"Xiao Lin, what are you doing? Ah, you have taken down the monster in your palm again. How many games have you played?! Aren't you tired of it?"
"I basically play it every time I go home. After all, think about it, my cousin who has been playing together since childhood, the only topic we have in common is the game "Monster in the Palm."
"What about other things? Don't you write novels? Can't you talk to her about these things?"
"Well...the things I write are just my opinions and cannot be put on the stage. If I can help readers at a certain moment, I will be very satisfied. As for saving a soul, if it is a coincidence,
Realize... no, it’s better not to realize it.”
"No one will really love tragedy, either to compare the tragedy, to watch the fun, or to pursue something as ethereal as poignancy. Although they are beautiful, they will not pray for it to happen to themselves completely.
"
"Tragedy is only perfect in that it is just a "drama"."
——A conversation Lin Shuwen had in his university dormitory.
The drizzle gradually stopped, and the rising fog blurred the numbers on the screen:
June 20, 2020, 7:24 am.
"call……"
The small breath coming from his ears drew Lin Shuwen's attention. With a smile on his face, he glanced sideways at the small sleeping face lying on his shoulder.
After more than an hour of field training, the exhausted Aike finished half of the giant pheasant by herself. With a small belly in her belly, she rested on Lin Shuwen's back as fast as a little pig.
Entered dreamland.
But "Dagger"'s mission was not over yet. After checking the life cards of the group of mercenaries who were dismembered, he once again targeted a group of mercenaries who were nearby. The difference from usual was that this group of mercenaries was located
The location is only about one kilometer away from the camp where Damon is stationed.
Now that almost all mercenaries are fleeing out of fear, this is a very bad signal, which means that the remaining eight top mercenary teams may integrate or return to Daimon's side.
Although it won't cause him much trouble, considering Ye Lanxin's plan, as a subordinate, he still needs to do some intelligence work.
(Master, there is something in the fog.)
(There is an antidote specially prepared by "Butterfly" in the shadow. You take three and feed them to Aike, you and me, from the shadow.)
(yes.)
"Dagger" stopped and put Aike on his back on the stone on the roadside. The moment his figure blocked her, Zangyue leaning out of it had already fed her the mixed potion.
"Ahem!"
Aike coughed violently after being choked. She woke up from her sleep and looked around blankly. She let Lin Shuwen wipe the medicine residue from the corner of her mouth with his hand, and heard the sound of him chewing in a low voice.
"As expected of the top troops of the "Shadow Kill", they can even get the medicine that I only allocate to Wutong."
"You always have to prepare some good things when you go out, right? "Putong" and "Butterfly"."
Lin Shuwen turned around and looked at the thirty or so warriors dressed as "Shadow Killers" who had sacrificed themselves from the mist, and stared at "Butterfly" Wen Yu, who was kicking high-legged boots in the center.
As the saying goes, a woman with sexier shoes will kick her harder.
"Is that your daughter? Why haven't I heard that the second lady has given birth to a child?"
"Die" looked over "Dagger"'s shoulder and looked at Aike who was rubbing his eyes on the stone, frowning.
"I'm a soft-hearted adopted little girl. Aren't uncles and loli the standard lineup these days?"
"Yes! Brother! Brother!"
Aike, who was holding back the anger from getting up, suddenly roared loudly, her naive behavior slightly relaxing the atmosphere of the conversation.
"So, after preparing such a big battle, they are not here to kill us, are they?"
"Dagger" shook his body and silently pointed at the black shadow spreading on the ground.
"Butterfly" took a step back slightly, raised his right hand to his chest, and turned the ring on his ring finger with his thumb.
Both sides showed off their killer moves.
"I just want to make a deal. I hope you can introduce me to the second lady's camp. In exchange, I can provide you with some information that can affect the situation of the war."
"What? As the ace Lin Shuwen is dead, do you plan to use a "self-destructing truck" to win this war?"
"Dagger"'s words were full of teasing, "Die" raised his eyebrows frivolously:
"Can I take this sentence as a very vulgar and boring joke?"
"If you are referring to comparing the "Wutong" who personally delivered the corpses of the mole and his companions to the enemy camp to a "self-destructing truck," I'm sorry, but this is not a joke."
"Oh, then in order to heighten the atmosphere, should I also make a joke?"
"Die", who was extremely angry and laughing, raised his hand and tried to point at Aike behind "Dagger"...
"Goo!"
It was a wave of terror that could scare a normal person to death. In his eyes that suppressed his smile, "Die" seemed to see his own torn body reflected in those red pupils.
The curtains and eyelashes were lightly lifted, like the sea of fire covering hell, suppressing the evil that was always at the critical point. "Butterfly" lowered his eyes and glanced at his side, and suddenly found that the white mist filled with drugs was densely covered with black...
Tiny crystals.
Her half-raised arm froze in place.
"Maybe the joke just now was not funny. I apologize to you."
"Dagger" said calmly, stretched out his hand to press down "Die"'s arm, and then bowed to "Die" in a very gentlemanly manner to apologize.
