The way these neighbors look at little Bu’Er is very similar to the way those workers at the orphanage looked at him back then.
It’s not just affection; it’s more of pity.
Little Bu’Er dragged the turtle shell to a shop with a signboard reading "Armor Shop" and directly threw the turtle shell onto the empty ground in front of the shop.
"Elder Wu, see how many gemstones this can fetch." Little Bu’Er shouted into the shop.
Soon, a bearded old man ca out from inside, took a glance at the turtle shell on the ground, and smiled, saying: "Little Bu’Er, today’s haul isn’t bad; a Light Base White Turtle Shell with twelve Light Veins, a good thing, I’ll give you one gemstone coin."
"Elder Wu, you’re trying to cheat again, at least two coins." Little Bu’Er firmly held out two fingers.
"Two gemstone coins... alright..." Elder Wu reluctantly fished out two gemstone coins and tossed them to little Bu’Er.
Little Bu’Er caught the gemstone coins and carefully put them away.
"Elder Wu, co to the square tonight, I’ll treat you to drinks." Little Bu’Er said, then turned and left.
Li Xiu followed little Bu’Er, and after walking for a while, little Bu’Er arrived at the square, where he threw several small White Shell Turtle shells on a drink stall at the edge of the square and shouted to the lady boss: "Boss lady, I’ll treat you to drinks tonight, make sure there’s enough."
"Don’t worry, little Bu’Er, the drinks will definitely be plenty." The charming lady boss even winked at Li Xiu who was following little Bu’Er.
Li Xiu nodded slightly to the lady boss in greeting, then followed little Bu’Er away.
"Uncle, why are you following ?" Little Bu’Er, seeing Li Xiu always tagging along, turned around to look at Li Xiu with so displeasure and said.
"I’m unfamiliar with the places here and have nowhere to go; can you let stay for one night?" Li Xiu said.
"There are benches in the square, go sleep there, my ho doesn’t have a place for outsiders to sleep." Little Bu’Er said, turning to leave: "Don’t follow anymore, co to the square at night, drink as much as you like, after drinking, sleep, and when you wake up, leave quickly; this is not a place for soone like you."
"Okay." Li Xiu watched as little Bu’Er walked away, and he didn’t chase after her, instead turning towards another direction.
Li Xiu wanted to see if this place was related to Black Death City; he always felt this place was sowhat similar to Black Death City.
Li Xiu had exited through three gates of Black Death City; the one toward the Black Sea did indeed lead to the sea, but it wasn’t the Black Sea, and the seawater wasn’t corrosive, just ordinary seawater.
The other gate outside Black Death City led to a desert, and another direction was a canyon.
Li Xiu first went to the canyon side of the city gate, and after passing through the gate, his expression beca even stranger.
It was indeed a canyon, but it looked much smaller than the canyon outside Black Death City, and the canyon was full of strange flowers and plants, unlike the desolate canyon of Black Death City.
Of course, this canyon also had no chanical skeletons; Li Xiu walked into the canyon and soon saw a building that looked like a dam.
The door of the building was open, and upon entering, Li Xiu found that the style of the building was exactly the sa as the one outside Black Death City, but there were no magic spirits or that bizarre divine statue worshiped inside.
The doors inside were all open, with every hall containing so shrines, just ordinary shrines commorating deceased relatives.
Li Xiu walked to the front of a door just in ti to see soone praying.
That person was in their twenties, wearing knight-like armor, quite handso, and after finishing his prayers, he smiled at Li Xiu standing outside.
"Friend, this is the resting place of relatives of our City’s ancestors, if there are no relatives of yours here, it’s best not to disturb them." The young man said to Li Xiu.
"Sorry, I thought this was a place like a church, that’s why I ca in to have a look, sorry for disturbing." Li Xiu felt odd, why would soone build such a place to place ancestral shrines?
The young man laughed: "You can’t really be blad; it used to be a church here, dedicated to a certain divine spirit, but later on, those who believed in it were no more, so it was changed to this."
"I see." Li Xiu felt increasingly odd.
Everywhere here resembled Black Death City to so extent, yet there were also significant differences, making it unclear to Li Xiu what the connection was between this city and Black Death City.
Previously, the Godslayer Shrine could only draw him into Black Death City, but this ti, while drunk, it had brought him to such a place, making it truly puzzling.
"How should I address you, friend?" The young man asked cheerfully.
"Li Xiu." Li Xiu replied.
The man smiled and said: "People in town call Black Knight, you can call Black Knight too. It’s been a long ti since I’ve seen friends from outside; if you don’t mind, could you co to my place and tell about the outside world."
"Outside?" Li Xiu sensitively felt there was sothing odd in that term used.
"Aren’t you from outside?" Black Knight asked in confusion.
"I am from outside, just not sure about the ’outside’ you refer to." Li Xiu laughed.
Black Knight laughed: "Outside ans anywhere beyond the City of Love."
"Have you never left the City of Love?" Li Xiu grew even more puzzled.
"I left when I was younger, but after the road out was cut off, I’ve never left the City of Love again." Black Knight continued: "Let’s first go to my place, we can drink and chat."
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