After lunch (to be precise, a meal of thin and bitter wheat porridge), under the leadership of Chad Weihe Hauser, a group of them were settled on the top or most remote layer of the tunnel, closest to the ground

The exit is not far away, but far away from other local "residents" - Glover's violent intrusion made them unwelcome.

After the operation, Kathleen lay on the bed and fell into a deep sleep. Chadwick stood beside her and whispered a prayer. Rolf was still leaning in the corner, watching the scene with a complicated expression. Dorothy set up the stove and

Cooking pot, Gadama put her hands on her hips, pointing at Warniak and Bobo to prepare other bedding. Glover was rummaging through a pile of old goods or garbage, trying to find something.

Weapons.

"Is that all you pried out of her mouth?"

Beside the stove, Hilley and Thales talked in a low voice. The former asked the boy angrily:

"A silly nickname - Lausanne II?"

Thales looked embarrassed.

She fainted after the operation. What could he do?

"It's not just this," the young man tried his best to save some face, "At least we...then what do you want to know?"

"Too much!"

Xi Lai opened his palms and tapped his fingers again and again:

"When was the last time she met someone from Iris? What was the order she received? What exactly was she done? Are there any suspicious points in it? What happened to the Blood Bottle Gang? How did the Secret Service attack them?

What is Zhan’s plan?..."

Thales was overwhelmed by her scolding, but at this moment, Slimani's voice sounded from the opposite side:

"Hey, Master Magic! Brother Wyatt and Miss Wyana, have you figured it out? Where should we go next?"

Thales and Shilai both turned their heads with unhappy expressions.

I saw Srimani squatting on the wet ground, helpless and uneasy in front of a roll of hay.

"We'll leave when it gets dark. Don't worry, it's safe here..."

"Stop perfunctory with me!" Slimani raised his voice.

Obviously, today's experiences made him nervous.

"The person who just came down is the 'good neighbor' of the citizens of Emerald City, Kathleen, the 'Phantom Blade' of the Blood Bottle Gang," Slimani stared at Kathleen on the ground, "I recognize it, I remember it! When

When I was still in the police station, her younger brothers often came in to 'drink tea'."

Thales and Hilley looked at each other.

"What?"

Uncle Hauser, who was dealing with the work at hand, turned around when he heard this and stared at Slimani's obviously pampered hands and figure:

"Were you a green-skinned person before?"

"Yes, yes," the defense lawyer was a little embarrassed at first, and subconsciously tightened his abdomen and raised his chest, but then he figured it out and smiled bitterly, "I know, it doesn't look like it, does it? I don't go out on the streets very often?"

"On the contrary," Hauser snorted and turned around, unable to hide the disdain in his words, "It's so damn similar."

Hauser's attitude made Slimani a little embarrassed. He leaned close to the stove and glared at Thales:

"Please, a gang leader escaped here, and her two gangsters covered in blood...you have to tell me, what happened?"

Thales looked at Hilley, who shrugged and motioned for you to please go first.

All right.

The young man could only sigh:

"Let's put it this way, Kathleen's current situation is very similar to yours. The difference is that you are luckier and met us."

"Like me? But I was..."

Slimani looked puzzled, then was shocked: "Even the boss of the Blood Bottle Gang...oh no, Duke, Lord Zhan, is he crazy?"

"Maybe I'm just anxious," Thales thought, "My life is hanging by a thread, so of course I have to fight for my life."

The more Slimani thought about it, the worse he got, and he became frightened:

"No, no, no, people are dying in Emerald City, Kongming Palace is silencing people everywhere, even the Blood Bottle Gang... Emerald City is going to be in chaos, right?"

Xi Lai came back to his senses, his eyes cold.

"So, if you cooperate as soon as possible and tell us everything you know, maybe we can turn the tide."

"Turn the tide? Stop joking, it's just you?"

Srimani was emotionally unstable and became increasingly angry.

Xi Lai raised his eyebrows: "It's not us, but our master. You know, he has a noble status and superb methods..."

Thales sighed helplessly on the side.

"Come on, your master is the source of chaos," Slimani apparently ran out of patience and spoke faster and faster, "From the wine merchant to the wool merchant, and now, everything has come from him.

Start! If he didn’t come to Emerald City, none of this would happen! Neither would I, wouldn’t..."

Srimani buried his head in his hands, very frustrated.

Thales raised his eyebrows:

"Are you sure?"

"certainly!"

Srimani raised his head and said angrily:

"I have been in the Emerald City for so many years, from the Duke of Leinster to the Duke of Jenn, and it has never been this bad!"

Slimani sniffed, raised his head and looked around.

"God knows how I ended up in such a ghost place! The stinking ditch is full of rats and cockroaches, it's cold, wet, dirty and dark..."

clang!

A sharp metal collision suddenly sounded, making Srimani tremble in fright!

"Don't forget, this damn place and the smelly ditch saved your life."

Gadama walked past them, taking the blame behind his back, holding a spoon in his hand, his expression was very sarcastic:

"Of course, most people here are not as valuable as you, 'Sir'!"

"Of course," Slimani realized his current situation and hurriedly changed his expression, "Oh, I mean, thank you! You are all good people!"

"A good person? But don't be so sure yet," Gadama looked at him disdainfully with a ferocious smile, "You don't understand 'water ghoul'."

The aunt's expression and tone were quite scary. Coupled with the dim environment, Slimani swallowed:

"Wait, this place is opened by the Chadian priests, right? For charity?"

Uncle Hauser, who had his back to them, sneered.

Slimani hesitated: "He adopted these, these..."

"Do you want to say monster? Or deformed child?" Warniak, who had just finished his work and sat down opposite, snorted coldly.

"Sorry," Slimani's expression changed and he quickly lowered his head: "No, I didn't think so."

"real?"

Hilley sneered and shook his gloved hand intentionally or unintentionally:

"Then look around: dwarfs, fools, tumor people, seal people, lobster hands, hairy people, brainless people, two-headed people, and of course, people with polydactyly..."

"Wiana!"

Thales pressed her hand and shook his head.

Hilley looked back at him silently.

After a few seconds, she withdrew her hand.

Warniak across from them snorted in displeasure.

"No, Chad Wei didn't adopt them - do you think we are similar in age?"

Uncle Hauser turned back and chuckled:

"At most he is just helping."

Slimani frowned: "Then here..."

"It was a long time ago."

Hauser sighed:

"A certain Duke of South Bank, God knows which one, wanted to imitate the royal capital and rebuild the sewers, but he gave up halfway. As time went by, the half-built tunnels became filled with people, or simply put, deformed monsters lived in them.

They..."

Thales turned his head and looked at the tunnel: the residents each had a mutilated figure, and many of them were very sensitive to gaze. When Thales looked at them, most people quickly lowered their heads and turned around, or retreated deeper into the darkness.

Thales suddenly thought of the abandoned house many years later, and of Mertessa, who was guarding it and living his life without any hope of returning to the Brotherhood.
To be continued...