forest country

Mizusawa looked at a pitch-black tower that appeared in front of him. The huge base of the tower looked like the piled up remains of a steel giant.

The iron-black tower protrudes from the wreckage, steep and sharp, straight into the sky.

On top of the sharpest spire, there seems to be some kind of round object atop it, but it is too far away to be seen clearly.

Could this be the "tower" mentioned by the man in the suit?

There is also the Tower of Glory that Quiller was talking about. I don’t know if they are talking about the same one.

No matter what, this place is a dangerous place for Mizusawa, how did he get here...

Mizusawa wanted to turn around and leave immediately, but the guards under the tower found him faster than him.

A soldier in a golden uniform pointed at Mizusawa with his chin up, "Go away, this is not where you came from."

Standing under this dark and oppressive tower, the dazzling golden uniform is very out of place.

Mizusawa lowered his head, apologizing repeatedly and was about to walk away.

Another soldier came up and asked, "Are you lost? Where are you going?"

"I'll go to the pier." Mizusawa was taken aback by the sudden question.

The soldier continued to ask kindly: "Then are you going to the West Wharf or the East Wharf?"

Mizusawa replied truthfully: "I want to go to Storm City by boat."

"Then you should go to the East Wharf. You are going in the wrong direction." The soldier then carefully explained the route for him.

Although Mizusawa didn't know why he was so enthusiastic, he thanked him sincerely before leaving.

After Mizusawa left, the soldier who first yelled at him to leave asked puzzledly, "Have you lost your mind today? This is the first time I've seen you being so kind."

"Didn't you see what was following him?" The other soldier smiled triumphantly.

Those swarms of bees don't follow insignificant people.

Sure enough, in less than 5 minutes, the higher-ups issued a notice that this soldier who was eager to guide the way had a bonus this month.

Mizusawa walked farther and farther away, gradually losing sight of the tower.

But he always had the feeling that he might be able to get the truth he wanted from this tower, the truth about the forest, about the village.

Now, his first task is to carry the sack.

He didn't have the money to go to Storm City by boat, so he had to work first to earn money for the boat ticket.

Fortunately, these scattered small tasks do not require an iron bracelet as proof, otherwise Mizusawa would not be able to do it.

Although it is said to be carrying sacks, he just needs to move the goods brought over to the cart, and then push the cart to the side of the pier, and other people will move the goods to the ship.

"You look thin and small, but your strength is not bad." Bolei praised.

Bo Lei is a friend Mizusawa met when he was working. He is a bit like Ah Song. He talks a lot and has squinted eyes when he smiles.

The first time they exchanged names, Bolei also said that his name didn't sound like someone from Glory City.

"It seems to be people from Shuihu City. I heard that people there like to call water or something."

Mizusawa took care to note down the new place name of Shuihu City, and didn't explain too much. He still dealt with Quiller, but said that he came here to find friends.

Bole subconsciously thought that Shui Ze came from Shuihu City.

"Water Lake City is amazing. It ranks first in the city. When I save enough money, I must visit Water Lake City."

Mizusawa didn't answer, afraid of making a mistake.

In the distance, a child holding an iron whip walked around with small steps, and when he saw someone who was not serious about being lazy, he swept the whip over, and there was a bloody mouth on that person immediately.

He is obviously not tall, only reaching everyone's waist, but no one dares to resist him.

He is the son of the owner of the dock. As long as you want to continue working at the dock, you must not mess with him. Otherwise, not only will you lose your job, but you will also lose your wages.

When he saw Shui Ze, his eyes paused, and he walked towards Shui Ze.

Mizusawa was beating his heart, he didn't seem to have done anything out of the ordinary, he lowered his head and tried to reduce his sense of existence.

"What's your name?" The child walked up to Mizusawa and asked him.

"Mizawa."

Mizusawa did not look up after answering the name.

Bole looked bad, and the kid was going to be angry. Because of his short stature, he hated people bowing their heads when talking to him.

"Good job, very good." Unexpectedly, the child seemed to have changed his temper and said, "I heard you have to work to buy a boat ticket?"

Mizusawa: "Yes, my lord, I'm going to Storm City by boat."

"Why keep your face so straight, just smile. If you smile, I will let you take the boat tomorrow. You can help offset the ticket on the boat." The child's eyes widened, and under the long eyelashes were a pair of sky blue eyes , looks quite innocent and naive.

Mizusawa curled his lips a little stiffly, he didn't understand what was going on.

