The ruined house is not a house, but a place name in Yongxing City, located in the second district of the lower city, adjacent to the infamous Black Street, and the total area is about the size of a street. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Tails had heard from the elders of the Brotherhood that the ruined house was said to have been built by the royal court of the Kingdom of Stars, a hundred years ago, and had a more decent name (except that no one remembers it anymore, only in the town hall), and that it was once filled with mediocre but bustling citizens of the kingdom's capital.

I don't know when it began, the abandoned house became a place where the gangs came into contact and negotiated with each other, and occasionally fought and fought with each other.

As a result, the lively neighborhood houses, accompanied by blood and knives and axes, became empty and abandoned houses with only stone walls and bricks.

It is said that the abandoned house was once used as a place to dump corpses, so that to this day, children who grow up happily in the sunshine of the capital are admonished: "If you don't obey again, I will send you to the abandoned house." "The reputation of the abandoned house is second only to the terrible black street.

When the Brotherhood rose to power in the Lower Underworld, the ruined houses became the base camp for the Brotherhood's beggar business in the city.

In order to facilitate management and prevent the beggars from escaping at night, the Brotherhood dug out a trench ten feet wide and fifteen feet deep on all sides of the abandoned house, which was covered with sharpened wooden stakes and rusty nails, leaving only a stone door on the front of the abandoned house that could be reversed with a large lock.

It is rumored that after countless corpses and temptations, someone finally dug a secret passage in the deep ditch and escaped, but at least in the four years that Tails was in the abandoned house, no beggar could find the legendary secret passage, but the corpses in the deep ditch increased every year as the business of the Brotherhood expanded.

It is said that every year, a child who does not have long eyes tries to escape across a deep ditch, so the fraternity also cleans the bones in the ditch once a year.

As the name suggests, the abandoned house plot is made up of long-abandoned stone houses, a total of twenty-three (there were many more, some collapsed in the gangster war years ago, and some were demolished and dug out by the Brotherhood), which are erratically located behind the large stone gates, some "isolated", while others are connected closer.

Lucky beggars are assigned well water in abandoned houses, while unlucky ones, such as Tails' sixth house, have to fetch water from other houses to fill their tanks – and this is usually not for nothing.

Water and food also often caused fights among beggars, such as the water tank in the sixth house, which was obtained by various means in the second year after Tails arrived in the abandoned house, and reached an agreement with the seventeenth house next door to fetch water once a week.

Before they - Ned and Corlia hadn't arrived yet, only Sinti, Ryan, Kellett and the other two beggars who were no longer alive - even had a problem drinking water.

And now Tails heard the cry of their "leader" in the seventeenth room next door, from their "leader", Tails still remembers that when he was fighting for water, he smashed a stone on Diego's head, and his cry was similar to now.

"Kara! Someone! We don't! It's not us!"

Diego's screams were painful and panicked.

So much so that the beggars in the sixth house, including Tails, didn't react for a while.

But after all, Tails has the memories of his previous life, and his first reaction was to drive everyone in the yard back to the hole in the house - for a long time afterward, Tails regretted this decision - to hide.

Tails himself glanced at the inconspicuous stone slab in the corner of the house, hid under the wall opposite the seventeenth house, and stared at the dog hole that connected the seventeenth house to the sixth house, which at the time was a symbol of the alliance between the children of the two houses.

"What's wrong with them, Diego, did they fight?" Ned asked curiously, after hiding.

The beggars are not happy with each other, and a harmonious house like the sixth house is not the majority in the abandoned house.

Many of the beggars' maimed and even died, with the exception of Quaid, were in fact caused by the beggars themselves, and children under the age of ten did not know how to do it, such as Ned and Colia, one of Tails's two previous roommates, who died in this way.

But House 17 is also a minority of the abandoned houses, Diego is a brown-skinned, small-eyed, yellow-haired, grinning but stubborn child, at the age of nine and a half, he seems to be more of a leader than Cintie and Tails, at least the beggars in House 17 listen to him, which also makes the battle for water between House 6 and Room 17 twists and turns.

"It's not like a fight, could it be that another house is bullying Diego and them? it must be Karak in the Tenth House! he loves to bully other guys the most!" said Kellett as if he had figured something out.

"Then we're going to help! We're telling them we're going to help each other!"

Cripple Ryan was about to run out of the hole and burrow into the dog's hole, but before the moonlight could hit him halfway, Ryan was dragged back by Tails.

"Don't worry, it's not Karak! it's something else!" Tails listened to the screams next door with a solemn face.

"No, Diego!"

There was a dull sound, like a sandbag being thrown against the wall, but this time it was the cry of another child, Nsola.

Tails remembered the eight-year-old boy who stood beside Diego with her lips pursed tightly during the fight for water.

When the two sides started fighting, it was also he who hugged Sinti's thigh and prevented him from getting close to the fight between Diego and Tails, if Tails hadn't attacked Diego's knee joint and quickly picked up a stone, I don't know if there is any fixed water to drink in the sixth house to this day.

