Not long after Al was walking alone in an alley full of garbage, a man on the side of the road suddenly stood up, grabbed a sack and grabbed Al.
Because this place is too chaotic and there is no oil or water, the city lord of this town is too lazy to take care of this kind of place. Moreover, for those upper class people, the existence of slums is necessary, because only in this way can they be isolated from the common people.
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That's why there are many gray businesses here, and buying and selling people is one of them.
Eight-year-old Al is no longer very valuable in the eyes of many people here, but he still has some value.
But Al felt that danger was coming, so he directly pulled out his dagger and stabbed forward.
The person who wanted to kidnap Al would never have imagined that there was a wolf in sheep's clothing in front of him.
After stabbing the opponent, Al did not stop there. He even jumped up and slit the opponent's throat with a dagger.
After confirming that the man had completely lost the ability to resist, Al wiped the dagger in his hand with his clothes.
Immediately, he turned to look at the other people standing aside. Although those people were a little surprised by Al's methods, they did not take action against him.
Seeing that these people chose to watch indifferently, Al put away his dagger and continued walking outside.
About an hour later, the bearded man learned that someone had died on the roadside.
In a place like this, people die abnormally almost every day, so Massena was originally not going to meddle in other people's business, but the words of a passerby who witnessed what happened at the scene gave him a reason to follow.
"You don't know, that kid was very decisive. He first stabbed the opponent in the abdomen, and then sealed his throat with a knife while he was in pain. I couldn't help but applaud him for this method."
Massena secretly thought: "Hassan died after someone stabbed his throat. Is it possible that they are the same person?"
Then he didn't bother to notify Beard and the others. After spending a few copper coins to find out the man's whereabouts, he chased in the direction Al left.
Looking at Massena's back, passers-by waved goodbye: "I'll give you a piece of advice, don't be deceived by his thin appearance, be careful, be careful again."
Masséna didn't respond, and the passerby didn't care. He hid the copper coin in his crotch, and then found a corner to rest.
Al's current physical fitness is better than that of the average adult man. If he goes all out, he will be able to leave the slum in a short time, but he thought about it and finally chose to go slowly.
First of all, he was afraid that he would take the wrong path, and secondly, he wanted to save some energy. After all, those people did not feed him like this in the past because they were afraid of running away.
But Massena was different. He rushed forward with all his strength, so it didn't take long to get ahead of Al and block him on his only way.
When Massena, who was leaning against the wall, saw Al, he pulled out his sword and pointed it at Al without saying anything.
"I really didn't expect you to have such ability. If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have kept you."
Apparently Massena took the passerby's advice into consideration.
Looking at the man in front of him, Al mocked: "I originally thought you were good people, but I didn't expect you actually wanted to sell me."
Massena asked him: "Are you the one who killed Hassan?"
Al didn't answer, but his movement of sprinting forward actually said it all.
Seeing that Al was actively attacking him, Massena did not dare to relax at all, and he directly raised his sword to fight back.
At the beginning, Massena thought that he could easily kill him with the long sword in his hand. Even though he had been trained, he would never be able to survive ten moves in his own hand.
But the fact is that every attack of Massena will be perfectly resisted by Al, and Al even has the power to attack him.
Before heading here alone, Massena would never have thought that Al would be so capable.
On the other hand, Al said of the opponent, "The sword skills are very rough and the strength is not the same. If I hadn't held a dagger in my hand, I would have killed him long ago."
While Massena was diligently resisting every attack from Al, he didn't notice that one of Al's hands was free.
"Qiang!"
A flash of silver light flashed, and Massena, who felt something was wrong, quickly hid aside and quickly distanced himself from Al.
It was only then that he realized that the fluorescent light turned out to be a table knife, and at this moment, nearly half of the knife had penetrated into the wall.
If Massena came here with hatred, then he was slightly frightened at this moment.
Because if he hadn't noticed the danger in time and stepped aside, he might have followed Hassan's footsteps.
In fact, if Al had used his knife to attack other parts of Massena, he would have been able to hit him, and he would have been able to kill him when he was not prepared.
But what Al wanted at the moment was to kill him with one blow, so he just aimed at Massena's neck, and that's why he missed.
But Al reacted immediately. He rushed towards Massena with a dagger in his right hand, and took out a table knife in his left hand, ready to attack Massena at any time.
Seeing this, Massena ran away quickly. If Al fought with him at close range like before, he would not be afraid.
