24. Snakehead Tavern
After hearing Fisher's words, the three cute little girls blinked together, and their movements were synchronized at the same time, as if they were three doppelgangers.
"Wait until we ask our friends."
"And friends of friends!"
"Come on, Dot-One!"
Just as the three girls began to call, the sound of Suo Suo began to appear all around the underground room, and Old Jack, who was holding the three milky girls, turned dark, and every time they called their friends, he felt uncomfortable, for fear that they would bring some disease in.
So he didn't let the rats in, at most he allowed them to appear at the mouth of the pipe.
After a while, a lot of mice were probing in the mouths of the pipes in the room, shaking their noses at the three little girls outside from time to time, and some of them waved their hands to say hello, and there were even kissing mice!
"Karon Street... Where is Karon Street? ”
"We've got to give them directions."
"But it's possible that the rats there don't remember very well, after all, this was last week."
Karma and the others spread out a map of St. Nari from their hands, and their little fingers traced through every street above, and finally stopped at Karon Street, where the crime occurred, and they raised the map in their hands to point at the rats sitting on the pipes outside, and pointed to the location, the rats squinted for a long time, and finally stood up and patted their chests, looking like "leave it to us".
Every time Old Jack saw this kind of scene, he thought that those rats must be some kind of goblin turned creatures, otherwise how could they make such vivid expressions. The next moment, rats poured out along the pipe, which kept making a crisp sound like raindrops as they moved.
Fisher watched the rats disappear into the room, and took out the envelope from his arms that the Nari police had given him, there were nearly 20,000 Nario inside, and he put the envelope on the small table in the room, the three rat girls had no concept of money at all, but Old Jack's eyes stayed on it for a long time.
"So much, what the hell are you looking for? If it's a very dangerous thing, I advise you to stop it. ”
"It's not dangerous, but it's worth a lot of money."
Old Jack glanced at Fisher, and did not refuse, he did need to save some money.
Fisher knew their situation, and before Jack died, Jack Sr. spent a lot of money on his son's illness, and in the end, to no avail, and the money would never come back. Although he still has a tavern on Snake Head Street, it is not a good place to go.
It's either criminals, gangsters, or addicts who appear here every day, and after all these years, he's had enough of it, to be exact, enough of Saint-Nari.
If it weren't for his son's study and work here, he would have left a long time ago, and Old Jack wanted to go to the countryside of Nari, wherever he wanted, and spend his old age there in peace.
And the three rat girls are not easy to show up here, so they can only stay in the basement every day, and his desire to move away is getting stronger and stronger. He had already decided that when he moved to the countryside and raised these three little girls, he would send them back to the Southern Continent, which was their hometown after all.
But that should be a long time later, Old Jack is in good health, and he still has the shadow of the gangster who slashed with knives back then.
The basement was quiet for a long time, and the three mouse mothers had been hanging on Old Jack's body, and they were not too hot, and from time to time they curiously glanced at Fisher, who was closing his eyes in the distance, and it was not until the familiar sound of the nearby pipe appeared again that they raised their heads.
"They're back!"
The previous group of rats appeared at the pipe above, and they panted and held on to the pipe wall, panting for a long time before the sound of "chirping" came out, and while talking, they danced to the ground at the three rat girls, and the others didn't know what it meant.
"That's right..."
"Oh!"
"Oh my God."
Several rat girls nodded, and the eldest rat girl named Karma turned her head to Fisher and said excitedly,
"They said the squirrels there saw a human jumping down from the second floor that night, breaking the human rails and running away, and they asked if it was this person?"
Fisher thought for a moment, then nodded and said,
"That's right, it's him. I want to know what that person looks like and where he is now. ”
Karma nodded, turned her head and shouted at the rats, who looked at each other, opened their hands again, and began to gesticulate.
"Ah, they said the guy was fat, and it was dark at night and they couldn't see what he looked like, but they knew where he was now."
"Where is it?"
Fisher looked at the rat above, who made a circle, and then frantically pointed his little finger upwards and shouted "chirp".
Kalmar opened her mouth, looked back at Fisher, and said in unison,
"They say that guy is in the streets of Snakehead right now."
Fisher's face changed, he got up and grabbed his cane and hat, and hurriedly waved his hand to the three rat girls behind him.
"Quick, tell your mouse friend to take me!"
