Chapter 452 Rat City X Broken Sword Recasting 5.4K
Chapter 452 Rat City
Is it too much?
I was only looked at twice.
He cut open everyone's wrists and the side of the bald man's face. Although the vital points were avoided, the blood that spurted out was clearly telling them.
Just go a little deeper.
life and death.
There may be two results.
From this level,
It seems that Higashinohara did go a bit too far.
But that's exactly what happened.
The people around them could not see anything clearly just now, and they were not even aware of the pain until it was transmitted to the central nervous system.
At this moment, when they looked at the man in the clown mask who was wielding a knife and shaking with blood, they didn't feel that he was going too far. There was only deep fear lurking in their eyes!
quick!
It's so fast!
Except for this word,
They couldn't find any words to describe the feeling the man in front of them gave them. He seemed to be completely different from any speed user they had ever seen before.
on this man.
between two points,
Not the shortest straight line.
He itself is the shortest.
The dark and empty sewer suddenly fell silent, falling into a wordless silence. Those around them covered their wrists and neither dared to move nor retreat.
For a moment, they could only avoid the figure wearing a clown mask in the darkness with some fear, and stared helplessly at the silent bald man covering the wound on the side of his face.
Time seems to have passed a long time.
Finally, the bald man took a deep breath and took out a cigarette of an unknown brand from his pocket. The attendant next to him was stunned for a moment and quickly bent over to help light it.
Take a deep breath.
The tobacco leaves hissed and burned.
After exhaling a puff of smoke, he calmed down and looked at the other person and said, "My name is Sparky. I didn't mean to offend you just now, but your identity is too sensitive and is doomed to hide huge risks. You know, I'm just a person."
The mouse is just a little bit bigger, and I’m a little busy.”
"But it also comes with huge benefits, right?" Higashinohara looked at the other party and said.
Since he opened the skylight and spoke openly, he naturally didn't need Shura to stand in front of him.
He also speaks straightforwardly.
Spark was silent for a moment after finishing a cigarette in two puffs. It was difficult to deny that Higashinohara said that the remuneration offered was not a "huge benefit" for them.
In fact,
No need to get extra money from the people above.
It's not an exaggeration to say it was a "windfall from heaven".
After hesitating for a while, the bald man Spark finally seemed to make up his mind, gritted his teeth and asked, "I want to know, what help do you need?"
"Help me get to the ground and break out of the siege."
"Well"
"just kidding."
"."
Higashinohara tried to ease the tense atmosphere just now. After all, he made the move first, and then he had to rely on the other party, but it didn't seem to be working very well at the moment.
"I need a guide."
Higashinohara gave up trying and directly made his request.
"Huh? Guide?"
Bald Sparky was stunned for a second.
"right."
Higashinohara nodded and added, "Be familiar with the guide leading to the sewers of Baling County from here."
Shura on the side also said, "I can pay you a 30% deposit first, and he will bring us there safely, and the remaining 70% will be credited to your card."
Provide a guide.
On the surface it looks much less risky.
But the bald man's face was uncertain for a while, and he seemed to be struggling a little internally. He knew very well the risks they would bear after providing a guide.
No matter whether the other party escapes or not.
One day, once the people above know about it, even if he has continued to pay filial piety every year over the years, this "big mouse" will suddenly turn into a "dead mouse".
The people above will not have any trust in you just because they have worked with you for a long time.
He knew very well that in the eyes of the heavenly beings on earth, he was just a tool to help make money and could be replaced at any time.
In this underground world, there is never a shortage of people who are holding back their energy and want to climb up.
So can he refuse?
The wound on his cheek had not completely stopped bleeding, and bright red blood was still seeping out from the wound. He seemed to still be able to vaguely feel the sting and coldness of the knife cutting flesh in his heart.
Obviously, if he refuses, he will probably become a dead rat right now.
Silence cannot solve the problem.
The bald man Spark finally said, "I can find a guide for you, but I hope you can guarantee that whether he can take you to the intersection of the Baling County Underground Waterway or not, this matter has nothing to do with me.
"
After finishing speaking, he suddenly turned his head and whispered something to his subordinate who was holding his bleeding wrist.
