on the sidelines

A few days later, Lina appeared in front of Yungu's house, standing there with blank eyes, and the thick blood on her body attracted passers-by's attention and comments.

When Yun Gu and Zhi Xi came back, Lina had stood there numbly for a whole day.

"Lina?" Seeing the blood-stained Lina, Yun Gu rushed to the front in shock, and asked anxiously, "What's wrong with you?!"

Lina turned her head mechanically, looking at Yun Gu who was worried about herself, and the tears in her eyes that she thought were dry fell down again.People in Meteor Street don’t shed tears, they only shed a tear for their caring partners, and then they forget their sorrows and live on.But she is not from Meteor Street, she can't shed just one tear for the person she cares about.

Looking at Lina who was crying but not talking, Yun Gu felt that Lina's mood was extremely unstable, so he took Lina home and closed the door, Yun Gu slowed down and asked softly, "Lina, what happened? "

Lina didn't answer, just shed tears quietly, without a sound, her empty eyes seemed to be looking at something, but she didn't see anything.That night, Yun Gu cried with Lina all night, and it didn't stop until the next day. It wasn't that she didn't shed tears, but that the tears had dried up.Still crying eyes, but no tears of sadness flowed out.

In the next few days, Lina locked herself in the room, and Lina answered the phone calls of her master and senior brother calmly, but this excessive calm was the most worrying thing.

On Meteor Street, Lina did not find Ken's body, maybe it was buried hastily, or maybe it was thrown somewhere as food for mourning crows, and Ken's residence card was buried deep in the place where he lived for the first time. remember.

In the end, Lina folded the letter and put it in the pendant. Since then, she has added an accessory that will never leave her body. She opened the door and walked out of the room, out of the past.

Whether it is escaping or ruthless, Lina will not look back, her eyes have been firmly looking at the future.

"Uncle Master made you worry." Lina smiled again, but the smile was more distant and indifferent.

"Your master and I are very worried about you." Yun Gu intuitively felt that something was wrong with Lina, but he didn't know the crux.

"I'm fine, thank you for your relationship with uncle. I've been bothering you for the past few days. I will go back to the Sky Arena. I will have a landlord challenge at the end of May. I hope uncle can come to watch the battle. I will let Qi Ya bring the tickets to you." You. Thank you for your care these days." Lina bowed deeply from the bottom of her heart, turned and left.

Looking at the back of the girl walking away, Yun Gu felt that this child had already surpassed him, and would go to a height that even he could not reach. She would go farther and farther on the unknown road.

Back at the residence, Hisoka leaned against the wall of the entrance, flipping the cards in his hand, as if anticipating that Lina would come back, he waited, "Oh oh oh oh~? Is Xiaoguo not happy~? Did something sad happen? "

"The other members of the brigade told you?" Lena walked past Hisoka, inserted the room card into the card slot, and opened the door.

"Sure enough, it's a small fruit~~" The grass flower in Hisoka's hand turned into a spade, and the corners of his slender eyes raised dangerously, "When will you compete with me?? I can let you vent it~~?"

"Let's talk about it when you get the host's challenge." Bang, shut the door.

Lina doesn't want to have too much contact with Hisoka now, firstly because of the brigade; secondly because what Hisoka said is right, she needs to vent normally now.

"So ruthless~~?" Hisoka twisted his waist outside the door, overflowing with murderous aura, "I'm really confident, little fruit, but... it's getting more and more delicious~?"

A poker flew out of the fingertips, completely submerged in the wall, leaving only a thin cut on the wall.

The next day, Qiya and Xiaojie came to Lina's room together when they learned that Lina was back, and the deserted luxury suite instantly became lively.

"Lina, you're back. I saw the notice of your landlord's challenge." Qi Ya glanced at the extra necklace on Lena's neck. with.

"Yeah, as soon as I heard you were back, I dragged Qi Ya over here." Xiaojie looked at Lina with pure black eyes, "It hurts, Qi Ya, what are you doing?"

"You stared at Lina like that, Lina was shy, did you see that?" Looking at the stunned Lina, Qi Ya punched Xiaojie hard on the head.

"So what? Lena didn't say anything." Xiaojie yelled back dissatisfied.

"Are you an idiot?" The kitten bared its teeth, and triangular eyes appeared.

"You're the stupid one!" Xiaojie pushed back with a grimace.

"Hehehe" Seeing the two bickering, Lina couldn't help laughing, they are really a perfect match.

