Chapter 3: The Real Situation of the Dead

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Naruto staggered to his feet, surrounded by red-eyed aliens and giant monsters with horns, and a smiling bar owner.

"If humor is an assassin's killer thing, maybe I should plug your foul mouth and sew it up?"

Rundell twisted his stubble and shook the money bag in front of Naru's eyes, "Or maybe you'll beg me for mercy before I do that, maybe I'll spare your life." ”

"Begging for forgiveness from an enemy is as humiliating as the scar on a swordsman's back. What I said before, I'm going to make your wanted warrant disappear tonight......"

Naruto remained in a half-kneeling position, her legs bent slightly, and then she was kicked by Lendl coldly, and collapsed to the ground, unable to fight back.

"Until then, I'll let you disappear into the city." Rendell frowned, he didn't expect Naru's willpower to be so tenacious that he could still stay awake.

But this tavern is all his people, and besides, he still has many questions to ask, so he gets straight to the point: "I have a question for you." ”

"Ask me what?" Naruto pinched his chin and looked up.

"Why do you think that I, the one who pretended to be the owner of the bar, have anything to do with the bounty recipient, Lendall? In order to get out of pursuit, I asked the sage to give me plastic surgery, and I specially chose a familiar bartender to disguise himself as him. For three months, most people had just come to ask if I had seen Lendl, not knowing that I was him. ”

"Actually, until just now, I didn't know ......" Naruto's spirit seemed to be in a trance.

"That's not the reason!" Lendel suddenly roared.

"It's impossible for a killer to find a bar owner for no reason. You must have found something, or you would never have lured me with money. I exposed my identity and attacked you for this, tell me how you found out, otherwise I will make you into steamed buns. I have a way to get you to relax. ”

"Just now you said you wanted to sew up my mouth, but now you want me to loosen my mouth, you are really contradictory, hahahaha......"

Ming sneered, his heavy eyelids opened and closed, and finally disappeared with the words, and he could no longer open them.

"You ......" Rendell grabbed him by the collar and shook him vigorously a few times, but Ming seemed to be really unconscious, and his even breathing was mixed with snoring, and he slept deeply.

"Drag him into the warehouse, and wait for him to come back in the evening, what are you doing in a daze? It's closed! ”

The boss angrily threw Ming to the floor, and in the next second, several red-eyed weirdos grabbed Ming's pants and dragged him to the dark inner door.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the boss couldn't wait to open the money bag. During the period when his identity was hidden, the tavern run by Lendl had been unable to make ends meet, and when he had no money, he almost wanted to carry his head in exchange for a bounty.

"It's ......," but when he untied the tether in his pocket, he found that it contained more than just coins.

The contents of the bag are divided into two layers, the lower layer is real gold that exudes a copper smell, which is proof that it will make a jingling sound when held in the hand.

On the upper level, however, is a pile of black marbles as heavy as metal, which can only be found when outsiders open their pockets.

"It's a smoke bomb, plus dragon earwax."

"Are you still awake—?" Before Lendl could react, Ming suddenly kicked two red eyes and grimaced at him, and in an instant, a thick puff of smoke filled out of the coarse cloth pocket.

It turned out that he hadn't been poisoned from the beginning, and taking advantage of the gap between Lendl's money bag and his apron, Naruto poured the poisoned wine into the cistern, and he still looked like he was talking and laughing.

This time the smoke was thicker than during the day, and filled with a violent stench, and Rendell's eyes were unsuspectingly corroded by the smoke, and in a moment they narrowed in pain.

"Minos! Minos! Grab him for me and pull his tongue out!" That killer didn't get poisoned! Damn, my eyes, ahh ”

Blind and unsightly, Rundell howls wildly, but Naruto won't let him do whatever he wants.

He drew his dagger and laid it across Lendl's neck, whistling in an unusually sharp tone, and strangled his prey by the throat with his right hand: "Whew! ”

"Boom!"

In response to the whistle, he came like a dark horse of a messenger of the night. The flying sawdust fell like meteors in the dust, and Naruto easily found the location of the dark horse.

It was all done almost instantaneously: the two monsters summoned by Lendl were about to pounce on Naru, but he forced them away with a threatening stance.

As the whirlwind of the dark horse passed through the hall, Ming pulled out his crossbow arrows and shot at the red-eyed people closest to the door.

He stabbed Rendell decisively in the eye with his dagger, then turned on his horse, and under the cover of black smoke, he tied the old fat man's neck in a pre-prepared snare and tied him firmly behind the horse's hooves.

"Your Minos looks scared of animal droppings, huh?"

He chuckled and said that in fact, the smoke bombs were indeed mixed with dragon-related substance, which was very effective against the dark creatures from the abyss.

