Chapter 12: Black Clouds
Bunches of torches light up in the shantytowns of the wooden houses, like countless fire dragons cruising.
In a dark corner away from the torches, two figures slowly emerged from the darkness.
"Mr. Hilford, why didn't you let me do it? Damn, it's getting louder and louder now. ”
Davis Barton looked at Mark Hilford with the old god there, and his face was very gloomy.
"You really think you're going to be able to hurt that monster?" Dressed like a knight in the day, Mark Hilfo looked extremely calm, the corners of his mouth pursed slightly, and even with a somewhat mocking look, "That's not a black slave cub anymore......"
"But my people, my people ......" Davis Barton was obviously a little annoyed by Mark Silver's attitude, if it weren't for the other party's origin and background, he, the old cowboy, would not have given the other party a good look.
Just now, his person was injured again, and it looks like he will be largely crippled in the future.
If a person under his hand is abolished, he will be abolished, and the most indispensable thing in Jinshan Port is the outlaws, as long as they are willing to give money, they can be recruited at any time.
It's a pity that he and his whole family, who he managed to develop in this group of summer workers who don't get into the oil and salt, were killed by that damn monster.
This is an important flag related to his next layout in this port, and it is more difficult to use people to really break into this group of Chinese workers from outside than to kidnap a councilor.
As soon as he thought of the big business behind him, Davis Barton's anger couldn't help but rise again.
That's a big business of hundreds of thousands, or even millions, as long as he can get a piece of the pie, it is enough for him to live comfortably for the rest of his life, and maybe even have the opportunity to participate in the election and become a big man who is envied by everyone.
"The world is not as simple as you think."
Mark Hilford looked at the torches that were constantly lit in the summer shantytown, and seemed to have no idea of Davis Barton's angry look at him, and still said to himself, "If the port of Jinshan had been so calm, I don't think the target I was looking for would have come easily." ”
"It's just a bunch of summer workers, what do you want them to do? Or is it among them, Mr. Hilford, that you are looking for? Davis Patton sneered, he was ordered to assist Mark Silver, but the two had been together for almost half a month, and he never understood what the man in front of him wanted.
"Do what?" Mark Hilfo's expression was cold, and a faint smile appeared on his handsome face again, "They're doing it now." ”
……
A shantytown where summer workers gather at the dock.
The torches were bright, and the noisy summer workers gathered together, searched around, and tossed for most of the night, and the final result was naturally indispensable.
The monster that suddenly appeared seemed to appear out of thin air, and finally disappeared out of thin air.
Pei Chu followed Liu Sixi back to the wooden house where he lived first, Fang Yunhu had not yet returned, as a somewhat influential figure among the Xia workers in the dock area, he still needed to follow the other Xia workers to clean up the unlucky family that was killed by the monster at this time.
Sitting in the wooden house, Pei Chu actually felt a little strange about the emotions of many Xia Gong who were indignant to find out the monsters that killed people.
In his impression, after ordinary people face such extraordinary and unknown creatures, it is the norm to stay away one by one, and such a majestic unity is not afraid at all, but makes people feel very fresh and surprised.
Liu ...... Brother Liu, have you ever seen that kind of monster before? ”
In the wooden house, after Pei Chu and Liu Sixi sat down, Pei Chu provoked the conversation.
When the monster appeared, he felt that he was frightened, but looking at Liu Sixi's appearance at that time, not only was he not frightened, but he stepped forward to beat the monster away.
Of course, Liu Sixi has martial arts that Pei Chu doesn't know, but if you think about it, even if you have the ability, if you suddenly face an inhuman monster, you will be affected somewhat.
"Achu, did you encounter mandrills when you were in the empire?"
Liu Sixi still had a somewhat introverted and shy smile on his face, and his voice was very soft, and he didn't answer Pei Chu's question directly, but asked.
"No ......" Pei Chu subconsciously shook his head and replied, but just as the words came to his lips, a part of the memory that he suddenly inherited from this identity suddenly came to mind.