"Huh, Lina, you finally laughed." Hearing Lina's laughter, Xiaojie stopped bickering with Qi Ya.

"? Didn't I just keep laughing?" Lena tilted her head and looked at Xiaojie suspiciously.

"Uh, I'm laughing, but I can't feel Lena's happy mood, but the difference just now, Lena must be happy at that time." Xiaojie looked straight at Lena seriously.

"As expected of Xiaojie, he is exceptionally sharp~" Lina rolled her eyes and did not deny it.

Seeing Lina chatting with Xiaojie became more relaxed, Qi Ya was also secretly happy. The Lina he saw when he came in just now was not the one he usually knew. Although the usual smile was just a mask, the one just now seemed to have a mask The person behind has also changed.

"Hey, this is for you, and by the way, two tickets for Uncle Yungu, this is the benefit of the relatives and friends~" Lina swiped four tickets, handed them to Xiaojie, and said with a roguish smile, "Next I have to adjust the state of the game in time, and I may not be able to act with you."

"Well, come on, Lina, Qi Ya and I will train hard."

"During the competition, give up if you really can't do it, and challenge with us when the time comes." Qi Ya rarely suggested seriously.

"Don't worry, I'm not a person who takes risks." Lina had sharp teeth and a cute smile.

The three chatted for a while, and Qiya and Xiaojie left. Before leaving, Lina looked at Qiya, raised a finger, and smiled from the bottom of her heart.Feeling Lina's gaze, Qi Ya, who knew Lina's character, was puzzled for a moment, and looked at Lina's abruptly raised index finger with [Concentrate].

[Thank you, Chiya. ]

Lina's fingertips read the changing words, silently expressing her gratitude in a way that only Qi Ya would notice.

Qi Ya looked at the ignorant Xiaojie, a gentle light flashed in his sapphire blue eyes, and said in his heart: I should thank you, thank you for being my friend.

There are still 10 days before the game, Lena recalled every time she acted with Ken in the room, and recalled every detail of Ken. When the game came, Lena's temperament completely changed when she opened her eyes. became another person.Lena wants to use this method to let more people know what kind of existence the real owner of the name Ken is.

The noisy arena was filled with enthusiastic spectators as always, but Lina who was on the stage no longer had the usual faint smile, but looked at the host opposite with a blank expression.

The start signal was issued, and Lina quickly backed away, avoiding the aura released by the host, dodging left and right.

[Ken never has an expression in the battle, he only observes the opponent quietly and calmly analyzes the opponent's weaknesses. 】

Let go of your aura?It doesn't mean anything.Lina jumped away again, dodging the attack of the aura, and preliminarily judged that the host is of the release type, and is particularly skilled in the operation of releasing the aura.

[When the information is insufficient, Ken will carefully probe and collect as much information as possible from the other party. 】

Tapping her toes, Lina changed her dodging strategy, quickly shortened the distance to the landlord, hit the landlord's chest with both hands, and smashed out the 10t bracelet hard. After the attack worked, she quickly opened the distance.

Looking at the host whose clothes were damaged and took a few steps back, Lina collected information: when resisting, the host burst out with powerful thoughts, which can withstand the attack of the enhanced version of the 10t bracelet. .

A few silver threads flew out and wrapped around the host's upper body. Lina landed on one knee, pulling back and tightening.In a burst of shouting, after using [Zhou], the silver thread, which was sharper than a blade, was broken inch by inch, leaving only shallow white marks on the host's naked/naked body.

Turning over to avoid the aura released by the straight fist, in the aftermath of the impact, Lina spread her legs apart and put one hand into the stone slab of the field to slow down the impact of the retreat. Her eyes were fixed on the host, and her hair flew forward: The landlord's enhancement system may be 100%, majoring in release and operation. For the enhancement system with the strongest attack power, it is not good for you no matter whether it is a long-distance combat or an attack, but just being able to hit the landlord, it can be seen that its sensitivity is not as good as yourself.

Pulling back a certain distance, Lina stabilized her figure, and the referee's judgment "Clean Hit, 7:3" sounded in her ears

[After the information is collected, Ken's next step is to formulate a strategy to kill with one blow. 】

A sharp light flashed in Lina's eyes, and the counterattack began.

With the help of high-speed movement, Lina disappeared in place, and appeared in front of the landlord in the next second.

