Wedges meet

One night four years ago, Lu Su, who was still a junior in high school, hurriedly walked down the road, the dim street lights casting a four-petal shaky shadow on the empty road, and he carried a bag of drinks bought from a convenience store.

I can't remember the cause and effect, whether it was a classmate coming to the house for a party, or a few coffees to buy a few coffees and stay up late to study, anyway, it doesn't matter what happens next.

When passing through the intersection, the red light came on, and although there were no cars on the road, he chose to wait there. At this time, there was a surging engine sound from the other side of the road, almost instantly, a car that was too fast suddenly rolled over when turning, and under the action of huge inertia, it rolled wildly and smashed into Lu Su, who was already stunned.

This happened so fast that it was too late to even run away, or even scream, and could only watch the rampaging car fly towards him like an ant.

At this time, a black shadow fell silently in front of Lu Su, and when he saw it clearly, he found that it was a woman in a black dress, with a graceful figure, long and slightly curled hair draped over her shoulders, a pair of slender and fair-skinned **, and a pair of high heels on her feet. The back alone is enough to make people think about it...... c, at this time, I still observe so carefully, what a pathetic male instinct! He complained to himself in his heart.

The woman bent down slightly, pressed her right hand on the side of her leg, and at the moment when the car was about to smash over, her long skirt fluttered up, and her right hand swung out quickly from the bottom up, as if a knife light swept by. Then the car was cut off from the middle of the road, and the body continued to roll forward, half of which smashed into a nearby lamp pole and the other half embedded in the door of a store, causing a scream.

The woman turned around, it was a cold face carved like ice and snow, and the oblique cut Qi Hai naturally covered one eye, looking a little evil. Beauty alone is not enough to sum up her appearance, it should be said that it is a dangerous beauty.

The woman's hand holds a dagger forged from high-speed steel, with a blue light of Sensen, and a string of serrations on the back of the knife, although it is very sharp, it doesn't look like it can cut a car no matter how you look at it, and the length is a bug!

"Ah...... Thank you! All Lu Su could think of was this sentence, and he blushed, because he was very unaccustomed to being watched by the other party.

"Be careful, it's not my habit to help humans, but I'm just passing by today...... Hey, you didn't see that, did you? ”

"See what?"

"Panties ah!"

"No, absolutely not!" Shaking his head desperately.

In fact, when she swung the knife, Lu Su still saw the pink bottoms, but she didn't have the heart to think about it at that time, and she was scared silly.

"Then I won't kill you." She said terrible things lightly.

I saw that she turned the dagger in her hand, and quickly put it into the scabbard tied to her thigh, not so much into the scabbard, but into the scabbard, because it was too accurate, if ordinary people did this, they would definitely stab themselves.

The question just now actually went straight to BaDenD! Lu Su thought to himself.

Then she took a cup of coffee from the bag in Lu Su's hand, opened it unceremoniously, and took a sip: "Bye-bye, fool!" ”

Instead of flying away with a "whirl", he turned away as usual, and the swaying black skirt gradually melted into the darkness.

Who the hell is she?

Lu Su stared at the direction of her for a long time, his heart beating wildly uncontrollably, and his heart, disturbed by the dangerous and beautiful shadow, kept asking:

Who the hell is she?

Or rather...... What is she?

Chapter 1 Encounter

Today.

Lu Su's uncle died, and his uncle was actually only one year older than him.

At the funeral, he looked at the black-and-white photos in the black frame, and what stuck in his heart was not so much despair as his unacceptability to accept reality. Only when the close relatives and friends around him die, the word "death" can be truly recognized, and the thought of the familiar face lying there will never open their eyes again, never smile again, and never speak again, Lu Su's heart seems to have been opened a huge gap.

"Su, after the funeral, help sort out your uncle's relics, see which ones to lose and which ones to stay!" Mom said.

"I see!"

Three days later, the uncle was sent to the crematorium, turned into a heavy ebony box, followed the family through the funeral procedures, and Lu Su, who had not closed his eyes all night, went to his uncle's residence...... It should be said that it was the former residence, since Lu Su went to college, his uncle rarely went home, and his whereabouts have been uncertain for four years, but occasionally he called back to report his safety.

Sometimes Lu Su asked him what he was doing on the Internet, and he simply said, "I'm exploring!" ”

Without a job, without asking for money from his family, and never coming home, what he has done in the past four years is almost a mystery.

