"Cesare, what are we doing here?"
The brown-haired boy peered down from an area covered with dense vegetation and asked curiously.
"wait."
The black-haired boy called Cesar wore a hood, which cast a heavy shadow on his cheeks, making it difficult to see his eyes and the barely noticeable upturned corners of his lips.
He had the bright red apple in his hand again. He lowered his head slightly and flipped through it casually. He added slowly, "If the map you drew for me is correct, then all we have to do now is wait."
The protagonist of "Absolute Talent" is particularly talented in memorizing maps. Even under simple conditions, he can draw an easy-to-understand map on the land, which can be called a human-shaped map.
Humanoid Map Xia Zuo: "..." What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? Aren't they trying to leave the White Elephant District as soon as possible?
Xia Zuo, who didn't understand anything, scratched his head, and with a tangled look, he used his thumb and index finger to indicate a short distance, and looked at Xizel eagerly: "Can you elaborate on it? QAQ?"
Xizel smiled and said, "Of course."
He turned the apple in his hand and said, "I remember you said that it was a group of black-robed people who massacred the Kaili family, and they only spared your life."
His voice was very light: "Have you ever thought about why this is happening?"
When Xizel returned to reality and read the comics, he was thinking about this question.
Judging from the mental state of those men in black robes, it is unlikely that they are on the protagonist's side. They let Xia Zuo go not out of any compassion, but most likely because of the value of Xia Zuo.
In addition, letting Xia Zuo go instead of capturing him is also an interesting message, which represents a lot of things.
The black-haired boy seemed to be in a good mood and said in a good-tempered manner:
"Also, the Kaili family was exterminated, but the White Elephant District's leaders didn't seem to be offended at all. They didn't even think of investigating. They arrested you as a criminal the moment they saw you."
"What do you think the chances are that they know something?"
Moreover, the people in Baixiang District probably don't dare to provoke each other.
Xia Zuo blinked his eyes when he heard that, and suddenly had an idea: "You said before that the White Elephant District might send people to Kaili Manor to block us, and those black-robed men might not have left, but returned to Kaili Manor to rescue us? They... will bump into us!"
"To be more precise, it's you who's being saved, not me."
Xizel glanced at the position of the moon and said calmly, "It's just a bet on probability. We are at an absolute disadvantage in the official home court. We don't have enough information and I'm not completely sure. If there is still no movement from the manor in fifteen minutes at most, things will be troublesome."
At that time, he might need to take another risk and go to the Execution Office.
Xia Zuo nodded and clenched his fist firmly: "Don't worry, Xizel, I will pay close attention!"
His physical fitness is strangely good, and after his talent broke through C-level, his five senses also improved significantly. You have to know that most people only focus on talent. Without the blessing of talent, Xia Zuo's physical strength is one of the best, and it can even be classified as a talent.
For the sake of concealment, their location was not close to Kerry Manor, which was exactly the limit of Xia Zuo's hearing range.
"What if they collude to arrest us?" Xia Zuo suddenly became serious. After thinking about the consequences, he patted Xizel's shoulder with a heavy face: "I will never let you die. When the time comes, I will hold them back, and you just run!"
Xizel was hit hard again: "...One wants to let you go, and the other wants to kill you. Cooperation? You overestimate the gregariousness of lunatics."
Xia Zuo: “…”
Xizel did not say anything more. He did not like to explain, and he just said these things just to increase Xia Zuo's trust and dependence on him.
In the future, the other party will naturally learn to subconsciously keep silent and agree when he makes a decision, instead of asking in confusion.
[…You are so scary.]
The comic will suddenly jumped out.
[Are you there?] Xizel was good-tempered and didn't care about the other party's nagging, but replied with a smile: [Can you explain to me what's going on with this apple?]
【……】
Cut off the connection and the comics will be smooth.
Xizel had not expected the comic's will to tell him anything. In fact, he believed that it was no accident that he was chosen to enter this comic, but he was just too lazy to check these things now.
As for this apple...
He lowered his eyes slightly, and the strange color in his eyes deepened.
Nothing happened from the time he escaped from prison until Xia Zuo gave him the apple.
And at the moment when Xia Zuo handed the apple into his hands——
Suddenly, some special "rules" appeared in his mind.
The originally ordinary apple also underwent extremely special changes.
