The human-faced hyena squatted down, and the boy with freckles complained: "There must be another idiot from the first time who made the loom angry."
"Textile machine?"
Lu Li looked at the cave. The tremors that made his scalp numb never stopped, and the billowing dust poured into the old sewer.
"It's what's inside, we also call it the Stationmaster of Ghost Town Station."
Lu Li lowered his head and looked at his left hand, wondering if the loom's anger was related to him.
The human-faced hyena continued to take the initiative to chat: "I can smell your scent. This gentleman smells very good... Are you humans on the ground?"
"Yeah." Lu Li nodded.
Catalina didn't respond. She was a little nervous. She didn't know that "good smell" referred to human nature, and thought Lu Li's identity as a pure human was being noticed.
"That's great...I haven't been to the ground yet."
After receiving a positive reply, the face of the boy with the hyena's body showed human excitement and some kind of expectation, expecting Lu Li to continue this topic.
"Why." Lu Li, who knew very little about the old sewers, really didn't mind talking.
"Because the towns on the ground will not allow me to enter... Don't look at me like this. I am also a human being. My name is Pusius Jin. You can call me Jin or Pusius."
The human-faced hyena spoke very fast.
"Human?" Katarina asked doubtfully.
"Yes!" Catalina's question made Pusius couldn't help but raise his voice, obviously caring about his identity as a human being: "I still clearly remember the place where I was born! Killer Whale Town, twenty miles east of the Twisted Forest."
The human-faced hyena spoke in too much detail, as if he was worried that Lu Li and Catalina wouldn't believe it.
"I know where it is," Catalina said.
"Is this your first time in the old sewer?"
"What do you want to say?" Catalina was on guard.
"No, don't be nervous." Psius's freckled boy face showed panic: "I thought you might need a trustworthy guide."
"Guide?" Lu Li asked.
Pusius's face turned to Lu Li: "Although we are on the surface, the old sewer area that is most friendly to outsiders, there are still many dangers... Most people who come down for the first time will never have a chance again if they don't hire a guide.
Back to the ground."
Lu Li thought of the tall woman he met when he came down, and looked up into the depths of the old sewer.
Is she a guide?
"The one who stopped you is also a guide. We call it a model..." Pusius, who was observant, said: "It is very strong and can protect guests, but it is not trustworthy. Guests are often eaten by it..."
"You are trustworthy, but you cannot protect our guide." Katarina concluded.
Pusius looked embarrassed.
Although the credibility is questionable due to Pusius's identity, they do need a guide.
"How do we confirm that you are a qualified guide?" Katarina asked.
Pusius sat up straight and raised his tail like a dog: "Our Boy Scout team around the city can find out everything you want to know!"
Ring City refers to the old sewers around Midnight City, and the Boy Scouts are two strangers who are as weak as Pusius and unable to leave the old sewers.
"One of my two companions is a squirrel and the other is a mouse. They became like this due to the curse like me." Pusius introduced Lu Li.
"Is that it?"
Lu Li looked at the silhouette passing by outside the wooden shed.
The raging in the cave gradually ended, and before the dust had settled, the beings waiting in the old sewer rushed in, as if they had experienced it many times, skillfully using intimidation and fighting in the silence to divide the vacated areas.
It was a strange appearance of a strong man. Every time he breathed, the man's chest was like an inflated balloon, inflating and holding up, pulling the skin until it was translucent.
A group of parasites crawling inside the chest emerged.
The worms seemed to control the strong man. The corners of his mouth were torn and stuffed, and he was chewing snacks numbly. A human head as big as a fist drooped beside his mouth, shaking as he chewed.
The chest cavity swelled again, revealing more details. Minced meat or blood fell down the throat into the hollowed-out chest cavity and fell into the swarm of worms.
"Dede! Oh no..."
Pusius, who followed Lu Li's gaze, tucked his tail between his legs, put his ears close to his head, and let out a painful cry.
That's its companion.
But Pusius didn't dare to step forward at all, otherwise he would only suffer the same fate as Dede.
"Two guests, do you want to hire me?" With begging, Pusius raised his head and looked at Lu Li.
"We're going to Midnight City."
Lu Li said.
"Thank you so much Kyi..." The excited Pusius even mixed in another language. "I mean you... you want to go to Midnight City, right? I know a way to get there relatively safely."
"How much commission will you charge?" Catalina suddenly asked.
"10 shillings...it's okay if you don't want 8 shillings." Pusius carefully observed Katerina's expression.
"Okay, then it's 8 shillings, and we'll deduct it if we're not satisfied."
Catalina's words suddenly stopped because Lu Li was handing 10 shillings to Pusius.
Pusius looked at the old banknote longingly and struggled to refuse its temptation: "No...Mr. Lu Li, according to the regulations, I should send kyi...you to the destination before you can receive the commission."
Lu Li was about to collect the money, but suddenly Katarina wanted to leave.
"I can't let you hold the money, it would be too eye-catching," Catalina said.
Pusius broke away from the sadness of losing his companions and said to them: "Let's go quickly before the model finds out."
At the entrance, the "loom" calmed down the anger and gradually restored order. Figures coming to or leaving the old sewers were walking around the cave.
Among them was an outline that was familiar to Lu Li and Catalina.
The waiter at the Cape of Good Hope tavern left with a bucket of swill and the man who had stolen Catalina.
The man was unconscious and thrown on the slop bucket.
The newly moved middle-aged man came to greet the man, and a mantis with yellow and green patterns emerged from its back, threatening other silhouettes of the dragon. In the end, it won the right to trade and came to the man.
"Where's old Olein?"
The guy looked normal and talked to Weird.
"Dead, just now." Mantis Yiren replied with a bit of a tongue.
But if you only look at it from the front, no one associates it with weirdness.
"Angry because of the loom? What bad luck. I heard it just gave birth to a litter." The clerk shrugged and patted the barrel next to him. "A barrel of swill. The old rule is 50 shillings."
"certainly."
Mantis Yiren said he accepted the price.
After completing the assigned work, the clerk nuzzled at the unconscious man who was tightly trapped in the hemp rope. He was more concerned about the deal: "And this, an unlucky guy who has angered the boss, how much are you willing to pay for him?"
