The city lord of Seahorse City is named Ding Yixiu, a middle-aged man with good means, firmly grasping the power of the entire city, and is like a dictatorial king in this city.

His son's name is Ding Can, and he seems to be the number one fan of the Mask Geek.

The young man is rumored to have studied every battle the Masked Monster in, learned his style, and carried out his spirit of a thief, often referring to himself as the "Masked Monster - Seahorse City Splitter".

For this reason, the Zero Tavern had vaguely reminded the city lord Ding Yixiu, hoping that he could take care of his children.

Dante Yixiu also had a headache, and often sighed "This number is useless".

Su Xia stood in front of the taxi, looked at the dilapidated trucks, and asked, "Where did he get these supplies for the poor?" His own property? ”

"No, the city lord's child is too young to take over the property managed by the city lord."

The driver replied honestly: "These materials should have been scavenged from many merchants and magnates in the city." ”

"Looting?"

These two words flashed in Su Xia's mind, and the literal meaning didn't seem quite right.

He asked, "How?" ”

The driver replied: "The children of the lord of the city often go to the homes of those merchants, magnates, and rich people to take a look and chat casually, and when he goes out again, he has a large list of supplies in his hand, which were given to him by those people." ”

"Oh, what a scavenging ......"

Come to think of it, the identity of the son of the city lord gave the young man a lot of convenience.

What he wanted, the merchants in this city did not dare to withhold.

And he wants to be very measured, he won't ask too much at a time, and he doesn't let those people hurt their muscles and bones, at most they will make their hearts ache.

"How are the people here, can they eat enough?"

"I'm sure I'll be full." The driver immediately nodded, "After all, everyone has fled, no one is more noble than whom, many people are rich now, but they have never forgotten the difficulties when they fled before, and they often donate money to this area, and ...... The refugee resettlement house here was also the first to be built in the entire southwest region, and even the mechanical people praised it. ”

"Well, the automata need stability right now."

"yes."

"Thank you for informing me."

"No thanks, no thanks, as it should be."

The driver smiled reluctantly, and in the face of a ruthless person like Su Xia, he didn't dare not tell him.

"It's not too early......"

Su Xia glanced at the time, then said goodbye to the driver, and approached this huge refugee living area without hurry, observing as he went.

There is no garbage from the slums of Coral City, the roads are clean, and there are even artificial lawns on the sides.

The appearance of refugee resettlement houses is common, with rows and rows of gray concrete buildings.

It looks a bit like the former S Lian's Hexiao F building, and later China also built a large number of similar houses in the early stage of industrial development, which is called "tube building" by many people, and countless people's childhood was spent in those buildings.

"There are no corners cuts, and there are plenty of materials."

Su Xia silently sensed the presence of many steel bars in the buildings of these resettlement houses, and the safety of the houses was enough to ensure it.

Today is a rare sunny winter day, clothes and quilts are drying outside the windows of every house, New Year's window flowers are pasted on the windows of every house, the fragrance of lunch wafts in the wind, and the sound of children can be heard.

This scene of peace and harmony is similar to that of some of the old towns on earth.

According to the guidance of the mission goal, Su Xia turned left and right in this area, walked for more than ten minutes, and did not know how many forks he turned, and finally found the first target family.

The buildings here are too similar and densely packed to get lost for the first time.

【Destination Reached】

After getting closer, the already gray task [Buried in a Strange Land] actually popped up a prompt, it seems that this task has not completely failed, there is still a turnaround, and the next stage of the task reward may still be obtained.

Su Xia walked up the dusty cement staircase, walked up to the second floor, searched along the corridor, and finally knocked on a house on the right side of the corridor.

"Knock knock...... Knock knock knock ......"

The knuckles snapped the wooden door, and the dull sound echoed in the long corridor, and the voice-activated lights in the corridor turned on one after another, and the light was a little dim.

Su Xia put on life perception glasses and knew that there was a mother and daughter in the room.

In the special reconnaissance team of the old North Wind Organization, there is a psionic creature named "Zhu Hu", whose psionic talent is related to eyesight, and is the deputy leader of the reconnaissance team, and later died on the night of the collapse of the North Wind Organization.

When he died, his daughter was not yet born, and she became a posthumous child.

It was his wife and daughter who Su Xia had come to visit now.

He stood in the doorway, and he could clearly hear the cry of a baby girl coming from inside the door.

"Who?"

A woman's voice sounded tired from inside the door.

Su Xia replied, "Mr. Zhu's friend." ”

"Wait a minute."

There was a sound of pots and pans colliding in the room, and the woman was cooking just now, and seemed to be a little flustered, and hurriedly wiped the grease stains on her clothes.

