Prince Predator's Guide

On a rainy day, the armor repair shop in the urban-rural fringe.

Bai Ye squatted beside the roaring assembly line eating instant noodles, her thick work gloves were covered with engine oil.

His friend squatted beside him and flipped through the newspaper: "Hey, Bai Ye, the first round of the military exam is over today... I heard that someone committed suicide by jumping off a building because he didn't reach the mark line. Why do you think this happened? He couldn't pass the exam." There are other places to go in the military academy, it’s good to have books, isn’t it?”

"Because I really want to go to a certain place, and if I don't go, I feel that life is meaningless, so that's why I did this." Bai Ye said while picking up the noodles in the paper tube.

"Well... But the only place I don't want to stay is here. Going anywhere is better than staying in this ghost place, doing monotonous work every day. I really can't understand what those children from rich families think, there are books Think about why you don’t want to live.”

"I think it's okay." Bai Ye took a sip of the noodles, "It's not bad to make money and be full."

"It's true..." Although the little boy flipping through the newspaper agreed, he lowered his head aggrievedly, staring at the report on the military's recruitment examination in the newspaper, feeling a big gap in his heart.For the past 20 years, the Galactic Empire has been through a long war.War kills adults, leaves tens of thousands of orphans, and leaves a woefully inadequate workforce.The government was unable to deal with the many social problems that erupted at the same time. Many orphans were not cared for and became child laborers to make up for the labor shortage. They were very different from the children of rich families.

White leaf is one of the unfortunate child laborers.

And he lived a bit more miserable life than other child laborers.

because……

A team of military police rushed into the mecha repair shop and blocked all the entrances and exits.Having got the situation under control, the captain of the gendarmerie stepped across the threshold.He took off his military cap casually, revealing his long silver-white hair underneath, and his eyes were as cold as his hair color.The child laborer who was reading the newspaper just looked at him and thought of the coldest winter he had ever experienced.He lowered his head, and grabbed the corner of Bai Ye's clothes tightly. Bai Ye was stunned for a moment, and continued to eat instant noodles.

The gendarmerie captain's gaze stayed on the child laborer for a few seconds, passed over the white leaves, and settled on the face of the factory director who was nodding and bowing to meet him.

"This bullet came out of your assembly line." He held up his hand, a regular M375 bullet between his thumb and forefinger.

The factory manager was sweating profusely.

His factory, in the name of mecha repair, mass-produces ammunition on the assembly line, but in fact he does not have a business license for weapon production.Because it is a special period, everyone is doing this, and the director of the factory, who wants to make a fortune in the war, also boldly followed up, but never thought that it would lead to disaster.

His first reaction was that there was a problem with the bullet, so he tried his best to evade: "No, no, this is not my house."

"Qi's military factory has admitted that it has outsourced military materials to you, and we have also obtained the payment records between you and Qi's. If you keep talking, I have the right to let this bullet go through you at this moment What do you think of his head?" The gendarmerie captain paced slowly around the factory manager, and put it behind his ear to simulate the sound effect of a headshot softly.

The factory manager shuddered.

The gendarmerie captain laughed, patted him on the shoulder, and let him relax: "Do you still have such bullets here?"

"M375?" The factory manager couldn't figure out why he came. "This is the most common ammunition. I have... some."

"Normal? Are you kidding me?"

The gendarmerie captain loaded the bullets into his pistol and shot the factory director.The factory manager jerked violently, the bullet grazed his ear, and shot soundlessly into the wall behind him.

There was no sound at the scene, and then there was a sound of exclamation.At first, the factory director thought it was because of the cruel behavior of the gendarmerie captain, but after a while he realized that everyone was looking at the wall behind him.

He turned around slowly, and saw a strange sight that he had never seen in his life——

Instead of a crater in the wall, there is a door.

No, it's not so much a door, it's more like a crack in the wall, through which you can see the street view on the other side of the wall.

Pedestrians on the street stopped in their tracks, and looked at the child laborers and military policemen in the mecha repair factory.

Fifteen seconds later, the perfectly circular gap narrowed and disappeared, the wall returned to its original shape, and the bullet fell to the ground crisply.

