Just as I saw on the first night, the eastern part of Cornwallis City was still the same old place, with dilapidated old buildings, potholed roads full of sewage, a foul smell in the air, and a dead silence on the empty streets at night.

"Sure enough, I still don't like this kind of place."

Merlin tugged at the snake around his neck, covering his nostrils like a scarf.

In the end, it is an extraordinary snake, and the body of the snake does not have the smell of beasts like ordinary snakes, but has an indescribable faint fragrance, which smells good.

Feeling his body being pulled again, the white snake on his right shoulder opened his eyes and looked around, and then the snake's face showed a bit of pleasure.

As a demon, the snake likes Dongcheng quite a lot, this kind of place full of despair and sin is a demonic paradise, she took two deep breaths of the rich negative energy in the air, and felt a little refreshed, and the demon snake who was in a good mood decided not to care about Merlin's offense that she used as a scarf.

Merlin, on the other hand, frowned and looked at the negative energy floating in the air like a mist, this kind of negative energy that ordinary people could not see was extremely clear in the eyes of the demon.

He obviously sucked up the negative energy in Dongcheng District in one go more than ten days ago, but now there is such a scale of negative energy generated, how miserable is the life of the people in Dongcheng District.

Whether it is Merlin, who was born in peacetime in the previous life, or the original owner who was born as a prince in this life, they are a little unable to imagine what kind of life can lead to such a high yield of negative energy.

It's no wonder that Alice's father will be invaded by the heart demon, the exaggerated negative energy in Dongcheng District before can be regarded as half an abyss, so it is really not surprising that the heart demon will be born in the rich negative energy, the heart demon is the product of the abyss after the negative energy is highly purified.

"Now, Alice, how do the people here live every day?"

Merlin asked with some curiosity to the little Lori who was sitting on his left shoulder.

"How's it going?"

Alice looked at Merlin with some confusion, not knowing what he wanted to ask, how else could he live, it was just a very ordinary life.

"I mean, what do you do when you wake up every day? For example, what time do you wake up, what time do you eat, what do you eat, what do you do every day, etc.? ”

Merlin added.

"That's right."

Little Lori suddenly realized, and then began to pinch her fingers and began to tell Merlin.

"Alice's old words were to get up at three o'clock every day, and then chop wood, make a fire, boil water, cook for Daddy, and at about four o'clock I would go out with half a loaf of bread, go to the match factory and find Uncle House to get today's matches, and then go around and start selling matches...."

"If you eat, it's just the half of the brown bread that I take out in the morning, I eat a small amount, and that small piece of black bread is enough to last a day....."

"Selling matches is almost six o'clock in the afternoon, in fact, it's still a little early to go home at six o'clock, there are still people on the street, and you can sell matches for a while, but I have to rush back to prepare dinner for Dad, and if I'm late, I'll be very angry if I'm hungry......"

........

Perhaps there had been a lack of someone to talk to, these words had been stored up in Alice's heart for a long time, and she couldn't stop talking, and began to talk to Merlin about her old life, and then about the work of her uncles and aunts in the neighborhood, and then about some of the things she saw when she was selling matches..........

Merlin listened very carefully, through the little Lori's narration, he did understand a little about the life of the people in the East District, some of the things that the little Lori told were used to her, and there was nothing strange about it, but Merlin sounded a little secretly speechless.

For example, a boy who lives next door to Alice's house is two years older than her, and his parents sent him to an apprenticeship in a coal factory early, working nearly 16 hours a day, but because he is an apprentice, all the first year's salary is only one-fifth of the normal salary, but even then their family is very happy, because it is not easy to find a job this year, and it is good for the family to have an extra salary.

Another example is a sister working in a textile factory on the opposite side, but last month the steam loom failed, a belt broke and just hit her, and a hand was broken, but the factory did not lose money, but because her hand was injured and could not work to prepare to fire her, the sister because she had no money to find a doctor, she may be disabled, but if people are fine, they are already very lucky, last month, the same textile factory, a middle-aged woman was involved in the machine, and her life was gone.

There is also a family on the next street that gave birth to another child, this is the sixth child of the family, it is really unaffordable, Alice saw that they secretly threw the baby that had not been weaned to the side of the road, at that time the little Lori was still a little uneasy to watch the child there for a long time, and fought with a half-bald wild dog for a long time, and finally saw the child was picked up by a drunk man who came out of the tavern before she went home.

..........

Merlin is a bit of a glass-hearted person, the last thing he liked to see in his previous life was tragedy, and now listening to Xiao Lori's straightforward narration, his mood is becoming more and more depressed, a little uncomfortable, he wanted to open his mouth several times to ask Alice to stop, but after all, he still didn't say it, he chose to ask Alice before, so uncomfortable, no matter how depressed, he also wanted to insist on listening.

For a moment, he wondered if he should do something, but then he smiled self-deprecatingly, what could he do, he couldn't do anything as a down-and-out prince who didn't even dare to reveal his true identity.

If these people in the East Side want to be saved, they can only save themselves.

"Sure enough, the outside world is still as bad as ever, it's still comfortable to stay at home, you can't hear anything, you can't see anything, and you're at ease."

He thought to himself.

Perhaps she noticed that Merlin's mood was a little depressed, and her expression was becoming more and more serious, and Alice felt that Mr. Merlin should not like to hear these things, so she stopped telling and closed her mouth.

"Now, Mr. Merlin, why did you save me before?"

For a long time, little Lori was entangled, but she still asked this question that she had hidden for many days.

Merlin: "........"

He was silent, then thought earnestly, and it took a long time for his brow to furnish.

He retracted the claws in his hand and touched Alice's head with the palm of his soft ball.

"Alice, it's not that I chose to save you, in fact, if you hadn't caught up with me at the beginning, I wouldn't have turned back to you, after all, I'm a demon, how could I take the initiative to save people, it was Alice that you saved yourself, and you just seized that opportunity."

He can't be a savior like a demon, and it's impossible to take the initiative to save people, it's impossible in this life, but if someone comes to him for help and shows the value of being saved, it's not that he can't consider a demon deal.

Just like with Alice before, fair deal.

Well, saving the world is what only great gods should do, and he, a shameful demon, should honestly do his job.

"Huh, wait, what's that sound?"

Merlin, who had finally figured it out, didn't have time to relax before his ears moved, catching the faint whisper.

"Help me.... I don't want to die...."

Merlin: "........"

That, in fact, what I just said, "If someone asks me for help, I'll consider helping him", this is really just a reason for me to regulate my mood and comfort myself, not really, don't you want to slap me in the face like this.

He paused and listened intently for the faint cry for help.

The sound was really close, and it seemed to be coming from a small alley not far ahead.

Merlin's face was cloudy for a moment, then he sighed and turned and walked into the alley.

He didn't relent, he just came to the door to take a look, if the helper didn't have anything to impress him, the devil didn't do charity, and he wouldn't do a loss-making business.

So, in less than a minute, in that dark alley stained with blood, Merlin met an "acquaintance".

A tall figure lying in the blood, with a large hole in his chest.

"Tsk....."

Merlin sighed a little unpleasantly, then sighed and lifted the Shadow Body.

So, the demon king appeared in the night.

"This young lady, are you interested in making a demon deal?"

On the left shoulder sat a cute little girl like a doll, and on the right shoulder a hideous white snake head, the well-dressed gentlemanly demon bent down and asked the dying girl.