Dirty street lights, silent streets...23

Hermiya frowned with beautiful eyebrows. She turned her head and looked at the man in black beside her. From the low and magnetic voice, it can be judged that the other party was a man. His figure was tall and tall, with a pitch-black cloak covering his body, and only half of his blurry face was exposed under the wide brim of the hat.

Most of the people who are familiar with her know her mother's serious illness. During her days in the tavern, many guests who used to covet her beauty wanted to develop further with her based on her mother's illness, but Hermiya all rejected their "good intentions". The hospitality work over the years has long enabled her to learn the ability to identify people. Basically, she can see from some words and deeds that the other party is probably like.

The man in black is not like any guest she has ever seen before. Although Hermiya couldn't see the expression on the other person's face, there was an irresistible magic in the other person's voice that forced you to believe what he said.

"You have the ability to cure my mother?" Hermiya asked subconsciously.

"I don't have the ability, but I have a way." The man in black said calmly.

"If I have a solution, I don't need to bother you." Hermiya was stunned, then said with a sense of amusement.

"The problem is that you have the ability to solve the problem?" the man in black said without hesitation.

"You are right, I really don't have the ability to solve it." Hermiya immediately laughed at herself when she heard it.

"But I have!" said the man in black.

"For example?" Hermiya said with great interest.

"I can ask the pharmacist to cure your mother." said the man in black.

"You..." Hermiya was shocked. She remembered that this idea had only told a few people, and how did the other party know?

"Don't be nervous. I have no malice towards you!" The man in black seemed to notice what Hemia was thinking and said directly.

"On average bad people never admit in person that they are doing bad things." Hermiya snorted coldly. "Tell me. What is the purpose of keeping you tolerating the cold wind on my way home just to help me? My **? First night?"

"You said something wrong! I am not helping you. But I hope to reach a deal with you." The man in black turned his head slightly and looked at Hemia with a cold face and said, "Besides, I have no interest in your **."

After hearing the unremarkable answer from the man in black, Hermiya seemed to feel that she was greatly insulted in her self-esteem. What does it mean that I am not helping you?! What does it mean that I just want to make a deal with you?! What is the difference between the two? And what does it mean that I am not interested in your ***?! Did he think I am the kind of prostitute who will sell my **** and dignity at will?

She clenched her fists tightly, and her clear face showed a slight anger, as if she wanted to punch the other party's disgusting face that couldn't see clearly!

"Hermia! You seem to be in trouble!"

At this time, a man slowly walked out of the alleys of the street.

"Batak, you're here just in time! I don't want to see this rude gentleman again. Can you help me solve it?" The woman is indeed an emotional creature. After hearing the familiar voice coming from behind her, Hermiya, who was indignant, immediately pointed at the man in black and said without hesitation.

"I advise you not to do stupid things." The man in black whispered to the man who was ready to rub his hands in front of him.

"Stupid? Hemia dares to be arrogant when she gets angry?! I will teach you what respect and politeness are right away!"

The man named Batak moved his wrists and walked fiercely towards the man in black with a fierce look. His burly and strong body was indeed full of oppression in front of ordinary people, at least in Hermiya's eyes, so fierce and powerful!

However--

The man in black just shook his head lightly, and a blue light suddenly appeared.

Batak suddenly stopped and stood there in a daze, looking at the front half of his step in a daze, and saw an unfathomable crack standing at his feet. Not only that, the flat crack even spread to both ends of the street, as if a natural barrier blocked his way forward.

"I don't want to kill anyone!" said the man in black calmly. "But if you cross the line, you will die!"

Batak immediately collapsed on the ground, his hands and feet pressed against the ground and quickly retreated, as if the crack in front of him was like a man-eating beast that frightened him. At the same time, his eyes were filled with incredible fear.

"The Peak Swordsman..."

The man in black ignored Batak and turned toward Hermiya, who had already been frightened, and said, "The topic continues. Do you agree to the deal with me?"

"You...what do you want from me?" Hermiya was just a little girl who had never really seen the world. After the shocking attack of the man in black, she immediately trembled like a terrified little rabbit.

"Something." said the man in black.

"What?" Hermia was confused.

"You will know in the future." The man in black said lightly. "Now, your answer."

Hermiya hesitated for a long time. She tried to suppress her inner fear. The appearance of the man in black was too inexplicable. She didn't understand any transaction at all. Now she was only worried about one thing. If she refused the other party, would the other party kill her?!

"I promise you a deal!"

In the end, Hermiya was unwilling to surrender.

"Very good!" Black nodded, his attitude was still cold and calm, and said, "Take me to your home."

"What do you...what do you want to do?" Hermiya immediately said nervously.

"Pack up your things and take your mother to Port Louis!" said the man in black. "What? Don't you want to treat your mother as soon as possible?"

"But...but... this is not too hasty? I...I'm not prepared in my heart..." Hermiya said tremblingly.

"So your mother will die like this." The man in black murmured in soft voice.