The gendarmerie captain picked up the bullet and put it in front of the factory director again: "This is a bullet that can change space, do you still have it here?"

The factory manager shook his head blankly: "I never knew about it."

"Of course." The captain of the gendarmerie raised the corners of his mouth and smiled mockingly. "After living in an empire that believes in science for a long time, human beings have forgotten the power beyond science."

"Beyond science?"

"Magic." The gendarmerie captain narrowed his eyes, "Pour pure spiritual power into the bullet, endowing the bullet with the property of changing the material space. There is a magister on your assembly line. Can you identify him?"

The factory manager took the bullet, "Maybe..."

"He is a genius. If he is your worker, then his age should not be more than 16 years old. A child, without any magical education, uses third-level space magic and imprints it on the bullet …He is a born magister and deserves the best military school education. The Duke of Rose is looking forward to meeting him."

The factory manager clenched the bullet: "...I'm going to go through the in-out warehouse data to see which batch of goods this is, and then I should be able to determine who it is according to the schedule. Please wait a moment."

Bai Ye raised her eyes, watched the factory manager walk into the office, and took a sip of instant noodles.

Not long after, the factory manager came out with a small worker: "That's him."

Bai Ye heard her friend exclaim: "Isn't this the young master of the factory manager's family?!"

Bai Ye shushed and patted his friend on the back to keep him quiet.

"Oh, it's him?" The gendarmerie captain looked critically at Xiao Gong.His overalls were new, had just been put on, and didn't fit him well.The captain took his hand again.The fingers are delicate and white, not like working hands.

"Are you sure?"

The factory manager hesitated for a moment, but still firmly said: "I... I'm sure."

His child failed the exam and lost the opportunity to study in the military academy.In this era, if one cannot become a soldier, it is difficult to improve one's social status.The factory manager has money, but he wants his children to have rights.According to the captain of the gendarmerie, the selected children will be sent to the best military academy, as long as they can enter the military academy, even if they find out that he is not a damn magister, so what?He believes that his child is good enough, even if he can't do the damn magic, he can still be special in other areas - such as mech piloting.In any case, he didn't want to miss the only chance to push the child into the ruling class.

Thinking of this, the factory manager pushed his son's shoulder again: "It's him."

"In that case..." the gendarmerie captain smiled and reached out to the boy.

At this moment, a scream suddenly came from the depths of the factory: "My God, there is also a door here!"

The military police rushed to the scene immediately, and then confirmed with the captain on the intercom: "It's the same space magic."

The captain sneered at the factory manager: "It seems that you didn't find the right person."

After all, he drew out his long sword and chased towards Might and Magic.Before the Might and Magic Gate closed, the Captain of the Gendarmerie ran through the wall and into the street with some good hands.The rest of the military police chased after them, and the factory became empty again in an instant.

The factory manager gritted his teeth: "Damn it, don't let me know who it is!"

Bai Ye finally drank the last sip of soup, and walked slowly to the factory manager: "Boss, I want to ask for leave to see a doctor tomorrow, and I feel that my chest is a little..."

"roll roll roll!"

Now the factory manager does not want to listen to the child laborers' complaints about the working conditions.

Bai Ye left silently.

And when Bai Ye left, the factory manager suddenly found that the child worker in front who was holding a newspaper and gossiping with others had a small note stuck on his back.

"They want to use the magister as a biological experiment, not to send sheep into the mouth of wolves."

Trembling, the factory manager tore off the note and asked the little worker, "Who stuck it on your back?"

Xiaogong was surprised: "I don't know..."

By the time he thought of Bai Ye, Bai Ye had long since disappeared.

When Bai Ye passed the intersection, she bumped into the captain of the gendarmerie who was searching for her.The captain of the gendarmerie stood on the spot and looked around, obviously seeing through his trick of diverting the tiger away from the mountain.

"He can't run very far, let's chase after him separately." The gendarmerie captain took out a pair of sunglasses from his pocket and put them on. "I have experience dealing with magisters."

His sunglasses have a special shape, with trace runes applied, which can identify the direction of magic flow.The place where the magister passes will be brighter than other places, forming a directional trail.

