.

A new day begins in a howling wind, the fragile glass of the red brick building is frantically hitting the wooden frame, and the pervasive wind takes away the temperature that belongs to summer.

The thin cotton quilt could not withstand the cold wind, and the little robots sat on the table, their backs to each other, dozing off each other, and only the little robot with a spike as a staff did his duty, jumping from the table to the spring bed.

"Bill, it's time to get up, didn't you make an appointment with them to go out?"

"Bill, Bill, Bill!"

A voice that came straight to his head was calling, and the little robot was picking open one of his eyelids with a nail, and Bill's eyeballs were not raised like a normal person, but instead showed a dead silence.

The little robot wanted to do something, and suddenly his eyes swayed from side to side, and his pupils kept adjusting their focus, full of vigilance against the outside world.

When the vague figure of the little robot gradually became clear, Bill rolled his eyes and breathed freely, revealing his true appearance of being tired from sleeping late.

He got up and put on his coat, and opened the curtains in the darkness, but instead of the bright light that had ever flickered into his eyes, gloomy clouds piled up on the horizon, like splashed paper that could not be washed.

"It's cloudy, is it going to rain lately?"

Bill stretched out relaxedly, puffing.

Cloudy and rainy weather is common near the snowy mountains, and Bill is a little glad that the full sun can stab his skin and eyes, making him feel uncomfortable.

I looked at my watch, it was eight forty, and the knock on the door came as scheduled.

Bang bang bang!

"Mr. Cliff, are you up?"

"Our boss asked me to wake you up, Boss Neusin prepared breakfast, and after eating we are going to the manor!"

Boss Neum is the tavern owner, and the voice of telling Bill to get up is unfamiliar, it should be the man under the fat boss in the suit, not John and the black suit, but the flower bow tie who has not spoken.

Bill quickly changed his clothes and responded through the door.

"I'll go downstairs right away. ”

The footsteps of the flower bow tie quickly left, and Bill quickly went downstairs after tidying up, and he didn't forget to put the little robots away before that.

Bill walked to the first floor, where Fat Boss and his men were sitting at a round table to eat, and his breakfast was also placed at the same round table as Fat Boss but in a separate place, with a plate of cereal and milk omelette.

At the table next to them, the foodie man and the black frame finally sat down at a table for breakfast.

But the black frame has finished eating, and he is reading a book in his hand, and the foodie man is just like the nickname Bill gave him, and his mouth is not idle.

"You woke up early enough, I didn't think I would be the last to eat breakfast. ”

"There was still time to enjoy the breakfast time. ”

In the face of Bill's accosting, the fat boss behaved like an elder or a leader, and there was no hostility towards Bill, and John curled up there silently drinking milk, not raising his eyes to observe Bill at all.

Bill pulled out a chair and sat down, quickly eating up the simple and nutritious food in front of him, and the wind that kept banging on the door made the tavern inexplicably deserted all the time, and even the presence of guests could not alleviate this depression.

"It's really windy today, and there is probably a heavy rainstorm coming. ”

"Yes, so we should get to Naldo Manor before the storm falls, and we'll trouble you when we get there, Mr. Cliff. ”

"Boss Fett, you are so polite, then let's set off as soon as possible, after many years of not returning, I am also starting to miss this 'home'......"

The fat boss nodded, stretched out his hand to beckon the tavern owner to come over, and whispered a few words in his ear, leading the little brothers out of the tavern.

The tavernkeeper nodded cautiously, and since the spring door had been swaying in the wind, Bill couldn't hear what he was saying.

Walking out of the tavern to the door, the wind flying down from the snowy mountains hit Bill's face directly, blowing his hairs on end, and he saw that the backlog of clouds was getting thicker and thicker, and the dark sky seemed to be covered under brown glass, as if everything was nostalgic.

"Mr. Cliff, you get in the car first, sorry we only drove one car this time, you can sit in the ...... if you can squeeze with them"

"No, I don't like to be next to people. ”

Bill walked to the co-pilot's seat, he did it for the good of the gang of street members, but it did become a representative of uncultured and arrogant arrogance in the eyes of the black suit.

The flower bow tie was already sitting in the driver's seat, and the fat boss looked at himself and then at John, but still didn't say much, just arranged for the black suit to sit in the middle of the back seat.

