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This will attract much more people than the boy being beaten in the street.
As people gradually gathered around him and exclamations came from the front, Lian Yun involuntarily quickened his pace.
Although the crowd was crowded, when Lian Yun arrived, there were not many people actually gathered at the scene. Most of them retreated to both sides of the street, and no one dared to step forward.
Lian Yun was stunned as he looked at the boy lying in a pool of blood in the middle of the road.
He lay on his back, blood gushing out of the cut on his neck. His chest and lungs were heaving violently from lack of oxygen. His tattered clothes were soaked with blood, and the original color was almost invisible.
Blood splattered everywhere, splashing onto his pale face and exposed limbs.
He squinted his eyes, leaving only a slit, and through that narrow slit, he could clearly see Lian Yun.
The last ray of light in his eyes was a color that Lian Yun could not understand.
It's like a fleeting firework, brilliant and colorful, not desolate, but even more desolate.
[Ding! Congratulations, Lord, for encountering the side quest - The Secret Underground.]
Lian Yun couldn't hear the system prompts at all at this moment.
"Sister, she can't be saved." Bak stopped Lian Yun who was trying to move forward. He knew what she wanted to do.
Lian Yun paused, met Buck's calm gaze, and put down his hand that was about to pick up the medicine bottle.
"How could this happen..." Lian Yun gritted his teeth and spoke in a difficult voice, "Shouldn't he be taken to prison?"
The guard who had just spoken to her was standing not far away. He swallowed his saliva when he heard the question: "He just bumped into my knife, and I didn't react for a moment..."
"What do you mean by didn't react! This is not the first time, how come you don't know!" Such a sentence broke out in the crowd, and then people continued to denounce the guards.
Another "not the first time".
Lian Yun raised his head and looked at the people with different expressions on both sides of the road with an expressionless face.
She asked a calmer-looking man briefly, and he sighed, "It's the third time this month that a guard has accidentally killed someone while escorting a prisoner. But this time, I saw him, and he definitely bumped into him."
As soon as he said this, the person who had just criticized the guards looked at him coldly and said, "Don't say anything careless. Did you see it? Then can you guarantee that the guards didn't do it on purpose?"
The other party was hurt by the words and immediately fell silent.
Lian Yun narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the person who had just squinted at him: "You really can't say anything careless. So did you see that the guard did it on purpose?"
The man had a pointed face, sunken cheekbones and a mean look.
Hearing Lian Yun using his own words to attack him, the man said sharply: "The guard just beat the man to death. You saw it too. Why are you still favoring the murderer?"
Lian Yun said calmly, "You don't favor the 'murderer'."
"When the guards were beating people just now, you were yelling so hard that my ears were numb."
The man suddenly covered his mouth, a trace of panic flashing in his eyes.
But soon, he put down his hand, looked Lian Yun up and down, and sneered: "Do you have evidence?"
"I really don't have any evidence." Lian Yun glanced at him and said lightly before turning away: "I didn't mean to remember your voice. It's just that I heard the duck quacking for the first time here, and it's really unforgettable."
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[Side Quest - Underground Secrets: While traveling, the Lord unexpectedly encountered a little boy whose death was caused by a strange cause. Can you find out the truth through this incident?]
Lian Yun watched from afar, and it was not until the boy's body was about to be dragged away that she remembered the hint about the side quest.
She tried to calm herself down and read the task description over and over again, but she had no clue.
Lanna and Jamie have come over.
Seeing Lian Yun standing there in a daze with a depressed look on his face, he asked Lina and Buck, and only then did he realize that so many things had happened in the few minutes they were away.
"Sir..." Lanna vaguely sensed Lian Yun's mood and spoke carefully, "This is not your fault, nor is it something you can control."
Jamie was a little worried: "After all, it's the business of the Kuoge City Guards. Even if you are worried, you can't do anything about it."
"No." Lian Yun moved his fingers and handed the wallet he had just taken back to his eyes.
"Blood."
Lana subconsciously took the wallet and looked through it carefully.
"Sir, there is no blood." It was clean, as if new.
"That's right," Lian Yun said solemnly, "It was there just now, but it suddenly disappeared."
Everyone thought she was somewhat frightened by the sudden situation, but only Lana heard something strange.
The blond man turned around and looked at the place on the ground where the boy had just waded. His meticulous observation allowed him to quickly notice the difference.
"The blood is decreasing." Lanna lowered his voice.
Lian Yun opened the task panel and focused his attention on the name of the side quest - The Secret Underground.
The girl's expression was slightly sharp.
I'm afraid she has to take care of this matter.
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Several people found the aunt who had just said she knew the little boy and asked for more details: "Do you know where he lives?"