Bai Ye didn't know this, he was just surprised that this man was wearing sunglasses in the middle of the night.Hidden behind the wall and drenched in the rain for a while, after they were all gone, he struggled to return to the rented place while holding on to the wall.Unleashing the space magic had exhausted his energy, and he had a splitting headache. Without support, he was about to fall into the stinky gutter beside the sidewalk.

Bai Ye knew from a very young age that he was different from other children. He remembered some very scary episodes, sewers, biological laboratories, electric shocks, adults in white coats...

He also remembered some strange runes.

It turns out that when he draws the runes, he can activate some supernatural powers, such as tearing open walls and doors connecting spaces for a short time.Sometimes, even subconsciously, the runes flowed from his fingertips and imprinted on the objects he handled, like that M375 bullet.

But that's all there is to it.

His abilities did not allow him to eat well and dress warmly in this empire ruled by technology, but instead he was hunted down by white-haired officers.

It's time to move again, he thought, pushing open the door.

The so-called home is an unoccupied rental house in a neighborhood with poor public security, with bare walls.The landlord was unwilling to leave him with nothing but a layer of chalk.But for Bai Ye, a place where she can lie flat is enough.No matter where he went, he could never forget the foul-smelling sewers.

Just as he was walking towards the iron bed, he heard the sound of a key turning outside the door.

Not knocking, but unlocking.

Besides him, only the landlord has the key to the house.But landlords rarely deign to come here, let alone a rainy night.

——So who will come?

His first reaction was the gendarmerie.

Bai Ye grabbed the binding rope by the bed and ran to the window, fixed one end on the window frame, threw the rest downstairs, and pulled the knot.He moved swiftly, as if he had rehearsed this event many times in his mind.

Behind the back, the sound of the key turning continued, Bai Ye squatted down, touched the piggy bank from under the bed board and put it into her arms.This is all his savings, and he still needs to use this money to make up the travel expenses to Aquila, and he must not throw it away.

When he jumped onto the window frame with the little pig, he found that the downstairs was very noisy, and the gendarmerie was rushing into the corridor.Many people came, and he was surrounded.

With this dazed effort, the door was opened, Bai Ye crouched in the shadow of the moon, looked back, and jumped down without hesitation.

A hand stuck out from the window, and volley grabbed his collar.

Startled, Bai Ye dropped the piggy bank in her hand.He reached out to tease, but one hand was faster than him, holding the piggy bank firmly.Bai Ye quickly grabbed the piggy bank and put it in her arms, while she was carried back to the house.

"Why did you jump off the building at my house?" A young officer asked him, holding him over the window frame, raising his head high.

Bai Ye looked at him by the moonlight.He was not wearing a gendarmerie uniform, and he was dragging a large suitcase behind him.

"This is my home." Bai Ye said quickly, "Put me down!"

Such a powerless suspension made him very insecure.

"Nonsense, this is obviously my house. I asked the landlord about the house I rented, and I paid all the money. How could it be your house? You see, I have the key, and you, I will jump off the building as soon as I come in. You say, are you Not a thief?" The young officer pointedly glanced at the open door, "He was still being chased."

"Put me down, please!" Bai Ye lowered her voice as much as possible, but the tone of her voice was extremely excited. "It's not your family's problem at all! They want to arrest me for biological experiments!"

"It's so serious. I just rented a house, why was I involved in the conspiracy."

Although the young officer said so, he was not nervous, and even spoke with a smile, and put Bai Ye down as he said.At this time, the gendarmerie had already turned the last staircase, Bai Ye didn't even have time to say a word, so she gritted her teeth and hid under the bed.From this angle, he could see the bright lights, and six or seven pairs of military boots stepped into the door, surrounding the young officer.

The flashlight shone brightly on the young officer's face.

A film in his eyes flickered violently, and his pupils constricted: "Don't shine directly into my eyes."

It was completely different from the soft tone just now, but it sounded like a kind of cold coercion.

The captain of the gendarmerie wore sunglasses, and his eyes fell on his lower body, where the magic trajectory ended.The room was filled with magical power, and it was obvious that he had found the right place.

