On the way back, Huai Shi sat in the car and watched the dazzling neon fade away, into a more familiar and bleak neighborhood.

Under the smashed street lamps, the homeless people in cardboard boxes poked their heads out of the alleys, and the voices of angry scolding and scolding could be heard in the distance, as well as the cries of children.

With the sound of iron scraping, the closed grocery store pulled down the floodgates.

Soon, apart from the hurried footsteps of pedestrians, only the sound of drunks vomiting remained on the street......

It can't be said to be happy and beautiful, but for some reason, it made Huai Shi finally relax, as if she had been able to return to reality from a fleeting bubble, and felt the familiar gravity.

He closed his eyes and sighed silently.

"The boss seems to be in a bad mood. Ueno, who was driving, suddenly asked.

"Huh?" asked Huai Shi, "Why do you say that?

Ueno thought for a long time, patted his head, and shook his head: "I don't know, I feel ......"

Huai Shi was speechless. Is this the sharp intuition of single-celled organisms? It's really admirable.

He thought about it for a long time, and finally couldn't help but ask, "Ueno, if one day, you can stop doing the extreme way, what do you want to do?"

"Huh?" Ueno didn't understand at all.

"I mean...... What are you going to do if you don't do the Extreme Path?"

Ueno's eyes widened in disbelief: "Won't you not survive?"

“...... Not really, right?"

"Boss, I'm a little embarrassed to say that, but I don't even know how to use a calculator. Ueno said seriously, "If you have a tattoo, the people at the convenience store don't want me." Besides, with such a stinky temper, what if the guest is injured?"

Huai Shi couldn't help but want to roll her eyes.

“...... Well, we're not going to talk about the realities, I'm just wondering: if you were given the opportunity to choose, would you have anything you would want to do? ”

"I haven't thought about it, that kind of thing is too complicated, right?" Ueno thought for a long time, and suddenly looked back, his eyes widened, full of curiosity: "Boss, what about you?"

Huai Shi didn't expect that he would be countered to the army.

After thinking about it for a while, I couldn't help but shrug my shoulders.

"To be honest, I used to want to be an artist, well, the kind that plays music, but then I thought it would be nice to be a teacher, and watching the students grow up makes me feel like I had grown up back then......

Huai Shi hadn't yet, and when he saw Ueno's abrupt and open mouth to speak, he frowned: "If you dare to say, 'I'm the same', I'll throw you out of here." ”

"I also ...... Ahem, ahem. ”

Ueno was stuck halfway through his words, thought for a long time, and asked tentatively, "Then it's okay for me to be a physical education teacher, right?"

"Teach what?" Huai Shi sighed: "Teach the children to grab land and cut people with a knife?"

“...... Can't you?" Ueno's eyes widened in disbelief.

Huai Shi couldn't help but want to cover her face.

What misconceptions do you have about schools, and what ordinary school in the world would teach students this kind of thing......

"Ah, it always feels complicated. ”

Ueno smiled awkwardly: "It's always a good thing if you can live happily if you don't do the extreme way, right?" However, I don't think it's necessary to think so long-term...... Anyway, a rice ball only costs 30 yuan, so it's a big deal to work hard.

As long as people live, there is always a way. ”

He thought for a while, and said with confidence: "My mother taught me: Today's things are done today, tomorrow's things, tomorrow's things, tomorrow!

“......”

In the silence, Huai Shi looked up at him in amazement, as if she knew him for the first time, dumbfounded. After a long time, I couldn't help but burst out laughing, leaning forward and backwards, and couldn't support it.

Ueno looked in the rearview mirror with a blank expression:

"Did I say something wrong, Boss?"

"No, Reitdo is such a wise man, Ueno. ”

Huai Shi patted him on the shoulder and laughed happily: "This is really the most reasonable sentence I have ever heard tonight!"

"Huh, is that so?"

"Of course, let's drink tonight, do you want to go together?"

"Okay, okay. ”

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"Ah, I want to drink so much, I want to eat sushi and sashimi, curry rice, tonkatsu, I want to eat peony pot, I want to eat ramen, and tempura...... Want to soak in the hot springs, kill the chickens and have a bubble bath......"

Under the miserable moonlight, Tony held the instant noodle bowl and sighed to the moon.

The soft horse-faced mask flicked in the wind, and the abstract face against it became more and more sad.

"Why is this happening? It's rare to come to Yingzhou on a business trip......"