The black suit that became the middle part of the sandwich did not dare to disobey the fat boss's orders, and when the fat boss and John clamped this muscular man with a normal body shape at the same time, the huge pressure made his lungs feel like they were being choked by an iron frame, and he instantly felt difficult to breathe.

The fat boss restrained and ignored his difficulties, and took the position next to the window as a matter of course, and John also looked out the window, silently thinking in his heart that it was not my fault that he was fat......

The heat is getting darker and the air pressure is getting lower.

The steam locomotive starts suddenly, and the flower tie doesn't care about the trick in the back, he's the most optimistic of the four street boys, and instead chats with Bill.

"Mr. Cliff, how many years have you not been home?"

“...... Many years. ”

"Then why did you leave home to wander outside in the first place, the outside is full of dangers for young wizards, how could your family agree?"

"I don't want to discuss this, it's none of your business. ”

Bill replied indifferently, and the flower tie didn't care about his cold tone, as if his casual questions were just to ease the boredom of driving, and it didn't matter if he could get an answer or not.

The steam car was quiet for the time being, only the sand and gravel blown by the wind hit the glass window, and the white steam continued to rise from the front of the steam car, and the car had left Naya Village and continued to move quickly to the northeast.

Bill leaned on the window with one hand, and the long and bumpy journey made him drowsy, but fortunately, he didn't know the route of Nardo Manor and was not asked for directions by the flower bow tie, and the black street looked much more reliable than the fat boss.

But Bill also wants to know what is hidden in the Nardor estate that can get the upper echelons of the Black Street to be dispatched, and whether this matter has anything to do with Williams' mental illness?

Seeing the attitude of the owner of the unbranded tavern towards the fat boss and his subordinates, and referring to the conversation between the fat boss and the foodie man, Bill is sure that the fat boss is definitely a high-level black street.

"How do you talk to them so that you don't reveal that you're not Williams, and at the same time get information about what they say about it?"

"Damn Williams, what strange thing am I involved in......

Bill thought for a moment, and saw from the rearview mirror that the black street boy's face was full of seriousness, and only John was drowsy, snoring with his head tilted.

"Boss Fit, how did you know that my father was working on that thing, I have the impression that he never let others dictate his research......

Trying to find a topic, Bill did his best.

The fat boss came back to his senses from Lenlen's gaze, and seemed to be full of scruples about Bill's question.

"Actually, your father wrote me a letter before he died......"

"Maybe you don't know much about me, but that's okay, I have a lot of friends, and your father is the most thoughtful and ambitious young wizard I knew when I was younger......"

When the fat boss said, 'I have a lot of friends', the little brothers, including the fat man and the flower bow tie, all took out two earbuds from their trouser pockets and inserted them into their ears, and the movements were surprisingly consistent without rehearsal.

Before Bill could understand what that meant, the fat boss had already begun his long speech about how he and his friends had dominated their youth......

Bill was really not interested in the fat boss's family history when he was young, so he took advantage of the fat boss's ventilation to interrupt him and asked the fat boss more.

"So you're saying that you and your father have known each other before. ”

“...... Well, that's right. ”

Suddenly interrupted by Bill, the fat boss suddenly forgot where he had just said, but John secretly extended a thumbs up to Bill at an angle that the fat boss couldn't see.

"He'd already recognized me. 」

"It seems that he did go through something that allowed him to grow so quickly. 」

A simple judgment on John does not prevent Bill from continuing to communicate with the fat boss, for this typical man who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger, Bill needs to dig up his bottom before he recovers the tiger.

"My father studied that thing when he was younger?"

"Probably not, your father was a young scholar who completely abandoned his role as a wizard, and liked to hold books on physics and mathematics in his hand, and I was completely shocked when he suddenly contacted me and said that I had developed that kind of thing. ”

The fat boss was a little nostalgic for the past, and his tone was calm with regret, and Bill could basically tell that he was not lying.

"I see, I thought he had always been like that, did he say anything else in the letter, such as how that thing was going to ...... in the end?"

"I guess he's disappointed that I was able to use the power of the Black Street to promote that thing to more powerful people, after all, you also know that witchcraft and wizards are almost the same in every way except for the different sources of power. ”

"He's always only half-talked, and God knows what he meant when he told me about it, but for the sake of us old friends, I came as soon as I got the news. ”

The fat boss took out his cigar again, and the clouds that were about to fall from the sky were like one following behind the steam car, as if no matter what the flower bow tie did, it couldn't escape this gloomy sky.

