In the damp alley, a man and a woman covered in mud are doing something in an awkward position.

Xiang Yan stood in place with his back to Lu Yun, while Lu Yun squatted on the ground, holding a dagger composed of rising black smoke in his hand.

"Are you sure that's really okay?"

Lu Yun's hands trembled a little, and the injuries he suffered from the battle with the strong man did not recover because of such a little rest.

"Of course, these eyes are right."

Since Lu Yun paid back the 80 yuan owed on credit just now, Xiang Yan's attitude has returned to the way they were when they first met.

Lu Yun held his breath, and while trying to keep the distance between the black smoke dagger and Xiang Yan, he slashed through the small iron box in the center of Xiang Yan's back where only the outline could be seen, and it also emitted a faint blue light.

It was the thing that the strong man had just used to tie up Xiang Yan.

As a puff of black smoke swept by, the blue light of the iron box dimmed, and the countless strings wrapped around Xiang Yan's body turned into a silver liquid with it, dripping into the puddle on the ground, turning into nothing.

Lu Yun's intuition told him that this kind of thing was not available in the suburbs at first glance.

"This is a silver wire box, developed by some urban enterprises to deal with anomalous people, which can make all abnormal people, including my eyes, ineffective, plus ineffective."

After loosening the tie, Xiang Yan stretched his waist and turned his back to Lu Yun to explain, looking like a person who had just walked before the ghost gate was closed.

"But I really didn't expect that you, a containee, still need credit? No kidding, right? ”

"Then you came out to be a tour guide with these eyes, isn't it even more outrageous?"

In Lu Yun's imagination, the anomalies who have the Eye of Aether after birth and are lucky enough to live to grow up are probably people who will stay closed all day long, for fear of coming into contact with the outside world.

And the "taste" of Xiang Yan that he tasted did show that she was extremely repulsive to outsiders.

It was hard for Lu Yun to imagine that he would come out as a guide like this.

"Do you think the Aether Eye can be eaten?"

Lu Yun was speechless.

Xiang Yan bent down, picked up the black cat mask that had fallen on the ground, carefully wiped the muddy water off it with his cloak, and put it on his face again.

"Well, it's good, it doesn't seem to be bad~"

Xiang Yan's voice behind the mask sounded a little delightful.

"Speaking of which, how do you know you can open a silver wire box this way? Is this the power of the Eye of the Aether? ”

After the black smoke dagger accidentally made the strong man lose control, Lu Yun became more and more confused about his black smoke dagger.

"Stop, stop!"

Xiang Yan made a gesture to stop.

"This information is very expensive! How can you ask such a lot! ”

Lu Yun just wanted to say that he really had no money, so Xiang Yan continued:

"But... This is a rare opportunity, so I'll give it to you for free! ”

Xiang Yan raised his index finger and pointed to the location of his mask's eyes.

"In addition to having different special abilities, each pair of Aether Eyes can also see the flow of Aether within inorganic matter or on the surface of living beings."

"The principle of the Silverwire Box is to attach the aether that counters our abilities to our surface through the core, and your dagger can cut its circuit."

"Are the containees' weapons available?"

"No, at least not the strong man's purple fire just now."

"Why?"

Seeing Lu Yun's sincere question, Xiang Yan couldn't help but support his forehead.

"You're a container! You don't even know why you think I'll know! ”

"Oh oh..."

"Why don't you know anything, you're really from the Aether Corporation!"

Xiang Yan walked up, pinched Lu Yun's cheeks with both hands and pulled them outward.

"Didn't you just say that I haven't officially joined the company yet..."

Lu Yun was really powerless to stop it now, and once again summoned the black knife, which almost bottomed out his already small physical strength.

"Well, I don't know anything else, except that the weapon you containers conjure up is itself an aether."

"But isn't the aether blue?"

The ether that Lu Yun usually sees, whether it is the ether circuit or the fuel used at home, is all blue, with only different shades.

If his dagger and the purple fire wrapped around the strong man's hand were actually aether, then...

What exactly is aether?

After saying this, Lu Yun felt the strength on his cheeks increase.

"So! You don't even know how I know! ”

After a few seconds, Xiang Yan let go of his hand and took a few steps back.

"Anyway, the topic of containers is over! Next up is my ability! ”

As Xiang Yan's voice stopped, Lu Yun was shocked to see that she began to fade away.

Soon, Xiang Yan disappeared from the spot.

Just as Lu Yun wanted to shout to Yan, a familiar voice came from the empty front.

"Hehe, scared, right?"

As if the prank was successful, Xiang Yan, wearing a black cat mask, reappeared in the same place.

"You can't live in a rafting area without any skills, right?"

"But... In that case, how can you get caught? ”

"Please, I'm invisible, not disappearing!"

Xiang Yan pointed to the puddle around him.

"That guy made so many puddles around here, I don't have the ability to escape without stepping on any of them!"

"So... Does he know your ability is stealth? ”

Lu Yun said that the strong man when they met just now, he has been staring at Xiang Yan for a long time.

"Of course, it wouldn't have been so difficult to deal with."

"Still, you're really good, that guy is a C-class cleaner at the headquarters of the Mutual Aid Association in T (20)."

Although Xiang Yan's tone hadn't changed much, Lu Yun could hear her fear.

Then, after a brief silence between the two sides, Lu Yun spoke first.

"And what do you do after that? Let's go to Ether Corporation? ”

Xiang Yan hesitated for a moment and shook his head.

"I don't know why the Aether Company is looking for someone like me, if it's going to do some kind of experiment, then wouldn't I have fallen into the net?"

"Should... No way? ”

Lu Yun had heard stories about some companies in the city that would arrest lost people in the suburbs and conduct human experiments on them.

And he can't guarantee that the Ether company, which has developed so many products, won't do the same thing as them.

Lu Yun chuckled lightly at Xiang Yan after hearing the mask, which sounded good and bitter.

"I really envy you, born in the north where there is not too much danger, and you also have the ability to protect yourself, even those who are only destined for one side."

Xiang Yan turned his back and walked towards the exit of the alley, his steps were very light, like a bird flying low in the dark.

"If you're sure that the Aether Corporation really doesn't have any ill intentions, and you're willing to accept me at that time, come here and find me."

Only then did Lu Yun realize that he had an extra note in his hand.

Xiang Yan slowly walked into the darkness, and his figure gradually disappeared.

When she disappeared completely, after a while, a whisper suddenly came from Lu Yun's ear.

"Thank you."