Chapter Seventy-Four. Zhang Xiaoxia
The No. 1 Vocational University in Beijing, even in the entire imperial capital, is considered to be among the best, with a top powerhouse as the dean, and is popular with many middle school students from other places.
It was already five or six o'clock in the afternoon, there were not many people on the campus, there were not many people in the streets and alleys, even the teaching building was dim, only a few classrooms were lit up, it seemed that some students should be studying on their own.
However, on the contrary, the martial arts hall was brightly lit, and even from a long distance, you could hear someone in the hall roaring and roaring.
In the girls' dormitory, the bright light of the incandescent lamps in the corridor illuminated all around, and a girl with a ponytail hurried over, her shoes clattering on the ground.
Soon, the thump stopped, and the girl was standing in front of a door, which, like a normal wooden door, had a handle, but had no keyhole, as if it had not been unlocked by a key.
The girl easily pulled off the glove she had put on her right hand, reached out and grasped the doorknob, and then pressed the thumb of her right hand to the doorknob, and in that moment, the doorknob, which looked like a wooden one, suddenly became pitch black.
On the pitch-black doorknob, a streamer of light crossed the place where the girl's fingers touched, and as the streamer swept by, the girl only felt that her fingertips had touched a burst of warmth, and the doorknob seemed to be scanning the fingerprints on the girl's thumb.
The doorknob scanned the girl's fingers again and again, but there was no movement, and the girl could not let go for a while, so she could only hold the doorknob all the time.
"The fingerprint lock of this door has been getting worse and worse recently, why is it so stuck, but forget it, from tomorrow morning, I don't have to use this thing anymore."
The sluggishness of the fingerprint lock made the girl frown, but it quickly stretched out again, this small thing that could not be smaller, did not affect the girl's good mood at all.
She was leaving the imperial capital, leaving this place that had brought her glory, but the shame it brought to her was far greater than the glory. Yes, leaving the imperial capital brought her a certain degree of loss, but these were not taken to the girl's heart, because the gains from leaving the imperial capital would be far greater than the losses.
There are too many Chinese people, as the political, economic, military, and cultivation center of Huaxia, the imperial capital can be described as a strong cloud, and there are countless knight-level professionals.
In such a place, there is a risk of chaos hidden beneath the bustle, so much so that the regulatory power of the settings here is also quite strong. Just guarding the capital is a marquis's peak pacification envoy, and the governor is a dignified true god!
Generally speaking, only marquis-level powerhouses are qualified to serve as pacification envoys, and pacification envoys are generally responsible for guarding a provincial city, commanding all the executors in the province, and supernatural law enforcers such as beating guards.
The criminal officer and the watchman are equivalent to the role of the police among ordinary people, but these law enforcers have to face professional people.
This also means that the people who supervise the professions of a province are simply the existence of the feudal officials, and they are generally held by the newly promoted marquis, and those who are strong above the middle level of the marquis are fighting in the frontier.
The governor-general is responsible for guarding several provincial-level administrative units, and the newly promoted duke-level powerhouse is generally responsible for guarding a city-level administrative unit, and the strong person responsible for guarding a city-level administrative unit is the governor's envoy, which is generally held by a count-level powerhouse.
In the imperial capital, in addition to Jizo, who served as the governor, there was a marquis's peak-level pacification envoy and two marquis' first-level governors, corresponding to the ancient Jing Zhaoyin, Feng Yi on the left, and Fufeng on the right.
In such a place, let alone rapid development, even if she hunts down a drunkard who falls drunk on the side of the street, or a homeless man who can only sleep on the side of the road, it will cause a group of watchmen and executioners to chase and kill.
What's more, most of the people in the imperial capital have good living conditions, compared to her own pitiful living expenses for a month, this can only increase the unhappiness in her heart, and when she returns to that small city, she can be proud of everyone around her and become a veritable pride of the sky.
After all, not every place can have a strong lineup of professionals like the imperial capital, and in that small city, even if it is an ordinary knight-level professional, it is still a human being.
What's even more wonderful is that in such a small city, the most grassroots law enforcer is at the peak, even if she goes out to hunt blood and food every day, it will not cause a large number of executioners to chase and kill.
