Little hero

"Well... Let me ask for you. When I see Mr., if he agrees... No, Lan, you understand. I mean, finding someone is not a big deal. Generally speaking, there is no problem, but It’s a bit difficult to say, um… it mainly depends on who you’re looking for.”

In the underground exchange, anyone can actually find it. As long as Edgar can afford the price, Joe can actually pick it up.There is no danger in this kind of transaction.

It's just that Joe's meaning is also very clear. He doesn't know who Gean is or what his identity is, so if he wants to find him, he has to ask the gentleman in the wheelchair. Joe can't make decisions, and this has nothing to do with whether to trade or not.

"Although it is a business, the underground exchange is least afraid of danger, but," Qiao paused, and said awkwardly, "Not all businesses can be accepted by us."

Edgar knew what he meant and nodded his head in understanding: "Well, I know."

"No, Lan, you may have misunderstood, I want to help you, but I need to ask Mr.

Joe seems to have a better attitude towards Edgar. From the morning to now, in Joe's heart, Edgar is probably an image that needs more care than Joe.Hearing the disappointment in his tone, Joe said comfortingly: "But it should be nothing. I just said that I can't make decisions about picking up business, but in fact there is definitely nothing wrong with it. It's just a matter of finding someone... Ah, yes, it's convenient now Tell me who is that Mr. Gean you are looking for?"

"It can't be this," Joe reached out and patted Edgar's hand holding the flower, trying to liven up the atmosphere with a teasing smile, "The person who wants to accept it? Your lover?"

After a moment of silence, Edgar said: "You can give him away, but he is not mine..."

Edgar's voice stopped abruptly. He tilted his head, pricked up his ears, and gently pulled Rajo's sleeve: "Listen, what is this sound?"

In the authentic distance, there seemed to be some dragging and dragging sounds. The sound was very small, and it was like an auditory hallucination at first, but soon, the sound gradually became louder and very close.Edgar felt that the voice was probably not far away from them. If it wasn't for the darkness in the tunnel, they might be able to see something.But just when the two teenagers were thinking about whether to run away directly or to find out what the sound was, the sound of delaying and lingering disappeared again.

The tunnel was restored to its original appearance, and everything that happened just now was like an inexplicable fantasy.

"Blue? Are you still there?" After waiting for a long time, Joe asked very lowly.

"Of course." Edgar replied with the same small voice.

The two leaned together, sensing each other's presence, and felt a little comfort in the darkness.

Joe dared to ask, "So what was that noise? Did it go?"

"Probably." The two waited for a while, as if they felt that they had made a fuss, and then walked forward.

"Hey, Lan, why do I always smell a strange smell?"

"Strange smell?"

"A very bitter herbal smell with rust. Oh, my God, it smells bad."

"Very bitter smell of flowers and plants?" Edgar closed his eyes and sniffed, but he didn't smell anything: "Are you too nervous? Why don't I smell anything?"

"I don't know... Ah, by the way, could it be your rose? Where is the rust?"

Roses?flower?

Edgar thought that he seemed to smell the aroma of orchids just now, thought for a while, and asked Joe: "Does the bitter smell of flowers and herbs refer to orchids? It doesn't seem to be bitter either."

"Orchids?" said Jo. "I don't know. I don't like flowers. They all smell bitter."

The topic ended quickly, Edgar didn't worry too much about the smell, and they continued to walk forward.

The structure inside the tunnel was intricate, and the two of them had no lights, and they didn't know what passage led to where. Based on his feeling, Joe took Edgar to the house he had been to before.

"Here, yes, it should be here, the elevator car of our stronghold," Joe carefully inspected the situation in the room, and found that there was no one who was slurring his words and let them open the door, but there was a thick air in the air. bloody smell.

"What... what happened here?"

The time they left was not long or short, it was just a time of getting lost, but there was no such smell just now.

Edgar not only has good ears, but also has a good nose. At this time, he was very uncomfortable with the smell, thinking that he should leave quickly, so the two decided to go up to see what was going on.He took a step forward, tripped over something under his feet, and fell to a not-so-hard place.

