Two days ago, Newcastle College, faculty quarters, Xia Lu's room. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Sitting opposite Xia Lu, staring at the steaming hot tea on the table in a daze, the person looked listless. The black tea in the teacup rippled in circles like a pocket watch in the hands of a hypnotist, making this person's eyes keep rolling, although he entered Xia Lu's room for a while, but he did not say a word, fortunately Xia Lu did not have classes in the afternoon, and was in the room preparing to go to Manhattan in two days, so in response to this person's visit, Xia Lu had plenty of time to spend an afternoon with him.

But it's not a matter to go on like this, if this person didn't say that he was Ye Zifeng's friend, Xia Lu wouldn't have bothered to pay attention to him. But it's a little strange to spend an afternoon here just by saying that. After hearing him say this, Xia Lu warmly invited this person into the house without even distinguishing the authenticity, and then enthusiastically brewed a cup of Ceylon tea and invited him to taste it, but after entering the house, he didn't say a word, and Xia Lu sat opposite him and stared at him to see what he came here for.

"I say, Glahide." Xia Lu, who was slowly shaking the teaspoon in the teacup with her hand, sighed, couldn't help but hold each other like this, and took the lead in breaking the silence, "Hearing your name, I believe that you are a member of the Admiralty Council, although I can't be sure if you have worked with Zifeng, but I believe that you will not harm me, but I can't accompany you for an afternoon for such a reason that has nothing to do with me, you must have something important to do, please speak up quickly, if you need my help, I will not refuse." ”

Listening to Xia Lu's words, Grahide sighed softly, then picked up the teacup on the table, drank all the Ceylon tea inside, wiped the corners of his mouth with a fingerless glove, and then raised his head to look at Xia Lu.

"I've worked with Chief Ye Zifeng, and although I've only met once, I did have a conversation." Grahig's face was a little solemn, I don't know if it was because the next thing to talk about was serious or because of the bitterness caused by drinking unsweetened Ceylon tea, anyway, it looked very formal, which also made Xia Lu straighten her back, sit upright in her seat, and nodded lightly at Graheide, "I came this time because of a mission, but before I know the content of the mission, I need to ask you to sign two agreements." ”

"Agreements?" Xia Lu was stunned for a moment, but Graheid had already opened the briefcase he was carrying, took out a thick A4 copy paper document full of English from it, and after checking to see if there was a mistake, he turned the document upside down, handed it to Xia Lu, and gently put it on the table.

Xia Lu looked at Grahide suspiciously, and then picked up the file. THE FIRST THING THAT CATCHES YOUR EYE IS THE "SHOOTING LICENSE", TWO ALL-CAPS ENGLISH WORDS SURROUNDED BY AN OLIVE BRANCH PATTERN, ALTHOUGH THE OLIVE BRANCH REPRESENTS PEACE, BUT WHEN THESE TWO ENGLISH WORDS ARE COMBINED, THE CONTENT IS FULL OF KILLING MEANING.

"Permission to shoot live? Why give me this? Xia Lu was a little surprised, and looked up at Graheid, her eyes widened, and the four Chinese characters "incredible" were written all over her face.

"Well, well......" Grahide fussed at the back of his head with some embarrassment, "I'd love to tell you, but I'm sorry, I signed a non-disclosure agreement before I came, and I can only tell you the objectives of your mission if you sign these two agreements." ”

"Beat around the bush." Xia Lu frowned and whispered a reproach, then picked up the Parker pen handed by Graheide and signed the name "Lu Camilla" in the "Autograph of Party B" column after a few pages of the "Live Fire License Agreement". Just as he was about to turn to an agreement, Graheide, who was sitting opposite Xia Lu, immediately stretched out a hand to stop Xia Lu's actions. Without waiting for Xia Lu to cast a questioning look, Grahide spoke in advance.

"Well, I hope you look at the terms of the agreement before signing it, if you don't agree, you have time to go back on it, if you sign both copies, even if you tear them up, these two agreements will work under my testimony."

"Conditions?" Xia Lu was puzzled for a moment, and then turned a few pages forward, Grahide didn't say anything, Xia Lu really forgot about this stubble.

