Volume 1: The Tide of Dusk: Before the Storm (2)
"We know most of your abilities, and at present, there is not only the trouble of the Earth Mother, but more importantly, you have the ability to fight. ”
She was a little speechless at the introduction, the boy seemed to be unaware of what kind of abilities he possessed, but it was understandable to think that a few days ago he had no idea about the other side of the world.
"In short, I will find a way to help you find a way to control your abilities during this time, it may be a little tiring, you have to be mentally prepared. ”
The serious tone made An Yiran's heart furious, is this the opening sentence of the devil's special training?
But when he thought that he had chosen to board this thief ship, it seemed that he couldn't choose whether to choose or not, so he had to nod silently.
"Starting today, the falcon will be in charge of guarding the area around your residence, and will contact you as soon as you find any trace of the nightwreckage. ”
She was concise and glanced at the falcon, he nodded, and Lao Zhang also stood up from the office chair and stretched a big lazy waist.
"Weaving Dreams is staying with me for the time being, so that we can go out at any time if there is any situation. ”
"Agree, I personally hate hotels exactly. ”
Seeing that Li Ruolin should be so decisive, Lin Xiaojia was also stunned, this iceberg beauty is not as unearthly as it seems on the outside.
"Come on, we'll escort you back. ”
Eagle Falcon pointed at An Yiran, who looked dazed, and he followed Lao Zhang and Eagle Falcon towards the door.
"Actually, before I left, that person was there and said something about you. ”
The door of the office closed behind the three of them, Li Ruolin walked to the office chair and sat down, and the cold voice reached Lin Xiaojia's ears.
She raised her eyebrows, her eyes moved slightly, and she looked at Li Ruolin with a look of surprise.
"What did he say?"
"He said that if you find something wrong, you will be forbidden to use the Red King again, which is an order. ”
Li Ruolin stared straight at Lin Xiaojia's eyes, and a bit of seriousness was added to her cold tone.
"Judging by your reaction just now, I guess something is wrong. ”
Lin Xiaojia clenched her hands slightly, and her low mood made her really unable to pretend to be strong.
She didn't know that her current expression was like a depressed cat, Li Ruolin's expression was calm and waveless, but her sharp eyes like a knife locked on her at this time, making her a little breathless.
"I'm fine. ”
She could only cast her eyes out of the window, the night had already completely fallen, and her eyes fell on the night sky hundreds of meters high, there was no focus, only darkness.
The scattered gaze could not catch the brilliant neon scattered in the city, and the mirror-clear black pupils no longer flickered red flames as they did in battle.
"Let me tell you, don't underestimate An's subsystem, the number of each subsystem can be used as a credit card! ”
Lao Zhang was paralyzed in the co-pilot's seat, holding a 555 popping bead in his mouth, and the faint mint smell drifted out of the window along the smoke.
"You'll know when you get it, you don't have to enter the password for this thing anyway, and if my brother is short of money in the future, I'll borrow it from you." He said shyly.
This posture and tone don't look like a member of a large mysterious organization, but it's similar to the thugs who collect protection money on the streets.
It's just that Lao Zhang's age looks a little too old as a gangster.
Panamera crosses a less congested junction and the traffic in the east of the city peaks at 6 p.m., when it is already in decline.
He responded to the constant topic of Lao Zhang one by one, his eyes fell on the receding street lamp, and the retreating lampposts lined up in his eyes, like a long staircase connecting the unknown realm.
An Yiran held his face diagonally with his left hand, and he thought that the little boy hadn't appeared in his dream recently.
People are really wonderful things, and there will always be an impulse to identify with people and things that we are used to.
And those surging unknowns, but they can't avoid it like a flood, and think about it, what a strong desire for self-preservation.
He looked at his right hand, even if he tried to see through him with the most concentrated attention, but in normal times he was just an ordinary hand, and he couldn't see that this hand could now summon some strange abilities.
Just like most people, he lived his life peacefully, reminiscing about his own little happiness, and never thought that those throbbing madness were so close to him.
At most, they complain about the people of the Middle East who are forever in trouble in the news, and then be grateful for their eternal calm and peaceful surroundings.
The champagne-coloured Panamera had already driven into the neighborhood near An's residence.
Lao Zhang still kept telling him all the way about how good the organization was, how great the welfare was, how beautiful the girl was, and the chatter like chanting was kept perfunctory.
But I have to say that Lao Zhang may really be a ghost genius in chatting, judging from so many non-repeating bad words, he really has to be amway for an ordinary person.
Provided, of course, that he doesn't know what he's up against.
"Anyway, I still don't know what you're trying to do, or what I'm going to do after that. ”
An Yiran couldn't help but spread his hands, this was the biggest truth in his heart, at least so far, except for being inexplicably involved in the battle, he was still confused about what he was going to face.
