The Riddler Get Out of Terra

"At your age, you have to work in Ursus?"

"There was no food to eat, so I had to work for a living. At that time, the middle school had not yet closed down. The principal and teachers raised money from the nobles. They burned firewood for a whole season in the winter. The ashes in the chimneys could not be cleared, so they had to let the children clean it. , I was very hungry, so I went along.”

Sasha recalled the scene at that time and timidly explained her experience in detail:

"The teacher is very nice and willing to teach me how to read and write. Before he left, he gave me some of his books so that I could learn while reading. Maybe I can go to a big city in Ursus in the future."

"That's right...he is indeed a good man." Qiao Lun sighed.

But such sighs were rootless after all. After a fleeting moment, Drake turned to look at them who were holding the pages of the book and did not dare to speak:

"You two are infected, but in fact, even if you are not infected, you can't go to big cities, or even grow up normally."

He spoke with absolute certainty and a decisive tone, as if the future was in his eyes and unchanging.

Ino moved her mouth, as if she wanted to say something.

"It is indeed an unexpected surprise to me that you can read. After all, it is not enough for one person to be responsible for everything. It takes too much time to train some people, and I discovered you."

Qiao Lun reached into the folder on the coffee table, took out a document, and handed it to the silent Sasha:

"Let's see, you can read and understand what this town is going to do."

Sasha and Ino came together to take a look, but they only saw the vague words "beard", "code", "tube", and the very rare "luxury".

They can understand the meaning of these words, but the meaning of these words and the description in the document have a sense of chronology that cannot be ignored.

"Iqi placed a few numbers today, the price is low", "Lulusha likes a beard and doesn't want to buy a luxury, the price is low, but the beard also has the benefits of a beard", "There are noble people buying the tube, this thing can be sold Give a good price”…

Sasha thought of something. He trembled and looked at Qiao Lun. He pointed at the records on the last few pages of the document and spoke with difficulty:

"'There are a few tubes in the waste street that look good and can be sold for a lot of money', 'there is a tube that can sing, which is good', 'that bitch in Maili, she ruined the tubes!'...referring to us?"

Ino, who didn't understand, or rather didn't dare to understand, was stunned.

"What else can there be?"

Qiao Lun asked back, making the two children soften as if they were exhausted. Sitting on the soft seats, they looked at Qiao Lun tremblingly. Finally, Sasha spoke:

"Are you the noble man who bought us two?"

He was obviously still a child, but after realizing the current situation, his tone quickly became humble and cautious. He grabbed Ino's hand and tried to use his partner's body temperature to overcome the coldness from the inside out.

"The idea is very good and the guess is reasonable," Qiao Lun said, "but you have misunderstood two points."

"First," he pointed out the window, low-rise buildings that closely resembled the town's architectural style reflected in the sunlight, "This is obviously your town. If you have conducted terrain surveys, you will soon be able to learn from the architecture. The layout and character of it all recognize that this is a prison.”

"In other words, I brought you here, gave you food and drink, and chatted with you. Either I am a noble man, or I am actually the warden."

"But the former you should look at my clothes." Qiao Lun patted their clothes. Good fabrics are valuable at first glance: "Although the fabrics are very good, the nobles of Ursus will not wear this kind of clothes. They prefer intricate accessories, extra pockets, and velvet. Even the nobles in your town will add a few ribbons to their clothes.

Facing slaves, they will not hide, so I am not an Ursus noble. "

"So am I the warden?" Qiao Lun paused and asked Ino.

"No."

The boy's voice was [-]% hoarse even after eating cereal and milk, but Qiao Lun didn't care, he just asked: "Why?"

"I have met the warden. He is a skinny guy with triangular eyes. He doesn't look like a good person, unlike you, big brother."

Ino then spoke, speaking in a low voice. The constant friction of the Source Stone on his throat hurt him, but in the face of Qiao Lun's question, Ino spoke resolutely.

"That's right," Qiao Lun clapped his hands and looked at Ino with interest, who was clearly a protected person but could stand up when Sasha couldn't speak: "I'm not the latter either."

"Then guess how I can freely enter this prison, enjoy the best things here, let two infected people enjoy the warden's bed, and drink the oatmeal milk that only he can enjoy?"

Ino hesitated for a while: "When I was reading a book with Sasha, I read a story about the Yan Kingdom."

Qiao Lun smiled and looked at Ino.

The boy mustered up his courage. He knew that what he was thinking was crazy and that the plan he thought of was ridiculous. However, in order to win the possibility of coming back to life, Li Boli finally spoke out a delusion that would be laughed at by too many Ursans. :

"There is a fable in the Yan Kingdom called the dove occupying the magpie's nest."

Chapter 12 Chat (monthly ticket adds more updates!)

"You look much better than yesterday."

Qiao Lun did not approach the two frightened children rashly. He chose

He chose to sit down on the sofa not far from the desk, and looked at Inosasa across the coffee table.

After briefly observing Sasha's increasingly rosy face after eating the cereal, he casually started the topic.