But the man in front of him was not like the young magister he had been hunting.He was wearing the uniform of a reserve officer, with a rose flower epaulette on his chest, and he was a student from the White Rose Military Academy.The guys in that place are not easy to mess with.

"The gendarmerie broke into my house late at night, what did they do?"

"Look for someone, a magister. People with the physique of a magister are very scarce, and the person we are looking for is better than ordinary magisters. Such talents should be used by the country... What are you doing! Don't move!"

While the captain of the gendarmerie was speaking, the young officer kept staring at his glasses, and now he reached out to fiddle with them again. The captain of the gendarmerie took a step back, feeling that this person was a bit annoying.

"These are the glasses with the rune of tracing." The young officer said.

"Yes," replied the Captain of the Gendarmerie uncomfortably.

"Tracking can monitor the direction of magic flow. It is understandable to use this to trace the whereabouts of the magister. But today, you are looking for the wrong person."

As he spoke, the young officer put his hand on his saber.

All the gendarmes drew their guns on him.

"Don't be nervous, I'm just telling you what's wrong." The young officer smiled, "It's better for you to take off your glasses."

The latter sentence was addressed to the white-haired officer.

Before the white-haired officer had time to think about what he meant, the young officer had already opened the handle of the knife an inch.

In an instant, black air rushed out of the scabbard, wrapping around everyone in the room as if consciously.And through the glasses with the tracking technique, what the gendarmerie captain saw was the gushing out of magical power, and the brightness was like a big explosion!He had to cover his eyes with his hands, but the highlight still brought tears to his eyes.

The young officer put the knife back into its sheath.

"It's an enchanted weapon." He lowered his eyes and stroked the runes on the scabbard. "The magic power you tracked on the road is left by me."

Enchanted weapons, as the name implies, are weapons with magic applied.The M375 bullet just now is also a kind of enchanted weapon.But that bullet and this knife are obviously not of the same level.The person who owns this enchanted weapon... The gendarmerie captain couldn't help but shudder, fearing the identity of the young officer.

"Can you let us search it?"

"It's inconvenient." The young officer raised his eyes coldly.

The captain of the gendarmerie glanced at his knife and nodded, "Okay, one last question. Where did you come back here tonight?"

Bai Ye under the bed thumped in her heart.

The young officer was silent for a while, and said accurately: "He came from the west of the city, there is a mech repair shop called Lian's."

The gendarmerie captain and his men looked at each other.Indeed, it matches the flow direction of magic power.

"Anything else?"

The captain of the gendarmerie gave him a military salute: "I'm sorry to bother you."

After speaking, he left in a mighty manner with the people.

"They're gone." The young officer squatted down, lifted the sheet, and looked at the relieved Bai Ye inside.

Bai Ye crawled out on hands and feet: "...Thank you brother."

The young officer chuckled, closed the door, and turned on the light.

"Brother, you are really a good person." Bai Ye said honestly.

The young officer smiled shyly and said nothing.

"Brother, how do you know where I come from?" Bai Ye tilted her head and asked him curiously.

"Because you are still wearing the uniform of the mech repair shop. The uniform is dirty and the workmanship is not good. It is obviously not a formal weapon processing factory. The irregular ones are all in the west of the city."

Bai Ye didn't expect him to be so careful.

"After talking about you, let's talk about the house."

"what?"

The young officer took out the key and shook it in front of him: "The house I rented."

"I also rented it for money." Bai Ye took out the exact same key.

The young officer looked puzzled.

Bai Ye guessed a bit.

The landlord wanted to raise the rent frantically, but he couldn't afford it, and the two sides were seeing each other. At this time, the landlord changed hands and rented the house to this person. He probably never thought that the new tenant would come so quickly.If there is no accident, I will be forced to leave the house tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

"When you rented a house, the landlord told you whether to live alone or two?" Bai Ye poured him a glass of water.

"Oh, I didn't say that, so the trap was set here."

Following his words, the young officer easily accepted the fact that "he was cheated by the landlord". It seems that he is not experienced in the world.

"How much rent did you pay?"

"3600."

Bai Ye spat out a mouthful of water.

It's not that he's not experienced in the world, it's that he's been tricked.600 for this house is too expensive for him.