Edgar stretched out his hand to support it, his palm was stained with some kind of sticky and warm liquid, he trembled all of a sudden, and felt that the hairs all over his body stood on end.He gritted his teeth and kept silent, put his hand under his nose and smelled it, the thick fishy smell seemed to come alive, and he scrambled to drill into Edgar's nose, trying to break through his skull!

Is this blood?So, what's underneath... is a dead person?

Edger's tongue was pressed down with unknown force, his tongue was stiff and painful, and there was a retching sound in his throat - he never knew that dead people were so unacceptable, obviously before this he thought it was It's just that it's no different from falling asleep, just unconscious.

"...Joe?" Edgar's voice was trembling, and there was a bit of choked crying, of course it didn't sound cowardly, nor was he crying out of fright, but his voice was wet with retching, resulting in a nasal sound.He said, "This land is full of..."

Joe said "what", and was muttering what happened on the ground, when suddenly he stumbled, took a deep breath, and exclaimed in a low voice: "This is..."

There seemed to be several people lying here and there on the ground, or only one or two, and the heavy rust smell in the air would make the teenagers suffocate.The two were frightened in the dark, and Joe asked softly where Edgar was. The two pulled each other's sleeves, quickly stepped over the corpses, and got into the car—fortunately, there was nothing messy in this car. No.

"Listen up, Lan, calm down, don't think about it for now. We don't know what happened here, and we don't know who these people are, but someone killed them, which proves that there are at least two waves besides us. People. No one knows whether it’s an enemy or a friend, so just forget what you just saw.” They don’t have the heart to worry about others now, and it’s more important to keep themselves alive.

Qiao suddenly remembered what his husband said. Although he had heard the name of the Aujin family and knew that it was a big family whose status was equivalent to the royal family, he didn't take this matter very seriously.It suddenly occurred to him that Mr. would seldom introduce the identity of the trader to him, and he would not tell him if it was not necessary, but this time it was different. No matter how useless it is, he is still an important person after all. Since my husband values ​​him, I still have to protect him.

So he said to Edgar: "Lan, the people above probably didn't retreat. Although I don't know what they are going to do, logically speaking, they will send people down. Now we haven't met in the tunnel. It may be that they are the group of dead people just now, or that they went down and did not find us, and they got lost. Either way, it is actually okay to say, but in any case, there is one more thing we have to consider, that is this Is there an ambush up there?"

"So we'll play by ear when we go up, be careful, it's best if you can follow me and we'll be together."

The atmosphere in the car is really bad, it just rained a few days ago, logically speaking, the tunnel should be cold and damp, but the two of them are covered in sweat, it doesn't seem to be from the heat, but the clothes are sticking to the body Almost, not refreshing at all.

"I don't know if there is anyone at the door of this elevator. Let's go up slowly first. If there is someone, we will pull down the rope immediately. If not, we will find a way to get out of the house."

Joe's plan is very simple, that is, to find a way to send Edgar out of the fifteenth block alive, as long as there are no people with guns in the room, they will not be afraid.

Edgar understood the plan, and secretly beat a drum in his heart. He didn't have much confidence in himself, and thought that he should not die here.Speaking of which, the darkness in the [-]th Street District was a bit more extreme than what he had heard. The noble young master thought that he could go in and out relatively safely if he didn't go whoring, gambling, or eating and drinking here. People who don't know whether it's good or bad are "challenging"-then he will definitely not come.

The sticky liquid has dried up in the palm of his hand, but he still can't get rid of the disgusting feeling. The most disgusting thing Edgar could imagine was touching dog poop with his hands, and the most frightening thing was that his family would go bankrupt overnight, but Now it seems that even if the fear of bankruptcy cannot be compared with it, what happened today is enough to be the most disgusting and frightening thing.

The two waited silently in the car, and Joe counted the numbers in a low voice. He could accurately estimate the time it took for the car to go up, coupled with his own speed of pulling the rope, there was almost no deviation.Joe counted very slowly, and it took him a while to count to six—they agreed to rush out together when they reached ten.

"Eight—" Joe's voice was very low.

This made Edgar swallow subconsciously to relieve his tension and fear.

"Nine--"

Edgar clenched his fists.

The car stopped and stopped going up. Joe was breathing heavily. Edger thought he heard Joe's voice, which was very loud, but in fact it was his own panting. not found.

