Chapter 232 "Old Friend"
The melee with a group of demon hunters was the first surreal battle that Hao Ren personally participated in in his life. He still remembered every detail of what happened at that time, so he could instantly recognize that the woman in front of him was the one he was with that day. The female witcher she was fighting against—that scar was impressive. But he would never have imagined that he would meet the other party in such a subtle way in such a place: this demon hunter turned out to be a mobile phone seller...
Vivian also remembered this face, so she reacted at the same time as Hao Ren. She took half a step back in an instant, and then the surrounding temperature began to drop. But just when the vampire's power was about to burst out, the female hunter The devil waved his hand: "Is this place... suitable?"
Hao Ren felt that his heart had slowly adapted to this sudden life. He quickly calmed down and gently tugged on Vivian's sleeve to tell her not to act rashly. At this moment, the surrounding customers also felt that the atmosphere here was abnormal. They seemed not to be aware of the suspicious conversation happening around this strange mobile phone store clerk, but many people were overwhelmed by the sudden cold wind, and some people rubbed their hands in confusion. Looking around, a few eyes finally landed on Vivian. However, Vivian withdrew her power in time, and the surrounding people did not cause commotion due to the cold wind, and soon the mobile phone store returned to normal order.
Vivian noticed that the female witcher had no hostility or even a desire to fight, so she relaxed a little, but she did not relax her vigilance, but asked in a low voice: "Are you the witcher that day? I remembered that you should have been taken away by the arcane servants."
"Then he was released." The female witcher said quietly. I don’t know what method she used to make the people around her, including the other clerks at the counter, focus their attention elsewhere. She was chatting with Hao Ren and Vivian, but none of her colleagues came to ask about the situation out of curiosity. . If Vivian's cold wind hadn't briefly broken the weird "aura" she had created, it would have been like she was in a tranquil barrier here.
Hao Ren opened his mouth, thinking hard about what to say in this situation, but he never expected to meet a demon hunter who had fought before in this situation, so after holding it in for a long time, he could only say: "You What are you doing here?"
"Work," the female witcher still replied in that calm tone, "I have been working in this mall for more than five years. Not long ago, I was selling clothes next door. If I hadn't been caught by that blue creature and stayed in a strange place It’s been too long, I should still be selling clothes now.”
Hao Ren: "...No, that's not what I meant. I mean...how can you appear here? As a demon hunter, you shouldn't...well, live in a place that looks more like a basement and go there every day Reporting on the secret societies under various cathedrals, and then leading demon orders to kill demons all over the world, standing on the TV tower in the early morning to welcome the morning sun, silently guarding the peace of the city... In my impression, a demon hunter should be like this."
The female witcher had a straight face, as if she was paralyzed. After listening to Hao Ren's words, she only said one sentence: "I don't know what you mean, but if I live like what you said, I won't even go to class." The money you came here to eat?”
Hao Ren: "..."
He was choked by the other party's theoretically logical answer and couldn't speak for a long time. Finally, he finally reacted: "Wait, so other demon hunters are usually like you... at work? Buy it. Food? Eat? Sleep?"
This time, even Vivian couldn't stand listening anymore and poked Hao Ren in the arm from behind: "Do you think there is anyone in the family who doesn't want to eat?"
The female witcher nodded: "We usually live among humans, and I thought you should know this common sense."
Vivian did tell Hao Ren a lot of knowledge about demon hunters, including the fact that the latter blended into human society and lived with ordinary people. However, Hao Ren had obviously misunderstood before. He referred to this as "living together" It was simply understood as a means of concealing their identities, but now it seems that these super humans really also need to eat, drink and have sex - Hollywood is very harmful. Hao Ren thought that this kind of superheroes in the dark could do more than beat up little monsters every day. Standing on TV towers in various places and posing.
As for the other demon hunter Nangong - in fact, Hao Ren still doesn't regard him as a demon hunter...
