Little hero

On the trading day.

Five in the morning.

At this time, the loneliness is grayish light blue, the wind is cold, and the air is very humid, brushing against the young man's face, making his cheeks wet and soft.

Edgar wore black casual clothes, sneaked out of the house in the early morning when no one was paying attention, and ran to the seemingly sleeping Fifteenth Street.

The trading place was still at the Paradise Pavilion in the [-]th block, but this time he was familiar with the road, so he didn't have to fumble for three hours.

Edgar entered the boundary of the [-]th block, and before he found the small narrow road before, he saw the figure of a young boy, wearing a white and simple top, rubbing his arms in the cold morning wind.The little boy with blond hair and blue eyes and a very impatient expression was the other party to the transaction, Joe.

Joe was carrying a tattered gray-green shoulder bag, with the other hand tucked behind his back. Seeing Edgar from a distance, he turned his head awkwardly, but turned back angrily after a while, and waved at him. wave.

"Here it is!" Joe called softly.

Edgar walked over quickly and asked in a low voice, "Is everything ready?"

"Okay," Joe slightly bent his fingers, tapped the side of the backpack, and then gave the things behind him to Edger, "Your flowers, put them away!"

It was a bouquet of medium-sized roses, a dozen of which were wrapped in a blue paper bag, and the dew was lying on the petals, which looked fresh and tender. If you lower your head, you can smell the slightly cold and fragrant fragrance fragrance.

This was originally just a cover to cover up the "dark fire", but holding such a bouquet like this, Edgar will think of Gean's face, imagine Gean's reaction after receiving the bouquet, and probably thank Edgar happily .

Edgar's expression softened involuntarily. Qiao was peeking at him at first, but then he was a little dazed and said in a low voice, "Are you really going to give it to your lover?"

Edgar hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Not a lover, but someone very important to me."

Joe felt uneasy about buying a bouquet of flowers at random. He turned his head in a panic, and unexpectedly saw the horizon in the distance, and there was still a trace of night that had not receded. He suddenly turned serious and said, "Guest, I remember what you want It is the most colorful flower in the world, but I just randomly picked a bunch at the flower shop, it may not be the most colorful..."

"Oh, it's okay." Edgar was a little surprised that he didn't expect such an honest person like Joe to exist in a place like the Paradise Pavilion, but he quickly said, "It's already very good-looking, and he will like it."

Joe nodded, took Edgar to a residence, and said in his mouth: "I'll give you the things after I go in. After the transaction is successful, I will guarantee your safety and send you out of the fifteenth block."

The transaction at the Paradise Pavilion is done step by step. Before the transaction, you need to make a connection, and then find the correct place according to the code. After the transaction is settled, the employer will leave the fifteenth block and wait for the transaction day before returning to the meeting.Some employers will not be present in person during the joint, so at this time, the transaction party in charge of the joint will send someone to verify the identity. Joe was waiting for Edgar on the street corner just now to confirm the identity of the person who came, and it happened that he and Edgar met , So he took Edgar to the real trading place.

Edgar didn't know the inside story of Fifteenth Street, but he also knew that it was not safe to trade on the street. He followed Joe, and suddenly remembered the sound of a carriage he heard the last time he came, and asked casually, "I left Fifteenth Street that day. When I was in the block, I saw a carriage coming in, is that the way you pick up people or goods in the [-]th block?"

"What?" Joe thought for a while, not knowing what he meant, "Carriage? Few people come to the [-]th block, and of course there are no horse-drawn carriages. Usually transactions are started secretly. How can you be so ostentatious?"

They entered a house where Edgar had seen the old man last time. After he entered, Joe timidly glanced around the street before closing the door tightly.

"Okay, everything you want is here."

Joe handed Edgar the gray-green backpack to inspect the contents.

In the backpack is a small black box, the size of a palm, which contains five injections. The light yellow liquid sloshes in the glass tube with Edgar's movements.

"Is that all?" Edgar asked.

"Of course that's all," Joe gave him an inexplicable look, "I don't know what you and Mr. Enough to buy these."

Edgar sighed secretly, and found that the child probably didn't know the existence of "Dark Fire", so he nodded, put the box in his arms, picked up the bouquet of flowers, and prepared to leave.

"Ah, wait, I'll take you out, Fifteenth Street is still very..."

Before the word "random" came out, Joe's vigilance of living in the fifteenth block for many years suddenly made his hair stand on end, and an unspeakable chill ran up his back.