"Do you know why those two men came, and they were friends with my father?"

"You mean the people of the Gluttony Alliance...... I don't know where they came from, but it seems that they are bound to get what they left behind your father. ”

When the fat boss finally finished speaking, the flower tie yawned and lit a cigarette to lift his spirits to drive, but Bill still didn't know anything about it, and why the fat boss said that it could benefit the mysterious world.

"It's like Haribobo's Philosopher's Stone, except I don't want Voldemort to appear. 」

"Hehe, maybe these four street boys around me are hidden Death Eaters!"

"It's so hard to talk to this kind of person, and I can't get to the point in a hundred words, and if it weren't for the fact that I had to know what that thing meant, I would have been deliberately guided into it......

Bill dug out his ears, and he suddenly remembered that there was still a reward for his head in the dark street, although this unfortunate thing had been designed by Bill as the ultimate way to replenish energy, but the person who wanted Williams to die was ......

"By the way, Boss Fett, it suddenly occurred to me that there is something I must ask you. ”

"If you ask me a question, I will know everything and say everything. ”

The fat boss looked extraordinarily relaxed, with his strength and position in the black street, he could certainly show the most unbeatable appearance, like a schoolboy who listened carefully.

"That's right, the bounty list I hung up on the dark street some time ago has had a huge impact on my life, although I don't think your killer can kill me, but I need to know who is behind the murder. ”

"Oh, little Mr. Cliff, I thought you were going to ask the next question, but it turned out that this was the ...... question for you to ask such a question."

"But I'm not in charge of the business on the black market, so I'm sorry, Mr. Cliff Jr., and it's the rule of the street to definitely reveal the identity of the bounty, and I can't help with that. ”

The fat boss refuses very simply to get his identity as a bounty through the inside, and in his way of survival, the survival of the black street ranks first.

"So according to this statement, the Black Street Emperor has no right to know the identity of his employer?"

“...... That's right, as long as the fundamental interests of the black street are not involved, the emperor cannot ask about the identity of the bounty, which is the guarantee of the black street to those employers who issue bounty orders on the black market. ”

"Very clever rules, Boss Fett, you make me look at the black street, but I don't know if your colleagues will be as determined as you before facing the problem of life and death. ”

An evil gaze rose, but the fat boss just smiled.

"So we don't know the identity of the employer, and we don't even know the two bosses who specialize in managing the black market, so we have to do everything just in case......

"But Mr. Little Cliff, as an old friend of your father's friend, I would like to give you one last reminder. ”

"You know better than all of us who is interested in your head, and when you track down your enemies in the future, you should start from the neglected places around you, and it is the wrong way to shift the blame to the tools of killing. ”

The fat boss said this kind of thing in the tone of educating his son, and Bill was naturally full of it, but he couldn't deny what the fat boss said, what he said was right.

Bill was about to say something, but was interrupted by a sudden bump in the body, and the steam car had entered the gravel road at some point!

The wind that did not weaken at all blew up the sand and gravel, and the driving vision was temporarily blocked, and the flower bow tie could only hold the steering wheel and slow down......

Bill quickly stabilized his body, and he turned his head to see that on both sides of the gravel road, the outside world seemed to be experiencing a sandstorm that had not been seen in decades, but the sand and gravel did not come from nowhere!

The age of the sycamore tree is also bent by the wind, the steam car moves forward in the headwind, and the flower bow tie quickly pulls the pressure button of the steam car in a row to press the accelerator to the maximum!

"Full speed ahead and out of this sandstorm!"

Flower Tie shouted to himself that in his world, overcoming bad weather while driving was probably more important than things like Black Street and Enemies, when the wheels were turning at full speed and constantly switching between colliding with stones and dangling in the air......

Buzz——!

Finally borrowed a strength, the steam car in the flower bow tie superb driving skills, the instant speed of the maximum, the wheel of the steam car quickly pressed fast with curved stones......

Bill only felt his ass out of his seat and was weightless in mid-air, and the rest of the car felt the same way he did, and they yelled.

“Shit！”

"I'm going to be played to death by you madman!"