Today is sunny and cloudy, and the radio says that there will be heavy rain in the second half of the night, and flood warnings.

"It's raining...... Down. ”

For Xia Beiluo, who was picking up wine bottles in the back alley, it didn't make a difference. She stuffed the bottles into a urea bag, then placed them on the back seat of her bicycle and tied them up sturdily, with newspapers and straw in them to prevent them from colliding and shattering.

Charbello had recently taken on a good job, a new tavern had recently been collecting bottles with church labels at a high price, seemingly specifically for the purpose of pirating the seal of the church, so that the price could be raised to 1.8 rings in the name of 'church charter'.

If she is lucky, this big bag will probably give her fifty rings, provided that she doesn't touch the kid of the Black Snake Gang, otherwise she will only get twelve or even less than ten rings.

Poof.

As soon as she had finished packing the urea bag, a big dirty hand immediately put it on her shoulder, and then a thin face rubbed over, and the other party smiled and held an unknown brand of cigarette in his hand, and said to her:

"Do you want one? Little sister. The first one doesn't cost money. ”

"No, I'm allergic to tobacco."

Xia Beiluo said lightly, and was about to kick the bracket and leave, but the other party was unrelentingly entangled, and his palm was dishonestly stroked down his back.

"Here's one, it's really free! This kind of good goods is not something that a work-study student like you can consume. ”

Xia Beiluo glanced at the other party coldly:

"Thanks, I don't need to, I want to touch myself, I'm a man anyway."

"You-"

The harassing thug took a closer look at Xia Beiluo's not-so-beautiful face and almost curvy figure, and was immediately speechless.

"Damn! It's really bad ......."

He scolded a few words and pushed Xia Beiluo, Xia Beiluo hurriedly hugged the urea bag, turned over, and fell to the ground in advance, getting a buffer, and there was no sound of breaking the wine bottle inside.

The gangsters scolded and left, Xia Beiluo breathed a sigh of relief, didn't complain anything, stood up, pushed the bicycle, and walked steadily towards the southern block.

After walking four or five kilometers, she managed to get the promised reward before the tavern owner left.

"43 rings."

The tavern owner said casually, smashing a half-new-looking bottle.

"Didn't you say 50 rings......

"The spirituality on the labels of these bottles has faded, and I wouldn't buy this kind of thing."

Without blinking, the boss skillfully removed a piece of tag and poured spiritual power into it, and the logo of the [Ghost Lord] church immediately appeared on it:

"Won't you check it out? Even if you are a work-study student, you don't have a contract spirit, but you can identify it if you simply infuse it with spiritual power, right? ”

“…… Well, I'll pay attention next time. ”

Xia Beiluo pursed his lips and nodded.

"I'll check it out and bring it over! I have to check them one by one every time, which is hard for me. The boss complained, poked Xia Beiluo's shoulder, and shouted dissatisfiedly: "If you send a wine bottle without spirituality next time, I will find someone else, love to do it or not, you don't do it, some people do it." ”

"Yes, I promise it won't be."

"Your pay, get out of here."

The boss pulled out a few crumpled paper tickets from his pocket, shook his hand, and then turned and entered the tavern.

The banknote suddenly smashed on Xia Beiluo's face, and her first reaction was not to dodge, but to quickly lower her head to catch it, for fear that the stagnant water on the ground would wet the coin.

However, no matter how fast she reacted, there were still two 5-ring-drenge banknotes soaked in mud and water, and Xia Beiluo's eyes turned red all of a sudden, so she picked them up, flattened them, and wiped them clean with her clothes.

"Whew-whew-"

She dried it in distress, and looked at the torn and missing banknotes, and felt like her heart was about to break.

Boom Boom............

It rained in the evening, and rolling thunder rang out in the sky.

"Holy! Gotta run! ”

Xia Beiluo hurriedly put the reward into the waterproof clip, put it away closely, and then rode his second-hand bicycle, creaking all the way.

Tick, tick......

Xia Beiluo's forehead was cold, and the tattered asphalt road exposed the gray cement floor, and then the brown ink halo was blurred by the raindrops.

Boom la la la......

The sky was like a broken fire hydrant, tilting with cool raindrops, taking away the heat from her thin body.

Xia Beiluo lowered his head and climbed the slope hard, his hands were soaked with rain, and his fingers were rotten and white.

The rain wrapped around her body like a poisonous snake, infusing her with venom called 'Cold', which first penetrated deep into the bone marrow and then spread throughout her body with blood vessels.

Cold nerves and numb thinking.

In the middle of the summer rainstorm, she felt a burst of steaming and boiling heat, the rain and sweat mixed together, the warmer her body felt, the more she felt her fingers and toes become cold and stiff.

The huge rain poured down like a tsunami, and the dense rain curtain made it difficult for her to go uphill.

She couldn't breathe, she didn't dare to look up, she couldn't open her eyes, she could barely step on the pedals, and the raindrops were connected into silk threads, as if they were going to cut her open. (Note (1))

Sometimes she couldn't see the flashing lights at all, until the other person honked the horn desperately, and the splashing waves washed over her body, crushing the short hair and sticking to her face, and the rain ran down the hair and into her eyes

The geists on the street lamps chirped, laughing at her advancing form.

Swallow hides under the eaves of the nightclub, where passionate techno music is heard, and the delicate swallow does not dislike the noise, and rests peacefully under the bright discotheque.

From its point of view, the whole world is rendered into a dark and gray world, and the cold wind envelops the sky with clouds, and the darkness oppresses all living beings as a matter of course.

"Gotta bring the money back."

The shirt was soaked with water and became transparent, revealing the intimate underwear underneath, but at the moment she didn't care about the slightest shame, and tried to pedal as fast as she could.

The full asphalt road was the rarest part of the city, and the cement road was pretty good, but soon, she felt the tires weigh up and sink into the mud.

"It's a bad road, you have to be careful."

Xia Beiluo cautiously drove past the relatively hard stone slabs, but suddenly, her body lost its center of gravity.

Syllable!

The front wheel got stuck in the horseshoe pit, her body leaned forward, and the whole person flew out, her chin hit the curb of the road, like a hammer, and suddenly her eyes were full of gold stars, she couldn't tell the difference between southeast and northwest, and she didn't know where she was.

Xia Beiluo shouted in horror:

"Money! Money! ”

Note (1): From "Camel Shoko"

(End of chapter)