You must know that since receiving the power of the Nine Shadows, the flesh and blood of those ordinary lives have been extremely delicious to her, and the flesh of the cultivator is filled with the spiritual power that she has cultivated, and the body that has been nourished by the spiritual power for a long time can greatly enhance her cultivation, which is a rare feast.
In the capital, she didn't dare to hunt professionals rashly, but when she returned to the small city, she occasionally went to the countryside to hunt one or two low-level professionals in the wilderness, and the cultivation speed was comparable to that of a genius among professionals, and even that dark night would not be able to catch up with her in the future.
Just as the girl was thinking wildly, the door suddenly clicked open. She looked inside, it was dark in the room, there didn't seem to be anyone, if someone turned on the light in the bedroom, even if the door was closed, in such a dark situation, the slightest light peeking out of the crack in the door was clearly visible, but at the moment, none of this.
"Aren't they all there? Usually at this time, they should all be back. Looking at the dark room in front of her, she felt that something was wrong, that it was all not normal, unless, unless something happened that she didn't know about.
"Zhang Xiaoxia, your roommate asked me to tell you, they went out to eat, saying that they wanted to meet someone's boyfriend in your dormitory, and they said that if you go, send them a message, and they will send you the location."
Zhang Xiaoxia was in shock, the door next to him opened, and a girl seemed to hear her voice, poked her head out, and said to her.
Found the object? The suspicion in her heart has temporarily disappeared by several points, if this is the case, it is quite reasonable, after all, it is normal for anyone to hide their feelings before and be suddenly discovered.
"No, it's not very comfortable today, I'm just coming back to sleep for a while." That Zhang Xiaoxia said coldly, ignored the person, and walked into the bedroom.
"Bang." With a bang, the door was slammed shut, and the girl who came out watched Zhang Xiaoxia behave like this, and couldn't help muttering a few times, and returned to her dormitory.
In addition to the balcony, living room and kitchen, a student dormitory has four bedrooms, each bedroom has a separate bathroom, and a dormitory is even much larger than an ordinary commercial house, with more than 100 square meters.
Zhang Xiaoxia didn't care about the darkness in the living room, and walked directly to her bedroom, the power of the Nine Shades made her see very clearly in the dark.
With a snap, the lights in the bedroom turned on, and the lights sprinkled, Zhang Xiaoxia couldn't help but squint her eyes, it seemed that the lights were too bright, which made her feel a little dazzling.
Reaching out and picking up the mobile phone that was charging on the desk, she lit up the screen, looked at it, but her brows suddenly wrinkled, and on the screen of the mobile phone, there were her three roommates and a boy in a white trench coat.
The boy's appearance is quite handsome, although his skin is not so fair, but it is this color that makes him have a lingering sense of masculinity.
But something strange is that although he is a man, he actually carries ornaments. The boy carried a bracelet on his left and right hands, one of the two bracelets seemed to be made of gold, and the other was black in background, but embellished with countless silver points of light, like a starry sky, which looked very dreamy.
"Styx's boyfriend, a first-order array mage. Why. All good things are hers. ”
Looking at the content on the phone, Xiao Xia's face couldn't help but distort, and what was only a medium appearance now became quite hideous and terrifying.
"Talent, resources, everything is yours, even finding a boyfriend, it's all a formation mage, the conditions are so good, why."
Suddenly, a message popped up on her phone, wasn't it the same message she had just sent from the dark night she was jealous of?
Looking at the sentence on her phone, she was full of resentment in her heart, and replied without thinking: "You don't need to eat, you are the young grandmother of a big family, I can't climb this high branch, why don't you send kindness to the old man and bring a little back to give me alms?" ”
After replying to this sentence, Zhang Xiaoxia threw away the mobile phone and threw himself directly on the bed.
"Huh, it looks like there should be nothing wrong, typing and sending messages through the mobile phone, there is a wave of emotional power mixed with demonic energy hidden in this word, if you want to say that she is not the demon, I don't believe it."
With a wave of his hand, a cold light flew out, enveloping her and Ning Xu in the light, and beyond the light, a black gas was wandering around the two.
"Whew, it looks certain." Ning Xu let out a long breath and glanced at a few people next to him, and a man in a white coat stretched out his hand and shook out a flame, engulfing the black qi completely.