Lu Su sorted out the moldy old books and clothes in the cabinet, put them in cardboard boxes or threw them away. Many books have been recommended to Lu Su by his uncle, and he has read them seriously, and when he puts them in a cardboard box and seals them forever, he has a feeling that things are wrong. When he cleared a drawer, he found a journal that was deep in the drawer, and he held it in his hand to wipe away the dust on it.

The leather cover, very heavy and open, recorded some daily trivialities on it, and the time of recording stopped in May four years ago.

The record of the last day has only one sentence: "I'm going to go far away, I don't know when I'll be back, I hope everything goes well." ”

When he thinks about it, he himself was almost hit by a car last June, but was saved by the mysterious woman in black, and since then he has often run to that road, but has never seen her again.

While thinking wildly, while flipping through the diary, a yellowed piece of paper fell out, and only one sentence was written on it: "If one day I die, please come to this place!" Attached is an address in the city.

Could it be that my uncle foresaw that he would die a long time ago!? He had a vague feeling that the few words on the paper were a key.

He folded the paper and stuffed it into his pocket, hurriedly packed his things, made a phone call home, and hurried to the address.

It took an hour to find an old house, demolished on all sides, and only the only one remained. This area is considered an old city with relatively chaotic security in City C, and I don't know what his uncle is hiding here.

He went up to the fourth floor and stopped in front of a room with the door locked, but it wasn't a hindrance. Seeing that there was no one around, Lu Su found a small section of steel bar, inserted it into the lock ring, and broke the lock with a twist left and right.

This trick was also taught to him by his uncle...... It shouldn't be considered an illegal invasion, Lu Su thought to himself.

Pushing open the door, it was a simple two-bedroom house, there was a folding bed in the room, the quilt was already a little musty, and there was a writing desk by the window, because the window was always open, and the few pieces of paper on the table were wet by the rain and dried by the sun, and had become crumpled.

There are some lunch boxes piled up on the ground, giving the impression that the people who live here are busy every day and are too busy to clean. What the hell is my uncle doing here, why is he renting another house in the city? There are many books on the bookshelf on the side, and just looking at the titles of the books is enough to make people shy away, such as "Examination of Medieval Diseases" and "Chinese Folk Geography".

There is nothing to explore here, Lu Su pushed the door into the room on the side, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw a lacquered coffin leaning against the wall, which was so eye-catching!

There was nothing furnished in the house, only a small bed, and a few books thrown next to the bed, and the owner was probably quite casual. The empty room seems to be very unpopular, do you want to open the coffin and take a look, Lu Su thought secretly.

Two beds, which means that there are two people living here, friend? Partners? Lover?

You don't have to live in such a place in hiding!

Just as he was about to open the coffin to take a look, the curtains suddenly fluttered, Lu Su subconsciously glanced at the window, and suddenly someone was talking behind him.

A cold woman's voice said, "Who are you?" ”

"Ahh He screamed in fright and saw a woman in a black sundress leaning against the wall with her arms crossed, how did she get in?

Suddenly, he found that this face was familiar, with oblique bangs, an ice beauty-like face, and long hair that was naturally curled up slightly over his shoulders.

"Hey, it's you!"

The person in front of him was the woman who saved him four years ago, Lu Su said with some excitement.

"Don't point a finger at me."

"I'm sorry!"

"Who are you?"

"We've met, you don't remember, ...... four years ago"

"I've slaughtered so many people, how can I remember every face." The woman left the wall against which she was leaning and approached Lu Su with a dangerous and seductive aura.

"You're mistaken, I'm definitely not the person you killed, it's the person you saved!"

"I don't remember at all." She responded coldly, Lu Su's heart fell to the bottom all of a sudden, obviously she often thought of her in the past four years, "Why did you come to my house." ”

Continuing to approach, with a hand pressed on the side of her leg, Lu Su knew that she had a murder weapon hidden there that could cut open the car.

"Wait, Ken...... There must be a misunderstanding, someone called me here. ”

"Who?"

"My uncle!"

"Your uncle?"

Approaching again, face on the verge of touching face.

"Cheng Guzhi!"

The moment she said this name, the woman's expression suddenly softened, no, it should have dimmed. She didn't start, as if to hide her emotions: "Really? You are his ......"

"Relatives, my name is Lu Su, what is your name?"

"Don't get close to me, we're not familiar with each other yet."

“……”

"Get out!"

