It was also a boxing ring, as big as the previous one, and strangely decorated like a pink fast-food restaurant or lingerie store, full of bows, candy, cartoon cats and bunnies, and even the chairs in which the audience sat had Mickey Mouse ears.

Only the ground icon of the boxing ring has not changed.

There were no boxes, and Abby had reserved a good spot for them, close to the platform, but not so close that they would worry about the fighter's blood and saliva splashing their clothes.

"Tickets for this competition are 100 yuan each." Abby said that looking at the spectators who are entering one after another, it is more accurate, the punters.

"Is there any difference?" Judas asked, but Sasha and Beelzebub recksumed that he was knowingly asking, and the young, ambitious red-haired devil was the broker of the deal.

"It's a children's boxing match." Abby said that he stopped his gaze on Constantine, then Beelzebub, Sasha, and finally Judas.

"It's kind of surprising." Constantine. Clovin said calmly: "I thought this kind of event could only be seen in Thani. ”

"Originally, it was only Thani." "But it's a good sport, so now it's here," Abby said. ”

"Is it legal?"

"Of course." Abby smiled sweetly, "Totally legal." ”

The LED strip hanging from the edge of the large screen above the ring began to flicker, alerting punters to the fact that photos and information of two fighters appeared on the screen, both children, a girl, eight years old, and a boy, seven years old. Girls are fair-skinned, boys are dark-skinned.

Beelzebub's first sight was the familiar black curly coat.

It was the first time he had bought clothes for the opposite sex, and he remembered that the warm little ones wrapped in the clothes were like unweaned cats. Today she is still wrapped in that coat and carried into the ring by a muscular man. The glass hairpin had been removed, the loose hair was tied with a rubber band, and when the man took off her coat, she struggled faintly as if she had just woken up from sleep. Tried to hug the man's leg, but she was immediately pinched by the shoulders and forcibly pulled away, her coat was taken off, and she was forced to turn around to face the referee and her opponent with a cream-colored upper body, wearing only a black protective vest and a pair of peach-colored silk sports shorts.

The little girl stubbornly resisted, weeping and letting out small screams, while the man, who was her father, spoke patiently to her, and he told her that it was his little princess, the brave little princess; Let's talk about it. Baby, go up and hit him, that's a useless bastard, you'll be very happy; Promise to take her to the children's playground after the game to eat fried chicken and ice cream. and a white curly-haired puppy.

She may or may not have been convinced, but that didn't matter, the man roared impatiently and lifted the rope and jumped off the ring, the little girl turned to look at him, and stepped back to the edge of the ring. A woman stretched out her hand and pushed her forward, and Beelzebub and Sasha were not surprised to find that the woman was the "mother" of that day.

The referee remained motionless and expressionless throughout the process, apparently accustomed to this kind of thing, and he waited patiently for the little girl with tears on her face to give up on her own - she gave up. With two hands with large gloves down, he turned to face the boy.

Neither child was taller than the rope railing of the boxing ring.

The boy's facial features are almost flat, the eyes are small, and the size reaches only the girl's shoulder. The weight is also lighter than her, and the record is fifty-three games and three losses, and the name is another.

Abby looked at the screen: "...... Oh, what a funny coincidence, she's also called Abby, and I have the same name," he pouted and shook his head: "Although she didn't play very well, lo and behold, six losses in seven games, but I like her, and I'm willing to give her a bet." ”

"The boy is a Thani." Clovin said.

"Yes," Abby sighed, "I still have a majority of children here. But I think it's going to catch on quickly, because so many people love and love it, and last time a mom came to tell me that his kid hadn't been harassed by third-rate bastards since he learned boxing, and that he had become stronger, braver, and a real little man. He shook his head and sighed, "That's very comforting, isn't it?" …… Do you want to place a bet? ”

Judas winked happily, "I'll have to go against you, Abby, I like that boy." What's his name? Other? What a quirky name. ”

"In the local word of Thani, it means monkey." Abby suddenly shouted, "Oh my God, he's a grumpy little monkey!" ”

The other was probably only endured for a few seconds, her opponent's attack was weak and clumsy, and although she was taller and fatter than him, she was very timid, her arms trembling, and her fists had no strength at all.

Abby doesn't have to ask anyone else if they need to place a bet.

The other punch hit the right side of the opponent's head, which was the temple position, and it was an unusually powerful punch that ended the entire fight.

Frustrated and angry, her parents frantically waved their arms into the air, believing that their daughter could still continue fighting, but the referee refused, confirming that the little girl in shock had been sent off the ring and that the stretcher passed by Beelzebub's side, with a black fur coat over her body and her bare feet exposed outside the coat. The fluffy collar covered her chin, and blood flowed from her ear holes and nose, in small amounts, no more than a tablespoon, damp her pale lips and cheeks.

The coat's decorative fur balls dangled under the stretcher.

The fresh, rose-scented wind blew through the pipes hanging from the ceiling, but it could not dispel the disgusting smell of blood.

***

"Abby is an ambitious man, he wants to expand his boxing betting business to every corner of the mainland, but he has a weak foundation, he has no place, he lacks money, and he lacks people."

Chegalle. Bisan said that eating a hard cheese the size of an adult man's fist, which is commonly ground into crumbs and sprinkled on macaroni, Chegalle liked the former, but he also liked it with balsamic vinegar, and he sucked his fingers on the cheese with relish.

