Early the next morning, Xia Lu slowly opened her hazy sleepy eyes, and the heavy curtains blocked the sunlight shining in from the window, and the room was gloomy. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Stretching out the hand in the quilt to light the lamp on the bedside table, Xia Lu picked up the mobile phone on the bedside table and glanced at the time, it was 6:08 in the morning, it was still very early, but it was already a clear sky outside, the bright sun was shining on the earth, and a warm scene was actually five degrees above zero.

Today Ye Kexin will not go with Xia Lu, Ye Kexin needs to go to the United Nations Headquarters Building to exchange agreement documents with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and will leave after eating, and today is the last day of the tour group's trip, without getting lost, the group members will be free to move around in Manhattan. In this case, Xia Lu is left at the hotel with a curly-eared cat that she picked up yesterday. A boredom arose in her heart, and Xia Lu, who was already about to get up, got back into the quilt again after thinking about these things. The kitten is very close to Xia Lu, as if she has found her long-lost mother, no matter where Xia Lu goes, the kitten will follow her wherever she wants, who is called nature is no exception, the kitten is curled up on Xia Lu's chest and is sleeping.

hugged the kitten tightly, Xia Lu was ready to carry forward the supreme doctrine of the Huicage Sect, when I took a nap, there was a knock on the door, and the person who knocked on the door could be seen to be very polite, although there would not be people in the tour group who got up so early at six o'clock in the morning, but it seemed that there was something important, the knocking outside the door did not stop, although the sound was very small, but from this rapid frequency, it could be heard that the person outside the door had the purpose of knocking on the door.

The kitten in her arms sneezed and woke up from her dream, and with a meow, she got out of the bed and stretched out her little tongue to lick Xia Lu's nose, as if urging Xia Lu to get up. Xia Lu, who was about to fall asleep in a daze, frowned.

"Xiaoqi, don't make trouble." Xia Lu is the kitten who gently pushed away in front of her, but Xiao Qi still did not give up on Xia Lu's face, rubbing his furry body on Xia Lu's face.

Originally, pets were not allowed in the hotel, but when the blonde and obese proprietress saw this little curly-eared cat about twenty centimeters long sticking to the Oriental girl who had lived in her hotel for five days, she just smiled and shook her head, and allowed Xia Lu's cat raising behavior, without any explanation, but said to Xia Lu before Xia Lu went upstairs, "This little guy will help you a lot, there is no name yet, then call it Xiaoqi, it is counted as the reward for raising here."

So the kitten had the name Xiaoqi, and after hearing it, the kitten stretched his chest on the lower road, clicked his mouth, and fell asleep again.

"Ahh Xia Lu let out a low exclamation, bounced up from the bed, grabbed the kitten Xiaoqi in her hands, and clamped Xiaoqi's armpits with both hands, so that Xiaoqi's little face met her gaze, looking at Xiaoqi's innocent and cute little face with a tired face. Xiao Qi opened his pink and tender little mouth and meowed, and Xia Lu seemed to be able to understand, and immediately showed a puzzled look on his face.

"You say, someone is looking for me?" Xia Lu looked at Xiao Qi a little confused, "Who is it?" ”

"Meow." Xiao Qi called out briefly.

"At the door?" Xia Lu was stunned for a moment, pricked up her ears and listened carefully to the sound coming from the direction of the door, and the slight knock on the door was quickly captured by Xia Lu.

Hurriedly put Xiaoqi on the quilt, turned over and got out of bed, did not wear slippers, stepped on the cold carpet with bare feet, trotted all the way to the door, pushed open the door, the chain hanging on the door limited the angle of the door opening and closing, but it happened to be able to see the people outside the door.

"Follow me." Without waiting for Xia Lu to speak, the person outside the door spoke in advance, and hurriedly turned around and left after speaking, Xia Lu didn't even see who it was, but the accent was a little familiar, but some couldn't remember. It's no wonder that Xia Lu has just woken up now, and she is even a little unclear, and she doesn't see the person in front of her. Xia Lu has a slight hypoglycemia, so every time she gets up in the morning, she habitually eats a piece of sugar, but today Xia Lu, who should have knocked on the door and didn't have time to eat sugar, was dizzy at this time, and although she couldn't say that she was going to faint, it was natural for her to be dizzy in front of her.

Taking off the chains, Xia Lu leaned over and looked out of the door, but there was no one, there was no one in this corridor, it was very simple to hide the footsteps, there was another layer of carpet on the ground, and it was easy to walk silently, but if you wanted to walk through a corridor ten meters long in two seconds, it should be impossible, Xia Lu rubbed her eyes, and at the same time took out a piece of good orange hard candy from the pocket of her pajamas and stuffed it into her mouth, shook her head vigorously, and her eyes were much clearer. Xia Lu was sure that there was indeed no one in the hallway.

