Forbidden City of Heze + Dalufei

The distant cry was at first as shrill and small as a trapped feral cat.As the footsteps approached, he gradually realized that it was the heart-piercing cry of a baby.

The place where the cries sounded was a ruin, to be precise, it was a place where all kinds of garbage were thrown away.Demolished car skeletons, rusted TV casings, old leather shoes that will never make a pair, and rags that are rotted into a pile, and they can’t see what they were originally, not to mention those rotting and smelly stray cats and dogs, which may even It's a human corpse.All the forgotten things are piled up here into stinky grave bags one after another.

This was originally just an ordinary corner in the central area. Even though he passed by it countless times, he never thought of taking a look inside.But in the early hours of the morning when those scavengers didn't get up early, in the dim light, that distinct cry caught his attention.

The man kept kicking away the rubbish under his feet, and quickly walked towards the source of the crying, just like approaching a shivering bastard who had fallen into a beast's lair. He didn't have any psychological burden. The baby who was just born and was discarded was here. It's not uncommon for prostitutes who are so eager to please their customers to use almost no contraception?In the central area, a baby without a guardian is like a wallet dropped by someone. The person who picks it up can just sell it to a black intermediary and make a small fortune.

This week's tobacco and alcohol money is settled.The man thought happily, and the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously.And at this moment, he found the baby stuffed in an old tire not far away. He was wrapped in a dirty and thin blanket, and his little face was flushed from crying.If it weren't for the climate of Dalufei, which is like summer all year round, such a small child might be frozen to death in one night, and the dead baby is not worth half a dime at all.

He rejoiced at his good luck, and as if afraid of being preempted by others, he ran over in a hurry, squatted down in front of the crying baby, and stretched out his hand to hug him.

At this moment, his body sank suddenly, and something jumped onto his back, and his neck was strangled immediately. Although the strength was not strong, his chin was suddenly lifted up, and he was startled and threw it. Before he could stand up after losing the baby, there was a sharp pain like lightning in his neck, a large piece of glass was inserted suddenly, and the other party cut his carotid artery fiercely with a swipe.

He cursed loudly, screamed and struggled like crazy, and threw the person on his back to the ground.But because he couldn't breathe and lost blood rapidly, his eyes blurred immediately, his steps were unsteady and he fell to the ground.

The man's whole body convulsed violently. He opened his mouth wide and panted desperately, but he couldn't take in any more air. Only sticky blood bubbles bubbled from the cut throat, accompanied by the sound of snoring.His hands and feet waved uncontrollably, scratching at the surrounding objects.But the surrounding silent garbage dump could not respond to his call for help.

Soon his struggle weakened, and the moment his consciousness disappeared, he raised his eyes in despair, and saw the murderer in front of him holding the blood-dripping glass tightly and looking at him coldly.

It was a child less than ten years old.

After the man completely died, she threw away the glass in her hand. Because of too much force, the glass also cut her hand.She just licked off the oozing blood, and didn't care about doing any further treatment, so she started searching for the man's body.

Fortunately this time.She found a pack of shredded tobacco, a lighter, a half-eaten plate of chocolate and some money, and a pack of white powder. She smelled it, and the smell was acrid, which didn't seem like food, so she threw it aside. in the rubbish heaps, letting them be blown away by the wind.

Since she was extremely hungry, she didn't care too much, stuffed the shredded tobacco and chocolate into her mouth and started chewing. The bitter taste made her almost cry, so she had to swallow it quickly.

The baby in front of her was still crying loudly, which brought her back to her senses. She hurriedly hid the remaining chocolate in her pocket, wiped off the blood on her hands, and then stepped forward to gently hug him.

"Woo~~Woo~~ Are you hungry?" In order to make the child stop crying as soon as possible, she coaxed him while shaking him lightly.Hearing the familiar murmur, the baby opened his swollen eyes, saw her face, and really calmed down slowly.So she gave him a gentle smile and pinched his flushed cheeks.

Then she looked around cautiously, although the twilight had faded, but no one cared about the dead garbage dump.So she carried the baby to the man who had just died, and put his face next to the cut neck of the corpse, and then he adjusted the position of the man's head, and the blood that flowed out continuously dripped on the child's The corner of his mouth quickly dyed half of his face red.

"Eat quickly." She hugged him and urged in a low voice.And the baby sucked the bright red milk with peace of mind.

"No witnesses?"

