Returning from the abyss

Chapter 183 Avoiding Death Part Three
The fourth district has a strong sense of exclusivity.

Lu Ning just looked at the boy for a while, and seven or eight children surrounded him, the older ones were twelve or thirteen, and the younger ones even had snot on their faces.These children were dirty and had fierce eyes, staring at Lu Ning like hyenas. In fact, people like Lu Ning, who was not very tall and didn't seem to be able to beat them, were exactly the targets these children would aim at.

She hated such children terribly.

When Lu Ning was still alive, she was knocked over the infusion stand by a brat during an infusion in the hospital, and almost had a medical accident.Although the other parent apologized and lost money, Lu Ning clearly remembered that there was no apology in the boy's eyes - just like these children today.

Things like evil cannot be underestimated because of age, this is Lu Ning's stubborn philosophy.

So, Lu Ning stepped forward and walked towards the boy who was trying to reach into her pocket. With her left hand, she took out a scalpel from the pocket. This was also taken from the clinic before, and it was still sharp enough.

"You, what are you going to do?"

Hyenas are good at attacking in groups, but they start to be timid when facing lions alone.

At this time, the surrounding children also gathered together.

"If you are greeted, you must return the courtesy, and if you are insulted, you must fight back with a sword. This is the rule of this city."

Lu Ning glanced at the children surrounding him, flicked her right hand, and the swords on the left and right sides of the sword cart popped out, making a soft sound.

"Or do you think that the dogma that you can't kill people in the fourth district can really protect your safety?"

This time several children had panicked expressions on their faces.

At this moment, a loud shout came from not far away: "What do you want to do? Put down the weapon!"

Lu Ning tilted her head and turned to look in the direction of the voice.There were three young men standing on the other side. Their clothes were worn out, but their bodies were strong. They looked like they had been working all year round.

"Let's just teach you a lesson. Do you still have a rule that thieves cannot be beaten up if they are caught?" Lu Ning raised her lips slightly, "Even Sin City doesn't have such a system, does it?"

"I saw you took out the murder weapon." A young man said with a cold face.

"Except for things like poison, I don't know that a knife will definitely kill someone." Lu Ning flicked her wrist, and the sword chariot was retracted into her sleeve, then she turned and walked towards the three young men.

The three of them immediately became vigilant and put on a defensive posture.

"If someone cares, I don't want to waste time on these children. Has a man named Lu Bin come to your place recently? Or there are more doctors? Answer me, and I will leave immediately."

"Lu Bin? I don't know, the doctor does, but why should we tell you?"

The young man in the lead shouted, scratching his neck.

"As long as you know there is, you can..."

Lu Ning threw out her left hand violently, and the scalpel pierced the young man's arm at close range, then rushed to him when he was crying out in pain, and wiped his wrist with his hand.

"Ahhhh!"

The young man took a few steps back with his wrists in his arms, and blood kept gushing from his wrists. Lu Ning rushed into a nearby street while the other two were supporting the young man, turned twice and disappeared from their sight .

"Chase!"

"What are you chasing after! Send big brother to treatment!"

Those children also hurried over to help, and moved the young man away with a frame and a lift.Before they left for too long, Lu Ning took off her mask and hooded overcoat, and walked out of an alley wearing a school uniform jacket that was a bit bulky inside.

The fourth district is no better than the black market. Doctors seldom face major operations. Most of them are wounds from fights and illnesses of girls in the red-light district.And Lu Ning just cut off half of the young man's wrist with a single knife, and the surgery involved is already relatively complicated. If it wasn't for the old doctor here to treat it, it would probably have been treated by the doctor who came from the tenth district.

Tracking is not particularly difficult. Although those people tried to block the wound to stop the bleeding, the blood from such a large wound would always fall on the ground. The location of the clinic in District [-] was found.

There was a lot of noise inside.

"Little doctor Lu, can you cure my elder brother? We can't do physical work without hands!"

"Don't worry... um, don't drag... He delivered it in time, and he can work after a few months of recovery after suturing. I have treated this kind of wound."