"You don't have any fighting power right now, and that girl doesn't want to put too much pressure on you! ”
Lao Zhang was in the tone of a person who had come over again, and deliberately put on a deep posture.
"It's good that you're responsible for learning control first, let's teach a one-on-one beauty! But let me tell you in advance, her training method is quite strict. ”
The car had already stopped at the entrance of the community, in front of a roadside stall selling sizzling squid, and he pushed the door open, and the aroma of grilled squid and onions came from his uncle's trolley.
"Alright, go back and sleep well, don't stay up late! Maybe it's going to start in the next two days!"
The sound of Lao Zhang fading away came from the car farther and farther away, An Yiran stuck out his tongue at the voice, thinking to himself that with his habit of not sleeping for fourteen hours a day, how could he stay up late.
But what does it feel like to sleep with something on your mind?
He looked up at the tall buildings that melted into the night, their silhouettes dim in the moonlight.
The uncle who fired the squid flipped the shovel on the side, and the figure of the young man followed the rhythm of the shovel stir-frying, gradually moving away under the dim street lamp.
"How much do you have so far?"
Li Ruolin rubbed her wet hair and walked out of the bathroom, her skeleton was not enough to support the one-size-fits-all bathrobe, her left shoulder was hanging down, the tight belt opened a gap in her chest, and the water droplets fell down her eyelashes, and the picture became lazy and foggy.
"Can you get dressed? See this big floor-to-ceiling window?"
"It's okay, I don't care. ”
I really don't know if this girl is too iceberg or too natural.
Li Ruolin's cold answer made Lin Xiaojia have such a thought, she shook her head, got up and closed the curtains in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.
"How much do you have at the moment. ”
Li Ruolin continued to wipe her hair, paced to the sofa and sat down, and since Lin Xiaojia didn't answer just now, she stubbornly asked again stubbornly.
"It's not much different from the reported situation, except for the Earth Mother and the mysterious man beside her, there is no other progress, the Eagle Falcon is cooperating with the branch investigation, as long as the other party takes action, there will be results soon. ”
How much did he know. Li Ruolin suddenly diverted the topic, Lin Xiaojia was slightly stunned, but she also understood the meaning of her words.
"What kind of understanding?"
"Target, serum, nightwreckage, us. ”
"Nothing but Nightwreckage and our organization. ”
"You should have told him more. ”
"If it were you, you would have known overnight that there are a large number of capable people behind this world, who are fighting to the death under their noses, blood and stumps flying. And you're getting involved, and you're being targeted by weirdos on both sides at the same time, what are you going to do?"
"I'll face it. ”
"This isn't one of the battles in Kamen Rider where you don't even see blood, it's a battle where you can die if you're not careful. ”
"Even if I knew, I would face it. ”
"You're you, he's him!"
Li Ruolin repeated the cold conversation, which made her a little impatient.
The fiery emotions suddenly began to surge, and when he said these words, another figure appeared in Lin Xiaojia's eyes.
The emaciated little girl was crying in the flames, the overturned furniture and the floating shadows, the burning body in the fire, and the man caressing the girl's shoulder behind his back.
Her tone unconsciously became agitated as her mood shifted, but she soon realized her gaffe and cleared her throat as if nothing had happened.
"The goal of the operation, and the overall situation, I will tell him slowly in the training afterwards. ”
Lin Xiaojia sorted out his emotions in an instant.
"That person seemed to value the boy very much, and that level was not at all like for a newly awakened powerhouse, but more like something else. ”
Li Ruolin didn't care about Lin Xiaojia's mood swings, she just said to herself, but the emotions in her topic were very complicated, so she really couldn't find adjectives to describe them.
"Forget it, I'm going to sleep. ”
Li Ruolin was no longer obsessed with the thoughts in her heart, dropped this sentence at the silent Lin Xiaojia, and walked in the direction of the bedroom.
"Are you going to sleep in a yukata? ”
Lin Xiaojia recovered from the silence and asked Li Ruolin, who was wearing an obviously wide and ill-fitting yukata.
"I was in a hurry, I didn't have much time to prepare my luggage, everything was on the task. ”
"There are a few sets of pajamas in the cupboard, you can take them and wear them. ”
She nodded silently, and the bedroom door closed behind her.
Lin Xiaojia shrunk to the sofa and sat down, clasping her hands on her knees, she didn't know how long such a peaceful night would last.
The quiet atmosphere gradually fills the air, the overhead sensor lights stop working after a long time without receiving a sound, and the only source of light in the high-rise office is the city lights through the floor-to-ceiling windows.
She spread out her left hand, the base of her fingers grinding into a cocoon from holding the sword for many years.
Thinking of how many years had passed since she had held this sword, when it was still so small and delicate.
What you really want to take with you, time will take away for you.
She had heard such a sentence, and what she never forgot must not be what she really wanted to take away.
It's like when she reaches out to the light source, an illusory sense of reality keeps pouring in between her fingers.