The young man with white hair was tilting his chair, while thoughtfully turning a dry and forked paintbrush in his hand.

The man sitting in front of him shook his head, looking at the room that was about to be flooded with debris, and the boy who was about to crouch in a lair and die of old age.If he hadn't been forced to be helpless, he didn't want to deal with this freak at all.

"The other party is very cunning, and they choose the time and place with few people. I did my fucking grandson's work before I found out that someone heard a baby crying in the vicinity. That unlucky guy was unsuspecting and was immediately caught The neck was cut off, and the goods on the body disappeared. This is the third time. The boss thinks this is a provocation against our gang. He wants me to find out the criminal within a week. Dude, you must help this matter Me." He said with an artificial weeping face.

"It's rare to use a baby's cry as a bait. If it's a person wandering around the central area with a baby, it should be easy to notice." He stretched with little interest, avoiding it with a negative attitude .

"It might not be a real baby, but a recording or something." He scratched his hair impatiently, "Anyway, if you don't help me, I'm going to die. If you want to connect with me, if you can't find the murderer, the boss will think that I have embezzled the goods. Because I am afraid of being implicated, none of my buddies dare to help me, fuck!"

"Where's the commission?" The young man opposite looked at the empty ceiling, as if he didn't care about his life or death, and just asked in a business-like manner.

"Bai Si, don't fucking add trouble to me! Thanks to me, I have taken care of good business for you before!" He immediately changed his face and yelled bitterly.

"It's your boss who takes care of me, not you." The white-haired young man's voice was still as rigid as a machine, "You came to me because you knew that I could use the resources of the black market. Those guys are not my dogs. You can go to work for your life." "All I have now is this much," the man was too lazy to bargain with him, grabbed a roll of worn-out money from his pocket and threw it on the table, swearing through gritted teeth, "It's not enough , wait until that guy is caught, and his kidney will be cut off to pay you back."

Although Bai Si had established a firm foothold in the black market in Qiubao at that time, he was a young novice after all. Even though he was bored with these trivial disputes, he didn't have much choice, so he accepted the entrustment of this little gangster.The remuneration the other party could offer was pitifully small, and in order to reduce the cost, he planned to do it himself, but fortunately, this matter was much easier to solve than he imagined, and he quickly grasped the target's whereabouts by relying on the information from his eyeliner.Three days later, the suspect who liked to cut his throat was caught, but for a while, no one believed that this was the gang enemy they were looking for.

The man grabbed the back of the child who was only half his height. If he hadn't seen the sharp glass in his hand and the crying baby not far away, he would probably have woken up with laughter at this absurd scene.

"Impossible! It's a brat!"

"It's time for your eyes to be checked." Bai Si sarcastically said.

He carefully looked at the child's delicate face, and the petite facial features were as weak as flower buds beaten by rain.She seemed to understand the situation she deserved, she didn't struggle or cry, she just lowered her head silently.

So he took two steps forward, grabbed her arm and lifted her up. This force almost made her toes leave the ground, and the severe pain of tearing made her scream.

"Is it... a woman??" The man finally came to his senses, and his expression became even more unreasonable.

Bai Si lowered his arms slightly, letting her fall back to the ground, but still clung to her tightly.Then he squatted down in front of her, keeping his gaze level with her, and asked, "little sister, how old are you?"

"I... I don't know." Perhaps because of suffering, the girl gave him a scared look, then lowered her head again.She didn't even know when she was born, so how could she know her age?It's just that I have lived in a daze until now.

"Why did you kill that guy?" He asked blankly.

She didn't answer, just glanced uneasily at the baby on the ground not far away.Bai Si then asked the man standing aside to carry the baby over, and after he caught it with one hand, he lifted the thin swaddle high above his head, perhaps sensing the danger of this instability, the baby's cry instantly Hastened up.

"If you don't want to cooperate, I'll smash him into a puddle of flesh." He stared at her coldly, with a violent cold light in his still eyes, which reminded people of a girl living in a dark jungle. The reptile seemed to swallow the poor little mouse whole in the next second, digesting it in the foul-smelling wet mucus.

"Stop! Please!" The child's intuition for fear is often the most acute. The girl panicked and her voice trembled, "I don't know that person, I just did this because I was too hungry..."

"Where did this baby come from?"

"It's my brother." She answered urgently, as if she was lying, "Please don't hurt him!"

