Chapter 134: The Alley

When the next day came, Cheese finally struggled to get up from the hotel toilet. As a spellcaster with a relatively weak physical fitness, the diarrhea of this night almost made the mage incapacitated. The face that was already pale because of the serious injuries that had not healed has now become even more ugly. Cheese struggled back to his room and collapsed on the bed. He knew that today was the day to make a deal with the thief, but in his current situation, it was better to let the other party wait a little longer.

By the time Cheese regained consciousness again, it was already afternoon. Looking at the sky outside, the mage hurriedly cleaned up his clothes and changed into the same outfit he had worn yesterday when he was outside. But perhaps it was some kind of hunch, Cheese paused as he was about to go out, and the mage looked down and thought about it, and decided to change his clothes again. And as it turned out, this move saved him a lot of trouble.

"Hey, boy, are you sure that guy is coming today? we've been waiting here all morning!" said a big man in the alley where Sparrow and Cheese had made an appointment yesterday, and put his arm around the poor thief with his arm thicker than Sparrow's waist. Although this action seems to show the intimacy of the relationship between the two, due to the disparity in the size of the two and the hideous expression on the big man's face, this action instead shows the flavor of threat.

"I ...... I made an appointment with him yesterday. It's just that he didn't say exactly when...... "Sparrow's thin body writhed in pain in the crook of the big man's arm, he wanted to break free from the other party's grip, but he was afraid that this action would anger the other party. Compared to yesterday, Sparrow was in no better mental state than Cheese who had been squatting in the toilet all night, and judging by the bruises on the child's face, he should have been beaten up not long ago.

"Hmph, you'd better not tell lies. Otherwise, you know the end. The big man let Sparrow go, rudely threatening. At the same time, he took out a silver coin from his bosom, the one that Cheese had paid to Sparrow yesterday, and carefully admired the color of the precious metal.

"Are you sure that guy from yesterday will come over with another silver coin?" asked the big man.

He ...... That's what he promised. ...... As long as I carry the antidote. Sparrow replied cautiously with his head down. Yesterday, this kid went to his boss to buy medicine, but was intercepted by this big man. Sparrow knew that this guy was the second best villain in the neighborhood after the boss, and unlike his own boss, this big man didn't care about any credibility or dignity, and although Sparrow had carefully hidden the silver coin, he was still found by this bad guy from the sole of his shoe. On the contrary, the copper coin that Cheese gave him after that was directly exchanged for food and entered his stomach, but he escaped. Under the pressure of the big man, Sparrow had to tell the other party about the cheese, but don't think that our little gentleman is so easy to bully, Sparrow didn't tell the big man about the witchcraft. So while the big man was waiting for the fat sheep with his head and tail exposed, Sparrow was also waiting for Cheese to teach these guys a lesson for him.

But...... The thief glanced slightly at the depths of the alley and the top of the walls on both sides, where there were faint traces of human figures shaking, this big man was reckless but not stupid, and he also knew that most of the guys who dared to carry so much money out alone had some ability. But under the siege of so many "good hands" on the streets, even serious knights can only obediently hand over their money bags.

"The antidote, you're just as stupid as your boss, that idiot sells the Apothecary's Potions at such a cheap price, if I had known where he got those potions, I'd have doubled the price ten times or twenty times as much!" the big man laughed arrogantly, in his opinion, Sparrow's boss was a fool of fools, and he couldn't figure out how such a guy could climb on his head.

"Don't talk about the boss like that!" Sparrow, who was originally silent, immediately showed an angry look on his face when he heard the big man taunting his boss, for this kid who grew up on the streets, the leader he followed was his spiritual support. Hearing that the other party actually spoke disrespectfully to his idol, Sparrow immediately planned to wave his thin and unspoken fist to silence the other party.

"Haha, what if I tell me, you're as weak as your boss!" the big man pressed Spylo's head with one hand, and the child's short hands and feet could only make some meaningless waves. And just as the big man was about to humiliate Sparrow even more, a bird's cry came from above their heads.

"Phew, you're lucky boy. Knowing that this was a sign of approaching, the big man took a sip on the ground and hid in the depths of the alley.

After a few moments, as Sparrow stared anxiously at the entrance of the alley, expecting the figure to appear soon.

"What's the matter, boy, you weren't like that when I saw you yesterday. Cheese's voice abruptly appeared beside Sparrow, and Sparrow could assure the gods that he had never heard footsteps or figures approaching him. But when he turned around, Cheese was already standing behind the child.

"You ......" Sparrow pointed to Cheese, even though he already knew that Cheese was not an ordinary person, but the surprise on his face was not much less than yesterday.

At the same time, in the depths of the alley, the big man was also whispering to his subordinates in a very small voice.

"Hey, did you see when that kid walked in?" asked the big man.

"No, sir, in the blink of an eye he was standing behind the little sparrow. Is he the guy who just wants to buy medicine?" replied one of his men.

"Hmph, whether it's or not, he walks in and doesn't want to leave anything behind. The big man said viciously, the long wait had made him and his men impatient.

On the other side, the conversation between Cheese and Sparrow has just begun.

"Why are you here now? I've been waiting for you for a day!" Sparrow recognized the man as Cheese, and most of the men of a kid like him could remember their looks for a long time just by looking at them from afar.

"Ahem, this, it's true that I've been delayed by some things. Cheese coughed a few times in embarrassment, he couldn't tell the kid in front of him that he had been struggling all night because he had eaten some unreliable bad old man's poisoned sandwich last night. In that way, the image that he has built up with great difficulty is estimated to be broken, and there is not even slag left.

"Let's not talk about that, did you bring the antidote?" the mage immediately diverted the subject, he didn't want to remember last night.

"Sorry......" Sparrow lowered his head as Cheese asked the question. He can steal the passers-by's wallets without guilt, because in this child's world, the old ladies are too vigilant to blame, but the cheese is trading with him. And even the god of thieves, who believes in thieves, does not approve of such a thing as tearing up contracts at will.

"Well, it seems that it's not easy for you kid to mess around. They didn't steal the copper coin I gave you yesterday, did they?" "Although Cheese is not a battle-hardened warrior, mages have their own way of perceiving their surroundings, and while those who have been trained in concealment may make mage's detection ineffective, a group of rogues who smell of alcohol are not among them. So Cheese actually knew about the situation in the alley early on. Seeing Sparrow's reaction, the mage knew that what he feared had happened.

The little sparrow shook his head, but soon he realized that there was something wrong with Cheese's question.

"You knew the silver was going to be snatched from you?"

"Haha, my poor little sparrow, I'm a wizard. With a smile on his lips, Cheese didn't bother to explain his reasoning to the other party. And just as the mage was about to continue to coax Sparrow, the big man finally couldn't wait.

"Hey, the one who doesn't dare to show it! You'd better hand over all your money now!" he held an arm-thick iron rod, a short weapon that was often much more useful than a sword in street fighting.

"And what if I say no?" asked Cheese, turning his head to follow the voice.

"Hmph, this can't help you!" With the big man's words, more than a dozen figures instantly blocked the alley.