M Coffee Shop officially opened the day before the college students registered, and Xia Yitong came to the coffee shop to help after reporting.

The décor of the new café is retro, with walnut-colored floors, yellowish chandeliers, and heavy dark red lace curtains on either side of the arched windows. Above the bar, one of Harry's newly bought owls was sleeping soundly.

He is still dressed in fancy Victorian court clothes, and suddenly gives the feeling of stepping back into Nicholas Castle.

Xia Yitong just wanted to praise his decoration, and Harry handed out a uniform from behind the bar, with a rare serious face.

"The new waitress is so cute, I can't bear to give her the task of creating a terrifying atmosphere, and it just so happens that you are here, and the horror of M Cafe depends on you. He solemnly put the uniform into her hand as if he were giving a certificate.

Xia Yitong took it with an embarrassed but polite smile, and she walked out of the locker room five minutes later.

The top of the new uniform is a tight leather jacket with a V-neck with five-quarter sleeves, a black silk puffy skirt underneath, a short skirt with lace with curtains at the hem, and a small apron with a curtain tied around the waist. The shoes are ordinary low-heeled round-toe leather shoes, but they are designed with a long black ribbon wrapped around the knees.

Xia Yitong looked at Harry expressionlessly, with snow-white skin and cow-blood-colored lips and a pair of doll-like eyes, not to mention, it was really that......

Harry's gaze at her changed from amazement to praise and then to schadenfreude.

"Hitomi, you can really wear such a cute dress like a ghost doll, it's really my excellent employee. ”

As he spoke, the new waiter happened to pass in front of Xia Yitong, the little girl had shoulder-length curly hair, light makeup, pink cheeks, and crooked eyes when she smiled, feeling like a cute little rabbit.

She hesitantly reached out and rubbed her bangs.

THE IPAD AT THE FRONT DESK CLANGED, AND AFTER A FEW MOMENTS, HARRY BROUGHT OUT TWO RED DRINKS AND SAID TO HER, "TABLE 7 UPSTAIRS." ”

Xia Yitong skillfully picked up the plate and went upstairs.

The atmosphere upstairs is obviously much brighter than downstairs, although it is the same style of decoration, but because the sun is more abundant, the curtains are replaced with sky blue, but it feels like a place for ladies to drink afternoon tea.

Two innocently dressed girls were sitting by the window, pointing at the Jubao community.

"This is the legendary haunted community, for so many years, no developer dares to demolish it, I heard that as soon as you enter, you will be blocked by a big-headed ghost. The girl in the pink dress said mysteriously.

"Big-headed ghost, you're kidding. The girl in the green skirt looked disdainful.

"Just kidding, you can just ask, and I heard that there is only one girl living in this community, and that girl works in this shop. ”

"It can't be that the boss is deliberately mysterious in order to attract business. ”

"No, that girl is from A, and everyone in their school knows that she has been an orphan since she was a child, and she doesn't know who her parents are. At the age of 12, her adoptive parents died, and in the same year, a boy was also killed by her, and the people in the community moved away every day, and if they didn't move away, they would all have to be killed. ”

The two girls chatted excitedly, completely oblivious to when Xia Yitong was standing in front of their table. She lowered her head, her messy bangs covering her eyes, and she was embarrassed to forget her next move.

The girl in the pink dress first saw Xia Yitong on the side.

She screamed "oops", covered her chest with her hands, gave her an exaggerated look and said, "Why don't you make a sound when you walk." ”

Xia Yitong bowed slightly, put the drink on the table and hurriedly turned to leave.

The green skirt suddenly shouted, "Wait a minute!"

Xia Yitong stopped and reluctantly turned back. The green skirt looked her up and down, and said with a contemptuous expression, "You're the legendary female ghost who killed the whole family—oh no, girl, right?"

Xia Yitong's mind flashed through the white mourning hall, a group of unknown relatives whispering, the hysterical little her kneeling on the ground crying, and Zuo Yuming lying in a pool of blood, and Zuo Yuming's mother slapped her in the face.