Xia Lu found the page where the conditions were written, it didn't seem that the conditions were too much, and a simple sentence took up two lines on the entire A4 copy paper. "After the end of the holiday, be on duty in the defense orbit of Saturn for two consecutive years, and must not return to Earth for any reason on the way."

The simple two sentences made Xia Lu can't help but fall into deep thought, whether a task that even understands the content is worth it for Xia Lu to sign such an agreement, two years of continuous duty is not a small work intensity, the Blue Book of the Admiralty stipulates that the maximum duty time of the fleet commander is only one year, although it can be exchanged for various benefits by extending the duty time, of course Xia Lu has also used such rights, but this time Xia Lu was a little stunned in his heart, and he didn't know why he signed this agreement It was really a headache.

Xia Lu covered her forehead, which was a little hot.

"Really, can't reveal anything at all?" Xia Lu suddenly burst out.

"I really can't, if you reveal a little information, the consequences will be serious." Grahide hurriedly shook his head, "So the decision is in your hands, you have good reasons to refuse this mission, you are not forced to do so, it is completely voluntary." ”

"Hey~" Xia Lu let out a long sigh, Xia Lu really didn't want to have anything to do with this kind of thing, and this time I didn't go to Manhattan to play, but when Grahed came, he said that I was a friend of Chief Ye Zifeng, and this sentence was definitely not to deceive himself into letting him into my room, this was obviously premeditated, and the purpose was to sign this agreement by himself.

- Well, well-intentioned!

Xia Lu kept saying in her heart, but she still gritted her teeth, but when she got to the first page of the second agreement, she looked at the title, "Confidentiality agreement", there was no other word, confidentiality agreement. Xia Lu didn't bother to read the content of the agreement, so she turned to the last page, found the place where she signed, wrote her name, and then clicked on the thick agreement and handed the two agreements back to Graheid like garbage.

Grahide silently took the agreement and didn't say anything until he had put the two agreements back in his briefcase, then he looked up and spoke.

"Sir, please make sure that you don't have a recording device or a monitoring device on your body, turn off your phone and put it on the desktop, thank you for your cooperation."

"It's a nuisance." Xia Lu took out the mobile phone in her pocket with an impatient face, pressed and held the lock screen button to turn off the phone and put it on the desktop, "Hurry up, I still have something to do after speaking." ”

"I see." Grahyde nodded, he could understand the reason for Xia Lu's mood change, he had also experienced such an emotional change when he signed the agreement before, but when he knew the content of the mission, this irritability immediately disappeared.

He took out a tablet from his briefcase, and when he turned it on, a white glow appeared on the organic superconducting glass screen, which was written on the content of this mission. Push the tablet in front of Xia Lu and make a gesture of please.

"That's it?" Xia Lu impatiently picked up the tablet on the table, but just glanced at it, the impatience on his face immediately turned into a lot of attention, and the body that was sitting reclining was also turned over, the expression on his face became serious, holding the edge of the tablet in one hand, and constantly flipping the screen upwards with the other.

It's no wonder that this mission began with the attack on Ye Zifeng in Tokyo, Japan, although it was only briefly bred, but it undoubtedly aroused Xia Lu's strong attention.

"The details of the mission are all here, I won't explain it verbally, because you signed a confidentiality agreement, so please don't explain it to anyone after reading it." Grahide said solemnly, "This is the target this time. ”

Graheid pointed to a man wrapped in a black hoodie on the screen, with short silver hair that surprised Xia Lu. This man, whom she knew, stabbed her in the neck at the Tokyo headquarters and kept her in the hospital for a month.

“Assassin。” Xia Lu immediately became angry, gritted her teeth and looked at this picture, and spit out an English word from between her teeth. In an instant, Xia Lu suddenly felt that the live-fire permission signed before was worth it.

Manhattan is brightly lit at night, at first glance it looks like paradise, the neon lights on the billboards and the giant screen TVs on the exterior walls of high-rise buildings on the street are exuding artificial light sources and huge amounts of information all the time, even if it is already ten o'clock in the evening, but Manhattan is a famous city that never sleeps, and the light pollution brought by artificial light sources has continuously invaded the physical and mental health of people who enjoy nightlife, but even so, Americans are still happy to enter and exit various luxury and high-end shopping malls without the slightest tiredness.