The other party immediately nodded in agreement, then carefully glanced at Higashinohara with his peripheral vision, and then slowly backed away and left here.
Higashinohara didn't care about the person who left, but showed a slightly thoughtful look on his face. At the same time, he was also curious about what kind of guide the other person would find for him to clarify the relationship.
Within a few minutes, there was a sound of brisk footsteps outside, and before I even entered the door, I heard the excited shouts of a boy who seemed to have just entered the stage of changing his voice.
"Mr. Spark,
I heard that you have a job to ask me for."
as expected.
The next second, the person who rushed in was indeed a boy who looked about eleven or twelve years old. He had short black hair and an abnormally pale complexion. He was wearing a sweatshirt that was stained with oil and was obviously one size too big. He was very excited.
The ground trotted in.
But as soon as he entered the door, he was a little surprised to see Sparky with a cut on his face, and everyone around him covering his bleeding wrist.
Feeling the unusual atmosphere here, the little boy quickly lowered his head and clutched the corners of his clothes nervously.
When the bald man heard this, a smile appeared on his face, he shook his head and said, "No, no, no, Will, listen to me, this kind gentleman wants to find you a job, and it has nothing to do with me."
The little boy named Will turned his head to look at Higashinohara, who was wearing a clown mask and looked strange. He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but he seemed a little scared in his heart.
After hesitating for a while, just when Higashinohara wanted to take the initiative to speak, the little boy summoned up the courage from nowhere, walked over and looked up at Higashinohara, his eyes were a little afraid and evasive, and said, "Sir, what can I do?
Can you do it for me?"
Higashinohara heard the words but did not answer.
He turned to look at the smiling bald man Spark and asked softly,
"This is the guide you found for me."
Spark seemed to feel the coldness in Higashinohara's soft voice. He immediately stopped the smile on his face and said seriously, "Please believe in my expertise. Will and his family came from Baling a few years ago.
He moved here from the county sewer line, and there is absolutely no one here who knows the pipes there better than him."
"Yes, I know very well."
The little boy named Will seemed to value this job very much and immediately raised his head and chest to make himself feel more confident.
Higashinohara glanced at the little boy, then turned his head and glanced at the bald man with a sincere face not far away, without questioning whether the money was earned too easily.
There are countless people searching for him on the ground above his head. The most important thing for him right now is time, and naturally he has no time to waste time with the other party.
However, when he was about to leave here, Higashinohara left a word without looking back.
"Listen to me, if I am found here, no matter whether the information is revealed from here or not, I will only come to you."
"I think you should know,
I'm very fast."
This sentence can be regarded as a threat from Chi Guoguo.
When the bald man behind him heard this, his expression changed slightly, and he seemed to want to say something, but in the end he just watched silently as Higashinohara left with Dorothy Alita in his arms.
After a while,
A subordinate next to him who was holding his bleeding wrist walked to the door and took a careful look. After confirming that Higashinohara had gone far, he came back and said unconvinced, "Boss, are we really helping him?"
Snapped-!
without warning,
A crisp slap sounded.
Spark, the bald man who had just been respectful in front of Higashinohara, had a face full of violence at this moment, staring at the subordinate fiercely and said:
"Should we help him? Have we seen that man? Remember, we don't know anything. Everything is just a private deal between that boy Will and the other party."
Having said this, he looked around at everyone and said in a gloomy tone, "Remember! If anyone leaks the truth, I will chop him and his family living underground into pieces and flush them into the sewers."
"Did you hear that clearly?"
"yes!"
The people around him suddenly fell silent.
sewage flows across the river,
In the underground sewer space filled with debris.
Maybe it’s because of human life,
On the contrary, it is much dirtier and messier than the way here, and the smell is more pungent and unpleasant.
This time, the eleven or twelve-year-old boy Will walked in front, and Shura and Higashino Principle, who was holding Dorothy in his arms, followed silently.
Where they are going now.
It's not the sewer leading to Baling County.
It's the boy's home.
This is Shura's suggestion.
Higashinohara knew the other party's intention.
——If they couldn't confirm it themselves, they couldn't rely solely on Bald Spark's words to believe that this so-called little boy whose family migrated from the sewers of Baling County could really lead them to the junction accurately.