"Old-fashioned attack." The landlord used his body to resist contemptuously. The next second he found that the moment his fist touched Lina, his whole body's thought power disappeared. In less than a second, a sudden change occurred, and blood spurted from his mouth. The body that flew out was entangled by countless silver threads, pulling it to stay in place.

Compared with Lina's calmness at the moment, the four people in the stands were shocked in a different way.

"..." What just happened?Qi Ya paid no attention to the roaring shouts around him, and fell into deep thought.Lina, who had been suppressed just now, unexpectedly reversed the situation in a few seconds. How did she do it?No, it's too fast, I didn't see clearly!What Lina said in Xiaojie's first battle echoed in his ears, "If you meet me, you won't even know how you will die." Lina didn't lie, this situation is very likely, no, it will definitely be like that!Lina has been hiding her strength, Qi Ya clenched her lower lip, but why didn't she hide it today?Is it related to what happened during the time you left?

"……"so amazing!Lena is actually so strong.Xiaojie clenched his fists tremblingly, wanting to compete with you.The hunter's instinct makes Xiaojie eager to fight against the strong.

"..." Li... Lina is already this strong?Zhixi dripped cold sweat.The girl who practiced at about the same time as him had already gone out of his sight.

"..." Yun Gu opened his eyes and looked sharply at the disciples in the field. He was the only one who saw Lina's attack clearly.Lina's previous retreat was spying, which is a very orthodox combat method for psychics. After the spying and intelligence collection are completed, a battle plan is quickly made and a counterattack is launched.Lina already knew that the opponent was of the reinforcement type, and its weaknesses were speed and agility. Lina used these two points to quickly launch an attack, but she didn't know why the opponent's mind power would disappear when a punch hit. It should be Lina's ability. Entangle the opponent with the hidden silk thread of [Yin], use [Zhou] on the line to increase the strength, the host who should be able to break free at this moment cannot use Nian, and the state of [Jue] is unable to resist the silk thread wrapped in Nian.It's so wonderful, she came up with this method in just a moment, and Lina has grown to this point in just one year? !Another monster!It turned out that she was always hiding, and she hid it very well.Thinking of this, Yun Gu's thoughts became confused.However, the brother said that this is a kind child, and he is indeed right. This can be seen from the fact that Lina did not kill him.I really discovered something extraordinary today, my brother should have already discovered this.

In the field, Lina used [Domain] to extend along the silk thread, and precisely controlled the range of [Domain], which is why the host still cannot use Nian.

"The landlord has lost the ability to compete, judge KO, and the contestant will win." The referee decisively gave a judgment.

[It's over, Ken will end the opponent's life.But this is not Meteor Street, it's just a competition, and the impression left to the world will not be bloody. 】

Lina looked up at the blinding lights overhead, hearing the deafening cheers of the audience.

[Ken, did you hear that?This is the last gift I leave you, if one day I forget you, they will help me remember. 】

Retracting the silver thread, Lina turned and left, and the new owner of the Sky Arena was born today.

"It's really exciting, but it wasn't you who just fought?? Hmm~ I guess~~? It's the one named Ken??" Hisoka nodded and looked at Lina harmlessly.

"No matter who is competing, you just need to remember this competition." After speaking, Lina left without looking back.

"Oh~ Is it really getting colder and colder~?" Hisoka covered his face with one hand, and slowly slid down, his leaking eyes narrowed dangerously, and his eyes were blurred. "I can't wait~? Hmm~~~"

"Lena, congratulations on your successful challenge." Qi Ya put his hands in his pockets and said to Lina who appeared at the exit of the game.

"Thank you."

"It's amazing Lina, but the way you played just now is not like you. Although you also used silver wire, but... I can't explain it clearly." Xiaojie scratched the hedgehog's head in confusion, thinking about how to express it in pain .

"It doesn't match the previous fighting style on the 200th floor, right?" Lina smiled and looked at Xiaojie, afraid that his head would start to smoke again.

"Well, that's it." Xiaojie nodded.

Looking at the three children chatting not far away, Yun Gu stood quietly by the side, feeling turbulent in his heart: extraordinary talents, bottomless potential, after years of baptism, they will definitely grow into the pinnacle of the world in the future The presence.

Life returned to the original point, and Lena became that well-behaved, unresponsive, dazed girl again.

Qiya and Xiaojie's life revolved around Nian's practice, and Lina resumed the stocking state again, wandering around the city, purchasing daily necessities and snacks for the two of Qiya.

