Played by the devil in the palm of his hand

After Xu Chi finished speaking, he probably felt too heavy, so he changed the subject, "Why don't you go to sleep quickly, aren't you tired?"

He glanced at Edward's blond hair, and said frankly: "Pay attention to your hairline, although there are no signs of it yet, but you are not young after all, don't always stay up all night, I just read online that You Brits are the fifth most bald in the world."

"..." Edward gritted his teeth, "If it weren't for the fact that you were brought up by me, I really want to beat you up."

Xu Chi lazily leaned on the sofa and said casually, "You can't beat me."

"Little bastard..."

Edward was silent for two seconds before he suddenly realized and said in surprise, "Online? Why do you have internet?!"

"Oh, it's from Jun Ye." Xu Chi shook his phone and showed him the Baidu page on it.

"But it can only receive signals, not send them out. You can check Baidu for the next movie, but you can't send out the news. Fuck! When I play games, I can only watch others scold me, and I can't scold others."

"Can anyone else call in?"

"Yes, but I can't pick it up." Xu Chi handed him the phone, "Anyway, there's nothing else I can do except entertainment."

Edward took it over and took a look, only to see that the search box on Baidu displayed impressively: How should I remind my friend of serious hair loss in a subtle way.

Edward: "?"

He touched his head subconsciously. The short blond hair is still thick, right?After all, he is also a handsome British gentleman who can attract thousands of women just by sitting in a coffee shop, okay? !

Xu Chi coughed twice, trying to cover up, "It's just a random search, don't think too much about it."

Edward pressed the search button, the interface went blank, and then started buffering. He showed it to Xu Chi, "The network is not good?"

"No way, it was quite smooth just now." Xu Chi took the phone strangely, and almost at the first second he got the phone, the network was reconnected immediately, and all the searched things popped up.

Xu Chi blushed, "It seems that only I can use it."

Edward was speechless, "Isn't he too narrow-minded?!"

After all, he is also a devil who is so unpredictable that everyone turns pale upon hearing it. Do he have to be fussy about such trivial matters? !

Xu Chi swiped his phone and said, "I went to our darknet yesterday, but there is no news yet."

Edward and Xu Chi belonged to a mercenary organization called Black Box. There was a very secret dark net within the organization, which could only be accessed by specific domain names and personal accounts.

Edward said: "Even if we didn't enter this town by mistake, it would take two months at the earliest to go back according to the plan. It's normal that we can't get in touch during this time, and the organization won't be suspicious, so I guess we won't be able to wait for rescue. .”

"Even if they came..." Xu Chi sighed, "It's just to die."

Half of the seven-day vacation given by the devil was over in a blink of an eye, but they were still confused, running around like rats in captivity, but they didn't know how to do it. It was just a joke for the observers.

……

On the west side of Chang'an Town, stands an out-of-place medieval European-style tall tower building. When the autumn wind hits, countless black crows and white pigeons land on the eaves and windowsills, black and white, silently looking at this wonderful world.

In the gorgeous and spacious room, the golden dark pattern wallpaper is covered with large and small photos, and the protagonists are all the same person.From the appearance of being heavily guarded with a rifle in a dirty jacket at the beginning, to the half face exposed from the window when driving, and the appearance of sitting on the steps feeding the dog, even being locked on the bed, biting tightly There are all the appearance of holding back the lust with the teeth closed.

In various times, places, and states, only the protagonist remains unchanged. Every photo shows some kind of crazy and terrible emotion, like a poppy flower that grows from hell with intertwined roots.

The heavy curtains were closed tightly, the lights in the room were not turned on, only a solitary beam of light fell from the skylight, reflecting on the man sitting casually on the red sofa.

He leaned back on the sofa, raised his head slightly, and played with a finely crafted silver knife between his bony fingers, with an indifferent look between his brows and eyes.

The surrounding air is clear and cold, not even a single particle of dust floating in the light beam, like a space that does not exist in this world.

Jun Ye's eyes flicked over those photos one by one. Most of these photos were taken by surveillance cameras in the city, and the angles were not very good. Moreover, Xu Chi would instinctively avoid places with surveillance because of his professional habits. , so the photos are basically of Xu Chi's side face, rarely the front face.

"Do you need to make a photo album for you, master?"

The person who spoke was a rather thin and tall man. His broad shoulders and back muscles were set off beautifully by a white shirt and a black slim vest.

This outfit was very similar to the waiters that Xu Chi and the others had seen before, but the difference was that the man wore a black mask like eagle feathers on his face, revealing a well-defined chin and a straight corner of his mouth.

Jun Ye thought for a moment, then calmly said, "Not yet."

The man nodded.

