Chapter Ninety-Eight - Acquaintances Meet Again
Standing on the tower, Zengus witnessed everything about Fang Cai.
"Ji Lin" is pretending to be dead, he knows it very well, and he is also preparing to go to mend the knife.
But she was killed by an unknown monster.
He squinted his eyes, carefully distinguishing what kind of monster was that hugged "Ji Lin" and kissed her.
Legus couldn't make out the large mass of flesh and flesh, but he could barely make out a blood-stained saber from between the broken parts.
He wouldn't mistake that sword, after all, it was given to him by the city lord under his watch.
A saber belonging to Myler.
So that monster is Myler...... Or other shadow-type monsters disguised as Myler?
Mailer at the foot of the tower looked at his lover's body in shock, as if he had forgotten how fragile his lover was.
But unexpectedly, the death of his lover did not seem to make him feel too much sadness.
He recalled McVul's words, there were two beings in Jizhou City that could be called Ji Lin.
One of them is already dead...... But it doesn't matter.
He could also go to another one.
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On the other side, Zhou Xinyi didn't know that the monster disguised as Ji Lin was dead, he had just escaped from the mansion of the official of Mavul, and traveled through Jizhou City in Changbai.
Changbai's figure frightened the city's citizens, but Zhou Xinyi couldn't care so much now, he continued to look for a no-man's land to land, and then waited for his teammates to arrive.
But just as Changbai passed through a crowded neighborhood - many urban areas of Jizhou City had not been rebuilt, which was too labor-intensive, so many of the city's residents mostly lived in one area, Changbai squeezed between the two rows of windows close at hand, and suddenly, a window in front of him was opened from the inside, and Changbai hit it headlong like most pigeons that couldn't see the glass.
Changbai was not small, and the collision caused a strong chain reaction: the boat on its back fell miserably to the ground, and the window was also broken, and the whole window flew out.
The people in the house were also dumbfounded, "What's the situation?" β
He hesitated, but the anger of the broken window still overwhelmed his reason, and the people in the room poked their heads out and said angrily, "You have to pay for my windows!" β
Zhou Xinyi was also holding his wound and raised his head, and happened to look at the man in the room.
Man: "You...... Why are you so familiar? β
Zhou Xinyi recognized him at a glance, "You are Mr. Zhang?" β
Mr. Squidward: "......" He's not heard the strange name in a long time.
Mr. Zhang saw at a glance that the wound on Zhou Xinyi's chest was oozing blood, and he felt a little guilty, "Are you injured?" β
He muttered to himself, "Well, you flew illegally and hit my window first, and you must pay for the money." β
He waved his hand and said, "Come in!" β
Zhou Xinyi and Changbai were led into the house by Mr. Zhang.
Zhou Xinyi didn't have any opinion on this, he had planned to find a place to recuperate from his injuries, and it would be better to have acquaintances willing to take them in.
After entering the house, Zhou Xinyi found that Mr. Zhang's decoration style was really the same as his own stinginess, and he was destitute.
Obviously, the house is surrounded by walls, with no decoration and furniture, but it is filled with tools and garbage that Mr. Zhang casually puts around.
Mr. Zhang took out his medical kit with dust, pulled open Zhou Xinyi's clothes and looked at the wound, "Tut-tut, this is how much money it cost to hire a doctor, this kind of injury can survive." β
"The wound is ruptured, I only have this medicine, you can take the medicine yourself."
Zhou Xinyi took it and thanked him, "How much is the window?" I can pay for it. β
Mr. Zhang was also polite, "Give me 50 Kunlang." β
After he took the money, his eyes swept around Changbai's body, he had already recalled that Zhou Xinyi was the judge he had a relationship with five years ago, and the judge would not hurt people everywhere with a nightmare.
That's why he dared to let this nightmare into his house with confidence.
But he still frowned and said, "Do you know how harsh the conditions for entering Jizhou City are now?" They didn't allow dangerous people to enter, and they didn't even welcome people from outside the city, so it's a miracle that you can sneak in with a nightmare. β
"That's true," Zhou Xin said, "but the soldier can't control the winged creature. β
"Don't be so arrogant about exploiting loopholes."
After speaking, he muttered again, "But it's okay to break those annoying rules, Jizhou City is full of stupid people." β
After watching Zhou Xinyi finish taking the medicine, Mr. Zhang stood up and carried the medicine box back into the house.
You must know that in this era, there are no "doctors" who are proficient in medical theory, and even wild herbs are rare, so people store things that can heal wounds or diseases, and they are bought from rune doctors.
Perhaps the price of these drugs has long exceeded 50 quinquets.
