The afternoon sun is like scattered gold, giving people a calm and drowsy feeling. It was a rare sunny day. Although she carried a parasol with her, Catalina just put it away and held it in her hand, feeling the golden light.
After asking about Astrid Street for a long time, she finally found her target——
Two rows of tall red brick houses formed a narrow and long alleyway. A man wrapped in a coat stood with his back against the wall next to a black iron drainage pipe, with one hand in his coat and looking around from time to time.
Although his back was to the wall, the man outside did not lean on the wall like ordinary people, and his legs always maintained a standing position one behind the other, making it easier to dodge.
Judging from his stance, this person should have learned some fighting skills.
Katalina's proficiency as a swordsman made her notice this, but her confidence as a Level 2 Extraordinary allowed her to ignore this potential threat and walk straight into the alley.
The lane is shadowed by the shadows of brick houses. Behind the gate, a man wearing a dark blue dome hat sat behind a pine table, with one leg crossed and repeatedly poking at the table with a water-dipped quill.
He was wearing a wool coat, a dark green mesh tie, and a watch chain on his chest. He looked decent. The people standing behind him were dressed casually——
Linen blouses, leather jackets, butcher's aprons. A peaked cap, an octagonal hat... There is no tie around his neck, and his clothes are crooked. At a glance, you can tell that he is not a serious person, but is probably a gangster.
"Good afternoon, gentlemen. What are you doing?" Although the other person didn't look like a good person, Catalina still asked politely.
"Do you know the words? If you know the words, read it yourself." The man yawned and poked the paper on the table with the tip of his pen with one hand.
It was a perfunctory hand-drawn chart, and the general idea was to recruit part-time workers for various clubs. The scrawled handwriting made Catalina frown. Even when she was still suffering from crystal malignancy, her handwriting would be much neater than this.
"Why are you recruiting workers here? Isn't it too remote?" Catalina asked.
"What does it have to do with you, little girl?" the man retorted.
"Can I sign up?"
"Of course, if you want to be a stripper, I know a few good places. But I'm afraid the brothers need to test your business skills first."
After saying that, the decent man showed a malicious smile, and the people around him laughed in agreement.
Catalina sighed helplessly after hearing this. She no longer planned to be polite to these people:
"I'm looking for a child. His name is Tommy. He used to work as a newsboy. He is about seven or eight years old. He is less than one meter tall. He usually wears a patched grid pattern hat. Someone told me that he is right. I am very interested in your recruitment information, has he been to your place?"
Hearing these words, the face of the decent man who had been laughing just now suddenly became clouded, and he straightened up and said:
"I've never heard of anything. If you don't want to cause trouble, just get out of here -"
Maintain the dignity of a knight at all times. Katarina interrupted him calmly:
"Tell me where Tommy is and I'll get out of here right away. Nothing will happen and no one will get hurt. What do you think?"
For a moment, Catalina felt that she was talking like her father. She had never thought that she would be anything like her father, but the power of blood seemed to be extremely powerful.
Even the most arrogant guy can hear the intimidation contained in these words.
The decent man couldn't help but restrain himself a little, and in the blink of an eye he changed his face to a kind one:
"Haha, calm down, Miss, why bother? I also work for others. I will do whatever my employer says. I won't ask any unnecessary questions..."
When he said this, Catalina clearly saw him wink at the person behind him, and the shadow of the man in the coat moved behind him.
It seems that we still have to use force to solve the problem...
Katarina raised the parasol in her hand and stabbed forward. The tip of the horn connected to the hardwood handle poked the soft belly of the man in the coat, and the instinctive reaction triggered by the pain made him bend down.
A series of slashes hit his head, and the man in the coat fell down like an empty soda bottle. He couldn't even take out the short knife in the coat, only a small part was exposed.
"Fuck, this bitch..."
It wasn't until the bodyguard outside fell that the decent man understood what had happened. He cursed under his breath and struggled to stand up, but the sitting posture with his feet crossed made him slow down a step.
Katarina turned around and struck the man on the shoulder lightly, knocking him down to the ground with his chair——
We have to keep him awake for the time being, and we haven't found out Tommy's whereabouts yet.
Although the remaining people had reacted and pulled out their weapons, the narrow terrain of the alley limited their numerical advantage. Catalina only had to face attacks from two ordinary people at the same time, which was simply too much for her. Easier than riding a horse for a walk——
I saw that she had enough room to use the tip of the umbrella to lift the ink bottle on the table to avoid staining Lisa's dress, and then turned it over with her palms on the table.
A flying knife flew towards her, but the movement was too obvious and the speed was not fast enough. She didn't even need to use the "Lake" secret text, she just turned sideways and dodged it.
The thugs gathered towards her. She first slashed the knee of the opponent wearing a butcher's apron on the left with a diagonal slash, and then drew her sword and hit the wrist of the opponent wearing an octagonal hat on the right, knocking the dagger out of his hand.
In an instant, before the enemy could take action, Catalina held the umbrella with her left hand, pushed the umbrella with both hands and stabbed the "Octagonal Hat" in the armpits. The severe pain caused him to go into shock.
Then she waved her left hand and knocked the "butcher's apron" off with an elbow.
Seeing the people in front of them all falling to the ground like ears of wheat facing a sickle, the thugs in the rear also lost their will to fight and hesitated to move forward.
"Get out of the way!"
The thug standing at the back pulled out an old-fashioned flintlock pistol from his waist and shouted to his accomplices. The wall of people immediately spread to the left and right, for fear of being injured by bullets.
And this also cleared the obstacles ahead for Catalina. Instead of retreating, she advanced forward, leaned forward and rushed forward, turning her wrist to stab forward.
The blunt tip of the horn-made umbrella stabbed the opponent's index finger with great precision before he aimed at her, smashing the entire phalange into pieces——
There was silence, and then the pain slowly came.
The gunman burst out with heart-piercing screams of pain, covered his fingers and fell to his knees, begging for mercy.
Although the others were behind Catalina, they did not dare to make any noise at all, for fear that Catalina would notice them.
"Throw all your weapons on the ground and go away. I only want to talk to this gentleman."
Catalina turned around again and pointed her parasol at the "respectable man" who had fallen on the chair.