The back of the little boy walking in front also looked very uneasy. When he turned a corner, Will suddenly summoned up the courage, turned around and raised his head to Higashinohara and asked timidly, "Sir, you don't trust me."
me?"
"child."
Shura was about to speak,
But he was interrupted by Higashinohara's words.
He did not answer the other party's topic, but asked instead, "How much do they pay you."
The little boy Will hesitated for a moment and then answered honestly, "One thousand days of yuan."
"Only one thousand?" Higashinohara thought thoughtfully.
Shura paid them five million, but in the end they did almost nothing, and the people who really did the work only got one thousand.
These guys really should hang up street lights!
Unexpectedly, when Will heard Higashinohara's words, a hint of heartfelt excitement appeared on his baby-faced face with rounder cheeks and pointed chin.
"One thousand days is a lot! It can help us pay off two months of rent arrears and buy medicine for my mother. Oh, by the way! The remaining money may be enough to buy a new pair of shoes for my brother in the underground store.
He has been teased by others recently for his bare feet, and the sole of his foot was accidentally punctured last time he went out to run around."
Will said a lot in one breath, but he didn't mention anything about himself.
Higashinohara was silent after hearing this. He glanced at the other party's pale and somewhat abnormal face, and suddenly asked again, "Have you never been up there?"
"above?"
Will, who looked to be eleven or twelve years old, was stunned for a moment, scratched his head and said, "I was born in the sewers, and my father once said that when he got rich, he would take me to play on the ground.
But he was washed into the water during a flood discharge a few years ago and has never been seen again."
"Later on, I didn't really want to go up there. Everyone said the people up there were scary. Haha, it's better to go underground."
Will said these words very normally, even when he talked about his father's death, his expression did not look very sad.
It seems that people who live in underground sewers have become accustomed to things like people being washed away by water during flood discharges.
Natural and man-made disasters.
If you can't avoid it, you can only accept it.
Higashino thought that the other person had been living underground for more than ten years from birth to now, and his skin looked so white that it was almost transparent. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something.
For example, if the underground living environment is so harsh, it would be better to try to move the family above ground in the future.
But then I thought about it,
This city is Shangjing, and those who live and walk on the ground are those glamorous heavenly beings. If they really move to the top, then maybe it will be the real hell for them.
The whole journey was speechless.
Soon, the little boy Will brought Higashinohara to his home - which was actually an independent arched sewer opening with a mud-stained gray cloth curtain pulled over it.
The little boy didn't hesitate too much and opened the gray curtain excitedly.
Higashinohara glanced at it and found that the layout inside was somewhat similar to the sleeper carriage of the train in the previous life. The top and bottom were separated into two layers, but it looked darker and narrower.
Lying on the lower floor was a pale-faced, sickly woman with messy hair.
The upper floor was filled with greasy pots, pans and other sundries. A little boy of four or five years old sat on it with bare feet and played with the sundries enthusiastically as if they were toys.
"Will, where have you been? Mom just called you." When the little boy on the upper floor saw Will, he immediately said to him with a puffed face.
The little boy named Will knocked the other person on the head angrily, put his hands on his hips and said, "How many times have I told you to call me brother? I'm going to buy you shoes."
The little boy's eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately put down the dirty bowl in his hand. He glanced excitedly at Will's hands from side to side. His little face suddenly became visibly disappointed, and he grinned and said angrily, "You lied!"
"I didn't lie to anyone. I didn't lie to anyone."
Will said happily and proudly, "In one day, I promise to bring you a new pair of shoes after one day, but you have to take good care of your mother at home, you know?"
"Really? Well, I will definitely take good care of my mother?" The little boy nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
Next, the two little boys chirped a few words, and Will withdrew his body.
He casually closed the gray curtain again and said, "Sir, you see, this is my home. I, Will, am honest and will not deceive my guests."
Higashinohara and Shura looked at each other, and the latter nodded slightly.
This time, they were at least sure that the bald man didn't just find a random child to fool them or had other intentions.
"How long will it take to get there?" Higashinohara lowered his head and asked the little boy.
"About five hours." Will calculated in his mind.
