Chen Ming turned around, looked at Hayley and Catwoman helplessly, and frowned, "What else do you want to do? I don't have time to play around with you." ”

"Don't be so scary. ”

Perhaps because of her freedom, the elven girl's personality is much more cheerful, "We know that you are a good person. ”

Catwoman nodded and said seriously, "We want to follow you!"

"Forehead ......"

Touching his earlobe with some distress, Chen Ming finally agreed, "Okay, it just so happens that I also lack a travel companion, but I said in advance that I won't save you in case of danger." ”

"I have Sister Isabella to save me, so I don't need you. ”

Hayley put her arm around Catwoman and said, "I don't know your name yet?"

"My name is Charles. ”

Chen Ming said lightly, "In that case, let's go." ”

"Charles. ”

Hayley muttered softly, pulling Isabella to follow Chenming's footsteps.

At noon, the three people who were walking together stopped, and Chen Ming found that the farther away from Dongcheng District, the more remote the place, and the less crowded it was.

"This is the junction of the east and west districts, and further on, we reach the boundary of the west district. ”

Beside Hailey, Isabella explained to Chen Ming, "That's the main circle of our sub-people's life, and my home is also there. ”

"Let's eat something first. ”

Chen Ming smiled slightly and said, "If you don't mind, can you take us to visit your house later?"

"Absolutely!"

Hearing that she could go home, Isabella's face finally smiled, and the two mischievous white cat ears trembled smartly.

Since there was no place to eat nearby, the three of them randomly found a large tree to hide from the sun.

"By the way, Charles, where is your home?"

While nibbling on the demonic beast jerky that Chen Ming had purchased earlier, Hailey asked, "Looking at your outfit, it should be a big nobleman in Dongcheng District, right?"

"Great nobles?"

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment, and then smiled, "Sort of, I've been staying in the academy before, and I only said goodbye to my family and went out to travel two days ago." ”

"The Academy......"

Hailey's eyes darkened, and she said enviously, "I also want to go to the academy, but unfortunately my talent, I'm afraid there is no way to graduate from there." ”

"Actually, there is nothing good about the academy. ”

Chen Ming said, "There are many things that you will only know when you come out." ”

Isabella asked, "Since your elders dare to let you out, then you must be strong, right?"

"Judging by the magic power, I can be regarded as a fifth-order, and I am actually not much different from you. ”

Chen Ming didn't lie, his body's adaptability to the accommodation of magic power was indeed only a fifth-order, but with the assistance of the ghost pattern, it was enough to be on par with the sixth-order demon.

"I envy your talent. ”

Hailey said sourly, "I'm afraid even if I grow up to a fifth-order elf, it will take two hundred years. ”

"Your elves already have a longer lifespan than ordinary demons, but it's not bad to grow slowly like this. ”

Chen Ming said with a smile, "Everyone has to take a different path, and the strong are not judged by the amount of magic alone. ”

"That's what I said. ”

Hayley pursed her lips and said, "Like the old man in my family, I wonder how old you are." ”

Chen Ming smiled, "According to the physical age, it should be seventeen years old." ”

"You're only seventeen?"

Not only was Hayley surprised, but even Isabella on the side looked at him in disbelief.

"So I said, it's physical age. ”

Chen Ming said helplessly, "If you are actually old, you should be fifty years old." ”

"I see. ”

Hayley breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's about the same as us." ”

"Don't talk about that. ”

Chen Ming, who avoided his age, opened the topic with a weak heart and said, "Have you eaten enough?"

The two nodded at the same time and said, "It's full." ”

"Okay, then let's go. ”

......

In the evening, the three of them came to the edge of Xicheng District, looking at the place in front of them that is vastly different from Dongcheng District, Chen Ming said a little unaccustomedly, "This is Xicheng District?"

It was more of a ruin than an urban area, an area covered by a precarious building about to collapse, a few subhuman children running and playing in the twilight of the dusk, and farther away there were adults in coarse linen clothes working in the fields, and almost all of them had one thing in common, that is, they were extremely thin.

Isabella nodded with a gloomy look in her eyes and said, "This is my home." ”

"Sister Isabella!"

In the midst of the ruins, two tiger-headed boys ran barefoot, apparently seeing Isabella.

But when he saw Tatsunami and Hailey, he stopped because of fear and stood there at a loss.

Isabella looked at Chenming, and after the latter nodded, she stepped forward, gently picked up the two boys, returned to Chenming, and said, "These two brothers and sisters are good people, don't be afraid." ”

"I didn't bring anything good with me when I first arrived. ”

Chen Ming smiled gently, took out two pieces of softer cooked meat from the magic ring and handed them to them, "Here for you to eat." ”

A child who had not tasted meat for a long time, or since birth, took the cooked meat with Catwoman's permission, and then ate it in large gulps.

"Ahem!"

Perhaps because he was in such a hurry to eat, one of the boys choked and coughed violently.

"Eat slowly, and you're done eating. ”

It wasn't until this moment that Chen Ming understood why the original werewolf Hilty would store jerky so desperately.

"I'm really hungry and scared......"

I don't know whether to cry or laugh, but in the eyes of Hayley and Isabella, Chenming's expression is extremely sad.

"Brother, what's wrong?"

When one of the children saw this, he stretched out his prince's palm to caress Chenming's cheek, but Isabella stopped him.

"Brother is fine. ”

Chen Ming smiled slightly, reached out and pulled the child's palm, and gently placed it on his cheek.

Seeing this scene, Isabella and Hayley were silent, from tearing up the contract to now, this demon boy from the nobility seems to be a little different from other nobles, gentle and kind, these things that should not appear in hell are clearly shown in him.

Isabella's home, in the heart of Xicheng District, dropped off the two children, and the three of them went there.

Chen Ming was surprised to find that everyone here had an extremely fervent affection for the catwoman he had bought, as if she were their family.

"It seems that her story should be very beautiful, right?"

Thinking like this, the three of them came to a small thatched hut, which was Isabella's home.

There is no disgust, there is just a faint curiosity, with Isabella's magic, no matter how bad she is, to be a mercenary, her living conditions should be countless times better than now.

The question in Chen Ming's heart was asked by Hayley, she frowned and said, "Isabella, with your strength, why do you live in such a place?"

"Maybe it has something to do with the subhumans outside, right?"

Tatsunami smiled and asked, "Yes, Isabella." ”

Catwoman nodded and said, "The children need meat to supplement their nutrition, the old people need food to feed themselves, and the production capacity of Xicheng District has been levied by the nobles, and the money I earn has been used to help them." ”

Hayley's eyes were a little red, although the tone of this girl who was supposed to live better than her was extremely flat, but there was still a trace of sourness.

In the eyes of the villagers, you are their patron saint, but as a patron saint, who should protect you?

There was a faint wave in Chen Ming's heart, and he asked, "If, give you a chance to change your life, but the premise is that you need to give up these subhumans in Xicheng District, are you willing?"

Without even thinking about it, Isabella shook her head decisively and said, "I'm living happily here, I don't need anything to change, and I don't want to leave them because ......"

"They're my family. ”