She pursed her mouth, covered her chest with a tray, clasped the edge of the plate with both hands, lowered her eyebrows, trying to get those pictures out of her mind, she wanted to hook the corners of her mouth self-deprecatingly, maybe it would be better, but the rainy night when she hooked the corners of her mouth but didn't save Zuo Yuming in her mind, the sound of the rain kept beating her nerves.

A gust of autumn wind blew outside the window, and at the gate of the Jubao Community, a passer-by saw that something seemed to move under the door, like a transparent ripple blowing through the lake. He rubbed his eyes incredulously, and everything was back to normal.

Seeing that Xia Yitong didn't speak, the girl in the green dress was even more aggressive, she walked over and picked up a strand of Xia Yitong's long hair and said: "I said that you deliberately painted yourself like this, not to look good, pretending to be a ghost to attract the attention of others, I want to see if you are really different from others." ”

She said as she reached for her lips.

The girl in the pink skirt, who was convinced of the rumors, hurriedly stood up in fright, but still couldn't stop her.

Her thumb landed on Xia Yitong's lips, and at the same time, the other person's thumb landed on the lips of the girl in the green skirt, wiping it hard.

The green-dressed girl was stunned.

The man looked at the heavy lipstick on his hand with disgust, and reached out to wipe it on the girl in the green dress, and the girl in the green dress flashed quickly and shouted, "What are you doing!"

The man's tone was soothing, "Let's see if you're different from others?"

"You ......" As soon as the girl in the green dress said a word, the man suddenly stepped forward and blocked between her and Xia Yitong.

The green skirt looked at the girl in front of her, about 1.73 meters tall, short hair, a lollipop in her mouth, five ear piercings in one ear, wearing an old denim vest, and tattoos on the skin exposed from her shoulders.

It looks like it's hard to mess with.

She was suddenly a little timid, not knowing what to do next. The girl in the pink skirt came over at the right time, grabbed her companion who had lost half of her lipstick, and hurriedly left.

Xia Yitong breathed a sigh of relief silently, her shoulders sank suddenly, and it was the girl's hand that naturally rested on her shoulder.

"Let me tell you, people like them are bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, why didn't you scold her just now, I'm just special, what's wrong? I'm just not in the way of you? I'm taller than you, whiter than you, and better looking than you, are you jealous? ”

Xia Yitong was amused by her exaggerated tone and movements, and laughed out loud.

The girl swooped out a letter from her trouser pocket, handed it to her and said, "Let me introduce myself, my name is Hao Yile, because my dad wants me to study medicine, and my mother wants me to study music, but unfortunately I didn't play well in the college entrance examination, cough, we are from the same school, that-" She flashed her big almond-like eyes twice, and continued embarrassedly: "I see that in the community where you live, is there a handsome guy who lives in addition to you?"

"Handsome guy?"

"It's like it's half-blooded. ”

"You say it's a white punishment?"

Hao Yile nodded again and again, "You really know each other!" she shyly swallowed the lollipop, and then asked, "What is your relationship?"

"We're on ...... "Originally, Xia Yitong wanted to talk about her superiors ......and subordinates, but the "Demon Hunting Labor Contract" stipulates that she cannot reveal her identity to normal humans, and she wants to say that she lives together, looking at Hao Yile's rollercoaster-like expression, she also understands what she wants to inquire, so she temporarily panicked: "He is my cousin, he came to Kaifeng to find someone, and he lives with me temporarily." ”

Hao Yile breathed a sigh of relief, grinned, and hinted at her again with his eyes.

"Then my cousin, please leave it to you. ”

"Good. ”

"Aren't you an orphan?"

"The ...... from the adoptive mother's side"

Early the next morning, Xia Yitong yawned and came to the restaurant with the letter, and sure enough, she saw Bai Xing soaking up the morning sunshine and stealing the sandwich in her refrigerator. He often doesn't see him at night, but he mostly appears in the morning.