After a while, Jun Ye turned his gaze to the corner again, where there were seven photos casually pasted, which were Charles and the others. A knife was inserted into the bald photo, which meant that the person was dead.

Jun Ye asked casually: "Lengya, who do you think among these few will live to the end?"

The attendant named Ling Ya took a step forward and replied respectfully: "If nothing happens to Mr. Xu Chi, I think it should be Charles."

"Huh? Why?"

Ling Ya said truthfully: "Because he is shameless enough, in the master's game, the one who dies first must be the person with impulsiveness and sacrifice complex. Forgive me, if it is not because of the protection of the master, Mr. Xu Chi would not be able to live." until now."

"That's right." Jun Ye smiled and said calmly, "But this is not the old-fashioned game of 'only one person can live to the end', if Xu Chi can't give me a satisfactory answer, I will send them all killed."

The ending of the story depends on the choice of the protagonist.

"You can do whatever you want, master." Lingya's expression remained unchanged, "After all, they are just a few humans."

"You used to be human too." Jun Yeban reminded him half-truly, with a tone that made it hard to tell whether it was accusation or teasing.

Lingya said flatly: "It's not anymore."

There was a weird and complicated black tattoo on his neck, and there seemed to be a golden dark light flowing slowly between the lines.

That's the sign of 'attendant'. Unlike the immortal attendant who has no thinking ability, the attendant is obviously of a higher level and has a stronger ability.

Jun Ye turned his head to look at the photos again, his blue eyes narrowed slightly, implying, "But among these people, there are already some people who make me feel very unhappy."

Ling Ya's eyes fell on the photo in response, on the face of the blond Englishman, "Do you need to teach him a little lesson?"

With a movement of Jun Ye's fingers, the silver knife came out of the air, and it was inserted into Edward's left arm impartially.There was no expression on Jun Ye's face, and he ordered coldly: "Abolish him."

Lingya bowed his head and accepted the order, "Yes."

……

Edward chatted with Xu Chi for a few minutes, and he urged him to go back to his room to sleep. Xu Chi's original words were as follows, "Your dark circles are already obvious, just like the time when Anna was there last time."

Edward really wanted to tell him that Anna's eyes were not dark circles, but the smoky makeup she was proud of, but after thinking about it, he pressed the button.Because even if he explained it to him earnestly, a person like Xu Chi would only say, "Why do women use cosmetics to make dark circles under their eyes? Isn't it just looking for trouble?"

So Edward got up and went back to his apartment to sleep.

The soundproofing effect of the apartment is not good, Anna is already fast asleep, Edward is afraid of waking her up, so he gave up the plan to set the alarm clock.

But this is not a hindrance, his control over his biological clock has reached an outrageous level, before going to sleep, he gave himself a psychological hint that he would only sleep for three hours, and then he closed his eyes.

There was a small slit in the middle of the light brown fabric curtains, and a beam of sunlight just shone in, forming a long and narrow light spot on the quilt, and there was a vague smell of freshener floating in the air.

After an unknown amount of time, Edward slowly opened his eyes and habitually glanced at the clock on the wall—it was ten minutes to eleven o'clock.

Edward closed his eyes to wake himself up from the haze.A small amount of sleep after a night's sleep allowed his brain and body to get enough rest, but he would not be unable to sleep at night, causing the biological clock to be disturbed.

The old father, who was born to be a hard worker, washed up and went to the apartment next door to make lunch for the two debt collectors. When he opened the door and entered, Xu Chi was standing by the window, looking at the slowly rotating Ferris wheel in the distance.

Edward opened the refrigerator and said casually, "I never thought there would be a Ferris wheel in such a small town?"

"That's the only large-scale equipment in the playground. In fact, the playground is very small, and there is nothing else except the Ferris wheel." Xu Chi smiled, "But there is a booth that uses air guns to shoot balloons. I like it, you also know that people like us are bullying people if we play with that..."

"As soon as I fired a shot, I knew that the stall owner had deliberately adjusted the crosshairs. After the brain was calibrated, the shots were basically flawless, so that when the stall owner saw me, his face turned green."

Edward also laughed, and then paused, "You miss this place, don't you?"

In the past 12 years, he has been running around with him, shuttling in the hail of bullets. Only when he lives in Chang'an Town for two or three months every year can he truly return to a normal life. Can't see the sun tomorrow.

Xu Chi didn't answer, but changed the subject, "Can I make Kung Pao Chicken for lunch? I just saw chicken breasts in the refrigerator."

Edward froze for a moment, "Ah... good."

While cooking, he couldn't help but recall the time when he first met Xu Chi 12 years ago.The scene was unremarkable, but it was still engraved in my mind, not a single picture was missed.