"Something is wrong!"

As the eldest child in the house, the doubt on Sinti's face gradually turned solemn, as the beggar who cooperated with Tails most happily and tacitly in the sixth house, Sinti was silent for most of the time, but whenever he spoke, it was either an important matter, or a key word.

Soon, the doubts and solemnity on the children's faces all turned into horror.

"I beg for mercy! I like to hear you people beg for mercy!"

A deep but frantic voice came from next door.

Every beggar in the abandoned house will never forget this voice, which is as terrible to them as the demon of hell - at least the demon will not break the beggar's bones inch by inch, will not cut the beggar's face with a knife, and will not dip the beggar headfirst in the water tank, and call it "quench your thirst" (does the demon really not? At least the beggar doesn't know).

It's Quaid.

Quaid Roda, the leader of the beggars of the Brotherhood of the Dark Streets, is also a nightmare and scourge for the beggars.

"No, Boss Quaid, we were wrong! We—ahhhh

"See if you dare to talk nonsense! Damn me! Damn it! Red-haired woman! Damn it! Bald head! Damn it! Yala Saliton! You all deserve to die!"

As Quaid cursed in some delirium, there was a burst of thumping from the next door, sometimes fists, sometimes stones, sometimes the sound of human bodies colliding with the wall.

"Help, help, Diego, Kara, Marita, get up, help me!"

"Run, run, hurry—uh—"

"Oh my God! what about the guards! What about Mr. Rick! Oh my God! He's going to kill us, he's going to kill us all—"

"No!

The heart-rending cry also came out of the mouths of more than one person, and the abandoned house in the moonlight looked thrilling in the eyes of Tails at this moment!

It took Tails three seconds to react to what Quaid was doing.

He turned his head sharply to look at everyone in the sixth room, where Ned and Koria were shivering in the hole, and Ryan, who had just rushed out to help, was already stunned.

Kellett and Cindy were no better, the former looking anxiously and fearfully back and forth between the few people, trying to speak but unable to speak, and the latter staring at Tails with a pale face.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

"You damned scum, even you dare to laugh at me, you dare to laugh at Quaid Roda 'Bloodaxe'! even you dare—"

"Haha, why don't you scream, call me!"

The wild roar and the bitter howl in his ears were accompanied by the sound of cracking that everyone didn't want to think about.

Tails knew that at this moment, panic had spread through the sixth room, and he was frantically using his brain, thinking about the current situation.

Quaid beats the beggar in the seventeenth room - no, listening to Quaid's appearance, and the frequency and intensity of his beatings, it's not just about getting angry tonight!

And Quaid, though a bastard, doesn't take all the beggars in the house at once - by the way, what about Rick? What about the guards of the abandoned house and the thugs on patrol?

Tails certainly wouldn't have known that the garrison of the abandoned house had been artificially reduced to two tonight, and that those two thugs would never come again.

"Tails, how-what?" Listening to the tragedy next door, Sinti instinctively felt that something was wrong, and a fine sweat was already on his pale face, and he just asked Tails vigorously.

"Quiet, no one is silent!—we—" Tails frowned, thinking hard about what to do, but before he could finish his sentence, he saw a beggar figure emerge from the dog hole between the sixth and seventeenth rooms.

Corlia let out a small exclamation in fright.

Tails' eyes were sharp, and at a glance he could tell that from the seventeenth room was Nsola, who was covered in blood.

But Nsola seemed to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and before Tails could help him up, Nsola gasped and threw herself to the ground, completely ignoring the blood on her head.

"Run, run, run, we're—"

Tails and Sinti nervously helped him up, the screams and roars in their ears were still there, but Nsola seemed to have lost his mind, and didn't open his mouth to ask, just muttered "Run" in horror.

Until Tails brought him to his senses with a slap in the face.

"What the hell is going on? Quaid is angry?"

Ensola's tears flowed violently.

"Qui-Quaid-he's crazy! he wants to- we're not the only ones, he, he's all going to- room by room and go in, see—"

Nsola was already incoherent, but it was enough for the beggars in the sixth room to understand what was happening, and the six little faces suddenly turned white, and even Tails couldn't help but feel fear in his heart.

"—Beat people when they see them, beat them when they see them, until they lose their breath—I hear a cry, and I go out to peep—and I see Quaid dragging Larry in the third room, and blood—blood—all blood, and then see me—"

"He grabbed Kara-Kara and threw him on the ground, Diego - Diego tried to stop him - and then - he punched him hundreds of times, Diego didn't move—and- and Marita, and Quaid threw him into the fire—woo-fire—"

Tails only felt his scalp tingle.

It's not like he's never seen Quaid beating, but many times, he's stopped by multiple thugs before he is about to die—no one in the Brotherhood cares about whether the beaten children will be permanently disabled.

"The third house is over—it's over, and our house is too—he's just playing Midland—I don't know how many more there are—"

It's just that Nsola, who was crying and complaining at the same time, was covered by Tails before he finished speaking!

