It was dark all around, Li Zhang jumped up and touched the stick that had been prepared a long time ago and was about to go out, but then he stopped again, turned around and groped on the table for a while, found the flint and light the oil lamp on the table, and then went out with the oil lamp, because it was too dark outside, he was worried that Lu Wu would suffer because he couldn't see clearly.

When Li Zhang walked out of the room with an oil lamp, he immediately saw that Lu Wu was fighting with a black guy, the other party was not tall, at least two heads shorter than Lu Wu, but his movements were extremely fast, and his strength was extremely great, brandishing a thick wooden stick and fighting with Lu Wu back and forth, with Lu Wu's martial arts, he couldn't take him for a while.

"Don't come here!" Lu Wu also looked at Li Zhang, who was holding an oil lamp, and immediately broke off and said, this monster in front of him is infinitely powerful and fast like the wind, and ordinary people are seriously injured when they touch it, so he didn't let Li Zhang get close.

Li Zhang also knew his catties, because of years of malnutrition, he was already thinner than children of the same age, and the injury on his foot was not yet healed, and it would only help him if he went up, so it was better to stand next to him and illuminate Lu Wu, so he also stood there immediately and lifted the oil lamp in front of him as much as possible.

Lu Wu's martial arts are strong, but he suffered a loss that he couldn't see clearly in the dark before, but the monster in front of him was not affected, his body was fast and powerful, so he was able to make a draw with Lu Wu, but now that there is light, Lu Wu immediately showed his might, and an official knife was impenetrable by the wind and rain he danced, and the monster couldn't cover it, and finally was slashed by Lu Wu.

"Huh~" As a result, he only heard the monster scream, threw away the wooden stick in his hand and turned around and fled, don't look at him injured, but his movements were still extremely fast, like a puff of black smoke to escape under the wall, and then jumped high and jumped outside the wall, Lu Wu couldn't catch up if he wanted to.

"Uncle Wu, it's too dark, wait until dawn to chase after it!" Li Zhang saw Lu Wu turn around to chase after him, and immediately shouted to stop him.

Lu Wu also had some scruples, because it was too dark outside, he was punched by the other party in the dark just now, and now his chest still hurts badly, so he stopped when he heard Li Zhang's words, but then he turned his head to look at Li Zhang's expression solemnly and said, "The other party is a human!" ”

"People?" Li Zhang was not surprised to hear this answer, because he also carefully observed it next to him just now, although it was not very real in the dark, but the monster's body was indeed like a human, and he was also wearing tattered clothes, but he was moving too fast, and he couldn't see his appearance clearly.

"Not only is he a person, but he is not very old, but he has a strange power, even I can't take him, fortunately he is injured, we will look for him at dawn, we must catch him, otherwise he may come back in the future to retaliate, and then your brothers and sisters will be in danger!" Lu Wu said seriously again at this time, there was one thing he didn't say, that is, the other party seemed to be able to see it in the dark, and he suffered a loss just now because of this.

Li Zhang also nodded when he heard this, Lu Wu hurt the other party, this Liang Zi is settled, he may only steal things and not hurt people in the past, but it will be difficult to protect in the future, so he still has to solve this problem completely, otherwise he will not be able to sleep at night.

At this time, it was already the fifth watch, it was the darkest hour before dawn, and when this time passed, the eastern sky appeared a yellowish, and the surroundings were no longer dark, Lu Wu was about to leave immediately, he was worried that the other party would not be able to find it if he fled too far, Li Zhang was not worried that he would go alone, so he called Douzi and them to take care of the raccoon, and then he went out with Lu Wu on crutches.

Lu Wu injured the other party, and the injury was not light, the ground where the other party jumped over the wall was full of bloodstains, along the blood stains dripping on the ground, Li Zhang and Lu Wu tracked all the way, and finally found that the bloodstains actually entered Bianhe Town, and when they entered Bianhe Town, they found that the direction of the bloodstains was actually towards the dock, which made Li Zhang and Lu Wu also a little surprised.

However, before he arrived at the dock, the bloodstains disappeared, in fact, the bloodstains were getting less and less before, and it was estimated that the other party had stopped the bleeding, but Lu Wu was very experienced in tracking prisoners, even if there were no bloodstains, he could find the direction of the other party's escape from some clues on the road.

In the end, Li Zhang followed Lu Wu to track down to the dock, and at this time there were already many people on the dock, such as working coolies, vendors selling breakfast, etc., but this also brought a problem, that is, there were too many people, and the only clues on the ground were destroyed, which made Lu Wu lose the clues to track.

"Uncle Wu, what should I do?" Li Zhang couldn't help frowning when he looked at the vast dock in front of him and said, the clue has been lost, and the dock is so big, I'm afraid it is impossible to find the other party again.

