"That nightmare again?"

Xiao Shuo has always known the nightmare that plagued Helian Xiaojiang, and gave the greatest understanding, but as an outsider, he was also powerless and helpless about his friend's dream.

"How was the sleep oil I bought for you last time?"

"Yes, it's a little better. Helian Xiaojiang said, and then dozed off again.

The scorching sun is torment for others, but it is warm for Helian Xiaojiang. She walked leisurely, Xiao Shuo could only walk slowly according to the flow.

After eating, I finally came to the natatorium in the destination city, bought a ticket, and the two entered the men's and women's changing rooms separately, changed into swimsuits and swim trunks, and met at the exit to enter the pool together. Sure enough, it was overcrowded, the pool was full of people, and the two pools for children and adults were two bathhouses, and a little turn around and a stranger next to them had a meat stick, let alone swimming.

Xiao Shuo didn't mind, and looked at the gap where a fierce man plunged down and splashed half a person high. Helian Xiaojiang did not rush into the water immediately, but sat by the pool, stretched out his calves to soak in the water for a while.

The city swimming pool is relatively old, but it is indoor.

The advantage is that there are four walls, and there are tiles on the top to shade the sun. The disadvantage is that it is too small and too closed, like there are many people now, and the sound of talking, playing in the water and full of water vapor are stuffy together, coaxing and greasy.

Helian Xiaojiang supported the blue stone bricks by the pool with both hands and let herself slide down. As soon as she entered the water, someone else kicked her sideways, and she touched the kicked thigh and swam to the deep water where there were few people. Helian Xiaojiang learned to swim at the age of ten, but until now he has only one standard position: breaststroke. And he can't breathe yet, he leans his neck and inhales through his nose and exhales, and his cheeks bulge like a frog.

Helian Xiaojiang's swimming style was stiff, and he swam from the shallow water of the pool to the deep water with great difficulty. The deep water area of the city swimming pool is two meters five, and no one can step on the bottom, and there are many fewer people. Helian Xiaojiang was tired of swimming, so he panted by the pool. In the summer, no one really comes to swim in the pool.

Helian Xiaojiang soaked her whole body in the water and looked around with her head exposed, and then she saw Xiao Shuo, who was swimming very happily not far away, and suddenly had the idea of making a fool of herself. She straightened her goggles, took a deep breath and dived.

The underwater world is a blur. Light travels in the water differently than in the air, all objects are distorted, Helian Xiaojiang relied on the positioning on the water and the sixth sense under the water to quietly swim in the direction of Xiao Shuo. The cat moved forward a few times with a row of legs, and was about to approach the target, and suddenly found that there were more people around him, and there were legs in front and back, left and right, and I didn't know which leg was Xiao Shuo's.

It's a pity, but Helian Xiaojiang had to give up teasing.

She tried to stand up, but forgot that she was in the deep water, straightened her body and legs, and stood up, but she couldn't step on the bottom of the pool. The panic of the misestimation caused Helian Xiaojiang to accidentally choke several times in succession. Water poured into her mouth and nostrils, and what happened next was out of her control.

My heart is messed up, my breathing is messed up, and my hands and feet are messed up.

The chest choked with grievances, and the water around him continued to squeeze into the nasal cavity. Helian Xiaojiang forgot the breaststroke posture in a panic, and his hands and feet fluttered uselessly in the water. The goggles on his face were crooked, and water poured in through the cracks. Tears and pool water in the vacuum goggles.

There were so many people around, but no one found Helian Xiaojiang who was almost drowned just a step away. She tried to open her mouth and call for help, but before she could make a sound, more water rushed into her mouth.

Compared with the uncomfortable feeling of choking, what is more painful is the feeling of suffocation that comes with it.

Before losing consciousness, Helian Xiaojiang seemed to see Xiao Shuo anxiously swimming towards her in a trance. Before closing his eyes, Helian Xiaojiang reflected deeply: a prank killed himself, and it was really hard.

……

Hu Ren Pavilion.

From the outside, it is no different from many ordinary inns in the city, and it also provides accommodation if the city is full of people. However, what distinguishes it from ordinary inns is that only bounty hunters are eligible to stay in the Huren Pavilion.

An inconspicuous triangular yellow flag is hung outside the doors of all the pavilions, and yellow represents danger. At the upper sill of the gate, the four hairpins of the protruding door are carved in turn with the four big characters of "entering and exiting peace". It is a good wish for those who beg for life on the knife edge.

The entire lobby on the first floor is the place where the missions are posted, and a large glass water mirror hangs in the air, displaying the tasks of each level from left to right.

There are two large tables under the mirror, and on the left is the job posting area, where employers come to post their requests and leave deposits. The people in the pavilion are then ranked according to their difficulty and bounty, and they are displayed on glass mirrors. On the right is the bounty hunter where the quest is turned in, as soon as someone completes a quest, the corresponding quest text on the glass mirror will disappear.

The second floor of the Huren Pavilion is a different world, it is a resting place for bounty hunters, so quiet that you can even tell if a needle has fallen on the ground.

In the room, the blue wolf threw everything in a roll of square coarse cloth, tied diagonally at the ends to his chest, and leaned behind his back. A cloth bag is all the bags of the blue wolf. The more people who are at home from all over the world have to travel lightly, the more concise the better. Finally, looking around at the small room with only one bed, and making sure that nothing was left, the blue wolf simply turned around.

The moment he pushed open the door, the young man on the opposite side who was leaning against the wall and bowing his head to carefully wipe the short knife immediately raised his head, he quickly put away the weapon in his hand and smiled at the blue wolf friendlyly, and made an invitation: "Hey, hello blue wolf, since we have taken the same task, it is better to go on the road together." ”

He was the young man who had made a grimace in the Qingfang Hall last night.

There are only a few bounty hunters who can take on the ninth-level mission in the entire Kyushu Continent, and they are all the best masters who can be named. In this place, in the largest Hu Ren Pavilion in the capital of Qingguo, there are only four people who can take on the ninth-level task. The smiling young man in front of him named Zhi Chong was one of them.

In the face of the young man's kind invitation, the blue wolf was still expressionless, ignoring the friendly attitude of the other party and passing by coldly. Directly reject the other party with actions.

"Don't be so cold, it's really hurtful. I've known you for five years, and I don't add up to more than ten sentences. ”

For example, when grabbing a task, the blue wolf will say, "Get out." "It's mine. "I won. Words and phrases such as "Usually cherish words like gold".

The hot face was attached to the cold butt as expected, and Zhi Chong still chased after it with a wry smile.

"This mission is a joint nature, we are partners, not adversaries. You can cooperate temporarily, don't reject people thousands of miles away like this. He did not give up, and quickly dodged in front of the staircase to stop in front of the wolf. The smile on his face did not change in any way because of the low pressure emanating from the blue wolf, and Zhi Chong was used to the alienation and indifference of the other party.

A joint quest means that after receiving the task, eligible bounty hunters can work together alone or in a combination to complete the task and share the reward. The characteristics of joint quality are often that the task is arduous and the prize is rich.