Streets and nights

The sycamore leaves fell all over the ground, and the crickets cries on the ground, sounding clearly at the feet, but if you look closely, the illusion caused by the frequency of the sound of the wing membranes of this insect is actually behind some big tree next to the street, right?

There are not many shops on the street that are still lit, but there are always some time-honored shops that are still open, including Zhang Ji Pharmacy, at this point in time, there are almost no door-to-door customers, but the store is still open, a woman wearing a simple gray robe and a wide hat appeared at the door of the store, she lowered the black brim to cover her face, looked around, and came in carefully. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The lights in the pharmacy are not very bright, the ceiling is a few years old, and the second floor of the pharmacy is above it, serving VIPs.

The first floor was divided into two entrances, and she stepped over the copper-covered wooden threshold at her feet, and on the left was the counter and the medicine cabinet on the entire wall, and on the right was the chair for the guests to rest.

In the middle of the forward and backward entrances, a carved screen is blocked to avoid the passage of the hall, which is probably a bit of a trap of wealth, and on both sides of the screen are two aisles - usually guests come in and go straight to the counter, not paying attention to the screen.

When the gray-robed woman came in, she glanced at the corner of the inner hall at the end of the aisle, and the small vase on the corner table was inserted with white flowers today, snow-white and delicate petals, yes...... Jasmine?

"Hello man. "Her voice is a bit neutral and unnatural.

A young man looked up behind the counter, the visitor lowered his head, and his face was covered by a black wide-brimmed hat, but the man's eyes were vicious, and he could recognize it as a young woman by looking at the figure under the gray robe, and he couldn't tell whether he was married or unmarried, so he couldn't be called Mrs. or Miss, he smiled: "Madam, what medicine do you want to buy?"

The gray-robed woman pressed the brim of her hat and whispered: "Angelica two taels, cooked three taels...... Licorice five coins ......"

The guy immediately looked outside and pointed to the inner hall: "Angelica is on the second floor, please go upstairs to grab medicine, turn left inside, the stairs are on the side of the table with white flowers, be careful not to touch the fire water gun." ”

In fact, this kind of pharmacy usually puts precious medicines on the second floor, Angelica is not precious, and there is a number on the small drawer on the medicine wall behind him, and the gray-robed woman said, "Isn't it at home?"

"Ah, sorry ma'am, I misremembered, please come with me to the backyard......" The guy laughed and came out to lead the way.

As she crossed the stairs, she glanced up at the wall, where the fire cannon was just a long cone made of wood, the original wooden barrel pressed the water supply, and the advanced direct water hose fire gun in the hospital had not yet been used, and it looked like an ordinary pharmacy in every way.

The gray-robed woman followed to a small room in the backyard, the man pushed open the heavy medicine cabinet, and a wooden partition appeared on the ground, knocked on the partition, and a voice came from inside: "Who?"

"There are VIPs, it's ladies. The man turned his head as he spoke, smiled and stretched out his hand to make a gesture to her, gentleman: "Do you have a gun......?" Ok thanks. ”

The wooden partition opened, the stone steps led to the basement, and the gray-robed woman walked down, and the wooden partition closed behind her.

The darkness around her was steep, and the gray-robed woman was stunned, and there seemed to be eyes staring at her in the darkness, and she froze there: "Who?"

This is a very penetrating gaze, she has the illusion that she is not clothed, instinctively clasped her hands to her chest to cover, the other party seems to judge that she is not a threat, in the dark before withdrawing her gaze...... Can't hear breathing, it's a warlock.

The human eyes gradually adapted to the environment through the difference between light and dark, and the gray-robed woman realized that this was not pure black, but a shiny rectangular door frame stood in the darkness, and a strange and dull regular sound came from inside, as if the gates of hell were erected there.

The warlock didn't speak, but the sound of flipping through the newspaper came from the darkness behind him, apparently too lazy to pay attention.

The gray-robed woman took a deep breath, walked over and pushed the door open, stretched out her hand to block the bright light, and heard the sound of a whip waving in the air, followed by a "snap", and a man's scream.

Her heart tightened, she readjusted to the light, and lowered her hand.

In front of him was a middle-aged man in black trousers with white shirt sleeves rolled up, wielding a whip and whipping the young man tied to an iron frame.

The young man was covered in red fruits, like a pig, and his two hands were hanging from two hooks, and the whole person was dangling in the air with the whipping, and then he let out an inhuman scream...... Seeing the gray-robed woman come in, the middle-aged man who was executed dropped his whip and pulled out his gun: "Traitor!"

The young man looked up at the gray-robed woman, his mind was a little clearer, and when he saw her, there was a glimmer of light in his eyes, and the gray-robed woman was stunned: "Dawn guest...... Chu Zheng?"

"I'm not ......a traitor," Chu Zheng said in a hoarse voice.

"Smack!", Chu Zheng snorted, his expression froze, a bloody hole in his forehead, bullets sprayed on the wall behind him with brains, and the corpse hung down.

"Sophistry!" the middle-aged man sneered.

The gray-robed woman's body trembled, restrained herself from moving, and bowed her head: "I didn't expect him to betray...... Several lines have been lost, right?"