"You used his cries to lure others closer, and then waited for an opportunity to kill them, didn't you?" Bai Si narrowed his eyes and continued to interrogate aggressively, not letting go of any suspicious details.Using a clumsy weapon like broken glass can kill a grown man with one blow. Even for him who is not surprised, children who can do this kind of thing are too rare. "Who taught you this skill of killing? Do you have a guardian?"

She shook her head, with flickering lights in her eyes, and said timidly, "I've seen people killed like this, so I know that's where people's vitals are..."

"Then how do you know that there is only one person who will be lured over? If there are two or more people, can you deal with it?"

"I... I will find a suitable target first. If that person has been acting alone for several days, and often moves at a time and place with few people, I will set this trap on the road he is used to walking, and... ...Whether he was alone at the time, I will confirm in advance..."

"It's scary, such a young child, where did he learn this?" The man standing aside murmured, and then he couldn't wait to interject, "The guy you killed has a bag of white powder on him, you put it on his body. Where did you hide it?"

The girl thought about it for a while before answering in a low voice, "No... I don't know what it is, so I threw it away."

"Little bitch, do you know how much that is worth!" When the man heard this, he suddenly became furious like dynamite being ignited, "You're going to kill me, do you know?! Boss wants me to use the recovered goods In exchange for my life, that thing is my lifeblood! I have to tear this brat to pieces to show you how miserable I am!" He roared and snatched the baby from Bai Si's hand.

The man in front of him grabbed the weak baby's neck, as if he could break his neck as easily as opening a can of beer with a little force.The girl screamed uncontrollably, broke free from Bai Si's restraint and rushed to the man, desperately grabbing his trousers, crying and begging, "Give him back...Give me back! Please! ! I don’t dare anymore!!”

Even though the man kicked her a few times unceremoniously, he couldn't get rid of this annoying little lunatic.Bai Si looked at his hands, the pain caused by her breaking free for a moment made his palms slightly numb, he wondered when he became so bad that even a little girl couldn't control it.A little frustrated, he patted the dust on his pants and stood up, pulling away the idiot man and the little girl who was tightly hugging his thigh with each hand.

"Troublesome, little sister, do you know what you did?" He grabbed her messy hair and looked condescendingly at the immature face stained with tears. "The rule in the central area is blood. Less than ten years old? It doesn't matter, we don't care about age, there are little girls who have become prostitutes before they can have children. Otherwise, I think you are a beautiful woman, if their bosses like it , It’s not bad to keep you to enjoy, but young virgins are scarce, and the price keeps going up.”

"Good idea." The man finally seemed to have grasped the straw, shook the baby in his hand, and excitedly echoed, "As long as you hand them over to the boss, everything will be fine."

Bai Si ignored him.The girl looked extremely helpless, her big tear-filled eyes were like two clear springs, clear and clean that he had never seen before, he was fascinated by the image of himself reflected in it, and continued to use it without ups and downs. The voice said, "If it's just a simple debt, it's very lucky to be able to repay it in this way. But for you, it's not so cheap. You killed the minion of the black market, and his master was furious, waiting Well, you only have one choice."

He looked down at her, hiding his excitement like a predator about to feast, which made the girl's back shiver.As soon as the words fell, Bai Si grabbed her immature little hand, and before she could scream out, the man suddenly half-kneeled on the ground, bent down and pressed a kiss on the back of her hand.

"Be my woman." After he finished speaking, he raised his head and stared seriously at the girl's completely stunned face.His tall figure prostrated himself in front of this petite little man, which made him no different from a devout suitor.

After the silence that seemed to be suspended in time, before he could hear the answer, he was dragged up by the angry man behind him.

"Bastard, what are you doing?!" He yelled incoherently, grabbing the freak and shaking it desperately, "What the hell are you doing!!"

Bai Si, who was sprayed all over his face by his saliva, still had the face of a dead fish, and said slowly, "Could it be that you want to tell the boss that this little girl who is less than ten years old has solved his right-hand man? Playing fools?"

"But this is the damn truth! It's the truth! Didn't you see it with your own eyes?!"

"I didn't see anything." He tilted his head to one side as if nothing had happened.

"What?!" The man knew that he was about to be played crazy by this person.

"But don't worry, since I can't find the prisoner, I will give you another one to go to the boss for the dead ghost. You don't have to give me the rest of the commission."

Bai Si said and made a gesture of canceling it, not giving the man any room for discussion.In the other party's distorted expression, the contract came to an abrupt end.