Kingdom’s Bloodline

The abandoned house is not a house, but a place name in Yongxing City. It is located in the second district of the lower city, adjacent to the notorious Black Street, and its total area is about the size of a street.

Thales once heard from an old man in the fraternity that the abandoned house was said to be the Royal Court of the Star Kingdom. It was funded and built a hundred years ago, and it used to have a decent name (but no one remembers it anymore, only the City Hall It is only recorded in the city), and it was once filled with the mediocre but bustling citizens of the kingdom's capital.

I don't know when it started, the abandoned house became a place where gangsters contacted, negotiated, and occasionally fought.

As a result, the lively neighborhood houses, accompanied by blood and knives and axes, turned into deserted houses with nothing but stone walls and bricks.

It is said that the abandoned house was once used as a place to dump corpses, so that today, children who grow up happily in the sunshine of the capital are warned like this: "If you don't obey again, I will send you to the abandoned house." The reputation of the abandoned house is second only to the terrible black street.

When the Black Street Brotherhood rose up and won the hegemony of the lower city's underground world, the abandoned house was used as the base camp of the brotherhood's beggar business in the city.

In order to facilitate management and prevent beggars from escaping at night, in addition to arranging thugs to monitor each house, the Brotherhood dug trenches ten feet wide and fifteen feet deep on all sides of the abandoned house, and the ditch was full of The sharpened wooden stakes and rusty nails left only a stone door on the front of the abandoned house that could be turned back with a big lock.

It is rumored that after countless corpses and temptations, someone finally dug a secret passage in the deep ditch and escaped, but at least no beggar could find the legendary secret passage during the four years that Thales was in the abandoned house. The road, but the corpses in the deep ditch, increased every year as the Brotherhood's business expanded.

It is said that children without eyes try to escape across the deep ditch every year, so the brotherhood also cleans up the bones in the ditch every year.

As the name suggests, the abandoned house is composed of long-abandoned stone houses, a total of 23 (there were more, some collapsed in the gang war many years ago, and some were demolished by the fraternity and dug out the trenches ), located irregularly behind the big stone gate, some stone houses "live alone" while others are closer together.

The beggar who is lucky, the abandoned house allocated has well water, and the unlucky one, such as the sixth house where Thales lives, can only fill the water tank with water from other houses—and this is usually not the case. For nothing.

Water and food also often lead to struggles among beggars. For example, the water tank in the sixth house is the second year after Thales arrived in the abandoned house. Through various means, he reached an agreement with the seventeenth house next door. Get it by hitting water once.

Before that—when Ned and Kolya hadn’t come, just Cindy, Ryan, Kerritt, and two other beggars who were no longer alive—they couldn’t even drink water.

But what Thales and the others heard now was the cry from their "boss", Diego, in the 17th room next door. Thales still remembered that he was on Diego's head when he was fighting for water. He hit a rock, and his cry was similar to now.

"Kara! Come on! We didn't! Not us!"

Diego's cry was painful and panicked.

So much so that the beggars in the sixth house, including Thales, didn't react for a while.

But after all, Thales has the memory of his previous life. His first reaction was to drive everyone in the yard back to the hole in the house——for a long time after that, Thales was against this decision. Too late to repent—dodge it.

Thales himself glanced at the inconspicuous stone slab in the corner of the room, hid under the wall opposite the Seventeenth House, and stared at a dog hole connecting the Seventeenth House and the Sixth House. A symbol of the union of the children of the hut.

"What happened to Diego and the others? Did they fight?" Ned asked curiously after hiding.

The beggars are not happy and harmonious, a harmonious house like the sixth house,

Not many in abandoned houses.

Many beggars were disabled or even died. Except for Quaid, the beggars themselves caused them. Children under ten years old did not know what to do. For example, before the arrival of Ned and Kelia, Taylor One of Smith's two former roommates died this way.

But the Seventeenth House can be regarded as one of the few in the abandoned house. Diego is a brown-skinned, small-eyed, yellow-haired, carefree but stubborn child. At the age of nine and a half, he seems to have more leadership qualities than Cindy and Thales. At least the beggars in the seventeenth house listened to him, which also made the battle for water between the sixth house and the seventeenth house repeated.

"It doesn't look like a fight. Could it be that another room is bullying Diego and the others? It must be Karak from the tenth room! He likes to bully other guys the most!" Kellett said in a hurry as if he had figured something out .

"Then we have to hurry to help! We promised them to help each other!"

The lame Ryan was about to run out of the hole when he heard the words, and went into the dog hole, but before the moonlight hit his half body, Ryan was dragged back by Thales.

"Don't worry, it's not Karak! It's something else!" Thales listened to the screams from the next door with a serious face.

"No, Diego!"

There was a dull sound, like a beanbag being thrown against the wall, but this time it was the cry of another child, Ensola.

Thales remembered this eight-year-old child. When he was fighting for water, Ensola pressed his lips tightly and stood firmly beside Diego.

When the two sides started fighting, he was also the one who hugged Cindy's thigh tightly to prevent him from getting close to the struggle between Diego and Thales. If Thales hadn't slammed Diego's knee joint and quickly picked up a stone, the first I don't know if Liuwu has a regular supply of water to drink.

"It's not right!"

As the eldest child in the house, the doubts on Cindy's face gradually turned serious. As the beggar who worked most happily and tacitly with Thales in the sixth house, Cindy was silent most of the time, but every time He opened his mouth to speak, not important things, but key words.

Soon, the doubts and seriousness on the children's faces turned into panic.

"Begging for mercy! You begging for mercy! Keep going! I like listening to you people begging for mercy the most!"

A thick but crazy voice came from the next door.

Every beggar in the abandoned house will never forget this sound, it is more terrifying to them than the devil in hell - at least the devil will not break the beggar's bones inch by inch, and will not cut the beggar open with a knife The face of the beggar, let alone immerse the beggar head-down in the water tank, euphemistically called "quench your thirst" (can the devil really not? At least the beggar doesn't know).

It's Quaid.

Quaid Rhoda, the leader of the beggars of the Black Street Brotherhood, is also the nightmare and disaster star of the beggars.

"No! Boss Quaid! We were wrong! We—ah——"

"Let's see if you still dare to talk nonsense! Dare you dare to call me behind my back! Damn it! Red-haired woman! Damn it! Bald head! Damn it! Yara Surriton! Damn you all!"

Following Quaid's delirious cursing, there were waves of beating sounds from the next door, sometimes it was fists, sometimes stones, and sometimes the sound of human body colliding with the wall.

"Help! Help! Diego! Kara! Marita! Get up! Help me!"

"Run! Go to the—uh—"

"My God! Where's the guard! Where's Mr. Rick! My God! He's going to kill us, he's going to kill us all—"

"no, do not want!"

Heart-piercing cries also came from more than one person's mouth, the abandoned house under the moonlight, in the eyes of Thales at this moment, seemed thrilling!

It took Thales three seconds to realize what Quaid was doing.

He turned his head suddenly and looked at everyone in the sixth room. Ned and Kelia were shivering in the hole in the wall, and Ryan, who was about to rush out to help just now, was already petrified.

Kellett and Cindy were not much better, the former looked back and forth between several people eagerly and fearfully, and wanted to speak but couldn't speak, while the latter was pale and stared at Thales.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Crack!"

"You bloody bastards! How dare you laugh at me! How dare you laugh at 'Blood Axe' Quaid Rhoda! How dare you—"

"Haha, you are screaming! Why don't you scream? Call me!"

Crazy roars and howls of pain run side by side, accompanied by cracking sounds that no one wants to think about.

Thales knew that at this moment, panic had spread in the sixth room, and he was running his mind frantically, thinking about the current situation.

Quaid beat the beggar viciously in the seventeenth room——no, judging from Quaid's appearance, the frequency and intensity of his beating, tonight is not just about venting his anger!

Moreover, even though Quaid is a jerk, he won't kill all the beggars in the room at once—by the way, what about Rick? What about the guards of the abandoned house and the thugs on patrol? Across the stone wall, although each house may not be able to hear each other, the thugs walking on the road must be able to hear it!

Of course Thales would not know that tonight the garrison of the abandoned house had been artificially reduced to two people, and those two thugs would never come again.

"Thales, what—what should I do?" Hearing the tragedy next door, Cindy instinctively felt that something was wrong, his pale face was already dripping with sweat, and he just kept asking Thales.

"Quiet, everyone is not allowed to make a sound! We—" Thales frowned, thinking hard about the countermeasures, but before he finished speaking, he saw the dog between the sixth room and the seventeenth room In the cave, a figure of a beggar suddenly emerged.

Kolya let out a small cry of fright.

Thales' eyes were very sharp, and he could tell at a glance that it was Ensola who came from the seventeenth room, covered in blood.

It's just that Ensola seemed to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Before Thales could help him up, Ensola gasped and fell to the ground, completely ignoring the blood on his head and face.

"Run! Run! Let's—"

Thales and Cindy nervously helped him up, the screams and roars in his ears remained the same, but Ensola seemed to have lost his mind, and he didn't ask any questions, but muttered "run away" with a horrified expression .

Until Thales woke him up with a slap in the face.

"What happened? Quaid came to vent his anger?"

Ensola burst into tears.

"Qu--Quaid--he's crazy! He wants--we're not the only ones, he, he wants--room to room, see-"

Ensola was already incoherent, but enough for the beggars in the sixth house to understand what happened, the six little faces turned pale, and even Thales couldn't help showing fear in his heart.

"—I beat anyone I saw, I beat anyone I saw, until I died—I heard crying, so I went out to peek—I saw Quaid dragging Larry from the third room, blood—blood ——they all came out bloody, and then saw me—”

"He grabs Kara-Kara, throws it on the ground, Diego-Diego tries to stop him--and--he punches hundreds of times, Diego stays still--and-and Mari Tower, Quaid throws him into the fire-boom-fire-"

Thales only felt his scalp tingling.

It's not that he hasn't seen Quaid beating people, but many times, he will be stopped by multiple thugs before he is about to die-as for whether those children who are beaten will be permanently disabled, the fraternity has no idea. People care about this.

"The third house is over--over, and our house--he was beating Midland just now--I don't know how many houses--"

However, before Ensola, who was crying and complaining, hadn't finished speaking, Thales covered her mouth!

At this time, through Thales' actions, everyone realized that the crying and roaring next door had disappeared, and the seventeenth room became quiet, as if several children had fallen asleep.

There was only a rough panting sound, still moving slowly.

No one knows what this means.

In the sixth room, almost all the children began to tremble.

At that moment, Thales turned his head abruptly and lowered his voice as much as possible: "Listen, let's quickly—"

"Peng!"

There was a loud bang.

The door of the sixth house was kicked open.

At the door, Quaid's wobbly figure slowly approached, his fierce and grinning face was looking towards the shivering seven children.

"Run-where did you go? Hey, you-you look a little familiar-"

Everyone in the sixth room was petrified, and Thales was no exception.

Quaid rubbed his nose, and Thales saw that his face was bright red, which was the color of drunkenness.

And his hands were also dark red.

It was the color of blood.

Quaid looked at it for a while, Thales who was tightly covering Ensola's mouth.

"I, I remember you!"

The expression on his face kept changing, gradually changing from grinning to vicious and hateful.

"You're the one, the brat caught by the dead bald head—"

"It's you! You must be the one laughing at me behind my back, talking too much behind my back! Isn't that right!"

"It must be you—"

"It must be you!"

Thales' heart was icy cold.