"Item name: Crest's Red Apple"
[How to obtain: Gift from your teammates]
"Pre-condition: Kill a C-level cursed talent holder"
"Note: I heard that this apple once poisoned Snow White. Please do not try to eat it easily. Cherish life and start with Crest~"
Kleist himself: “…………”
He just changed his mind, and the apple disappeared from his hand, and reappeared as he wished. It was as if it was no longer an apple, but a conceptual thing.
"Crest's Red Apple".
This naming method sounds very similar to "Kleist's Wordless Book", doesn't it?
However, Xizel refused to let this thing become his talent.
This thing, which looked strangely interesting and full of malice, could definitely not be the gift he had after coming to this world.
Does he seem like such a childlike person?
The black-haired boy tossed the apple and keenly noticed the change in Xia Zuo's expression, raising his eyebrows slightly.
Xia Zuo's eyes lit up like two stars in the dark night. He turned to look at Xizel and whispered, "There is movement in Kaili Manor... I heard it!"
Fighting, and it seems to be a crushing victory.
"Let's go." Xizel stood up, his expression unchanged, "Since the fight has already started here, the officials will naturally not be able to sit still."
I believe he is not the only one observing the situation here. The difference is that the authorities will send reinforcements, but he will seize the opportunity to leave.
"Should we go out through the underground passage?" Xia Zuo suggested excitedly, "I know a road. People usually go there secretly to other districts. The servants of the Kaili family also mention that road when they need to go to do business."
"No, we'll take the official route." The black-haired boy blinked his misty blue eyes, looking very innocent: "We are good people. How can good people go to the underground passage?"
——Of course I have to leave openly.
Half an hour later, Xia Zuo, carrying Xizel on his back, arrived at the cross-regional checkpoint where the flow of people was gradually increasing at an incredible speed.
"...Are you okay, César?" Xia Zuo looked at his new friend with an expressionless face, as if he would die at the next moment. He was always terrified that the other party would take out a gun and die on the spot.
"I'm fine," the black-haired boy smiled firmly, his voice was very gentle, but it made people feel a little cold. "I was just thinking about the progressive significance of the invention of vehicles to mankind."
Xia Zuo: “?”
My good friend is saying some weird things that I can't understand.
"Are we really going to leave from here?" Xia Zuo looked towards the place where the crowd was gathered. Even in the middle of the night, it was very lively here, with many shops on both sides. Not far away was the cross-district checkpoint between the White Elephant District and the Gray Moon District. The high-tech facilities there were considered to be the rare valuables in the White Elephant District.
"To pass through here, you need not only a federal legal citizen card, but also information registration."
The citizen card is an ID card that is engraved with citizen information using a special machine and can then be identified using proprietary equipment. Unless lost, a person will only have one card in their lifetime.
In an age when gifted criminals abound, its function is not to identify them, but to record them, so as to make the tracking of gifted criminals smoother.
But since they had just escaped from prison, neither of them had a citizen card, so they couldn't get through. Even if they used someone else's, it wouldn't work, because once the bound citizen card was too far away from the owner, it would automatically become invalid.
You can't force your way in here. If you try to force your way in, the alarm system that has been installed at great expense across the checkpoints will instantly send all kinds of information, including time recordings, to all official archives.
By then, it won’t just be a matter of official hunting down in Baixiang District, but people will be directly put on the government’s blacklist.
The black-haired boy blinked.
"Where there is demand there will be a market. Don't you know there is such a thing in this world?"
The topic suddenly turned here, leaving Xia Zuo confused. He couldn't help but follow Xizel's words and asked, "What?"
Xizel looked around, then raised his leg and walked in a certain direction. He seemed to have recovered from the discomfort caused by the long journey brought by Xia Zuo, and he moved past the crowd very nimbly.
Xia Zuo hurriedly caught up with him and heard his voice coming from afar:
"False evidence."
Xia Zuo: "...???"
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As he was following, the black-haired boy suddenly turned slightly to look at him. Because of the hood, Xia Zuo couldn't see his expression clearly, but he instinctively felt a chill.
"Stand outside the door and don't follow in."
Xia Zuo keenly noticed that his friend's aura seemed to have changed, becoming somewhat familiar and somewhat frightening. He opened his lips and paused in hesitation.
...He seemed to remember that Cesar had no money on him.
What should I do? Will my friend be beaten by the person who issues the certificate?