"Then hurry up, boys! Get out of the way for Doctor Lu!"

Lu Ning nodded when she heard the voice, turned and left.

It was rare to come to the fourth district, so she was going to go around for a while.

Red Crow Street is not very lively during the day, except for some drunken people lying on the ground, there are very few pedestrians passing by.The few shops that open occasionally also sell food and daily necessities.

Lu Ning approached a food store, and there were not many good things for sale here, hard bread, thick soup, tea or coffee, plus hard bacon, these were all on the menu.You can also see drinks, but they are surprisingly expensive.

An old man in denim clothes sat behind the cabinet and wiped the enamel jars with a rag. He didn't say hello when he saw Lu Ning coming in, and continued with his work.

"boss……"

"Sell yourself and find the Rose Hall next door. Go to the back door. I only sell food here, and I don't recruit people."

"..."

Lu Ning took out a few coins and put them on the counter.

"Give me a tea, and bread, and jam?"

The boss raised his eyes slightly, reached out and picked up the coins.

"What's a girl from a good family doing here?"

He grunted, turned around and took out a piece of bread from a cabinet and stuffed it into the oven, then picked up the kettle on the stove and poured a cup of reddish-brown tea into the enamel tank, and finally pointed to the pottery pots in the corner of the counter. Jar: "Choose your favorite flavor, and the bread will be ready later."

"Could it be that the girls who came here before were all here to sell themselves?" Lu Ning tried to talk to the boss.

"A girl of your age came to this place by herself, what other things do she have to do besides this? It's not that she can't survive, who would want to do this business? Anyway, the fourth district can get money to go ashore after spending youth here. , if you go to the seventh district, you will have to chew off even the bones."

The boss looked at Lu Ning carefully and snorted.

"Let's go after eating. Although the situation in the fourth district is better, it is limited. A girl of your age can be sold for [-] to [-] to [-] to [-] in the seventh district. There are also many traffickers in the fourth district."

"Where is there a safe place in Vice City?"

"Safe? District [-], District [-], District [-], these are all good places, but here is a pile of shit." The boss turned around and took the bread out of the oven, cut it open on the plate and pushed it to Lu Ning, "No , in most places, no matter how glamorous they make the city."

"Since the boss lives here, he has a criminal record, right?" Lu Ning took the plate and began to pick out jams.

"Being blessed here does not mean that I am old and dizzy. I helped my sister kill those scumbags who deceived her feelings. This is an undoubted crime in the outside world, so I came here to hide. But I also know A lot of people in this city are rotten to the bone, they're just born with that nasty stench."

Lu Ning picked up a jar of jam, nodded to the boss, and found a seat to sit down.

"Your tea."

The boss snorted again, picked up the enamel cup, walked around the counter, and put the quilt in front of Lu Ning.

"...Are you sure you want me to drink tea with something added?" Lu Ning raised her head and asked.

Hearing this sentence, the boss's hand paused slightly.

"Although you call yourself a criminal, judging from your words, you still feel that you have a sense of justice and cannot ignore the evil in front of you. Although you can probably tolerate children on the street stealing for food and drink, but people like me Killers are probably not among them?" Lu Ning took the table knife and spread jam on the slice of bread, the toasted slice of bread heated up the temperature of the jam, and a mellow sweet smell came out.

"The smell of blood on your body can be smelled from several meters away! This smell can only appear on those vicious serial killers! I don't know why you have such a smell on a little girl, but my nose has never Deceive me!"

The boss yelled, took two steps back, and grabbed a brazing iron from the counter.

"Relax, at least I just smell blood instead of rot." Lu Ning took a bite of the bread. After passing the test, the bread became very crispy and not so hard. It is good with jam.

"You...you don't want...to kill me?"

"You probably have been at ease for too long, and you don't understand that sometimes the counterattack is necessary to live here." Lu Ning took out her phone and glanced at it. The task "avoid death" on it became 2/10. It seems that the boss Already hesitated.