"ten--"

Before the sound, time was frozen, and even the breathing and heartbeat seemed to be prolonged and slowed down, but after the sound, the wooden boards of the car were suddenly opened by Joe, as if the door of time had been opened.

Joe's house, to be honest, is very good, if it is not located in the fifteenth block, this house will definitely sell for a lot of money.The lighting is especially good. If you don’t pull the curtain as thick as night, the first ray of sunlight in the morning will illuminate the entire hall.

The car is hidden in a compartment behind the stairs. There is a secret door here, which is difficult to find from the outside, but if it is opened from the inside, people outside can see the situation inside clearly.This was originally specially made to prevent the dishonesty of underground traders, so that the guides can see the quality of the situation at a glance, and then protect the safety of the husband and the safety of the trading base.

Of course, this car Joe has traveled thousands of times, never thinking that this design for defense will one day be used on himself.

The secret door was pushed open by Joe. He had thought about it a long time ago. If someone did not shoot before they entered the house, but had to wait for two people to enter the house before exploding the gun, then probably they did not want the two of them to die. There must be something. purpose exists.But Joe thought he was trading some flying needle potions and a beautiful bouquet of roses, so he couldn't figure out why.Joe thought to himself that it was impossible to rely on the tunnel to escape, and he could only return to the house he was more familiar with and go out from here.

Young Joe held his gun tightly in his hand, Edgar was still hugging his bouquet of roses, the paper bag made a sound because of his movement, but the heart that mentioned the apex was extremely surprised at this moment, because there was a person outside the door No one!

The place where the secret door is located cannot be easily found, but they went down here to escape for their lives before, and the person who shot them must have known the existence of the secret door. No one.

Edgar was wearing comfortable clothes that could sneak into the night, and he didn't look like the young master of the Okin family at all. He was still holding the bouquet of roses he had traded in his arms, and the surprise disappeared quickly. He seemed to lick his own lips, and took two steps forward.

The sunlight happened to be able to find the open space in front of the secret door, which happened to be where Edgar was. As soon as he raised his head, the dazzling sunlight dazzled his eyes.

"What's going on, am I thinking wrong..." Joe was talking to himself. While talking, he saw Edgar stretch out his hand to block the light in front of his eyes. Things flashed by.

Joe didn't realize what the light was, but he subconsciously called out.

——"Blue! Squat down!!"

The muzzle fire turned into a light arrow that pierced the sky and shot at Edgar. Hearing Joe's voice, Edgar didn't react for a while, and blinked in the blinding light. A burst of unbearable sourness.

"Bang bang bang" a few times, the sound of metal impacting exploded around him, Edgar was temporarily safe after being thrown by Joe and pressed against the corner, he heard Joe scolding him loudly: "Are you crazy?! Are you crazy? Already?! You're sick! What are you doing? Why don't you hide?"

It was only then that Edgar woke up from his roar, "Ah", and said, "No..."

"You almost died! How can I explain to my husband when you are dead?!"

"Confess? Explain what?" Edgar breathed a sigh of relief, touched his chest in fear, and said with a sense of loss: "I seem to smell the smell of orchids just now."

"What blue pollen flower? Why are you in a daze?! Do you want to die?!" Joe and he hid in the corner behind the corner, and said in a panic: "What should I do now? If I hide in the secret door, we can still go Go to the tunnel, but as it is now, if that hot hand comes down to block us, it will be that... What you Easterners always say, that, you can’t fly with wings!!”

"It's all right, Joe," Edgar said, turning to him, "Thank you very much for going out with me today and keeping me safe, but don't worry, I'm not going to die. The guy with the gun just now I seem to know him."

Edgar squinted his eyes in the halo, and saw an unusually familiar outline, which reminded him of a person who didn't seem to be there the day Ge'an stabbed His Highness the Third Highness, and Edgar couldn't remember running around for Ge'an either. In the past five months, when has this person appeared in front of my eyes.

Dot, the middle-aged housekeeper who has been in Aujin's house for decades, has a strong physique and always stays in the door room at the gate of Aujin's house when he is free.It was only then that Edgar realized something was wrong—why could Third Highness Lin Xi break into Aujin's house while he was there, and why did the guards enter the gate in batches?If Lin Xi was stopped, none of this would have happened, or if the guards were stopped, would Lin Xi without the guard still have the confidence to provoke Ge An, and still be able to obtain evidence that Ge An stabbed him?

