The villain's way to tame the protagonist

——She didn't think that apart from Ansel, Marina and herself, anyone else in the world could truly understand the changes that had taken place in East Port. Although this seemingly grand meeting was actually insignificant, Ming Furo also didn't want Su Silun to introduce her achievements to others.

"But it wouldn't be a good idea to let Luo show up in person."

Xin leaned out of the window and looked at the fleet docked at the port. The prosperous and bustling scene in the distance came into her eyes, and the grandeur and solemnity of the church were even more vivid.

But Xin didn't care at all. The continuous fleet and the holy light shining on the sea level were just like illusory bubbles in her eyes. She just said to Ming Fuluo very seriously: "This makes An seem to attach too much importance to the church. Because everyone knows how important Luo is to An, it is not 'reasonable'... But it seems reasonable for Luo to have such an idea."

Marina gently interjected, "But Susilen and Ivora may not understand, right?"

"Nothing, I'm just a little unhappy, just leave the matter to that woman... I have a very important experiment here, you guys continue."

After Ming Fuluo finished speaking, there was no more sound. Xin withdrew her gaze from the port, slowly floated out of the room, followed by Su Silun who was walking in the footsteps of the princess, and continued her live broadcast.

However, if Xin Duo had kept his eyes outside for a few seconds, he might have caught a glimpse of a slender and nimble figure running quickly downstairs, but she just left naturally, just maybe two or three seconds earlier.

"This is really weird... I just haven't been back for two years, and Donggang has become like this?"

The girl dressed as an adventurer adjusted her deerskin hat, and her light golden hair poked out from under the hat playfully. She stood at the entrance of the alley, looking around with a puzzled look on her face.

Bang!

The girl kicked the bricks at the entrance of the alley hard, then groped along the wall, and it seemed that her mind was a little abnormal.

"There's no secret door here... Could it be that old Loken was finally killed by his own gang?"

The girl who had been groping from the entrance to the end of the alley was extremely confused and a little annoyed at the same time. Old Locke was one of the few people she knew in Donggang, and the only black market businessman she had some friendship with. He could die, but he couldn't die at such an inopportune time.

She had sensed that something was wrong with Kaixuan Port City. From the moment she got off the ship until now, she hadn't seen any discordant scenes at all - she even saw dock workers queuing up to pay quietly and orderly! Whether it was the dock workers queuing quietly or the cargo ship owner paying honestly, it was incredible!

"That regent... is he really that powerful?" The girl stroked her chin. "Hydra... since he became the regent, did he swallow up the royal family's property as well? If that's the case..."

Just as a bold idea came into the girl's mind, she was startled by a sudden strong sense of warning. She jumped up on the spot and looked around.

"I was just thinking about it... Is it that dangerous?"

She muttered in disbelief, "The Spiritual Deities are really unreasonable. Let's just forget about it. Let's see if we can make a few more bucks from this big event... But before that, we have to find a new buyer."

"First digest this batch of appetizers, and then--"

The girl's words suddenly stopped because she saw a child being pushed in from the right side of the alley.

Then, several children who were much older than him came up and surrounded the child.

"Harald, how many times have I told you not to come to where we play!"

The oldest boy kicked the skinny boy who was pushed to the ground and cursed him: "Your mother is a whore! We don't want to play with the children of whores. You don't even know who your father is!"

"You can't...you can't talk about my...mom like that!"

The thin boy who was stepped on turned red in the face and struggled hard. He even tore the big boy's trouser legs, but he was unable to change his situation.

"Humph, you asked for it! I just want you to know what you are. If I see you next time where we play, I will beat you up!"

In fact, the big boy didn't quite understand why prostitutes were despised. He knew that they were women who sold their bodies, but why women were despised for selling their bodies, and what exactly was the reason why she sold her body, the big boy didn't care. He only cared about the reason, and whether he could expel this girl who he disliked from his little kingdom.

He raised his fist, and a sinister smile that could foresee his future appeared on his young face: "This time, I'll make you remember it more deeply--"

"Sure enough... this is just right."

The sudden voice of a girl startled the children. They subconsciously looked to the other end of the alley and found a girl wearing a deerskin hat and very shabby clothes walking towards them. This was not the key point. The key point was... she seemed to appear out of thin air!

"The Satu District of Kaixuan Port City is a huge slum that is extremely rotten. Thieves, robbers, killers, mental patients, gamblers... If you can make a dish by stewing all the scum together, then this place is simply a legendary boiler!"

