Twilight War

Chapter52 Dwellers in the Ruins

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"There is a dessert shop on Queen's Road, and the taste is not bad."

The two of them walked together without saying anything, Huangxuanjin felt a little embarrassed, but Wisipel seemed to have nothing to do with it, and kept walking behind Huangxuanjin with his hands in his windbreaker.Hearing Huang Xuanjin say something out of words, he just hummed softly.

The two walked along the stucco road in Corinth to Queen's Avenue, and Huang Xuanjin knocked on the glass window of Granny Waffle's shop very skillfully.

"Two waffles, thanks."

However, there was no such good night as Granny Huafu said with a smile every time she knocked on the window.

Huang Xuanjin frowned, knocked twice more, but there was still no response.

"What's the matter, Granny Huafu doesn't fall out of the window until nine o'clock in the evening every time, this is the morning."

"Is there no one?" Vehipel came over and asked.

"En." Huang Xuanjin nodded, and walked directly along the narrow Queen's Boulevard to the back of the room, unscrewed the brass-painted door handle from a corner, and walked in.

"Is anyone there?" He raised his head slightly, and walked into the house along the roses in the yard.

"It seems that Granny Huafu's cat is lost. She is looking for her cat. You can look for her over there. I saw her there just now." Huang Xuanjin looked outside the courtyard, it was a boy selling newspapers .

Huang Xuanjin nodded to the boy.

Walking out of Granny Hua's yard, Huang Xuanjin lowered his head and tightened the windbreaker on his body.

"Would you like to help?" Wisipel asked while looking down at Huangxuan Jin's side face with his hands in the windbreaker.

Huang Xuanjin didn't answer, and threw a silver coin to the boy, "Bring Granny Hua back, it's very cold today, I'm afraid it will rain soon."

"I think it will snow. It's really cold today." The newspaper seller shrugged.

"Perhaps, it doesn't matter what he plays. The weather in Corinth has always been very strange." Huang Xuanjin took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it casually, and squinted at the thick white mist in Corinth.

Huangxuanjin walked to the telephone booth at the corner of the street, turned around and yelled at the boy in the middle of the walk: "Remember to give the money to your mother, let her buy you a thicker dress, don't give it to your alcoholic father."

Picking up the microphone, Huang Xuanjin leaned against the red-painted wooden board and twirled the copper plate, "Hey, there is something important, come quickly."

Half an hour later, a fast-moving heavy truck rushed over like a giant rushing through a maze.

Huang Xuanjin leaned against the side of the road and rolled his eyes.

"Boss! What kind of business!" RIFA jumped out of the car directly, "You said that you are on Queen's Road, and the belly-cut snake said that you must rob some store here! We brought all the guns and so on. The latest style of muffler is installed, so as not to disturb the people! The belly-cut snake has even carried the sack!"

In order to prove that he was well-prepared, Snake leaned against the car door and proudly raised the musket in his hand, and then pointed back with his thumb to the explosives and bullets piled up under the car seat. He stretched the sack expressionlessly, as if to show that the sack could hold it well.

"Tell me, boss, which one to rob." Red Fire Ant said with a loyal look, "I will go forward."

"Boss, to be honest, I have always looked down on robbery, and I am not very good at it. But since you let me, I can only come here. Don't worry, I have all planned, tell me which one to rob .” Said the belly-cut snake.

Gray Tail stretched the mouth of the sack again.

"Well, actually..." Huang Xuanjin frowned.

"Boss, I analyzed it when I came here. The only one that looks rich here is the antique shop. I guess it is going to rob that one. Don't worry, I checked the recent antique transaction records on the way, and I definitely only take the most expensive ones." precious."

"no……"

"Don't rob that antique shop? Oh, that's the tailor shop next to it? Don't look at their house full of clothes. It is said that many nobles who can't afford a private tailor will secretly order dresses here. It's easy to get home, just take the money." Belly Snake said quite professionally.

Huiwei flipped back onto the car and took out another sack, and held it up.

"Well, not really." Huang Xuanjin said with a frown.

"Then... it can't be the one next to it." Belly Snake frowned and looked at the end of Queen's Road, a sex shop with a woman in suspenders painted on the signboard.

"Boss, you are perverted." Belly Snake shook his head slowly while looking at the signboard at the store door.

Gray Tail directly threw the sack back into the car.

"Can you take your eyes away from the signboard before scolding me." Huang Xuanjin sighed and said, "It's nothing, it's Grandma Huafu..."

"Boss, you even robbed Granny Hua." Belly Snake looked at Huangxuan Jin with disbelief, "Boss, you scum!"

"Boss, you are not human." Even the Red Fire Ant who had been standing beside Huangxuanjin suddenly jumped away from Huangxuanjin's side as if being scalded.

Gray Tail silently took out the gun from behind.

"Grandma Hua's cat is lost." Huang Xuanjin said a little bit unbearably.

"So?" Belly Snake asked suspiciously, "What did you ask us to do?"

