Chapter 13
Gotham harbor is a large area, but just like this city, its decline is still impressive.
According to the old man, Gotham once relied on this pier to prosper, but now the city no longer needs it, just like a late old man struggling with glory. He didn't want to fall down.
But frankly speaking, the port area is not the worst city in Gotham. There is a city island in the center of the city on the left and right of Gotham. There is only a bridge connecting the city. There was once Gotham's Down Town. After the city was established, the poorest people lived there, and after entering the modern society, it was as if it was forgotten by the entire city.
They call it Narrow Island. In fact, the island in this city has another name, Ridnello Island or Naiho Island, but since its terrain is like a narrow island, narrow island is obviously more suitable. Some.
It’s a real slum in Gotham now. Only the poorest and craziest people will live there. There are a lot of Gotham's dangerous people hidden in it. The narrow island has no bright side, but its dark side. He was controlled by Falcone, and almost the entire narrow island was working for him.
And there is no upper class person who will turn their eyes to the narrow island, where is the living poverty hell, and Katherine comes from there.
Cyber doesn't know this. It's only the third day since he came to this city. He knows Gotham's too shallowly.
Now he is like a dead dog, lying deep in the dock area, in a remote alley. After killing 4 killers, he lost all the power to resist and fell to the ground. He slowly climbed up his body from death, and the girl who was holding M9 in both hands and standing among the corpses lost one's head out of fear was his only hope.
"Go... go to Old Gun Bar... find Christian... let him... come and save me... bring food... a lot... a lot of food!"
Cyber is a tough one Katherine said that when the hunger and pain in his body came so fast, his words became a luxury. Katherine did not seem to understand what he said. This girl has lived at the bottom of Gotham for more than a year. The corpse could no longer cause her fear, but she still didn't want to stay here for too long.
And Cyber's request is too difficult for her. She may not know that these four dead guys are from the Jamie gang, but Cyber can kill four gunmen Adults are also an absolute danger to the sensitive and precocious Katherine.
The experience on the narrow island told Katherine that she had better stay away from these dangerous people.
Katherine looked at Cyber, and Cyber looked at her. Youngster saw a trace of hesitation in the girl’s eyes and a trace of indifference afterwards. His heart sank and Katherine thought for a dozen Second, to Cyber shook the head,
"Sorry...sir..."
She turned and ran, but at the next moment, the voice behind her became louder,
"He often beats you, right?"
Cyber yelled with the last strength, "He forced you to steal things, and he wouldn’t give you food if he didn’t steal enough money, and he He threatened you, as long as he dared to run, he would kill you... In the end, he would beat you for happy things, he would beat you for sad things, he would beat you for anger, and he would abuse you for other hell reasons... Right?"
Katherine's running stopped. Her skinny calves were covered with wounds and stains, because what Cyber said was true.
This stop gave Cyber again hope. He stopped the language for a while, but he had no strength to speak loudly anymore. He took a short breath,
"You You want to kill him, but you are afraid, and you have no ability to kill him. You are afraid of revenge, right?"
Hearing this word and hearing this naked voice, Katherine was a little scared, but When she turned her head and faced Cyber's bloodshot eyes, she saw a touch of sincerity beating in those eyes, so she was nodded. This action almost exhausted all the strength of the little girl.
next moment, Cyber's hoarse voice sounded again, full of that special sense of power,
"You saw...I killed them...I'm not afraid of them, you help me …I’ll help you!"
Katherine didn’t know how to answer, but after Cyber said what she wanted most, she instinctively wanted to verify it. She approached Cyber and looked at that person. With rapid breathing, she felt that this person was dying, but... she finally decided to help him!
Even just for the promise of an illusory, what can a 10-year-old girl who is still growing up do with all this? She can only choose to believe him, because in the past year of displacement, Cyber was the first person to promise her.
"I...how can I help you?"