"Are you new here?"

"Yes, I'm afraid you don't think that what you have done is wrong in your heart? I am almost the same. I admit that I have killed many people these days, and even the ultimate purpose of coming here is still to kill Some, but would you like to hear a little bit about it?"

Lu Ning briefly talked about the fact that the black clinic took a fancy to her own organs, but the part about tracking down Lu Bin was temporarily concealed.

"There is a clue pointing to the fourth district. I haven't found it yet, so I can't tell you, but everything I do is to make my life more stable in the future... Can you understand?"

The boss was silent for a moment and moved closer.

"Well, it's exactly what you said...but even so, you're starting to get a little bit of those guys, don't lose yourself."

"I will, but boss, you can really smell the special smell of human beings."

"I don't know when it will start. No one can pretend to be in front of me." The boss sniffed, "It's just that I can only make food when there is no one around."

"Then you should have done this many times so far, right?"

"Yes, you are the first one who can see through me."

"Probably because criminals and detectives are very different after all." Lu Ning smiled, ate the bread in two or three bites, then wrapped the remaining two pieces of bread and stood up.

"Are you going?"

"Ah... Before I leave, I would like to ask, is the boss clear about the follow-up of the attack that happened in the casino a few days ago?"

"The owner of the casino lost his eyes, the black badger ran away, most of the security guards present died, the casino was temporarily closed, that's about it. I don't know why you came here, but if you can leave this city, you'd better hurry Let's go, I hope we won't see each other again." The boss waved his hand, walked back behind the counter, and picked up the rag and enamel jar again.

Lu Ning walked out of the shop, went to the corner of the street and asked a vagrant a few questions about the fourth district with two pieces of bread, and then walked towards the Colosseum according to the other party's instructions.

If there are any famous places in the fourth district, besides the Red Crow Street, it is the Colosseum.

Most of the buildings in the Colosseum are underground. The opening hours are from [-]:[-] pm to [-]:[-] am. There are two entrances. One is in the fourth district, where ordinary spectators enter, and the other is for VIPs. where.Large beasts from the outside world can always be obtained here for on-site battles. As for people, they can also voluntarily come in to participate in gladiatorial fights. If they can win, they will also receive rewards from the Colosseum.So for many people in the fourth district, if they can't survive, it has almost become their common knowledge that men go to the Colosseum and women go to Red Crow Street.

The Colosseum is not open every day. Unfortunately, Lu Ning caught up with the day when there is no Colosseum today, so she can only walk around the entrance to recognize the way.

As it was getting late, Lu Ning returned to the small clinic where Lu Bin's location was discovered earlier.

The operation inside had been completed, and Lu Ning hid in the dark and waited for the young people to leave before walking into the clinic unhurriedly.

There were two people in the clinic, one was a little older in a white coat, and the other was a young man with a frightened expression.At this time, they were still packing up the surgical tools, and when they saw Lu Ning coming in, the old doctor subconsciously sized her up.

Lu Ning hurriedly spoke first: "Dr. Lu Bin is here?"

"Are you looking for me?" Lu Bin raised his head and looked at Lu Ning with a dazed expression.

"Well, I'm also a victim of 102 in District [-]. After I learned about you by chance, I wanted to come to you and ask you for clues." Lu Ning smiled slightly, "By the way, your note was left there, but it wasn't there. It was cleaned up, do you know why?"

Lu Bin suddenly showed a look of vigilance.

"You didn't come to catch me, did you?"

"You have to believe that the person who came to arrest you will never talk to you in such a nice voice." Lu Ning glanced at the old doctor, "And people in the tenth district will not abide by the rules here in the fourth district."

"How did you find this place?" the old doctor asked.

"Get some food and ask the children here if there is a good surgeon here. It's not that difficult. You can't tell people in the whole district to hide your news, that would be too stupid." Lu Ning replied easily.

Although the old doctor still looked suspicious, he let Lu Ning sit down in the clinic.

(End of this chapter)