Late at night. Sunset City.

The night covered the land, the people were asleep unconsciously, and the whole city was plunged into a deathly silence.

Suddenly, a shrill siren rang out, piercing the dead night. Accompanied by the constant alarm, there was a rush and chaos of footsteps in a corner of the setting city, followed by gunshots and shouts, followed by a huge explosion that shook the ground near the city. Then, again, everything fell silent.

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In a dirty, narrow alley, the swift figure of a middle-aged man walks through the darkness. The neat casual clothes, rimless glasses on the bridge of his nose, and his gentle and elegant face make him look out of place in the dirty environment around him. In his hand he was carrying a black suitcase made of alloy, and he didn't know what it contained. Despite the rapid pace of the middle-aged man's feet, his face was leisurely, as if he was just walking in the streets, and neither the cold night breeze nor the sirens in the distance could change his expression in the slightest.

After walking through several streets, the middle-aged man's footsteps quietly stopped in front of a dilapidated and dilapidated hotel. After a closer look around, the middle-aged man pushed open the dilapidated door and walked in.

A damp and musty smell hit his nose, and he couldn't help but frown. looked around, and saw that there was no staff member in charge of reception at the front desk of the hotel. The middle-aged man didn't show any surprised expression, and walked towards the staircase by himself with his suitcase.

Walking up the creaky wooden staircase to the second floor, the middle-aged man easily found the house number. Before he could knock on the door, it opened, and a beautiful, familiar face appeared before him.

"Jingyi," the middle-aged man greeted in a low voice, and there was a hint of irrepressible excitement in his tone, "You have also succeeded!" ”

The young woman who was called Jingyi did not speak, but leaned sideways to let the middle-aged man into the room, and closed the door with her hand.

The hotel room is not big, and when he saw the empty room, the middle-aged man's eyes darkened: "Only you?" They ......"

"All dead, so that I can come to see you alive." Jing Yi replied in a trembling voice.

“…… They are all good brothers of mine, and I will not let them die in vain. The middle-aged man's eyebrows twisted slightly, and his expression immediately returned to calm, "Did you get the thing?" ”

"Hmm". Jing Yi answered, walked to the corner of the room, took out a miniature safe made by the craft, and entered the code on the panel. The door of the safe opened with a slight sound, which made the middle-aged man's expression move, and his eyes showed a look of anticipation.

Jingyi reached out and took out something from the miniature safe, held it in the palm of her hand and handed it to the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man looked down closely: it was a memory chip the size of a fingernail. Based on the middle-aged man's eyesight, he can naturally judge that the material made of this chip is very special, and judging from its density, ordinary external strikes may not be able to cause any damage to it at all. With the experience of a middle-aged man, he has never seen anything like it on earth.

Carefully taking the chip and putting it away, the middle-aged man showed a relieved expression on his face: "With these two things, our plan is already half successful." I'll take care of the rest, and you must leave right away. When that's done, I'll go to you. Speaking of the last sentence, his tone became gentle, and it was obvious that this Jingyi was a very important person in his heart.

They had already made a detailed plan in advance, so the woman named Jingyi didn't say much, just looked at the middle-aged man with reluctant eyes for a while, and then silently turned around and walked towards the door.

At the moment when Jingyi's fingers just touched the doorknob, the middle-aged man's face suddenly changed, and he shouted: "Be careful! At the same time, the body rushed out like electricity.

Unfortunately, he was still a step too slow. Jingyi's body image was instantly drained of all her vitality, and she fell backwards weakly, just falling into the arms of the middle-aged man, and a pair of godless eyes on her pale face were facing the middle-aged man, but no color could be seen in her pupils. There was no need to look closely, the middle-aged man had already understood when he came into contact with Jing Yi's body that her life was completely gone.

Incomparably intense pain and anger frantically hit his brain, but he still suppressed his emotions, and he knew very well that he must not mess up at this time, otherwise he would be the next to die. His eyes stared at the door without blinking, and he carefully hid the suitcase he had always carried behind him—his feeling told him that he was standing outside the door.

The door shaft made a low "creaking" sound, and the door slowly opened, revealing the true face of the murderer of Jingyi.

It was a tall girl in black, and her stunning face was enough to overwhelm all beings, but her indifferent expression was as cold as the ice of the Far North. What's even more frightening is that she is obviously standing in the light, but the whole person seems silent, and she can't feel any breath of the living from her at all. Her whole person was like the thick night outside the window, dark and eerie.

The moment he saw the girl in black, the middle-aged man's pupils shrank, and he spit out two words in his mouth: "Heart Night".

The girl in black looked at the middle-aged man indifferently, but her beautiful voice was so cold that she didn't have half an emotion: "Teacher, long time no see." ”

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This elegant man has an extraordinary identity, he is one of the four top killers in the dark world. His real name is unknown, and because in addition to killing people, he also selects potential young people in the dark world to guide him, so people call him the Gardener. During his lifetime, he has cultivated countless high-level killers. In the killer world, his influence is unmatched, and this girl in black is his most proud disciple, codenamed "Heart Night".