But he only asked himself for the cost of repairing the windows, and did not care about the medicines...... How can I say that maybe Mr. Zhang is a stingy, but in some places he can be regarded as a generous person?
Just thinking about it, Zhou Xinyi suddenly noticed again: "Mr. Zhang, why do you have so many bruises on your body?" β
It looks like it was thrown out of stone.
Mr. Zhang noticed Zhou Xinyi's gaze, and put on a layer of cotton clothes to block the bruises, "Oh, there are always some people who plot to kill me, they are all guys with a group of rats, and they will apologize to me sooner or later." β
"But thanks to this, the officials who knew about it gave me a lot of compensation and gave me a lot of medicine, oh, you used it too."
"......" he was moved in vain.
"Then again, Mr. Zhang, you told me five years ago to tell me your name when you become famous, can you tell me now?"
Mr. Zhang stood there and looked at him twice.
Then he raised his arm to show off his shabby cloth clothes, "Do you think I look like a successful person?" β
"No," Zhou Xin Yi said, "but you still have the same temper and personality as before, and I don't think you're at least a loser." β
Hearing this, Mr. Zhang nodded deeply, "Wait, it's not long before that." β
"By the way, I haven't asked you why you were injured as a judge, who did it?"
ββ¦β¦ Judges always go through some hardships along the way," Zhou Xinyi shrugged his shoulders, "I have a friend who has gone missing, and I had a little accident while looking for her. β
Speaking of this, Zhou Xinyi felt very frustrated and self-blamed.
He has always been a responsible person who values commitments, since he has an agreement with Ji Lin, now that Ji Lin is in distress, Zhou Xinyi can't care about this is a light curtain, Ji Lin is also a native who will disappear when the light curtain dissipates, and he will definitely do his best to save her.
But the reality is that not only did he save the wrong person, but he was also tricked by the monster disguised as her.
Where is the real Ji Lin, and is she still safe and sound?
There is little hope.
As soon as he imagined that Ji Lin might be struggling to support himself in some dark corner, waiting for his rescue, only to be met with a monster's merciless killing, his heart was like a knife.
"Missing, a lot of people have been missing recently," Mr. Zhang said, "Well, there were a lot of them before, and the missing people in Jizhou City have never stopped. β
"It's just such an isolated city, where did all the missing people go? There shouldn't be such a thing as a desecration zone in Jizhou City, which will make people die without knowing where the body is, and everyone's identity information should be registered in detail with the government. β
Zhou Xinyi was stunned, isn't this kind of thinking similar to modern times? "It's a very far-sighted idea."
Mr. Zhang snorted, "Of course, I am a very gifted person, but I have not been able to turn this talent into money and fame for the time being. β
"You know, if you want some people to worship you, you have to at least lower yourself to their level so that they can keep up with your thinking...... But I don't bother to do that. β
As for the disappearance, Zhou Xinyi now knows the truth - in the early days, it was because of the collusion between officials and powers, and part of it must have originated from the "collection" of McVall officials, and those heads may not have been collected by herself, otherwise according to the approach of McVall officials, hundreds of people went down, and no one should have spread the rumor that "McVall officials are cold on the outside and hot on the inside".
Thinking of this, Zhou Xinyi laughed back to the page of copy he received in the last light curtain, which asked what colors and things the official of McVall liked.
Now he can finally confidently answer the other party: the color that the McVall official likes is probably blood red, and the thing he likes must be collecting human heads.
If you want to win her love, you can cut off your head and confess it.
However, since those heads were not all collected by the McVall officials themselves, there must be sins committed by other officials in order to appease each other.
Maivre is a monster raised by the entire Jizhou City higher-ups.
He now knew why McVall's perception of the collection was so slow, and the officials who stepped on the corpse would even offer gifts to her, how could those things be rejected in her perception?
After resting at Mr. Zhang's house for a while, and in the evening, Zhou Xinyi set off for the street of the hotel where he used to live with Ji Linβhe was looking for the father and son who had sent the missing person notice.
But instead of finding the father, he found the boy sitting on the side of the road with a stack of leaflets.
What happened in the official residence of the McVall was too loud for the people to hide from each other, and what happened on their side more or less reached the ears of the father and son, as if they felt something and understood that their family was already very lucky.
The cowardly and incompetent father, who loved his daughter deeply, suddenly collapsed, and only the boy, as always, went out into the streets to find his sister with the last hope.
Boy, no, Shen Wei just came to the street according to the plot as it should be, in fact, he was waiting for someone.
Zhou Xinyi looked at the thin figure and shouted, "...... Shen Wei? β
The boy looked up.
"In this light curtain, you should call me Amai."
After he said this, as if he was really a native in the light curtain, his eyes lit up and he stepped forward, "Sir, you are here again." β