Chapter 56

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When Zhang Tie and Lady Anna entered the room, Barry paid the old woman four silver coins and then sat quietly in the living room, drinking water.

Soon after the two entered the room, a soft and delicate cry from Lady Anna could be heard. Barry, who was sitting in the living room drinking water, showed a sly smile on his face. Then came various strange sounds and Lady Anna's light laughter. After more than ten minutes, a scream came from the room, startling Barry, who was drinking water. The scream seemed to be from Zhang Tie. After this scream, the room fell silent for a while. A few minutes later, another scream came. This time, Barry heard it clearly; it was definitely Zhang Tie screaming.

What's going on? Barry looked at the bedroom with confusion. Lady Anna doesn't have any weird tastes, and she is the best teacher for young boys. Why is Zhang Tie screaming so terribly?

After Zhang Tie's second scream, the room fell completely silent. Then, after about five or six minutes, Barry saw Zhang Tie come out of Lady Anna's room, his face pale and his expression dejected. Without saying a word, he rushed out the door, head down, pulling Barry along.

They ran all the way out of Lady Anna's house for about a hundred meters before their pace slowed down...

"What's wrong, Zhang Tie? Why were you screaming so terribly just now?" The fat Barry panted and asked.

Zhang Tie looked dejected, hesitating to speak. Under Barry's repeated questioning, Zhang Tie hesitated for a moment and then quietly revealed his problem...

The specific reason... well... it was something like the blade expanding too much when it was drawn, making it hard to withdraw. He managed to withdraw it twice, but only halfway, which made the sheath almost tear...

"Did it happen to you the first time, too? It seems completely different from when you dream about it, right?" Zhang Tie asked Barry uncertainly.

Barry was initially stunned, then he suppressed his laughter and gave Zhang Tie a serious suggestion, "Brother, it's not a big deal. It looks like you should find time to get circumcised..."

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It seems that the plan to lose his virginity today is completely ruined. Thinking about how his first "battle" with a woman ended in such a miserable defeat, Zhang Tie felt utterly dejected.

Circumcision? Damn, why didn't anyone tell him about this before? In his dreams, he had "battles" with Teacher Daina, but he never noticed this problem. Why did he only feel the pain when it was real? His reputation, it seems, is ruined today. By tomorrow, Zhang Tie was sure that Barry, the big mouth, would spread the news to all the members of the Airplane Brotherhood.

"Brother, is there anything that's bothering you? Share it with us, and we'll all be happy, hahaha..." Thinking about the despicable characters in the Airplane Brotherhood, Zhang Tie felt his life becoming dark again.

The two crescent moons in the sky seemed to Zhang Tie like two mocking mouths. After parting ways with Barry, Zhang Tie walked home with a heavy heart, aimlessly kicking small stones on the road.

Unconsciously, Zhang Tie had walked into a sparsely populated alley...

"Bang!" Zhang Tie, who had been walking with his head down, accidentally bumped into someone. "Ah, sorry..."

He had bumped into a massive figure. Zhang Tie said apologetically, and just as he raised his head, he saw a somewhat familiar and sinister face. The man's hands were already clamping down on his shoulders like iron clamps. "Kid, we finally found you..."

The face seemed vaguely familiar. Just as Zhang Tie was about to speak, he felt a sharp pain at the back of his head, and then everything went black. He instantly lost all consciousness!

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The cold sensation of cold water splashing on his face gradually brought Zhang Tie back to consciousness. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw two faces with unpleasant expressions leaning close to him, looking like they were ready to devour him. A chill ran down his throat as the man with a snake-like aura, whom he had seen last week, pressed a dagger to his throat.

"Kid, before you can even scream, my dagger will cut your windpipe. If you don't believe me, you can try. If you understand what I'm saying, nod your head, and we can talk!"

For some reason, the more dangerous the situation, the calmer Zhang Tie's mind became. At this moment, his mind was as clear as crystal. In less than a second after waking up and seeing these two faces and hearing these words, four pieces of useful information flashed through Zhang Tie's mind.

