Chapter 48
"Is it snowing?"
As soon as he opened the door this morning, Ramo found snowflakes falling from the sky.
Although the snowflakes were beautiful, he became more worried when he saw this scene: his sister's illness was caused by the cold weather, and the food in the city would become more scarce in the cold season. He couldn't earn money by working for the wizards this year. Would they have to live off their savings?
"I'll go ask around on the street to see if there's any safer jobs."
Seeing his sister suffering from a high fever, Ramo's brother gritted his teeth and decided to go out.
Their family doesn't have much savings, and with so many mouths to feed, they won't be able to survive for more than a few days if things go on like this.
Rameau hurriedly called him: "I'll go with you too."
"What are you going to do?" The elder brother frowned and said, "You are still so young and don't know anyone. Don't cause trouble for me."
"I'm not trying to cause trouble for you!" Ramo retorted with his neck stiff. "The kids in this area are all good friends with me. Maybe I can get some gossip from them. Besides, being young has its advantages. Haven't you seen that those black-robed wizards are more gentle to the young cubs?"
My brother wanted to deny it, but he couldn't say anything to refute it.
Because this is true, many people in the city have witnessed it with their own eyes, the black-robed wizards are relatively gentle when treating the cubs of various races, but they treat the adults, even including all the fallen wizards, with a completely cold and official attitude.
Before, Ramo's brother had seen a goblin boy on the street whose leg was broken by a fallen wizard and who was left to fend for himself. Perhaps because he was short, several black-robed wizards who were passing by saw him, had a brief discussion, and then sent someone to squat in front of him with a box and gave him some simple treatment.
After treating him, they even gave him a piece of soft and sweet bread to fill his stomach!
Ramo's family had never seen such bread before, it was soft and golden, and it seemed to have rich and sweet jam filling.
After returning home, Ramo's brother was greedy for several days because he had helped a fallen wizard carry materials for casting spells and was rewarded with a piece of freshly baked white bread with some dried fruit sprinkled on it.
He took it home and shared it with his whole family. He will never forget the taste.
Finally, the elder brother reluctantly agreed to take Ramo out to the street, but before leaving, he repeatedly reminded Ramo: "Don't run around when you get out. Follow me and walk along the wall. Don't look at the black-robed wizards like you did before. Do you hear me?"
These are the experiences summed up by the ordinary races in Morton City with countless blood and tears. They live under the noses of a group of lawless villains every day. If they are not cautious, ten lives will not be enough to die.
"knew."
Ramo answered very obediently.
But when he got to the street, his attention was immediately attracted by the strange changes: long black lines were stretched across the streets and alleys, and at regular intervals there was a sign showing a hand trying to touch the wires but being struck by lightning from the sky.
What you mean is that if you touch these lines, you will be concentrated by the lightning curse cast by the wizards, right?
Ramo shuddered involuntarily and quickly quickened his pace to move away from the power lines with his brother.
But he found that there were some transparent decorations hanging on these lines, which looked like the kind of fruit that Rameau picked from the tree when he was a child. There were also different symbols written on these "fruits", and some thin silver threads were filled with them.
Although Rameau did not know the meaning of these symbols, he found them quite interesting.
Is this also the material that wizards use to cast spells?
"You are a student at Desert University, but you can't even confuse parallel and series connections of light bulbs? Go back to junior high school and learn it again!"
Suddenly, an angry female voice came from the corner of the street. Ramo and his brother stopped at the same time, looking at Jin Xuan with fear and trepidation, holding the notebook in her hand and knocking on the head of a special task force member in a disappointed manner.
They were all familiar with this lady's voice. She was one of the Demon's right-hand men. Among the group of fallen wizards, they all called her "the witch beside the Demon."
"I'm a sports student! I've already handed physics back to the teacher," the special action team member said unconvincedly, "Where's the technical team under Teacher Gong? Why do they even want us to do things like installing light bulbs?"
"Do you think the technical team didn't do any work? Teacher Gong said they were almost poisoned by drinking too much coffee these days, and they really didn't have enough manpower, so they asked us for help," Jin Xuan rolled her eyes, "and I'm a sports student, so why didn't I forget? Stop making excuses, hurry up, you're responsible for all the light bulbs on this street today."
“…Where is justice?”
Although he complained, the student continued to work.
Jin Xuan suddenly turned her head and looked over here. Ramo and his brother stiffened and walked unsteadily. They quickly quickened their pace and left.
Their destination this time was the home of the foreman where Ramo's brother used to work, about two streets away from here. After the two arrived safely, they found that many guys like them had gathered in front of the foreman's house, including two of the strongest orcs who were easiest to find work in the city.
Ramo was too short to squeeze in, so his brother asked him to wait for him across the street.
“Buzz——”
He waited for a few minutes, and suddenly, a strange noise came from behind. Ramo subconsciously looked back, only to find that it was a strange machine flying shakily on the street. Its shape was very similar to the "stars" that the devil's followers released in the night sky that night.
Ramo looked up and observed its flying posture, and before he knew it, he was fascinated.
He looked at his brother who was still trying to strike up a conversation with the foreman, then turned and walked forward a little, trying to get a better look at it.
"careful!"
Suddenly, the drone lost control and fell straight towards Ramo's location from mid-air!