"Please send these to room 2207 of the Sky Arena, Mr. Xiaojie will take it, thank you." After swiping the card, Lina left the store.Qi Ya should practice in Xiaojie's room, and she asked the delivery personnel to deliver it there, and someone must sign for it.

Lina walked aimlessly on the streets, where should she go in such a big city?The expression of tilting her head in thought turned over the women around her who had been paying attention to her.

[It's only May 5th, it's still far away from the match between Xiaojie and Hisoka, and this city is not interesting.Alas, why is the plot running so slowly, let's go to the game city to have a look. 】

In the game city, Lina wandered among the machines, watching with great interest the selfless players in the game frantically tapping the buttons, and unexpectedly found a few of them with good skills.When passing by an outdoor challenge machine, a player's operation made Lina's eyes light up. When the loser left the seat, Lina quickly sat down and replaced the loser.

"Child...it's troublesome." The boy on the opposite side rubbed his hair and looked lazily at the boy sitting on the opposite side. "But I won't show mercy."

"Yeah!" Lena nodded and smiled cutely.

"Well, a boy, smiling like a girl. Really." The boy threw a coin into the machine and continued to complain.

"?"

Game start.From the afternoon to the night, Lina took the position and fought against the boy. Although she kept losing, it lasted longer and longer, and the fierce battle attracted more players to watch the battle.

Lina, who has been playing video games with Qi Ya for a while, is still confident in her skills, but she kept losing today, which aroused her interest. She finally met someone who is better than Qi Ya.

"Ah, I'm starving to death, I don't want to play anymore." The boy spread his arms out of boredom, stood up, and moved weakly.

"Hey, I'll treat you to dinner as a thank you gift for spending the whole afternoon with me." Lina left her seat full of intentions and called to stop those who left.

"Ah? Okay." The boy turned around and walked to Lina, and asked bluntly, "Where are you going?"

"Let's find a restaurant, how about that one?" Lina pointed to a warmly decorated restaurant not far away.

"Well, that one tastes good." The boy nodded in agreement.

The protagonist left the scene, and the crowd of onlookers reluctantly dispersed.

Holding the menu, Lina understood that the "good" in the boy's mouth was made of money, but now Lina doesn't care about money. Who let Lina know the ending of the few games in the arena recently? It's so good to have a plot Lena will not miss the cheating artifact.

"You have good skills, and you have held on for a long time in my hands." Inserting a piece of steak, the boy praised without hesitation.

"Thank you. Do you often play in that game city?" Lina picked up a spoonful of pudding, squinting her eyes in enjoyment.

"No, I come out once in a while to get some air. What about you?"

"Travel. My name is Ken. How about you?"

"Jon."

Both know that the other is not telling the truth, but who cares, the name is just a code name, as long as the person is right.

The dinner was spent in the temptation of the two of them one after another.

"Hi, I'm full, will Jon come tomorrow?" Lena wiped her mouth with a napkin and asked what she cared most about.

"Maybe. Thank you for your hospitality." Jon responded calmly.

"What a pity." Don't you wonder where a child can get so much money without being so calm?Lena thought to herself.

Parting from Jon, admiring the gorgeous neon lights of the city, I was surprised to find that Qiya, who was carrying Zhixi on his back, was approaching with a bad expression.

"Qi Ya?" The murderous aura fluctuated greatly, and Lina greeted the approaching Qi Ya.

"Ah, Lina." Qiya lifted Zhixi up on his back, adjusted his position, looked for the voice, and saw the villain in the shadow.

"Well, what's wrong with Zhixi? The training was very hard?" Looking at the unconscious Zhixi, Lina recalled that Qi Ya and Xiaojie were threatened to register for the competition.

"Well, I unconsciously trained too much today." Qi Ya didn't want Lina to know that he was threatened, so he followed Lina's words.

"Oh, you guys are working hard."

Qi Ya and Lina just chatted without saying a word, walked to Yun Gu's residence together, handed the sleepy Zhixi to Yun Gu, and returned to the Sky Arena without saying a word.

Lena went to the game city the next day, but she didn't find the figure she was expecting, and Jon didn't come today.Losing her goal and not knowing what to do, Lina sat on the bench by the pool, licking the seven-color ice cream, remembering what Xiaojie said to ask Yun Gu for advice, so she wandered to the uncle's residence.

"Huh? Chiya, why are you here?" Lina opened the door and saw the two watching the video of Hisoka's battle, with a look of surprise.

