Ever since Lao Huang and Lao Wang spread the news, all the residents in the old city have flocked towards the Beast Taming Gym.
So much so that Lin Ye, who was planning to open another gymnasium at the East City Gate, had to put this arrangement on hold.
After all, with so many people there, it was impossible for him to leave Qin Zhilan alone in the gym.
As for Yang Wei, after helping for a while, he went to see the patrols of the bear tribe.
As night falls, many people seeking night life in the old city gradually begin to come out and take action.
Most of these people are serious refugees.
He has a "skill" in his hand, but he uses it on the residents here.
At the base of a street in the old city, several figures looked a little blurry under the dim street lights.
"Boss, if we are discussing things here, won't we be discovered? Why don't we go to the alley?"
The questioner was a little boy who looked to be only thirteen or fourteen years old. His face was dirty, his eye sockets were sunken, and he looked malnourished.
But this is also the normal state of true refugees.
Compared with those residents who have houses in the old city, these people really have no fixed residence.
Not to mention nutrition and so on, it would be nice if you can have a full meal.
But as soon as the little boy finished speaking, he received a slap on the head.
"Get out! Don't drag me into labor if you want to die. Those skeletons just popped out of the alley two days ago."
The leader is a kid who doesn't look too old, maybe just an adult.
But because he is a superpower, and a rare superpower, he was able to recruit these half-grown children to find a way to make some money in the old city.
After slapping his disobedient younger brother, the boy began to make "work arrangements."
"Still the old rules, everyone has a street, don't be wary."
"Run away immediately if you fail."
"yes!"
A few childish but powerful responses made the boy very satisfied and felt that he could carry forward his "thief squad".
"Set off!"
Seeing his younger brothers disperse one by one, the boy also found a random street to "hang out".
He specifically targeted people who were crowded and who were carrying bags.
No, after seeing someone coming out of a bakery with a bag in hand, the boy walked towards that person.
When he was less than three meters away from the man carrying the bread, the boy took out a stone from his pocket, and then stared at the man's bag of bread.
Phew~
Two seconds later, the stone in the boy's hand suddenly disappeared, followed by a fist-sized piece of bread.
And the stone appeared in the bread pocket of the man in front.
However, because the weight change was not obvious, the man did not realize that his bread had been dropped.
Looking at the bread he got, the boy turned around and started eating it without any courtesy.
While eating the bread, the boy looked at the shadowy crowd in front of him and couldn't help but walk over there.
Where there are so many people queuing up, it’s definitely easier to get a chance.
And his two "little brothers" thought so too.
So, just when the boy came over and before he had time to find a target to start with, he heard someone shouting there:
"There's a thief!"
"Catch the thief!"
This sound immediately attracted the attention of many residents.
The little boy who was found was holding a small bag in his hand and ran away immediately.
Although he is small, his running speed is not slow at all.
Although these residents in the old city wanted to stop him, no one could follow him.
Seeing that they were about to run from one street to another, many residents even released their own beasts, such as iron-backed pigs, but they could not catch up. Just when everyone was about to give up.
, a very fast wooden arrow shot towards the little boy.
"No!"
Seeing this scene, the boy who was still happily eating bread couldn't help but screamed.
"Oh!"
Fortunately, there were no bloody scenes.
The little boy who was shot by the wooden arrow just fell to the ground. Looking at the way he was still struggling, it was obvious that he was just injured.
This made the boy sigh in relief, and at the same time he continued to eat the bread in his hand.
But looking at his trembling hands when holding the bread, he must have been frightened.
"good!"
"Who shot this arrow?"
"have no idea."
"Look over there, bear-men, there are those bear-man beasts!"
Following the direction of someone's finger, everyone saw a bear carrying a bow and arrow running towards the thief with two other powerful bears.
The boy who had just regained some mood and started eating bread couldn't hold the bread in his hand after seeing the bear man and dropped it directly to the ground.
With trembling lips, he trembled and said to himself:
"What...what kind of monsters are these?"
"Young man, this is not some monster."
Standing next to the boy, a middle-aged man holding a dog smiled and bent down to pick up the bread on the ground and handed it to the boy.
"This is a royal beast. Director Lin can bring it and place it in the old city to maintain public security and order."
The boy was stunned for a moment.
"Director Lin? Who is this?"
Seeing that this boy didn't know Director Lin, the middle-aged man looked at him with a little contempt in his eyes.
"Are you a resident here?"
“I don’t even know Curator Lin!”
After being scolded by the middle-aged man, the boy felt a little aggrieved and a little confused.
"I...of course I live here!"
"But who stipulates that you must know Curator Lin?"
"Since when did the old city have such a number one figure?!"
Looking at the tough-talking boy in front of him, Lao Wang couldn't help but shake his head.
"A child cannot be taught!"
"It's your loss for not knowing a kind person like Director Lin!"
"Don't worry, that kid is fine. He will be sent to the Public Security Bureau for a few days at most."
"ah?!"
Hearing this, the boy became anxious.
The Sheriff's Department is not a good place.
It's not that you can't come out after you go in, but the time you come out is based on the "filial piety" of the person being imprisoned.
Without filial piety, let alone letting you out on time, not doubling it would be considered kindness.
If you are filial enough, then it is just a formality.
But obviously, as thieves who have just started their career, they are destined to have little savings.
"This...then...can I beg Director Lin to let him go?"
Looking at the anxious boy in front of him, Lao Wang rolled his eyes and immediately understood why this boy cared so much about the thief.
He had heard someone say that a gang of thieves had appeared in the old city recently.
The leader is a big boy, but he is very capable and never fails. He also has a group of children as his subordinates.
That's probably the silly kid in front of me.
If it weren't for those skeletons and beasts before, they would be the biggest news in the old city right now.