After a few moments, she walked briskly to the door and unlocked it.

"Click!

A crack opened in the wooden door, revealing a sallow and thin face.

Li Qian, Zhu Hu's wife, only got married two years ago.

She was only in her twenties, but her face was full of tiredness, the corners of her eyes were full of wrinkles, and a few strands of withered yellow and dull hair hung down in front of her forehead, as if she had no time to comb it, and her body was full of oil smoke.

"Ms. Li Qian?" Susha asked.

"It's me...... Who are you? ”

"My surname is Su, Su Defu, I used to run with Mr. Zhu, I heard that he had an accident, so I came over to take a look, does he have any news now?"

He ...... He had been missing for months. ”

Li Qian's expression darkened and she shook her head slightly.

In the Old North Wind organization, in order to avoid disturbing their families, some members faked their own deaths, some disappeared directly, and some have been using dual identities.

For example, Zhu Hu, his ostensible identity is just a freight driver, transporting goods between the south and north of the mainland all year round, sometimes for half a month.

Li Qian still doesn't know that Zhu Hu is dead, and only thinks that he is missing.

Of course, in these cruel times, there is really no difference between disappearance and death.

Sometimes, it's better to die outright.

Those who disappeared and were imprisoned, some of them could not ask for death.

"Mr. Zhu is a good person, I believe that he has his own natural appearance." Su Xia didn't tell the truth, so it was good for this woman to have some thoughts in her heart, otherwise with her physical condition, she might collapse directly.

"Thank you, thank you...... Please come in, come in and sit, there is a bit of chaos in the house......"

Li Qian showed a tired smile, opened the door, and invited Su Xia to come in and sit.

There was indeed a bit of chaos in the room, with many daily necessities piled up in the corner of the room, and the crib next to it, and the child who was a few months old was crying.

The interior of this resettlement house is not decorated, and even the basic painting has not been done, it is also dusty, and the cement wall is very rough to the touch.

An old-fashioned chandelier hangs in the center of the room, and dust has accumulated on the lampshade.

The kitchen was a cramped balcony, with a mist on the windows, a concrete stove full of scattered pots and pans, and a chandelier with black grease stains.

The porridge was boiling in the pot, gurgling and bubbling, and it seemed to be a little mushy, and the smell of mush wafted in the air.

"Does the child have a name?" Susha asked.

"Yes, he took it when he left, and it was called Vermilion." Li Qian shook the crib gently, her tired eyes full of love.

Vermilion, the name is simple and easy to remember.

Su Xia looked around, and on the pile of miscellaneous items in the corner of the room, she saw the wedding photos of Zhu Hu and Li Qian.

Zhu Hu in the photo is also similar to the original commander's memory, and he looks like a very honest young man.

After a while, the child's crying gradually became smaller, and Li Qian immediately ran to the kitchen, stirring the meat porridge in the pot, and at the same time said apologetically to Su Xia: "I'm really sorry......"

"It's okay, it's like this with children at home." Su Xia smiled.

"Does Mr. Su have a child too?"

"Nope."

Su Xia is only in her early twenties, and she has not even reached the legal age of marriage, so she naturally has no children.

It's just that this world has been in turmoil for many years, and many people get married early, and some even have children in their teens, just to keep a descendant as soon as possible.

"That's the case...... Su Xia said business, "I borrowed some money from Mr. Zhu to do business in the past, but now the business is barely doing it, and this time, I plan to pay off the principal and interest together." ”

"He borrowed money to go out?" Li Qian was a little surprised.

"Yes." Su Xia nodded.

"How much money?"

"The principal plus interest, a total of 115,000."

Su Xia took out a check from his bosom and filled in the numbers, it is from the general bank of the mainland, and any city can withdraw money, which is very convenient.

Hearing this number, Li Qian was taken aback, the soup spoon in her hand was almost unstable, and she looked at the check in Su Xia's hand in a daze.

"This ...... So much money? She couldn't believe it.

"Yes."

Su Xia smiled slightly, and at the same time handed out a card, which had Yiyi's contact information written on it.

It was a private card number that Yiyi handled not long ago, and it was not entered into the system of Zero Tavern and would not be monitored.

"Please keep this business card."

Su Xia clearly told that if you encounter a problem that cannot be solved, you can call the number on the card, and the person on the other end of the phone will find a way to help solve it.

Hearing this, Li Qian was silent for a moment.

She is not stupid, she can naturally guess that Su Xia's identity may not be as simple as he said.

Even, even this money was not lent by her husband, it was just that Su Xia wanted to find an excuse for her.

But......

Thinking about it this way, it is likely that her husband is no longer alive.

