Chapter 5 Is This Really a Place Where People Live?
The other party made a ruthless move, using all his strength with every punch and kick, Xu Shuo was lying on the ground, and he could only hold his head and shrink his body.
He couldn't help but think of what happened when he was in junior high school, at that time, because he couldn't pay the protection money, he was also beaten by the school's bad group, and now that he thinks about it, that is also one of the reasons why he became an otaku later.
"MD, do you think you're handsome? Well? The tall man said, and kicked Xu Shuo's stomach again, "Do you want to laugh at me?" Idiot. β
Xu Shuo was silent, as a veteran of being bullied, he knew that if he didn't say anything at this time, the matter would end faster.
The three of them were tired after fighting for a while, so they stopped and began to search Xu Shuo's body, trying to find some money to come out, but unfortunately Xu Shuo had just come to this world and didn't have a penny on him.
"MD, I'm still a poor bastard." The tall man said and stepped on Xu Shuo's hand unhappily.
After that, the three of them seemed to lose interest in Xu Shuo, and turned to search the girl's body. However, to Xu Shuo's surprise, they didn't find money on the girl, did the girl really not lie, in fact, she really didn't have any money on her?
"MD, little bitch, where's the money?" The tall man asked, a little impatiently.
The little girl shook her head and whispered, "There really isn't any." β
The tall man stared at the girl with a frown for a few seconds, and when he saw that the other party seemed to have no money, he gave up and said, "Forget it, I don't have money to let me eat a few pieces of candy." As he spoke, the tall man snatched the box from the girl's hand.
"No, these sugars, if you take them, the boss will make me pay for them......"
The girl reached out to retrieve the box, but the tall man lifted it up, and the girl was too small to reach it.
"Just take a few, don't be so stingy." The tall man smiled and opened the lid, grabbed a handful of rock candy from it and put it in his pocket, this one had at least a dozen pieces.
"Okay, I'll give it back to you." The tall man throws the box back to the girl.
The girl hurriedly went to pick it up, but she didn't expect the box to hit the back of her hand and fall to the ground, and most of the rock sugar spilled out.
"Ahh The girl hurriedly knelt down to pick it up, but the rock candy was already stained with ashes and had no appearance. The girl's tears welled up all at once, "What, what should I do......"
"Hey, it's none of my business, Xiaozhen, you're too careless, hahahaha."
The tall man laughed and walked away with his two companions.
It wasn't until the three of them walked away that Xu Shuo got up from the ground with his bruised arms, but as soon as his body moved, his whole body throbbed, and the pain made him gasp.
"Damn, I just said don't come to another world......" Xu Shuo muttered.
When Xu Shuo staggered to his feet, a small hand held his armβit was the girl who sold rock candy, and the tears in the corners of her eyes had not yet been wiped away.
"Thank you, brother, are you alright?" The girl asked with concern.
"How can it be okay." Xu Shuo said and took a breath of cold air in pain because of touching the injury: "But thank you and get rid of it, anyway, I didn't help anything." β
"That, I have medicine at home, brother, come to my house to rub some medicine." The girl said.
"No......" Xu Shuo wanted to refuse, but the wound was really painful, and he didn't have the money to find a doctor or anything like that now, so it was better to have medicine to wipe than to leave it alone, so he changed his words, "Is your home close to here?" β
The girl nodded and said, "Well, it's close, just walk away." β
"I'm sorry for you."
"Good!"
The little girl held the rock candy box in one hand, and held the uninjured position on Xu Shuo's arm with the other, and led Xu Shuo towards the depths of the alley.
In fact, the girl didn't have any strength at all, and whether she could help or not was Xu Shuo's own walking, but Xu Shuo did not refuse this kindness. He used his eyes of love to reconfirm the girl's favorability - it had changed from "3" to "18", and it seemed that although it didn't help, the girl was still very grateful to herself.
However, the failure of the hero is still too inferior to be honest.
(Hey, Angela, you're here!) οΌ
Xu Shuo tried to call Angela in his heart, but after a while, Angela replied.
