Turtledove didn't know how much trouble his recklessness had brought to Mouse City, he was still angry with Hannibal while lying on the hospital bed, and as for what he was angry about, Turtledove didn't really know too well, in short, he was angry.

Touched by Hannibal's words, Turtledove realizes that he may really be the same kind of person as the worm.

For so many years, Turtledove had tried to make himself look no different from everyone else, so he made himself cold-blooded and unsympathetic, and he met the worm.

She was really a strange girl, out of place in the whole extralegal land, and it was her kind of difference that made Turtledove see another self in her sky-clear eyes, a self hidden deep inside him, almost forgotten.

Turtledove was panicked and confused, he didn't know what it meant, so he had an inexplicable fear of the change. But then again, the turtledove itself still cherishes such a similar person very much, otherwise how could he abandon the survival experience of more than ten years and jump into this fire pit desperately.

How to say it, at this time, Turtledove's emotions are very complicated, so complicated that even he can't figure it out himself, and it is even more difficult for others to figure it out.

……

Tossing and turning, the turtledove wanted to see the worm, but was told by the doctor on duty at the hospital that the worm's current condition did not allow him to be visited, so the turtledove had to return to his hospital room and continue to stare at the moon outside the window.

Hannibal said that she had a deep relationship with the Wings of Freedom, and now that not only the Wings of Freedom, but also the New Empire were looking for her, it didn't seem like a wise choice to get involved with the worms.

So, can I throw the worm to Jacob and leave her alone, or give her to the ill-intentioned Li Jinshan? This turtledove has seen how they treat the worm, and presumably the worm would rather die than fall into their hands again.

But in the face of the two powerful forces of the New Empire and the Wings of Freedom, he may not even be able to count an ant, and even a bone town can't deal with it by himself, in case those who want to catch small insects find Mouse City, what should they do then?

It was only then that Turtledove thought that his actions might have implicated the Mouse City, and his heart was cold, and he somewhat understood why Hannibal was so angry.

Neither the New Empire nor the Wings of Liberty can afford to provoke the Rat City, even if the Rat City has a place in the land outside the law, it still can't be compared to these two behemoths, Ikaruga thought about it, and found that there seems to be only one choice left for him.

That's to get the bugs out of Mouse City.

……

The next day, Walter, the old butler, brought good news to the turtledove, who had just gotten up, that the worm's high fever had finally subsided in the early hours of the morning, and that the man had woken up, and that she had now named him to see him.

Somehow, the turtledove was a little scared to meet the worm, and he moved his mouth, but he couldn't tell whether he was going or not.

"Young Master, isn't breakfast appetizing?"

Walter had lived for so many years, he had never seen any scenes, and he had come from a young age, so he could naturally guess that it was not breakfast that made Turtledove look strange, but the girl who was waiting for him to meet.

"It's okay, it's okay."

Turtledove replied absentmindedly.

Walter didn't press Turtledove for an answer, and after he said this, he left Turtledove's hospital room, leaving Turtledove alone staring at the door, looking at the air and looking at it.

……

"Drip, Drip, Drip......"

The regular sound of the instrument seemed to be beating, playing a dull melody, wrapped in bandages, and lying on the bed like a mummy-like worm, with her beautiful eyes open, looking at the man standing in the doorway without blinking.

The doctor in charge of treating the worm stood up and walked up to the young man, and the two whispered something to each other, and the little worm with the "eagle eye" saw a sense of relief on the young man's face, and a dodging look that deliberately avoided his gaze.

The worm knew that it was the young man named Turtledove who had saved him.

The doctor went out, and the turtledove no longer had a shield to avoid the eyes of the little worm, he coughed dryly twice on the spot, and then he slowly moved to the side of the bed, peeked at the little worm, and when the eyes of the two people came into contact with each other, the turtledove immediately looked away as if he had been electrocuted.

Her face was pale.

After a few days of high fever, the worm's body was really weak to the extreme, but fortunately, the fever had subsided, which indicated that the infection status of the wound on her body was under control, so that after a good rest, she should be able to fully recover.

Turtledove sat on the chair next to the bed, held it for a long time, and finally held back a sentence:

"Are you awake?"

The little worm looked at the turtledove carefully, and she saw the turtledove's bandaged arm hanging from his chest, and remembered the way the turtledove limped when she entered the door, and in the memory of the little worm, the turtledove was not a lame.

"Where's Miss Puff?"

"I'll bring it out for you."

"What's wrong with your arm?"

"Beaten up by a guy named Brown."

"Where's the legs?"

"Shot."

"What is this place?"

"Mouse City."

"Are you really called a turtledove?"

"Really."

After asking the first few questions, the little worm groaned for a moment, raised his eyes and asked:

"Why did you save me?"

This turtledove didn't answer the question like a stream, he didn't think about this question, why did he save the worm at that time, if it wasn't for the Wild Horse Gang halfway, he wanted to save the worm from the hands of the wolf's den team, it was tantamount to a fool's dream, and if he was not careful, he would even take his own life.

"You saved me before," Ikaruga said seriously, "I don't like to owe people much, especially favors and lives, and it is difficult to pay them off if they do, because you can only use favors to repay favors, and life to repay lives, and nothing else." ”

The worm didn't speak, but he recognized the turtledove's statement, and the two of them instantly went from asking and answering to being silent, and the atmosphere became a little awkward.

"Are you here to chase me away?"

The word of the little insect poked at the thing that the turtledove had been hiding for a long time.

"It's not that I want to drive you away......" Turtledove's tongue was almost knotted, "If it's me, it won't matter, but it's ......"

Before the turtledove could finish his sentence intermittently, the worm interrupted him:

"You already know who I am?"

The turtledove nodded.

"I'm curious," the little worm looked up at the turtledove, "and now that they know who I am, why did they just drive me away, instead of arresting me as a gift to the New Empire or the Wings of Freedom, they must have done you a lot of good." ”

"Because I'm a smart person, I don't like to take advantage of small things."

It wasn't the turtledove who said this, but Hannibal, the master of the Mouse City and the famous man-eater, who was slowly walking in through the door.