Chapter 88: Trance Twice

who? As a "sheriff", Xio has a keen intuition in monitoring and being monitored. Immediately, his heart tightened, his thoughts turned, and he thought about what happened.

In the past two or three weeks, she has not encountered anything that needs special attention, and the few prisoners she has caught are not Extraordinary, at most they have some connection with a certain gangster, and no one will offend someone in the East District for them. She is a famous bounty hunter, so she quickly narrowed down the target range, and vaguely guessed which faction the person who was secretly staring at her belonged to.

A member of the Aurora Society? I didn't go to Mr. X's party last time, but there was an accident there, and the scene is said to be very shocking... The people from MI9 told me that Mr. X was killed on the spot and took away the body, and the assassin used demigods The power of layers... The Aurora Society is investigating who did this? Everyone who gets a party invite is their target? Although Xio is sometimes rough and careless, and his way of thinking is more direct, but in similar fields, he has a strong intuition and can always think of the key points at once.

As for the killing of Mr. X, on the one hand, she was glad that she was dragged away by Fors, did not go to the party, and avoided the accident. On the other hand, she thought that she had no problems and could stand any investigation by anyone. , Therefore, when she met the masked man from MI9 last week, she was confident and accepted the task of investigating the truth of the case. Unfortunately, she didn't know which Extraordinary people participated in that gathering, so she had no way proceed.

Well, the gentleman from MI9 told me that the members of the Aurora Society are either lunatics who have already developed a disease, or lunatics who are hiding. They cannot use the logic of normal people to speculate on their behavior. Even if they confirm that there is no problem with me, they may kill me by the way. Get rid of me to vent your anger and warn the real murderer... Xio walked forward with high spirits and re-planned his route of activities in the East District.

On this route, she can get help from her friends at any time. If she is attacked, she has a good chance of escaping or fighting back.

As he walked, Xio's spirit suddenly went into a trance, and he found that he had returned to his residence in the Jowood District at some point.

Xio entered in a daze, drank a glass of water, was patted on the shoulder by Forsi and said:

"Accompany me to the East District."

Xio was stunned for two seconds, and said words that he felt very familiar with:

"You, want to go out to collect materials?"

Forsi immediately denied this statement, saying that she had accepted a task to help people find the dust left after the ghosts disappeared, and the spirits of the dead in the cemetery had long been purified and sent to the kingdoms of their respective gods. Find it in the East End.

Xio hesitated and said:

"I'm getting ready for a party called by Mr. X,

Can't your affairs be postponed for a day? "

Fors immediately made a bitter face, saying that she was too late and the mission was almost over.

Xio sighed, and agreed to accompany his friend to the East District to look for those who had just died or hadn't been discovered for a while.

Just as the two were about to go out, Xio was blown on the face by the wind outside, shivering, and suddenly woke up, and saw a bard sitting on a street corner, playing a lyre, and singing popular songs in the southern countryside.

Xio frowned slightly, raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, always felt that he was a little lost just now, but couldn't remember what he was thinking.

She continued to maintain a high level of vigilance, followed the predetermined route, entered a bar that sold lunch at home, and met a resident of the East District who occasionally gave her information.

This is a young man of twenty-three or fourteen years old. His eyebrows are trimmed very thinly, and his brown hair hangs down to his shoulders.

"Sherman, has anything happened these days?" Xio greeted.

As far as she knew, this young man named Sherman always thought he should be a woman, but fate played a bad joke on him and made him a man, which caused him to suffer very seriously over the past few years. discrimination.

Sherman showed his teeth and smiled slightly:

"It's very calm, no men buy me a drink."

"Drinking is not good." Xio warned earnestly, passed the other party, and walked towards the bar.

Sherman spat, walked out the door with a wobbly waist, and walked all the way to the apartment he rented.

He stayed at the door for dozens of seconds, took two steps sideways, and knocked on the door next door.

The wooden door opened with a creak, and a low but sweet female voice came out:

"Have you made up your mind yet?"

Sherman stepped inside, closed the door behind his back, looked at the girl in a black dress sitting by the bed, and said:

"I still don't believe it, I don't believe there will be such a miraculous thing."

In his eyes, the girl had a slightly round face, a gentle temperament, not only a sweet appearance, but also a different taste, very charming and attractive.

Of course, as far as Sherman is concerned, he is more envious than obsessed.

The girl in the black skirt responded without expression:

"Haven't you already seen my previous photos?"

When her eyes turned, there was always a little melancholy unconsciously.

"But that might be your twin brother or younger brother, I find it hard to believe that there is really a way to turn me back into a woman..." Sherman said not very firmly.