First, the man with the dagger was afraid he would scream, which meant that the place they were in wasn't very secluded or private. If he screamed, it would definitely alert the people around.

Second, his life was in the hands of these two men, and from their appearance, they didn't care much about his life. He had to be careful with every word he said.

Third, he had first met these two men last Thursday when he bumped into the big man named Hake and then found a wooden token. They had been looking for him, and it seemed to be related to that token. The token was worthless to him, but it was important to them. His key to survival lay in that token.

Fourth, since these two men didn't hesitate to use such methods to capture him and weren't afraid of him seeing their faces or reporting them to the authorities, it seemed that in their plan, he would not be able to threaten them in the end. There were two scenarios where he wouldn't threaten them: either they would take the token and leave Black Flame City immediately, or they were determined to kill him no matter what. Only these two scenarios would give them such confidence...

The cold dagger pressed against his throat, and the faint smell of blood from the blade instantly made Zhang Tie realize his final fate. Cold sweat instantly covered his back. Zhang Tie knew that the greatest crisis of his life was right in front of him...

These thoughts flashed through Zhang Tie's mind in a second, and then he obediently nodded...

The dagger was removed from his throat, and the cold blade made the skin on Zhang Tie's neck break out in goosebumps.

"I remember you two. We met last Thursday!" Before the two men could speak, Zhang Tie, who had regained his composure, said this, which made Hake and Sneider pause.

Hake and Sneider exchanged a glance, silently communicating.

"Good, kid. Since you remember us, let's get straight to the point. Hand over our stuff!" Sneider's face instantly turned friendly, and the dagger in his hand seemed to disappear, "That thing is very important to us. Hand it over, and it will be good for everyone!"

"Can I sit up first?" Zhang Tie asked.

"Heh... heh..." The big man named Hake gave a chilling laugh and then reached out to pull Zhang Tie up from the ground, pressing him into a chair. As he stood up, Zhang Tie saw that all his belongings had been searched by the two men. The silver coins his father had given him and his pocket money were all piled on the table. It seemed that the two men had woken him up with water because they couldn't find the token on him. If the token had been on him, Zhang Tie was sure he would already be a corpse.

This was a bedroom without windows. The various furnishings in the room had a neat and orderly feel, cheap but clean. The faint sounds of people talking could be heard. Looking at the layout of the room, Zhang Tie immediately thought of the inns in Black Flame City that served the pioneers. Due to the cautious and safety-conscious nature of the pioneers, the main feature of these inns was that all the bedrooms had no windows, making them like secret rooms. Everything in this room fit the characteristics of a pioneer's inn.

"I don't remember taking anything from you two..." This made Hake and Sneider's faces change again. Before they could act, Zhang Tie quickly added, "But after I bumped into you that day..." Zhang Tie pointed at Hake, "After you left, I did find a small cloth bag on the ground. Inside was a triangular piece of ordinary wood. Is that what you're looking for?"

"That piece of wood is very important to us. If you hand it over, we can give you ten gold coins in exchange..." Sneider's smile became even more friendly, "Tell us, where did you put that piece of wood?"

You must be kidding, Zhang Tie cursed in his heart, but on his face, he put on a greedy look, swallowing hard and staring at Sneider, "Ten gold coins? You're not lying, right? I only spent four silver coins on a woman today. Ten gold coins could get me two hundred women..."

"How could I lie? Look..." Sneider pulled out a money bag from his chest and opened it, pouring out dozens of gold coins like a waterfall. The sight of the gold coins made Zhang Tie's mouth drop open. He didn't need to pretend; this was the first time he had seen so many gold coins in front of him.

Zhang Tie reached out to grab the gold coins, but they disappeared back into Sneider's hand. "You haven't told us where you put that token yet."

"It's at my house. Let me go, and I'll go home and get it for you. When I got home that night, I saw the piece of wood wasn't useful, and my nephew was playing with building blocks. I just threw the triangular piece of wood into his pile of blocks."

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