In the darkness, Lixia Mao carefully pinched her limbs and shoulders.

A lot of exercise will make the muscles tired, and if you don't let them relax well before going to bed, you will have a hard time the next day.

Lixia let out a somewhat resentful sigh as she pinched her body.

Miss Illya is really, and she is training until late on the impromptu basis. You Jun too, obviously told him that he must come over once, but the result was to release my pigeon, which made Miss Illya muttered repeatedly all day...... Anyway, I've told you, no matter what the outcome is, it's none of my business!

Lixia thought to herself, and her throat unconsciously let out a "woo-" sound, like an awkward little pet, and slammed her body on the bed.

The bed board was hard, and with her somewhat rude movements, there was a painful creak between the old plank. Lixia thought that the old bed was dead, and she jumped up in fright.

It's the right time to call it the end of the day or the beginning of the day, and the sound of the wooden planks shaking is particularly harsh in the quiet room.

After carefully observing that the bed board did not have any tendency to break, and the residents downstairs showed no signs of rushing up, Lixia breathed a small sigh of relief and gently lay back on the hardwood bed board.

This hard feeling doesn't get soft no matter how much bedding is laid, not to mention that Lixia can't afford to buy more mattresses.

The room where Lixia lives cannot be said to be "broken", but it is also at the level of "old". The house she lives in, the two-story rental building called the Lotus Apartments, is an old house in the old town of Crossbell that was located at least half a century ago.

At that time, it was not an old town, and there were no thugs, and although people were confused and idle, at least they were full of laughter and laughter, unlike now, when they were in a hurry every day and rarely spoke.

As for why Lixia lives here, the reason is simple.

Cheap.

The more upscale something is, the more expensive it is, and conversely, the older it is, the cheaper it is. The money for a month's stay in a high-end hotel can live here for a whole year. Lixia is not a person who values enjoyment, and the atmosphere of the old town is just right for her to feel at ease. Although there are many empty houses that Crossbell meets her needs, it is still this house that offers the best value for money.

In order to support yourself, you need money. If you want to get money, you need to work.

Work and work.

The former, is Lixia's job as a killer. It is a profession that can make a lot of money as long as you have the ability and abandon your conscience. The latter is Lixia's work as a dancer, and at Rainbow Theatre, she is a newcomer who is working hard to improve her dancing skills for the upcoming new drama "Golden Sun and Silver Moon".

I always feel that I am coming to an end.

The killer's Lixia and the dancer's Lixia, this completely different dual identity makes her feel tired.

Killers need a network of intelligence, and in order to sustain this huge network, killers need a lot of money. However, in order to kill targets more efficiently and avoid enemies, the intelligence network is necessary, and it is impossible to say that you will not take care of it because you have no money. In order to maintain this intelligence network of her own, Lixia cannot give up her job as a killer, and the dancer's basic salary simply cannot afford this intelligence network.

The work of a dancer takes time. It undoubtedly takes a lot of time to train body techniques and expressive exercises. What's more, Lixia is a super newcomer valued by Illya, and in "Golden Sun and Silver Moon", she will play the second protagonist, Moon Dance. This love made her already scarce time even more stressful.

The dancer is fighting the killer for time, and the killer is fighting the dancer for money. And the common goal of the two is a human named Lixia Mao. And the result of the competition between the two is that Lixia has no money and no time now.

It's almost the limit.

Do you want to give up your identity?

Lixia thought.

But she didn't want to give up on either side. On the one hand, she has been prescribed the path she must take since she was a child, and Lixia does not know the path other than that, while on the other side is the career she really loves, and Lixia loves the feeling of being on stage very, very, very much.

Anyway, let's take a break. It's 0:06 now, and if you go into a high-intensity sleep now, you should be able to rest for nearly two hours and gain enough stamina to last a day, and then it's time to work as a killer.

Lixia said this, forcing her brain into a dormant state.

Yu Tatsumi once stated that he was willing to help Lixia kill the target, and then let Lixia leave the land of Crossbell, but was refused.

The reason is very simple, first of all, she is a killer who governs the state from herself, not to assassinate anyone, but to accept a contract to stay and work in the autonomous prefecture in a manner similar to that of a mercenary while receiving a large amount of payment. In other words, this is not the type of contract that ends when you kill a target, it's a bit like the contract that Yu-Tatsumi and Lloyd signed.

Secondly, even if the commission is completed, Lixia does not want to leave here. Especially not wanting to leave the Rainbow Theatre.