The girl in the black dress smiled without a smile and said:

"Then you can treat it as a fake and go back."

Sherman clenched his hands a little bit, and was silent for a long time:

"I, I am willing to give it a try, although I know you are probably lying to me, but I still want to give it a try.

"So, what price will I pay?"

"Follow my order and help me do some things, don't worry, it must be something you can do." The black skirt girl said, "To really change your gender, you need to drink medicine three times and complete some ritualized things , I will teach you."

Having said that, she laughed self-deprecatingly:

"You can think about your own female name."

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At night, in the Backlund Bridge area, in a small alley on Iron Gate Street.

Standing under the gas street lamp that was broken by someone, Xio remembered what happened this afternoon.

After confirming that she was no longer being followed, she returned to the Jorwood area, observed Forsi secretly, and found that this friend had not gone out, stayed at home as usual, spent a lot of time reading novels, newspapers and magazines, and pulled She spent nearly an hour in the room with curtains, as if she was proficient in her extraordinary ability, until she had nothing else to do, then she took out the paper and wrote the beginning of the new book for a quarter of an hour, then tore it off, kneaded it into a In a lump, it was thrown in the trash.

She also smoked too much... drank too much... Xio gritted his teeth secretly, and saw a man in a black formal suit coming out of the shadows at the other end of the alley.

The man was tall and straight, with a mask made of gold on his face, exposing his eyes, nostrils, mouth and cheeks. He was the MI9 officer who contacted Xio.

"What's the emergency?" He asked directly.

Although Xio was short, he said in an imposing manner:

"I was followed by someone in the East District. I suspect it's someone from the Aurora Society. They seem to be looking into the last gathering as well."

The topic Xio had originally prepared was a person the other party asked to find before, and she planned to use clues that could not guarantee the truth to make this urgent meeting request normal, but now, she had a better and more appropriate excuse of the Aurora Society.

"The lunatics of the Aurora Society are like this. Although they know that we are also investigating this matter and looking for them, they will not back down. If it is not like this, they will not always be hit." The man in the golden mask laughed. "Frankly speaking, I'm surprised that they didn't directly surround you and take you to a place where no one is there to ask or psychic."

Xio was about to answer that the people from the Aurora Society hadn't been following him for too long, when he suddenly thought of the trance that made it hard for him to let go, so he thought about it and said:

"I don't know exactly what happened to me. For such a short period of time, I seem to be a little confused and can't remember what I was thinking."

The man in the golden mask was silent for a moment, and after more than ten seconds, he said:

"The follow-up investigation of you should have ended... Aurora will pay more attention to this matter than I imagined, and I will report it.

"Hmm... You said before that there are quite a lot of Extraordinary people who received invitations but didn't attend the party?"

Xio nodded and said:

"No more than one-third of those who have received invitations will participate in each gathering.

"This is the normal state of most gatherings, and Mr. X's will be no exception."

The man in the golden mask thought for a while, then asked:

"Did you find any clues to the person you were looking for last time?"

"The one whose original name is Triss?" Seeing the other party nod her head, Xiu shook her head and said, "Not yet, she should be a veteran."

The man in the golden mask suddenly laughed and said:

"She has killed more people than you have completed bounty missions. If you have clues, try not to approach her. She is very dangerous."

Xio let out a "huh" and got to the point:

"Is there a new commission this time?"

"Why did you suddenly become active?" the man in the golden mask asked in surprise.

Hugh responded frankly:

"I'm almost saving enough merits to exchange for the 'Interrogator' potion formula. I hope I can get it soon."

"Actually, there is no need for this. You can directly exchange for the potion, which will save a lot of merit." The man in the golden mask actually said from Xio's perspective.

I already have Extraordinary characteristics! Hugh shook his head and said:

"It will take a long time, maybe I can buy materials at other Extraordinary gatherings."

The man in the golden mask didn't persuade any more, and said with a half-sigh and half-smile:

"Good luck then.

"This time there is a more complicated commission. If you can complete it, meritorious service should be enough."

Xio suppressed his joy, and asked:

"What mission?"

The man with the golden mask said in a slightly weird tone:

"Keep an eye on the people Viscount Stratford contacts, and report each one to me.

"You don't need to monitor often. When you are free or passing by, just pay attention. Believe me, you are not the only one doing this task. As long as you can submit a valuable report in a week, you can get a certain amount of merit. Every week."

Viscount Stratford... Hugh was suddenly in a trance again, and this time, she knew why.

This viscount is the head of the palace guard and her father's former deputy!

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