Looking at Bolei, he was also surprised to see Bolei.

"It's pretty cute when you smile. The boat at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, don't forget the time." After speaking, the child turned around and left with a whip in his hand. Della, don't forget me."

Mizusawa looked at the back of the child jumping and jumping, the corners of his mouth were curled up before he could put it down, coupled with his dull face, his face twitched a bit.

"Am I being molested?"

Burley clutched his stomach and couldn't help laughing.

"Brother, I really don't know whether you are lucky or not, hahahaha."

At this time, there seemed to be a quarrel not far from them.

Mizusawa was not interested in these and did not step forward.

A lady wearing a small dress and holding a closed umbrella was grabbing the collar of a man who was a head taller than her and questioning him angrily.

"It's you who stole my ring, and you will lose money if you don't hand over the ring!"

That man also worked at the pier. Mizusawa had seen him when he was queuing for lunch at noon. He didn't talk much, he was a little silent, and his hands were mechanical arms.

The lady's voice is very loud, the more she speaks, the more fierce she speaks, and the orderly words are still very clear.

"You bumped into me, and my ring was gone. At that time, you were the only one around me. You are so skilled. It's definitely not the first time you did this. You even said it wasn't you."

And the man who was grabbed by her collar kept saying, I didn't, I don't know, his face turned red and he didn't know how to defend himself.

"There is a big diamond on my ring. I can understand that you are tempted when you see it. But now you have to give it back to me if I find out. If you really like that ring, you can spend money from me. Buy it in your hand, I am easy to talk to."

The onlookers almost subconsciously leaned towards the pretty lady, and some of them had already started to criticize the man.

Ms. Little Flower Umbrella showed a faint smile, but the smile was not ready yet——

Suddenly, a whip rolled towards the lady's hand holding the collar.

She sensed the danger in an instant, let go and dodged, and the other hand holding the small umbrella subconsciously made an attacking gesture.

"I said who was it? It turned out to be the 'little girl selling umbrellas'. Why, she cheated money and tricked her into my territory." The child retracted the whip he threw out, and sneered, "I don't even look at the map when I walk."

When Ms. Xiaohuasan saw Adela, who was much shorter than her, she looked unlucky: "It's really unlucky to meet you."

As he said that, he quickly opened the small flower umbrella and lifted it horizontally, so that the pointed umbrella cap at the front of the umbrella was aimed at Adela who was opposite.

"It's all scattered!"

Adela yelled quickly.

As soon as the sound fell, the pointed umbrella cap of the little flower umbrella began to spray bullets at their feet.

Adela flicked the whip to block most of the bullets that were about to hit the ground, but two caught fish still hit the ground.

Instantly a puff of smoke rose.

"Children, don't call your sister a nickname. I don't call you 'Little Girl Selling Umbrellas'. It's too ugly!"

The angry voice of the little flower umbrella lady came from the smoke.

When the smoke cleared, the person on the opposite side had disappeared.

Adela seemed to have expected this, stomped her feet angrily, and didn't intend to chase anyone.

"Okay, whatever you look at, go to work."

Adela flicked her whip into the air, and scolded.

"I want to be lazy all day long, and I can't even say a word when I encounter something. I'm so stupid."

The more she talked, the more angry Adela threw out a few more whips into the air.

The sound of "cracking" dispersed the crowd watching the excitement, and they hurried back to their respective jobs, for fear that the next whip would fall on themselves.

Standing in the distance, Mizusawa laughed softly while carrying things, and suddenly felt that the child was a little cute.

Those bees flew out from nowhere, circling Bai Ze to find a sense of existence.

Mizusawa stretched out his hand, and a bee landed on his index finger. The dark oval compound eyes looked directly at him, looking a little cold.

"Do you have pinions hidden in your body, too?"

Mizusawa said suddenly, his voice was not loud, it seemed to be talking to himself.

The bee landed on his finger, the two pairs of membranous wings on its back shook twice, leading its little friends to fly away quickly.

As if afraid that Mizusawa would peel them off in the next second, he took a look inside the body.

Mizusawa covered his mouth and smiled secretly.

When the dinner bell rang, everyone at work breathed a sigh of relief.

Throughout the afternoon, Adela was in a bad mood, and they also tensed up.

Now it's dinner time, and I can finally rest and eat and brag.

This is another benefit of working at the dock for Mizusawa, Guan Fan!

Very good! ! !

After dinner, Bolei took Mizusawa to the supermarket.

