Silver Blade and Rose

To Zars' surprise, Sanchez who drove back was not an employee of 179 Rock Hill Street, but was seconded from another place, and he had to rush back to the association he belonged to overnight.As for the name of the Exorcist Association, he had only heard it in TV dramas and novels before, that was another matter.

"Because the boss can't drive," Muen explained, "it's inconvenient for Hannah and I to go out, so we have to borrow someone to take care of his traffic safety when manpower is in short supply—now we have you, next time we have to work hard .”

Driving is not a big problem, Zals nodded, and became more curious about "our boss" in his mouth: "Is he still sleeping? Why don't you just wake him up?"

Although it was not difficult to move adults out of the car and then upstairs, he still felt a little strange about Mun's seemingly unnecessary choice.If it's just an ordinary sleep, it's certainly convenient to wake him up...but what if it's not an ordinary "falling asleep"?

With the abnormalities shown by Mun and Hannah, Zars can be sure without much thought that the legendary "boss" is also a weirdo.

Sure enough, Mun smiled awkwardly, and explained: "Boss won't wake up easily when he's asleep, and he'll get angry when he wakes up. It's better for us to move him directly to the room—"

Zales nodded, accepted his answer readily, and declined Munn's offer of help after moving the last box, and decided to move their boss upstairs with Sanchez.

Sanchez, who was seconded from another place, looks like an ordinary salaryman, but he is very familiar with what Muun is going to do. After Zarles has moved everything, he is very naturally ready to work with him. Then move the owner of 179 Rockhill Street, their boss.

"He hasn't woken up since yesterday," Sanchez said. "A few days ago, he still woke up for a long time. Since the 26th, he has often fallen asleep. This incident is a bit troublesome, and he seems to be more tired."

Mu En thanked him for his care, and frowned worriedly: "Boss seems to be unstable recently, maybe we should find someone to check him."

Walking back while talking, the three of them had already walked to the front of the car.To move people out of the car, someone has to go up to help carry them. Sanchez is relatively big, and it is not convenient to move people in the back seat. Zales took the initiative: "I'll go up."

Neither of the other two objected, so he opened the door of the back seat of the off-road vehicle and climbed into the car in the dim light.

There seemed to be something wrong with the lights in the car, it was so dark that it was almost impossible to see clearly. Fortunately, Zales was lucky and had good eyesight. After getting up, he didn’t bump into the person lying on the back seat, and he smoothly supported the back of the front seat , bent down to help their "boss" who was still in a deep sleep.

The commotion they caused by moving the boxes just now was definitely not a small one, but the people in the car seemed to be unconscious, and they were still deeply asleep, without any reaction at all.

Judging from Mun and Hannah's performance, Zarles originally thought that the boss would also be a weirdo, maybe he was too old to drive, or he might be a middle-aged man who was difficult to deal with.But when he lowered his head to look at the sleeping person under the dim light, he found that the person looked unexpectedly normal, even a little too young, visually estimated to be no more than 25 years old, with a beautiful face and a long hair. Hannah's even more striking short platinum-blonde locks people in the dark, even in the backseat of the car.

He hesitated for a moment, but still held the other person's shoulders and carefully helped him up.This person looked very thin, but he was heavy when he was supported. Zars pushed him towards the car door so that Sanchez outside could catch him, but when he pushed him halfway, he suddenly felt something strange.

There was a strange chill from the spine to the brain, like a cold snake letter licking the skin, because it was so sudden, Zales almost let go and pushed the person in his arms out.The next second, a cold hand clasped his wrist, and Zars was stunned for a moment before realizing that he couldn't move.

The person who had been unconscious from sleep had opened his eyes at some point, was looking up at him, and asked expressionlessly, "Who are you?"

Half an hour later, they sat down at a dining table at 179 Rockhill Street, wrapping up their chaotic self-introductions.

After transporting the boss like a drunk man and introducing himself after being caught on the spot, Zales began to think about the possibility of being fired on the first day he reported.

Half an hour ago, he was almost attacked as a gangster by someone who suddenly woke up. Fortunately, Sanchez and Muen stopped him in time to avoid a possible murder.Afterwards Zars consciously got out of the car from the other side, entered the door under the gaze of cold and distrustful eyes, and went upstairs to take off the work card issued to him by Hannah, which barely cleared the suspicion.

"Ahem," Muen almost made him a suspect, and Muen coughed a little embarrassedly, and introduced Zals, "This is our boss, Edwin Owen."

At least two of the ten people in York City have the surname Owen. This is not an unusual surname, but for their boss, such a popular surname always makes people feel that they are incompatible with Edwin. It sounds like a fake .