Edgar suddenly felt that it was ridiculous. In his life, the brother-in-law Ge An was an outsider and an undercover agent. His former friend Lin Xi pursued him crazily and even made troubles at all costs. My dear brother can't really Understand everything in Edgar's mind, thinking that he is just an impulsive and naive child, his parents have long since passed away, and his grandfather will never see his grandchildren at home... But now, Edgar's only relative—the Uncle Dot, the housekeeper who had watched him grow up, was going to point a gun at him.

Is there anything more fun and interesting than this?

It seems that there is no more, ah, no, there is still one, at this time, Edgar is not alone, and there is a little guy who is five years younger than him, and he is afraid that he has not protected the guests. He has no brains.

Edgar sighed, he really didn't have much skill, and he was not very courageous, he was a young master who depended on Ge'an in everything, but at this moment, he suddenly felt an indescribable emotion, he was sure that person was Dot, and Dot won't kill him.

"Joe, here's my potion, you take it with you, and you can use it when you need it."

Joe took the things and frowned at Edgar: "What are you talking about? What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to get us out of this situation. I guess this is the most dangerous and brave day I've ever had. Now, Joe, listen to me. I know that man. He's after me now, but he won't Kill me, so I have an idea, I give this to you," Edgar took out the collar button of the Congressional Bureau from his arms, put it in Joe's palm, and said, "You should know this thing, Orkin's collar button in the Congressional Bureau. You take it to find a man named ** Edward Orkin on the third block. He is my brother. You say that Edgar is in the fifteenth block. Tell him the truth about what happened today, and he will definitely come here to save me as quickly as possible."

After finishing speaking, Edgar quickly added another sentence: "It's okay, just go, you are more familiar with the terrain of the fifteenth block than I am, if I can lure that person away, then you can easily run out to pass News. Edward is my elder brother, he is very kind, and he will not embarrass you."

Edgar's tone is unquestionable, and he sounds very confident in Joe.I don’t know if Joe heard this kind of trust. He wanted to say in his heart, “Aren’t you afraid that I won’t come back to save you?” But in the end, he just nodded and said, “If it doesn’t work, you can go to the tunnel. It's much safer to have someone with a gun during the day. You mustn't die, I won't run around over a dead body."

Edgar smiled, got ready, took a deep breath, and ran out around the corner.

As he thought, the sound of loading not far away was very low but it seemed to ring in his ears. Edgar was very afraid. He felt that he was being targeted, but at the same time he felt that he was a brave warrior. He said that a brave man is one who dares to face the gun.

Now, Edgar will also be convinced by himself.

The middle-aged man was lying on the roof of a two-story building, and the long gun on the ground was aimed at the running boy. His figure was right in the middle of the crosshairs.In fact, the boy's pace is not slow. People can always stimulate their potential when they are afraid. The same is true for this boy who runs like a little cheetah. He looks fearless, but even so, the man still knows that he In essence, it is still a wild kitten with a cute heart.

Edgar's grandfather, the master of the housekeeper Dot, the old man who stayed in the attic of the Okin's house all the year round, said to Dot six months ago: "Dot, the cold winter is coming to an end, I think it's time."

Dort understood and nodded in response.

After a while, the old man said in a melancholy tone, "Tell me, will that little Edger get angry?"

Dort, of course, denied it, saying that Master Edgar would understand.

The old man smiled and shook his head, and told him to start preparing quickly, it was time to collect the net.

close the net...

Dort chewed these two words in his heart, then pointed the muzzle of the gun at Edgar's feet indifferently, followed him, and moved his fingers. The recoil of the gunshot made people's mouth numb, and the loud sound exploded in his ears. Edgar's footsteps became more and more messy.

"Ling, if the young master runs away from this angle, I won't be able to see it from this angle. You go and tell the people below to keep an eye on him."

In the dark, the figure of a woman nodding and disappearing into the darkness—if Edgar was here, he would be able to see that this woman named "Ling" was the one who pushed the wheelchair for Joe's husband and sent himself fifteen blocks away during the transaction that day that woman!