This was Mizusawa's first time entering the supermarket, and he was immediately attracted by the dazzling array of things inside, looking at them one by one.

"gone."

Bolei came over with two barrels of lubricating oil, and saw that Mizusawa hadn't chosen yet.

"What do you want to buy? I'm so entangled."

Mizusawa raised his hand and asked him, "What is this?"

"It's just jelly, you don't even know that?" Bole thought he didn't see it clearly, so he looked it over twice and confirmed that it was just an ordinary jelly. Can earn more."

Mizusawa put the box of jelly back on the shelf and followed Bolei away.

"Why don't you buy it? You've been looking at that jelly for a long time." Bolei asked in doubt, and then asked himself, "By the way, you have no money. You are so poor that you don't even have money to buy jelly."

Mizusawa nodded.

"Forget it, you go and get a box, and I'll give it to you." Bolei gritted his teeth and said generously, "You know, I originally planned to buy all the money into oil and save it, not because of your pity. "

Mizusawa's eyes lit up, and Xiaobu ran back to the shelf to get the jelly he had been looking at for a long time.

After paying the bill, Mizusawa took a small spoon and dug into the jelly. Not only did the jelly look translucent, but it was also soft and slippery when eaten, and it slid down his throat with a gurgle.

"Thank you Burley."

Seeing Mizusawa who would be so beautiful after eating jelly, Bole said awkwardly: "The main reason is that Adela treats you well, otherwise I would not give you something if I am such a picky person."

"Would you like to have a bite?" Mizusawa dug a spoonful and brought it to Bolei's mouth.

"I don't eat this kind of child's food." Burley muttered in a low voice, "Seeing how greedy you are, it would hurt my heart to take a bite."

Mizusawa laughed: "A little indeed."

Seeing that he was smiling happily, Burley swallowed the jelly in the spoon with his mouth open. After swallowing, he still "bajibaji" and concluded: "It's not bad."

Mizusawa was stunned: "Didn't you not eat?"

Burley: "Hmph."

The two returned to the dock talking and laughing, and Bolei put the oil he bought back to his residence and locked it in the cabinet.

There are six people living in Bole's place, and there are three bunk beds in the room, and Bole is the bottom berth of the first bed on the left side of the door.The people living in their house are all workers who have been working on the dock for a long time, some of whom Mizusawa has seen during the day.

There was a smell of cigarettes and motor oil in the room. Although it was not pungent, it didn't smell bad either.

"By the way, do you have no place to stay at night?"

Mizusawa hesitated and nodded.

"It's a loss, it's a loss, you just squeeze with me at night, anyway, I bought you jelly."

Mizusawa was about to say thank you when Adela came in from outside.

Complained: "Why did you go, I have been waiting for you for a long time."

Mizusawa asked, "Is there anything you can do for me?"

"Just follow me." After Adela urged, she led the way first, not forgetting to turn her head, "Follow me quickly."

Bolei pushed Mizusawa who was still standing still: "Hurry up, I think it's a good thing."

Mizusawa carefully followed Adela all the way, and even thought about a few retreats for himself.

In the end, Adela just found him an empty room, not big, with only one bed in it, but it was very clean, as if it had just been cleaned.

"Okay, you can sleep here tonight." Adela clapped her hands and was about to leave when she was satisfied.

Mizusawa quickly stopped him: "But..."

"Ahhh, I know you don't have any money, and this afternoon's wages are paid off." Adela pouted, "Really, it's not tiring to say that you have no money or no money dozens of times in a day."

Mizusawa: "Thank you."

"Okay, I'm tired of hearing that too." Adela simply left after finishing speaking.

Mizusawa lay his head up on the clean and comfortable bed, took a deep breath, and there was a faint smell of washing powder on the sheets.

Although he remembered that he didn't seem to have mentioned to Adela a few times about having no money, but forget it, these are not important.

Little doubts passed through my brain lightly, and soon disappeared.

The salary in the afternoon is offset by the accommodation fee, but tomorrow I can help on the ship, so I don’t have to worry about the ticket.

After taking a brief rest, Mizusawa immediately cheered up and prepared to work another shift at night so that he could earn a little more.

When working overtime at night, Bolei heard what Mizusawa said, and immediately said that his luck was really amazing.

"For the sake of that jelly tonight, help me see when I can find a girlfriend."

Mizusawa: "I don't know how to divination."

Burley: "It's okay, just send a congratulatory message."

Mizusawa: "I wish you to find a girlfriend soon."

Burley: happy~

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