Xinghe wiped a handful of sweat from his forehead, his clothes were already soaked with sweat, and he had to admit that he had made a mistake in not considering Anton's size.

They were hiding in a dumpster in a small alley, which was spacious if it were just him and Shigego, but when Anton came in...... It was a late autumn night, but the three of them were sweating profusely.

"Fatty, it's time for you to lose weight. Shigego couldn't help but mutter.

"Fat is always better than your thin bamboo pole, look at you, Xiaoling is probably better than you. The fat man said sarcastically.

"Shut up and be quiet!" Xinghe stopped the two idiots, I really couldn't understand that it was so stuffy inside, and the two of them were still in the mood to quarrel.

Through the gap in the dumpster, you can see the small casino called "Drunk Gold" across the street, which is just a sparse and ordinary small casino in Dongcheng District, with all kinds of gambling equipment, and like many other casinos in Jiangcheng, there is an underground gladiatorial arena for gamblers to bet.

But this casino is not the key, the key is a fat man who has been in and out of this casino often for the past two nights, human, about thirty or forty years old, with a semi-bald hairstyle, with a belly bigger than a pregnant woman, Anton can only be regarded as slender in front of him.

He is the owner of a batch of goods that are now waiting to be loaded in the port warehouse, and he is also the target of the galaxy that they are ready to slaughter this time.

The incident originated a few days ago, because the last big ships from the Elven River before the closure of Jiangcheng Port were about to arrive in a few days, so some merchants transported the goods to be loaded to the dock in advance, stored them in the warehouse of the dock first, and prepared to load the ship as soon as it came.

Because it was the last batch of goods before the port was closed, the amount of goods was a bit large, so the port also appropriately increased some of the wages for handling, and these days because of the obstruction of the gangsters of the "Evil Dragon Society", Xinghe and a few of them didn't get much money, so fortunately a few of them simply went to the port to work, although they didn't earn much, but it was better than nothing.

That day, they were responsible for carrying a batch of pottery villains packed in a horse-drawn cart and sealed in wooden boxes, there were a lot of them, Xinghe didn't count them in detail, there were roughly tens of thousands, there were many styles of villains, old people, children, pregnant women, etc., at first Xinghe didn't care, just thought it was some kind of handicraft.

But during the transport, Shigego accidentally broke a statue of a pregnant woman, and Xinghe was very angry, because the compensation for the damaged items was all to be deducted from the wages of several of them, although these villains did not seem to be worthy, but their wages were not much, and just as Xinghe was about to reprimand him, he saw something from the statue of the pregnant woman that was cracked.

The "pregnant woman" has a black stone wrapped in her stomach, and Xinghe happens to know that kind of stone, he knows this black stone from the magic knowledge that he didn't learn much from his father and Aunt Ye, "obsidian", is not a very precious thing, it is used in many magic items, and it is a relatively basic magic material.

But no matter how basic it is, it can't change the fact that this is a magic material, the owner of this batch of goods is not a demon, because the dock let these zero-hour workers carry it, which means that the owner of the goods is not a customer who is particularly valued by the dock, and these obsidian stones are hidden in the belly of the potter, and it is obvious that they are not circulating through formal channels, that is, this is a smuggling case.

Smuggling magical items is a very serious crime in the Empire, depending on the smuggling sentence, judging from the number of these potters, tens of thousands of potters, even if only one-tenth of the "pregnant women" with obsidian hidden in them are enough for the owner of this batch of goods to be sentenced to death.

It is not difficult to reverse investigate who the owner of this batch of goods is, hide in the corner and wait for the goods to be moved after who is going to pay the wharf, and then follow this person to find the owner of the goods, anyway, no one will be suspicious if they hide behind their children, but in order to investigate, they didn't even get the day's wages.

Then they found the middle-aged man with a big belly named Leo, blackmailing a rich cargo owner, a risky thing they hadn't done yet, but as winter got closer, they couldn't get the money, so Xinghe decided to take a risk.

After two days of tracking, they figured out Leo's actions and made the current plan, strictly speaking, Xinghe didn't like the plan that Arazuki came up with, but he couldn't resist her, he really couldn't think of a better way to do it under the pressure of the "Evil Dragon Society".