"Sacrifice is inevitable...... the middle-aged man shook his gun, blew away the green smoke, and looked at the gray-robed woman: "This loss has even affected the cherry blossoms, the adults above are very disappointed in this, and now the whole city is under martial law and arrest, the wind is very tight, and the shadow hall has decided to temporarily use a new face to be his junior classmate, what do you say?"

"You're right, so many people with lofty ideals have been arrested and killed, but we won't give up, only Liang Hou is the one who saves the world......" The gray-robed woman accentuated her tone, as if to convince herself: "We, the Shadow Hall, are all pawns who cross the river for the sake of the great cause, and there is no way out!"

"There's no way back...... I appreciate this sentence, don't look at the current glamour, forget your own background...... Hmph, what dawn guest, think you are the next Ji Jiang?" The middle-aged man spat at the young man's corpse, then put away his gun and said to her: "The Luhou dragon vein has lost Ji Jiang's seat, and it flows through the acupoints, which have basically been discovered, and there are still a few suspicious points that are unknown, you go to check this ......"

The gray-robed woman picked up a drawing on the table, looked at a certain red circle, and was a little unsure: "Is there anything special about it?"

"Don't ask, don't ask more, you'll know when you go to the scene, check if there are stable characteristics of the state of the two realms in the courtyard. The middle-aged man waved his hand expressionlessly to let her leave, and suddenly looked at her slender figure again, and threw her a paper bag: "Bring medicine......! The signal for the next month is safflower. ”

The gray-robed woman bowed, turned to leave the bloody basement, and gasped for breath in the darkness as she closed the door...... Some of them were not used to dizziness, and they were calm, there was no one in the dark, probably they went up to check the surroundings, the wind was loud, and the underground stronghold was not well manned.

She also knocked on the partition above, and the young man opened the door, still smiling politely, but no longer feeling any warmth: "Ma'am, this is your gun, please hold it firm." ”

Out on the street, the gray-robed woman lowered the brim of her hat, looked left and right, and hurriedly left here.

A man came out of the shadows of a dark alley, watched her disappear into the corner of the street, and said into the air: "The interrogation was unsuccessful, the dawn guest did not confess anyone, do you think she is credible?"

"She didn't have ......a choice," the voice in the air said.

"Also, after all, it's an incubator, and he doesn't have any resources, so he's a newcomer, not the same as the old man on the hub like the Dawnke...... But it's still strange that the Dawn will betray?" the man frowned, not daring to say more.

"Wang-"

On the side of the long street, there was the sound of dogs barking and the footsteps of police boots, and the man hurriedly moved to a clear alley.

Three or four black-skinned county guards came all the way, leading a big black dog, looking listless, saying that some of them were walking dogs, and even the big black dog was more active and energetic than them, or even more so that he was slipped by a dog.

The dog followed them all the way to the door of the pharmacy, and when he saw that it was still open, the black-skinned squad leader with a hat stopped and routinely greeted the guys in the store: "You, come out...... Did you see any anomalous people at night?"

"Hello Chiefs...... Do you want to smoke? give, give, give ......" The young man smiled and scattered a circle of paper cigarettes, even said that he didn't see it, complained that the curfew had affected business, and asked, "When will martial law end?"

"You ask Lao Tzu, how does Lao Tzu know?" The black-skinned squad leader angrily took a puff of smoke rings, flicked cigarette ashes, waved his hand to let people in to check the circle, and he was talking nonsense to the guys at the door: "That's the business of the big guys, I heard the gunshots in the Dongying Chamber of Commerce in the concession, and it is still on fire...... The unlucky Lucia foreigner died, and the adults of the county guard were not like their dead fathers...... Urging me layer by layer, I don't count tonight, I have to come over tomorrow to sweep the streets!"

"Ah, we're really unlucky when this thing is settled. The young man sighed, blocked the light with his body, and stuffed a piece of silver into the team leader's hand: "Chiefs, you have worked hard to protect the territory and the people." ”

The black-skinned squad leader touched it, but there was no movement, so the guy stuffed two more pieces knowingly, and the black-skinned squad leader patted the guy's shoulder with satisfaction: "Just do business normally tomorrow, haha......"

When a few black skins heard the laughter, they came out of the pharmacy and shook their heads: "No problem." ”

It was the big black dog that sniffed into the alley and began to drill into it, which was the direction in which the gray-robed woman had left before.

The guy's eyes were slightly condensed, staring at the big black dog, this large dog has a slender body and quick speed, once it accelerates and runs, it can even directly pounce on adults, and it is obviously specially trained, it is difficult to deal with, much more difficult to deal with than a few black patrol officers.

But then, without knowing what it heard, it pricked up its ears and turned to the side of the street and ran wildly: "Wang! Wang-"

"There is a situation!"

The black-skinned squad leader looked nervous, threw away the cigarette, and immediately led the team to catch up, faintly saw a white shadow swaying over the tree, still running fast, so he pulled out his gun and shouted: "That person, stop! Don't stop again! Lao Tzu shoots-"

"Meow~~"

A little white cat jumped up the tree, glanced at the stupid humans below, turned around and disappeared into the dense foliage, and jumped to the back of the roof.

The dog under the tree was still grinning, barking at the direction where the little white cat left, and the black-skinned patrol officers raised their pistols one by one, but they had lost their vision before they could aim, and they looked at each other for a while, and then relaxed, and someone snorted at the ground: "It turned out to be a cat, I just thought it was a woman in white......