She sat down at the dining table and saw that he was carefully flipping through the tourist map of Kaifeng City, and kept sketching on it with a red pen.

"Are you going to go out on vacation?"

"Demon hunting work is on call 24 hours a day, all year round. He glanced up at her, "Have you read the entry manual carefully?"

Xia Yitong shrugged exaggeratedly, "What? What is that? I haven't seen it." ”

Bai Xing looked at her twice, how did he think she was a little different today.

He took out the lighter and threw it into the air, opened his palm to catch it, and then flipped his palm and slapped the lighter on the table. When he looked at it again, a book printed with the "Demon Hunting Entry Manual" had already appeared under his subordinates, which was as thick as a Xinhua dictionary.

Bai Xing pushed the book in front of her and continued to sketch on the map.

Xia Yitong glanced at the instructions for the use of weapons, common demon identification, laws and regulations of the demon world, the organizational structure of the Qishu Pavilion, and the salary......

She resolutely turned to the page of salary.

Article 1 Wage payment method

1. There is no basic salary, which is paid according to performance.

2. The number of cases handled has been accumulated ten times, and it will be issued at one time.

3. The level of salary payment varies according to the size of the case.

This kind of unclear salary description method, she seems to have seen it on any recruitment website.

There was no way, she asked directly: "Captain Bai, how much can you get from the salary of the demon hunter?" ”

Bai Xing didn't raise his head: "Actually, money is not the key, the key is that the identity of the demon hunt can bring you good benefits." ”

"What benefits?"

"These demon hunters in the human world are all monsters that have been successfully transformed by half-demons. Half-demons have been in the long history of youkai, just like the black people of you humans, they are synonymous with backwardness and inferiority, and they are discriminated against in every way. In order to avoid the contradiction between demons and half-demons, the Qishu Pavilion stipulates that the demon hunters in the human world can only employ the monsters transformed by the half-demons, which is equivalent to telling the monsters not to discriminate against the half-demons, they may be better than you. Although the Qishu Pavilion is currently taken over by the Demon Realm, in terms of high-level ...... For example, I still only use normal youkai. However, the demon world has provided quite good preferential treatment for demon hunting in terms of pension, housing, education, and marriage. ”

"So, is that a hired hire that hasn't been converted?"

Bai Xing put his hands around his chest and looked at her for a long time.

"You seem to be a little different today. ”

"How is it different?"

"Curiosity is heavy, or the attitude towards work is not so passive, why?"

When he said this, Xia Yitong realized that she was in a good mood from last night to now, probably because the girl said to her yesterday, "I'm just special, what's wrong?"

It doesn't seem to be bad for her to feel special, and it's good to be a demon hunter.

Bai Xing raised his chin and suddenly said, "If your boyfriend is dating you now, where do you feel the happiest to go?"

Xia Yitong's mind saw the figure of a teenager, tall, tall, and extraordinary, but she couldn't remember the appearance of the teenager, so she pointed at it casually.

"Captain White. ”

"Huh?"

"You still don't seem to tell me how much my salary is, and ...... I'm not a half-demon. ”

A drop of sweat slipped from the corner of his forehead, did he accidentally say that he missed something? He remembered that this was the reason why he hadn't shown her the entry manual......

An hour later, Xia Yitong and Bai Xing appeared at the city's amusement park.

Bai Xing announced the mission: "I received news that there are suspected monsters deliberately causing accidents, causing one death and ten injuries to humans, and the targets of the crimes are all couples, which need to be dealt with as soon as possible, so we are going to pretend to be a couple today." ”

"Captain White, are you the only one in the demon hunting team?"

Bai Xing glared at her and said, "No, it's just that each demon hunt has its own special area of responsibility, and cross-regional cases can be handled by several groups of demon hunts, and the more difficult cases will be handled by me personally." ”

Xia Yitong nodded, "Then I will follow you, won't all the cases I come into contact with be difficult cases." ”

"Today's case is not very difficult. ”

"Huh?"