That was about ten years old in this world, and their family lived in a small village under Xiangxi County.
Things were fine at the time, or the turmoil of the empire had not affected the remote village.
In the golden autumn season, the rice in the field has just been harvested. A bonfire was held in the village community, where all the adults and children of the village gathered to eat and drink.
Pei Chu was with a group of playmates who were about the same age at the time, envious of the adults drinking rice wine, and at the suggestion of whom, someone secretly came out of a jar in the village community, and several friends drank it together.
Several people had never drunk alcohol before, but the first time I tried to drink some, the sweet rice wine was very delicious, but a jar of wine was drunk by several people, and they were all drunk.
That night, the people did not go home, but fell asleep in the village temple.
slept until midnight, I don't know what sound alarmed Pei Chu, and when he woke up, he saw that the moonlight outside the window of Shegong Temple was very good, and the silver-white moonlight illuminated the night very clearly.
Suddenly, at this very moment, a mountain wind howled. Pei Chu was thinking about whether the temple door was not closed properly, but the wind gradually approached the temple gate, and it was suddenly blown open.
At that time, several other playmates also woke up, and several people looked outside the temple gate, and a mountain ghost with a face like a melon skin was quietly burrowing in.
Standing in the Shegong Temple, the head of this mountain ghost almost reached the beam of the house, his eyes were shining, his three-inch-long fangs were exposed, and he stared at several peasant teenagers with a hideous expression.
At that time, several people were frightened, fortunately, the place of the Shegong Temple was not big, after the mountain ghost appeared, several teenagers shouted while crowding people to hide under the altar of the Shegong Temple, and no one dared to raise their heads to look.
When the family came looking for them with torches, the teenagers crawled out from under the altar one by one.
A little bit of the number of people, only to find that one of the teenagers who had stolen the most alcohol was gone, and there were deep claw marks on the ground and porch.
Later, the old man in the village said that it was a mandrill.
This paragraph is something buried in the depths of his identity memory, and it usually does not arise at all, and after Pei Chu recalled this memory, his expression suddenly felt a little chilly.
He now feels more and more that this era seems to be around the time of the first industrial revolution, and there are too many strange things in it.
"Look at you, you've probably met it."
Liu Sixi saw the clue from Pei Chu's expression, and then continued, "As long as you are born in the imperial countryside, I don't think there are many people who have not met it. After the fall of the previous dynasty, the Forbidden Demon Division and Qin Tianjian became a cloud of smoke in the past, and this folk was naturally rampant. ”
The tone sounded calm, but it faintly revealed a sense of melancholy.
"The Empire is like this?"
Pei Chu was shocked when he heard this, he had also recalled his current identity and memories of the empire a few times, but most of them were extremely vague, and he felt as insensitive as a walking corpse.
There is also this status and vision that are too low, and I have not been in Dalian County a few times since I was a child. Some of the limited outside news was still heard from the merchants who walked the streets.
The biggest officials he knew were only the county lord and the official who demanded rent, and he was quite peaceful in his childhood, and although his life was hard, he could at least survive. But in the past few years, gradually forced labor, famine, and war began to appear, and life became more and more unbearable.
Judging from the historical knowledge he has learned, this identity is the son of a farmer who struggles to survive at the bottom, and has no choice but to leave his hometown and cross the ocean to the Federation in the hope of surviving.
And in some of the words he mentioned from Liu Sixi's mouth intentionally or unintentionally, in that distant empire, in addition to excessive taxes and corrupt officials, there are also demons, and the people at the bottom live a miserable life.
However, if this is the case, then the attitude of these Xia workers towards what kind of monster is not too strange.
When Pei Chu was constantly rummaging for information from his own memory of this identity, wanting to know more about this dream world, he saw Liu Sixi suddenly sit up slightly, looked at Pei Chu and said again:
"Achu, do you really want to practice boxing?"