In the panic of the people, the dawn gradually came.

The girl stood quietly at the door of the fish shop, looking at the light of the sky in the direction of the sea for a long time.

They...... I should have left.

She thought about this fact in a daze, and with a faint smile on her face, she turned and stepped back into the dim alley.

Within a day's time, the streets were plastered with portraits of Avis, Frank, and a few of the missing gangsters—whom she had seen occasionally, and who seemed to be in charge.

The city was indeed no longer safe for them.

The sound of kicking footsteps, mixed with swearing. The pirates were shirtless, armed with knives, and occasionally a few of them were holding cigarettes in their mouths, and the smoke filled the air, obscuring the defiant smiles on their lips.

As if searching for something, the men made rude jokes while their eyes looked at the passers-by around them with insolent eyes.

She was shocked, and hurriedly learned from the person in front of her, hurriedly passed by with her head down, and did not forget to sweep the hair draped behind her shoulders beside her ears.

"Ah, wait."

"Hey, you, just say you! Stop for Lao Tzu! ”

The sudden sound made her steps almost unsteady, and she forced her mind to hold back and turn around.

"Is it - are you calling me?"

"Yes, it's you, what are you doing so fast?" The leader of the group of pirates was not good-looking.

"I ...... I have an emergency at home, so. She made it up, but the man didn't speak, but looked at her, and the doubt in her eyes made her scarcely dare to look up, lest the man know something in the next second.

"Yo, what do you call this girl for? I haven't heard of such a neatly dressed girl among the gangsters......" Someone in the crowd smiled ambiguously, "Isn't it...... Hey. ”

The rest of the men coaxed, "Take it away, what else in this city doesn't belong to us?" ”

She lowered her head and obediently did not speak, but her hand slowly reached for the small pistol hidden in her coat pocket.

"Shut up Lao Tzu!" The man in charge cursed, and the surroundings were instantly quiet, "What time is it, the captain is still waiting for news!" ”

"Let's go!"

After speaking, he glanced at her again and left with someone.

It wasn't until a long time that she breathed a sigh of relief and walked forward again with a somewhat weak pace.

And at this moment, a strong force came from her right hand - someone grabbed her hard.

Before she could react, she heard a familiar voice sound, but with a coldness that she had never heard before.

"Come back with me."

The young man's fingers were cold, but his palms were soaked with a slight sweat, and he grabbed her hard, so hard that she could hardly cry out in pain.

But she didn't.

She just stared at the hand in a daze, and then followed it, crashing into the blue eyes.

There was no gentleness as usual, nor the coldness of the final farewell, there was no trace of emotion in his eyes, but his gestures and movements were full of strength and faint anger.

Why hasn't he left yet?

He- what is this angry again?!

was surprised and worried for a while, but in the end, it turned over to the emotions of the past, and finally became aggrieved and resentful.

She shook off his hand with all his might—he held it so tightly that he didn't let it go until he was stunned for a moment at the second sight of her angry eyes.

However, he reacted quickly, and with a stretch of his long arms, he half-hugged and half-clasped her shoulders, and pulled her closer so forcefully.

"Is that how reckless you are?" He squeezed the words out of his teeth coldly.

To this day, the boy could still feel the cold sweat slowly soaking his entire back—he could not forget his horror and panic when he saw the girl confronting a group of pirates on his way to find her. If it weren't for the departure of the pirates, he would have rushed out in the next second.

"It's none of your business!"

Looking at the girl's unrepentant eyes, he said coldly.

"Why is it none of my business? Are you so reckless as to waste the life I saved? ”

"It's already my life!" As if ripping the last string in her mind, she jerked him away, "What am I going to do, you have no right to interfere!" ”

"If you are ...... Regretted it. She rubbed her shoulders and lowered her head, her long hair covering her face, and she said coldly, "I'm sorry, I can't give you this life back." ”

"But I promise, I will never appear in front of you in the future and annoy you."

He opened his mouth to say something, but when he saw the girl's injured and defensive gaze, he suddenly stopped.

The girl turned away without much hesitation, and he quickly grabbed her hand again without much thought.

"Annie."

He called to her bitterly and earnestly.

She paused.

"Bring me a pack of cigarettes." A deep voice sounded on the side, and the two of them realized that they were standing in front of a grocery store at this moment.

The enthusiastic proprietress was obviously watching everything, and while taking out the cigarettes that the guests needed, she crossed the counter and sighed.

"It's good to be young, it's good to be young."

"Little couples, don't be vindictive." She blinked enthusiastically, then turned around and took out another pack, and said to Noah, "Or?" Juvenile? ”

"No, thank you." He politely refused, and then—without a beak, took her hand and left.

The two of them walked in the alley for a long time, and she finally couldn't bear the silence between the two and stopped.

"What the hell do you want?" There was some impatience between her eyebrows and eyes.

"Annie—"

His tone softened, "I have something to tell you—"

"Let me start with a few words." A low, contemptuous voice came from behind him, the man in an unfashionable floral shirt and a wide-brimmed hat, unseemly and somewhat familiar—the man who had just bought a cigarette at the grocery store.

He laughed and took off his hat, revealing a man's face.

Her heart contracted violently, and a bad feeling arose.

Really.

"I just felt like something was wrong." The pirate stared at her with a smirk, "Fortunately, Lao Tzu ran out of cigarettes, so I turned back and bought a pack, otherwise I wouldn't have known that our little Noah was also here." ”

Her heart sank, and what she had been uneasy about had really happened—these pirates knew about her relationship with Noah, as well as Avis and Frank!

"What? Is this your little girlfriend? ”

The man approached her and threw a large puff of smoke in her face as if insulting, choking her cough all the time.

"Don't touch her." Noah calmly pulled the girl behind him, "It's good that something is coming at me." ”

"Yo, that's true...... Unexpectedly heavy feelings. He laughed, and looked at her with a gaze she couldn't distinguish, "Pretty is pretty, ......but," he mocked vaguely, "I'm afraid it's still not qualified." ”

"You know, in history, there was once a person who was also considered beautiful, but—"