Almost at the same time, Edgar was thrown to the ground by a strong force, and the back of his head and elbow joints hit the ground, and he heard a few metal impact sounds in the pain.

It's gunshots! !

Edgar's raised head was pushed down by Joe. They were behind a sofa. Before they could react, there were two more gunshots. Edgar asked in Joe's ear, "Hey! What's going on here? ?!"

"I don't know!" Joe was still in shock, but he had already reacted, and shouted at Edgar: "How do I know why there are gunshots?!"

"This is your home! Your territory!" Edgar also looked terrified, and he yelled back with a suppressed voice: "You should lower your voice! They are not deaf, they will hear the voice!"

After Edgar finished speaking, the two of them gasped heavily and tried to gather their spirits in fear behind the sofa, but at this moment the gunfire had stopped, and there was a few seconds of silence.Edgar and Joe looked at each other, he tugged on Joe's clothes, and asked in a low voice, "Have you passed?"

Before the words finished, there was another gunshot. This time the position was very close to them, just one meter away from the sofa. Edgar even saw a sloping pit on the ground that was half a finger long. The large bullet bounced on the ground not far away, making a crisp "咚咚" sound.

This is determining their location!

Edgar's palms and back were covered with sweat. He had never experienced such a dangerous moment in his life. He felt dizzy, and the sound of his heartbeat had even covered his own voice. Joe said: "What should I do? I'm not very good..."

"The location of the shooting point is outside." It may be that there is a person who is several years older than himself but is terrified. Joe realizes that he can only rely on himself at this time. He quickly calmed down and told Edgar Said, "We have to find a way to escape to the tunnel!"

"How to do it?!"

"Over there," Joe pointed to a staircase on the side of the living room, "under that staircase, there is an elevator car, we can just go down from there."

But the premise is that they can pass through an unobstructed area of ​​nearly ten meters from the sofa unscathed, and reach the stairs smoothly.

"How did this happen?!" Edgar was about to go crazy, "I'll be beaten to death!"

"No! Hey! Blue? Blue, right? Blue, calm down!" Joe said to him quickly, "So, you follow me, I run, you follow me, and dodge when you see the bullet! Okay, I said one, two, three and ran! One—two—"

"Hello?! How can I see? How can I hide—"

"three!"

Joe was ready, the young boy arched his body, and rushed out like an arrow off the string, Edgar opened his eyes wide, and at this moment, his mind was full of regrets about why he didn't learn martial arts with Ge'an properly, and he was right. His own abuse, even though he didn't know how to use martial arts in this kind of situation.

He subconsciously followed Joe and ran out, hearing the sound of "swoosh" or "swoosh" flying bullets, but there was no severe pain on his body, or he was too scared to feel anything after being shot. .

The bouquet of roses was held in his arms and appeared at an inappropriate occasion, making Edgar look like a special outcast, as if he was just a young man without etiquette, rushing to a date that was much higher than himself.

These few seconds passed extremely long, as if every move slowed down many times in my eyes. Not only that, but also my head became very dull. It was not until Joe pulled him into the elevator car that Edgar realized that he was still hairless. Live unscathed.

"You..." Joe cleared his throat, his voice trembling, "Are you okay?"

"It's, it's okay," Edgar leaned against the wall of the car, and said in shock, "he's still alive." His voice was not very stable, but he probably realized that he was safe for the time being, unlike before. So flustered, but his body is obviously still in the state just now, his clothes are already soaked inside and out.

The car sank to the bottom, and their hearts fell to the ground with the sound of landing.

Edgar adjusted his breathing, and made a "most" summary of the period just now: "This is the most thrilling day in my life."

"Do not……"

Joe suddenly grabbed Edgar's sleeve in a panic, and even pinched the flesh on his arm a little bit, causing him to gasp in pain.Joe's voice was small and frightened: "Listen, what is this sound?"

The car door has been opened, and they are in a small room, which is the room where Joe waited for Edgar. The door was opened with a "squeak", leading directly to the tunnel outside.However, there was no fire in the tunnel this time, all the candle lamps had been extinguished, it was so dark that no fingers could be seen, only the cold wind and the trembling of his fingertips could be felt.

In such a place, Edgar actually heard the footsteps of "Rustle", making a hollow sound in the tunnel, once and again.

It is now 45:[-] in the morning, and a layer of fine powder is floating in the sky.

——And today, it’s just the beginning.