The little girl looked back hard, with a trace of fear, and saw the Cyber pair closed because of exhaustion Eyes, he whispered,
"Go to their pockets...find money, buy food...any food, buy it back, don’t forget to promise...I will help you, as long as you help me...I will help You kill anyone!"
Katherine took a step back, the thin face with the big eyes and the stains on that face looked like a poor kitten. There was a trace of surviving fear in her eyes. It was not a disguise. For a man who could kill four assassins with guns, a little girl like her was almost undefended.
But after hesitating for 20 seconds, Katherine moved quickly. She threw M9 aside, a hope never seen in her gloomy life. In this brief moment, she even forgot about herself. The original mission.
Until she walked out of the alley holding more than 200 dollars, an idea popped into her mind, she has money, and the money is enough for her to pay the daily quota of the Jamie gang, enough for her to survive In 3 days, should she abandon the dying man and go back to the narrow island...
Katherine couldn’t help but glance back. There is a crooked alley behind her. No one will know if she walks now. Except for her and God, no one will know that she and Cyber's promised that after Cyber's death, she doesn't have to worry about being known about all this...but promise, Cyber's promise.
If that man can kill four people, he will definitely be able to kill the fatty Jon who has been abusing her. As for what she should do after Jon's death, Katherine has never thought about this. She habitually held her arms with her hands and touched her skin. There were all kinds of scars on it... Qing, and finally there were burns from cigarette butts. Seeing that, it seemed that it happened recently.
The burning pain came to Katherine's heart. She cried and begged Jon to let her go, but he didn't! He even wanted to assault her. If it wasn't for being stopped by others in the end, I'm afraid...
Hate...The rays of light of hatred appeared in Katherine's eyes. The child who has experienced happiness is more impossible to accept the darkness. , Jon brought her darkness, and darkness breeds hatred. The power of hatred is huge. It can change a lot of things. So Katherine's direction towards the narrow island was slightly reversed. There was a hot dog stand.
After Katherine left, Cyber lay alone on the ground, feeling the pain and hunger from in the bones. He didn’t know if the girl would keep the promise, but he can only hope now With Katherine, he didn't even dare to let Katherine go looking for the old man. It would probably attract Jamie's attention. In his current state, once he was discovered... he would be dead.
And that little girl doesn't necessarily know the location of Old Gun Bar.
This feeling of waiting to die makes Cyber very disgusting, but he has no way, he is very unwilling, but he has no way! After arriving in New World, he thought he could get rid of the fate of the past, but only three days later, he faced the same terrible ending.
"If that kind of power really exists..."
Cyber opened his eyes and looked at the sky above the narrow alley, which is the blue sky, "If you let me To this world...then let me see your power again...you tell me in this way how cruel this world is...I accept it! I don't know what you want me to do...but at least...let me live first Come down!"
After 10 minutes, Cyber felt that he had reached the limit. It was also in this brief moment. He heard the sound of footsteps, a little panic, like running footsteps. When he saw that When carrying a big bag with half of the silhouette of a girl with a hot dog in her mouth, Cyber gave out the deepest laugh, like a night owl in the dark.
"hehe...ha...Hahaha... survived..."
Katherine put the 20 hot dogs in her hand beside Cyber, while she bit the hot dog in her hand , While taking out one, tearing open the package, and stuffing it into Cyber's mouth, not gentle, but Cyber thanked her from the bottom of his heart.
In this brief moment, this beggar little girl with big eyes and messy hair is like an angel with warm holy light in this dirty dress. , She brought him hope of life.
Bite, swallow, and in a blink of an eye, 5 large hot dogs were stuffed into Cyber's mouth, Barry. The feeling of what kind of hot food fell into his stomach gave him the flow of heat in his body. It was like a wolfdog smelling blood, and quickly rushed out again, burned, ignited, the food was quickly digested, and energy began to flow in his body.
His arms regained some strength, and he laughed hard at Katherine, and the blood-stained smile made the little girl who was holding the second hot dog ready to enjoy lunch step back.
