Born...... Job...... Wive...... Giving birth to a child...... Serious illness...... Windfall......

There are always countless turns in life, one thing, changing the original trajectory, making everything go on another fork in the road, extending one branch after another in the complicated branches and leaves, and finally reaching the end of dead silence.

No one can avoid it.

And the story will always have such a dividing line, so that everything will go to an ending that even the author doesn't know.

Like at this moment.

Chen Xiao was waiting for the cake, his stomach was urging impatiently, there were bursts of sweetness wafting out of the back kitchen, from time to time, he could hear a few bursts of chuckles, the people around him were doing their own things, everything was as usual, and no one could see anything unusual.

suddenly

A wind chime sounded, the door of the coffee shop was pushed open, and an unfamiliar face walked in.

A woman

The age looks like he should be about 40 years old, but it is well maintained, there is no makeup on the face, and there are not many traces of age...... Wearing a red trench coat and a red bowler hat with a slightly lighter color, the brim of the hat is tied into a pitch-black flower with a ribbon, which looks a little retro lazy and luxurious. This kind of shape looks very abrupt in this café, a few little fat people who are obviously xxx and have a bit of a mother-love complex looked at this woman blankly, and a trace of crimson appeared on their faces.

A few more pointy-eyed guys noticed her hand.

A pair of very beautiful hands, slender fingers, shiny like ivory, the joints seem to be crystal and no wrinkles can be seen, for a while, the person who noticed this seemed to think of something indescribable, and swallowed his saliva unconsciously.

And compared to those hands, the book in his hands seems to be less eye-catching.

"Hello ma'am!" The cousin folded his hands in front of him, bowed slightly to greet him, and at the same time looked the woman up and down, with some inexplicable surprise in his eyes.

"Thanks, just a cup of coffee, huh...... Thicker. The woman smiled in response, her voice soft as if it was about to float.

Then, she went straight to the bar and sat side by side with Chen Xiao.

At this time, Chen Xiao was still complaining about Boss Xiaoyu not making his share of the cake first, and he didn't pay much attention to this richly dressed woman, but he just glanced at it with his peripheral vision, and he didn't pay attention to it, and continued to knock on the table with a spoon. While knocking and shouting, he stepped on the rhythm and shouted.

"Dead fat, hurry, dead fat, hurry up ......"

It's not loud, but it's still annoying to sit next to him......

But the woman who had just come in didn't seem to care, but opened the book in her hand and read it very quietly.

After 30 seconds...... Chen Xiao should have felt that something was wrong, he turned his head suspiciously, and looked at the other party.

"You...... Don't you think it's noisy? Obasan? Chen Xiao asked very gracelessly, and grinned, revealing a very uncomfortable expression. If this behavior is seen by Boss Xiaoyu, it is estimated that a plate of cream will be on Chen Xiao's face.

However, the woman who was called Obasang did not seem to be angry, and she looked away from the book and looked at Chen Xiao.

"It's a little noisy, but it doesn't matter." She thought for a while and replied, it seems, she didn't feel too disgusted by Chen Xiao's expression.

Chen Xiao was stunned for a moment: "Then you don't want to say something?" ”

The other party smiled and shook his head.

......

silent

......

"Hey, you know, I've been super unhappy these days...... Chen Xiao said coldly: "And I also know that there always seem to be all kinds of things around me, all kinds of people, some are quite interesting, and some are very troublesome, no way, maybe it's this kind of physique......"

He muttered irritably, in a small voice that only the woman next to him could hear.

"Life may be like this, if everything is ordinary, even if it is written as a book, no one will read it." The woman lowered her head again, flipped the page casually, and said.

"So...... You're here for me? Chen Xiao had an expression of death.

"Of course, is it against these two little girls?" The woman didn't raise her head, but tilted her head at Jing Jing, who was holding a plate on the side.

"Uh, the Foundation? So, you're here to check these two anomalous objects...... Or are you here to check on me? Chen Xiao asked, his expression finally a little more serious:

"Of course I won't check anything, otherwise I wouldn't just come here so casually, and to be honest, it's a very constructive move for you to keep this class of anomalous objects in such a stable form, and I even think that the joint African and European group should propose to develop some non-fixed mode of containment sites, which can save a lot of resources."

The woman was still looking at the book casually and talking, and she didn't know what was so good about the book, anyway, it didn't delay her conversation with Chen Xiao.

"Oh? So, you should be in the management as well, from the Asia branch? Whatever, anyway, the Foundation has acquiesced in the fact that I didn't report the anomalous containment items, right? ”

The woman smiled slightly: "Of course not, it's just that I'm too lazy to care about this, if other people find out about your behavior, it will be very troublesome, and I won't help you at that time." Okay, let's get down to business, I'm going to give you a mission. ”

Chen Xiao hesitated: "Task? ”

"Yes, about the mission of the" Black Realm "! ”

"Huh? What's that? ”

The woman was slightly stunned: "Eh, I didn't expect your authority to be so low, I thought that after the last emergency reinforcement, you received information about the Black Realm, okay, let me simply say, it was a series of abnormal events of invasion from another world that appeared all over the world...... These sites of intrusion are collectively referred to as the "Black Realms...... Your mission log states that you performed very well in an emergency mission for the Invasion of the Dark Realms three months ago, so I suggest that you participate in this invasion. ”

"Uh...... Dark Realm ...... Three months ago! Chen Xiao thought for a moment, and naturally remembered the strange space that was full of flesh and blood, and even the light was not stable: "Ah! It turns out that the task of gathering us in a hurry is still very promising. Hey, hey, hey...... Well, I'll have to ask. Is this mission in Platoon mode? ”

The woman nodded gracefully: "Of course, I remember...... Well...... Laughing Bird Squad, huh? ”

Chen Xiao licked his lips

"Okay, I accept!"