"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.
To be continued...