"This operation is dominated by me, and you are not allowed to do it without my permission. If you go away with that demon, you know the rules of the Executioner. ”
Ning Xu's voice was a little cold, but when he said this, a little anger obviously appeared on the faces of several executioners next to him, and several executioners who looked relatively young had even clenched their fists.
"What, are you not convinced? If it weren't for your mistakes, things wouldn't have come to this point, if it was good, she would be gone tomorrow, and tonight is the last chance. ”
"How can you be sure. Hmph, who do you think you are, if you want me to say that I directly led someone to arrest her, why do you need to spend all this effort, are you afraid that you are using the power of the public to handle your personal grievances? ”
Hearing this, Ning Xu not only did not get angry, but also laughed, but that smile was mixed with a full sense of coldness.
An older deacon sighed and said, "You are still young, I don't blame you, but as a deacon, you don't even have this judgment, this demon has just avoided the patrol of the watchman in the first few crimes, if someone didn't provide her with a message, how could a knight-level professional who has only been in college for a year know the patrol route and schedule of the watchman?" ”
"And we don't have any definite evidence that she is a demon, if you arrest her rashly, you will be attacked by others, you should know that some forces outside the country are preparing to arrest us every day, and more serious will provoke conflicts between law enforcers and ordinary professionals, reduce the prestige of the official, and the internal spies will take the opportunity to make things bigger." The Magistrate exists to maintain harmony, not to disrupt social order by catching a demon. It's really easy to catch, but what about after you catch it? ”
"Hmm." Styx fell into deep thought slightly, now this look is not like what Ning Xu does on weekdays, she always feels a little too domineering like this who doesn't take the law enforcer seriously at all.
Ning Xu blinked, and didn't know if he saw what was going on in the night's heart, so he leaned into the girl's ear and explained softly.
"This group of people is not a real law enforcer, just a group of gilded, mixed life, mixed qualifications of the gentlemen, under normal circumstances, I don't want to entangle with this group of people, but because they are eager for quick success and quick profits, and do bad things, I am afraid that they will turn around and be higher than any moth, and give them a dismount in advance."
As soon as she heard this, Styx not only didn't let go, her brows furrowed a little tighter, and after hesitating for a while, the girl asked, "......What about those things that circulated some time ago?" ”
Before the girl finished speaking, Ning Xu nodded directly and said with great certainty: "Yes, they made it up, hmph, they are eager for quick success and quick profit, and they arrest indiscriminately, and several families in the capital have paid a lot of price for that matter." ”
What the two of them said was that a few months ago, a blood doctor who used the power of blood was invited to the imperial capital for a maternity leave consultation, but he was directly arrested by the execution officer and used punishment.
The doctor is also well-known in Europe, even if it is the group of judges of the Inquisition who call every day to purify the darkness and fight against the heresy, they are all respectful in the face of such a doctor, such a doctor, the strong people he has befriended from the marquis to the knights, if they are all photographed, they are all sprinkled with a large group, if you count the mortals she has treated, it will be countless.
Such an incident caused an uproar, but on the surface, the executioners with a big family background fell one after another, and the matter subsided.
But in places that ordinary people don't know, there are dozens of European professionals who have sniped at the power of the families of the executors involved all over the world, at least in Europe, the industries of those major families have gone bankrupt and shut down, and their forces have shrunk into a few cities that are not very developed in comparison.
Hearing Ning Xu's words, Styx's brows gradually relaxed, but looking at the few gentlemen in the distance, she felt that something was wrong.
"No, why did this happen, how can there still be such a gentleman among the executioners, shouldn't all these black sheep be eliminated."
Ning Xu smiled bitterly, stretched out his hand and pointed to the guide, and then pointed to the north, the dark night was a little puzzled, just staring at Ning Xu tightly, waiting for an explanation.
Sure enough, Ning Xu opened his mouth and said: "Indeed, these gentlemen are indeed hateful, but the affairs of the big family are often intertwined, do you know, the children of professionals have a much greater chance of becoming a professional than the children of two ordinary people, not only in terms of genes, but also in terms of bloodline and soul, which is destined to produce ordinary professionals in the big family more stably, and even those demon-level professionals with outstanding talentsBut due to factors such as resources and education, very few can grow. ”
Styx still had some doubts in her heart, but she didn't ask, but silently waited for an explanation from Ning Xu.