"It's weird." Xia Lu shook her head and returned to the room, Xiao Qi squatted on the ground and meowed at Xia Lu, I don't know what it meant, but before Xia Lu squatted down and picked up Xiao Qi, Xiao Qi bypassed Xia Lu and jumped out of the open door.

"Xiaoqi!" Xia Lu screamed, and immediately got off the trench coat from the rack next to the door and chased out.

Qing Qing skillfully found the stairwell hidden at the end of the corridor, Xiao Qi quickly lay on the stairs, but Xia Lu stood at the door of the stairwell and hesitated, in the gloomy stairwell, there was only a small vent at the bottom of each floor, without turning on the lights, all the light in the stairwell came from the sunlight recruited from outside the vent, in other words, Xia Lu did not dare to go in.

He glanced into the stairwell.

"Xiaoqi!" Xia Lu shouted again, but no one responded. Of course, Xia Lu would not leave Xiaoqi alone, looked around, opened the storage box on the side, took out a PKK-1990 "Magnon" pistol from it, and pulled the bolt.

Xia Lu stubbornly walked into the stairwell.

Fortunately, this is only a small five-story building, Xia Lu lives on the third floor, and walks up two floors to the rooftop.

Although the interior of this building is a little crowded because of the tightly laid out rooms, its overall area is really not small, a quarter of the football field on the roof is full of central air conditioning switchboards, huge white exhaust fans whining, Xiao Qi squatted at the end of the small passage squeezed out by the central air conditioning host on both sides.

"Xiaoqi, don't run around!" Xia Lu shouted at Xiao Qi, and then trotted all the way in the direction where Xiao Qi was, but before Xia Lu could run to the place, Xiao Qi ran to the right, and the figure disappeared in less than a second.

"Xiaoqi, really!" Xia Lu wrapped her trench coat tightly, the outdoor room temperature is not better than the indoor, although this old brick building has no heating and other facilities, but the heating and air conditioning that is turned on for an hour every morning and evening will still raise the indoor temperature. The temperature of the Manhattan breath in November is only five degrees Celsius, and Xia Lu, who is wearing a set of cotton pajamas and a tweed trench coat, naturally cannot resist the wind and cold.

Following Xiao Qi's pace, Xia Lu walked to the end of the passage and turned to the right, but soon Xia Lu stopped and slowly retreated.

Xiao Qi curled up on the outer wall of the central air-conditioning host on the side and shivered, seeing Xia Lu's appearance, as if he had found a savior, a flutter did it in Xia Lu's collar, revealing a round little head, his eyes stared at the windbreaker figure standing in the corner of the house, and let out an angry meow. It still sounds harmless, though.

"Who are you?" Xia Lu picked up the loaded pistol and pointed the muzzle at the figure in the trench coat, "You asked me to come here?" ”

"First meeting." The figure in the trench coat didn't seem to pay attention to Xia Lu's question, "My name is Archer." ”

“archer？” Xia Lu frowned and repeated, "I haven't heard of it, have we met?" ”

"No, I mean you haven't seen me." Archer twisted his head towards Xia Lu, the black trench coat fluttering gently in the morning Manhattan breeze, Xia Lu wrapped the trench coat tighter.

"Could it be ......" Xia Lu narrowed her eyes and stared at Archer coldly, her face unkind.

"Huh? Can you remember me? Archer was a little surprised, "I think you didn't see me." ”

"You ......" Xia Lu blushed, suddenly moved the pistol in her hand, pulled the trigger towards Archer, and fired a tranquilizer bullet through the cold air and headed straight for Archer, "You perverted stalker! ”

"Uh......" Archer was stunned for a moment, then stared wide-eyed at the burning PKK-1990 "Magnon" pistol, quickly turned and jumped downstairs, and as he was about to leave the rooftop, he reached out and grabbed the eaves and hung his body on the outer wall of the hotel.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot, there may be a misunderstanding, don't shoot yet!" Archer hurriedly explained, like this, if there is a misunderstanding, there will be a big fight, no, it is a girl with a big gun, Archer is the first time to see it, even Alice has not reached the level of Xia Lu, but Archer dares to pat his chest and say If I really peep at Xia Lu, the brick I am holding will immediately shatter and I will fall.

But before Archer could say this, Xia Lu rushed to the top of Archer, looking at Archer under her feet with cold eyes.