Li Qian couldn't help but feel sour, her eyes were red, she turned around, bowed her head to the window and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, inhaled hard, silently swallowed the sadness that poured out, and finally turned around and said, "Thank you, thank you......"

"It's okay, I should do it."

Su Xia thought about it for a while, and took out a few more oral pills, all of which were to replenish the body.

Raising children alone is much more difficult than imagined, and it is easy to exhaust the body.

He put the potions on the table and said, "These potions are refined by a master, and one is taken at the beginning of each month, which is of great help to the recovery of the body after childbirth. ”

After finishing speaking, Su Xia always felt that it was still not enough.

So he took out a few more potions suitable for children, and told Li Qian to use them during the child's growing body.

Finally, Susha took out a small semi-automatic pistol.

"Do you know how to use a gun?" Susha asked.

"I ...... I used it once when I was fleeing. ”

"That's good."

Su Xia took out six more boxes of ammunition, a special silencer, and said, "This gun has very little recoil, and it is suitable for women...... The city is a large transit point, and there are many business travelers, and there are always some unclean hands and feet, so remember to take them with you when you go out. ”

After saying that, he took out another instruction manual for the firearm and placed it next to the six boxes of bullets.

With these things, it should be able to guarantee the future life of the mother and daughter.

As long as Su Xia didn't die, he could come back at any time to make sure that the lives of the families of these members of the Old North Wind Organization were going well.

After doing all this, Su Xia said goodbye and left.

"I still have something to do, and time is tight." Su Xia glanced at the time and said, "If I know any information about Mr. Zhu, I will contact you as soon as possible." ”

"Thank you, thank you...... Mr. Su had a safe journey. ”

Li Qian hugged the child, sent Su Xia to the door, and watched Su Xia go away.

The life of this mother and daughter is better than Su Xia imagined.

In fact, even if Su Xia didn't help, they would be able to barely make a living, but they would be more struggling.

There is very little furniture in the house, cardboard boxes, bubble templates and other miscellaneous items are piled together, there are no regular electrical appliances, and there is not even a TV, like people in the sixties and seventies of the last century.

Those who live here will receive a small subsidy every month, and various government construction projects will also give priority to recruiting people from here.

It's just that a thin single mother with a newborn child is really inconvenient to go to work.

"Next Target ......"

Su Xia looked at the mission map and followed the instructions to another location.

The area was so big that even a psionic creature like him could barely tell the way.

After more than ten minutes, after walking through rows and rows of dusty reinforced concrete buildings, Su Xia finally arrived at the second target location.

"This is it."

Su Xia noticed that the icon of the quest [Buried in a Strange Land] was a little brighter, and it was not as gray as before.

Just as he was about to go upstairs, an old gray truck suddenly drove in the distance, which was one of the trucks he had seen outside.

The car was slow, swaying, and finally stopped in front of the building.

"Click!"

The back door of the cargo car was opened, and two men in gray staff uniforms jumped out.

Subsequently, the rest of the employees in the carriage began to move goods out, including quilts, oil and food, warm clothes and other items, which are exactly what the people in this area need.

The front door opened, and a very energetic young man jumped out of the passenger seat, looking eighteen or nineteen years old.

[Ding Can: Male, eighteen years old, son of the lord of Seahorse City, one of the admirers of the masked monsters......]

Su Xia's heart moved, and he didn't expect to meet this person here.

He was silent and walked slowly upstairs.

Ding Can and a few employees over there didn't seem to notice him, or maybe they thought he was here and didn't care.

Ding Can commanded everyone to unload the goods, and there was a list of goods in his hand, which carefully corresponded to each cargo.

Not long after, the driver in the car also jumped down, also a young man, walked to the back of the car, and whispered to Ding Can: "Boss, this little thing is not enough, there are so many people in this slum, and the goods in our warehouse are almost finished...... This New Year, some people may be hungry and cold. ”

"Not enough? Then go grab it again. Ding Can said unceremoniously.

The two of them were not loud.

Standing in Su Xia's position, if it was an ordinary person, he would definitely not be able to hear what they were talking about.

But Su Xia heard it very clearly, and the driver continued, "Go and rob those merchants again?" ”

"Nonsense, who don't rob them?" Ding Can didn't care, "Those things with fat brains, like fat pigs, have emptied the entire city, so it's okay to kill two for the New Year!" ”

"But many of the merchants in the city are complaining to your father."

The driver hesitated and said, "If you continue like this, I'm afraid that your father will make a move." ”

"Also to ......"

Ding Can clasped his hands, thought about it seriously, and seemed to feel that this was very reasonable.

He nodded: "Okay, don't rob those merchants, just go and rob my father!" ”

Happy New Year, dear book friends!

(End of chapter)