In the confusion, Naruto kicked away a red-eyed man who wanted to hug his thigh, changed the dagger in his hand to a long sword, stabbed the incoming throat with precision, and galloped his horse.

In a short time, they disappeared into the streets and alleys of twilight, leaving a thick fog in the sinful tavern.

……

……

Following the planned route, Naruto drove the black horse to a ruin.

At first, Rendell was dragged behind the horse and made a fuss, but as time went on, his angry cries gradually cooled down and turned into a whimper of a small nymph, and by the time Ming finally dismounted, he was already weak, and the bumpy stone path tortured him to death.

"We're here."

Naruto muttered to herself as she pushed open the door, and the wooden door that had been eaten by termites to the point of being a shell made a screeching sound, which woke up the fleshy Lendl.

"You...... Where are you taking me? ”

"O Heaven that kills the heavens." Ming looked back with a grin, and the moonlight that replaced the sun sprinkled silver, and his smile was also horribly white, but unfortunately Lendl couldn't see it.

Naruto untied the reins that had sunk deep into Rendell's throat, whose hands had been in a fierce struggle with the rope along the way, stained with his blood.

"The only destination for assassins is hell, you unscrupulous killers, do anything for money!" Lendel hissed a hoarse voice.

"You're wrong, even if you give me money, I will hesitate if you want me to do a big man. Even if I am a killer, I have my own work ethic. Naruto dragged him into the room.

The room is not big, but quite messy. The corner of the ceiling was smashed open by some kind of weight, and with the help of the moonlight that shone through the hole, Naruto could see the dust floating in the air.

This is a building made of a mixture of stone and wood, but for some reason, the second floor has long been in ruins, and there is not even a wall left, and it is desolate and silent.

In the whole house, only the skeleton of a corpse that has long been corroded fills the first floor, adding a lonely and cruel atmosphere to the dimly lit living room.

"The morality of killing the sky is to take money to do things, and I can pay a higher price than your employer!" When Lendel saw the mountains of dry bones, he thought it was a landfill dedicated to Ming.

He was frightened, but he still noticed that the room was full of dust, but there was a floor-to-ceiling makeup mirror that was so clean that everything in front of him could be reflected.

"Oh? What is your maximum price? If you want me to assassinate my employer, you have to pay a price commensurate with the risk. Naruto smiled and nodded.

For Killing Heaven, the guest is the supreme being - but only when the guest has money - and in many cases, Killing Heaven will help the highest bidder.

That's why the reputation of the organization has not been good.

Seeing that Ming deliberately squeezed himself, Lendel gradually calmed down his breath, "You deliberately didn't quote a specific price, just to make every penny of my money?" ”

"That's right, I'm a person who never gets along with money. So, you either die obediently, or you take out all the gold at the bottom of the box. Naruto picked up his Adam's apple with a dagger.

To be honest, Ming Tai likes this kind of bullying and oppression, but the other party doesn't dare to gasp for cheapness. Especially when the opponent is still a bounty prisoner, it makes him feel good.

Lendl broke out in a cold sweat, and in order to save his life, he said a bargaining chip that was absolutely impossible to refuse: "100,000 silk!" Buy the person you hired before you go and kill. ”

"......" Ming was taken aback, not to mention 100,000, Lendl's bounty reward was only one percent of it, and he was stunned for a moment and didn't know how to answer.

"Do you really have that many?" He crouched down and looked directly at the prisoner.

"I don't have anything else in Rendell, but there's no shortage of money to loot these days." Considering that he had to give a number that would make Naruto feel tempted, Rendell was in pain.

For the wealthy businessmen, as well as the royal relatives, 100,000 silk is just a drop in their wealth. But for Naru, it's an astronomical amount that can drive him crazy.

"It seems that you are worth more than the tribute box in the temple, 100,000, tsk, tsk, I have to say, I'm ready to move."

"So you agree? Don't worry about how the money will flow into you. I'll let my men trade with you at the agreed place, and then you can let me go......"

"No, who told you I'd let you go?"

"What do you say......"

"Hehe, I thought that this kind of black eating black story would only appear in a dream. But you're even more stupid than I thought. ”

Naruto shrugged and pulled out a decaying oil lamp with a lampshade from the dusty hall. "Look at your stupid eyes, and still can't see that you are in my hands?"

Realizing that something bad was going to happen, Lendl swallowed in silence, and Naruto continued:

"Since I know that you have 100,000, I will kill you first, and then receive the bounty, and then find a way to go back and steal the money. Isn't this the benefit of the fisherman and the sandpiper and the mussel? ”

"You-?!" Naruto's hippie smile was ghostly, and Lendl was hurt by his shamelessness, "Do you know you've violated your work ethic? That's all he could say.