In this case, this is only the main scenery of Manhattan, no matter where there will always be dark corners, even Manhattan is no exception, and a few old street lamps in the winding and long backcountry streets are still sticking to their posts, flashing and flashing to bring a glimmer of light to the dark alleys. A pitch-black figure flashed by, leaving no sound, and the alley returned to peace.

"Damn it, where did you go!" Hurried footsteps and heavy breathing suddenly appeared, and a group of young men in leather jackets with weapons such as baseball bats or daggers suddenly appeared from a corner, and the group looked around, but could not find the target they had been chasing.

"Split up!" The leader gritted his teeth tightly, the expression on his face was in a mess, his brows were furrowed and his face was fierce, he waved the long knife in his hand, pointed to the left side of the T-junction, and said loudly to the person behind him.

"You take someone to chase after that, and when you find it, you will notify you, and I will bring someone over immediately."

"Got it." A person behind him weighed the stainless steel baseball bat twice in his hand, a murderous smile appeared on his face, and then waved his hand at the group behind him, while shouting, "Follow me!" ”

Seeing a group of people gradually moving away from the alley on the left, the leader turned his face to the right side of the alley, both sides were also quiet, but he just felt that the alley on the right, which he had been to countless times, smelled wrong tonight. Looking at the dark and deep alley with no end in sight, a chill couldn't help but come to his heart, and the leader regretted letting his subordinates take someone to check the alley on the left, knowing that he should have checked the left side and then his men checked the right side.

But the matter has come to this point, the subordinates who have disappeared have disappeared and led a group of people to the left, even if they are unwilling, they have to go to the right, after all, they are giving a lot of money, if they do not work hard, the consequences are very serious.

Gritting his teeth tightly, his heart was crossed, and the person in charge waved his hand towards the person behind him.

"The rest, follow me!"

After speaking, he took the lead and ran carefully towards the right side of the street lamp, and the stagnant water on the ground was stepped on by the tourist shoes on the young man's feet, and gradually became taller, but he did not let this group stop, but accelerated his pace.

"Where are you? Why do you come back from a meeting and disappear? Do you remember the way back? Do you want me to pick you up? The phone rang suddenly, and the melodious "The First Town" rang in the empty alley, dressed far away, which must have come to the pursuers behind him, but looking at the caller ID on the lit organic superconducting glass screen, there was no way for the pitch-black figure not to answer the call. Swipe the answer button on the screen, followed by a series of inquiries, and it is not difficult to hear that the person on the other end of the phone, whether it is the tone of the voice, or between the lines, all reveal worry. There was nothing wrong with this worry, maybe she would be even more worried when she knew the situation of the black figure now, but since she had already said that she would solve this matter herself, she couldn't let her worry about herself.

After thinking about the wording in her heart, Xia Lu tried her best to calm down her breathing rate, which was a little out of order due to the vigorous running, and pretended to be nothing.

"It's okay, sister, don't worry about me, I'm now, I'm wandering around a mall somewhere, I'm too bored to wait, so I came out without permission, and I accidentally strolled around until now." Don't worry about me, I'll go back later. ”

"It's okay, I was thinking of taking you to a restaurant for dinner in the evening, but if you can't come back, forget it, then I'll have dinner at the hotel with the tour group." Ye Kexin was relieved when she heard Xia Lu's answer, "Don't play too late, I'll go back the day after tomorrow, and go buy some souvenirs." ”

"yes, I see." Xia Lu responded sweetly and then made a short call, and the breath held in his chest immediately poured out, but Xia Lu couldn't help but gasp a few times before relieving himself, the brain did not have dizziness due to lack of oxygen, it was a blessing in misfortune, but there was no time to continue to stay here, the previous mobile phone ringtone had revealed his location, and Xia Lu had to move quickly.