"What's wrong with you?" The young officer sat up and patted him on the back.

"I live here too. The house is still big, so I asked the landlord to find someone else. I didn't expect it to be rented out so soon. Actually, I am the second landlord, not a thief."

"Oh, that's right." The young officer put his hands into the inner pocket of his uniform and began to fumble for his wallet. "Then is it enough for me to give you 1800 as the second landlord?"

As he spoke, he pulled out a wad of cash and started counting.

Seeing the money, Bai Ye blushed excitedly.

He originally wanted to stay here for a few more days before he said he was the second landlord, but this guy actually paid him the money.

Bai Ye's monthly rent is 300, and her wages are only 400 after working so hard. Seeing so much money, she almost shed tears.Finally, I struggled a bit and said, "Brother, just give me 300."

The young officer was a little surprised: "Will that be too little?"

"The second landlord... just gets very little."

Long Yun let out a cry, and gave him three, and Bai Ye put it in his piggy bank, and when he came out to see him again, his whole body was limp: "Brother, are you hungry, I'll soak it for you." Would you like instant noodles?"

The young officer looked around the small, dilapidated bathroom, "Do you take a shower here?"

"Yes." Bai Ye rolled up her trouser legs, revealing her calves like white lotus roots, and ran in to make hot water for him, very attentive.

The young officer looked around behind him, "I don't have a change of clothes, please lend me a set."

"Okay. But didn't you bring a big suitcase?"

"What's in the luggage is..." He spoke so softly that he was drowned in the sound of water.

Bai Ye found some of the largest clothes for him, and went to the kitchen to make noodles by herself.

When he finished his bowl, the young officer came out.He was wearing old white-leaf jeans, which stretched over his slender legs because they were too small, making them as straight as steel pipes, and the bottom part was too short to expose a section of his ankle.On the upper body was a big shirt, the sleeves were too short, so he simply rolled them up to his elbows, and his chest was too tight, so he unbuttoned two buttons, revealing his delicate collarbone.The silver sword and rose pendant loomed on the chest.

"Is there a hair dryer?" He asked while combing his long blond hair.

The dumbfounded Bai Ye didn't answer.

"What's wrong?" He looked at himself with a smile.

Bai Ye lowered her head to drink instant noodle soup: "I don't have a hair dryer."

"Don't eat instant noodles." He snatched the instant noodle box and threw it into the trash can, then dragged the suitcase into the kitchen.Sitting on the counter, Shiraha held a plastic fork and watched blankly as he opened the suitcase.

There is nothing in it.No clothes, no books, no travel-size bath products.

All ingredients.

Chicken, duck, fish, vegetables, fruits...

Bai Ye has never seen such a perverted person.

"Take these with you when you go out?"

"Otherwise, what are you bringing?" He carefully lifted a bunch of grapes from the suitcase, cut them off one by one, washed them with salt water, and stuffed them into Bai Ye's hands, "Take it and eat, this one is so sweet."

"So why do you bring these when you go out?"

Bai Ye saw him put on an apron and work in the kitchen, stuffing grapes into his mouth, she couldn't believe it.

"Because people don't have a place to live, but they must eat. Is there any problem with bringing food?" The young officer pushed him out of the kitchen, "There is a lot of oily smoke, go outside and wait."

Half an hour later.

"Don't eat instant noodles in the future." The young officer sat across from him and said sincerely.

Looking at the table of good dishes, Bai Ye felt that what happened tonight happened too quickly like a tornado.

"Whatever you want to eat in the future, just tell me, second landlord."

"...Then you, what's your name?"

"My name is Long Yun."

Long Yun moved his chopsticks and looked at the only bed in the room: "Second landlord, I have been in poor health since I was a child. The floor is too damp. I will get sick when I sleep on the floor. Can you share half of the bed with me at night? I promise. Don't squeeze you, your quilt is overturned, I can help you cover it."

"The bed is very small..."

"I'll make you instant noodle-flavored crayfish tomorrow, okay? It's delicious and very fragrant."

"...Oh, you can sleep whatever you want."

"Second landlord, you are so kind, thank you." Long Yun picked up the chopsticks again and began to eat happily.