(25) I am the real twenty-five
In the morning, people rushing to work in the docks saw a terrifying scene, which quickly attracted passers-by to watch.
A row of stands was erected overnight in the place where the merchants temporarily stacked their goods, and a large number of human heads were hung on them in bunches like grapes, a hundred or ten, to say the least, and under the stands were guarded by heavily armed soldiers, whose armor still had uncleaned blood stains, and the onlookers were curious and frightened, biting each other's ears and discussing why this was happening.
Soon, the sailors who kept vigil on a nearby ship contacted them with suspicions, it turned out that these heads were all slave traders' subordinates, and the Hearn family did not know where to get the news, so they gathered soldiers to kill this gang of gangsters overnight.
The guy who dares to do the slave business must have considerable force in his hands, and Adras has three ships and nearly 200 thugs, but the 500 elites gathered in the dock area are pressing and then the Bologna trade fleet under Bruchern is blocking the road, so they only resist for less than a quarter of an hour before being defeated and lost, the first evil Adras and his more than 80 thugs were captured alive and waiting for the lord to dispose of, while the dead half-dead ones were all cut off and hung on the shelves to make an example.
It is said that this slave trader named Adhras still has minions lurking in Bologna, so the lord on the one hand asked everyone to strengthen their guards, and on the other hand, sent manpower to carry out a dragnet search, and by the way, to rectify the recent chaos of the city.
Xiao Maoyu raised his head and stared intently at the guard at the door, who blocked the gate of the manor, and Dongdong wanted to get out.
"Knock knock...... Miss, these are extraordinary times, the lord has ordered the manor to be blocked, and you can't go out. The guard was uncomfortable stared at by the little guy, so he had to open his mouth again and explain to Xiao Maoyu that she had been standing here since dawn in the morning.
"Miss Dongdong, this is the lord's order, please don't embarrass us." Another guard walked in from outside.
"That...... How can I get out? ”
"Now there are slave traders everywhere outside, in case you ...... Well? ”
The guard was annoyed by the little guy and wanted to reprimand, but he pulled his companion behind him, and the man said to her with a smile.
"This is an order from the lord, if you want to go out, go to the lord."
"That's right! Thank you! After hearing this, Dong Dong thanked him very happily, and then turned and ran to the big house of the manor.
When the little one had run away, the guard smiled and said to his companion.
"It's useless to give orders and reason to small children, they don't understand anything, what you need to do is divert their attention."
"How can you do that? How did you find out about this? The guard, who had been relieved, asked his companion curiously.
"Haha...... Well, this one! When you get married and have children, you will understand these things. ”
Dongdongxing, who was deceived away, hurriedly turned the three-story villa of Hearn Manor up and down four or five times, and she didn't find the person she was looking for at all - Dio was busy arresting people outside! He wasn't in the manor at all, but Dongdong didn't give up.
"Last time...... I seem to have found Dior in the shooting range in the backyard, if there is no Dior in the house, he must be there! ”
Finally knew that the little guy who had used his brain left the villa and ran towards the shooting range, and when she came to the shooting range out of breath, she still did not find Dior who could give orders, the little one pouted unhappily, and she began to wander around the backyard.
The villas of Hearn Manor actually only occupy one-tenth of the total area of the manor, and nearly half of the part is overgrown wasteland and abandoned buildings, these places were actually the location of the market and blacksmith shop in Bologna at first, and later with the development of the city, all these functional buildings were rebuilt in other places, and the original city center was surrounded by a wall, becoming the Hearn family's manor, but the Hearn family was sparsely populated, so the scale of the manor did not expand. After more than ten years of abandonment, the enclosed land gradually overgrown with low trees and shrubs, and even the guards of the manor rarely visited it, and it was a place that no one cared about.
For adults, a place full of dwarf trees and shrubs is very difficult to walk, but for a small child like Dongdong, it is nothing, and in this season, the weeds on the wasteland are dead and dead, and the snakes and insects that lurk in the grass are all hiding without a trace, and will not suddenly appear to scare people, of course...... Xiao Maoyu will not be as afraid of insects as ordinary girls.
After the little guy went around in the wasteland in the backyard, the displeasure caused by not finding Dior was immediately forgotten, Dong Dong was very uncomfortable with the vast and open place before, she preferred a smaller place, such as in a glass bottle, but now, the little guy has completely adapted to the empty and free external environment, from bottled Mao Yu officially transformed into a free-range Mao Yu.
From being confined to crowded guilds and institutes, to living alone in sometimes bustling and sometimes deserted modern residential areas, to the horrific prison plague and sparsely populated Gothic villages, and finally to the lively and free-moving Bologna.
The little guy gradually adapted to the environment that he was not suitable for in the continuous change, and Mao Yu's habits were peeling off from her body little by little, I believe that one day, Dong Dong will be able to live like a normal human being, right?
"Wait! I think I'm here to find Dior! ”
After a long day of fun, the little one suddenly remembered what she wanted to do, but she soon discovered a bigger problem.
…… She didn't know how to get out.
If Dongdong could be 1.6 meters tall, she could easily see the villa to determine the direction, but now, the surrounding shrubs and dwarf trees are the high walls of the maze to her.
“…… Woo. ”
Dong Dong suddenly panicked, and she scurried around again, as if she was still Mao Yu and was blindly touching in a glass bottle.
"Woo! Ay? ”
Dongdong, who was running blindly with her eyes closed, suddenly tripped over something, she lost her balance and threw herself forward, but Dongdong felt that she had pounced on a pile of soft things, she opened her eyes in confusion, only to find that she was a person under her!
"That...... I'm sorry to press you down. Are you alright? ”
The little guy quickly got up and apologized to the other party, but the man didn't react at all.
Knock began to take a closer look at the man, he was tall and strong, almost like the big men next to Uncle Makarov, and he had many, many wounds on his body, and ...... Blood.
Blood?
Xiao Maoyu was a little afraid of blood, and none of the memories left by the red-smelling weird liquid were good, she finally thought of it.
'This man...... Shouldn't you be injured and unconscious? ’
Dongdong had been carrying her on her back, and she hadn't thought about putting her things down before finding someone, but now it was just in time for the little guy to have medicine in his hand, and Melly had specifically told her to prepare medicine for the trauma.
Xiao Maoyu began to carefully diagnose the injured person, and the results made Dong Dong ...... Stunned.
This man's eyes were plastered with charcoal, and he was probably blinded directly, his tongue was burned with something, and it was very swollen, these two injuries looked vicious but not fatal, and there were more injuries on his face and body, these were the injuries that would kill people.
"Good...... It's too much! ”
Knock Knock the matter of going back behind her, and she begins to treat the injured man who suddenly appeared here.
From birth to the present, Dongdong has met a lot of people, and the things taught her are also messy, but ......
No one had ever taught her not to save her.