But he didn't try to expose it, and nodded with a smile.
"You can go and try it."
When the boy heard this, he gritted his teeth, glanced at the younger brother who was caught by the bears, looked at Lao Wang uncertainly and asked:
"Then, those things really don't eat people?"
Lao Wang shook his head.
"Eat meat, but don't eat people."
The boy chose to believe it for a while, and then ran towards the gym.
He decided that even if he lost everything today, he would still save his little brother.
Well, it's a pity that he doesn't have much wealth to show off.
At the same time, Lin Ye was counting his property there.
Although these residents smoked low-quality beasts, they could not stand up to the large numbers.
In just one afternoon, Lin Ye had already subsidized nearly two million credit points.
The number of people who came to receive the royal beast was only a little over a thousand.
If all the nearly 20,000 residents in the old city are distributed, it means that at least 40 million credits will be needed.
The amount of money still made Lin Ye feel a little pained.
Fortunately, I had enough savings before, and I can't break my promise just because of money.
So the pain in the body is a pain in the body, but the animal control still has to continue.
All I can say is that luckily the one I picked was a low-level beast.
If this was a hot idea and there were no restrictions on the quality of the beasts, Lin Ye felt that he could go bankrupt in advance.
Whenever someone draws one or two golden beasts, Lin Ye can send them.
"Director Lin, someone is looking for you!"
While Lin Ye was rejoicing there, a resident brought in a big boy who was about 1.7 meters tall.
"Looking for me?"
"Well, Lao Wang sent it, saying that this kid has something to tell you."
Lin Ye knew Lao Wang.
It was the middle-aged man who said something that deeply touched him.
He looked at the big boy in front of him with a cautious look in his eyes and waved to him.
"Come with me~"
The boy watched as these people came in and took an animal from a machine.
There were monkeys, pigs, dogs, birds, even snakes, and people who looked like cows. The fright in my heart was much lessened, and I was looking at the machine seriously.
"Then...what is that?"
"That's a beast-controlling machine. It can extract beast-controllers."
"If you want, you can try it out later."
Lin Ye now finds that he is much more patient with these people in the old city than before.
Maybe it was because he always felt a debt of gratitude in his heart, so when he spoke, his face was full of "kindness".
Hearing Lin Ye's words, the boy swallowed, and then looked at Lin Ye warily.
"You...do you have any intentions?"
"Otherwise why do we do this kind of thing? Give it to everyone for free?"
Lin Ye smiled and didn't explain anything.
"Just think I'm out of my mind."
"Tell me what you want from me."
Hearing this, the boy opened his mouth, then took the bag he was carrying behind him into his hand, and then poured out the contents at once.
"I...this is all I have."
"Can you please let the mouse go?"
Seeing the actions of the big boy in front of him, Lin Ye was also confused.
"Wha, what rat? What are you talking about?"
Seeing Lin Ye's appearance, the big boy gritted his teeth and said harshly:
"He's just a thief caught by your bears!"
"I, I want to redeem him!"
Now Lin Ye understood a little bit.
A thief must have been caught by the patrolling bears, and his accomplices came here to plead for mercy.
Thinking of this, Lin Ye couldn't help but smile and shook his head.
"Since you stole something, you should be punished."
"You gave me the money, but I can't let it be redeemed, otherwise it wouldn't be fair to the person who had it stolen."
Listening to Lin Ye's reasoning, the big boy curled his lips in disdain.
"If you say it so nicely, where can you get food if you don't steal it?"
"Can't work?"
"No one wants us!"
Lin Ye frowned.
He seems to be a bit obsessed with eating minced meat.
After all, the world has different backgrounds and cannot be generalized.
"Ahem~"
"Then no matter what, stealing is still wrong."
"If you don't have a job, you can come to my place. As you can see, my business is very good, but I am short of people."
Lin Ye pointed to Qin Zhilan, who was working alone there, and extended a job invitation to the big boy.
Who knew that this big boy didn't appreciate it very much.
"cut!"
"Don't lie to me. Where can I find a business that doesn't charge money?"
"I just don't charge money in the old town. You still have to charge money in other places. What do you think? Think about it."
The big boy gritted his teeth and finally shook his head.
"Can I use your work to pay for the mice?"
Hearing this, Lin Ye laughed angrily.
"You're pretty good at showing off your skills with nothing!"
Just when Lin Ye was about to go out and let the bear man release him, Yang Wei suddenly rushed in like lightning.
Lin Ye looked at the pile of miscellaneous things in front of him, then looked at the big boy, and said doubtfully:
"What are you doing?"
"Haha, the bears just caught a thief when they were patrolling. This kid is here to redeem his son."
"Haha." Yang Wei glanced at the big boy and was about to make a joke when he suddenly let out a soft "eh".
Then he looked at the big boy next to him with suspicion and said:
"Boy, are you a superpower?"
The big boy looked at Yang Wei warily and immediately shook his head.
Before his mother passed away, she told him not to reveal his abilities casually.
However, people with superpowers cannot avoid being exposed if they want to.
You can hide it in front of ordinary people, but you can't hide that aura in front of people with super powers.
"Still quibbling~"
"I am the vice president of the Superpower Association, do you think I can't tell?"
The boy immediately stopped talking.
Yang Wei wanted to ask something more, but suddenly he caught a glimpse of the pile of miscellaneous things on the ground, and there was a bright red thing. He immediately bent down and took the thing in his hand.
Lin Ye looked at the things in Yang Wei's hands and said curiously:
"What is that?"
"The polluter's token." Yang Wei faced Lin Ye with the red metal sign with strange patterns in his hand, and continued: "There is also a piece of this in the city hall. He said that he is the holder of the polluter's token.
It’s from the command, so I haven’t seen it online at all.”
After speaking, Yang Wei looked at the boy next to him and said seriously: