Chapter 149: The Prince of Troubled Streets

After the ransacking of the children, everyone in the team was doubly careful, even the lionmen looked at the people on both sides of the road with wary faces.

There is no way to recover the lost property in this kind of robbery, and everyone can see clearly, those children scattered in a hurry, while the fierce men in the farmland all stopped their work and looked at this side with their weapons.

The meaning is obvious, if you dare to move, I will fight with you!

If you want to get all those children back, then you don't know how many of these outlaws you have to fight once, and there is no value in taking action at all.

Arion was now simply dressed in a robe, and he had been robbed of his essence and not depressed, and what made Tianxian feel a little strange was that he seemed to have a strange pleasure on his face.

"This is the situation here, stealing, robbing, and even killing people are common, but although the guys here have their brains out every day, and people die every day, if outsiders deal with people here, they are usually very united, and this is the only time they show consistency. ”

Arion picked a blade of grass on the side of the road and put it in his mouth, and said leisurely: "Don't touch them, be careful, there are fire clouds, and we can pass through here safely." ”

After what happened just now, Tianxian's face was tense, and he couldn't see any expression.

Although in the past, Tianxian also lived in an environment where he could not see the light, but even in the dark, there were rules, what should be done, what should not be done, what can be done, and what must not be slammed, as a person who deals with the three religions and nine streams. For those who are in contact with the dark side all day long, knowing how to advance and retreat is the first rule to save life.

But here, all you see is chaos.

There are no rules, let alone powerful forces to restrain these people, these people are like intelligent beasts, living together in groups of three or five, cultivating farmland, robbing women to have children, or simply venting their desires.

Poverty, tension. Disturbed. Fighting, the state here seems to be a little higher than the primitive life.

"You seem to know a lot about this place. Tian Xian glanced at Arion, his expression relaxed. It's as if nothing had happened.

"Ah...... I was born here. ”

Tianxian's eyes shrank sharply.

Arion glanced back. Hehe laughed a little. "Do you want to ask, I'm not saying that I grew up in the streets, how did I come to be born here? ”

Tian Xian didn't answer. It's a default.

Arion looked ahead and said, "Let's go a little further and we'll see the streets." ”

Tian Xian was stunned, is the so-called "chaotic street" a place here? Isn't it a certain street in the slums of the Nanxiang Imperial Capital?

"My mother used to be a very famous singer. Arion took a deep breath, his expression was a little complicated, "Later, she suddenly became pregnant, not only could not perform, but also ruined her reputation, not only was she swept away by the song workshop, but even the money was robbed, but she refused to go to the child's father and left Nanxiang Country alone, and the result was ...... The convoy that kindly took her in was looted here, and they robbed her of the piano, and she refused to ......"

Arion's voice trembled, "That's it...... They smashed her head with the harp. ”

Tianxian couldn't help but look at the black cloth bag on Arion's back.

"A woman cut open her belly and found that her child seemed to have grown, so she took it out and raised it as her own, and the child ...... It's me!" Arion spoke softly, as if he were talking about someone else's business.

Tianxian sighed, "That'...... Your adoptive parents are still here?"

"Dead. Arion said lightly.

Tianxian was slightly stunned, sighed in his heart, and didn't know what to say for a while.

But Arion said something that made Tianxian's heart tremble: "When I was eleven years old, I killed them with my own hands!"

"What!?" Tianxian's eyes widened instantly.

Arion looked at Tian Xian indifferently, and smiled slightly, with a calm face, but in Tian Xian's opinion, this smile was a little crazy.

"Brother Tian, aren't you surprised that those children just now snatched me away in an instant, and they were only five or six years old, so they can really do it?"

"You mean......" Tianxian couldn't help frowning, and looked at the people on both sides of the road who looked at them from time to time with malicious eyes.

"It's trained. Arion chuckled, "I've been trained like that, and I've robbed other people like that." ”

Lifting up his cuffs, Arion showed a scar on his wrist, "This...... I didn't know how to do it at the time, and the woman beat me up. ”

Tian Xian stared at the scar on Arion's wrist in a daze, and suddenly a very uncomfortable thought popped into his head.

"Some of the children you saw just now were born here, and some were robbed by them, and those children used this method to rob some passers-by who were difficult to deal with, and there were often unexpected gains. ”

Ali raised his eyebrows and concluded, "Those kids...... It's just a tool for survival, in this place, no one wants to have children and multiply, but a small child can bring them benefits, and that's the only use of those children. ”

Tianxian's face was a little black, and then he remembered that those children were not only naked, but most of them were yellow and thin, and some of them were scarred, that is to say......

Quickly glanced at Arion, Tianxian understood what Arion meant, her mother died here, and even the unborn child in her womb was snatched away, and the woman who adopted Arion didn't have good intentions at all, she just wanted a tool to make money.

Thinking of the woman who cut open her belly and took out the child after Arion's mother died, Tian Xian couldn't help but feel a wave of nausea.

Are the people here crazy!?

Arion touched his back pocket, his tone still indifferent, "They shouldn't have left this instrument, but it's a unique item here." The woman would sometimes even pretend to play a few times, right in front of me, and occasionally talk about picking up a robbery, and then I would be inexplicably beaten, seeming to ...... At that time, the mother injured the woman. ”

Silently, in front of children, talking unscrupulously about how to kill her mother, and fiddling with her relics, this is simply inhumane!

"One day, I put a little leech venom in the food I snatched back. Of course. I couldn't get the food, and the two guys ate it up, and then they fell to the ground and convulsed, and I slashed them with a knife!"

Arion smiled. Squint your eyes. As if reminiscing about something. "It's a pity, they say, no one in this place will care if you live or die. A whole night...... They finally died. ”

Tian Xian listened to the chill in his heart, this Arion, who seemed to be a little weak, would actually kill two people with that cruel means when he was eleven years old.

"After that, I jumped into the slave carriage from the Longyuan Empire, and I sold myself! ”

As he spoke, Arion sighed, "This may be fate, I live in the small attic of my master's house, and I will wipe this harp by the window when I rest, and that day, my father finally became the Grand Duke, and the whole country celebrated, and the parade passed through that street, and he saw me, or rather saw the piano in my hand...... So, half a year later, I became a prince. ”

Tian Xian listened silently all the time and did not speak.

Everyone's fate may be an epic with incomparably twists and turns, ordinary or extraordinary......

"Now, do you understand?" Arion looked at Tianxian, and there seemed to be something questioning in it.

Tian Xian nodded, "I'm sorry, I didn't want you to say these unpleasant memories. ”

Arion smiled, "No, it's not unpleasant, I was born to live like that, and most of what I say to you is my pleasant memory." ”

"And now!" Arion's face showed a little excitement, "I'm not a prince for a while, I want to go out for a walk, but what...... I'm a little clever, but I've never traveled far, so ...... Brother Tian, you see that I am telling you this so openly and honestly, should you also express it?"

"Huh?" Tian was stunned, "I ...... My business is boring!"

"No, no, no!" Arion came up and hooked Tian Xian's neck, although he was older, Tian Xian was tall, not much shorter than him, this kind of shoulder hooking movement was smooth.

"Brother God......" Arion narrowed his eyes, "you have a lot of trouble now, everyone can see this, you may have to run away in the future, but what...... You can't leave me! I'll leave you as a prince and don't want to come out with you, and if you leave me, you'll be too much to say. ”

Ay?

This guy is here for this!

Arion touched his chin with his other hand and calculated, "Obviously, we can't always follow the normal channels, then we will soon be in trouble, eh...... But we have fire clouds, this is a perfect convenience, and no one can catch us when we fly into the sky, but what about ...... That big guy is a little hostile to me, can you see if you can ......

Arion mouthed "we" as if he no longer regarded himself as an outsider.

Looking at Arion's frowning appearance, Tian Xian really wondered if what he just said was true, or if it was just used to bluff himself......

"I can't help Ash's temperament. "But I don't plan to fly anywhere in the short term, if possible, I want to meet those alien races and learn about the affairs of the Eastern Kingdom, during this time, you can go and have a good relationship with Xiao Ash!"

Arion looked back at Xiao Ash, and suddenly the old man with a pulled face, "Brother Tian, how do you want me to have a good relationship with that big guy and cut off his head and feed it?"

"You can find food for it!" Tian Xian came up with what he thought was the most effective solution.

"Eat ......," Arion thought for a moment, "and what does it like to eat?"

"This ...... It seems to be almost edible, it likes it all, and when it is in the forest, it even gnaws on the bark of trees, and it tastes very good......"

"In this way, it's not easy to deal with eating everything, maybe ...... I should have touched it with the sound of the piano and the singing first!" said Arion, earnestly.

Tianxian's face suddenly turned strange, and the piano in the cloth bag on Arion's back was a relic of his mother. For this thing, Tian Xian naturally can't say anything, and since his mother used to be a famous singer, then presumably this piano is not ordinary, but in the hands of His Royal Highness the prince, how to say it......

The feeling of playing the piano with an old cow...... Or an old cow who is screaming while playing......

Arion discussed with Tian Xian very seriously for a while, and then ran to the back to prepare, Tian Xian was helpless, I really don't know how this guy is so confident in his gong-like singing......

However, at least the prince was in good spirits. He was left to his leisure. But whether he will be slapped by Xiao Ash when the time comes, I won't think about it that day......

The team tried to move some distance further, and the farmland disappeared.

Large open spaces were carved out on both sides of the road, and you could look ahead. The clearing extends over a long distance. Turn all the way to the corner of the road ahead. Blocked by the woods.

It appears to be a large market, with scattered goods on both sides of the road, and in the open space behind it, there are mostly thick straw curtains covered with stacks of unidentified items. I don't know if it's any other cargo.

Tian Xian looked at the goods, almost half of them were food, grains, red and white potatoes, rice, etc., it seemed that they were harvested from the fields here, and there were some things, which were a little dazzling.

For example, delicate jewelry, such as some damaged food boxes, or expensive clothes...... These are not produced in this place, and since the people here do not go out to do business at all, then ...... These can only be snatched.

On some things, you can even see specks of blood.

These sellers are very far apart, and there are more than ten meters away recently, and some are even dozens of meters apart, which makes the place look very empty, and there are at least seven or eight people guarding each stall, and it can be seen that they are very wary, and their eyes are basically not lingering on these outsiders, but paying attention to their local counterparts, as well as those children who are running quickly on the road.

Tian Xian noticed that there were no houses to live in, and he couldn't help but immediately think of Arion's words, there were no large settlements here, and there were no large groups.

Although this place is very large, and many people gather to sell goods, they are all suspicious, each wary of the other, and it seems that there is not even a small group to see.

It's a hard place to survive......

With the experience of the last time, Tianxian will naturally not be messed up by those children anymore, and the orcs who walked in front of the team are even more glaring, not letting those children approach, once those children rush over, several orcs did not hesitate to immediately pull out their knives, their eyes were fierce.

They don't want to be bald lions or bald wolves.

But the children were always walking around the line, smiling and refusing to go, apparently trying to get some oil.

Even though Gray stared at him and roared left and right, the children scattered and ran back, always following the team.

Tian Xian beckoned, and the team stopped, and the orcs suddenly looked puzzled, obviously they didn't want to stay in this place for long.

Climbing up the tail of Little Ash, Tian Xian carried down a small box on its back.

"Bang" put on the ground, Tian Xian pointed to a little boy not far away, "You, come here!"

The child was stunned for a moment, and suddenly a little overwhelmed.

Tian Xian opened the box and took out a piece of dry food from it, "This, here you go!"

As soon as the child saw the food in Tianxian's hand, his eyes suddenly flashed with extreme longing, but he swallowed his saliva, but did not step forward, but quickly looked at his companions beside him.

Tian Xian didn't say a word, took out the short sword he carried and inserted it on the lid of the box, his face sank, "You're alone, come here!"

The children saw that they were idle and showed their weapons directly, and immediately hesitated, they relied on everyone to rush up to grab things, and ran away when people were unprepared, and now that people's weapons were shown, they could only find death when they rushed up.

"Brother Tian, what are you doing here?" Arion walked up from behind, looked at the box full of dry food, and frowned.

The local traffickers on both sides of the road also looked at them, obviously they hadn't seen anything like this before, and some of them had even leaned over, after all, those children were locals, and if they were to do something to them, these guys wouldn't allow it, this was the only rule here that was united--unanimously with the outside world!

"Come here, I'll give you this! I won't hurt you. Ignoring Arion, he stared at the little boy who looked very thin, only five or six years old.

The little boy was very nervous, but his eyes were fixed on the dry food in Tian Xian's hand, and after rubbing his plastered toes on the ground several times, he still cautiously came up.

Coming forward with a wary face, he snatched the dry food from Tianxian's hand, turned around and ran.

"Don't run, there's this!" Tian Xian took out another piece of dry food.

The little boy had only run a few steps, looked back at Tianxian, and couldn't help but be stunned.

"Eat what you have in your hand, this one, and I'll give it to you!" Tian Xian shook the dry food in his hand.

A success seemed to give the little boy great confidence, he put the dry food in his hand into his mouth three times and divided five by two, and turned around to take the dry food in Tian Xian's hand again, but this time, he did not leave, his eyes were fixed on the box in front of him.

This box is full of food, not only dry food, but also some fruits that can be stored for a long time.

"Is that my sister? Tell her to come over and sit down and eat. Tian Xian pointed to the youngest of the children, a little girl, who was also naked, looking very thin, almost skinny. Tianxian saw it very clearly just now, the little boy kept pulling the girl and never let go.

The boy hesitated for a moment, looked at the food there, looked at the little girl, and finally quickly swallowed the dry food in his mouth, beckoned to the little girl, and the little girl immediately ran up.

"You are only allowed to eat, not to take it away, otherwise you will ......" Tianxian's face was slightly gloomy, and he shook his hand, the black light in his hand spat out, and a wooden needle was directly nailed to the trunk of the tree not far away, and the two children in front of him turned pale in fright.

The two children sat down on the spot, carefully took out the food from the box, and when they saw that Tianxian did not react, they devoured it.

The rest of the children swallowed their saliva when they saw it, and they couldn't help but approach this way, but Tianxian's short sword was still inserted in the box, and everyone saw the flying needle just now, and no one dared to step forward by themselves.

Tian Xian pulled out his short sword and knocked it around, "Sit down next to each other, you have something to eat!"

The children screamed strangely, and they all rushed up.

But this time, no one dared to come forward to grab it, but they just rushed to sit in the front position and fought again.

The last group of children sat down beside Tian Xian, and ate the food in the box as quickly as a pack of wolves that had been hungry for a week.

The box wasn't small, but it was quickly bottomed out.

Arion has been watching behind Tian Xian, the first time he spoke, Tian Xian ignored it, and he didn't say anything again, seeing that there was almost no food in the box, so he said: "Brother Tian, you are wasting precious food, these little things are full, knowing that you have food here, they will come to rob you again in the blink of an eye." ”

"I know. There was no emotion in Tianxian's voice, "This box of food was prepared by me a long time ago, and it will be moldy in a few days, so we have plenty of food, throw it away...... It's a pity. ”

Tianxian stood up, didn't want the box anymore, waved his hand and said, "Let's go." (To be continued......)