Chapter 3/Shadows of the Alley is a Hotbed of Crime
The little boy with black hair and black eyes, Yiwen Ian, or Su Zuo, was muttering "Good, good, good, good" while stroking the head of the cat that was devouring its food.
Almost a month has passed since the time traveled. From the initial confusion, being transported around like a sandbag, to the current stability, Su Zuo is quite satisfied with his current life.
He is now working as a handyman in the kitchen of a brothel under the jurisdiction of Crow Golden Lock, peeling and chopping vegetables. He has studied and lived abroad for nearly ten years, and has successfully survived surrounded by countless junk foods.
Work is relatively easy for him.
Although the brothel called Nolan Ji'er where he is located is not on the same level as the aristocratic high-end clubs in upper-class areas, it can be regarded as a top luxury consumption place in Wenning District, even in Xiacheng District. Therefore,
After he traveled through time, he lived a pretty good life. He had plenty of leftovers to eat every day, his work was easy, his sleeping place and clothes were relatively clean, and he was especially happy to be able to take a bath once a week.
Of course, even someone as luxurious as Nolan Ji'er would rarely throw away a whole fish, so the fish Su Zuo used to feed the cat was brought out secretly by him.
The garbage can in his hand is basically filled with vegetable shells, peels and other things. It can only be said that if you don't care about the taste, it can still be used to satisfy your hunger. In Nolanji, even leftovers can be used to satisfy your hunger.
The food would also be fed to the slaves, leaving no room for feeding "garbage".
That's right, garbage, this is what Su Zuo's current direct boss, Nolan Ji'er's chef Dorn, said to the beggars surrounding the garbage dump.
Su Zuo didn't want to express any opinions on this, but after seeing the so-called garbage, he gave up the idea of escaping from the Golden Lock of Crow.
The scene when he encountered the perverted murderer four nights ago was still fresh in his memory. His power was too weak. If he left Nolan Ji'er rashly, the end would not be much better.
While stroking the cat thoughtfully, Su Zuo raised his head.
"Run! Keep running! Can't you run?! Keep running!"
Following the arrogant and domineering insults, four young men who looked like villains were kicking and beating the girl on the ground.
The thin girl lying on the ground hugged the money bag, curled up and said nothing, silently enduring the beating.
"Damn it! He didn't even scream... so boring. Could it be that he is mute?"
It seemed that they were tired of beating, and the young people stopped one after another.
"Fuck, I haven't had sex with Dumb yet, and I lost my virginity today. Hey, Dumb, your chest is so flat, are you still a virgin?"
Obscene laughter echoed in the streets, and passers-by looked at them with disgust, but no one came out to stop them.
Su Zuo sighed, this is daily life in Wenning District.
The girl was dragged up by her arms. She may have been beaten so badly that she was extremely weak even in her struggle. The young men grinned and pulled her long, gray and disheveled hair, and dragged her to the side of the street.
dark alley.
Su Zuo curled his lips, that narrow alleyway that could barely accommodate two or three people walking side by side was very suitable as a breeding ground for crime.
In this place filled with scum and scum, things are just like that. It has nothing to do with law and morality. Death often only represents stupidity and short-sightedness, and of course, a certain amount of bad luck.
Su Zuo didn't want to care about the tragedy that was about to happen, and to be honest, maybe because his body was just a child at this time, he found it a little difficult to understand these guys who had lost their minds because of their lower body.
Su Zuo saw the kitten in front of him licking its paws. It was obviously full. So he patted its head and stood up. Even though Su Zuo was short in stature, he could still overlook the kitten across the street.
Looking at the skinny and hungry beggars lying on the ground, Su Zuo looked indifferent as he looked at the anger in their eyes.
The thing is like this, even if he is just a child, because of Nolan Ji'er behind him and the more familiar Crow Golden Lock, these people don't dare to do anything to him.
This is the iron rule of survival that has lasted for decades in Wenning District.
"Those with winks may not die, but those without winks will definitely die..."
Su Zuo murmured softly, picked up the trash can, and dumped the vegetable leaves in the bucket on the garbage heap.
