Half an hour later, in the alleys of the lower town.

The dirty kid panted and hid behind the trash can, hearing the shouts of killing farther and farther away.

"Whew! I'm scared to death!"

He wiped the cold sweat on his forehead: "Why are these fools so shrewd to find out that the uncle has changed cards...... Fortunately, I ran fast, fortunately I walked early, otherwise I would have been planted in this place today. Just scammed you out of a few hundred dollars, is it worth it?"

He muttered in a low voice, took out a large pile of silver coins from his pocket, counted them one by one, wiped off the sweat stains on them with his sleeve, and immediately smiled: "More than three hundred pounds hahaha! I earned it back! The first money, how can I spend it better......

"How about staying and paying for your medical bills?"

Someone next to him said sly. Whispering in his ear: "Or when you sell your money?"

"Ah!!h

The child rolled on the ground in fright, and only after getting up did he see the boy sitting on the garbage can. In the faint light, he recognized the face of this unlucky ghost who was pitted by himself, and immediately squeezed out a smile:

"Oh, isn't this a big cousin?"

"Yes, little cousin. ”

Ye Qingxuan looked at him with a sneer, and threw a large bag of waste paper that he stuffed into himself on the ground: "Little cousin, you run quite fast, cousin, I can't catch up...... Something back to you. ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say. ”

The child laughed dryly and stepped back, then turned abruptly and ran.

“10、9、8......”

Ye Qingxuan watched him coldly and ran out towards the mouth of the alley, motionless, counting down in a low voice. Until the count reached 3, the trembling child came back backwards, his face full of horror.

At the mouth of the alley, a big dog blackened by mud grinned, showing two rows of messy little white teeth in the sun, and there was still a dead mouse's tail on the teeth - Lao Fei sealed the door, no one wanted to run!

"Little cousin, why are you in a hurry?"

Ye Qingxuan pulled out the rope from the suitcase and reached out and pressed it on the dead child's shoulder: "Let's have a good chat." ”

"Big brother, I'm wrong, you're okay, let me go, woo woo woo......"

Five minutes later, the tied up child was huddled in the corner of the alley, blinking with big eyes and almost crying.

Ye Qingxuan just watched him cry quietly until he couldn't cry anymore.

"Have you cried enough?" Ye Qingxuan asked with a smile: "Are you hungry, I'll give you a bowl of noodles to eat." ”

"......" the dead child's expression became like eating a fly: "Hey, do you have any sympathy?"

"It's not that cousin, I don't have sympathy, but cousin, what you did today is really not authentic. He stretched out his hand and pinched the dead child's face: "Since you call me cousin, let my cousin teach you the principles of being a human being." ”

As he spoke, he pinched his knuckles and sneered at the crackling sound.

"Hey, what are you going to do?"

The dead boy was frightened, curled back, raised his voice and shouted, "I warn you! I'm very powerful, believe it or not, I called someone to come and teach you how to be a man in minutes?"

"Huh. ”

Ye Qingxuan smiled: "Old Fei." ”

Then Lao Fei came over and grinned.

The big dog didn't know what it had eaten, its mouth stinked so badly, its tongue licked the blood foam on its teeth, and it shook half of the rat's tail.

"Okay, okay, I'll admit it!" The dead child's face turned pale, and he tapped the silver coin on the ground with his chin: "No! ”

Ye Qingxuan didn't take it, just looked at him.

The dead child's face was even more ugly: "Hey, it's all mixed up on the road, don't be ignorant, five or five will already give you face......!" Still not good? Do you want to open three or seven?"

"I'm sorry, I don't want stolen or cheated things. ”

"Then what do you want?" the child's expression suddenly became annoyed: "I can't give it all to you!"

Ye Qingxuan sighed: "Apologize to me." ”

"Huh?"

Ye Qingxuan looked at him coldly and repeated: "Apologize to me." ”

"Don't!" the child twisted his head to the side.

"Apologies. Ye Qingxuan repeated.

"Don't think about it, uncle, I never say ......"

The dead child was halfway through speaking, and he couldn't go on under Ye Qingxuan's gaze.

Ye Qingxuan didn't say anything, just looked at him silently and didn't say a word.

I don't know why, the dead child is looked at by these eyes, and he always feels very empty. After a long time, his head turned little by little, and he lowered his head.

“...... Yes, no...... Rise. ”

He hummed vaguely.

Ye Qingxuan sighed and reached out to untie his rope. Looking at him curled up in the corner, he suddenly felt a little pitiful: "Forget it, I wanted to beat you up, just admit your mistake." ”

"What else do you want!" the dead kid glared at him, "Pervert." ”

"I know it's hard to be hungry, and it's not a big deal to cheat and steal. ”

Ye Qingxuan stretched out his hand and rubbed the child's hat, and said softly: "But after you get used to stealing, one day you will find that some things can't be stolen or cheated." Don't do that in the future. ”

The child looked at him with a complicated look in his eyes and whispered something. Ye Qingxuan leaned over to listen, and heard the child take a deep breath, grab his ear, and scream:

"--I want you to take care of !!"

There was a thunder on the ground, and just when Ye Qingxuan's mind was blank, the child suddenly jumped up from the ground and stepped on Ye Qingxuan's instep hatefully.

Immediately after, he smeared oil under his feet and fled.

Ye Qingxuan subconsciously reached out and fished out, and there was only a fedor hat in his hand. But the man has already run away...... Lao Fei watched gloatingly from the side, just sticking out his tongue and panting, and he had no intention of chasing it.

But Ye Qingxuan was also stunned, he stared blankly at the empty alley, thinking about the back of the child when he fled. Her hat was grabbed by herself, so the long silver-white hair hidden in the hat was sprinkled like silver.

"Is it a girl?"

Ye Qingxuan looked down at the hat in his hand, sighed softly after a long time, and stuffed it into his pocket: "It's really a blood mold, it's hard to see half of my fellow villagers, and the result is in this kind of place." ”

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Half an hour later, the original tavern was in disarray.

Two burly men stood guard at the front and back doors, clasping their hands in their arms, and looking coldly at anyone who dared to approach. At their waists, a dagger inlaid with a silver emblem looms out, causing passers-by to speed up their pace and avoid it.

In the tavern, everyone was lying on the ground, or rather...... Beaten to the ground.

Only an old man sat in silence in his chair, smoking his pipe.

The bartender who had once hid behind the bar was now tied to a pillar, his face covered in blood, and he made a hehe ** sound in his throat. In front of him, the shirtless man still kept going, like a hammer fist punching him in the face.

The fist was already stained with blood.

"Alright, stop, Marven. ”

The old man who smoked his pipe waved his hand and looked at the dying bartender: "Jensen, you're a tough guy, I know, a good man...... The amount you give to the shaman every month is never less, so I didn't break your neck like I did to everyone else. But you have to be honest, where did the kid who gambled with you go?"

"He, he fled. I swear, I don't know him. The bartender struggled to open his mouth, his teeth leaking.

"I know you don't know. ”

The old man who smoked his pipe sighed, "Tell me something I didn't hear, or I won't be able to explain." ”

"I really don't know, someone saw him running away with a child...... Later, I couldn't find it. ”

"Little children?"

"Avalon is full of dead children!" the pipe-smoking man frowned, "Do you want me to drag them out of the stinking gutter one by one for questioning?"

"Someone saw it, he's from the East! and he brought a dog!"

The bartender pleaded, "Mr. Ghost Hand, that's really all I know." Mr. Shaman's name is here, I dare not lie, I just beg you to spare me......"

"It's an Oriental kid again, what day is it, it's really worrying. ”

The pipe-smoking man sighed, waved his hand, and motioned for Marven to go away. Got up and patted him on the shoulder: "Thank you for your honesty, friend, Mr. Shaman will reward you for what is in the bar today." ”

He kicked away the broken table that was in the way, and turned his head to look into the corner: "You also saw it, Mr. Chang, our people are not with the kid you are trying to find." ”

In the corner, in the shadow that the light could not find, an emaciated shadow came out.

This is an old man from the East, dressed in a robe that looks cumbersome and luxurious, but his hair is gray after ordinary people age. His eyes were sharp, but when he stood in the corner, he didn't have the slightest sense of presence, like air.

Mr. Chang clasped his hands in his sleeves, and his face was expressionless with age spots:

"The shaman assures us that he will be found. ”

"Yes, yes, the shaman said that if we find him, we will definitely find him, and we will return the white-haired child to you without losing a single hair, and maybe buy one and get one free, and give you another white-haired child. But you've got to give us a little time. ”

"I will. ”

The old man surnamed Chang said lightly, took a step back, and disappeared into the darkness.

Ghost Hand watched him disappear, and sighed after a long time, "Damn, it's really troublesome." Come on, announce it, let the people below work harder, and look for it carefully. ”

Outside the door, a subordinate walked in quickly and whispered, "Mr. Ghost Hand, Mr. Shaman has something to say to you again." ”

"What?"

"It's still looking for someone, another group of people's commissions. We can't say no. ”

"What shit. Ghost Hand scratched his white hair in annoyance: "Damn, we're gangsters, and we're not a nursery...... Who is it this time?"

"A kid from the East with a dog. ”

“......”

At that moment, the ghost hand forcibly suppressed the urge to spit out a mouthful of old blood, and sighed with a long sigh:

"Let me guess if someone will come and let us find a dog again?"

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After spending a long afternoon, Ye Qingxuan finally followed the complicated road like a spider's web to find Shangcheng.

By the time the long bells rang from the church in the distance, it was already dusk.

In the crowded square, Ye Qingxuan sat tiredly on the bench next to the fountain, looking at the towering buildings not far away with a satisfied expression.

"The Royal Academy of Music has finally found you. ”

He laughed.