"Okay, let's set off."
Higashinohara nodded.
Will immediately trotted ahead excitedly to lead the way. After all, for him, he could only get his reward from the "big rat" after completing his work as a guide.
But after walking a few steps, when he turned a corner again, Higashinohara suddenly paused and glanced in a certain direction involuntarily.
There was a sewer opening with a gray curtain. When he looked over it, the curtain just quietly lowered, and there seemed to be a faint glow of fire.
"What's wrong?" asked Shura on the side.
Higashinohara didn't answer. He called to the little boy who was leading the way, pointed to the hole behind the corner and asked, "There. Do you know who lives there?"
Will was stunned when he heard this. He raised his head and recalled for a moment before he realized, "Oh, where are you talking about? That's the blacksmith who just moved here a while ago. His home sells kitchen utensils. He's very nice. He even gave them gifts last time.
He gave me an iron basin, but the weapons Mr. Sparks and his men also forged from Mr. Blacksmith."
"Blacksmith?"
Higashinohara's heart moved slightly, thinking of the side face he just saw, and immediately said to the two people behind him, "Wait a moment, I'll find someone."
Shura opened his mouth, but thinking of the opponent's strength, he still didn't say anything more.
The little boy Will looked a little curious, but he didn't ask any more questions.
Higashinohara walked to the sewer entrance with Dorothy in his arms and subconsciously wanted to knock on the door. Only then did he realize that there was a curtain in front of him, and his raised hand suddenly stopped in the air.
But at this moment,
The curtain was opened from the inside.
Without too many surprises, a somewhat familiar face jumped in front of me - Kamado Tanjuro, a descendant of the famous Kyoto craftsman Kamado Tōyaku.
We haven't seen him for more than half a month. Kamado Tanjuro's beard is unkempt and his face has become much pale.
Seeing the familiar clown mask in front of him, he smiled bitterly and said, "I just heard people whispering that a weirdo wearing a clown mask came here. I guessed that it might be you, but I didn't expect that it was really you."
After a pause, he looked around to make sure no one was paying attention, then opened the curtain and invited Higashinohara to come in.
His round sewer hole is much larger than Will's house just now, and the "rent" must be very expensive.
But for Kamado Tanjuro, a fire element user with talent sequence 31 [Red Flame], it shouldn't be too much of a burden.
Higashinohara didn't ask why he was here. He probably got involved after the battle with the White Swan, so he could only stay away from the limelight in a place where his identity was not required.
"You're here to get the sword, right?"
Kamado Tanjuro opened a wooden box, pushed aside the debris on it, and opened the secret compartment of the machine. Two murderous weapons that exuded a chill were revealed in front of him.
The Great Chidori Jumonji.
Phoenix Double Blade.
——It is the second of the twelve Kyoto supreme swords that Higashinohara commissioned to repair not long ago.
Higashinohara put down Dorothy and Alita and leaned against the wall. He turned around and picked up the back end and looked at it for a few times. He couldn't help but admire the other's craftsmanship.
As expected of the descendant who forged the supreme sword Twelve-Gong Kamado Handismith thousands of years ago. After awakening his fire ability, his skills that have kept pace with the times seem not to be inferior to those of his ancestors.
But after a few glances, Higashinohara put back the two sharp knives under the slightly surprised gaze of the other party, then shook his head and said:
"I'm not here to get the sword,
I'm here to deliver the sword."
As he finished speaking, Higashi Yehara suddenly reached out his hand and flatly wiped a half-circle in the void in front of him.
Rare spell. Hidden Sword Summon!
all of a sudden,
A handful of supreme killing weapons with simple shapes but radiating cold light were almost lined up in front of Kamado Tanjuro's eyes, which suddenly widened.
He murmured to himself about the Twelve Skills of the Supreme Sharp Sword, which was forged from meteorite iron by his ancestor Caitianren and scattered throughout the world for thousands of years and collected by various forces.
After staying for a while, he took a deep breath, looked up at Higashinohara with some solemnity and said, "What do you want me to do?"
Higashinohara glanced at the other party,
He said softly, "I need a knife, a knife that can fight against the demon sword [Murasameru].
