“Why hasn"t Qing Tian come back?” Wu Yun looked at the time. It was almost dark, and there still were no news of Qing Tian.
It wasn"t normal.
Qing Tian was more concerned about time than he did. He just went to see the Priest. He should"ve come back by then.
Unless something happened?
Thinking of this, Wu Yun contacted the Priest as soon as possible.
“Your kid, I remember going back at noon. Hasn"t he come back yet?” The Priest replied carelessly, “But I hear some of Dushe"s men are still hanging around, but I don"t know exactly. You might as well ask the Bartender.”
Dushe"s men?
Yes, there was still such a group of people.
Some people were still able to stir up trouble after they died, that is to say, people like Dushe.
Wu Yun set off at once to find the bartender.
Qing Tian was tied up by Kuangmang and his men and trapped in an abandoned warehouse.
“It"s no use arresting me. I"m just making a living under the Bartender now.” Qing Tian knew that the other party did not want to kill his heart. At least he was an informant to the Bartender, and killing him inexplicably would only cause trouble for Kuangmang.
Just not killing him, and tying him there, Qing Tian did not understand what the other side was thinking?
“Angel, in fact, even when the boss had so many pets in his hands, I liked you the most. Although the boss said you"re boring, I think you"re the smartest of those people because you know how to live. ” Kuangmang reached out and pinched Qing Tian"s face. “How can you not be considered competent when you lived so long under the boss" hands?”
Qing Tian, of course, understood his face was quite good, and that, for the people of this place, it was also a good object to vent. Formerly, perhaps he was still willing to feign civility with Kuangmang, but now, he only felt sick when he thought about it, and wanted to chop off Kuangmang"s claws.
He was no longer the Angel who could be trampled on.
“If you have anything to say, just say it.” Qing Tian avoided his hand in disgust, “You have gone through so much trouble to bring me here, don"t you just want to talk to me about it?”
Kuangmang looked at Qing Tian"s disgust and slapped him in the face.
Half of Qing Tian"s face was almost swollen.
“Angel, do you think you can talk to me like that if you hook up with another man? Or do you think I"m incompetent when Dushe dies? ” Kuangmang turned Qing Tian"s face and let his eyes look directly at himself.
This man was crazier than ever.
Dushe"s men had a lot of elite, but this Kuangmang was definitely one of the craziest.
Feeling inferior and arrogant at the same time, he did not know when his extremely abnormal temper would flare up. He was truly a hard to pin down madman.
After Dushe died, Kuangmang and several others began to compete for the position of boss. It seemed that he should have been successful.
“What are you looking at me for?” With a fearless look on Qing Tian"s face, Kuangmang felt more and more that the other party was looking down on himself. “Or I"ll dig out your eyes and break your limbs first. You just have to keep your tongue to speak.”
Qing Tian turned his head slightly and ignored him.
“Brother, calm down. He"s the only thing we can do to threaten the killer.”
Qing Tian did not speak, but a few men around Kuangmang came up one by one to persuade him. There couldn"t be any damage on Qing Tian now, as the relied on this guy to threathen Wu Yun.
In order to be able to catch Wu Yun, they waited for more than half a month for Qing Tian. It took a lot of work to get rid of the informant on the side, that"s how they get caught Qing Tian. If Kuangmang get angry and killed people, what they would face is a monster that fought fifty bounty hunters on its own.
*Not sure about this whole paragraph: 为了能够抓到乌云，他们可是等了大半个月才等到晴天出手，又费了好多功夫去支开边上的线人，这才将晴天给抓到手。要是狂蟒一个火气上来将人给杀了，他们要面对的就是那个以一己之力抗击五十个赏金猎人的怪物啊。
Although the "Nushen" formula was very valuable, the man named Wu Yun could also bring them a lifetime of wealth. But if they could not catch the man, it wasn"t worth it to throw away their lives.
“Angel, I hear you"ve always wanted to leave the city, haven"t you?” The speaker was Yan Jingshe[1], an elite weapon of Dushe"s.
Almost all of Dushe"s men named themselves after a snake. Their real name and life were kept secret, which was also the way to survive in this place.
This guy named Yan Jingshe was more adept at deceiving people with rhetoric than Kuangmang. If it wasn"t for his force, he might have been able to compete with Kuangmang for the position of boss.
It was best not to speak to such a person.
“Indeed, what is so good about this city? Even if you become an informant of the Bartender, you may not be able to live safely. You are so beautiful and young that you are undoubtedly the best prey here, and you may not be able to survive even if you sell yourself. But it"s different outside. There are laws, there are police, and some rich people will fund orphanages. Smart and beautiful children like you can easily find a wealthy family to adopt them, and live a happy life. Everyone who goes out of here can mix well with the outside world.”
As he spoke, Yan Jingshe observed the look on Qing Tian"s face, knowing that children of this age must have yearned for life outside the world, even if they said no with their lips.
Why would anyone want to stay in a place like this, in a city like this?
“Maybe the killer named Wu Yun is good to you, but you have to think that you are not young, and when you grow up, you may be killed or sold by him. That Wu Yun is not a kind-hearted man. You should know that better than I do. If you can tell us what his weakness is, we can prepare external identification doc.u.ments for you, and we will give you an uncla.s.sified bank card. Think about it. It only takes a word to give yourself a whole new life. ”
Such conditions were really exciting, not to mention for Qing Tian who had wanted to leave here from the beginning, it was even more difficult to refuse.
