abnabooks Chapter 183 Mission Completed
Chapter 183 Mission Completed
Yang Yutong stood in front of her window. The sky outside was beginning to darken. In late spring, everything was full of life, but the once-splendid flowers had reached the end of their lives. Under the gentle breeze, petals fell from the treetops one by one. The neon lights began to glow with their eerie light, and in that eerie light, she seemed to see a familiar figure.
That scene flashed before her eyes again: the sharp honking of car horns, the shouting of the crowd, and a large truck rushing towards her. She was completely terrified and stood motionless. In the nick of time, a figure crashed into the truck from the side, and in that instant, she recognized that familiar figure.
He stood there quietly, as if time and space had stood still. The two looked at each other across the distance, without saying a word, yet it seemed as if they had said countless things.
Until the crowd started to commotion and someone ran towards him, he only gave her one deep look before disappearing into the alley.
Everything was so short, yet so long, so long that even if she spent her entire life trying to escape it, she still wouldn't be able to get over it.
Have you ever been plunged into darkness? Have you ever struggled in an endless abyss?
Perhaps some people are destined to flash across our world like shooting stars, but that fleeting moment of light is enough to illuminate a lifetime of darkness.
Yang Yutong saw the teddy bear on the table. It was a small gift that Qiu Jie had given her ten days ago. But where was he now? So many people were chasing him that day. Would she ever see him again? She couldn't help but imagine him being injured or captured, and she felt anxious and heartbroken.
Qiu Jie appeared at her window again at this moment, and when she saw his familiar face, tears welled up in her eyes.
The two stared at each other, she remained motionless, gazing intently at him, letting tears stream down her face, as if afraid he would disappear into the darkness again at any moment.
Qiu Jie reached out from the window and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.
"I've come to say goodbye." The boy looked at her intently. "We won't be able to see each other again." The boy smiled, but his eyes couldn't help but well up with tears.
The girl cried even harder, unable to utter a single word.
"Actually, I lied to you. You don't look like my ex-girlfriend at all, because I never had one." The boy gave a wry smile. "You need to be stronger from now on."
"There's no need to be so sad. Actually, I don't like you that much. After all, we..." The boy's voice suddenly stopped because the girl suddenly reached out and hugged him. Feeling the girl's trembling body, he felt all the blood in his body boil. He froze there, not knowing what to do.
"I...I like you," the girl said, choking back tears. The boy was stunned, and he could no longer hold back his tears. He hugged the girl tightly.
"Thank you," the boy said. "You know what? Because of you, our once gloomy world has become bright and beautiful. It's so wonderful to have met you in this lifetime." He wished time could stand still at this moment.
"I will never... will never be a coward again," the girl continued, choking back tears.
He understood what the girl meant: "Please don't leave me, okay?" These were the words she wanted to tell him from the bottom of her heart.
"I'm sorry." The boy gritted his teeth and straightened her body, but dared not look into her eyes. "You should just forget about me." He said with his head down.
The girl just cried.
The boy reached out his hand to the girl, who promptly grabbed it. A pair of silver wings unfurled behind him. "Come, I'll take you flying."
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"Mm." The girl nodded.
Qiu Jie picked up the girl and flew out of the window. Under the cover of night, they soared through the sparsely populated sky. The girl clung to his neck, her eyes fixed on him the entire time.
When the two flew back to the girl's bedroom, they both fell silent.
"I have to go." It took the boy a long time to make up his mind. "Take good care of yourself from now on, and don't let anyone bully you again."
"Yes." The girl nodded emphatically.
She stood quietly by the window, watching that familiar figure slowly disappear into the darkness.
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In the bar on the second floor of Tian Shu Pavilion, Ouyang Hao, Qin Xiaochuan, and their group of three sat around a table. Today was the day they were to deliver their mission.
"There was nothing I could do. The other party resisted arrest, so a fight broke out. You know most of my skills are fire-based, so I couldn't control him, and he was burned to ashes," Qin Xiaochuan explained, spreading his hands. As he spoke, he took out his phone, pulled up a few photos, and continued, "To preserve evidence, I even took photos at the scene."
As Ouyang Hao smoked his cigar, he looked at the photos on his phone. The photos showed a figure struggling in bluish-white flames before slowly burning to ashes; it appeared to be a series of images.
"You have time to take pictures, but no time to put out the fire?" Si Chennan said indignantly from the side. If what Qin Xiaochuan said was true, then he had lost the competition with Qin Xiaochuan, but he really couldn't accept the result of the competition.
The fugitive had vanished completely, and Qin Xiaochuan had actually come to close the case with a bag of ashes. Could there be anything more absurd than this? He seriously suspected that the other party had just grabbed a bag of ashes from somewhere and claimed to have completed the task. Of course, he also photoshopped a few pictures to make up the numbers. He glanced at the pictures on Qin Xiaochuan's phone with a look of contempt.
"Print out these pictures and give them to the archives team as evidence," Ouyang Hao said.
"And this?" Qin Xiaochuan pointed to the urn on the table.
"You can handle that yourselves. This mission is now successfully completed." Ouyang Hao concluded, "From now on, you are all Gold-level Demon Hunters."
"Boss, isn't this a bit too hasty?" Si Chennan suddenly stood up straight, staring at Ouyang Hao with disbelief on his face.
"What, don't you want to advance?" Ouyang Hao lightly tapped the ash from his cigar into the ashtray, speaking nonchalantly.
"This has nothing to do with whether we advance or not. We have to be responsible for the mission. This is obviously a bluff. There is no witness to prove what he said. Are you just using these few photos as evidence? This is too frivolous," Si Chennan shouted.
"Watch your tone when you speak to your superiors," Ouyang Hao said with displeasure. "In any case, this case has already been determined to be closed, and your objections are useless."
"I'm going to complain to the higher-ups. You've been sloppy with your duties," Si Chennan said indignantly.
"Then go ahead and complain," Ouyang Hao said nonchalantly. "To tell you the truth, this mission of yours was not just a mission, but also an assessment. So your handling of the mission was secretly reviewed and approved by higher-ups, and directly judged as qualified by your superiors."
Qin Xiaochuan was taken aback when he heard his words. He hadn't expected that someone was secretly monitoring him. He looked at the photos on his phone and fell into deep thought.
Si Chennan reluctantly sat back down in his seat, looking at Qin Xiaochuan, and clenched his fists involuntarily.
"Since you've successfully advanced, you can order some drinks to celebrate. It's on me," Ouyang Hao said generously.
"There's nothing to celebrate." Si Chennan stood up without ceremony, turned around and left the bar without saying a word.
"We don't need it either," Qin Xiaochuan said calmly, then stood up and left with Guo Shiyi.
Ouyang Hao took a deep drag on his cigar, exhaled a smoke ring, and murmured as he watched the two figures leave, "Young people these days are really hard to get along with." Then he glanced at the urn on the table and couldn't help but smile wryly, "I told you to handle it yourselves, not to dump it on me."