"Look, we don't need to fight today, right?" Although Hao Ren noticed that the people around him were not paying attention at all, he still couldn't help but lower his voice when speaking. He looked at the scarred woman in front of him warily, He was afraid that the other party would suddenly pull out a half-meter-long crossbow and shoot him against the wall, "I didn't even know that crazy woman let you out - I don't even know where she locked you up. You guys... Where is the time?”
That day, Raven's arcane servants came to the rescue and took away all the demon hunters who were beaten half to death or completely beaten to death, dead or alive. Raven 12345 said that he wanted to educate these guys personally, but Hao When Ren later went to the big bungalow to make a report, he didn't see any of these demon hunters. The arcane servant later vaguely stated that the captured demon hunters were kept in a special space. This space was not only a prison, but also an "educational facility." Raven 12345 used its own behavioral modification program to Treat these extreme racists. Hao Ren originally thought that he would never see these demon hunters in his life, but he did not expect that he would suddenly meet Scar Girl today. He just took this opportunity to inquire about her experience these days.
Scar Girl did not draw her weapon immediately after seeing Vivian. It seems that Raven 12345's "education" has been successful.
The female witcher thought for a moment, and Hao Ren saw a trace of fatigue and fear on her indifferent face. It seemed that the previous period of imprisonment was a terrible memory that could not be looked back, but just when she was about to speak At that moment, another voice suddenly came from the door of the store. It was a middle-aged male voice: "Zhao Xi, come out... eh?"
The female witcher stood up when she heard the name "Zhao Xi", and Hao Ren heard that the male voice sounded familiar and turned his head to look, only to find that it was an extremely ordinary-looking man wearing a suit— —If he wasn't the leader of the witchers back then, he would be extremely ordinary.
Vivian was nervous again for a moment, but the demon hunter leader didn't seem to have any willingness to fight. He was just extremely surprised, and then waved hello to Hao Ren and Vivian with an expression that didn't know whether he was crying or laughing: " We meet again, no fighting today."
Then he turned to the female witcher: "Zhao Xi, put away your little tricks, and then... come here with these two 'friends'."
The female witcher nodded with a straight face, bent down and pulled out a small piece of paper with the Leta rune from under the counter in front of her and stuffed it into her pocket. As the piece of paper was removed, the surrounding atmosphere obviously changed. The customers and clerks who had intentionally or unintentionally avoided this small area looked around Zhao Xi curiously as if they had just woken up from a dream. There was a clerk. Even more belatedly, he looked at Hao Ren: "Hey, Zhao Xi, is he an acquaintance of yours?"
It seems that the environment that drove away idlers just now turned out to be the effect of the Laita Rune.
Confused, Hao Ren and Vivian followed the "witcher leader" to a quiet corner outside the store, and the female witcher named Zhao Xi was also called out. The middle-aged man first trains his subordinates: "Can you occasionally work seriously for a whole day? As soon as you go to work, put the runes on and then sleep all day, or play with your mobile phone all day. It will be difficult for me to do this - you pull it." It’s lowering the performance of the entire store!”
Zhao Xi looked at his boss with a dull face: "It's just an extra salary, it's not that serious."
The middle-aged man frowned: "But you can't just hang around every day, right?"
"First of all, I have scars on my face," Zhao Xi pointed to her scars, and then pointed to her own face. "Secondly, my facial nerves were paralyzed by the poisonous blood of vampires forty years ago. To sum up, all of the above As mentioned above, if I don’t use the Laita Rune to divert other people’s attention, my performance will be affected even more.”
Middle-aged man: "...You have the same reasons, but there is still something wrong with your work attitude..."
This sounds like a normal argument between the store manager and the slick employee. If you don’t take into account their identity as witchers and the vampires mentioned in the conversation, it really doesn’t contain much information. But once the above two points are taken into account, this information The amount is huge. Hao Ren coughed dryly, and the middle-aged man had to face the two "old friends" in front of him who made him extremely embarrassed but had to treat him seriously. He still had that expression that he didn't know whether he was crying or laughing: "Sorry, Let me introduce myself, my name is Yagyu - the name I have been using in recent decades. I am the section manager of the electronics store here and the home appliance store next door, and... I am a senior demon hunter."