After all, it was only when he was under the normal brightness that he realized how amazing the other person’s looks were—aside from the rare hair color, no matter the opal-like light green eyes or the good facial features, slightly pale but still bloody His thin skin gave the person in front of him an inhuman sense of beauty. When he looked down at him, the long and thick light eyelashes half covered his pupils, like an elf in a movie.

... To be honest, Edwin, who is so good-looking, is actually a bit taller than him. Zals thinks this is probably the gap between people.

He sat on the side of the dining table near the door, watching Hannah bring out the trays of food from the kitchen and distribute them to him one by one from Edwin's direction.On the plate was the same bread and dipping sauce as dinner, with additional fruits and side dishes. There was a glass of steaming milk in front of Edwin, and everyone else had a can of cold beer.

"That's all, let's make do with it." After distributing the food by head, Hannah threw the plate aside and sat in her seat, "There are too many people now, let the cook cook more tomorrow."

Sanchez, who was left behind for dinner, smiled, and comforted in the tone of an empty nester: "It's been a long time since No. 179 is so lively."

Zals had just arrived and hadn't had time to integrate into this strange group, so he had no choice but to eat bread dryly without saying a word.He looked at the other people sitting at the table out of the corner of his eye, and found that Edwin was silently drinking the hot milk brought by Hannah. He took the beer first and put it in front of Sanchez.

"Boss just woke up, no drinking." She said as a warning.

Edwin withdrew his hand slowly again, and continued to eat the bread on his plate quietly, like a statue that couldn't speak, without looking at anyone else.

Zals remembered the way Edwin looked at him in the car just now, and suddenly felt that he was not quite the same as before.Although he found that Edwin's eyes were green after returning to the room, it was probably his illusion. What he saw in the car before was a pair of red eyes, and his eyes were completely different from what they are now——

It must be his illusion.Zales comforted himself.

He had already had dinner before going downstairs, and he wasn't really hungry now, but he lost some energy just now carrying things, so he still ate a lot.After everyone finished their late dinner, Zals already felt a bit full from overeating, so he decided to take a break and go for a walk.

"You go, anyway, there is no work tomorrow." Muen said, "If you go for a walk, you can take Cerberus out for a few laps."

Zars was stunned: "Cerberus?"

Remembering that he had only introduced people but not dogs, Muen added: "Oh, that's the dog you brought back today. Didn't the person who borrowed it tell you its name?"

Indeed not, perhaps because the name is too domineering. After all, not every dog ​​will have the name Cerberus, and it is docile and obedient, similar to other dogs named John or Paul on the side of the road.He had a good impression of Cerberus and thought it was quite cute, so he didn't refuse and agreed to Munn's request to walk the dog.

When Zals was still living with his parents, they also had a dog at home. Every night when he went out for a night run, he would take the dog with him to save his parents from having to walk it on time.After getting used to this kind of life, he is still not used to it at school. It just so happens that other people at 179 Rockhill Street don’t look like they can walk their dogs. Maybe he can take Cerberus with him when he runs at night in the future. Together, that's not bad.

He went back to his room to pack his luggage for a while, changed into his sports clothes and came downstairs. While hanging the clean clothes on the clothesline in the yard, he whistled to Cerberus who was lying in the dog house: "Dude, are you going for a walk?"

The big black dog shook its ears, as if it really understood what he said, looked up at Zals, saw him beckoning to him after drying the clothes, then got up, took the dog leash slowly, and said to the waiters He came at the door.

Zars took the leash, put the collar on it, and led Cerberus out the door.He intentionally walked slowly at full speed, and Cerberus was not in a hurry, walking beside him as slowly as when he came in the morning.

There are nearly 179 households in the Rock Hill neighborhood. No. 179 is at the deepest part of one of the streets. The house looks a bit old, dusty and inconspicuous.After Zals walked out, he looked at the neighbors around him, and felt that No. [-] probably had the most dilapidated house on the whole street.

He walked slowly along the street with Cerberus for a while, and felt that it was enough, so he started jogging while holding the rope.After Zals started running, Cerberus also ran, and they ran to another block together. When Zals passed a vending machine on the road, Zars stopped to buy water, and Cerberus squatted obediently and waited. He is as tacit as an old friend who has been with him for many years.

"The name is too long, it feels a bit unfamiliar." Zars bent down to take out the mineral water and stroked its head, "How about calling you Ke Er?"

The big dog docilely arched his head against his palm, and Zars couldn't help laughing. He was about to squat down and rub it, but he heard a sudden gunshot not far from the wall.

There was no one on this road, and the gunshots were especially loud in the quiet night, Zars looked at Cerberus, patted its head, and whispered reassuringly: "You wait here, I'll go over and have a look. "