Sasha wanted to say something, but was embarrassed to find that compared to the days of reading with Ino, his communication with people was lackluster. He organized the words that were about to be blurted out for a long time, but in the end he just opened his mouth and uttered two unusually ordinary words:

"Thank you."

Ino on the side is also very reserved. He seems to have experienced a long period of abuse, which cannot be seen when getting along with Sasha. But after spending a while with strangers, he changes from an optimistic boy who reads books and eats to being very close to Sasha. Similar autistic children:

"I'm sorry. We thought you were going to arrest us last night, so we attacked you. I'm sorry."

"It's not bad. At least I know how to apologize to the innocent people I accidentally hurt," Qiao Lun said, crossing his legs.

Ino and Sasha's heads visibly lowered.

"Are you literate?" Qiao Lun asked again. He looked at the upper and lower parts of the Ursus fairy tale in Ino and Sasha's hands, and asked: "How many words do you know in this book? Can you read and write normally?"

"Sasha taught me," Ino replied in a low voice, "I can only sing. Sasha gave it to me when we were playing together."

"I only know a little bit, so I can probably understand [-]% to [-]% of this book."

Sasha also told Qiao Lun the progress of the two of them in a low voice.

Eighty or ninety percent?

This is not simple...

Qiao Lun looked at the two fairy tales stacked as thick as bricks, and his eyes lit up:

"How did you learn it? Did someone teach you, or...?"

"I learned it secretly when I worked as a helper in the middle school in the town."

"At your age, you have to work in Ursus?"

"There was no food to eat, so I had to work for a living. At that time, the middle school had not yet closed down. The principal and teachers raised money from the nobles. They burned firewood for a whole season in the winter. The ashes in the chimneys could not be cleared, so they had to let the children clean it. , I was very hungry, so I went along.”

Sasha recalled the scene at that time and timidly explained her experience in detail:

"The teacher is very nice and willing to teach me how to read and write. Before he left, he gave me some of his books so that I could learn while reading. Maybe I can go to a big city in Ursus in the future."

"That's right...he is indeed a good man." Qiao Lun sighed.

But such sighs were rootless after all. After a fleeting moment, Drake turned to look at them who were holding the pages of the book and did not dare to speak:

"You two are infected, but in fact, even if you are not infected, you can't go to big cities, or even grow up normally."

He spoke with absolute certainty and a decisive tone, as if the future was in his eyes and unchanging.

Ino moved her mouth, as if she wanted to say something.

"It is indeed an unexpected surprise to me that you can read. After all, it is not enough for one person to be responsible for everything. It takes too much time to train some people, and I discovered you."

Qiao Lun reached into the folder on the coffee table, took out a document, and handed it to the silent Sasha:

"Let's see, you can read and understand what this town is going to do."

Sasha and Ino came together to take a look, but they only saw the vague words "beard", "code", "tube", and the very rare "luxury".

They can understand the meaning of these words, but the meaning of these words and the description in the document have a sense of chronology that cannot be ignored.

"Iqi placed a few numbers today, the price is low", "Lulusha likes a beard and doesn't want to buy a luxury, the price is low, but the beard also has the benefits of a beard", "There are noble people buying the tube, this thing can be sold Give a good price”…

Sasha thought of something. He trembled and looked at Qiao Lun. He pointed at the records on the last few pages of the document and spoke with difficulty:

"'There are a few tubes in the waste street that look good and can be sold for a lot of money', 'there is a tube that can sing, which is good', 'that bitch in Maili, she ruined the tubes!'...referring to us?"

Ino, who didn't understand, or rather didn't dare to understand, was stunned.

"What else can there be?"

Qiao Lun asked back, making the two children soften as if they were exhausted. Sitting on the soft seats, they looked at Qiao Lun tremblingly. Finally, Sasha spoke:

"Are you the noble man who bought us two?"

He was obviously still a child, but after realizing the current situation, his tone quickly became humble and cautious. He grabbed Ino's hand and tried to use his partner's body temperature to overcome the coldness from the inside out.

"The idea is very good and the guess is reasonable," Qiao Lun said, "but you have misunderstood two points."

"First," he pointed out the window, low-rise buildings that closely resembled the town's architectural style reflected in the sunlight, "This is obviously your town. If you have conducted terrain surveys, you will soon be able to learn from the architecture. The layout and character of it all recognize that this is a prison.”

"In other words, I brought you here, gave you food and drink, and chatted with you. Either I am a noble man, or I am actually the warden."

"But the former you should look at my clothes." Qiao Lun patted their clothes. Good fabrics are valuable at first glance: "Although the fabrics are very good, the nobles of Ursus will not wear this kind of clothes. They prefer intricate accessories, extra pockets, and velvet. Even the nobles in your town will add a few ribbons to their clothes.

Faced with slaves, do they

I can hide, so I am not an Ursus noble. "

"So am I the warden?" Qiao Lun paused and asked Ino.

"No."