Uncle asked him to come over, it should be more than that, when the puzzle that has been haunting his heart is within reach, Lu Su doesn't want to give up.

"Wait!" He took out a piece of paper from his pocket and unfolded it in front of the other party, "Cheng Guzhi asked me to come to you." ”

The woman held her chin and glanced at the words on the paper: "Looking for me?" I didn't say that! Again, we are not familiar with each other, don't be close. ”

"It's obvious, he told me to come after he died, and he didn't tell me what he wanted me to do, so someone here must tell me that I have no choice but to look for you."

"Oh?"

It was going well, and Lu Su had the courage to ask, "Then who are you?" ”

"Demon!"

A simple word, but it is an unimaginable answer, like a drop of reagent falling into a test tube, which instantly aroused boiling curiosity in Lu Su's heart.

"Really...... It's true? ”

"Yes!"

"What demon? Goblin? Monster? ”

"A demon is a demon, don't guess like an idiot." The woman said impatiently.

"Uh...... Are you a vixen? ”

The woman drew the knife very quickly, and a gust of wind passed by her ears, and when Lu Su turned her head in shock, she saw a dagger stuck in the wall behind her, shaking slightly.

"You can go ahead and ask!" The threat was over, the woman said.

Lu Su swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and didn't know where to start, "A demon is a demon"? I've heard all kinds of monster stories since I was a child, but now I don't know what a "demon" is.

"I'm sorry, I'm not in a good temper!" The woman walked past the stunned Lu Su, pulled out the knife on the wall, and said with some introspection, "Look, if I suddenly ask you what a 'human' is, you may not be able to say it all at once, in short, the demon is ...... A life form that transcends common sense! ”

"A life form that transcends common sense?" Lu Su frowned and repeated, "I seem to understand a little...... Is there a difference between the 'demon' you say and the 'monster' I understand, don't be angry, I just want to understand, for example, what kind of animal did you change? ”

"I'm not an animal, I'm the prototype is a holy bone, an old monk's finger bone, I refined it from the furnace." The woman patiently explained, "It's so strange to tell yourself where you came from! ”

The old monk's finger bones have become a woman? Is this old monk's surname Kato? But now is not the time to complain, you will be killed.

"Understood!" Lu Su digested her words, "Your name is ......"

"Broken!"

"Broken?"

"How?"

"It's awkward."

"I don't feel it, Gu Zhi called you over, it must be because of that incident."

"Huh?"

Calling my uncle Gu Zhi is obviously not ordinary.

"Come with me."

"Oh!"

One after the other went to the outer room, and the woman rummaged through the shelves looking for something. She asked Lu Su to close the door, and after the door closed, Lu Su saw that she was spreading a piece of paper on the ground, on which was drawn an intricate and mysterious magic circle, and this round magic circle had two hands-shaped blank spaces at both ends.

Is it some kind of contract?

"My refiner is Gu Zhi, he explained before, if he dies one day......"

"What is a Refiner Man? The host? ”

"Huh?" She suddenly raised her voice and glared, "You're so shameless!" ”

"I was wrong!"

Can you explain it politely, as if I should have known these things as soon as I walked through the door. Lu Su thought to himself.

"You've got to explain, I don't understand anything."

"It's so troublesome!"

The woman took a piece of paper, drew on the paper, first drew a monster, then drew a child being eaten, waited next to it for five minutes, Lu Su asked, "What are you drawing?" ”

"I'm just trying to see if I can write with this pen." As he spoke, he flipped the paper over.

There's too much to do!

"Look, this is the Demon Refining Furnace......"

"Long-legged potatoes."

"Shut up! The demon is refined from the furnace, using various things that can attract the aura of heaven and earth, such as ...... Forget it, don't give examples. ”

"You don't know!"

"Shut up! The person who refines the demon class is called the refiner, which is almost the same as ...... Uh......"

"Master?"

"You dream about it! The refiner is the refiner, you remember it in your mind! Also, the refiner can be transferred, and if a refiner dies, another person can be a refiner...... That's how troublesome humans are. ”

"Let me ask a question, what rights do refiners have?"

"Rights?"

"Such as the power of life and death."

"You're dreaming!"

"For example, the power of controlling demons."

"You're going to die."

"For example, the power to summon demons."

"Nope."

"What?" You play with me.

"Why are you so idiot, isn't there something in humanity that is so big, like soap, with buttons on it......"

"You mean the phone?"

"yes, can't you summon it with this?"

And what about the ancient times, write a letter and wait three months?

