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

The sound of the instrument was still repeating monotonously, and the turtledove swallowed nervously, but its body did not move, just enough to stand between Hannibal and the worm.

"Stupid."

Hannibal knew what the boy was thinking, and he walked over and stood in front of the turtledove, who struggled twice before finally letting go.

"Of course, everyone wants this thing," Hannibal said to the little worm who was looking at him on the hospital bed, "but smart people know what kind of benefits they can want, and what kind of benefits are best not to even touch, what secrets do you have this girl, it is a matter between you and them, and we in Mouse City do not want to be involved." ”

"But ......"

The turtledove next to him tried to speak, but Hannibal blocked all his words back into his stomach with a single look.

"I'll leave now."

The little worm blinked her eyes twice, she really wanted to get up from the bed, but her body was really weak, not to mention getting off the bed, it was extremely difficult to even sit up from the bed, because of her action, the bandage on her shoulder was faintly bloodstained, and it seemed that the wound that had a tendency to heal was cracked again.

"I'm not an unkind person," Hannibal said as he turned a blind eye to what the worm had done, and his face remained the same, "don't force yourself now, for the sake of this kid trying so hard to bring you back, you could have stayed here for a few more days to recuperate." ”

Turtledove secretly let out a sigh, he was really afraid that Hannibal would not say a word and directly drive the worm out of the mouse city, with her current state, it was impossible to survive outside.

The little worm sitting on the pillow looked at Hannibal, and then at the turtledove with its head down, and whispered:

"Thank you."

……

"You come out with me."

Tolerant of giving the worm a few days of rest, Hannibal spoke to the turtledove in a less "tolerant" tone, his brows were gathered, and the voice landed, and the turtledove reluctantly followed him out of the worm's ward.

Standing in the hallway outside the door, Hannibal stared at the turtledove for a long time, and after a while, he suddenly burst out laughing inexplicably.

Turtledove glanced back at Hannibal in confusion, not understanding why he was laughing.

"Grown up."

The smile on Hannibal's face grew, and he looked at the young man in front of him, and the few words of reprimand that he had thought of were thrown out of the clouds, - he was already very old, but the turtledove was still young, and that was enough.

The turtledove didn't grasp the deepest meaning of Hannibal's three words, he just thought that the handsome old man was making fun of himself again, thinking that he had indeed put the mouse city in danger because of his reckless impulsiveness, but Hannibal still let the little worm continue to recuperate here, so he had to lower his head and not say a word.

The handsome old man took such a big risk for himself, and he showed a different kind of tolerance, just these two points, let him make fun of him if he is willing to make fun of them.

"She's saved me before," but Ikaruga justified her actions, "and she was arrested to save me, so I think I'll have to pay her back." ”

Turtledove previously said that the most difficult thing in the world to return is human favor, and Hannibal was the first to teach him about this, so Hannibal did not disagree with Turtledove's statement that "returning favors".

"You don't want to see her again for the next few days when she's recuperating here," Hannibal retracted his smile and looked serious, "lest you two be entangled in a daze, and it's easy to tell whether human affection comes and goes." ”

For Hannibal's request, Turtledove immediately nodded in agreement, he had only met with the worm two or three times, and there was nothing to talk about with each other at all, Turtledove's main idea was really just to pay off the favor owed to her.

Turtledove thought that this was the end of the matter, and he was just about to leave, but found Hannibal still standing there, so Turtledove retracted his steps and accompanied Hannibal honestly.

"The whole place outside the law is like a big quagmire, and everyone is trapped in this quagmire."

"I've seen a lot of kind people before, but now it's quite rare, probably extinct."

"The reason for this is that other people will not repay him with kindness because of his kindness, they will only step on the head of the good person and step him into the deepest part of the quagmire, so that his head can be stretched up a little more and he can breathe more fresh air."

"This kind of person can be seen everywhere outside the law."

"Outlaws don't believe in kindness and compassion, no one looks at the corpses of those who are good, and even if they occasionally notice them, most of them spit on those corpses and laugh at their stupidity."

"I don't want you to be a corpse for someone else's feet."

"So hide your kindness, in the land of the law, that's weakness, and as soon as others find out that you are a good person, they will pounce on you like a wolf pack of sheep that has broken its horn and tear you to pieces."

"Don't do this stupid thing again."

Hannibal spoke at length to the turtledove, who had lived in the land outside the law for so many years, and he knew what it was like to be outside the law, and as Hannibal said, the land outside the law did not believe in kindness and compassion.

Turtledove nodded solemnly, he knew that Hannibal was doing this for his own good.

……

It's okay not to see the little insect anymore, at least the turtledove still remembers the nervous appearance of the last time he saw her, and in the blink of an eye, three days have passed, and the turtledove has changed back to its previous appearance.

His physical fitness is far beyond ordinary people, the bone fracture injury has healed in two days, the bullet hole in his thigh has almost recovered, although he can't do too strenuous exercise, he no longer limps when he walks.

I haven't been back to Mouse City for a long time, and Ichidove has nothing to do in the past two days and walked around in the company of Liu Hailong, but it turned out that the change in Mousetown is not too big, or basically nothing has changed, and everything still maintains the appearance of Turtledove's memory.

For turtledoves, it's a good feeling to be home.

……

On the night of the fifth day, a car from the northeast entered the Mouse City, with a strange pattern painted on the hood of the car, with a sharp sword in the center and two pairs of white wings beside it, one closed inward and the other outward.

Before the car reached the city of rats, the information had reached Hannibal's ears, and although he had already guessed that the people of Freedom Wings would come to the door, he did not expect them to come so quickly.

That's right, these are the people of the Wings of Freedom.

You must know that the deep desert of Mouse City is not close to the sphere of influence of the Wings of Freedom, and it takes a long time for the information to pass from here, not to mention that the eyes of the Wings of Freedom were all killed by Hannibal a few days ago.

The Wings of Liberty came so quickly that Hannibal was caught off guard by a number of things that had not been arranged.