"Why did you come?" Qi Ya asked back.

"Xiaojie said he would come today, and I will visit him."

"I'm also here to ask for advice."

After the training, on the way back, Xiaojie and Qiya knew that they were both coerced.

"So that's why you guys moved up the game date because of Zhixi's kidnapping." Lina pretended to be enlightened.

"Well, but I'm still worried, if they do the same thing to Zhixi..." Xiaojie still has lingering fears, afraid that the same thing will happen again.

"It's okay, don't worry." Qi Ya said with certainty.

Glancing at the confident Qi Ya, looking at the sunset slowly falling to the horizon among the tall buildings, Lina made arrangements for tomorrow's schedule.

The next day, Lina used [Jue] to hide in Sadasuo's room, waiting for the arrival of Qi Ya, who couldn't restrain the urge to kill.

When Sadaso fantasized about a bright future in front of the mirror, the voice of absolute zero without emotion appeared accompanied by the sharp weapon above his head, "I will kill you if you dare to move, I will kill you if you dare to use words, and I will kill you if you make a sound."

Sitting on the window sill with floating curtains, Lina didn't stop her. Looking at Qi Ya with the dark mode turned on, she appreciated this way of warning. It would be better if there were fewer and fewer such scumbags in the Sky Arena.

……

"Don't show that ugly face in front of us again, we have agreed."

After watching the show enough, Lina's gentle voice said, "It's ok, Qiya, he has understood, let's go."

Qi Ya, who put away the knife, returned to his previous appearance, walked towards Lina, and before leaving the room, Lina glanced at Sadaso, and instantly wrapped the immobile Sadaso with a real murderous aura, and said softly, "Don't forget Promise, I will kill you if I break the contract~"

Sadasuo looked at Lina's cold and empty eyes in the mirror, and passed out. The last realization was: the landlord is not someone like himself who can think about it overnight.

After Qi Ya warned the remaining two to compete in an upright manner, Xiaojie and Qi Ya ushered in a battle on the 200th floor.

Seeing Qi Ya and Xiao Jie play tricks on Lillebert, Lina laughed out of face on the spot.

Xiaojie's two victories were recognized by Hisoka, and when Lillebert finished one game, Hisoka agreed to Xiaojie's game request.During the game, Xiaojie attacked Hisoka with his perseverance, and got back the number plate given by Hisoka in the hunter test as he wished. Under the referee's technical score, Xiaojie ended the game with a slight injury. As for Hisoka's character analysis in the game, Lina laughed it off. Compared with personality analysis, Lina's conclusions from countless posts were much more accurate than Hisoka's.In the end, Hisoka succeeded in the host challenge qualification battle, with 10 wins and 3 losses, and won the right to challenge.

Outside the arena, the three met, and Hisoka walked towards the three of them as a winner, "I have obtained the qualification to challenge the landlord, don't run away, Xiaoguo~~"

"..." It's my fault if I don't escape ==.Lena smiled gently as always, smiling.

Outside the square, Xiaojie, who had fulfilled his wish, bid farewell to Yun Gu, and the blurred purple of the fountain reduced the sentimentality of parting.

Walking in the colorful circle of light on the bustling street, Lina asked curiously, "Xiaojie, have you passed the hunter exam?"

"Well, it passed when the system was tested, and Lina wasn't there at that time." Xiaojie scratched his black hair embarrassingly.

"Hmph, Lina already knew that learning to read would be considered a pass in the exam, and she didn't even say a word." Qi Ya defended Xiaojie's grievances.

"I think so too, but I promised Yun Gu when you registered. I'm sorry~" Lina clasped her hands together, apologetically apologizing to Xiaojie.

"It's okay." Xiaojie readily forgave Lena.

"Cut~" That's what the original sentence meant. Qi Ya remembered the conversation between Lina and Yun Gu on the [-]th floor of the Sky Arena, so he stopped entangled in this question, and asked about Xiaojie's next plan, "That's right." , Xiaojie, where do you plan to go after that?"

"Go back to Whale Island! I haven't been back for more than half a year, and I still have to show Aunt Mitt the hunter certificate!" While speaking, the bright light in Xiaojie's eyes made Lina and her two agree without objection.

Therefore, the two people who had no goals followed Xiaojie to Whale Island, the origin of this plot.

Before leaving, the three of them took a last look at the tallest building in the city, which carried the dreams and beliefs of countless people, and said silently in their hearts: Goodbye, Sky Arena.