"What are you talking about?" Hermiya seemed to hear the other party talking to herself, but her voice was too weak and blurry, and for a moment she had to muster up the courage to ask.

"Nothing! Lead the way!" the man in black said decisively.

Faced with the man in black's decisive actions, Hermiya had to surrender again.

Before leaving, Hermiya had just turned around. The man in black waved at Batak who was slumped behind him. The other party immediately turned pale and fainted and fell to the ground.

...

Hermiya's home is an ordinary civilian residential area in Brito. She walked through the alleys of the house with ease. Occasionally, she barked dogs and barked me. She stepped on the road of soil and leaned against the faint moonlight. Soon, she came to a simple house. Hermiya opened the locked door and saw a delicate courtyard full of green.

When the man in black entered the door, Hermiya habitually inserted the door bolt and locked it. She took a deep breath, tried to calm down her uneasy mood, and came to her real home after walking a few steps towards the clean and clean dirt road.

As soon as I opened the door, a weak and dying voice came from the room.

"Hermia, are you back?"

"Mother, I'm back!"

Hermiya tried to answer in her usual tone.

In the dark room, the dim lights lit up in an instant.

At this time, the black-clad man really saw the environment in the house. The decoration and layout of the house was quite simple. There was only an old table in the living room, and there was no other furniture outside the neatly arranged wooden chairs. Perhaps the only place worth noting was the abnormally clean room.

Hermiya had already walked into the inner room to take care of her mother. The man in black pulled a chair and sat down and waited quietly. Although his keen hearing could clearly understand the low conversation between Hermiya and her mother, he was not interested in knowing what they were talking about.

After a while, Hermiya helped her mother out of the inner room. When she served her mother and sat firmly behind the chair, she relieved her breath and looked at the man in black who was sitting on the other side at the same time and became nervous again.

"Your Excellency, I have just learned your purpose from Hermiya, but I'm sorry, I don't want to leave here."

Before Hermiya could think about how to speak, her mother smiled and said to the man in black.

"I know why you don't want to leave this home, because this is the last thing your man left to you when he left. You know that your body is almost out of reach, so you just want to die here quietly with the longing for that man for the rest of your life." After the man in black said calmly, the topic suddenly changed: "But do you know that the man has never died and has always lived in Esdaq City State?"

"What?"

Hearing the words of the man in black, Hermiya and her mother were stunned.

"Your Excellency! Do you know where Hartley is?" Hermiya's mother suddenly felt excited.

"Of course, I know not only where Mr. Hartley is, but also his real name!" said the man in black.

"You... are you saying...Hartley's name fake?" Hermiya's mother was stunned for a moment, then her eyes began to wet, and her mouth sobbed bitterly: "So that's it, so that's it, no wonder I haven't been able to find out about him all these years. It turns out that he has been lying to me..."

"If you want to question Mr. Hartley in person, the opportunity is now placed before you." said the man in black.

"You mean... Hartley has been in Port Louis all these years?" Hermia's mother stopped crying and immediately responded.

"That's right!" the man in black nodded.

Hermiya listened blankly to the conversation between the man in black and her mother. She did not expect that things would turn so absurdly towards a point she could not imagine. She was simply coerced and had to agree to take her mother to Port Louis for treatment. As soon as she knew, she suddenly pulled out the kind-hearted man who abandoned her mother.

She feels that she needs to be calm! Calm down!

But--

How could this make her calm down!

"Wait... Wait... What's going on? Who can explain it to me clearly?!" Hermiya trembled as she bit her lip.

"Hermia, calm down..." Hermia's mother gently patted her hand and comforted her gently: "Maybe we really need to go to Port Louis with this Excellency."

"I hope you will bring the pocket watch that Mr. Hartley often leaves you." said the man in black.

"Is the pocket watch... it has always been worn by me." Hermiya's mother reached out and slowly pulled the silver chain between her neck, took out the pocket watch worn in her chest and stroked it: "Even if I was the poorest, I didn't sell it, but I didn't expect that this has always been too stupid."

As he said that, Hermiya's mother couldn't help but shed tears again.

"Since that's the case, pack up your luggage. The carriage has been arranged. We can set off when dawn!" The man in black looked at the pocket watch on Hermiya's mother's chest and nodded.

"In other words, this time we not only have to go to Port Louis to treat our mother's illness, but also to meet the man who abandoned her mother back then?" Hermiya, who had sorted out her thoughts, suddenly spoke.

"Yes." The man in black glanced at Hermiya.

"I won't go! I don't want to see my mother meet that man! That man has already made her mother like this, I don't want my mother to be sad and painful anymore!" Hermiya shouted hysterically.

"You are not your mother, you can't interfere with her decision." The man in black said coldly.

"Hermia, don't be willful. There must be something I need to ask your father in front of you."

Hermiya's mother said bitterly, and at the same time wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and said to the man in black: "You dare ask what you call me?"
Chapter completed!