Heavy rain poured and thunder roared.

Under the lightning and thunder, steam wagons sped on the mountain roads, and the mountain roads were muddy and muddy.

After a few sharp turns, the steam wagon finally drove into the straight road, and a bright light suddenly appeared in front of him, and Bilton tensed up and clenched the revolver in his hand.

"Bill, it looks like a police car in front of you?"

"No, that's right, it's a police car!"

"It's all cops! They're here to get us! We're finished!!"

As the light got closer and closer, John screamed as he saw the vehicle in front of him.

"Shut your crow's mouth and stay calm!"

"Look, they are coming from the west of the Jikrona and don't know that the explosion was caused by us!"

As he spoke, the steam van was already speeding past a long line of police cars, and Bill struggled to control his expression and keep his eyes calm and look ahead.

After glancing, the bearded man in the lead car flashed, and he also turned his head to watch the truck disappear into the rain.

Inside the police car, Erwin was a little strange.

"Sheriff Shawei, the truck is coming out of the mine, don't you need to stop them and ask?"

"No, the transportation of the mining area is not under our control, the military region is in charge, and do not cross the border. ”

Sergeant Xavier lit a cigar, not sure what he was thinking.

Erwin could see that he was in a bad mood, and the murderer had not been caught until now, and Sheriff Shawei had never shown such an expression.

His heart contracted, and Bill slowly turned his head.

Swallowing saliva unconsciously, he saw that the police car had not turned around or stopped, and had completely disappeared from view, so he closed his eyes and exhaled turbid air and relaxed.

John's limbs stiffened, numbly and turned the steering wheel, as if consciousness had detached from his body, and even breathing needed to be deliberately controlled.

"Have we really escaped the nightmare?"

John burst out with a sentence, he was not sure that even if he escaped from the mine, those horrific memories would be forever imprinted in his mind.

"Yes, yes, we escaped. ”

"The nightmare is over. ”

Bill seemed to answer, and he seemed to be muttering to himself.

"No one knows what we've done, everyone who knows we've gone into the deep mines has all died, and even Lieutenant Bam's room has been shattered and turned into a sea of fire!"

"That's right, our files are all in ashes, and things will be fine. ”

John also took a deep breath, and these words also reassured him, making him believe that everything would pass and that everything would be okay.

"John, forget this experience, you've never been in the Sivar mines, you've never been a coal miner. ”

"When you go home, use the money to live in a new city and spend the rest of your life carefully, and that's the best outcome for you. ”

"It's almost dawn, head towards the docks. ”

John slammed on the accelerator, the steam wagon was full of horsepower, and the image of the mountains flew by.

They soon arrive near the docks, and Bill returns the tin box to the shadows in advance, which is his spoils and will not be given to the Brotherhood who sit back on their laurels.

He even wanted to store the steam wagon in the shadow space, but unfortunately the shadow circle summoned by Bill was limited in diameter, only the size of a tire, and even if the steam car was eroded, he would not be able to cram it into the shadow space.

The sky had not yet turned completely white, the sky was gray, and the fire in the mining area had been extinguished by the rain, but the damage caused by the explosion of the mine was difficult to estimate.

As the rain faded into lighter, Johnny sat on the side of the road with a windproof lamp, holding a pure black umbrella and a cigarette in his mouth.

Behind him, several others followed.

The steam car was emitting white smoke, the headlights shone on the ground, and suddenly a row of figures appeared, and John was startled by Johnny, and suddenly turned the front of the car and pressed the brakes.

Four tire marks were left on the road.

“！”

"Nervous! Why don't you sit on the road and stay out of the way, you don't want to die?"

"Crazy!

John still had palpitations, and in the face of Johnny and the others in the worker's clothes, he was angry in his heart and cursed.

"They're waiting for me. ”

"Fatty, you can go. ”

John was momentarily stunned.

About two seconds later, he jumped out of the steam cart and sped away.

Slowly stepping off the steam car, Bill still clutching the revolver in his arms, Johnny got up and reached out in a friendly way, completely unable to see the arrogance of the first meeting with Bill.

"It's you, and now there is no peace in Jikransi, the whole city is preparing for the impact of the explosion in the mining area, and all parties are ready to move. ”

“...... Those things have nothing to do with me. ”

He didn't reach out to respond, not even get close to Johnny, although he didn't know the credibility of the Brotherhood when he fled from the Sivar mines at the moment, and his heart was still full of vigilance.

"Anyway, after the explosion in the Sivar mine, you can escape, and dare to stand in front of me, you are more capable than I imagined......"

"What do we want?"

Johnny finally stopped going around the bend and went straight to the point, his face becoming serious.

"What about the pay and the ticket?"

Instead of answering directly, he made a request.

After all this experience, Bill is intrigued by the reward, and he wonders what the brother will pay to allow him to take on such a dangerous thing.

Without the power of shadows, he would have been locked in an iron cage at this moment, unconscious, and turned into a bloodthirsty monster, never to see the light of day.

"Little ghost, you should remember that we agreed that you can only get paid and a ticket after handing over the research results!"

"The information is here, and I can give it to you. ”

Bill took out the information from his arms, the one Lieutenant Bam had given them, and Johnny read it quickly when he got it, his face gradually changing from excitement to anger.

"The information is incomplete...... Don't try to lie to me, but I'm not a fool!"

"What about the rest of the information?"

Johnny's eyes widened and he screamed angrily.