As for which of the two reasons is the main one, Lixia herself does not know.

Before meeting Illya, her life was nothing but killing, killing, killing, and killing.

If only there was someone who could talk a little.

The thought popped into Lixia's mind.

This is rare, and generally speaking, when Lixia wants to sleep, just ten seconds is enough for her to fall into a deep sleep. This is a skill that every killer will have, because their daily routines are not fixed, and they often need to fall asleep quickly to ensure as much sleep as possible.

As for the one who can talk a little bit, I'm afraid the only one is Yu Tatsumi. On the one hand, this is the police, at least Lixia thinks is the police, and on the other hand, the killers.

Moreover, the nickname "Wind" is also well-known in the industry, aiming for a list of more than 10 million, with a kill success rate of 92%, and is recognized as NO.1 in the killer world. Because he is extremely fast, as if he doesn't need to collect intelligence in advance, and he can always kill the target quietly and retreat, the industry will give him the nickname "Wind".

Although Lixia did not specifically collect information about him, she knew a little bit about it.

If it were him, if he threatened him with "repaying the favor", he would probably help me plan seriously, right?

Wrong wrong! What are you thinking, Mao Lixia!

Lixia is angry at her weakness.

In short, don't think about what you have or not. I'll still have work in the early hours of the morning.

Lixia chose to retreat for the time being, hoping that she would be able to rest well.

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Valudo Varess was upset at this time. Very unpleasant. He was so unhappy that if he didn't have so much strength, he would have wanted to tear down all the houses in the old city to vent his hatred.

At this moment, his face was flushed, and it was obvious that he had drunk a lot, which led to alcohol poisoning, which in layman's terms, was drunk. His pace is quite steady, but the swaying appearance of his body doesn't look like he's okay no matter how you look at it.

Recently, Varudojing has encountered some strange troubles. His subordinates were detained by the police, his subordinates were attacked by the mafia, and he didn't come in handy to fight the head of the mafia.

Wine is really a good thing, three glasses down, Valudo forgot all about Waji or something, he couldn't even remember whether his gang was called the Holy Book Society or the Holy Aunt Society, and he drank with everyone in the Sword and Snake Gang with his stuffy head, and everyone sang and made trouble, as if they were carnival.

The stronghold of the Sword and Snake Gang is a small theater called "Ghost Fire", and since the Sword and Snake Gang has been entrenched, loud music has been played every night, thanks to this, although their drinking party today made a louder noise, but the nearby residents are also surprised.

However, there is a disadvantage of alcohol, that is, it is easy to stimulate the urinary system when drinking too much, and when Varudo suddenly wanted to go to the toilet, he found that there was a long queue in the toilet that could not accommodate many people, and then Varudo really discovered what a huge organization the Sword and Snake Gang is.

But people have three urgent problems that can't be solved, so Varudo went out to find a public toilet. There is a public toilet about forty or fifty miles away from the Ghost Fire Theater, and it takes about three minutes to walk to it at Valudo's current pace.

I don't know if I drank too much, but Varudo only felt a cold swish on his body. Of course, this has something to do with the fact that he is still wearing a jacket and exposing his chest and arms, but is it really that cold tonight?

"It's a nice moonlit night."

Varudo grumbled meaninglessly, looking up to look at the moon.

I didn't see anything, only darkness.

“？”

Valudo also felt strange. It is true that it is difficult for Crossbell to see the beautiful starry sky because of the more complete civilization, but it is obviously unscientific not to even see the moon.

Then, Valudo heard the sound of whirring, and the low roar of something.

Like a ferocious lion.

“！！！”

Valudo was half awake at once! He strode back dozens of steps, far enough away that he took a closer look at the black shadow.

It was the outline of a carnivorous beast resembling a lion, gray-black, with a pair of eagle-like wings on its back.

If it's just this look, there's nothing to be afraid of. To be honest, those monsters in the suburbs are even more bizarre and terrifying.

However, this monster is far more terrifying than Warcraft. If you want to say why, it's bigger than thirty or forty Varudo.

The three-story building is a lot taller, and the volume is unimaginable, the pair of eagle-like wings, with a bang, spread out to the fullest, which is reminiscent of the existence of the idiom "hidden from the sky".

I don't know what the reason is, and I don't know why, this monster appeared in the old town for no apparent reason. And judging by the way it looks, I'm afraid it's ready to make a big fuss......

As if to confirm this, the monster roared, and Crossbell was startled.

Cross Bell's riots, this is just the beginning.