In the bleak wind, he sighed sadly: "Is life only like this when you work overtime, or is it always like this?"

No one responded.

Only the horse-faced man shook his head, picked up the bowl of instant noodles, and then held the soft horse-faced mask with one hand, and poured the soup and noodles into the hole in the big mouth.

After a hollow sound like a water pot, the sound of chewing sounded.

Finally, there was a hiccup.

That's the end of dinner, and maybe supper and tomorrow's breakfast.

The grieving Astronomical Society animal put the lighter into the horse's mouth, pressed it twice, and then puffed two wisps of green smoke from its nostrils and looked up under the rooftop.

In the silence of the night, the dusty storeroom was silent in the darkness.

"Anyway...... Is there no pomp and circumstance in the place where old colleagues meet? ”

Tony muttered to himself, taking a step forward, stepping on the edge of the floor, looking down at the drop below the rooftop. Once you have determined your height, you turn around, spread your arms, and suddenly, leap to your feet.

In this way, he fell towards the earth behind him.

In mid-air, he flipped his body flexibly, shook his horse's face, swirled in the wind blowing in his face, reflexively somersaulted for two and a half weeks and then turned around for two and a half weeks, and then spun 1,0080 degrees in a rapid fall like a small spinning top, and after crossing an exaggerated arc, he finally smashed the fragile roof of the storeroom.

Out of thin air!

In the loud bang, the uninvited guest broke into the light behind the ceiling and fell to the ground with a hurricane, but not a single speck of dust was raised.

"Yay—full marks!"

Under the pale light, Tony slowly got up, brushed the horsehair on the back of his head, held the gun in both hands, pointed it at the sides, and looked around.

"Hey, is Mr. Phoenix at home?"

In the silence, no one responded.

But Tony didn't let his guard down in the slightest, searching every part of the warehouse step by step.

The warehouse, which should have been abandoned for many years, is full of all kinds of equipment that should not have appeared here at all, and the dense surveillance screen shows images of various key areas of Kyoto, but more often than not, it is the scene inside the inner circle of Tamba.

As the retrieval program was running, the servers immersed in the huge water tank emitted a steady stream of high heat and dull humming.

The surrounding walls are filled with a dazzling array of weapons, including mountains of chests, alchemical explosives that could send an entire stadium into the sky, and shoulder-fired rocket launchers that shouldn't be in the city at all.

The deepest table is stacked with countless intricate files, materials, and records, and just on the wall, there is a huge map of Kyoto, densely packed with different markings.

Tony approached step by step, and casually copied a piece of information, and saw the intelligence analysis of the 'Juntian White Fox', and then copied a copy, which was the change of the position of the Luming Pavilion.

Then, there is the record of the external actions of the Emperor's army, as well as the information of important figures in the shogunate under the shogun, and the monthly bulletin of the branch of the Yingzhou Command Bureau......

And even the last ......

Underneath countless documents and records, a resume stamped with the mark "Top Secret".

Under the emblem of the original Dark Legion, in the photo, the man wearing the horse-faced mask looks blankly at himself outside the photo.

It was at that moment that the cold barrel of the gun pressed against the back of his head.

A flirtatious voice sounded from behind him.

"Did you miss me? "In the darkness where the lamp can't shine, the former ace assassin of the original Dark Legion, 'Phoenix', greets him.

Tony's movements froze in place, as if stiffening:

"Trap?"

"Hah, who knows?" Phoenix asked, nonchalantly, "how long have you been looking for me?"

"About half a month? Well, from the time Shambhala's nursing home found out that you wanted to escape the bill. Tony warmly reminded: "The medicine can't be stopped, Liu Dongli." ”

"Don't worry, I grabbed a lot of money before I left, enough for me to eat until next year's birthday. ”

Tony smiled, "What are you going to do after your birthday?

"Thank you for your concern, I will find a good place in advance to dig a pit and bury myself, please remember to give me flowers when the time comes. ”

"I have to say that your colleagues and your family care about you. Tony sighed, "In order to avoid a little unpleasant friction, can you please go back to the picturesque nursing home?"

"Ah, rest assured, I have confidence in you - my colleagues are magnanimous, my family understands things, the world is so beautiful, even without me, everyone will definitely get along. ”

Behind him, Liu Dongli whistled: "As long as the company is willing to give a little more bereavement pension." ”

"I don't think so. ”

Tony advised again: "Come back with me, Liu Dongli, many people are looking for you." No one else would be as reasonable as I am. ”

"Reasoning with a gun?"