"Of course I'm looking for a cat." Huang Xuanjin scratched his head and said with a smile.

"Boss, I remembered that I was still boiling a pot of water in the underground garage, so I'm leaving first." The belly-cut snake waved and opened the car door.

"Little Snake, don't go away, everyone needs you very much." Huang Xuanjin suddenly appeared behind the belly cut snake at some point.

"Okay, it's so decided, you are in charge of that side, and I will go to the front with this person." Huangxuanjin pointed to Vichypel next to him with his thumb, "Remember that Granny Huafu's cat is white with yellow stripes. of."

The three of them nodded lazily. Obviously, they did not come here with a cart full of guns, ammunition and sacks to find a cat with yellow stripes on a white background.

Gray Tail flipped back into the car and threw the sack back.

Huang Xuanjin saw that the three of them were not very happy, and shouted at the three of them, "Hey, if you find the cat, there are waffles to eat."

"Then what if you can't find it?" the belly-cut snake turned around and asked.

"Then I'll stew you guys." Huang Xuanjin said.

"If you find a cat, how about the boss robbing that sex shop alone? You only take things but not money!" said the belly-cut snake.

"Get out of here!"

Huangxuan Jin and Wisipel walked in the abandoned neighborhood, which used to be the residential area of ​​nobles in several worlds, but it has been gradually abandoned since the Corinth fire decades ago.Isabel's father moved the palace to the west district, and most of the nobles also moved their residences to the Palace of the Holy Rose. Only some old-fashioned nobles still live here.

Later, those old-fashioned nobles died in the ruins of the burned palace.

Nowadays, few people come here, only sporadic guards guarding the once noble palace.

There are piles of collapsed stone piles and pillars everywhere in the neighborhood, making it difficult to walk. Huangxuan Jin walks easily among these ruins, as if he has lived here for a long time.

"They said they saw that cat running in here." Huang Xuanjin said, "Let's look for it here."

"Have you figured out how to find it?" Vehipel asked.

There were ruins everywhere, and the cat could hide anywhere.

Huang Xuanjin shook his head, "Look for it slowly, cats can't be forced."

As he spoke, he jumped over the collapsed marble fountain statue, and the broken-armed Greek girl holding a shell fell into the ruins.

Vihipel suddenly felt that the boy was the cat in the ruins.

"To be honest, I really want to be a cat in my next life." Huang Xuanjin said suddenly.

"Okay, then what kind of cat do you want to become? White? Black? With patterns? Can you tell me so that I can find you too." Wisipel said with a light smile.

"Don't come looking for me, Vichypel, no matter what... don't come looking for me." Huangxuan Jin said leisurely.

—Anyway, don't come to me.

Vehipel looked at the black-haired boy beside him. The boy's brows were clean and bright, like a piece of celadon under the sun.

The fetus is pure and glazed, and the dust is not messed with.

He lowered his head and smiled, nodded, "Okay, I won't look for you."

Huangxuan Jin stood in place, looked up at the dilapidated palaces, the afternoon sun was a bit dazzling, he squinted his eyes slightly and frowned, his black eyelashes were straight, as if they were prickly.

He copied it in his windbreaker pocket and glanced around.

Then he frowned suddenly, and quickly took Wisipel's arm and ran into a palace. Before Wisippel could react, Huangxuanjin dragged him up the spiral staircase that had been abandoned for many years.

The light from the slanted window shone on the shaken dust on the stairs, and the two figures looked like a fleeing princess and jester.

Hiding in the corner of the stairs, Huangxuan Jin looked back at Wisipel and smiled slightly, then opened the heavy curtains with his fingers.

The colorful light fell on the side face of the boy.

Like the blurred stained windows of a church.

"Those guards." Huang Xuanjin looked out of the window and said, "After the nobles moved out from here, they felt that even if they didn't live here, they couldn't let those commoners in, so they left a lot of guards here. Come on patrol."

Outside the window, people in red guard uniforms dragged iron bars among the ruins.

The young man leaned against the window and looked up at the huge palace, "But almost everything here has been stolen."

He smiled, got up from the window, and walked up the spiral staircase, "This used to be the residence of the Duke of Benoy. I once saw the huge portraits of him and his wife in the center of the hall. It is said that they often held meetings in this palace. For the dinner, many nobles will come to attend their dinner in a carriage."

The boy's fingers slid across the dusty wall, beside the wall were faded oil portraits, and at the lower right corner of each portrait, the name of the owner of the portrait was written in a beautiful cursive script.

Huangxuan Jin stopped in the middle of the stairs, turned around and looked at the statue beside him, "To be honest, this girl is quite pretty."

He slowly wiped off the dust on the girl's name in the lower right corner with his fingertips.

"Ivy, a very good name."

"Only those who died young will hang their childhood portraits here." Vehipel stood at the bottom of the stairs and said looking at the boy.

Huang Xuanjin tilted his head and looked at the portrait, "I know."