Jiang Yan was sitting on a street-facing seat in the cafe, watching the daylight slowly disappear before his eyes, and the artificial light took over the sun's position. Seven hours had passed, and there was no new movement: this hunting duel was still going on.
Ongoing.
As part of tightening the encirclement, he must hold on to his position. There are three exits to the underground pipe network near the cafe, and a large number of citizens and tourists pass by. He must hold on here and not allow the enemy to escape.
Surrounded by possibilities.
He could feel through the weird intuition like an external organ that the strange and powerful aura was not too far away, but without exposing the clear coordinates, Jiang Yan could not risk tightening the siege: he called
Those who helped were ordinary people from the club and Ah Fa. If they advanced rashly and pushed him to a dead end, he would probably lose the lives of those innocent people.
Patience is still required.
Jiang Yan picked up the cold coffee cup and took a sip, feeling a familiar scent approaching. "Good evening, Miss Skadi." Jiang Yan turned around to say hello while not leaving the surveillance area with his peripheral vision, "It's dinner time now.
Take a walk later?”
"Good evening." The silver-haired huntress walked to Jiang Yan and sat at a table with him. The big sword behind her was wrapped in a huge bag. It looked like some exotic musical instrument. Skadi was very excited about this.
"The same race" seems to be very patient all the time, and she seems to be in a good mood today. "Just walking around to kill time."
Jiang Yan obviously felt that there were a lot more eyes on him. Thinking about it, the sudden appearance of such a beautiful woman would definitely attract a lot of attention. But considering the current situation, this is not necessarily a bad thing: he is sitting here.
It has been very unnatural for such a long time, and now that I have a talking partner by my side, it makes me less conspicuous.
The waiter brought Skadi's drink, and Jiang Shao felt that he needed to find some topics to talk about at this moment. "I heard Hodel say that you were the one who blocked Badr's final attack that time?" Jiang Shao said, "I'm not that old.
I want to thank you on behalf of the local people, but I want to thank you for saving my life."
Skadi responded calmly, "It's nothing. But the same conversation was already said once when you were drunk, so there is no need to thank me again."
"...That's quite embarrassing. I almost don't remember anything." Jiang Yan blinked, "I can only say that I offended a lot that night."
"No offense." Skadi seemed to be amused by this reaction, "It seems that you have never been drunk before, and you don't know what you will look like when you are drunk. Don't worry, I am a person who drinks as well as you.
I’ve only seen you. You don’t cry or make trouble when you’re drunk, and you don’t do anything other than chatting with people and saying thank you. If I hadn’t seen you, I wouldn’t have imagined it.”
Jiang Yan scratched his chin, "To be honest, I can't imagine it, but it's good that nothing happened."
So the two fell into a brief silence. "Badr." Jiang Shao asked, "Is there any connection between you and her?"
Skadi picked up the coffee and said, "I've met him a few times, but we can't say a few words every time we meet. That lunatic just wants to find someone to fight with."
"It's really hard for me to imagine this kind of life and experience." The young man's voice lowered, "Do deep-sea hunters always need to fight such powerful and deadly enemies?"
The mellow drink stayed between Skati's lips and teeth for a while. "Hunters will fight some enemies that are beyond human understanding, but Baldr, and the weird beast that chased you that day, are not common enemies. If you exceed a certain point,
If you want to make a distinction, then it is not the type that deep-sea hunters should care about."
Jiang Yan's heart moved when he heard this, but he knew that Skadi hadn't finished speaking yet, so he waited for the next step.
"The enemies of the deep-sea hunters come from places that are really far away from the earth. They are the evolved malice brought about by wildness and primitiveness." Skadi described in an extremely distant voice, "They have no individuals, only groups. They have no emotions, only rationality.
.You can feel a kind of power coming from the order, but you will not feel the respect for the opponent: only one of us or them can survive. This is a race war without mercy."
Jiang Yan could understand the powerlessness and helplessness behind Skadi's plain words. These were secrets that he had never understood. The silver-haired hunter softened and continued:
"But the enemies surrounding you are different: they have emotions and emotions that are very similar to humans, and can even be said to be extremely emotional. Their strength comes from individuals, and their animal nature contains human evil and unknown weirdness.
.”
"The most important thing is that they are entangled with threads of malice. Extraordinary, ancient, angry, greedy, distant malice that does not belong to the earth or the deep sea nourishes their strength and protects them.
The mystery.”
"Those who come to you are not the ones I am familiar with."
That's where Skadi's conclusion ends. Jiang Yan probably knows what she wants to express by saying so much.
She wanted to say, don't get too entangled with those things.
"Thank you." Jiang Yan finished drinking the cold coffee, "I know what you mean, I just don't know why you would persuade me."
Skadi looked into the unknown distance, "...because you are my family, and every deep-sea hunter is a brother and sister, connected by blood."
"I don't even understand what I am. Some people say I look like Agor, some say I'm Sakaz, and some say I'm a deep-sea hunter. Hey, guess what? Sometimes I really feel like a bastard.
, that’s the literal bastard.”
The silver-haired hunter ignored the stranger's self-deprecation and continued:
"You are a very peculiar person, Jiang Yan. Now that I have met you, I am even more convinced that you are special. You will be knocked down countless times by yourself, but you will always find a way to recover quickly. Whether it is your own optimism and open-mindedness, or
The enlightenment of those around you proves one thing: you are qualified to escape from all this chaos."
"You say you are like everything, but you are nothing. Does this mean that you actually have countless possibilities to choose other paths?"
There is no impurity in those ruby-like shining eyes. "I hope that my family can choose his own path. I hope that he can choose a path that does not have to be as difficult as ours. That's all."
Jiang Yan said nothing. These questions were very crucial, but he had no way to answer them.
"I don't know where my path is yet."
"It's okay, just look for it slowly." The old hunter said calmly, "No matter what you choose, the blessing of the ocean will be with you."
Yes, there's no rush. I still have time.
But I'm afraid it will be difficult to get another chance.
Jiang Yan looked at the deepening night with a trace of uneasiness in his heart:
Tonight may very well be the last chance before it's too late.