"It's because I want to be reasonable, I just brought a gun. ”

Tony reminded: "Why are you robbing the technical department's deep vault if you run away? Now, the overhead floor of the Command Bureau, the pollution management center of the Survival Hospital, and the law office of the technical department are all looking for you...... Some want to die, some want to live, and some want to be half-dead. ”

"That sounds like a lot of people. ”

"Who's to say it isn't?" Tony shrugged helplessly, "So, should you consider my—suggestion!"

At that moment, a loud bang broke out, and the entire warehouse shook suddenly.

A bleak frost spread from Tony's body, and as the eternal frost wind swept through, freezing everything around him in a massive, solid block of ice.

Including Liu Dongli behind him.

But when he turned around, he saw that the ice behind him was empty, and there was no trace of people.

Only the light bulb overhead cracked silently, engulfing everything in the darkness.

Immediately after, gunfire erupted.

The melted alchemy bullets turned into a blazing light in the chamber of the gun, crisscrossing the empty darkness, leaving a tearing glow in its wake.

Sparks fly.

With the figure that approached, the two daggers collided in one place, and for a moment illuminated the two very different faces.

One is a frosty horse face, and the other is an Ultraman mask that seems to have been bought at random from the street.

"Ace?"

In the heat of the fight, Tony was amused, "Your hobby is really unpopular." ”

"Lao Tzu, this is Zoffie, you know a fart giant of light!"

Liu Dongli yelled: "Eat me Ultra Flying Kick!"

But instead of kicking through the air in the darkness, the light of bullets lit up behind Tony.

There was a loud and sharp thud, and the flaming bullets flew under the saber block.

Tony yelled, "What the is this flying kick?"

"You don't understand this, everything can be kicked in a fly, RPG can also be a fly kick, why can't a bullet be considered a flying kick?"

Liu Dongli pressed forward step by step, as if he had already predicted all his methods, perfectly dodged all of Tony's counterattacks, and used a dagger and the spell bullet in the pistol to completely suppress the third-order frost giant!

Tony stepped back, dodging the dagger that stabbed him in the face, and abandoning the knife, the extreme cold and blizzard in his palm erupted into a sharp long knife, slashing.

Empty!

When he tried to remove the flashbang behind him, he heard a crisp sound from the location of the flashbang.

Then a blinding light erupted in front of his eyes.

He didn't even have time to close his eyes.

And then, a punch.

Through the mask of the horse's face, it smashed on his face, making him stumble and retreat, but there was no way back behind him, and he had been forced into a corner.

The cracked dagger pierced his palm in an instant, pinning him to the wall.

Immediately after, the pitch-black chamber of the gun pressed against his head.

"Don't move. ”

Liu Dongli warned indifferently: "This time, I won't show mercy to my subordinates, people." ”

In the silence, Tony gasped under his breath, staring through the dim glimmer of light on the server, at the face he hadn't seen in a long time, and his seemingly unfocused pupils.

Finally, it dawned on me.

“...... Misalignment of the time axis?"

He asked coldly, "How many times have you jumped, Liu Dongli?"

As if he knew he was going to ask, the face smiled mockingly, "It's none of your business, Tony." What do you ask the same question every time?"

"You should be aware of the consequences of the time jump, without the cooperation of the main frame of the Rainbow Bridge, the time dislocation between the perception and the body will become more and more serious......"

Unstable time jumps can create errors that tear apart the soul and consciousness, and dislocate time between the senses and the body.

The body is active at this moment, but the consciousness has drifted uncontrollably into the future.

This is not a good thing that brings foreknowledge.

Rather, it is a precursor to collapse.

It's better to say that after experiencing more than seventeen jumps, Liu Dongli has not collapsed until now, which is really unexpected.

Even a single illegal jump should have torn his soul apart and caused self-destruction.

It's a miracle that he's alive until now.

"How did you do that?" asked Tony, incredulously.

"Of course it is...... Secret. ”

Liu Dongli finally smiled at him and pulled the trigger.

Tony's eyes darkened, his body twitched involuntarily, and he quickly lost all his strength.

"Aha, anesthetic bomb, aren't you surprised?"

With a pleasant whistle, the smiling face receded and dissipated into the darkness in front of him.