The boy's voice was [-]% hoarse even after eating cereal and milk, but Qiao Lun didn't care, he just asked: "Why?"

"I have met the warden. He is a skinny guy with triangular eyes. He doesn't look like a good person, unlike you, big brother."

Ino then spoke, speaking in a low voice. The constant friction of the Source Stone on his throat hurt him, but in the face of Qiao Lun's question, Ino spoke resolutely.

"That's right," Qiao Lun clapped his hands and looked at Ino with interest, who was clearly a protected person but could stand up when Sasha couldn't speak: "I'm not the latter either."

"Then guess how I can freely enter this prison, enjoy the best things here, let two infected people enjoy the warden's bed, and drink the oatmeal milk that only he can enjoy?"

Ino hesitated for a while: "When I was reading a book with Sasha, I read a story about the Yan Kingdom."

Qiao Lun smiled and looked at Ino.

The boy mustered up his courage. He knew that what he was thinking was crazy and that the plan he thought of was ridiculous. However, in order to win the possibility of coming back to life, Li Boli finally spoke out a delusion that would be laughed at by too many Ursans. :

"There is a fable in the Yan Kingdom called the dove occupying the magpie's nest."

Chapter 13 Solicitation (this chapter is free, compensated for readers who subscribe automatically)

After Ino boldly expressed his guess that he would probably have his head chopped off if he hadn't, Qiao Lun looked at the child's nervous pupils and couldn't deny his guess.

"guessed wrong."

He suddenly refuted Ino's idea. Sasha's body trembled, and he subconsciously wanted to stand up to protect his friend, but found that Qiao Lun just waved his hand, and a layer of strange fluid grabbed his limbs and joints, easily pulling Feidi away. Ya fixed on the table and chair.

Sasha's struggle rubbed against the chair, making a sound that made Ino look back involuntarily. After finding out that his friend was okay, he turned to look at Qiao Lun, who had been watching him with interest, and pulled the corner of his mouth forcefully. , showing a miserable smile:

"Then you should push me to the ground now and step on me a few times pretending to be angry. Sasha will not be tied to the chair. He will get a few slaps for stopping you and lie down like me. Moaning on the ground."

"Could it be that I want to see the funny words of a rebellious traitor like you, or am I a kind-hearted Ursus noble?"

"A child's rebellious thoughts might make people laugh, but an infected person's conjecture?"

Ino opened his thin shirt, revealing his scarred body, with whip marks, beating wounds, scratches, impacts... Bloody bruises covered the child's flesh and blood, and his childhood was as scarred as flesh.

But Ino did not do this to show off his misery. He pointed to the wounds on his body to explain to Jolon the misery of the infected:

"Before I was infected, I was bullied by bad children and adults. Every scar is proof of the years." He said, "After I was infected, the persecution continued unabated, and children did not dare to Approach me, so they will throw stones, adults will not approach me, but they will drive me away without giving me any solid food."

"What is an infected person? My life was like a piece of cake. When I became an infected person, I was no different from a criminal who was not in custody. If I said something treasonous, which adult wouldn't pick up a stick and give me a few blows? ?Even if you beat me to death, an infected person..."

The white-haired Li Boli sneered: "What does it mean?"

"As for kindness..." Ino put down his clothes, with tears in his eyes, and imitated the jokes told by the nobles who came here for outings in the past in a pitiful and artificial tone:

"Oh, the children here are so dirty. Can you give them some solid food and keep them from showing up in front of us?"

His imitation was flawless, with an indescribable sense of being insulted and his dignity being trampled on. He used a hoarse and unpleasant voice to imitate in front of Jolon the dialogue that made him sick every time he recalled it. Ursus The despicable arrogance of the aristocracy seemed extremely old and rotten in this house.

"Maybe it's my bad fate. Ever since I was a child, no kind-hearted nobleman has spoken out, and no 'noble' Ursus can stand up to stop my misery. So even if it's wrong, I still want to Say, there are no good Ursus nobles."

Ino's expression was very calm when he said this, as if he was discussing with Sasha which book to read tonight. Sasha looked at Ino, never expecting that another child who was reading the same book as him could So much comes to mind.

Qiao Lun still didn't speak. He stared at the child's fragile features, as if he was trying to observe a tortured soul through two eyes polished by suffering, and as if he was trying to estimate a child's resistance before taking action.

A tense atmosphere enveloped the entire room. Sasha's heart was beating fast and his breathing was getting faster. He struggled hard, but found that the fluid swallowed up all the force exerted, and he was unable to move at all.

There was sweat on Ino's forehead. Nervousness and fear caused his hair to hang down wet. Li Boli's unique features were soaked with sweat, sticking softly to his skull.

The calm atmosphere lasted for a while, and the long silence brought huge pressure. Ino suddenly

At every turn, sweat wetted his cheeks and flowed down his eyes, making him feel hot and uncomfortable, but he did not dare to wipe it away, fearing that he would not have the courage to continue facing Qiao Lun, so he could only feel the anxiety.