"Indeed, Huaxia has a true god, and the strength of the true god is indeed strong, but the true god alone is not enough to resist the invasion of all dimensional beasts, and most of the high-level professionals below the true god have grown up in the catastrophe, these strong people, that is, the heads of many families at the moment, the big family continues to cultivate the strong, these strong people are all on the front line, fighting on the front line, you must know that in Huaxia, the children of each family, in the knight realm and the baron realm, have to fight on the border for more than a year, and the professionals among ordinary people, You know that, too. ”
Styx was silent for a moment, and then spoke: "Due to the high battle loss rate of low-level professionals on the battlefield in the ten years after the first year of the new yuan, the authorities have issued regulations prohibiting professionals below the viscount level from going to the border to participate in wars, and viscount-level professionals must pass the combat assessment before they are eligible to go to the border for training. ”
"Yes." Ning Xu nodded, "The ban prohibits civilian professionals, but in the hidden treaty, it is forcibly stipulated that professionals with family backgrounds must go to the battlefield, and decades have passed since the catastrophe, and in these decades, there have indeed been many strong people at the marquis and even duke level among civilian professionals, but the number is too small, in these two levels, the main force against dimensional beasts is those professions with family backgrounds." ”
"There is indeed a greater chance of cultivating a strong person in the big family, but there are also many mediocre people, you say, if a strong person who has been fighting hard for many years takes out his own military industry and seeks a prison officer identity for his juniors who have no cultivation talent to settle down and live a good life, is it too much? Are they too much to leave their hard-earned resources to future generations? Yes, it is true that concentrating these resources on the geniuses who lack resources among the commoners is considered from a long-term perspective, but after all, people are human beings, and it is impossible to be absolutely rational and humane, and besides, the upper echelons have indeed deprived the family power of some resources for training civilian professionals, otherwise where do you think the subsidies for civilian professionals in the university come from. ”
The dark night was silent, looking at the girl's appearance, Ning Xu let out a long sigh and continued: "So, for the sake of the growth of the clan, I can only ignore the poor needs that are already less than their contributions, these children of the family are moths, but they are also heroes. ”
"The target has returned to the hunting site, and we have just scanned the target with the help of the school's security system."
"Wow." The sound of fast footsteps came, Ning Xu reached out and took the white paper in the hand of the executioner, and quickly browsed the contents on it, and his face gradually became ugly.
"Okay, let's act immediately, by the way, take care of those two girls, and use their mobile phone numbers and social software to create the illusion that the two are temporarily staying in the hotel tonight, by the way, don't let them know the identities of the two of us, before you came to assist in the investigation, and did not reveal our identities, which is good, but the target's accomplice may still exist in the city, be careful."
"Yes."
"Huh? Is the time? Ning Xu's heart moved, he pulled the schoolbag casually, tilted his head and thought for a while, and asked, "Did you send what I wanted?" ”
"I'm still curious, why do you want this thing?" Suddenly, a figure pushed them away, and casually threw a brocade bag embroidered with golden silk thread into Ning Xu's hand.
The person who entered the door appeared to be a man, wearing a long red dress and a peaked cap on his head, but her face was covered by a wooden mask.
"Hmph, this is called shutting the door and beating the dog. You'll see, but then again, you should pay attention to this thing. Ning Xu casually touched a pen and a piece of paper from the table, and his fingertips quickly swiped across the paper, leaving black characters.
The pen seemed to be a little leaky, although it was only a few dozen words, but there was constantly ink oozing out of the nib, and his hands were stained with ink.
Covering the lid of the pen, Ning Xu took the white paper with some disgust, changed it in the clean hand, and handed it to the visitor.
The person standing in front of Ning Xu did not dislike the fact that this piece of paper was stained with ink and dirty, and directly grabbed the white paper, and wrote the content on the paper word by word.
"Huh, are you sure?" A little spiritual power surged in the man's hand, and under the effect of spiritual power, streams of warmth appeared on the undried handwriting, but in the end they were roasted dry.
Ning Xu nodded, seeing this, the man lowered his head, first folded the white paper in half, and then folded it again, folded it into a small piece, and stuffed it into his arms.
"Okay, I'll take care of it over there, but you can only rely on yourself here." The man nodded and said solemnly. "If it weren't for Ning Yu's current retreat and stabilization realm, I could have asked her to support you, but now, I can only rely on you."
