Henan, Shangqiu.

This city in eastern Henan, with a population of nearly 10 million, has existed for thousands of years since the establishment of the capital by Yin Shang. In history, the ancestor of the Shang clan helped Dayu to control the water, sealed in Shang, and then migrated. For thousands of years, Shangqiu has existed and developed in the names of Shang, Bo, Songcheng, etc., and is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization. For Shangqiu, the glory of the past is long gone.

August is the hottest and rainiest season in Shangqiu. In the old town of Hokkaido, dilapidated buildings stand on both sides of the road, and rainwater flows slowly down the cracks in the road. The roadside is a traditional factory dormitory where residents have used their labor in the factories to fuel the city's development for decades. However, after having a certain amount of savings, the original residents moved out one after another, and most of the people who still live in them are elderly people with limited mobility and migrant workers.

Xuanniao stood on the side of the road with a red umbrella, and the rain flowed down the edge of the umbrella, forming a curtain of rain around her. There was no one on the road, only the faint sound of raindrops hitting the road. The color of the old town is gray, gray sky, gray roads, and gray houses. She wore a fiery red tights, her dark red hair tied back at the back of her head, and her lips peeking out from under the umbrella were painted with rose-colored lipstick—she was born with a penchant for red, even though it made her look out of place in such a background.

Today is the third day of the mission. After arriving in Shangqiu by private jet from Guangzhou, she has not made any major moves. Although the intelligence has indicated that it can, the target is a divorced middle-aged woman living in an old industrial dormitory in the city of Daobei, a ten-year-old daughter. Simple enough that it doesn't require much research and preparation.

But Xuanyao still didn't make a move. As before, whenever she went to a city, she always used to visit all the corners of the city by herself. Putting on a black tracksuit — she only wears red when she needs to get her hands dirty — rides public transportation, the subway, or the bus, and looks out the window at every shop, every street corner, and even the name of every stop. They often laugh at her for having OCD, but so so much - she thinks it's funny, she can find shops with the same name, bus stops, and even road names in two completely different cities. This will give her a sense of familiarity, as if she will always be in the same place wherever she goes, so that she will never feel ...... Lonely.

Xuanniao is afraid of loneliness, and despite having a partner from the Chinese Society, accompanied by a boyfriend, and even though there is never a time when she will be bored enough to be cranky when she runs around on tasks every day, she still feels lonely. Xuanniao is the strongest member of the Chinese Society, and it is she who takes the initiative to choose to go to various places to carry out tasks. Wangshu teased her for reimbursing her travel expenses in order to play around...... But everyone knows that it is a joke, Xuanniao's father is the chairman of the largest real estate group in Guangdong Province. It was also after her father's death that she chose to join the Chinese Society and asked her boyfriend to help take care of the family property.

Father's Death ...... Because of xenogene, of course. The disgusting lizardman stole into the house and killed her father, for reasons she still doesn't know. It wasn't until she received a call from her uncle that she learned that something had happened to her father, and at that moment, the power passed on to her by the previous generation of Xuanniao suddenly exploded, burning down her college dormitory and ending her college life. Before the candle dragon found her, she hid alone for two weeks in the mountains near the school.

There wasn't even a police officer looking for her, but Candle Dragon took her to go through the withdrawal process and many other formalities - she didn't bother to pay attention to these things. The candle dragon was able to monitor abnormal energy fluctuations, which led to the discovery of her and the invitation to join the Chinese Society. At that time, Wangshu, Qi Qi and Lu Wu did not join, and Houtu was not this Houtu, he was a silent middle-aged man. Gentori remembers that he often sat alone in the corner of the bar and drank in the dark. Xuanniao rarely spoke to him, and after a few years, it was someone else who sat there.

No one seems to care who the previous Houtu was or why he disappeared, and everyone seemed to deliberately and never touch the topic when chatting. Xuanniao didn't bother to care. She just wanted to kill the xenos, kill all the people with special abilities and bad intentions - it was one of these people who crossed the surveillance and defense system of the villa and killed her father, and ordinary people, absolutely no way to do this. Even if those people weren't the ones who killed her father, what difference would they make, and they would kill either her father or someone's father, and there would always be someone who would be hurt just like her.

In that case, let's deal with these people who are causing harm first. Xuanniao looked to the side of the road, where a middle-aged woman was walking over with an umbrella holding a girl with a schoolbag.

"Yin An, a D-type xenomorph, has unknown abilities. Xuanniao whispered. Based on her abilities, the candle dragon divided all the abilities of the xenomorphs into five levels, she was A, and the other seven members of the Chinese Society were also listed as Bi. Although the difference is one level, the difference in strength is several times greater. In this case, the D-type xenomorph was not worth mentioning in front of her.

But she insisted on coming to the city in person.

The woman got closer and closer, and the girl she was holding was wearing a lilac embroidered dress, stockings on her feet, and a pair of white shoes. Xuanniao narrowed her eyes, and she put away her umbrella.

The cool rain on her hair and shoulders didn't bring much chill to her in the sweltering summer heat. The woman had apparently noticed the strangely dressed man in front of her—it wasn't weird to be in the rain without an umbrella in a red bodysuit. She stopped.

I saw the woman's eyes along the umbrella, and I didn't panic, but some were worried and scared. The little girl tilted her head down and looked down the edge of the umbrella at the Xuanniao with curiosity.

The woman looked at Xuanniao for a while, and when she was sure that the other party was looking for her, she took her daughter's little hand, "A-Ning, can you go home first? Mom has a friend coming." ”

"Friend?" said the girl, "is that the older sister in front of me?" ”

"Aning, go home quickly, you haven't finished your homework today, are you?" said the woman.

"Mom's friend is also my friend! The teacher said that making friends is more important than doing homework!" the girl refused.

"Come home quickly! It's easy to catch a cold outside, mom will go back in a moment," the woman's tone became serious, and she glanced at Xuanniao, "This sister is with you." ”

"That's great!" said the girl, letting go of her mother's hand, "Then I'll wait for you at home!"

The woman stared at the girl tightly, and she smiled at the girl, "Go back quickly! If Mom comes back late, go to Aunt Chen's house next door for dinner!"

"Hmm!" replied the girl, cheerfully. After waving goodbye to his mother, he jumped away with an umbrella. When she passed by Xuanniao, Xuanniao saw her grinning at herself, and she was stunned for a while, not knowing how to react.

"Sister is so pretty!" she looked at the girl, and she felt that there were stars in her eyes - she tried to squeeze a smile out of the girl, but she really didn't know how to smile.

"Thank you for letting my daughter go. ”

After the girl walked away, Xuanniao heard the woman say this.