"Go to ****** professional ethics, killing the sky has always been money first, when did I promise you: I will turn back if you pay money? Besides, I can't beat that man. ”

Naruto stuck out her tongue, then ignored Lendl and turned around to rummage through the ashes, not knowing what she was looking for.

"You son of a bitch, without my permission, you don't even dream of getting the 100,000 ......"

Lendel's scolding behind him grew louder and louder, but Ke Ming didn't care. After ten years of groping in this sinister society, he understands that he is the only person he can trust.

The rest of the money, companions, and friendships are all floating clouds, and he chased his childhood sweetheart for a morning this morning, so he blocked Rendell's mouth with a rag with his backhand.

It is precisely because of distrust that Ming will see the money open. He wants to escape the fate of a professional killer on his own, and Naruto has been planning since ten years before he became an orphan.

He wants to get ahead, or live a stable life as an ordinary person, but he is forced to migrate by the war and is anxious, or like a farmer who has been working for a long time, he is reluctant to say goodbye to the land he has worked so hard to - in short, Ming needs to get rid of the capital of killing the sky, so he is willing to become disowned.

After a while, perhaps because he felt that the environment was too quiet, Naruto said to himself, "You know how I can tell that you have a problem?" “

Lendl didn't answer, much less wanted to. He rolled his shattered eyes blankly, as if he didn't feel pain, but his heart was dripping blood.

"Because you didn't reject my conversation and that bounty." Ming took out the fire and lit the fuel lamp, and for a while, an open flame lit up in the lonely room, sweeping away the darkness and gloom.

"What do you want to say? Say you are a pearl of wisdom, or are you insidious and despicable? I really didn't expect that the killing of heaven would be as good as his name, and the act of taking advantage of the fire to rob was really worthy of his reputation. ”

Finally, Lendl, who was miserable by the pit, said viciously. He crunched every word, as if he could seek revenge.

"Then it seems that in the past three months, you have rarely dealt with the real Killing Heaven?" After lighting the light, start to remove the ash.

Despite his blindness, Rendell could guess what he was doing, judging by the dust that filled his nose:

"You're the third Killing Heaven I've ever met, but none of them are as shameless as you! I'm so blind that I put my mind on you......"

"Killers still need decent people? Let me guess, those people who are not as shameless as me should have been planted in your hands, right? ”

“……”

"You're the first guy to talk to me with a straight face. If you are an ordinary person, you should not hesitate to kick me out of the store. In the extreme, you should throw me a glass when I want beer, and a qualified guy will have to knock out at least three of my teeth, and at the very least, he should leave a bruise on my face, which is the real situation of killing Tianxin. There is no goodwill, and there is no treatment that ordinary people deserve. Anyone who sees us should speak ill of us, instead of laughing and talking like before. Naruto interrupted him, in a harsh tone.

“……”

"Now you understand why I know you have a problem? I never had the luxury of entering a shop without being punched or kicked, but you gave me a beer. ”

Finally, after a busy while, Naruto roughly cleaned the room. Although it is only the corpse and dust that is cleaned up, the clean room is also refreshing.

"So, the wound on your face is the result of going from house to house to try? I said why wasn't it peaceful tonight, it was you......"

Rendell, who had figured it all out, had a look of enlightenment. What kind of will can prompt Naruto to find himself despite insults and contempt? He couldn't figure it out.

"Hehehe, hahahaha......" Rendell said frantically.

"Okay, what a superb assassin who forgets his righteousness, and I consider myself unlucky to be caught by you. But don't think about simply escaping retribution, as long as I'm not dead, I won't ......"

He couldn't laugh or cry, but he couldn't do anything, he had heard of the deeds of the heavens: the world often said that they cursed their targets through magic.

So much so that after the death of the prey, their souls will also be controlled by the killing heaven, and become a currency-like existence, circulating among the killers. With that in mind, he aimed at Naru's bracelet.

"I know what you're thinking." Sitting under a hole in the corner of the roof, Narubai buttoned his nostrils in boredom, "But I didn't say that you won't die, just ......"

"Just?"

"Except for you, I can't find anyone else to say these words, isn't it pitiful?" sighed, and the endless resentment and helplessness were vividly interpreted by this light sigh.

“……”

Lendel suddenly understood the meaning, but as both enemies and friends, he naturally wanted to take advantage of Ming's loneliness to mock: "I didn't expect you to be just a paper tiger, hahahaha." ”

"I'm a paper tiger, so you're the graffiti on the painting." Naruto's eyes waited strangely for his laughter to end.

To be honest, Naruto was really tired of talking to him, but because he wore an oath lock, there was no accident in this life, and he was a disguised slave to kill the sky until he died.

