Judging from Lu Jiu's reaction, the young man wearing a purple outfit with thick dark circles under his eyes must be his younger brother.
Since they recognize each other as brothers, Yan Luojun will naturally not disturb them.
Lu Jiu put the Duan Chen Sword back into its scabbard and looked at his brother in front of him with a complicated expression.
He sighed, with guilt in his tone: "I'm sorry, Archie, I didn't protect you..."
If he hadn't been so useless, Archie wouldn't be what he is now.
If I had had enough strength, I would have been able to protect him from harm.
I... didn't keep the promise I made with my mother...
Ah Qi frowned slightly when she heard this, with a hint of doubt in her eyes.
The young man in white clothes in front of him looked very strange, and Aqi was sure that she had never seen him before.
But...why does he give me a familiar feeling again?
He began to try hard to recall his past, trying to find the memory of himself and the person in front of him.
However, it seemed that he had touched a restricted area, and a strong tingling sensation instantly swept through his brain!
Ah Qi closed her eyes with a painful expression and half-knelt on the ground.
"Archie!"
Lu Jiu was shocked when he saw this, and quickly ran to his side and helped him up.
Seeing his painful look, Lu Jiu felt like her heart was filled with anger.
After a while, Ah Qi finally felt that the pain had eased a lot.
Ah Qi slapped Lu Jiu's hand away, looked at him, and said in a confused tone: "Who...are you?"
Before, I still had that unfamiliar feeling of familiarity with the person in front of me, but when the tingling sensation swept through my brain, this feeling disappeared.
What replaced it was a feeling of resistance that seemed to be hostile.
Ah Qi was not a fool. He vaguely felt that this sense of hostility and resistance was very deliberate and made him feel very uncomfortable.
It was also difficult for him to recall his previous memories.
Could it be that...the person in front of me...is a very important person to my former self?
When Lu Jiu saw him like this, his heart tightened, and he wished he could kill the leader of the Shadow Assassins right now to vent his hatred!
"Your original name is Mo Qi, my name is Mo Jiu, and I am your brother."
Lu Jiu looked at him and sighed.
I have specifically read through information on memory before, but I have never found any technique that can change a person's memory to Aqi's.
Therefore, Lu Jiu could only watch it with his eyes and worry in his heart, but he had no way to do anything.
Ah Qi fell into silence after hearing this.
He doesn't plan to try to find his past memories anymore.
That feeling is not only painful, but also affects one's memory and human senses.
Seeing his silence, Lu Jiu sighed again: "You should take those two jade pendants with you!"
Ah Qi silently took out two warm jade pendants from her arms and placed them in front of Lu Jiu.
"Is this what you're talking about?"
When Lu Jiu saw this, he was filled with indescribable discomfort and mixed feelings.
His hands were slightly trembling as he took the two jade pendants.
Seeing Aqi looking at him, Lu Jiu's eyes were slightly red.
To be honest, with Aqi's reaction just now, Lu Jiu felt that he wouldn't be surprised if he immediately slashed at her just now.
However... Ah Qi held back and did not obey his inner resistance.
Thinking of this, Lu Jiu could no longer bear the guilt and distress in her heart, and hugged her tightly.
"Archie, it's my brother who is sorry for you... I'm really sorry..."
Lu Jiu pressed her lips tightly, and two lines of tears flowed down.
Ah Qi was silent when she saw this, and allowed Lu Jiu to hug her without pushing her away.
His hands moved, he hesitated for a moment, and finally put his hands on Lu Jiu's back.
…
Yan Luojun, who was sitting next to him, was a little disgusted when he saw this, but he was also very moved.
Lu Jiu looked like he didn't recognize him just now, and seemed to have lost his memory.
Several warriors lining up not far from her looked disgusted when they saw this.
"Hey~ Why are these two so gay? It's really hurtful..."
Whoosh!
Before he finished speaking, he felt a gust of cool wind blowing by his neck, making him swallow his saliva.
When he looked back, he saw that a chopstick had swiped past his neck and was inserted into the pillar next to him!
Damn it! I almost died just now!
The assassin from the country of supernatural powers couldn't help but break into a cold sweat when he saw this.
A cold voice came from behind him.
"If you talk too much, I'll cut off your tongue!"
Yan Luojun looked cold.
Seeing this, the warrior swallowed his saliva, pursed his lips tightly, and turned his head away.
Many warriors nearby turned pale with fright when they saw this, and quickly turned their heads, fearing that Yan Luojun would cut off their tongues if he was unhappy!
…
At the top of the Shadow Assassin's station, the leader seemed to have something in his mind.
He slowly opened his eyes, and a violent red light flashed.
"Ah."
He chuckled, as if he had seen something interesting.
This voice echoed in the hall for a long time.
…
"Come and eat more, eat more! Eat this! This is delicious!"
"Look at how thin you have become!"
In a private room of an inn in Shenduan Kingdom, Lu Jiu looked at Ah Qi with a distressed look on his face, holding chopsticks in his hand, and kept adding vegetables to Ah Qi's bowl.
Aqi looked at the rice bowls piled higher than her head in front of her and fell into silence...
Yan Luojun on the side picked up a piece of meat and put it into his mouth angrily. It felt like a lemon.
So abominable! This Lu Jiu!
"Hurry up and eat! Why are you standing there? Are you still worried that your brother has no money?"
Seeing his brother not moving his chopsticks, Lu Jiu said with some displeasure.