"You've said so much, I still don't know what a refiner does? What did Cheng Guzhidu do? ”

"Buy clothes, buy food......"

"Isn't this still the master?"

"In short, refining people and refining demons are linked."

"Are you living together?"

"Shut up! Okay, let's make a contract! She waved her hand enthusiastically.

“……”

“……”

The two looked at each other silently, Lu Su was thinking in his heart, although he was a little happy to see her again, but he didn't think about being a refining person or anything, what kind of super expansion is this?

"Knots?"

"I refuse!"

"Why?"

"Why should I be your refiner, what can you do?"

"Kill!" She said seriously.

"Kill...... Homicide? ”

"And it never fails, Gu Zhi helped me find a murder mission and made a lot of money."

In the past four years, my uncle has been using this demon as a killer to make money...... Can't believe it.

However, the gods are mysterious, just to make money? Such a motive is too humble.

"Gu Zhi said, if he dies, let a person named Lu Su be my refiner." The woman said, as if recalling the past, and her voice was slightly sad.

"Something else, he didn't say?"

"Nope!"

I don't understand what my uncle's intentions are, but it shouldn't be harming myself. Looking at the woman's gloomy expression, Lu Su's heart moved.

"Okay!"

"Huh, you agreed so soon?" The woman was also surprised.

"I don't know what the use is, but if I don't try, I'll never know."

"Oh~ You're not as mother-in-law as you seem."

"Do I look like a mother-in-law?"

"Come on, put your hand on this!"

The two of them pressed their hands on the hand-shaped blank space at both ends, and after leaving it for a long time and nothing happened, Lu Su suddenly noticed one thing, this piece of paper was actually printed.

"I found one thing, this one of you is printed!" Turn over the "contract", and there are real estate advertisements, how casual is my uncle!

"What is 'print'?"

"Does such a casual thing really work?"

"I think about it, it seems like a little blood, yes, a finger!"

She grabbed Lu Su's hand and slashed on his index finger, blood flowed out, and he screamed.

"Don't you use it yourself?"

"Let's try it first!"

"Oh!"

And it turned out that nothing happened.

"Not enough blood!" The woman said.

Pulling his hand and slashing his middle finger, Lu Su screamed.

"You must be mistaken, you want the blood of two people, this is what a contract usually looks like."

"Let's try it first!"

"Alas!"

Nothing happened, of course.

"Get your hands on it!" Lu Su roared, snatched the knife and slashed at the other party's finger, and bright red blood flowed from his fingertips.

Pressing his hand there again, suddenly the talisman on the paper glowed with brilliant light, and the ancient talisman slowly floated to a few inches on the paper, turning and shining.

A warm and wonderful feeling penetrated his body from his fingertips, and instantly flowed through his whole body, he heard an ethereal song in his ears, and smelled a fragrant smell in his nose, as if something instantly passed through the blood vessels of his whole body and penetrated into his brain, and the whole body and mind were very relaxed. It feels so comfortable, and when this beautiful experience is gone, there is even a trace of loss in my heart.

Consciousness returned to reality, and the woman raised her face, some tears glistening in her eyes.

"Hey, you're crying?"

"It's fine, just thinking of something." She sighed and looked away.

"By the way, although I don't have any power, can I change your name?"

"Why did you change your name?"

"'Broken', 'broken', always feels awkward...... I'm your refiner, let's call it Jinduan. ”

"Jin Xuan?"

"Add a surname to your original 'broken', it sounds like 'Jin Forging', and it also looks like a girl's name."

"I love the name." She suddenly laughed, it turned out that she was so cute when she laughed, like the melting of ice and snow for thousands of years, like flowers blooming all over the world, Lu Su was a little intoxicated when she saw it.

She stood up, flicked her hair and turned her face beautifully: "Hey, celebrate our acquaintance, invite me to eat, Xinhua people." ”

"Don't demons eat people?"

"Don't eat it!" When he left the hut, he stretched his waist against the clear sky, as if he wanted to embrace the world, "We only eat our kind." ”

"Eating the same kind?"

"That's right, kill each other!"

After a long time, Lu Su thought about it, if it weren't for the note that was accidentally discovered, he would never have pushed open the door called "demon" and walked into this bloody and cruel world of killing each other, but every time he saw Jin Duan's moving smile after experiencing life and death, everything seemed to be worth it.

After a long time, he still thanked him from the bottom of his heart for this encounter.