The plan was to choose a time for the target to leave the casino in the second half of the night, and at this point the group of "Evil Dragons" would not roam the streets, and no one would interfere with them. The plan is for Lan Yue and Ling to lead the target who has just left the casino into this alley, Xinghe is not suspicious of his sister and Xiao Ling's charm, but he thinks that only people with special hobbies will be interested in two nine-year-old girls, and it is dangerous for Lan Yue and Ling to do so.

But the ship was coming tomorrow, and Xinghe couldn't think of a better way than he had time, so he later agreed to Lan Yue's plan.

"All of them cheered up, and the goal appeared. Through the gap in the garbage can, Xinghe saw a pot-bellied figure staggering out of the door of "Drunk Gold", and the top of his half-bald head sparkled in the light.

Lan Yue and Ling immediately surrounded them, deliberately dressing up for tonight, but it took them half an hour to convince Ling not to take her bear with her.

To Xinghe's surprise, he originally thought that Lan Yue and the others would take a long time to convince Leo, but they didn't expect that after a while, Leo was pulled by the two of them towards the alley, and even Lan Yue secretly made a "V" gesture towards him from a distance.

"Have you memorized all the steps? Xinghe turned his head to look at Anton and Shigego, and after seeing their affirmative nods, Xinghe turned his attention back to Leo, "Pay attention to my gestures. ”

There is a reason why Leo has to be brought to such a lightless alley, after all, the threats and blackmail of a few children are not convincing, so Xinghe needs to use some small means.

Lan Yue and Ling quickly led Leo into the alley, and Xinghe could see the awkward expression on Ling's face. Leo's drunkenness, the traces of vomit from the upper reaches of the tailor-made dress, that's why he was pulled over so quickly, he was drunk, at least that's what Xinghe himself thought.

As she passed by the dumpster, Lan Yue waved her small fist at the dumpster to signal that there was no problem, and then she said to Leo in a voice that sounded a little trembling in the galaxy, "Uncle, can you lower your head a little?"

It's hard to imagine that Leo didn't tremble, but did so with a smirk...... , He bent down and put his head in front of Lan Yue, and then Lan Yue also looked at him with a smile, raised his little hand, and blew into his face.

"Ahh......h

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lan Yue immediately pulled Ling out of the alley, and when she left, she also gave Xinghe a thumbs up to them, and Xinghe judged from the meaning that it should be said, it's up to you next.

Xinghe didn't hesitate, immediately pushed open the flap of the garbage can, and snapped his fingers at the two people below, they spent a night arranging in this alley, they installed pulleys above the alley, and hoisted Xinghe into the air by letting Anton and Shigego in the garbage can pull the rope, Xinghe was wearing an adult-sized robe made of shabby black cloth curtains, and after hanging it in the air, Xinghe looked like an adult rather than a hairy child, the black lights in the alley were blinding, Leo definitely didn't notice that the lower half of the black robe was empty, and it should look more scary to let himself float back and forth through the pulley。

"Ahem. Xinghe tried his throat, and he deliberately suppressed his voice to make it hoarse.

"Who! who's there?" Leo let go of his hand covering his eyes, his eyes, which were already red and swollen from excessive drinking, were completely swollen into a slit, and there were tears in them, as if he couldn't even see the galaxy standing not far in front of him.

"I've heard that some interesting 'pregnant women' have come to the docks lately. Xinghe deliberately added an accent to the word "pregnant woman", although the first time he blackmailed the shipowner, he was a little nervous, but for him, who had become a commonplace in Dongcheng District, once he entered the state, things were much easier.

Hearing the word "pregnant", Leo suddenly calmed down, and his red and swollen eyes widened slightly, "Hehe, what are you talking about?" He rubbed his eyes and said, "You instructed those two children?

Xinghe let out an eerie laugh and threw the obsidian he had prepared at Leo, the piece he had taken from the belly of the broken pottery statue.

"What are you doing?" Leo easily caught the obsidian thrown by Xinghe, and after he saw the things in his hand clearly, the expression on his face instantly froze, his brows moved slightly, and the expression that was still a little gloomy just now suddenly turned into a smile, and the speed of changing his face made Xinghe smack his tongue, and he walked towards Xinghe with a smile, "Look, everything is easy to discuss." ”

Although Leo had a harmless smile on his face, the movements of his hands were not slow, and before Xinghe had time to give instructions to Shigego and Anton, Leo stuck to Xinghe, put one hand on Xinghe's shoulder and seemed to be friendly, but a dagger popped out of the sleeve of the other hand, and then stabbed Xinghe rapidly.