The girl walked towards the children while talking to herself, "But when I first arrived, I almost thought I had landed in the wrong place... There was no feces, and even very little garbage on the streets. The houses and infrastructure were repaired. There were even people walking on the streets with their jewelry hanging outside! I just haven't been back for two years, it shouldn't be that exaggerated."

"But... kids."

She crossed her arms over her chest, stood in front of the children who were completely frozen, and grinned:

"Although the degree is not as good as it was back then, you guys have told me that I am in the right place."

The young adventurer looked around the alley. Two years ago, the walls of the alley were filled with the stench of urine and feces, and the cracks between the bricks were covered with dark red moss. One or two incomplete corpses would often appear in the corners of the alley. But now... although it was still a bit dirty, it could be described as brand new.

Hmm...her old downstream company seems to have been refreshed as well.

"Although the surface has been cleaned up," she sighed softly, "there hasn't been much change inside. Is it because I came too early and the changes have just begun, or is it that the Regent Prince... is just like that?"

"Well, it has nothing to do with the present."

She bent down slightly, looking down at the boy who was getting increasingly nervous because of the nonsense he had just said, and smiled kindly: "If I heard correctly, you bullied this kid just now because his mother is a prostitute, right?"

"You...what do you want to do? My father is the butcher...the butcher Tadar! He's the most powerful man on the whole street! He can chop you in half from head to tail with one knife!"

Although the girl in front of him looked completely normal, the older boy couldn't suppress the fear in his heart - it was not the fear that a child would feel when facing someone older than himself, but a fear that came from biological instinct and could not be defied.

"Yeah~ Yeah~ I know, I know, behind every little beast there are equally overbearing and beastly parents."

The girl nodded without surprise. "But unfortunately, your father won't be here in the next second. That means, even if he can really chop me in half, you won't be able to see it."

As the older boy looked on with increasing horror, her voice suddenly sank and she put her hands on her waist:

"Because, I will chop you into pieces first..."

The girl paused for a moment, then slapped the boy on the head with her palm, and shouted at the same time:

"Two halves!"

"Wow ah ah ah -"

His little followers let out ear-piercing screams, but he didn't, not because he was a tough guy, but because the big boy was scared silly and also scared to pee.

“Hehehehehe… You can’t run away. I’m the child cooking demon. I specifically look for kids like you who like to bully others. I catch you and eat you. I boil one, braise one, chop one up and stew one in a pot…”

Under the threat of the girl's extremely artificial low voice, all the children now huddled in the corner of the alley.

She chuckled strangely, reached out and grabbed the older boy's hair, and pulled him up on the spot.

"Don't eat me, don't eat me... I won't ask my dad to chop you up, please don't eat me."

"You really don't want to be eaten by me?"

“No, I don’t want to!” The big boy grabbed the life-saving straw and didn’t even care about the pain on his scalp. He begged, “Please don’t eat me, I will do anything!”

The girl smiled with satisfaction after hearing this: "Very good, then answer me three questions, and I won't eat you after you answer them."

Even though the big boy whose hair was pulled was almost unable to nod, his head still shook slightly, showing his desire to survive.

"First question, are you really going to beat him just because his mother is a prostitute?"

The older boy was stunned. The girl's threat just now made him feel frightened. He wanted to lie, but when he accidentally met the eyes covered by the brim of the hat, he fell into a violent tremor.

He saw the sky, the same blue as the sky, or perhaps it was the sky itself.

"answer me."

The girl's voice also became filled with indescribable power, and the big boy, shrouded by the sky, began to tremble for some reason and shed tears.

"I... I don't know." He answered with a sob, "I just hate Harald. I don't want to... I don't want to see him!"

"The second question is, you don't want to see him, so you want to drive him away through violence, or... you just simply want to use violence against him?"

This was also a fatal question, but the boy being stared at by those sky-blue eyes had no ability to lie at all. He could only cower in fear, squeezing out an answer through trembling teeth: "Maybe... maybe, maybe I just wanted to... wanted to hit him."

"Then finally."

The girl's voice remained calm: "Is there something that makes you hate this child so much? Is he a despicable liar or a bad thief? Or has he committed some unforgivable mistake?"

"Nothing...nothing...nothing at all."

"In that case, why did you hit him?"

"Because I, I--Pfft!"

Before the older boy could say anything, the girl slapped him hard in the face. He cried miserably and spat out several teeth.

She loosened her hand and threw the older boy to the ground, watching him howling loudly while pushing his followers away and hiding behind everyone, trembling.

"Because you are a bad guy who likes to bully the weak, you like to do this kind of thing, so even if the person you bully has done nothing wrong, and you know that he has done nothing wrong, you still want to bully him, because in your eyes, being weak is a fault."

