Liu Sheng and Zhao Xi were the first members of the Demon Hunters that Hao Ren met. The grudge they had when they first met has long been resolved. Hao Ren now treats them as adults: not friends, but still somewhat
The kind of friendship.
During the Corpus Rebellion more than a month ago, Yagyu and Zhao Xi, like other demon hunters, were urgently recalled to the North Pole by the headquarters to participate in the counterattack against the Presbyterian Order. Since then, there has been no news from them.
Among ordinary people, he may be a superman who can go to heaven and earth, but in the grand battle of Corpus, a demon hunter like this was just one of the countless soldiers fighting on the front line. Without special luck,
, their lives are not necessarily more stable than others.
Hao Ren was very busy during the Corpus War. After the war, he was busy sorting out a lot of prehistoric materials and the disputes between aliens. It was only now that he suddenly remembered the incident between Yagyu and Zhao Xi. Now that the civil war has been mostly over
In this month, the new parliament and the witchers originally stationed in the Arctic are busy rebuilding Corpus, while the field witchers summoned from all over the world have gradually returned to their original places: the thousand-year foundation of the witchers.
They cannot just abandon it. They must try their best to rebuild their power network in this world. Even if they cannot rebuild it, they must ensure that they can keep abreast of the happenings around the world.
So if Yagyu and Zhao Xi are still alive, they have probably returned to this city.
Hao Ren carried the data terminal to the middle floor of the mall. With his good memory... which was actually the navigation of the data terminal, he found the place where Zhao Xi once worked, the small mobile phone store. There was a man standing in front of the counter.
A short, fat girl and a girl with freckles on her face whom Hao Ren vaguely remembered were busy in the store. Hao Ren stepped forward to ask about Zhao Xi.
"Zhao Xi? She hasn't come to work for two months," the freckled girl looked at Hao Ren strangely, frowned and thought for a few seconds before suddenly reacting. "Oh, by the way, you've been here once before. I
How come you look familiar...who are you Zhao Xi? Are you her boyfriend?"
The short, fat girl next to her said bluntly: "No way. How could someone as cold and cold as Zhao Xi get a boyfriend..."
"Well, I'm not." Hao Ren waved his hands awkwardly, then became a little worried, "Zhao Xi hasn't come back yet? Don't you have any news at all?"
The pudgy girl shook her head vigorously: "No, she is very mysterious. We don't even know where she lives. When I called her last month, I found that her mobile phone was turned off."
Hao Ren frowned, wondering whether he should go to Hasselblad or Baihuo to confirm the list of surviving demon hunters. At the same time, he casually asked about the whereabouts of another person: "What about Yagyu? He came to work.
What?"
The freckled girl nodded when she heard Yagyu's name. But before she spoke, Hao Ren heard a vaguely familiar voice coming from behind: "Hey? Why are you here?"
Hao Ren turned around and found that the person standing behind him was Yagyu Sheng. This senior demon hunter was still dressed as before, wearing a half-new suit, a pair of decorative plain glasses, and a pair of not very bright glasses.
Cheap leather shoes, looking like a small factory director from a paper factory in the urban-rural fringe area, walking in a bustling shopping mall and turning his face to be lost in everyone. He stood three meters away and looked at Hao Ren with a little surprise.
, and then suddenly laughed: "I haven't seen you for more than half a month."
Hao Ren quickly walked over and whispered: "I haven't seen you in two months."
"It's normal. When we last met, you were leading a hundred thousand demons to storm the temple, but I was lying on a stretcher watching you fight. I can see you, but you can't see me," Yagyu smiled, rolled up his sleeves and exposed his wrists.
, there is a dark red circumcision wound on the wrist, "and there is still some memory that this hand just grew out ten days ago. Fortunately, it was just cut off by a knife. If it was injured by a spell, I'm afraid it will last a lifetime."
If I don’t come back, I won’t be able to go to work.”
Hao Ren looked at this former "enemy". He couldn't sum up the various emotions in his heart. In the end, he just smiled: "It's good to be alive. Where is Zhao Xi?"
"Zhao Xi? She..." Liu Sheng suddenly paused here. Then he continued, "She is still alive."
"Can I go see her?"
Liu Sheng thought for a while and nodded: "Come with me. I just can get off work early today."