"It's okay, and, it's not just me, it's us." Ning Xu smiled freely and pointed to the dark night next to him, "Together, the two of us can even come out of the awakening space that has turned into chaos A little demon, what is it?" Brother, don't worry. ”
"Okay, but you take this, you really can't tear it up, and as soon as the matter over there is over there, I'll rush over to pick you up immediately."
Ning Xu nodded, stuffed the bag into his arms, and beckoned to the night, motioning for her to follow him.
Styx seemed to have something in his heart, and for a while his mood was a little low, so he just lowered his head and followed behind Ning Xu.
Seeing this, Ning Xu's heart moved suddenly, but he didn't say anything, and there was indeed some slight surprise in his heart.
Did she see what she was thinking? Hey, should I change my plans? Ning Xu thought silently, but it was not easy to say it here, and he also kept his thoughts in his heart.
"Didi, Didi." A crisp sound sounded, Ning Xu subconsciously raised his wrist, and a message popped up on the communicator on his wrist.
Styx: There's something wrong with someone in this house, and the aura on his body makes me uncomfortable, the same as when I encountered demons in the Awakening Space, but it's faint.
Ning Xu's heart sank, he buried his head, and quickly tapped his hand on the screen a few times, and the "Ning Lou" next to him seemed to notice this, and his steps moved lightly, walking in front of him, intentionally or unintentionally blocking him.
Ning Xu: I know, that's why I asked for something, we will go directly, I am ready.
When the message was sent, there was no message prompt on the phone of the dark night, she glanced at it a few times, raised her head, trotted a few times to Ning Xu's side, and walked towards the door with his arm in her arms.
"Taxi."
Walking out of the store, Ning Xu stretched out his hand and waved at a few men standing on the side of the road chatting, who glanced at each other, and then a person trotted towards a yellow and green car on the side of the road.
"Two, two, where?" The two walked to the car, pulled the door open and sat in, and the man turned his head and asked the two of them.
"First Careerist University Old Campus, West Gate, how much is it?"
The night whispered familiarly, as she spoke, and reached into her pocket, as if groping for something.
"Master, this thing can be reimbursed." Before the dark night could take out something, Ning Xu suddenly took out the bag from his arms and took out a piece of paper from it.
"Huh? Yes, thank you. The driver took the thing with a happy face on his face, and carefully stuffed it into his arms.
"Hey, you students with good cultivation talent are good, if my little cub can get a subsidy sometime, I'll be satisfied."
The driver seemed to be very talkative, the car had just started, and he spoke, although the two of them sat in the back seat and couldn't see the driver's expression clearly, but from his tone, they heard a little envy.
"Haha, I believe that Uncle and your children will definitely have this day, but if you take that thing out again, I believe you will never see that day."
Although Ning Xu's tone was relatively steady, his face was already full of coldness.
"You." The driver turned his head with a shocked and angry expression, and his face was covered with a thin layer of black mist.
"Hmph, I originally wanted you to die happily, since you can see it, don't blame me......" Before the driver finished speaking, his expression suddenly distorted, the muscles on his body bulged layer by layer, and the head was instantly fixed to the ceiling, and the cab, which was not small at the beginning, looked extremely small at this time.
"Oh?" Ning Xu's face showed a little playful color. "You want to demonize? Then you are demonizing one for the master to see? ”
Upon hearing this, the man seemed to be even more angry, and puffs of black smoke came out of his mouth and nose, quickly covering his entire body.
However, at this moment, a white light emanated from his arms, and as soon as the black smoke touched the white light, it quickly disappeared as if a snowflake had seen the spring sun.
"Forbidden...... Demon...... Symbol...... You...... Unexpectedly...... Correct. There was a slight feeling of pain on the man's distorted face, and the vicissitudes of life revealed by the black smoke disappeared red, and even his speech became intermittent at this time.
"If you don't have any preparation, you think I'm going to get into your car, what do you think? Get a good night's sleep. Ning Xu's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he stretched out his hand and pressed it on the person, only to see the man's eyes roll, and he was instantly dizzy.
"Just take this person away and get rid of the demonic energy, after all, he is also a poor person." Ning Xu clapped his hands and said to a group of plainclothes executioners who had gathered outside the window at some point. "By the way, find someone to drive us."