"If you have any last words, say them now, I don't plan to hear them anyway." Xia Lu pointed the muzzle of the gun at Archer again, put her fingers on the trigger with slight force, and the hammer behind the sleeve flipped back little by little.

"Wait, wait a minute, can you listen to me!" Archer shook his head quickly, he actually wanted to wave his hand, but as soon as he let go, it would fall.

"Finished?" Xia Lu said coldly, "Then goodbye." ”

"I'm here to deliver the letter!" Archer shouted.

Bang -

A plume of green smoke drifted from behind the wall, and the warhead of the tranquilizer bullet whizzed past Archer's spine, sending him into a cold sweat.

"Deliver a letter?" Xia Lu stared at a pair of big eyes, looking at Archer curiously, with a curious baby's expression on his face, it was completely harmless to the eye, but it was indeed Xia Lu who shot before.

Ten minutes later.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Archer." Xia Lu, who had just finished taking a shower and put on a long pants shirt, sat in the living room downstairs, nodding and apologizing to the archer opposite her.

"It's okay, it's okay, just solve the misunderstanding." Archer put down the coffee cup in his hand, this cup of coffee costs five dollars, although it can be refilled for free, but it is estimated that no one can drink coffee to return to the original, of course, the most important thing is that this cup of coffee is a guest invited by Xia Lu. Archer scratched the back of his head and smiled, "I'm used to it." ”

"I heard Mr. Archer say that Mr. Feng asked you to come to me, I don't know what happened?" Xia Lu put away the words of apology, and began to think about the purpose of Archer's inquiry, so far, Xia Lu didn't know what Archer's identity was, but she heard Archer say that it was the person invited by Mr. Feng, and Xia Lu didn't know what was going on.

"Oh, that's right." Archer put his hand into the inside of the trench coat and took out an envelope from the trench coat, the envelope was bulging, and at first glance, there were a lot of things inside, "Mr. Feng asked me to send you a letter." ”

Archer didn't lie, he was indeed the person invited by Mr. Feng, but the main reason was not to send this letter to think of Archer, the main reason was to let Archer help deal with a person, let Archer send a letter to Xia Lu There was no suitable person around him to find Archer, as for something skillful between Feng Fengxiang and Archer, it is not easy to disclose at this time.

"Letter?" Xia Lu took the envelope handed by Archer suspiciously, and opened it on the spot.

Beloved Commander of the "Sanctuary" Fleet Fleet Xia Lu. Valnord. He. LI Lin. Admiral Camila,

Unfortunately, your mission in Manhattan ended in failure, and while we have considered many contingencies, this one was unexpected, and the failure was justified.

However, we will continue to have the "Shooting Permit" we signed before, and we regret that as of January 1, 2017, you will be returning to the battleship Jehovah for two years and four months, and you will be assigned classes at the Academy by another professor.

Have fun with the remaining month and a half.

Always behind your back, all the members of the Board of Directors of the Admiralty will support you

After reading it, Xia Lu sighed lightly, it doesn't seem to be good news, two regrets in a row just want to tell me that the mission failed, and there is a month and a half of vacation plus two years and four months of combat duty life is about to begin, but the most annoying thing is that those board directors actually wish themselves a happy play, and then they also claim to be "all the directors of the board of directors of the Navy Department who will always support you silently behind your back". Seeing this Xia Lu was a little deflated, Xia Lu didn't know how to describe these shameless rich people.

"Mr. Feng has anything to explain to me?"

"I didn't have to explain it, but Mr. Feng said that you don't have to worry about the assassin for the time being, and this matter will be solved by him." Archer thought for a moment, then spoke in response to Xia Lu's question.

"That's it." Xia Lu nodded, the expression on her face was slightly lost, this is not surprising, after knowing that the Assassin was the one who seriously injured Ye Zifeng, Xia Lu made up her mind to shoot the deadly bullet Assassin into the heart of the Assassin, but after yesterday's battle, Xia Lu clearly realized that the difference in strength between the two is definitely not something that can be recovered by skill. After listening to Archer's words, it was not difficult for Xia Lu to hear that Feng Fengxiang also had an inseparable relationship with this matter, otherwise he would not have said that the assassin did not need you to interfere again.

"There's nothing more to explain after that, but I want to give you a word." Archer patted Xia Lu on the shoulder and stood up from the sofa, his expression was serious and his brows were slightly furrowed, looking like an elder admonishing a junior.

"You say." Xia Lu looked up at Archer, looking at Archer's serious expression, Xia Lu quickly realized that what Archer said after that must be of great use to her.