Liu Sheng and Zhao Xi lived not far away, and unlike what Hao Ren had guessed, the place the two demon hunters chose as their base was not a mysterious and dark corner, nor did it have a strange atmosphere. They lived not far from the shopping mall.
In a residential area far away, two people are on the top floor and are neighbors across the door.
They secluded themselves in the city, and the place where they lived was completely invisible to anyone who knew it was the residence of a witcher.
"Living on the top floor, it's usually quieter," Liu Sheng led Hao Ren to his rented place. He first threw his things into his room, then took out another set of keys from his pocket to open Zhao Xi's door.
, "The elevators here are always out of order. Although climbing the stairs is not tiring, it is quite annoying."
"You two are still buying a house in the city?" Hao Ren suddenly said this out of nowhere.
"How can that not be possible? House prices are so expensive now," Yagyu replied casually, "We rent this house."
Hao Ren was stunned: "You demon hunters are still short of money?"
Yagyu looked at him strangely: "Does a demon hunter have to be rich?"
"Uh...I mean you are more or less immortal. You will live hundreds or thousands of years in this life. Even if you sell sweet potatoes, you should be at the peak of your life." Hao Ren felt incredible. He felt that the demon hunter was a descendant of the Mythical Age.
The big winner shouldn't be in such a miserable state. Although there is no reason, that's what he thinks, "At least you should have no problem buying a house like this."
Yagyu chuckled: "Then why do you rent all the houses there?"
Hao Ren thought about it and felt speechless...
But he still felt that it was quite unbelievable that a regional leader-level demon hunter like Yagyu needed to rent a house. After thinking about it carefully, he felt that this might be "attributed" to Vivian: the poor goddess Countess is suppressing domestic pressure.
, even though she had abdicated from the position of Fourteen Saints six thousand years ago, her remaining power of declining gods still spread to the entire demon hunter organization. At least judging from Yagyu's situation, the demon hunters
Grassroots cadres are not doing so well...
At this time, Liu Sheng had found the key and opened the door. He greeted inside: "Zhao Xi, a guest is here."
Afterwards, no one in the room responded, and Liu Sheng directly let Hao Ren into the living room: "Come in, she can't entertain you."
Hao Ren walked into the house with a little curiosity. It was a very simple home, a small apartment with one bedroom and one living room. There were only a few basic simple furniture in the living room, and Zhao Xi was sitting on the faded sofa.
She showed no reaction to anyone entering the house.
Hao Ren immediately sensed that something was wrong with the other party. He walked forward, only to find that Zhao Xi was just staring at the wall opposite the living room with an expressionless face, his eyes half-open and half-closed, occasionally blinking, but there was no focus in his pupils.
He stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Zhao Xi's eyes, and the latter seemed to respond slightly: she tilted her head slightly, but other than that there was no other movement.
"Is this... Soul Leaving Syndrome?" Hao Ren thought of the remaining symptoms of many demon hunters after the Battle of Corpus, those demon hunters who had been trapped in the clock tower of the spirit world and the surviving Elder Order.
Soldiers all have this situation, but Zhao Xi's situation is obviously more serious: now that so much time has passed, she is still almost in a vegetative state!
"She was once captured in the spirit world clock tower. Although it didn't last long, she became like this after she came out," Yagyu sighed, "Oh, she is too weak. I don't know when she will recover."
The extent of the impact of Lean Soul Syndrome directly depends on the victim's mental strength. A powerful demon hunter like Hasselblad only needs about a week to return to normal mobility from the state of Leander Soul Syndrome, while the weaker the demon hunter, the more powerful the demon hunter is.
The more serious the effects of Soul Leaving Syndrome are. Zhao Xi is undoubtedly a very weak demon hunter. She is not even a senior, she is just an ordinary formal hunter.
Therefore, Yagyu believes that Zhao Xi's current state is the result of malignant soul separation syndrome.
Hao Ren actually thought so at first, but just when he was about to leave from Zhao Xi, the data terminal suddenly came out of his pocket: "Wait a minute! She doesn't seem to have a spirit-leaving syndrome!"
Hao Ren was startled for a moment, and then he realized one thing: his physical strength seemed to be working again?
At this time, the data terminal had already circled Zhao Xi's head several times. After sweeping around, it suddenly flew back: "There is something in her soul, a very powerful thing!" (To be continued.