"Oh oh oh, go! Dot-No. 1 and take Uncle Fisher to see it! ”
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The area of the Snake Head Street is actually quite large, except for the drainage system, there are many Nali buildings extending in the direction of the underground main river behind, so the second half of the Snake Head Street is like a street market built in an underground cave.
The deeper the enemy, the fewer ordinary people there are, because even the poorest they will fear for their own safety, and they may die in the depths without anyone noticing. The only people who often stay here are abandoned addicts and all sorts of dangerous people.
In a tavern deep in the depths, at this moment, there is a lady who is out of place with the people around her. The lady was quite tall, with a large glass of Nari beer in her hand, her hat resting on the table at the bar in front of her, and beside her sat several pirates who had disembarked with her, including the fat first mate.
"Ah, Nari's wine does taste good!"
These women from the Sardinian women's country were not feminine at all, but rather quite bold, drank most of the one-liter beer in one gulp, and looked at the people around them with ruddy faces, wanting to see if they could have a wonderful "sexual encounter" today. But those men are either too ugly or too dirty to match their taste at all.
Only Aragina drank without saying a word, not knowing what she was thinking in her dark blue eyes.
"Hey, Captain, what's the matter, I've been haunted since I came back from the city a few days ago, which lady did you fall in love with?"
The fat first mate and captain's bosom friend pressed her shoulder against Alagina's body, pulling back the thoughts she was thinking, Aragina turned her head to look at the first mate beside her, hesitated for a moment and said,
"I do have a crush on a nice man... But he's special. ”
"Special? In what way? ”
"Unlike the men in his hometown, he is stronger..."
"Oh... You like that. ”
The fat first mate quietly took a sip of wine, and suddenly had a general understanding of the captain's preferred type, she is not a lover of this type anymore, she still prefers the kind of delicate and cute men, but since the captain likes it, she can't say anything bad, the most important thing now is to comfort her, comfort the captain who is just starting to love!
She rolled her eyes and thought for a long time before saying,
"Oh, that's not bad, after all, it's a beautiful thing to have a man who can take care of you all the time... Anyway, we'll be fine on it, relax Captain! ”
Alagina paused slightly as she drank wine, she glanced at the first mate beside her, and her voice was a little quieter,
"He... He loves to be on it. ”
“....”
The first mate opened his mouth, and was speechless for a while, looked at the silent captain, and then looked at the crew next to him who pretended not to care but actually all pricked up their ears, and began to curse bitterly in his heart, and the stiff smile on his face became more and more embarrassing,
"Oh . . . Oh, that what.. I mean, that's not bad either. Come, drink, drink, captain, maybe drink more and think about it? ”
Aragina looked at her for a moment, then picked up the glass in her hand and drank the rest of the beer, trying to use the alcohol to dispel the thoughts in her heart.
Just as she put down the cup, a big greasy hand suddenly climbed up her shoulder, followed by a voice similar to the voice of a male duck,
"Hey, handsome, want to have a drink with me... Oh my God, you're a woman?! ”
Aragina frowned and turned her head, only to see a fat man with a ruddy face standing behind her.
The big fat man's gender was very vague, basically between male and female, not only did his voice sound very strange, but he also wore crimson lipstick and purple eyeshadow on his face, and his face was covered with a layer of white foundation.
It's just that he was so fat that he just drank a few sips of wine and began to sweat on his face, and the beads of sweat dripped down the fat on his face with his foundation until he was stuck in the folds of fat and couldn't move.
The expression on his face was as uncomfortable as if he had eaten a fly when he saw Arajina's handsome face and the rise and fall of his chest, and he took a few steps back, and his face became even more ugly when he saw the pirates next to her, who were distinctly Sardinian.
I didn't expect to meet a man who robs a man here!
"It's really unlucky, I thought it was a handsome guy with an aristocratic temperament, but I didn't expect it to be a tomboy..."
The man pursed his lips, not noticing Arajina's increasingly cold face, nor the door behind him opening, and a mouse sprang out first, barking wildly at the fat man.
"Oh my God? How can there be rats here! It's disgusting! ”
Before the fat man could move to chase away the rats, a gentleman with a cane in the door walked in slowly, and after seeing the situation in the tavern, he quickly scanned the surroundings, and after making sure that the drunk fat man in front of him had no accomplices, he looked at Aragina who was sitting in the back and was very surprised to see him come in.
He'd found the member of the Witch Society.