The riot caused by the cheese quickly attracted the patrol soldiers of the royal city, after all, this street was one of the more lively areas of the royal city, and it was impossible not to pay attention to the vicious incident where someone was injured and fell to the ground. And while the soldiers who had heard the news were still wondering why the wounded were these famous local hooligans, Cheese had quietly disappeared into the crowd. And the mage disappeared into the scene with the child, who had tried to steal the cheese purse.

"Tell me, what's your name?" "This is the back alley of a restaurant, from where no one usually walks into this disgusting place except for the guys in the kitchen who bring food ingredients into the restaurant in the morning and dump the day's accumulated garbage into the wagon in the evening. Cheese had taken the kid hostage, knowing that a pickpocket like this must be well versed in all the movements on the streets, so the mage thought it would be better to ask him directly than to ask for information by a few words.

The kid was visibly still in shock. He really couldn't understand how Cheese did what he had just done, and in this child's small world, he could only find a way to understand these things.

"You...... You can do magic! Don't eat my brain! Let me go! Help! There's a wizard here!" the child cried out in horror, flapping his limbs like a drowning mouse. At the same time, his cries for help could not be spread outside the alley because of some small arrangements of the cheese. And in other words, the voices that come from such dark alleys, even if they are actually heard, most of them will choose to ignore them.

"Hey, listen boy, be quiet!" The strength of the child's resistance was so great that Cheese, who was still in a weak state, could not suppress it, after all, the mage was not known for his physical fitness. In desperation, although he wanted to minimize the frequency of casting spells to prevent being discovered, the fierce resistance of the other party still made the mage have to silently raise the palm of his left hand at the child. With Cheese's movements, an invisible force pressed the child against the wall, probably to preserve his strength, and although the force prevented the child from leaving the wall, it did not forcibly suppress his limbs.

Under the sudden terrifying force, the child finally stopped struggling, perhaps because he finally realized the gap between himself and the mage, or maybe it was just due to a simple lack of strength. Cheese noticed that although the child's clothes were not thin, they were basically made of various ill-fitting clothes through inferior modification methods, and his limbs sticking out of the clothes were very slender, and even the blood vessels on the arms could be clearly seen. If it weren't for the muscles that had been exercised for survival, Cheese would have even thought that the child was some kind of skeletal undead in human skin.

"Okay, now we can have a good talk. Cheese walked up to the child and looked condescendingly at the thief, who was pinned to the wall and could not resist. He opened his right hand, and in the palm of the mage lay a silver coin, the special luster of the precious metal instantly attracted the child's attention, "Listen to the child, I ask you to answer, tell me what I want to know, this silver coin is yours." Got it?"

The kid swallowed as he looked at the silver coin in the mage's hand, and he nodded. In this child's opinion, even if Cheese is a cannibal demon, the coins in his hand can keep him alive, especially if he has messed up so many things today.

Seeing the child nodding, a faint smile appeared on Cheese's face, he didn't hate this little guy who tried to steal him, and the people of this world could only choose those despised means for their own survival. But that's not their fault, it's that they don't have the opportunity to choose.

"Well, then, let me ask you, has anything happened in Wangcheng lately?" asked Cheese.

The child pressed against the wall frowned at the question, his expression telling the mage that he was trying to think about things that could be classified as "big things", and then Cheese realized that his question was too vague for the child, and that the other person's attention was not the same as his own, and he would definitely not get the answer he wanted by asking him in such a general way. So the mage changed his question.

"What's the most discussed thing in the royal city lately?" Compared to the question just now, Cheese believes that this one will be much easier to answer. Thieves like this must be a character who is watching and listening, and even if they are not interested, they will pay attention to the information that people say.

"Plague! a plague that turns people into monsters!" replied, and sure enough, this time the child replied without even thinking about it. Looking at the expression on his face, it was clear that he was very confident in his answer.

"Tell me something specific, something you know that no one else knows. Cheese said that he had found the right direction for his problem, and that he only needed to guide the child to tell him everything he knew.

"Hmm...... I don't know much about the plague either, and those people are just saying that the plague is spreading faster and faster, and that it will turn people into rat-like monsters. So a lot of the wealthy are planning to move further south. The child said. His tone was a little confused, and it seemed that he was not very sure of his answer.

"And what about you, what do you think of the plague in their mouths?" Cheese noticed that there was no fear in the child's eyes when he spoke of the plague, which was very strange, because in fact when an epidemic appeared, the first and most affected group must be people like him.

"I—I'm not afraid of those things, our boss said he could get an antidote to the plague, and as long as I had enough money to buy the antidote, I wouldn't be afraid!" replied the child. Hearing the other party's answer, Cheese's first reaction was that it was a scam.

"The antidote? How can you be sure that what he's giving you must be the antidote?" The person who would be called the boss by this kind of thief would not be a big man, at most he would be a hooligan leader of some forces in the royal city, and such a person would have the antidote to the rat-man plague in his hands? So he asked the question just to wonder why a kid like this growing up on the street would think that what the boss said must be the truth.

"The boss will never lie to us!" As a result, the child said firmly, without a trace of hesitation in his eyes, it seemed that he had absolute trust in the boss in his mouth, "The boss said that if there is an antidote, there must be an antidote! As long as I have enough money to buy the antidote, I will ......" said the child and looked at the silver coin in the cheese's hand.

"Hehe, huh?" Cheese noticed the other party's gaze, and he gently used his thumb to bounce the silver coin into the air, and the silver coin kept tumbling in the air, and finally fell back into the mage's hand again, "Then this silver coin in my hand, can I buy a few copies of the antidote in your mouth?"

The child's eyes rolled, as if in his head he was calculating the proportions between the coins, and after a few moments he said in a slightly hesitant tone.

"Probably...... Five servings. ”

Hearing the other party's answer, Cheese almost laughed on the spot. Because in the eyes of the mage, this is simply an incredible price, you must know that in the county of Salon, the materials that Cheese spent in order to suppress the spread of the plague are definitely a terrible amount in money. If it weren't for the fact that the Grey Tower had its own way of obtaining these materials, it would have been impossible for Cheese to obtain such a large amount of materials, not to mention the fact that it also included dragon's blood, which only existed in legends for apothecaries. And now the boy actually said that one silver coin could get five antidotes to the plague. Cheese felt that he really didn't know whether to laugh at the other party's ignorance or to feel helpless at the shoddy methods of the person who spread the lie.

And Cheese's expression was obviously written on his face, and the child was not happy when he saw the mage's expression, in the eyes of such a child, maybe Cheese could bully himself at will, but the mage was actually suspicious of the object of his worship, which was simply unacceptable.

"Our boss got the antidote from the Pharmacists' Guild! it must be true!" said the thief angrily. His words made the expression on Cheese's face froze.

"You just mentioned that these antidotes come from the Pharmacists' Guild?"