"I'm not stupid, come to me again with the pay and the ticket, the ticket is tonight, I want to go home soon. ”

Bill suddenly pulled out his revolver and aimed it at Johnny's head in an instant, he was no longer a rookie who had just crossed over.

At first, he was very frightened of murder, until one soldier after another died in his own hands, and he gradually felt numb to the murder.

I still remember the feeling of pulling the trigger to kill a human being, you just need to be ruthless, and the obstructor will disappear forever, and there will be no chance to hurt yourself again.

"I don't want to kill. 」

"Don't push me. 」

“...... Is this who you really are, little ghost, what's your name?"

"It's none of your business, let me go. ”

"Johnny, don't you want to know Kurt's whereabouts?"

Johnny finally stopped moving closer at the sound of Kurt's words and sighed.

"Waiting for your news. ”

The sky was white, and the rain had stopped.

Bill stepped back, drifting away from the man until the figure was completely gone.

Quickly turned around and took off his military uniform, threw it into the shadow space as well, and hurried back to Ji Krangsi.

Heavy rain washed the streets, driving people back to their homes, and the crowd in the city had long since dispersed, and only the newspaper office was still working overtime to typeset and edit the text.

Bill did not return to the hotel, and someone in the hotel may have seen him at the recruitment site, and must have questioned his departure from the mine and asked about the status of the mine.

He walked into a café and wondered what to do next, the café wouldn't be open all night, but last night there were so many people buying hot coffee that Bill was able to find a place to sell hot drinks.

"It's really over, where do I go next?"

"Change your image first, go to the bank to retrieve the safe, and after getting paid, tell Johnny a set of words to figure out where he lives. 」

"The reason for the crossing must have something to do with witchcraft, and I really should go home and find out what weird research this kid has done. 」

In the morning of Jikronsi, the street is filled with itinerant vendors, and the café owner is still dozing.

Bill wakes up the boss and settles the coffee money.

"Boss, is there a barbershop nearby?"

"There is a junction two hundred meters to the east, and the corner is. ”

"Thank you. ”

At the barbershop, which had just opened, the barber yawned and put an apron around Bill, while trying to find something to talk to about what the mine explosion would do to Gitch Roncy.

Bill didn't talk.

His hair fell from front of his eyes, and he felt relaxed and refreshed.

After leaving the barbershop, Bill saw that the city was still lively and there were circuses passing by, but the people in the city were not in the mood to watch the circus.

After turning a few intersections, past the post office, Bill came to Financial Street and headed for Barclays Trust Bank.

The financial street is still bustling with people, and the location of Barclays Trust Bank is even more deserted.

"I'll see if the pocket watch can be stored directly in the shadow space, and it's very dangerous to carry it around. ”

"I remember putting the keys in ...... Well, here, it's a problem if you can't find the key. ”

Bill came to the Barclays Trust Bank, but the door was closed and the inside had been emptied.

"Bank Failure?"

"Where's my safe?"

Ominous premonition.

Bang bang bang!

Bang bang bang!

I banged the door of the bank, but no one in the bank responded.

"Hey, friend, stop knocking! Don't you know this bank closed last week?"

The clerk walked out of the store across the door, carrying garbage in his hand, and kindly reminded him.

"What?

Bill chuckled in his heart, and even though he had guessed the outcome, he still didn't want to face it.

"How can a bank just go out of business!"

"Did the government approve their bankruptcy filing?"

"What about the staff here, what about the customers who handle business here?"

"Damn! I still have something in this bank!"

Bill's barrage of questions surprised the clerk, apparently he asked a lot of stupid questions.

"Barclays Trust Bank is not bankrupt, do you know that the Barclays consortium?"

"Barclays Trust Bank, backed by the Barclays consortium, cannot easily declare bankruptcy, but this branch is out of business. ”

The clerk had sympathy in his eyes.

Customers of Barclays Trust Bank had long been notified of the closure of the bank and had come to retrieve their custody items, and it appeared that only this person had been forgotten by the bank staff.

"Unlucky friends, you can go to the headquarters of Barclays Trust Bank and try to recover your losses. ”

"The headquarters is in the capital, Britts, which is a big city. ”

"Evil capitalists!"

"It's better they didn't open my safe and look through it!"

Bill slammed his fist against the glass window, making a loud noise, and the clerk was frightened by him and hurried back to the store, no longer talking to the irascible man.

"If someone finds out that the pocket watch is not ordinary and hands it over to the church, they will most likely find me. ”

"And the pocket watch is kept by 'me', which must be a very important thing, and it must be retrieved as soon as possible. ”

"It's good that I left a bag of gold pounds, which is the money to buy my life, otherwise I would have become a penniless pauper!"

Although Bill threw most of John's money bag with only 80 gold pounds left, it was enough for him to live well until the safe was recovered.

There were hundreds of gold pounds in the safe, and he hadn't counted the exact amount.

"The capital of Brittus?"

"It sounds dangerous, maybe there are police and missionaries everywhere, maybe witch hunters. ”

"I wonder which city Johnny will give me a ticket to go to, go home first or recover my pocket watch first?"

The anger slowly subsided, and Bill walked slowly down the street, aimlessly, watching the stream of pedestrians, and he felt out of place in the world again.

Bill didn't know the body's name, whether the world remembered 'his' relatives and friends, or where he was going.

"Let's go home first. ”

"You always have to find out your identity, so that you can be confident when you go to the bank headquarters and ask for a safe. ”

Once you've made your choice, all that's left is to wait.

......