"It's coming, it's coming, I'm going to pick up takeout just now. Wow, how did you get this out? "Angela was very surprised.
(Are you too embarrassed to ask?) You can't use your skills at all, you liar! οΌ
"Can't use it? No way, what skills did you use? Angela asked.
(I used 'extreme fear' just now, but the other person didn't react at all.) οΌ
"Extreme fear? What kind of skill it is, I don't know. β
οΌβ¦β¦ As a goddess, you don't know it, but as a player of "Sword of Darkness", you don't know it, like words? οΌ
"Huh? Oh, I'm going to check what the reason is, you wait a minute...... I'll talk about it when I'm done eating. β
(Can you be reliable?!) οΌ
After that, no matter what Xu Shuo said, Angela didn't reply again.
At this time, the rock candy girl had already taken Xu Shuo to the end of the alley, where Xu Shuo saw a completely different scene from the street just now.
The huts were next to each other, not even cracks, each low and dilapidated, the sour smell of rot in the air, wet clothes still dripping above the garbage heaps, flies and homeless people everywhere. No one needs to introduce it, Xu Shuo can also understand that this is a slum.
Xu Shuo also noticed that everyone here was looking at him with strange eyes, but he quickly understood the reason, although he fell to the ground and was covered in dust just now, he was still cleaner than most people here.
"Hey, Miao Zhen, you've started fishing Kaizi too?" A woman sitting on the side of the road smoking a cigarette with heavy makeup on her face smiled and said to the little girl.
It turned out that this child's name was Miao Zhen. Xu Shuo thought to himself.
Miao Zhen bowed slightly to the woman and said, "No, this brother was injured in order to help me, so I took him back to apply some medicine." β
"Huh~" The woman glanced up and down at Xu Shuo with a scripping gaze, and then said teasingly: "No one can believe it these days, if anything happens, just shout loudly, I'll smoke here." β
Miao Zhen nodded and continued to walk forward. After a while, she stopped in front of a two-story wooden house of considerable size, and then turned back to Xu Shuo and said, "This is it." β
Xu Shuo was stunned for a moment, because a two-story house in this slum is not common, not to mention that the scale of this house is not small, so he couldn't help but think to himself, could it be that Miao Zhen is actually a "rich man" here?
As a result, after entering the house, Xu Shuo realized that this was actually a tavern and hostel, and although it was still morning, there were many people drinking in the hall. And Miao Zhen actually lives in an underground warehouse here.
"This is my home." Miao Zhen pointed to the dark underground warehouse under the stairs and said with a smile, looking at her appearance, she seemed to be quite proud of it.
However, in Xu Shuo's opinion, this can't be called home at all.
"Brother, you wait for me here." After Miao Zhen said this to Xu Shuo, he ran to the bar of the tavern.
Behind the bar stood a bald man with a big belly, and there was a scar above the corner of the man's eye, which made people feel that this was a ruthless character. The man had been wiping the wine glass with a cloth, but since Xu Shuo followed Miao Zhen into the tavern, the man had been staring at Xu Shuo with a solemn gaze, which made Xu Shuo's heart furious, so he had to lower his head and pretend not to see it.
"Boss, borrow a candlestick!" Miao Zhen said without waiting for the bald man to agree, he directly took the candlestick on the table, and then walked towards Xu Shuo.
"I've got the candlestick, let's go."
Miao Zhen walked in front with the candlestick and asked Xu Shuo to follow her.
Before following Miao Zhen downstairs, Xu Shuo subconsciously glanced back at the bald man, and found that the latter's gaze was a little sharper than before, so he was so frightened that he quickly turned his head and went downstairs with Miao Zhen.
As soon as he entered the scope of the underground warehouse, Xu Shuo couldn't help frowning.
The quality of the air here is very poor, because of the lack of ventilation, it is very stuffy, and a lot of debris is piled up here, many of which are full of dust, and I feel that I will get myself covered in dust if I am not careful.
At the corner of the staircase, there is a spread of straw with a cloth on top to make it look like a bed. It seems that this is where Miao Zhen sleeps.
Is this really where people live? Xu Shuo thought to himself.