Ah Qi glanced at him after hearing this, hesitated for a moment, and picked up the chopsticks.
He picked it up starting from the highest one, raised his hand as high as he could, and then picked up the top piece of meat and put it into his mouth.
"I said, your boy has become an assassin. It should be very profitable. How come you are so thin?"
Lu Jiu said with some dissatisfaction.
He really wasn't lying. Ah Qi is now short, not even 1.7 meters tall, and she looks skinny!
When Ah Qi heard this, a trace of doubt appeared on her stern face: "Is it profitable to be an assassin?"
He really doesn't think it's profitable to be an assassin.
If he hadn't been smart enough to go back and touch the corpse every time he killed someone, he would have starved to death!
Looking at it this way, how can you make money as an assassin?
When Lu Jiu heard this, he paused while picking up the food.
Then he just felt furious!
"Did the leader of the Shadow Assassins deduct your bounty?"
Aqi said that being an assassin didn't make any money, so Lu Jiu only thought of one possibility - the leader had deducted Aqi's salary!
Damn you old thief! Bullying my brother! I will definitely skin you and cramp you! Eat meat and drink blood! Put it in a frying pan and fry it!!!
Lu Jiu couldn't wait to go to the Shadow Assassin organization right now to kill the old guy, the leader of the Shadow Assassins!
Ah Qi became even more confused after hearing this.
Bounty?
"What's the bounty?"
The bounty lists of the Assassin organization all have ingot designs on them.
However, since the Shadow Assassins are all elite, they kill more powerful people, so the bounty is naturally much higher.
For convenience, the bounty of the Shadow Assassin Organization is usually a horizontal line drawn under the character's head, which represents one horizontal line and ten taels of gold.
The leader felt that Aqi should be able to understand it, so he pretended to be a bitch and didn't tell him.
So of course Aqi didn't know how valuable the heads he killed were...
Lu Jiu was stunned when he heard this, frowned slightly, and suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
"You... don't know what a bounty is? Don't you want to collect the bounty even if you kill someone?"
Lu Jiu said in a tentative tone.
He suddenly understood why Ah Qi was so thin...
Ah Qi shook her head when she heard this: "No, I didn't know you could get a reward for killing someone."
"puff!"
Yan Luojun, who was drinking soup next to him, heard this and sprayed a mouthful of hot soup on Lu Jiu's face.
"Uh... I'm sorry, Lu Jiu!"
Yan Luojun suppressed a smile when he saw this, took out a handkerchief and handed it to him.
Lu Jiu took the handkerchief and wiped his face expressionlessly.
Then he looked at Ah Qi, with an expression of hatred for steel.
Silly brother! You missed 100 million!
Seeing that he still had that calm face and a trace of innocence in his eyes, Lu Jiu sighed.
"Oh, forget it, forget about it." Lu Jiu waved his hand, and then said: "Aqi, take the magic knife and follow me back to Qinglong Pavilion!"
Lu Jiu's tone was serious.
Naturally, he can no longer let his brother stay in a dangerous place like the Shadow Assassin Organization!
What if the leader threatens me with Ah Qi when I want to take revenge in the future?
This is what Lu Jiu is most worried about and least wants to see.
So even if Ah Qi disagrees today, Lu Jiu will knock him out and carry him back to Qinglong Pavilion!
Ah Qi was silent for a moment after hearing this, and then shook her head.
"I can't go back with you."
Although Lu Jiu had just explained to him the ins and outs of the matter, Ah Qi still felt that she could not return to Qinglong Pavilion with Lu Jiu.
"Why?"
Lu Jiu frowned slightly and moved quietly in the direction of his brother, preparing to knock him out.
"My memory has not recovered, and I cannot fully believe what you said."
"So now I am still the Shadow Assassin——Qi."
"Even if what you say is true, you are definitely no match for the leader now."
"So, the best thing to do is for me to continue being Shadow Assassin Qi."
Aqi looked stern and said in a calm tone.
If it were A Qi from before, Lu Jiu would never return the chance to have dinner with me.
The reason why he was able to sit down and listen to Lu Jiu's words was partly because the death of the woman before gave him a trace of the emotions he had before losing his memory.
On the other hand, it was because of the inexplicable memory that the two jade pendants brought to him before. Although it was still blocked, Ah Qi still remembered the pain.
These two incidents made Ah Qi doubt the source of the inexplicable pain in her mind.
Also, it was because of the familiar yet unfamiliar feeling when I first met Lu Jiu.
Because of this, Ah Qi was able to sit down and listen carefully to what Lu Jiu said.
However, Ah Qi still couldn't completely believe Lu Jiu.
Because his memory has not yet been completely restored, it is difficult for him to distinguish whether he is an enemy or a friend.
However, he could not completely trust the leader of the Shadow Assassins.
…
The white-haired man knelt down, looked at the little boy, and smiled: "Do you want to be a strong man?"
There was a hint of confusion in the little boy's calm eyes.
The strong...
After a pause, he replied: "I want to."
…
This is Aqi's first memory.
The first person he met at the beginning of his memory was the leader of the Shadow Assassins.
After he said that he wanted to become a strong man, he made himself continue to kill people and become stronger.
until now.
Lu Jiu fell into silence after hearing this and looked at Ah Qi with a somewhat complicated expression.
Indeed, it is not yet time to officially start a war with the leader of the Shadow Assassins.