, shaking his head vigorously and looking forward, but saw that the two little hairy thieves had gathered together at this time, and fled quickly to the depths of the alley.
At this time, the short-legged hair also understood that this must be the child who escaped from the fork in the road and made a detour to ambush him here, so that he was hit by this stick!
Short-footed hair was furious in his heart, and staggered to his feet, he shook his head vigorously, and stumbled out after him.
But after chasing out a few steps, he suddenly heard a scream from these two thieves, and his short-footed hair was overjoyed, and he secretly said in his heart: I have been a thief all day long, and now I have finally suffered retribution! Hmph, let you two little mongrels steal my hard-earned money!
The short foot hair covered the blood from the wound with one hand, and the blood seeped out of his fingers, and he didn't notice it, just staggered towards the corner, and when he came to the corner, he was dizzy and subconsciously held on to the corner, and then leaned out.
This time, the short-footed hair saw the most terrifying picture in this life.
He thought that he had grown up in gangs, and had seen all kinds of lynchings, and had seen the terrible scenes of inhuman thieves cutting off children's hands and feet, breaking their hamstrings, breaking their bones, and turning them into disabilities.
But none of this was as good as what he saw.
The two children sat on the ground one by one, trembling and looking up at a blonde man in a wheelchair in front of them, and the other child was floating in the air, his limbs trembled, struggling but unable to move at all, and behind this forbidden man stood an extremely beautiful man, who recognized these two men at a glance.
This is none other than the monk who is beside Li Chengfeng!
And in a wheelchair is the puppet real person who won ten consecutive victories today!
The extremely beautiful man's hollow-eyed hand held the handle of the wheelchair, like a mechanical doll, motionless, while the puppet real person sitting in the wheelchair raised one hand slightly, and the other hand stretched out his hand to the child with high and low feet in front of him.
The puppet real person smiled and said, "Today is your lucky day. ”
The five fingers of the puppet real person were slightly closed, and the high and low feet immediately screamed, but as soon as his scream reached the mouth of his throat, he saw the puppet real person's fingers gently shake at the side of his mouth, and made a silent gesture, and the sound of the high and low feet was blocked in his throat, he trembled all over, and began to crack a gap from the top of his head, blood gushed out like a spring, and his whole skin began to fall off completely, as if molting and undressing, only two flicks of his fingers, and the high and low feet completed the "molting" in a violent and crazy tremor A complete human skin fell from his ankle, leaving only a bloody flesh man floating in the air, blood raining down and blood gathering into a river!
The other child was so frightened that he turned his head and tried to run away, but he had just run two steps before he was frozen in place by a puppet with a finger in his hand.
Short-footed hair didn't dare to look at it anymore, immediately retracted his head, he covered his mouth with both hands, his body almost curled up into a ball, and there was a burst of gurgling water in the alley next to him, if people who didn't know listened, they would think that someone was splashing water, but short-footed hair knew that this was the sound of blood gushing on the ground after another child was skinned on the spot......
It didn't take long for the sound of water droplets on the street to disappear, and there was a gurgling sound of wheelchair pushing, and it faded away, and when the sound was completely gone, the short-footed hair was bold, and with tears and trembling eyes, he stretched out his head to look out.
But there was nothing in the streets, not the two human skins, not the two bloody corpses, not the two terrible monks, not the blood that was like a river.
It was all as if it were just his hallucination, the two children, who had no surname or name, who were born without a family name, and who died as if they had never been in this world.
They came to this world like a feather, and like a puff of green smoke, they dissipated in this world in an instant.