At this time, through the movements of Tails, everyone realized that the cries and roars next door had disappeared, and the seventeenth room was quiet, as if several children were asleep.

All that was left was a rude gasp, still moving slowly.

No one doesn't know what that means.

In the sixth room, almost all the children began to tremble.

At that moment, Tails jerked his head and lowered his voice as best he could: "Listen, we're quick-"

"Peng!"

There was a loud bang.

The door of the sixth house was kicked open.

At the door, Quaid's staggering figure slowly approached, his fierce face full of smirks looking at the seven trembling children.

"Run-where are you going?Hey, you-you're a little--familiar—"

Everyone in the Sixth House was stunned, and Tails was no exception.

Quaid rubbed his nose, and Tails saw that his face was bright red, the color of drunkenness.

And his hands were dark red.

That's the color of blood.

Quaid looked at Tails for a moment, holding Nsola's mouth tightly.

"I, I remember you!"

The expression on his face kept changing, and gradually changed from a smirk to a fierce and hateful one.

"You're the one, the imp caught by the dead bald head—"

"It's you! You must be laughing at me behind my back, talking a lot behind my back!

"It has to be you—"

"It has to be you!"

Tails' heart was cold.

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Rick carefully steered the carriage as he forced himself to calm down and felt the temperature at the back of his neck.

Thankfully, everything worked fine.

The ghost didn't appear.

Probably a headache for Quaid.

In front of him, the big house at the headquarters of the Black Street Brotherhood was gradually approaching.

Rick breathed a sigh of relief.

"Accountant!"

Leyoke's voice rang out, the Brotherhood killer, shouting at Rick from twenty feet away.

Lejok's face appeared in the distance, as if in the light of a torch, and he asked dissatisfiedly, "Why did you come here at this time? This is a knife business!

Rick was stunned for a moment, and as the carriage moved, he saw that the small square in front of the big house was full of shadowy torches.

They were all figures standing quietly, and everyone was tied with black cloth.

Black cloth belonging to the Brotherhood.

There were at least hundreds of people.

Rick suddenly realized that almost all the people in the Black Street Headquarters were here.

Rick hurriedly pulled over and got out of the carriage, walked a few steps briskly, and by the moonlight, he saw his boss, the fat Maurice, who was also the leader of the population business in Eternal Star City, discussing something with several other figures with different silhouettes—a yellow-haired giant with a height of two meters, a mysterious figure in a dark red robe, and a fat and honest guy.

Rick was taken aback.

He recognized it, it was the other bigwigs in the club.

There are even a few big bosses who don't usually live in Yongxing City.

Passing through a line of heavily armed blackcloth thugs, from axes, daggers to spikes, and gear straightened, Rick made a beeline for Leyoke.

"Lejok, it's nice to see you—forget it, I'm not talking nonsense—what's going to be done tonight?"

Rick didn't like Lejock, just as he didn't like Rick either, and they had to meet often because of their work, and they both had a tacit understanding of this.

But here, the person who knows the most inside story and can ask the fastest is Leyok.

"Didn't the boss tell you?"

Lejok cocked her lips contemptuously and glanced at him.

"The old rule, in the face of the Blood Vial Gang, except for the magic gun and the infantry crossbow, any weapon can be used......"

The killer, known for his efficiency and ruthlessness, lifted the scimitar behind his waist, and seemed to feel the sharpness in the sheath.

Rick's heart is shocked: deal with the Blood Vial Gang......

The killer took a deep breath, then licked his lips with a playful smile.

"Tonight, we're going to take Red Square Street!"

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"Isn't there any news from Yodel?

The gray-haired middle-aged nobleman asked solemnly in front of the stove in front of a luxurious chair.

"Patience, my friend, we've waited twelve years, and it doesn't matter if we wait a little longer. ”

The sturdy figure got up from his chair and grabbed a scepter studded with bright blue hedrons, which on a closer look showed that the spars were slowly but regularly twinkling with stars.

"Our pointless speculation here is nothing more than doubts about yodel's abilities. And he's carrying the lamp's sub-flame, isn't he? I believe he's close to his goal, just making the final confirmation. The sturdy figure said slowly.

The middle-aged nobleman bowed deeply.

"I'm not doubting Yodel's abilities, and I've never underestimated his loyalty, but—" He paused and sighed, "-Yodel is too calm, and too cold, compared to his ... Unwavering loyalty, he doesn't care about anything else, just like twelve years ago, I'm worried about him..."

The middle-aged nobleman did not continue, and the sturdy figure did not answer immediately.

The sturdy figure walked to the floor-to-ceiling window with a scepter, looking out the window into the distance, the brightly lit and brilliant temple.

Not even the moonlight can compete with such a light.

"Then go and prepare, and go to the temple in secret at once—and set off as soon as you have the news, without waiting for Yodel's signal. ”

After a while, the sturdy figure said slowly, "I have no reason to doubt Yodele, he will not hesitate when it is time to make a move." ”

"But it's also good to be prepared with a little more preparation. ”