Fortunately, because many places in the black robe were supported by special means, Leo miscalculated the size of Xinghe's body in the black robe, and the dagger was inserted into Xinghe's armpit and stabbed it, only bringing him some abrasions.

Xinghe didn't give him a chance to continue mending his knife, four or five fireballs rose from the ground, revolving around Xinghe like ghost fire, the dagger slipped from Leo's trembling hand, and landed on the ground with a crisp sound, and at the same time, Leo also sat on the ground with a pale face, muttering, "Spellcaster!"

In a sense, Xinghe is indeed a spellcaster, but it is not the kind of spellcaster that Leo fears, and the limited magic that Xinghe learned from his parents is simply to move some objects that are not too heavy, so the fireballs that fly around Xinghe are not actually fireballs made of magic in the true sense of the word.

Their true appearance is actually heated white phosphorus, and Shigego and Anton, who are hiding in the garbage can, throw out the processed white phosphorus, and Xinghe is only responsible for moving these spontaneously combusting white phosphorus around him, so as to achieve the effect of looking powerful.

Of course, this kind of thing can't fool people who really know it, but thanks to the monopoly of magic by demon spirits under the laws of the empire, there are very few people in this world who know magic other than demon spirits, at least Leo is definitely not one of them, he was so frightened that his face turned pale and he could hardly speak.

"Who the hell are you?" Leo began to speak.

"I'm the one who came to do business with you. Xinghe replied in a hoarse voice.

"You're not here to kill me?" Leo's face finally improved.

"Of course, why would I kill a dead man. Xinghe deliberately slowed down his speech, letting the flying white phosphorus burn out and finish his speech at the same time, as if he had taken the initiative to remove the fireball.

"Dead man?" Leo's face suddenly turned the color of pig liver.

"Smuggling this amount of obsidian is enough for the death penalty, you don't know it. ”

"What do you want?"

"You want to live and I want money, it's a simple thing. ”

"Money?" Leo glanced at Xinghe suspiciously, but his face returned to normal, he straightened his clothes, and got up from the ground with some difficulty, "How much do you want?"

"How much do you think you should give?" Xinghe threw the question back to Leo, not to embarrass Leo, but because this was the first time Xinghe had blackmailed him, Xinghe himself was not sure how much money he should extort for this batch of smuggled goods.

Leo stretched out a finger tremblingly, Xinghe shook his head, although he didn't know how much it should be, but you only gave a thousand dan, you can't say it.

Leo stretched out three fingers, Xinghe felt a little annoyed, and said that there was no treachery or business, at this time, he could actually pick the door like this, three thousand dan, it is indeed a lot of money, but no matter how you say it, it is a little different from the price in Xinghe's heart, so there must be at least five thousand dan.

"Fifty thousand! no more," Leo looked at Xinghe with a pained expression.

Hmph, 50,000 ...... Wait, 50,000, it's 50,000 deniers!

Xinghe was stunned for a moment, although he wanted to knock on a big stroke, but he didn't expect to be able to knock so much, and this winter's landing will be there.

Xinghe was shocked by the sudden figure of fifty thousand, but his silence seemed to change to another meaning in Leo's eyes.

"100,000! I only made 200,000 yuan on this trip, at most half of yours, no more. Leo looked at Xinghe with a pig-like expression, "If you don't have enough, it's a big deal that the fish dies and the net is broken, and you won't get any of them." ”

"Deal. Xinghe didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately agreed, "Before noon tomorrow, I hope to see my money in this garbage bin." ”

"Wait. Leo suddenly cried out, "How do I know you're going to keep your promise when you get the money?"

"I swear to my magic that as long as I get the money, you and I will have nothing to do with it before, and if I break my oath, I will be abandoned by my magic. Xinghe chuckled, "You're satisfied, but don't think about tricks, I remember your face, get out." ”

Leo suddenly had a relieved expression, turned around and ran into the distance, watching his fat back gradually disappear, Xinghe couldn't help but wonder if fat people were so good at running.

A gust of wind blew, making Xinghe feel a little cold, he looked down at the garbage can, "Hey, everyone is gone, you two still don't let me down?"

Shigego pushed open the top lid of the bin, holding a ball of rope in his hand that was obviously pulled into a dead knot, and said with a somewhat evasive gaze, "What's that...... That one...... Can't untie it. ”