"Is this No. 2301, West District..." Jian Yan said to herself as she walked towards the newsstand next to the train station.
The boss is a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and a gray shirt. This elegant figure looks a little thin in the cold night - the fatigue in his eyes is almost overflowing.
The boss rubbed his eyebrows and said hoarsely: "Hello, what do you need?"
"A map of the West District, thank you." Jian Yan's face was hidden under his hood, making it difficult to see his expression. "Also, I would like to ask, where is the approximate location of 2301 in the West District?"
Upon hearing this, the boss nodded thoughtfully and rummaged through the messy pile of papers behind him: "You are from outside, right? The roads in the West District are quite easy to find, not as winding as those in the East District. As for the map...
...Oh, there is just enough here until death."
After handing the map to Jian Yi, the boss pointed to the northwest corner: "The numbers starting with 23 are usually in the area over there, but I haven't been there very often, so... you'd better go and see for yourself.
"
"Thank you." Jian Yan put down the three copper coins. After confirming that Alex was still nearby, he paused and asked: "By the way...can you help me?"
"Help?" The boss's hand paused, "It depends on what you want me to do. If it's a simple task, then of course I have no reason to refuse. But if..."
"It's indeed a small effort, but the reward is indispensable to you." Jian Jian put down a silver coin in front of the newsstand, "I want you to help me carry a message, how about it?"
"No problem, no problem!" The boss stared greedily at the unexpected surprise in front of him, "What do you want?"
"I am from the Central District, directly under the jurisdiction of the Holy See. Now I am here to perform a mission in the East District. I hope you can keep it a secret."
Looking at the boss's increasingly shocked eyes, Jian Jian put down a silver coin on the table again: "If someone claiming to be from the Holy See asks you about my whereabouts later, just answer him. I rushed back from the West District in a hurry.
It’s the East District, is that okay?”
"Okay, okay!" The newsstand owner quickly agreed. After all, two silver coins can almost cover his two days' profit. "But... what does that person have to do with you?"
Jian Yi thought for a moment and replied with a smile: "It's nothing, I just want to give my friend a birthday surprise."
The boss had a clear expression on his face, and after making a gesture, he said nothing more.
In recent years, with the introduction of technology and foreign culture, Fanas' usual conservatism has also changed. In particular, the original customs and customs have gradually become more open.
Therefore, jokes like "surprise" are also spread among young people, especially in the West District of the border area. This kind of open-mindedness has become accustomed to it, so the boss does not doubt it very much.
"Today's young people, if it were a few years ago, they would have been scolded as immoral!" The bookstore owner sighed, and then sat back on the folding stool at the newsstand.
The West End is still brightly lit.
However, the East District is still in darkness. The occasional solitary lamps, covered by the dark night sky, are as small as fireflies, but they still affect people's hearts.
Jian Yi glanced at the map and raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "The northwest corner, the Inspection Office of the West District? It seems that our trip was in vain."
He looked at Alex, who was looking around, and smiled sinisterly: "Hey, do you know where West District 2301 is?"
"2301?" Alex came to his senses and realized that Jian Jian was holding a standard map of the Western District in his hand, "Isn't it some kind of rebel base?"
"Hahaha..." The smile on Jian Yan's face did not decrease but grew, "What kind of resistance army... Two hundred meters to the east is the Supervision Office, three hundred meters to the north is a church, to the south is a wall and to the west
There is no bridge connecting the moat..."
He raised his head and asked: "If it were you, would you place your base camp in such a dead end?"
Alex recalled what Boggs said to him at that time, and his expression suddenly changed: "Then according to your statement, Uncle Boggs..."
"That's right, this brainless, passionate revolutionary was indeed deceived. This place is just a trap for fishing and law enforcement... Although the fools in the Vatican didn't realize that catching this revolutionary would not do them any good at all."
Jian Yi sneered and mocked: "As far as I know, tomorrow's Divine Revelation Day will summarize the church work in the three major districts. In other words, the 'capture of reactionaries' ordered by the Holy See is also in this category. If it is excluded
This Boggs does know something, so there is only one possibility: he was unlucky, he happened to be caught in the crosshairs, and was used to offset his performance. If it's the former, it's okay, at least he still has some value and won't take action directly. However,
If it's the latter...he'll be on the stake tomorrow."
"Fire...fire...no, it's impossible..." Alex's lips trembled a little, "You...can you think of a way?"
Jian Yi shrugged and didn't answer.
He has seen this kind of thing too many times.
From many, many years ago to now I can’t remember how many years later, even in reality, this kind of thing has become so complicated that I can’t even remember it clearly.
Times are changing, but there are always some people living in the shadows, unable to raise their heads, so that separation and death have become so normal, so normal that they are numb.
"Find a way?" Jian Jian still had the same smiling expression, "That's too simple. Overthrow the Holy See in one day, and your Uncle Boggs will naturally come out."
"You -" Alex lost his temper as soon as he got excited, "Don't be ridiculous, for God's sake, there is no way I can do that..."
In the night, the simple figure is like a ghost, moving slowly in the wind:
"Oh? You don't need to be so secretive in front of me... Of course, I don't rule out the possibility that you are a coward."
After that, Jian Yan took out the grappling gun from his waist, with a strange smile on his face: "With just a sword and a black robe, can you tell that I am the so-called 'hidden guard'?
?Hahahaha...I'm sorry, since you and the West District have lost their use value, of course I won't stay here for too long."
The grapple gun fired a hook neatly, piercing deeply into the wall of the house opposite.
Alex was stunned again. He even suspected that there was something wrong with his ears.
Who is he?
Single-handedly changing the train departure time at the station, directly beating up the factory owner, and even giving orders on behalf of the Holy See...
If he's just an impostor...
A chill rose from the soles of his feet and went straight to Alex's brain.