Although Xia Lu, the enemy that Ye Zifeng couldn't deal with, didn't have the confidence to take him down, Xia Lu still had to try, as long as it was about Ye Zifeng, Xia Lu had always been very attentive.

It was another T-shaped intersection, Xia Lu glanced left and right, identified the direction, and immediately turned towards the fork on the left. As she got closer and closer to the target location of the mission, Xia Lu became more and more excited. The heaviness coming from the black long box behind him made Xia Lu not have a trace of worry in her heart, and after running in with this gun for a year, Xia Lu was confident that she would kill the assassin with one shot.

Xia Lu learns anything very quickly, as long as she is willing to learn with her heart, someone has to memorize a poem one day, Xia Lu will solve it in ten minutes.

This is Ye Zifeng's evaluation of Xia Lu, and it can be seen that the evaluation is quite high.

This kind of cleverness is very applicable to everything, whether it is memorizing ancient poems or practicing shooting, Xia Lu seems to be able to master everything at once, although I am not sure, but this should be inseparable from the genius performance in mathematics.

The gangster Xia Lu behind him doesn't know when he followed, since Xia Lu entered the alley, the number of these gangsters has been increasing, Xia Lu doesn't know them, and he doesn't know what purpose they have for following him, but a person can figure it out, a group of hot-blooded gangsters with murder weapons are chasing you in the middle of the night in the winding alley, turning left and right, and they must not have done anything good. At noon, Xia Lu and Ye Kexin met such a group of people, and in the end, it was because of Gragonov in Xia Lu's hands that they did not make a rash move, even if that group of thugs swarmed up, Xia Lu would not have scruples and did not dare to shoot, with that live-fire permit, Xia Lu can shoot freely all over the world, as long as it is not some sensitive people who shoot, the Admiralty will do the aftermath for her.

Turning a corner again, a low wall appeared in front of you, and it was clear that there was no road ahead. Xia Lu was a little hesitant, the location mentioned in the information was here, although he had not personally confirmed it, but the previous path was all correct, and there was no doubt about the task given by the Admiralty on the lower road, but the low wall in front of him made Xia Lu difficult. Looking left and right, there are no stepping objects that can climb over this wall, and at the end of the alley are on both sides of the back doors of the first floor of the left and right buildings, the small wooden doors are obviously old, and the wooden doors after being corroded by termites look crumbling, and there is really no road.

There was a sparse footstep behind him, it seemed that the thugs who were tracking him all the way followed, Xia Lu pulled them far away all the way, but due to the large number of people, they had enough manpower to divide their troops to search the labyrinthine alley, it is estimated that the alley is now full of their people, if you want to find the problem of your posture time, blame the inopportune phone call before, which attracted more than half of the thugs to the vicinity of Xia Lu, although the alley full of right-angle curves can not see the figure of the thugs, But from the voice, it could already be heard that this group of people was very close to where Xia Lu was sitting, and it wouldn't take long to find them.

Carefully observed the surrounding environment again, the dim light made the sight in this dead end not very good, even if you stare at a place, it is difficult to see what is in that place, of course Xia Lu will not be stupid enough to find a dark corner cat to hide, but it is not a way to stand here, a trace of impatience can't help but rise from the bottom of my heart.

Suddenly, a light sound sounded from a corner, the sound of light water droplets falling on the bluestone really startled Xia Lu, her nerves immediately tensed, and her hand couldn't help but quickly take out the butterfly knife in the pocket of her dark gray windbreaker, throw out the blade, put on a defensive posture, and carefully faced the dark corner where the sound sounded, the beating speed of her heart had reached one hundred and twelve beats per minute, which was nearly twice the normal heartbeat, and Xia Lu did not mean to calm her heartbeat at that time, The faster the heartbeat, the faster the adrenaline can be transported to the whole body, this amino acid derivative hormone that can be called a miracle drug can not only make the heart that has stopped beating start pacing, but now it can also make Xia Lu extremely concentrated, and even slow down the body sensation time, so that Xia Lu can see every move of the opponent, but the gain effect of adrenaline is limited, and it cannot be infinitely relied on this amino acid derivative that will definitely be reversed, but the appropriate use will still benefit people a lot.

(To be continued)