A black Range Rover Evoque was running across the Gobi, the sky was still dark, but it was slowly rising from the horizon.

Qiu Qiu's gaze withdrew from the distant horizon and fell on the woman sitting beside him. The woman looked at the scenery outside with both hands on the car glass, leaving only his back.

Messy hair, dirty clothes, and blood on his shoulders......

"Did you do it with someone before you came?"

Looking at the woman's appearance, Qiu Qiu really had a hard time associating her with the representative of the Qilu branch. Everyone who attended the meeting in the early hours of the morning was dressed in a decent suit, with the exception of her.

The embarrassed one doesn't look like a representative person, but like an errand boy.

Hearing someone ask herself, the woman turned around, her face still had some mud stains, her eyes were blue, and her lips were a little pale. The woman with this face that looked like she had stayed up all night was the Xia Ke who was brought to Devil City by Liu Ruyan.

Xia Ke looked at Qiu Qiu, her eyes showed a little doubt, she didn't understand why Qiu Qiu would ask her like this, but she still replied: "Yes, I did it with someone, I beat others, and I was beaten by others." ”

"Did you win?"

Xia Ke was stunned for a moment and grinned. She rubbed her left and right hands, a little nervous and a little excited: "Of course, if you don't win, you'll die." ”

Qiu Qiu nodded, the expression on his face as it should be. Xia Ke secretly glanced at Qiu Qiu, and his right hand picked at the nail gap of the little finger of his left hand, "That, Senior Qiu, can I ask, what is the purpose of entering Devil City?" ”

"Don't you know?" Qiu Qiu turned his head sideways, his two eyes looked at Xia Ke's face very seriously, his gaze stayed on her two hands for a while, and then asked, "You didn't receive the appointment letter?" ”

"Letter of appointment?" Xia Ke's eyes widened, what the hell is this kind of thing that sounds amazing? Why didn't she know at all.

Qiu Qiu took out a file bag from the briefcase next to him, and the wood-colored file bag had a 'secret' character printed on it in red ink. Xia Ke is no stranger to such a portfolio, and she herself has a few points, all of which are contracts for the first few missions. But the few copies of her, the word 'secret' are all black ink.

So the letter of appointment Qiu Qiu mentioned is a confidentiality contract required by the insurance company?

Watching Qiu Qiu slowly open the file bag, and watching him take out a stack of A4 paper from it, Xia Ke's eyes were about to fall on the stack of papers.

"Look, here's my letter of appointment." Qiu Qiu generously handed all the papers in his hand to Xia Ke, "Every representative only left after receiving the appointment letter, you don't have an appointment letter, so why are you here?" ”

Xia Ke, who was about to take the appointment letter, stopped moving, her fingers were about to touch the stack of papers, but because of Qiu Qiu's last words, she forcibly resisted her curiosity and took her hand back.

"Since you know that I don't have a letter of appointment, why do you have to ......" Xia Ke didn't ask the latter words. More than anyone else she wondered, why was she here?

"You're not a representative, are you," Qiu Qiu didn't continue to stretch out his hand, but stuffed the appointment letter back into the file bag, and after he resealed the file bag, he turned his head to look at Xia Ke and said, "I know you, Xia Ke, a sophomore at Lunan College." An ordinary person, who was forcibly injected with Yuan Force a few months ago, and then Yuan Li awakened normally and obtained a powerful Yuan Force attribute. In the months since you became an Exorcist, you have progressed very quickly, have had experience with solo quests, and have a very high level of quest completion. The Yuan Force talent is very strong, and it is positioned by the headquarters as the potential to become the strongest Yuan Exorcist. ”

Listening to Qiu Qiu say his message, Xia Ke's face didn't mean to be surprised at all. Ever since she knew that she was the first Yuan Exorcist who had no bloodline talent but awakened Yuan Force, she understood her specialness.

"According to my information, there should be two people sent by the Qilu branch this time, one is you, and the other is the young master of the Liang family. Therefore, the executor of this mission should be the young master of the Liang family. You're an assistant at best. Qiu Qiu's words paused here, "But why, didn't the young master of the Liang family come with you?" ”

"He's missing," Xia Ke lowered his head and sighed, "just the day before yesterday, he disappeared." ”

"Missing?" Qiu Qiu's tone was very puzzled, and although the expression on Xia Ke's face was a little panicked, it was not the kind of panic that had lied. He could feel what Xia Ke's panic was coming from.

The young master of the Liang family disappeared, so this novice, who was supposed to be just an assistant, was forced to become an executor.

This kind of thing, no matter who it is, should be bottomless. What's more, it's still such a newbie.

"I don't have a letter of appointment, and I don't know the content of the mission, you dare to appear in Devil's City like this, it's really ......"