"But you have to know..."

The girl took a step forward, and all the children blocking the big boy moved aside instantly.

"You can bully those who are weaker than you, and so can others, like me."

But the girl did not move forward. Instead, she bent down to pick up the tooth on the ground, then squatted in front of the boy, who wanted to curl himself up into a ball, and threw it casually.

"From now on, you must recall what happened today every day. You must remember that every time you bully someone, you may suffer a more cruel revenge in the future."

She pinched the older boy's chin, pried his mouth open, and threw the teeth in. But this was not further torture. The teeth automatically found the gums in his mouth and repaired themselves.

The older boy could also feel that the pain in his face and mouth was fading rapidly.

"But, you are still young." The girl's voice suddenly became gentle, "I believe you still have the possibility of changing."

"Everyone should be given a chance to repent after paying the corresponding and correct price."

The older boy met those eyes that were like the sky again, but at this moment he was not dominated by the terrifying pressure. He felt a kind of...pure tolerance.

The sky should embrace everything in the world.

"Those who bully the weak will eventually be bullied by those who are stronger. So...what about protecting the weak?"

She placed her hand on the older boy's head and said, "If you are willing to protect someone weaker than you, there will always be someone stronger than you who is willing to protect you."

"Of course... You can think that you are not strong enough. If you are strong enough, no matter how you bully others, you will not be bullied by others. If you insist on thinking this way, then I can only tell you-"

The girl narrowed her eyes slightly. The sky, which had been gentle and tolerant just a moment ago, was suddenly filled with endless thunder.

"I will always be stronger than you, and no matter where you are, I will make you pay for the mistakes you have made."

The older boy was speechless, and he stopped crying. He just shrank and curled up blankly, as if he didn't know how to react.

"Okay, hurry up and go home and cry to your mother." The girl waved her hand in disdain. "Raising a child is the most troublesome thing. Why should I provide free labor for those unqualified parents?"

The children were stunned for several seconds before they reacted, and then they ran out of the alley screaming. One child was loyal enough to turn back after they escaped and carry the dazed boy out.

Then, only the young girl and the scarred child were left here.

"How do you feel?" The girl tilted her head and looked at him, "Does it feel better?"

The child opened his mouth, then lowered his head and answered softly: "I... feel much better. Thank you, sister, thank you for your help--"

"How dishonest! Do you want to be beaten like him?"

The girl interrupted him in dissatisfaction: "You are obviously not happy at all, and you are obviously very scared. You are afraid that they will retaliate against you and your mother in a more cruel way in the future. You may even hate me for meddling in your affairs and getting you into more trouble."

"No, no! I didn't..."

Hearing her say this, the child waved his hands hurriedly and explained anxiously: "I really don't think so! I just, just..."

It's just as she said, she is worried about her future.

The girl looked at the silent child with his head down, and the various bruises on his exposed skin. She had clearly treated the older boy with good intentions, but she failed to heal the child's injuries.

“So, you have to find a way to change all this.”

Her words made the child raise his head, but the expression on that young face was so ignorant.

"You can think I'm just being sarcastic, you can hate me for preaching, but I still want you to remember that if you don't want to be bullied like this anymore, and want to give yourself and your mother a better life, then don't expect that tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or at any other time, there will still be someone as idle as me."

The girl gently stroked the child's dry hair: "Only you can save yourself."

"You've already got the chance. Whether you can seize it and how to use it is up to you. My final advice to you is the same as the warning I gave to that little bad guy just now - if you change the status quo and seek power just to bully others, then you will pay the price sooner or later. If that price never comes... then I will be your final price."

How can a child change his life and his situation?

She didn't know, and she wasn't interested in knowing, because she had never thought about saving all the children living in such an environment. It was hypocritical and unrealistic - if she had to save every child she saw, then she might as well just restart the world!

She was just simply unable to bear the tragedy before her, that's all.

"Okay, I hope we never see each other again." The girl rubbed the child's head for the last time, then turned and left.

"……and many more!"

"It's such a classic scene...Okay, okay, I know what you want to ask."

The girl, who was already halfway there, shook her head in amusement, then turned around, put one hand on her waist, lifted the brim of her soft hat with the other hand, and smiled widely:

A little bit of messy light golden hair peeked out from under the hat brim. Even though the faint freckles on both sides of the cheeks added a bit of lightness and playfulness, the whole face was still extremely ordinary in terms of appearance and temperament.

But with her bright smile, just this kind of smile... everything seems completely different.

"My name is Ze Rui, an adventurer who takes risks out of interest."

Chapter 15: The Brave and Fearless Adventurer