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While driving the carriage carefully, Rick forced himself to calm down and felt the temperature on the back of his neck.

Fortunately, everything works fine.

The ghost did not appear.

Probably having a headache for Quaid.

In front of you, the big house of the headquarters of the Black Street Brotherhood gradually approached.

Rick breathed a sigh of relief.

"Accountant!"

There came the voice of Lyok, the fraternity hitman, calling for Rick from twenty feet away.

Leyok's face appeared in the distance, as if he appeared under the light of the torch, and he asked dissatisfiedly: "Why did you come here at this time? This is a business with a knife! With your hands that settle accounts, Want to join in the fun too?"

Rick was stunned for a moment, and as the carriage moved forward, he saw that the small square in front of the big house was covered with shadowy torches.

They were all figures standing quietly, each of them was bound with a black cloth.

Black cloth belonging to the fraternity.

There are at least several hundred people.

Rick suddenly realized that almost all the staff of the Black Street Headquarters are here.

Rick quickly pulled over and got out of the carriage, walked a few steps quickly, and by the moonlight, he saw his boss, the obese Morris, who was also the head of the population business in Eternal Star City, and several other figures with different silhouettes— A two-meter-tall yellow-haired giant, a mysterious figure in a dark red robe, and a fat, honest guy—discussing something.

Rick was taken aback.

He recognized it, it was the other bigwigs in the club.

There are even a few big bosses who usually don't live in Eternal Star City.

Rick made a beeline for Leyok, passing through ranks of heavily armed black-cloth thugs arranging their equipment, from axes, knives, daggers, to studded clubs.

"Lyok, nice to meet--well, I'm not talking nonsense--what are you doing tonight?"

Rick doesn't like Leyock, just as he doesn't like Rick. We just have to meet often because of work, and both of them have a tacit understanding about this.

But here, the person who knows the most inside information and can ask questions the fastest is Leyock.

"Didn't the boss tell you?"

Leyok raised his mouth in disdain and glanced at him.

"As usual, when facing the Blood Bottle Gang, you can use any weapon except the magic gun and infantry crossbow..."

This killer, known for his efficiency and ruthlessness, supported the scimitar inserted horizontally after supporting his waist, as if feeling the sharpness inside the sheath.

Rick was shocked: To deal with the Blood Bottle Gang...

The killer took a deep breath, then licked his lips with a playful smile.

"Tonight, we are going to take Red Square Street!"

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"Is there no news about Yordle yet? What about the Sunset Temple?"

The gray-haired middle-aged nobleman asked solemnly in front of a luxurious chair.

"Patience, my friend, we have waited twelve years, and we don't mind waiting a little longer."

The sturdy figure got up from the chair, grabbed a scepter inlaid with bright blue spar, upon closer inspection, the spar on the scepter was actually slowly but regularly twinkling with dots of stars. mango.

"Our unnecessary guesses here are only doubts about Yordle's ability. Besides, isn't he carrying the lamp's Zi Yan? I believe that he is already close to the goal, and he is just making the final confirmation." The robust figure spoke slowly.

The middle-aged nobleman bowed deeply.

"I don't doubt Yoddle's ability, and I never underestimated his loyalty, but—" he paused, sighed: "——Yordle is too calm and cold, compared to his... Unwavering loyalty, everything else he doesn't care about, like twelve years ago, I worry about him..."

The middle-aged noble didn't continue talking, and the sturdy figure didn't answer right away.

The sturdy figure walked to the floor-to-ceiling window with the scepter in hand, looking at the brightly lit and splendid Great Temple in the distance outside the window.

Not even the moonlight can compete with such brilliance.

"Then go get ready and head to the temple secretly right away—start as soon as you get the news, without waiting for a signal from Yordle."

After a long while, the strong figure said slowly, "I have no reason to doubt Yodel, he will definitely not hesitate when it is time to make a move."

"However, it is also good to be more prepared."

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