"Not what I want to go." Xia Ke raised her head and interrupted Qiu Qiu's words, she said a little frustratedly: "I was kidnapped, Liu Ruyan and Lao Fang knocked me unconscious, and I was in Devil's City when I woke up." ”

The expression on Qiu Qiu's face became very strange at this time, and it was the first time he had heard that someone would be tied up to do a mission. But it's right to think about it, the branches participating in this mission all know each other, and if one of the branches doesn't come, I'm afraid that none of them will be willing to go into the valley. After all, the branches and the branches are still wary of each other.

It's no wonder that Liu Ruyan would come up with this method, if it were someone else, I am afraid that the means would only be worse.

"Actually, there is nothing in the letter of appointment." The surprised expression on Qiu Qiu's face disappeared, and he began to tell Xia Ke about the appointment letter, "It just said that I should enter the Nine Great Valleys to find something, and the description of such a thing is not clear, it is generally something that affects the Devil City's Yuanli magnetic field. And the condition, if you find an executor of such a thing, you can become a candidate for the next Penal Hall Master. ”

The Master of the Punishment Hall?

Xia Ke's mind appeared with the face that had been magnified many times, and the girl in red. She remembered that one of the strange things that the strange uncle had said to her was that she would be a candidate for the head of the Punishment Hall.

"So you're all eager to be a candidate for the Punishment Hall?"

Xia Ke didn't know why he was asking this question, what would a person who was willing to take on such a task with an unclear goal not for this?

"I don't know about the others, my words, the will is not very strong."

"Why?" Since the will is not very strong, why take on this task? Since you don't want to be a candidate, why do you want to come to this troubled water, "The predecessor said that you are very afraid of death, right?" ”

Qiu Qiu nodded very approvingly, he knew very well what kind of virtue he was, and just saying that he was afraid of death really gave him face. It's also a shame that Xia Ke is a junior, if someone else says this, I'm afraid he won't be afraid of death.

Holding the file bag back in his hand, this time he didn't do anything to hand it over, but put it directly on Xia Ke's lap.

Xia Ke looked at the file bag that suddenly appeared on his lap a little confused, and then heard Qiu Qiu say to himself: "Look at it, the most annoying thing in this world is that you can't help yourself." ”

That is to say, a person like him who is afraid of death, every time he goes on a mission, he receives an order that he has to do, and he doesn't even have a chance to refuse. With a stable job and a life of their own, who would want to do that kind of thing to spill their blood all day long? He is not a person who lived in the era of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the era in which he lived, but in the era of peace......

While opening the file bag, Xia Ke said, "Senior, even you have a task that you can't refuse?" ”

Qiu Qiu sighed helplessly, he turned his head sideways and looked at the young face in front of him, which was full of yearning for freedom. Probably everyone at this age doesn't want to believe that such a thing as fate is indisobedient. Qiu Qiu patted Xia Ke on the shoulder, "Xia Ke." ”

"Huh?" Xia Ke looked up and looked at Qiu Qiu.

"Let me tell you a few words."

Xia Ke blinked his eyes curiously, and his body moved towards Qiu Qiu's side. The solemn appearance of the seniors is not meant to tell her some great experience, right?

"What?"

"When you are unwilling, you are improving, and when you are suffering, you are growing. Sometimes you just have to do something you hate, and that's growth. ”

Qiu Qiu's words were very inexplicable, so inexplicable that Xia Ke couldn't touch his mind at all. Obviously, they were still discussing the appointment letter a few seconds ago, why did they suddenly jump from the adventure channel to the education channel as if they had switched channels.

Although he couldn't figure it out, after all, it was also the words of the seniors, and Xia Ke, as a back, remembered these words very consciously, and at the same time did not forget to thank the seniors.

It wasn't until she had to step into the upper echelons of Yuanmen that she really understood how reasonable these seemingly brainless words were. At that time, she often wondered if many things would have had a different outcome if she had understood this truth earlier.

"Speaking of seniors, why did you invite me to go with you when I was so weak?" Xia Ke read the letter of appointment and understood why Qiu Qiu took on this task, but what made her curious was whether Liang Zhousheng had received this letter of appointment. She remembered that her initial mission was only to retrieve the stolen Yuan Crystal from Gao Yuxin and Shi Liang's hands, not to find something that affected the magnetic field.

Also, that's the question she asked Qiu Qiu. When choosing a location at that time, she was the weakest in the room, what did Qiu Qiu take a fancy to her?

It won't really be like Qiu Qiu said, because it is as weak?

Seeing that Xia Ke finally asked this question, Qiu Qiu smiled, "Didn't you find something special about yourself?" ”

"A special place?"