"Don't stick to other people's advice, sometimes it's the right choice to follow your own ideas." Archer stared at Xia Lu's eyes, as if he wanted to imprint the words he had just said directly into the depths of Xia Lu's soul.

"Stuck in other people's advice?" Xia Lu repeated half of Archer's words in a low voice, bowing her head as if in contemplation, a pair of big brown eyes flashing with wisdom under her slightly frowning brow, "Do you mean to say that I can't stand by and watch the Assassin's affairs?" ”

"No, no, no." Archer hurriedly waved his hand, "I didn't say that, you want to kill the Assassin completely on your own will, but you should know that the difference in strength between you and him is definitely not half a star, and it is completely impossible to kill the Assassin in your current situation." ”

"These, how do you know?" Xia Lu looked at Archer suspiciously and asked.

"I don't want to deceive people, so I can tell you very responsibly, I am friends with the Assassin, I know him, but the relationship between me and him is called a friend at best, and a master and servant at worst, he is the master and I am a servant, so I know the strength of the Assassin very well, if the Assassin finds me, no matter where I am, I can't beat him." Archer sighed, "He's the only one who can split my bullets. ”

"Cleaving bullets?" Xia Lu seemed to have thought of something, but she was a little unsure, but looking at Archer's eyes, there had been some changes, and there was a trace of wariness in her originally serious eyes.

"Yes, it's splitting bullets, I said I've seen you, not face-to-face, but through binoculars and the line of sight." Archer pointed out the point, and in an instant, a bomb exploded in Xia Lu's head, and in the roar, Xia Lu thought of the "possible" identity of the Mr. Archer in front of her.

"Are you a 'shadow'?" Xia Lu stood up, took two steps back, retracted the grip of the pistol at her waist with her right arm, and stared at Archer with her eyes firmly fixed on her face.

"It was, it is, it is now, and it will be in the future, it's hard to say." Archer shrugged his shoulders and showed a helpless smile, "You don't have to be so nervous, my identity is the postman today, and my mission to deliver the letter to you has been completed, and even if you are holding a gun, I may not be able to beat me, you should also know my ability, not only to hit bullets, but also to have my melee ability." ”

"What is your purpose?" Xia Lu seemed to be a frightened wild cat, her face was full of vigilance, and the hammer had already been pulled away before the gun was out of the set.

"Don't worry, I won't make a move on you, I signed an agreement with Mr. Feng, I won't shoot anyone during the validity period of the agreement, which is why I didn't snipe you at that time, although I didn't snipe your seventh bullet has anything to do with this agreement, but it's not exactly what the agreement imposes." Archer easily walked around Xia Lu, who was tense, "If I'm going to make a move, I'll let you know in advance." ”

Archer copied what Feng Fengxiang said to him to Xia Lu, and there was no hesitation on his face, and those who didn't know it sounded as if this sentence was Archer's original.

"You're really, you're welcome." Xia Lu didn't let her guard down at all, but just covered the handle of the gun and put it down.

"Hehe, you're the first person to say that about me." Archer chuckled dryly, "The water between the Admiralty and the 'New Federation' is too deep, and the people of the fleet had better not get involved here, it is your mission to fight the Pilgrims." ”

"I don't need to be reminded of this." Xia Lu replied coldly, and there was no room for negotiation.

"If you know, it's good." Archer didn't think carefully about whether Xia Lu took his words seriously, this was not something he should be thinking about now, "Thank you for the coffee, you should be able to refill it for free, don't waste it." ”

With that, Archer pushed the door open and walked out.

As soon as Archer left, Ye Kexin rubbed her eyes and walked downstairs, looking at Xia Lu, who was standing in the lobby of the hotel in a neatly dressed manner, and couldn't help but feel a little strange.

"Xia Lu, why did you get up early today?"

Hearing Ye Kexin's voice, Xia Lu was startled, and hurriedly turned around, and the cousin on her face returned to her usual warm smile by the way.

"It's nothing, a friend just came to bring me a letter." Xia Lu waved the envelope in his hand, and with the same hand, he hid the pistol pinned to his waist to the back of his waist.

"Letter? What letter? Ye Kexin walked downstairs and yawned, her long unkempt hair swaying behind her, "I really heard that you have friends in the United States?" ”

"Well, there are friends." Xia Lu nodded lightly, thinking back to the previous sentence "Don't stick to other people's advice, sometimes following your own ideas is the right choice", and at the same time turned to look at Yang Liu, who was bent down by the wind outside the door, with a deep gaze, "Teacher-like, dear friend." ”

(To be continued)