"Real estate does make up the lion's share of Bissandi's assets, and Judah has money," Chegalle smiled meaninglessly, with two older boys in front of him. But he knew what he meant - casinos pay taxes, but everyone knows that every casino owner takes a large amount of cash from their daily profits as a shareholder dividend and a reward for themselves, and this money is not visible: "There are people in Kloven. ”

"If there is a need for management. Isn't Paradise Palace more suitable? Beelzebub said.

"Abby doesn't need managers," Anthony said. "He's a terrible with a strong lust for power and exclusivity, and he can tolerate someone putting his hand in his purse and grabbing a handful, but he will never allow anyone to dictate to him — he needs a boxer," Hopkins said. ”

"Oh, so we saw Cloven." Boxing or fight gambling is also very popular in the north, and while it's not legal, going underground only makes them more bloody and nasty, and the fighters who come out of there are arguably "professional" and crazier than the average boxer. Shameless and cruel, they have no regard for life, whether it is someone else's or their own.

"More than that," said Hopkins Jr., pouring some wine for his son, "he wants children." ”

They weren't on Poseidon Island right now, but in the small town of Grande. The small house owned by Mr. Hopkins, which is now managed and guarded by Amp, is unknown to outsiders and is very safe. But because of this, there wasn't much food prepared here, and luckily Anthony. Hopkins habitually stocked large quantities of wine and cheese.

Beelzebub glanced at Sasha, who slowly swallowed a piece of Dali ball cheese soaked in wine: "Then he should go to the people of Thani." ”

Thani is a very special area. It was originally a small country, but it refused to join any federation, so it did not receive enough aid and support in the great turmoil that almost shook the foundations of human society, and after everything subsided, its economy, which it had barely supported by tourism and emotional industry, collapsed for many years. Its royal family was decimated in the turmoil, and the rulers declared that it was only a region after that, a region of Thani, and the problem was that there was no federation at this time willing to accept this barrenness. The so-called large region that is small and heavily indebted.

The people of Thani can only find their own way out – boxing is one of them.

There is no minimum age limit for Thani fighters, and no children who are less than the waist of adults begin to receive hard and rigorous training of all kinds, at first just to become professional fighters in adulthood, and later some people found that children's boxing matches are just as popular, not only gambling matches, it can even become a tourist performance project, many people are willing to pay a little money to watch two children of seven or eight years old or even younger fight in the boxing ring with bruised noses and swollen faces and bleeding profusely.

The rapid growth of this lucrative sport is so rapid that some 50,000 children in Thani are now engaged in this dangerous occupation.

"People are tired of looking at the black kids," Chegalle said, "white skin, blond hair, blue eyes, the prettier the better, and a kid like that, even if he never wins, someone will bet on them." ”

"Kloven's hand?"

"There are a lot of them," Chegalle eats the last bit of hard cheese and begins to attack a plate of salty sheep's milk cheese: "The regions to the north are highly autonomous, they have their own laws, their own government and their own army, and their own hei/gang. To date, nearly 300,000 'chicks' under the age of fifteen are working for the Clovin family, and it would be a breeze to pick a few of them to send to the ring - Abby would arrange for someone to legally adopt them, and then have their guardians sign an agreement, which is absolutely reasonable and legal, and ...... Safe. ”

"It's safer than using 'amateur fighters' from other regions," added Hopkins, who tasted some sheep's milk cheese, which tasted a little out of his liking, "Not long ago Abby was taken to court by an angry mother because her child was quietly brought to the ring by his biological father, and they were divorced, and the custody was in the hands of the mother - fortunately, the child was only slightly injured, and finally Abby settled with the lady, for which he paid 30,000 yuan. In addition, even if both parents sign an agreement, Abby still needs to pay if the little ones are too seriously injured or even dead. "And now that Abby has more than 100 large gyms that can legally hold children's boxing matches, the thirteen districts and the two neighboring districts have far from being able to provide enough children for them." ”

"How much does he need?"

"For the first three years, there will be a thousand a year. Try this, ricotta" Chegalle said, "It's light and soft. And this, Gorgonzola's, I like this, you can eat it with chicory and pears, and then try this, Tokaj comes with wine. He gave his son one and two to himself: "If things are as good as Abby expected, then it will increase by about fifty to one hundred percent a year for the next three years, and I remember an old friend mentioning that the rude, unruly idiots in the north can only squeeze two thousand dollars out of a 'chick' at most, and it will take years of effort." Well, even if Clovin gave Abby this price, then he could get two million yuan to one hundred thousand yuan from Abby every year, not counting dividends. ”

"What about us?" Beelzebub said, "How much can we get?" ”

"We don't get much," Chegalle said happily, "I'm not going to transfer, I'm just renting, and the only benefit is that we can lend out the factories in the middle of nowhere, about one million to one and a half million a year." He glanced at Beelzebub lovingly: "The profit is not high, but again, there is no need to take too many risks, after all, it is perfectly legal to open a gym, and the dividends will be paid in cash - relax, it's not a big deal, a new gadget, Beelzebub, in addition to Hopkins, you can choose a few people to try, I promise, the old guys won't interfere." ”

"Including me." Anthony. Hopkins said in time, "So, it's okay, go play, have fun, kids." ”

(To be continued)