Chapter 51: Arms Depots
Who could it be so late?
The three adults in the house were all vigilant, and Anna also stopped moving, and looked nervously, and the little insect gave the turtledove a look, and the turtledove immediately pulled out the dagger he was carrying, and walked to the position behind the door, and Schultz told him not to act rashly, and then asked outside the door:
"Who?"
"It's me."
It was Adu's voice, Schultz went over and opened the door for him in wonder, the little kid stood at the door, and suddenly saw Anna who had stood up from the table through the cracks, so Adu pushed Schultz away, and shouted excitedly as he ran into the house:
"Anna!"
The brother and sister reunited after a long absence, and immediately hugged each other tightly, Anna's thin little face was wrinkled, tears flowed down, and she kept sobbing.
"Don't be busy crying yet," Adu said as he didn't forget to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, "I brought you something good." ”
Adu mysteriously took out a glass jar from his arms, which contained a small amount of golden liquid, Adu unscrewed the cap, dipped his finger in a little, and wiped it on Anna's lips, Anna stretched out her tongue and licked it, and then raised her eyebrows in surprise:
"Cactus honey!"
Adu smiled and stuffed the glass jar into Anna's hand, although he didn't say where the jar of cactus honey came from, but he didn't have to think about it to know that it definitely didn't fall from the sky.
Seeing that Adu and Anna were smiling, Schultz couldn't help but smile, he glanced left and right, and wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you to the turtledove, but found that the little worm and the turtledove were no longer in the house.
……
Outside the hut on the edge of the street, the turtledove crouched there silently looking at his feet, and the little worm came from behind, and took a look at the turtledove and crouched next to him, she did not keep her head down like the turtledove, and the little worm tilted her head back and counted the stars in the sky.
Today is cloudy and there are no stars.
"What do you want?"
Perhaps counting the stars made his neck sore, the little insect moved his gaze to the turtledove.
"I'm wondering how many places like Candy City are outside the law."
The turtledove seemed to be competing with his own feet, staring at it without blinking, and who knows what kind of nerves he was experiencing.
"It's all over the place, it's just that you didn't notice it before."
Xiao Worm was right, although the turtledove lived in a place outside the law before, he never thought that this place would be so cruel, he did personally contact many people with tragic stories, but at that time he would definitely not feel it as much as now.
Unconsciously, Turtledove's state of mind changed, he was no longer the person who was used to looking at the world with indifferent eyes, or his eyes that had been closed were now open, and he finally saw the pity and pathos hidden under the chaos and disorder of the lawless land.
It is pitiful to make people sympathetic, and it is pathetic to be powerless.
……
"Do you remember yesterday when you asked me what I wanted, what I was thinking about was how I would live in the next few years, you have goals, Schultz has goals, so I also want to have a goal."
The turtledove, crouched on the side of the road, slowly raised its head and looked straight ahead, even though there was nothing there, only the deep darkness of the night that could not be seen at a glance.
"Oh?"
The little insect stared at the turtledove with interest, and she wondered what kind of target the turtledove had found for herself.
"I want to change the world."
The turtledove's eyes have never been so determined.
The worm laughed suddenly, and her eyes were crooked into crescents, and the corners of her mouth were grinning wide, revealing a mouth full of white teeth.
The turtledove didn't know why the worm was laughing so exaggeratedly, and even though he didn't hear the mockery from the worm's laughter, he scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, and gently bumped the worm with his shoulder.
"I've always misjudged you," the laughing worm put his arm on the turtledove's shoulder, exuding an aura of a big sister's head, "I used to think you were a realist, but now I know that you are an idealist in the guise of a realist." ”
The turtledove has long been accustomed to the intimate actions of the worm and himself, what he cares about is what the worm says, why does she say that she is an idealist?
"You're going to change the world, aren't you an idealist yet?"
As she spoke, she hooked her arm around the turtledove's neck, she was much shorter than the turtledove, and it was still very difficult to do this action, so that the whole person was about to stand up.
After listening to the worm's words, the turtledove nodded, which can be regarded as an approval of the new "idealist label" she has put on herself.
Idealist, doesn't sound like some bad title.
"Then what are you going to do next," said the worm to the turtledove, "you must do something about it, or you will become a utopian, and indeed it is not a good title." ”
The turtledove thought for a moment and told the worm what he thought:
"I want to destroy the sugar mill in Candy City and free all the children there."
"That's a good start," Worm patted Turtledove on the shoulder, "but destroying a sugar mill won't solve the problem at all, and it's Calvin who is in control of the entire city that is really poisoning Candy City." ”
"As long as he rules Candy City, then Candy City will continue to be the same, and even if you destroy his sugar factory, he can build another one; Even if you let go of all the orphan workers, he can still catch them again. ”
"So if you want to save those kids once and for all, you have to take Candy City out of Calvin's hands."
The little worm's words made the turtledove think deeply, he was just thinking about saving those children before, and he didn't think about it further at all, at this time, after listening to the little worm's remarks, the turtledove felt that she was right, if Calvin was not solved, the candy city would not change fundamentally, and the tragedy here would continue forever.
It seems that in the future, the matter of using your brain will be left to the little worm, anyway, ask her before doing things, there will definitely be no mistake.
……
It was late at night, and Adu and Anna fell asleep in the inner room, and Turtledove, Worm, and Schultz sat at the table outside, and Worm told Schultz what Turtledove had in mind, and asked him if he had any ideas.
"It's such a coincidence," Schultz said, "that the first day I came to Candy City, I had a similar thought in my head as you two, Calvin is so hateful, how could he do such cruel things to these kids?" ”
"Get straight to the point."
The little worm was fed up with Schultz's rhetoric at every turn, and she waved her hand and motioned to Schultz not to come to that set of empty heads.
"No problem," Schultz pulled out his map of Candy City again and laid it out on the table, "We're understaffed, so we're trying to avoid a head-on confrontation with Calvin's bodyguard, and the first target at hand is not the sugar mill or Calvin's lair, but here." ”
Schultz's voice landed, and his finger stopped on a place on the map, where four small letters were marked in red letters: "Arms Depot".