But "Butterfly" clearly knows that this is just a wolf playing in front of the lamb, and the reasonable behavior is a kind of bad taste that belongs to the winner.
"Should I say you are an upgraded version of Lin Shuwen? You are much scarier than that cute little brother."
"So, he lived shorter than me, didn't he?"
"Dagger"'s eyes were filled with smiles again. This seemingly harmless smile of ordinary people made "Die" have a cold sweat on his back.
"Then, let's continue chatting? You said you want me to introduce your troops to Lan Xin? The decisive battle is about to begin. The impact of your behavior is not small, especially for the eldest ladies Lan Ruxin and Dai Meng.
Maybe we will deal with her directly."
"this……"
"No matter what, is this lie really unacceptable? Mr. Xu Feng?"
"Dagger" tilted his head like a little puppy, looking directly at "Die"'s right ear, which was covered by his hair.
"Hmph...you are really a monster."
"No! Wen! No! Monster!"
The worry left over from the recent conversation made Aike's hair instantly explode. She jumped from the stone, hugged "Dagger"'s arm tightly, and stressed loudly and anxiously:
"Wen is! A good dragon! No! Monster! You! Are! Monster! Demon! Alien!"
Xu Feng, who was on the other end of the earphone, winked and pulled down the earphone. Aike's arguing sound mixed with dragon's roar made his ears hurt a little.
"Aike, that's it."
"Wen... you are a good dragon, not an alien..."
The originally stern vertical pupils were full of worry, and anxious tears overflowed, melting and warming "Dagger"'s soul.
He knelt down, stretched out his hands to hold Aike in his arms, and comforted her who was crying anxiously with a gentle voice.
"Well, I am the same kind as Aike. I am not an alien or a devil..."
"You're not... you're not..."
Under the violent emotional fluctuations, Aike learned how to say three words in one breath.
"Well, I'm not, I'm not..."
"Butterfly" watched this scene quietly, as if watching a ferocious demon holding a little girl that symbolizes innocence and beauty. The white mist seemed to be a warm special effect superimposed on it, but the black crystals suspended in it seemed like the demon had not put away.
of teeth and claws.
But that tooth and claw could never reach that little girl.
"Ahem, I'm sorry, Aike is a bit sensitive. I hope you can understand, Sister Wen."
"It's okay...huh?"
(What did he just say? Sister Wen?!)
The air subtly stagnated for a few tenths of a second, "Die" opened her mouth and began to hide her surprise:
"What's going on with those wolves in the grass?"
"Butterfly" just wanted to reach out and point to the bushes behind "Dagger", but the fear just now made her forcefully pull back her arm, and "Dagger" who was holding Aike put on the smile of that day again and said
:
"There are wolves in the forest. Isn't this normal?"
An hour later, the camp where Qidong's troops were stationed.
"Xu Feng."
"Well, since everything has been said, let's rest here for a few more days."
In a wooden room in the camp, Xu Feng was sorting documents and information under the blow of the air conditioner.
"Butterfly", who had just come in, sat down on the bed and put his arms on his thighs.
"Is it appropriate for you to be here strutting around like us?"
"Do you know how many wolves related to him there are around here?"
Xu Feng put down the document in his hand and turned to look at "Die".
"I have been paying attention to him since some of his flaws appeared, and guess what, he went to the top of the mountain the second day after Aike came here, to be precise, a few minutes after he coaxed her to sleep.
We have recruited a mutated wolf, and that wolf is currently the leader of the active wolf pack in Xushan."
"so what?"
"Die" raised his eyebrows.
"He used the magic of the same type as "Witch" Xi Nian and signed a contract with the wolf. I have consulted Qianhe before about the characteristics of their magic, so I can definitely tell that the magic is Xi Nian's magic.
.”
"But doesn't Xi Nian have no apprentices?"
"Die" raised questions. As we all know, "Witch" Xinian has no apprentices except her adopted son and husband Qianhe.
"Then let's assume that if she actually has an apprentice, who is the most likely person?"
"You are not objective. You are completely trying to fit his mold into it. This is fictitious reasoning."
"Die" waved his hand and pointed out the most obvious problem in Xu Feng's reasoning.
"I understand too, but you have to know one thing. If "Dagger" is really Lin Shuwen, how much impact it will have on the entire current situation. We must prepare for this possibility in advance."
"He is basically defecting now, and he is killing Daemon's stray troops like crazy. I am worried about his mental state..."
Xu Feng pushed up his glasses and looked at the black pen and red pen next to each other on the desk.
"We must ensure the safety of Aike. Once anything happens to Aike, even if he is simply "stepped on by Daemon's subordinates," he may go berserk and ruin the plan we have been planning for decades."
"I have to admire the second young lady. What kind of confident commander is she who can make the decision to use such an unstable time bomb as a trump card."
"But now that he is away from the second lady, can we really control this time bomb?"
Xu Feng picked up the black pen and turned it around on his fingertips.
And "Dagger", known as the time bomb, was washing Aike's body by the stream at the moment, completely unaware of being in the center of the battlefield.