Carrying the empty bucket, Su Zuo took small steps and walked leisurely towards the alley. Behind him, the "hungry ghosts" who were still so hungry that they seemed to be dying were already fighting for food.
stand up.
Turning into the alley, Su Zuo had already anticipated what would happen before him. He greeted the girl with a relaxed expression——
"Hey, it looks like you've gained a lot today."
That's right, the one who looked like a broken doll in the dark alley, with her limbs and neck twisted in strange directions, was not the inconspicuous girl in front of Su Zuo.
It was the four young men who had died peacefully at her feet.
Hearing the movement behind her, the girl wearing a tattered robe and a gray scarf with a dirty face turned her head and glanced at Su Zuo. The girl pulled her long gray hair, which was covered with mud, in front of her body
, he squatted down on his own and stretched out his hands to the waist bags of the men.
Su Zuo looked at her skillful movements and felt a little uncomfortable: "I was injured just a few days ago, and yet I did something like this again..."
"...You don't have to worry about..." The girl raised her head and looked at Su Zuo, and said lightly. Her lake-green eyes were as hard to fathom as a pool of water. She stretched out her slender index finger, pulled the edge of the scarf, and covered it.
Shut up.
Su Zuo didn't expect that she would really reply to him, so he couldn't help being a little surprised. He scratched his head: "Ah?! Oh...is that so..."
After thinking for a while, Su Zuo looked at the corpses on the ground: "Speaking of which, why do you have to kill them? If it's just robbery, wouldn't it be enough to knock them unconscious?"
"...will be retaliated against..." The girl's voice was unusually clear, and she didn't seem to think too much about it.
"Oh..." Su Zuo responded, and then figured it out. He is not a child who is so naive that he has never seen the cruel side of society. For this world that is far more cruel than the earth, he has no impulse to try to change anything.
, in the month after time travel, most of the time he just observed calmly - except for the incident where he formed a bond with the girl.
The thief... no, to be precise, should I say the murderer lady...
Su Zuo calmly revised his impression of the girl in his mind. Although it was not visible on the surface, Su Zuo estimated that according to the girl's lifestyle of killing several people every month to make money, she had a lot of money on her hands.
At least a few hundred lives - although most of them were scum.
The scum extorted money from the lone coolies in Wenning District, while the girl supported herself by secretly hunting the scum. Although this was just Su Zuo's own imagination, he would rather believe in this "truth" that he had imagined
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However, it seems that it is not good to call someone a murderer lady, so Su Zuo thought about it and decided to talk to the girl who was taking off the underwear of the corpse: "By the way, we have known each other for a few days, 'hey',"
It's not good to call you by your name. Do you have a name? A pseudonym is fine."
"...a person...name...is not necessary..."
Looking through the clothes of the "prey" carefully, the girl picked out the silver coins one by one from the gap of her belt. Perhaps because she was not used to speaking, she always felt that she had to think about every word she said.
"Ah...Is that so?" Su Zuo thought for a while and looked at her long, fluffy and messy gray hair, "How about calling you Wolf Snow? The wolf is the wolf of the steppe wolf, and the snow is the snow of rain and snow.
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Su Zuo remembered an anime he had seen before called "Wolf Rain", in which a huge white wolf appeared in front of people in the form of a human being, which confused human eyes. It felt very consistent with the feeling the girl gave him.
Yes, it is more like a white wolf wandering in human society than a human being.
The girl didn't answer, but Su Zuo felt that it was getting late, so he patted his hem and stood up: "I have some things to do today. I want to leave the barrel at your house and pick it up when I come back in the afternoon. It's okay.
Question?"
"...No." The girl said without raising her head, but as if she remembered something, she suddenly stood up and walked quickly to Su Zuo.
"Here you are, it's hurt." The girl stretched out her hand and poked it in front of Su Zuo, holding a blackened silver coin at the tip of her delicate white fingers.
Su Zuo knew what she was talking about, so he didn't give in. "Okay, then I won't be polite."
Putting the coin into his arms, Su Zuo waved his hand, said goodbye to the girl and left.
"Then see you later, Langxue."
Behind him, a slightly inaudible voice hesitated for a while, and then softly sounded: "Well..."