Chapter 23: Tracking
When she was gone, Kazi left the audience area and sneaked up on the stage, where the no-entry sign stopped him. The demolition staff working on the stage said that they couldn't go in here, and they had to play out. He said yes and walked back, and when the other party was not looking, he came back and slipped under the board.
There were more people backstage, so Kazi slipped under the plywood and watched secretly from behind an iron box.
At this time, the circus people were loading all their belongings into the van, and only two people were talking in the preparatory room, and Kazi hurriedly pricked up his ears and listened carefully.
"Why haven't you let me join the circus yet? I performed so successfully. The man in the smiling mask still hasn't taken off his mask.
"Your performance tonight has indeed become the highlight of our troupe, but your success is based on danger, which is not in line with our troupe's style and philosophy." The man who spoke was none other than the head of the circus, and his hat was a tall gentleman's hat, young but still bearded.
"Oh? Isn't it dangerous to let a bear jump over a fire ring and walk a tightrope? I'm confident in myself and will do better next time. ”
The head of the regiment was silent with a gloomy face, it seemed that he did not agree with this newcomer.
There was a smell of ** in the air, and the two became more and more stiff, and from time to time some members came over to persuade them. Kazi saw it in his eyes, and his mood couldn't help but be a little unhappy, it was best not to quarrel if he could fight, and if he couldn't explain it, it would be good to fight. That's what he and Alain Bu decided to do in some ways, and he's not sure he's going to lose.
After a while, the regiment commander got up from his seat and said that he would think about it again and give an answer tomorrow. The man had no reason to pester him any longer, and staggered out of the warehouse with a bottle of medicinal wine.
Kazi watched him go, and he would surely be found after him, so he went out through another door.
Tonight, the moon was white and round, the old wooden shelves were covered with bright green loofah vines, and the yellowing lamps shone down from the top of the gate, and the ground was actually dyed yellow. The moist air was a bit moldy and probably emanating from the pond opposite.
The drunken man loosened his pants and poured a soak of urine on the loofah vine, then he raised his head and took off the mask on his face. A horrific scar with a scab crossed his face, and the man walked into the gloomy alley despite the strange eyes of others.
At eleven o'clock in the evening, most of the townspeople turned off their lights and went to bed, and the street lamps of the avenue were lit with a withered yellow light, and they would not be on for the whole night, but would all be extinguished before midnight, when the whole town would be plunged into darkness.
The man didn't immediately go back to his residence, he always felt that someone was following him from behind, but he couldn't tell where it was, and after walking out of the alley, this feeling became stronger and stronger. He walked slowly, deliberately trying to lure out the stalker, and every time he turned around a corner, he looked behind him, but there was no one each time.
Whew, strange, is it a delusion? Ah, no!
He turned around suddenly, and a child suddenly fell off the wall, hit the ground on his back first, and cried out in pain before he could stand up. The man was startled, and after making sure that there was nothing wrong, he helped him up.
"Big brother, you are so powerful, you can see such a dark road."
The man looked that person up and down, but he was just an ordinary teenager, blind in the dark at night, and he didn't hurry home to sleep and came out to wander around?
"Were you following me just now? What's your name? ”
"Huh? My name is Kazi, and if I don't follow you all the way, how can I find my way home. ”
"Then go home now, it's better not to have anything to do with me." The man walked forward without looking back, and a few meters away from the rental house.
Kazi quickly followed him, and kept talking: "I saw your performance in the circus, it's amazing, that sword really passed through, and the wound is still there?" Doesn't it hurt to be pressed against a stone? You can't be asleep when it shatters, right? ”
The man didn't want to answer all these questions one by one, he just wanted him to disappear from his eyes as soon as possible.
"Isn't it? The sword wound is gone, it's still there when you were in the circus, big brother, you have superpowers......"
His mouth suddenly closed, and the man grabbed him by the neck with one hand and lifted him into the air, glaring at him with fierce eyes. Kazi couldn't break free of this hand even with all the strength he could eat, and let his legs step helplessly on the air.
The man wanted him to never say a word again, to disappear from this gloomy world, he thought subconsciously, and the strength of his hand slowly increased.
"White ......" Kazi opened his mouth wide to breathe, and a word popped out of his hoarse throat.
As if suddenly sobering up, the man let go of his hand, and Kazi sat on the ground with his buttocks, and was injured a second time.
"You, what did you just want to say?" He asked.
"I said, ahem." Kazi rubbed his sore neck, "You're from the White Church, I've seen it in the photo. ”
"Damn, since you know everything, you can't let you live." The man snapped, "Sure enough, you're here to hunt me down." ”
"Ah, you're mistaken."
Without waiting for him to explain, the man lifted his foot and kicked him in the stomach, but as if he had hit something terrible, a sharp pain came from his joints. He touched his ankle and realized that it was actually dislocated.
"Listen to me."
Kazi stood up with his body propped up, and at the same time the man frowned, turned around and ran, but he sprained one of his legs, so he didn't run fast. Kazi followed him in three or two steps, striking him with his shoulder, and the man fell to the ground, his face covered in dust.
"You, don't kill me, don't, don't come here." He fell back on all fours, his panic palpating.
"Shhh Kazi stood still, and the scene made him look like a bad guy, "I didn't say I was going to kill you, I just wanted to ask about your sect leader." ”
"I, I don't know anything, I, I'm innocent."
"Don't, don't be like this, anyway, can you stand up and talk first?" Kazi tried to pull him up, but he turned and ran away.
"He, he's a devil, and I'm not going to make a deal with the devil anymore."
This time, instead of chasing him again, Kazi watched his back disappear at the end of the road, patting his little head in a decadent manner.
"I thought I was a little eyebrow-raising, but I didn't expect it to be in the soup again."