The aunt glanced at them and saw that they didn't look like bad people. She pointed in a direction and said, "Go forward to the end and then turn right. There is a shortest brick house. That's their house."
"Thank you." Lian Yun was about to leave after thanking her, but was stopped by the aunt.
"His mother is bedridden and there is no one else at home. You can just go in directly without calling anyone. Also..." The aunt looked a little embarrassed as she spoke. She took something out of her arms and handed it to Lian Yun.
"This is the IOU that child sent me over the past few months. Her family owes me money, and I don't want it anymore. Regarding the child's death, please be more tactful."
Lian Yun opened the paper in his hand. On it was a record of how many copper coins were spent each time, and below it was a signature: "Sel".
Lian Yun silently put away the IOU, said goodbye to the aunt, and walked towards the boy's home.
When they turned the corner, they saw a small brick house at the end of the street that was obviously shorter than the other houses. In stark contrast to the surrounding bustle, this brick house looked gloomy and quiet.
I pushed open the creaking gate and walked into the yard. The small yard was covered with dust, and the wooden windows and doors were covered with a layer of gray. The idle waste in the yard was piled up in the corner, and more miscellaneous items were thrown everywhere, leaving no place to step.
Jamie was very attentive and stepped forward to move the debris away, clearing a path that was barely passable.
Lian Yun walked in front. When he approached the door, he vaguely heard a rapid cough, followed by a weak female voice: "Sel? Are you back?"
Lian Yun didn't say anything, he just stretched out his hand, bent his knuckles and knocked on the wooden door twice.
The room was silent for a long time. After a slight sound of fabric rubbing against each other, the woman spoke again: "Please come in."
Lanna gently pushed open the door, and sunlight suddenly came into the dim and narrow room. The light poured in from the door and shone on the ground and the bed facing the door.
The house was much cleaner than the yard, obviously it had been carefully cleaned.
Even in warm weather, the woman in bed is still covered with a quilt.
She straightened her body and raised her head, a look of apology on her delicate face. "I'm so sorry, there's no place to sit. You're here to see Sel, right? I'm so sorry, he's out."
That identical pale face caused by malnutrition, and that familiar eye color.
She is the boy's mother.
Lian Yun avoided the woman's gaze and shook his head slightly: "We are not here to find her, we are here to find you."
The woman was slightly stunned and rubbed her eyes.
When she saw the girl's clothes clearly again, her face couldn't help but show a trace of panic: "My lady... Selta did something bad again, right? Did he steal your wallet? I swear to God, he is a good boy! It's just that we are too poor, and he always wants to earn some money to treat my illness..."
As she spoke, the woman began to cough violently, choking on her tears. She continued to sob, "It's my fault that I didn't educate him well... When he comes back, I'll ask him to return the wallet to you. I'm really sorry..."
Lian Yun looked reluctant, lifted her skirt, took a few steps forward, and sat on the edge of the bed.
The woman waved her hands in panic: "Miss, I'm sick, please stay away from me, don't let me pass on my illness to you..."
"No." Lian Yun shook his head slowly, looking at the woman seriously. "I came here to tell you something. I hope you won't overreact after hearing it."
The woman stared at Lian Yun blankly, and the uneasiness in her heart grew stronger.
Lian Yun took out a bottle of medicine and handed it to the woman: "Please drink this first, it will help relieve your condition."
The woman looked at the small medicine bottle containing blue liquid without saying a word, and then looked at the girl's solemn face.
She opened her cracked mouth and pursed her lips tightly.
After a while, she took the bottle, pulled out the cork, tilted her head back and drank it all in one gulp.
Lian Yun didn't know how to start, so he waited quietly for her to finish drinking.
When she lowered her head, her complexion looked much better, but her eyes were red.
"Searle, something happened, didn't it?"
Lian Yun widened his eyes, not knowing how to respond to a stranger's inquiry about his son's death.
"Normally, there are only two kinds of people who come to this room: debt collectors and kindhearted people who told me that Searle had been arrested. And a lady like you walked into this room and gave me medicine like this..."
"I understand that it's difficult for you to convey this news to me. Thank you for coming. No need to explain further, I already know..."
The woman reached out and tugged at the fabric on her chest, smiling bitterly: "Thank you for the medicine, but unfortunately I have a heart disease, it's too late... there's no hope."
"I'll go and stay with him in a few days, my good boy."
The woman's face was gentle, as if she had never experienced the pain of losing a child.
Lian Yun felt complicated. Didn’t this mother even want to know the cause of her son’s death?
The woman seemed to understand her thoughts. She shook her head and said, "I can neither seek justice for him nor collect his body... All I can do is go see him as soon as possible."
Every word and sentence is filled with sadness.
Lian Yun grabbed her skinny wrist and said, "No."
"I came here to seek justice for him."
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