However, Lu Wu seemed very experienced, and he touched the short beard on his chin and thought for a moment, and then smiled calmly: "Who do you think would run to your Yizhuang in the middle of the night, just to steal a few cooking cakes?" ”

"This ...... Beggar? Li Zhang hesitated for a moment and guessed, he really couldn't think of any other possibilities besides beggars.

"Do you know there's a beggar's den around here?" Lu Wu asked again with a confident face at this time.

"West Beach!" Li Zhang also showed an ecstatic expression when he heard this, he and Douzi had been in Bianhe Town before, and even occasionally made a cameo appearance as a beggar to beg for some money, so he was very familiar with the distribution of beggars around.

"Let's go, let's go to Xitan and have a look, there should be a harvest!" Lu Wu also nodded and said, the West Beach is just west of the wharf, there is a tidal flat, full of all kinds of garbage, some floated from the river, and some of the garbage dumped in the town, it can be said that it is a big garbage dump, ordinary people will not go there, but it has become a good place for all kinds of beggars to live.

At that moment, Li Zhang and Lu Wu got out of the dock and walked a few hundred meters along the Bianhe River to the West Beach, but just after walking a few steps, Lu Wu suddenly squatted down and looked at the ground, Li Zhang also came over to watch, and found that there was a barefoot footprint on the ground, and the footprints were extremely large, exactly the same as the footprints he saw in the hall where the corpse was parked before.

"That's him, this kid really ran into the West Beach!" Lu Wu pointed to this extra-large footprint and said, when he fought with the other party before, he found that although the other party was not tall, his feet were extremely large, and he was not wearing shoes, he had seen the same footprints outside the wall of Yizhuang before.

Rediscovered the clues, Lu Wu and Li Zhang were also in good spirits, at this time the sky was already bright, only to see that the river beach in front of him was full of piles of garbage, a gust of river wind blew, Li Zhang immediately felt a foul smell, fortunately the weather is still cold now, if it is summer, the smell here can drift to the dock.

I saw that in the garbage heap on the river beach, there were beggars everywhere who were not badly dressed, although Li Zhang and they had been beggars before, but they could only be regarded as amateurs, and these were professional beggars in front of them, some of them were a little more particular, they would use some branches and weeds from the garbage to build a broken shed, and they would sleep in it, and some of them would not sleep in the garbage, anyway, now that the weather is getting warmer, they can't freeze to death at night.

Although Li Zhang has long known that there are many beggars here in Xitan, but when he saw it with his own eyes, it still gave him a great impact, especially most of these beggars are skinny and numb, if it were not for the undulating chest, I am afraid that they would be regarded as dead people, and there are a few children with slender limbs and big stomachs who are also lying with adults, Li Zhang has seen too many such children in Africa, especially when encountering natural and man-made disasters, there are such big-bellied skeleton dolls everywhere in Africa.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Li Zhang couldn't help but sigh, this is still known as the most economically developed Song Dynasty, but no matter how developed the economy is, only the upper class will benefit, and the people in the lower class are still poor, although the coolies on the dock not far away are a little stronger than the beggars here, but they can't accumulate any property, and when they get old, I'm afraid they will also become these beggars in front of them.

Compared to Li Zhang's sentimentality, Lu Wu turned a blind eye to these things in front of him, maybe he had long been used to the scene in front of him, so he was just observing these beggars one by one now, trying to find the guy who was cut by himself.

"Wangwang~" Suddenly a wild dog jumped out of the garbage heap next to him and barked at Li Zhang, which frightened him, compared to ghosts, Li Zhang was more afraid of dogs, because in his previous life, he was chased by dogs when he was a child, although he didn't bite him, but it left him a lot of psychological shadows, and since then he has been black to dogs all his life.

"Get out!" Lu Wu kicked a stone on the ground and hit the dog's head at once, as a result, the dog immediately whimpered and fled to another garbage heap, only to jump out of several dogs, and the injured dog bit each other.

"Look at these beggars, just like these wild dogs, no one knows when they die, a few years ago, there was a great drought in Kaifeng, and even beggars killed each other, and then divided and eaten, but even the yamen will not care about this kind of thing!" Lu Wu may have noticed the strangeness on Li Zhang's face, and immediately pointed to the beggars in the garbage heap and said, as if in his opinion, these beggars did not deserve sympathy at all.

"They're all poor homeless people!" Li Zhang sighed at this time and said.

"Pathetic? You have never seen their hateful appearance, the ugliest and most vicious thing in the world is done by these people! At this time, Lu Wu snorted coldly and retorted, looking at his appearance, it seems that he has any prejudice against beggars?

"Wangwang~" didn't wait for Li Zhang to ask, but suddenly heard a crazy howl not far away again, mixed with a few wild dog wails, which made Li Zhang and Lu Wu stunned, and then walked over quickly, but when they turned around a few garbage heaps and saw the scene in front of them, they couldn't help but show a stunned expression.