However, obviously after thinking about things for so many years, Qing Tian did not feel moved at all when he heard them say so.
When did it start?
Probably from the time he met Wu Yun.
Wu Yun, this man, was really wonderful.
In fact, he had not done much to move Qing Tian, nor had he made much sacrifice for him, and even in many cases, Wu Yun"s bad habits had to be corrected by him. For example, controlling the number of times he ate chocolate, the way he talked that was easy to offend people, and so on.
But even if Wu Yun added so much trouble to Qing Tian"s life, when he found himself in the face of this temptation, he was not the slightest moved.
Qing Tian had been living in a muddy mood, but when he was around the dark clouds, he felt that “life” was a real thing.
In a city that was very different from the outside world, Wu Yun brought a new kind of interesting and fulfilling life to Qing Tian.
It was a sense of security that couldn"t be found even in the outside world by Qing Tian. It was filled with Qing Tian"s life bit by bit and let him start to integrate into this place.
“Haha” Qing Tian laughed, “In short, you are willing to pay such a high price? I"m sorry, I don"t think what you"re saying is credible. ”
“Why can"t you trust it?” When Yan Jingshe was willing to talk to Qing Tian, he knew there was a chance.
At the end of the day, Qing Tian was nothing more than a young man of fourteen or fifteen.
No matter how smart and street-smart you were, where could you go?
“As far as I know, the bounty for Wu Yun has been revoked. What is the point of making such a great sacrifice? I"m not a fool,” asked Qing Tian. “Maybe when I"m done with what I know, you"ll kill me. So, unless I know what your purpose is, I will never say one more word. “
“Although the bounty for Wu Yun has been revoked, the "Nushen""s formula is far more valuable than the bounty.” Yan Jingshe replied, “Besides, he has something more valuable than the bounty.”
“Oh, where is it?” Asked Qing Tian.
“Of course……”
“Shut up!”
Before Yan Jingshe had finished, Kuangman had shouted.
The next moment, Kuangmang had directly clutched Qing Tian"s neck. “This guy has no intention of talking about Wu Yun"s weakness at all. Can"t you hear what he"s trying to set you up?”
Yan Jingshe"s face turned ugly in an instant.
Qing Tian, pinched by Kuangmang, was almost speechless, and his whole face was a little blue.
“I"ll give you one last chance, and if you don"t say anything about that man"s weakness, I"ll really follow what I said before, leaving you without the ability to speak.”
Kuangmang controlled the strength of his hands, and looked downwards at Qing Tian. His expression was particularly malicious.
The other side was serious.
If I can"t tell you Wu Yun"s weakness, I could really die.
But at this moment, Qing Tian unexpectedly thought , “If I die, what if Wu Yun eats chocolate every day and eat his teeth rotten?”
I must have been fooled by the devil.
So at this critical moment, I still have to think about these trivial matters?
It was probably Qing Tian"s apparent unfocused state of mind that angered Kuangmang. For those types of people that refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit[2], they really can"t remember their lessons without being hard-handed.
“It seems that life outside has loosened you up, Angel.” With a sneer, Kuangmang removed his right hand from Qing Tian"s neck, pressed Qing Tian"s shoulder, and pushed his left hand in the opposite direction of himself.
Crack.
Qing Tian wailed
He wanted to keep quiet, but he hadn"t felt such pain in a long time.
“Won"t you say it? Next time it"s your right hand. ” Kuangmang put his hand on Qing Tian"s right arm.
Qing Tian"s left hand had dropped at a strange angle.
Kuangmang was a man who did what he said and didn"t give Qing Tian any chance to get away.
……. If I die in this place, have I done what I promised Wu Yun?
I think so.
Regardless if you regret it in the future, at the very least, now, there won"t be a future.
“I don"t know.” Qing Tian closed his eyes and waited for another sharp pain to come.
But what happened next seemed different from what he imagined.
The sharp pain didn"t come back.
Instead, he heard the sound of two other heavy objects falling to the ground.
What"s going on?
Qing Tian opened his eyes, and he saw the familiar face. In a moment, he almost thought he was killed by Kuangmang, so he was seeing an hallucination.
“Didn"t I say that if you were caught, you could say anything to survive?” Wu Yun picked up the Qing Tian and glanced at his arms. “You don"t remember what I said.”
Qing Tian looked at Wu Yun and did not speak.
It was just a little red.
The author has something to say:
Yesterday, I went to Mount Potalaka for 20 000 steps. Today, the salted fish[3] will lie down and won"t go out. OJZ thanks to the little angel who cast the overlord vote or irrigated the nutrient solution for me.
(The author then thanks some readers who"ve voted for them)
Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!
Footnotes:
[1] 眼镜蛇/yǎnjìngshé: lit. cobra. I"ve decided to spell his name like that for easier reading. He is a new character we haven"t been introduced to before.
[2] 敬酒不吃吃罚酒/jìngjiǔbùchīchīfájiǔ. It"s a proverb from The Legend of the Red Lantern.
According to , the explanation is composed of two idioms:
1. 不知好歹/bùzhīhǎodǎi: unable to differentiate good from bad, not to know what"s good for one, unable to recognize others" good intentions, provoke those you you can"t afford, etc.
2. 不识抬举/bùshítáijǔ: fail to appreciate somebody"s kindness
So someone that refuses a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit will be unable to recognize the other"s good intentions (idiom 1) & fail to appreciate that kindness (idiom 2) so they"ll be forced to drink a forfeit (unfavorable situation, etc.)
[3] The author