Liu Xiaoyan was a little dumbfounded.

This birthday card stirred at something that was suppressed in her heart.

Recently, she has been so busy that she has even freed up all her sleep time to work, but she didn't actually realize that today was her birthday.

When she was inspecting the site at that mall, her colleague's "happy birthday" reminded her that today was her 22nd birthday.

She had never given her birthday anything special, and it was as ordinary as the other three hundred and sixty-four days.

Before entering the organization, except for when she was a child who didn't remember, after she grew up to remember age, those memories of birthdays were just fragments in retrospect.

Parents who are busy with work and travel a lot rarely prepare gifts for her birthday to have a decent birthday for her.

Most of the time, it's when she returns from a business trip and gives her a birthday cake or something like that.

Elementary, middle, and high school, all of them.

In her sophomore year, Liu Xiaoyan was accidentally discovered by the organization, and after learning the cruel truth of this world, she made the same choice as Mu Bai and faced everything.

Among the motivations for this decision, in addition to the thoughts of accepting the real world, she thought more about the ability she would have to protect her parents after joining the organization.

This is the real motivation for her choice to join the Night Execution as the Awoken.

However, before she has grown up, and when the awakened power of the quasi-awakened stage has fully awakened and become an awakened person......

Her parents died together......

Ironically......

The reason why her parents left was to protect her......

Preparing to enter the organization, she has the ability to protect her parents in the future, but her parents have traded her life for her safety.

Since then, she has shown that she doesn't care about most things in this world.

The only thing that can sustain her life is to find the big demon who killed her parents, and in the process, do her best to make the same scene not happen to others.

About birthdays...... Since her parents left, she has been put on the blacklist.

She never mentioned it to anyone, and she no longer had the concept of a birthday.

In the organization, not many people know about her birthday.

But now...... Instead, she received a birthday card.

When I surveyed the scene before, there were so many people at the scene, but there was only one colleague who gave her a "happy birthday".

The reason why that colleague knew that it was her birthday was entirely because the colleague was from the data department and might have seen her profile.

Liu Xiaoyan, whose eyes were still on the card, gradually frowned.

The sudden appearance of this unsigned birthday card gave rise to many doubts in her heart.

Her gaze was fixed on the simple four words.

"Happy Birthday ......"

"Who could it be......"

Her doubts grew deeper.

Raising her wrist and looking at the time in her watch to make sure she had enough time left to get back home and patrol the location, she grabbed her card in her palm and walked briskly out of the office.

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A residential community in the seventh district of Rongcheng.

drove directly to the location mentioned in the card, looking at several large trash cans side by side, Liu Xiaoyan, who had just gotten out of the car and closed the door, covered his nose.

"Why birthday gifts...... Will it be in the trash?"

This was something she hadn't figured out before, and now she was even more puzzled when she saw a few large trash cans that didn't smell good.

"Is it a joke......? That's the only one who knows my birthday...... It's almost all people in the bureau, who would be bored enough to do such a thing?"

Liu Xiaoyan, who was muttering to herself, approached the trash can with a puzzled look.

Only the third trash can is written on the card, and it is not clear whether it is left to right or right to left.

"I guess this person is careless...... In addition, the handwriting is crooked and looks like a boy's handwriting, so it is estimated that there is a high probability that it will not be a girl, and it can be basically determined that it is a boy......"

Liu Xiaoyan pouted, and first opened the lid of the third trash can from the left to the right.

A strange stench rushed out with the moment the lid was lifted.

"Woo ......"

Liu Xiaoyan covered her nose with her left hand, and pinched the edge of the lid with the thumb and index finger of her right hand to open it completely.

"The people who came up with such things are probably watching too many kidnapping movies...... There are so many places to choose from, why choose in this kind of ......"

While complaining again, he turned on the flashlight with his free right hand and irradiated it.

Inside are a lot of plastic bags.

There are large and small ones, and at first glance they look like domestic garbage.

Birthday presents are in the pile...... Among the garbage?

Liu Xiaoyan frowned, endured the smell of the stench, and was about to reach in and flip it regardless of the image, when there was a sound from the trash can next to him.

Although this sound is extremely subtle, it is completely imperceptible to ordinary people, but for Liu Xiaoyan, who is an awakened person, a slight sound can also be keenly perceived by her.

It's from the third trash can from right to left.

Because such a noise appeared inside the trash can that should only be in the garbage, Liu Xiaoyan's attention was concentrated.

She quickly staggered over.

When the lid of the trash can was opened, she behaved very embarrassed......

Just a mouse......

The frightened rat escaped from the trash can very quickly.

Just as Liu Xiaoyan was about to close the lid and go to search the trash can before......

"This ......"

"It's ...... Blood!"

"Purple-black...... It's the blood of youkai!"

Shocked, Liu Xiaoyan did not hesitate, and directly picked up the trash can with one hand and dumped the contents at an angle inclined to the ground.

One garbage bag after another fell out.

Almost every garbage bag was stained with purple-black blood.

Tail ......

A little crimson fox appeared in Liu Xiaoyan's sight.

The fox was about the size of a juvenile two-ha, and the hair on its body had been soaked in purple-black blood, and there were many clear wounds on its body that were visible to the naked eye.

Based on experience, Liu Xiaoyan made a judgment instantly......

This is a skinned fox demon.

It's not that his skin was peeled off, but in the state of putting on human skin, he was forcibly and violently touched by an external force and took off the human skin!

"This ......"

Her eyes widened, and in the next moment, she quickly used the power of awakening, ready to deliver a fatal blow to this fox demon at any time.

Seconds passed.

The fox remained motionless on the ground, as if it were dead.

But he wasn't really dead.

The body has a subtle undulation with breathing, indicating that it still has the characteristics of life.

It's just that the message that can be conveyed by intermittent breathing is that the situation of this fox demon is not optimistic.

It seems like he's going to die at any moment.

"This ...... Who did it?"

"A dying fox demon ......"

"Birthday...... Gifts?"

Liu Xiaoyan didn't know what the relationship between the birthday gift and the current situation was at all......

Especially after she took a closer look and found that the fox demon's mouth was still stuffed with a few rotten bananas......

Although the fox demon is a monster, Liu Xiaoyan still felt a feeling of numbness in his heart after seeing the situation on this thing's mouth......

"This is a bang...... It's too rude......"

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