Bai Xing hooked his lips and smiled, "But in terms of the number of casualties, the commission is very high." ”

Xia Yitong showed a clear look, and followed him to the first game according to the map.

Since it was not a holiday, there were only a few couples lined up in front of the merry-go-round, and they were soon lined up. Xia Yitong was about to go up, when suddenly a cheerful figure crashed into her sight.

Hao Yile, who was wearing light-colored jeans and a cartoon T-shirt, exuded a strong youthful atmosphere.

She ran to Xia Yitong and secretly winked at her, Xia Yitong remembered the letter, as if she had forgotten to show it to Bai Xing......

Bai Xing looked at them in confusion and whispered: "Thank you, cousin, I will invite you to eat hot pot another day." ”

Hao Yile raised his head and smiled shyly at Bai Xing, a pair of big almond-like eyes flickered, and he saw that people's hearts trembled.

Bai Xing hurriedly looked away and asked seriously, "Who is this?"

Xia Yitong was afraid that the letter would make Hao Yile unhappy, so she hurriedly answered: "Cousin, this is the girl I introduced to you yesterday, and I asked you to come to the playground to play today." ”

As he spoke, he turned around and was about to flash people. Bai Xing grabbed her by the back collar, showed an embarrassed but polite smile to Hao Yile, pulled Xia Yitong aside and asked, "What's the situation?"

Xia Yitong said honestly, "She asked me to bring you a confession letter yesterday, but I forgot. But...... It looks like she's booking a playground. ”

The blue tendons on the white forehead jumped: "We are here to handle the case!"

Xia Yitong clasped his hands together and made a gesture of please: "Leader, just like this once, you see that I just made a friend, so I don't want people to hate me." And you don't see that we are a couple at all, but I think you and her are a good match. ”

Bai Xing unconsciously glanced in the direction of Hao Yile, the girl was very generous, and her wheat-colored skin was healthy and energetic, it was indeed the type he liked......

He interrupted his thoughts, thinking, he had come to Lisa.

"What if I pretend to be a couple with her?"

Xia Yitong hurriedly said: "Isn't there still me, since the difficulty of this case is not high, the leader can help me if necessary." ”

Bai Xing was shaken, firstly, because he felt that he could just use this opportunity to see if Xia Yitong had any secrets hidden in him. The second is that if Xia Yitong is really related to that person, pretending to be a couple with her, he may be in trouble in the later stage.

"Just once. Xia Yitong then asked, "You also want to catch the perpetrator quickly." ”

He glanced at her and asked, "Where's your lunch box?"

Xia Yitong was cold, "Leader, don't you think it's strange to go into the playground with a lunch box?"

"Then I'll get you a magic wand next time. ”

The picture of "Balabala Little Demon Immortal Energy Transformation" on TV immediately appeared in her mind, and she couldn't help but shudder.

"Let's talk about it. ”

In the end, Bai Xing agreed to her request, and took out a slender bracelet from his bosom, which was decorated with a closed triangle, and unlike the pattern on Bai Xing's clothes, a small iron rod was worn on top of this triangle, and the iron rod hit the triangle when it was shaken.

He put it in her hand and explained: "This is the Eternal Life Bell, it can protect you if you are in danger." I'll lend it to you for the time being, don't lose it, or I'll feed you to the monsters. Don't get too far away from me, we're not here to play. ”

"Yes, yes. Xia Yitong pushed him.

She wears the bell on her hand, but the bracelet is too big and can easily fall off. So she had an idea, leaned over and stuck on her foot and neck, just right.

The triangle collides with the small iron rod and makes a "jingle bell" sound.

Bai Xing's figure in front of the merry-go-round froze, and he turned around and looked at her ankle for two seconds before turning around and helping Hao Yile up.

At the same time, somewhere in the amusement park, a ginkgo tree trembled and shook off a yellow leaf.