Ramo was startled and subconsciously stretched out his arms to cover his head. Fortunately, the drone just brushed his arms and fell at the feet, and Ramo was not injured.
"There should be something wrong with the motor," a black-robed wizard said hurriedly to the people around him, then strode over and asked, "Are you okay? Is your hand injured?"
Ramo looked up at him and shook his head subconsciously.
He suddenly discovered that this black-robed wizard seemed different from his companions. He was thinner and there was an even taller black-robed man beside him, following him half a step behind.
Ramo was scanned up and down by the black-robed man with a scrutinizing gaze. As if to confirm that there was no danger, he turned his head and said to the black-robed wizard in front of him: "Send it back to the headquarters for repair."
“No need,” said the black-robed wizard, “If I have the tools, I can try to repair it.”
These two people were naturally Gu Liangyi and Yi Yan who were in the city right now. Because Ramo was not injured, they did not take this little hybrid who suddenly appeared seriously. When they were about to get up and leave, they suddenly heard a loud stomach growl:
“Guji——”
Ramo blushed instantly.
He had only eaten a little dry food today, which he swallowed with cold overnight water. Ramo lowered his head and covered his stomach, not even daring to raise his head, but saw a hand stretched out in front of him, with a rectangular flat object quietly placed in the palm of his hand.
"Chocolate?" Gu Liangyi asked in surprise, "I know you like sweets, but why would you carry this with you?"
"I'm afraid you might have hypoglycemia." Yi Yan said.
In fact, he not only brought chocolate, but also hid emergency hemostatic bandages, multifunctional portable military knives and compressed survival water capsules under his black robe, ensuring that if Gu Liangyi and he were left alone without any backup, they could survive for at least half a month.
"Where did you put all the things?" Gu Liangyi was very curious. He had never realized that Yi Yan brought so many things. He was as magical as Doraemon.
Yi Yan didn't answer, but just asked the little hybrid in front of him: "Don't you want to eat it? Just tear open the package, there's candy inside."
Ramo swallowed his saliva, looked up at the two adults in front of him in panic, but still couldn't resist the desire for candy in his heart, so he carefully reached out and picked up the chocolate.
"Thank you for the reward, Master."
He bowed deeply to them both.
"You are a mixed-race person from the slums, right?" Gu Liang suddenly asked as he looked at him.
"right."
“How much food is left at home?”
Ramo didn't know why the Master Mage suddenly asked this, but he still answered honestly: "Not much, it will probably be finished in two or three days."
Perhaps seeing Gu Liangyi and the others' gentle attitude, Ramo became a little bolder. He looked up and asked, "Master Mage, I want to know if we can go to the streets to work?"
"Why not?" Gu Liangyi was a little surprised.
"Because everyone says that if you walk around the streets often during this period, you will be caught and killed," Ramo sniffed and looked at them with a timid look, "But everyone is hungry, and my sister is sick... Master Mage, so are we allowed to work?"
Without waiting for Gu Liangyi to answer, Yi Yan suddenly grabbed his arm and blocked him behind him.
He raised the black barrel of his gun, pointed it at the other hybrid that was running over and asked in a cold voice:
"What do you do?"
"Sir...sir!"
Ramo's brother was so frightened that his legs went limp and he fell to his knees on the street. Although he was trembling with fear, he still tried to block Ramo with his body and begged for mercy: "Please don't bother with my brother. He is still a child. I... I can take the blame for him!"
He was just trying to flatter the foreman, but when he turned around and saw that this brat Ramo had actually offended two black-robed wizards, he was immediately scared out of his wits.
Yi Yan: “…………”
Gu Liangyi couldn't help but laugh: "It's not the attacker, you're overreacting."
But this time Gu Liangyou felt that Yi Yan did nothing wrong: "It's a good thing to be more cautious."
Finally, Yi Yan put away his gun silently. The two half-bloods thought that the wizard was showing leniency to them, so they left while wiping their tears and expressing their gratitude profusely.
"When did this rumor start in the city?" Gu Liangyi asked him.
"Perhaps those fallen mages saw that they couldn't fight us head-on, so they had to resort to fanning the flames like this." Gong Ming walked over and put his elbow on his shoulder. "Anyway, after tonight, these rumors will surely be refuted."
He was about to continue talking when he suddenly noticed Yi Yan's cold eyes. He immediately raised his hands to indicate that he had done nothing. "Anyway, hey, classmate Gu Liang, it's time for you to show off again. This is what the headquarters wants. Maybe this time you can snatch a large number of Demon God's faith."
Gu Liangyi looked at him with a look of despair.
"You, you're better at this, so you should do it."
When he recalled the time he saw the plan, he got goosebumps all over his body, literally.
To sum it up in two words: scary.
The command center was afraid that he was not cool enough, so they prepared all kinds of stage lighting effects and dry ice. Gu Liangyi even suspected that they wanted to insert two wings behind him, a halo on his head, and put a whisk in his hand to pretend to be mysterious.
Although it was not as exaggerated as Gu Liangyi had imagined, in order to achieve the desired effect, Lu Lang did something jaw-dropping when making the plan:
He sent people to prisons in various countries to interview cult leaders who had spent life in prison about their experiences in deceiving their followers, and also went to domestic pyramid scheme fraud gangs to learn from them.
——After all, every profession has its own specialties.
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