Since he was a child, he has grown up in the killer pile, and now, he naturally feels bored and lost.

That's why I cherish the time I spend talking to people, even if the person I'm talking to is my goal, even if my former friend threatens to pierce my heart.

Naruto accepts it all.

"Even if it's a drawn sword, as long as it's used properly, it can still kill!" As he pondered the past, Lendl suddenly cried out.

"What-!"

Because after two hours of riding and dragging, coupled with the destruction of his eyes, his appearance can be described as extremely miserable, and Ming's defense against him has been reduced a lot.

Taking the opportunity of Ming to relax his vigilance, Lendel's muscles burst out, and he suddenly broke free of the rope and grabbed at Ming with both hands.

"Ahem!"

When Ming came back to his senses, he had been thrown to the ground by Lendl, his neck was like a twisted hemp rope tightly and suffocated, he never expected that the prey still had such strength now, it seemed that the identity of the prey and the hunter was going to be reversed: "Hehe, you stinky hairy hunter, let Lao Tzu teach you what ginger or old spicy is!" ”

Lendel roared in a frenzied rage. His palms were as big as iron tongs, and each finger was sunk into Naru's skin, which made him feel that the sky was dark and that his life was short.

As a killer, Naru has been using drugs to quench his body since he was a child, and although he is still inferior to brutal races such as demons, he is more than enough to deal with humans. As much as he thought, the reality was the opposite. Rendel's face grew more and more hideous, and the muscles of his arms swelled like balloons, and at this critical moment, Naruto saw the luminous stone on the bracelet glow again.

This time, it was a purple beam of light, and from a distance, it looked like the eyeballs of some epic creature, which was terrifying.

"Ahem, ahem, you...... Bastard ......"

Naruto struggled to cling to the other man's wrist, purple is a symbol of the abyss and hell, and he was so confused that the difference in strength was so great that he finally gave up the treatment and stopped breathing.

Or, after seeing what was happening in front of her, Naruto was so surprised that she forgot to breathe.

"Poof!"

"I'll show you what ginger is or old...... Spicy ......"

"Poof."

"Really, I said who disturbed my rest, it turned out to be you. Just hindering me from drinking, hiccup, and even being killed by his own prey, I lost my life. ”

"Meryl—?"

Crawling away from under the bartender, Naruto jerked his lungs violently to get oxygen, but he had cleared the room of dust just now, or he would have to suck in a mouth full of dead man's ashes.

Naruto looked at Rendell in horror, only to find that his pupils were out of focus, his eyes were bigger than goose eggs, and his hands were clawed before he died, and he wanted to kill himself.

The most terrifying thing was the back of his head, an empty glass wine bottle stuck in it like an awl, and his brain and blood were all over the place, and his death was horrible to see.

"Have I ever allowed you to call me by my name? Substitute No. 76. Hiccup, hmm...... Sure enough, you can't drink more of the aged summer red, what are you doing in a daze, hurry up and come in, dare to let this instructor wait for you for more than ten seconds, and save your life, just with these points, the honorarium you get today will have to be halved to buy me wine! ”

Ming followed the voice, only to see the girl he called Meryl holding a wine bottle and kicking her feet in displeasure, and a bright yellow double-curled pony tail jumped with the shaking of her body.

Under the moonlight of the room, Meryl wore a knee-high Gothic dress in black and red, and the ribbons on it were like beautiful roses blooming in a garden.

Her little mouth pursed is the icing on the cake for her cuteness, and her eyes are as gorgeous and bright as stars. It's just that this strange beauty has become very strange because of the place where the girl appeared.

Ming looked at the mirror opposite him in a daze, but the scene in it was not his own panting, but-

"I'm sorry, it was just a moment of carelessness, even if Meryl doesn't make a move, I can put him right." Naruto's face was extremely ugly, and she walked up to the mirror and bowed to the girl.

"I'd love to save you! Don't give me a fake salute. If it weren't for Yu Ram to make me wine, the rest of the 75 killer substitutes would have almost died, and I wouldn't want you, a broom star, to help me run errands and buy wine, huh. ”

Meryl on the other side of the mirror looked away in displeasure, her cheeks were more rosy than the clouds of the morning sun because of her alcoholism.

It was an ordinary mirror, but because Meryl defied the laws of reflection, the whole room was rendered in a ghostly atmosphere, and the blue light was faintly distant.

"Sure enough, did you save me to send me to buy alcohol, what did I tell you last time, Instructor, alcoholism is not suitable for your age......"

Naruto suddenly felt countless black lines flowing down his forehead, and despite his dissatisfaction, he still leaned in front of the mirror, and as if he had crossed the threshold of the room, he put his foot into the mirror, and for a while, the mirror surface was rippled.

Subsequently, disappear into the original room.