"Don't be afraid, child, I won't hurt you. Starting today, you will be mine... well, my little angel."
Cyber sat up hard Body, surrounded by four corpses, he and the silent Katherine ate the large bag of food cleanly. At the moment when the last bit of sausage fell into the mouth, Cyber was still hungry, but he had recovered a little. The power of action.
The wound on the abdomen has begun to heal, and the wound on the thigh has begun to scab.
He rubbed his empty stomach, tilted his head and looked at Katherine, who also looked up at him, he reached out and touched the top of Katherine's head, he could feel the child's body trembling .
He can feel this emotion, just like a scene in the chaotic memory. In a snowy weather, he squatted in the corner like this, and then was brought into the corner by fate. In place, he has entered the life of being a "weapon". He doesn't actually hate that kind of life. If there was no man who touched his head and asked him if he would like to go with him, maybe he would have been in the snow long ago. I starved to death afterwards.
This kind of strong sense of sight controlled Cyber. He looked at this little girl who looked like a helpless kitten, and said in as gentle a voice as possible,
"Thank you...you saved me, wait for me to recover some, no...wait for me to change clothes, then...then I will take you to fulfill my promise!"
He extends the hand to her, eat Katherine, who was full, looked at the hand that stretched out in front of her eyes, slender and clean, neat and tidy with nails also built, it didn’t look like a man’s hand, but at this time, there was blood that had dried up on that hand, Katherine Somewhat in a trance, how long has no one spoken to himself like this?
After her parents separated, she wandered in Gotham, was sent to an orphanage, was abused, escaped on a rainy night, and was "adopted" by fatty Jon. Until now, one year In the time, no one has treated her like this, not very warm, at least an equal and friendly attitude.
Katherine is very vigilant towards this weird man in front of her. This vigilance is the guarantee for her to live alone and alone for a year, but at this moment, she is not handsome in the face, nor Cyber is so friendly, in this empty alley with only four corpses, Katherine really wants to hold that hand.
She extends the hand, she saw her hand, dirty, cracked, wound, and the tears she had just left, making that palm look terrible, she was a little ashamed. I wanted to retract my hand, but Cyber's leaned forward and held the small hand in the palm of his hand.
It's very warm, this is Katherine's first feeling, Cyber's eyes are also narrowed, like an old cat with a smile, he hates thieves, hates robbers, hating everything makes him angry The guys will beat them, scare them, and kill them.
But for the little cat who just saved his girl, he is very tolerant.
He took Katherine to the outside of the alley. At first she resisted a little bit, but soon she followed his footsteps. Cyber looked down at her and said in a low voice,
"My name is Cyber, Cyber·Hawk, what about you?"
Cyber walked up to the black man who was killed, and skillfully took down the black windbreaker. He was covered with blood. Going out in this way will definitely attract the police. He has to go back to the bar and change his clothes. He puts a fairly clean windbreaker on his body. The little girl replied in a low voice with a dry and hoarse voice,
"Katherine...My name is Katherine."
Next moment, Cyber squatted in front of her, stretched out her hands and rubbed her face, she looked at Cyber, who squinted and smiled in surprise, and the latter scraped again. After scraping her nose, this sudden intimacy caused Katherine to take a step back. It seemed that the next moment was about to turn and escape, but then Cyber was a little dizzy to prop up her body and patted her head,
"Go Let’s go home and change clothes first!"
Cyber took a deep breath, he took out the last crumpled cigarette from the unsightly cigarette case that had been crushed in the fierce battle, and held it in On his mouth, in the smoke, he looked around, and then coughed hard,
"Do you know how Old Gun Bar goes?"
"Yes... Is it the bar in the quayside? I know."
"Okay, then take me, Katherine, I...well, I'm not familiar with this place."
Cyber Wiping the blood on her face, and then grinning at her,
"Let’s get revenge for you! But before that, we have to go back and have a big meal!"