121A Cork Street, Elins East, Outer City.
It was already night in Old Dunling, and the dark whales in the night sky were swimming slowly as usual, then casting huge beams of light to peek at the sleeping city.
Hot steam gushed out from under the manhole cover, and Lorenzo slowly walked out in the white tide.
He looked fine, but his face was a little pale. He was leaning on a cane and walking very slowly.
Lorenzo escaped before the follow-up mounted police arrived. The complexity of the downtown area saved him. Judging from his familiar movements as he ran, this was not the first time he was chased.
But this time he failed to escape successfully. One can only admire the hands-on ability of the thugs. They actually made a nail gun. Lorenzo was hit while fleeing in the dense barrage. A finger-long nail shot into his waist. Fortunately, it was only a superficial injury.
Thanks to the moisture that permeates day and night, the clothes of the people in Old Dunling are always wet, so Lorenzo likes black very much, so that people can't tell whether the stains on his clothes are water stains or blood stains.
After walking for a long time, he finally arrived at the door of his home.
121A Cork Street.
This place is in a remote location and is a new area that has been developed in recent years, so the house price is very cheap. But even though it is cheap, it is still beyond the reach of detective Lorenzo. So with the introduction of Shrike, he found a nice rental house.
Lorenzo didn't dare knock on the door. He opened it gently and walked in carefully.
The owner of the first floor is the landlord, Mrs. Van Roode, a very tough old lady. It is said that she used to be a female soldier and the most heroic air cavalryman among them.
She often boasted to Lorenzo about the glorious deeds of her youth, her favorite of which was the story of how she met her husband.
I still remember that it was at the end of the Glorious War, and the entire Old Dunling was in turmoil. At that time, Mrs. Van Lude returned to Old Dunling as a wounded soldier to recuperate. At that time, a riot broke out inside Old Dunling, and she had to be dispatched urgently as a wounded soldier.
Lorenzo guessed that she met some officer and fell in love with him, but the actual situation was that Mrs. Van Rudd, as an air cavalryman, dropped from the sky pulling an iron chain, blew off the enemy's head with one shot, and captured one by the way. The unlucky guy who was captured was her future husband.
"You married your enemy?" Lorenzo was very confused at the time.
"He was just a young man who didn't learn his lesson. He became a good man under my guidance."
"What were you thinking? You were fighting! And then you snatched a husband back?"
"Lorenzo, you are still young. Do you know what love at first sight is?"
This is her answer, with a gleam in her old, cloudy eyes.
It's really a hardcore love story. A fully armed female hero fell from the sky. She should have shot the unlucky kid to death, but she was so in love at first sight that she couldn't pull the trigger. Just like a primitive man, she knocked him unconscious with a stick. When he woke up, he had only two choices: either marry the woman in front of him or be executed for treason.
Lorenzo didn't know what happened to their marriage later. Lorenzo also questioned Mrs. Van Rudd's words, but when he thought of how she pulled out her gun and shot him when he owed rent, Lorenzo stopped talking.