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The middle-aged man raised his hand and held his glasses, his face completely returned to calm, so that people couldn't see the slightest inner ups and downs: "Xinye, after all, you and I have been a master and apprentice, you want to kill me, I don't blame you, but why bother to kill Jingyi?" ”

"Because it can make you lose a helper, and it can make you lose your cool." Xinye looked at the gardener with an indifferent expression, and his cold tone did not wave, "These are all taught to me by you, I hope you don't hate me." ”

As she spoke, her slender hand moved slightly, and the black bracelet on her wrist emitted a gray mist-like gas. The gray mist rapidly amplified at a speed visible to the naked eye, and at the same time the temperature in the room suddenly dropped to freezing cold.

"Snow Mist Soul!" The gardener's pupils constricted, "You actually found such a terrifying star pet, no wonder you can kill Jingyi in an instant!" ”

Xinye didn't answer, but raised his palm, and the flickering cold ice mist suddenly rushed towards the gardener's door.

The gardener snorted coldly, picked up Jingyi's corpse in his left hand carrying the suitcase, and his figure quickly retreated, and at the same time, his right hand was raised, and there was no momentum or light, and the ice mist was blocked by an invisible and phaseless force, constantly squirming and rolling in mid-air, but it was never able to advance an inch.

The gardener stopped with his back against the wall and looked at his disciple indifferently: "Xinye, you won't be so naïve as to think that you can deal with your teacher with just this small means, right?" ”

Before the words fell, only a soft sound of "snort" was heard, and a cloud of blood mist suddenly stirred up in the room, and the gardener suddenly let out a roar, and the wall behind him was shattered by an invisible force in a roar, and countless rubble mixed with brick powder scattered on the street.

In front of the broken wall, the gardener looked down at his chest with an expression of disbelief on his face: a small hole in the blood was pouring out of his body, which would not have been injured even if he had been hit head-on with a laser gun. He looked up at the other in surprise, but he couldn't see the slightest emotional fluctuation on the other's face. However, he still caught a strange black shadow that disappeared into the bracelet of the night. At this moment, he didn't need the other party to explain anything, he had already guessed the answer.

Although he didn't see it, the gardener already knew in his heart what tricky killing methods the other party had used: Xinye also had another special star pet! Not only is this star pet a powerful man, but it is also a creature with a special stealth skill that is best suited for killers. Otherwise, with the gardener's powerful senses, as long as there are creatures lurking near him, he can still hear the heartbeat of living beings and the sound of blood flowing, even if he completely holds his breath.

It was clear that the pet had already used his special ability to hide in this room beforehand, and took advantage of the fact that he had lost his cool due to Jingyi's death and was distracted by the snow mist soul to deliver a fatal blow from behind. All of this shows that Xinye came prepared, and he had already set up an ambush to wait for him to fall into the net.

It may have damaged the lines in the wall from the battle just now, and the lights in the room flickered incessantly, making the gardener feel dizzy in front of his eyes. He knew that time was running out for himself.

"Combat Star Pet, and it's a Double Star Pet! So you've awakened! The gardener's face dissipated with anger and a bitter smile appeared, "I didn't expect your talent to be so amazing, and you are not proud of it at all, you can still be fully prepared and decisive, and you are not a genius killer who once killed the 'one-armed man'." The four major killers of the dark world, the one-armed guest, the gardener, the heart night, and the puzzle solver, are now gone to two of the four, as long as you get rid of the puzzle solver, you will be the king of killers on the earth in the future. ”

Xinye shook his head slightly: "You know me, those false names don't mean anything to me." ”

"yes, I understand. It's not your own will to kill me, it's just a task you accept. The gardener's eyes were full of helplessness, "I also know that as a professional killer, you can't reveal the identity of your client. I just don't understand, since you are already determined to kill me, why did you deliberately deviate from the point just now, and not take advantage of the great opportunity to kill me with one blow? You should know that although you are already an Awakened One, you have no chance to hurt me a second time. If I were to leave with these two things, you wouldn't be able to keep them. ”

The girl replied in a cold tone: "I killed you just to complete the task, and letting you go temporarily is to repay the teacher's kindness." The mission I have accepted is only your life, and nothing else has anything to do with me. I know you can take things away and give them to someone you can trust. And I know that you can't see the sun tomorrow morning, and that's enough. Xinye's gaze swept over the suitcase in the gardener's hand, "Only I can heal your wounds." In fact, if you are willing to hand over these two things to the organization, I can help you heal your wounds and ask the organization to come forward to settle this matter. ”

The gardener shook his head: "You know I can't. ”

"I understand." Xinye nodded slightly, paused for a moment, and then asked, "Do you still have unfulfilled wishes?" ”

The gardener sighed lightly: "Child, since you are already an Awakened One, when you finish this single task, no matter what the result is, find a way to leave the organization and stop it." ”

The girl shook her head indifferently: "You know, I can't either." ”

The two were silent again.

In the end, it was the gardener who spoke first: "Time is running out, I'm leaving." Siqin, take care of yourself. After saying this, the gardener took a step back with Jingyi's body in his arms, and suddenly faded away as quickly as if it were melting, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Siqin ......

How long has it been since I've heard someone call you that......

Xinye's eyes warmed slightly, and a cold voice sounded in the empty room: "Teacher, go all the way." ”