But the other party also threw throwing knives, and he didn't have such a thing as a throwing knife, so after thinking about it for 0.5 seconds, he turned around and ran away.
In order to prevent Al's flying knife from attacking him, he still moved with snakeskin when escaping.
Looking at Massena walking away, Al immediately decided to continue walking out.
Just when the sky was dimming, Al finally left the slum. At the same time, Massena also told Beard and the others what had happened to him.
After hearing Massena's narration, the bearded man frowned slightly.
He originally thought that the person who killed Hassan would be a master, but who would have thought that it was the little guy who had been living under their noses for several days.
And from Massena's narration, we learned that although Al looks like a little brat with no hair, his combat power cannot be underestimated. At least Massena and the others are no match for him.
Some people threatened to kill Al to avenge their companions, but Beard stopped them.
Massena was almost killed just now, so now he is a little dissatisfied with the bearded man who took Al in.
"What are you still dragging? Hurry up and catch up with him before he runs far away. I can't beat him by myself, but there are so many of us now, can't we still deal with a little guy?"
I have to say that what he said makes sense. After all, people like them must be loyal, otherwise who would follow them?
The bearded man said righteously: "Do you think I don't want revenge? I also want to take revenge, but haven't you ever thought about it? He could have taken action before he had such strength, why did he wait until now?"
"Yes, why?" Everyone present was a little puzzled.
After all, since Al has the ability to kill Hassan and Massena, he has many opportunities to leave, so why did he choose to do it now?
The bearded man continued: "Besides, in terms of time, he has already left the slum. We are the only ones who have not encountered that kid when we went out, but were dealt with by the city lord's people first."
Karin said: "Boss, tell me, what should we do now?"
The bearded man thought for a while: "Don't he want to return to the Royal Capital? Then we will intercept him on the only way to the Royal Capital. I don't believe we can't catch him."
"That's right, we will intercept him outside the city."
Listening to everyone's echoing words, Bearded Beard understood that they chose to continue to follow him.
Now that Al's route of action has been determined, they can intercept it in advance. At worst, they will have to wait a few more days outside the city. They can afford to waste this time.
The first thing Al had to do after leaving the slum was to find a place to eat.
But he is different now than before. If it were Al before leaving the royal capital, he would most likely have gone directly to the tavern to eat.
But after he had the concept of money in his mind, he understood that he couldn't do anything without money.
Although Al has experienced ups and downs in life, he still has his own bottom line.
That means neither robbing nor stealing.
In the eyes of many people, this is not a bottom line at all, and normal people will basically do this.
Al, who originally wanted to stick to this bottom line, fell after experiencing the feeling of hunger.
Al grabbed two apples from the roadside stall and ran away. As he ran, he turned back and shouted: "I will pay you back."
Yes, this is the compromise Al made to himself.
First of all, he can't not eat, because if he doesn't eat, he will starve to death, but he doesn't want to give up his bottom line, because he doesn't want to become a bad person.
But it's not impossible to eat first and pay later. At worst, you can pay back tenfold later.
When the vendor saw Al in broad daylight and snatched his own things, he yelled and followed Al.
"Someone has been robbed, please help!"
"Guard, guard, there's a robbery here."
It's a pity that although there are many people here, there are not many people who are really willing to help. In addition, Al is also very fast, and he disappeared in a flash.
Those people could only see his back, unable to rage.
Al hid in an alley. When he was sure that no one was chasing him, he quickly eliminated the apples and prepared to leave this border town.
Because most of the cities have the same layout, Al did not ask about how to leave the city.
Because he felt that he only needed to go north to return to the royal capital, but he didn't know where he was at the moment.
After leaving the royal capital through the north gate, Al kept walking forward along the road ahead. He felt that he should be able to enter the next city in a short time.
Although Al's choice to go from the north was an incorrect path, he also escaped the ambush of Beard and others.
Because before being isolated from the outside world, Al remembered that he was less than fifty kilometers away from the royal capital at that time.
Although he was locked in a wooden box for two days, Al felt that he was still relatively close to the royal capital.
But he would never have thought that the Bearded group had been driving very fast for the past two days since they locked him in the wooden box.
The border town they were in now was actually on the edge of the Kingdom of Faxlot, and the place where Al followed the road that continued to advance eventually led to the Odili Empire.
But Al, who was immersed in moving forward, didn't know this, or in other words, when he left the border town, he didn't even look back to see what the town's name was. This chapter has been completed!