Snap!
Two boxes were placed on the table. The two men, one with his left hand and the other with his right, opened the boxes simultaneously and took out two items from each.
The man on the left said in a cold voice, "Our mission is to find the owner of these two items!"
As he spoke, he slowly took off his hat.
Upon seeing the person's appearance, Chen Xiao couldn't help but gasp!
This person's features were dull and lifeless, like a zombie, and those eyes...
The pupils were an eerie grayish-white! If you didn't look closely, Chen Xiao almost thought the person's eyes were entirely grayish-white!
The strangest thing was that his eyes seemed stiff; when he spoke to Chen Xiao, they didn't move at all, they were completely frozen...
Just like a puppet!
“Find it,” the man on the left said in a hoarse, cold voice. “The reward is twenty million dollars.”
The amount of the reward did not move Chen Xiao, but the two items placed in front of him, taken out of the box, made him frown.
This is an item that looks like a dog collar—or rather, it is a collar, made entirely of metal, about the thickness of Chen Xiao's finger, in a circular shape, with a flat piece at one end containing an electronic keypad.
"You mean... the item you're looking for is an animal?"
Chen Xiao tried to take the collar, but the other person quickly pulled their hand back and slammed the collar onto the table. Their gray eyes stared at Chen Xiao lifelessly: "Accept, or not?"
Chen Xiao felt an indescribable irritation and was about to refuse when he suddenly heard a voice coming from the doorway.
"accept!"
Looking up, he saw Gonggong standing at the door, his imposing figure resembling an iron tower. However, Zhurong was not by his side at the moment. Gonggong's face was serious, his eyes stern, and he nodded slightly to Chen Xiao.
The man on the left glanced at Gonggong, his expression unchanged, but he took out a check from his pocket, gently tossed it on the table, and without saying a word, stood up with his companion and walked out the door without looking back.
As Gonggong passed by the door, the man on the right, who had been silent since entering, suddenly looked up at Gonggong and uttered his first words since arriving.
"Long time no see, you're still alive."
Gonggong's expression was indifferent: "You're not dead. You're not dead either. Very good."
"very good."
The man on the right had a monotonous voice, like a synthesized metallic sound. Then the two strange guys walked out of the coffee shop and quickly disappeared into the night.
Gonggong walked in, but closed the door behind him. He came to Chen Xiao and glanced at the two things on the table that looked like animal collars.
"Brother Gonggong..."
Before Chen Xiao could speak, Gonggong interrupted him.
"Xiao Xiao, can you do me a favor?"
"What?"
Gonggong looked into Chen Xiao's eyes, his voice slow but carrying an undeniable authority: "Don't tell Lao Tian or Zhu Rong about tonight's events, those two people from earlier, or this commission! I'll handle this commission alone!"
"……ah?"
Gonggong sighed, a faint, complex emotion flickering in his once resolute gaze.
He reached out his large hand and took the two collars in his hand, his fingers gently stroking the texture of the metal collars. In his eyes, there was an emotion that Chen Xiao could not understand.
Is it... sadness? Or... worry?
It seems like it has both.
"Promise me." Gonggong spoke again, gazing intently at Chen Xiao.
“…Okay.” Chen Xiao nodded, but couldn’t help adding, “You also promise me not to take any risks! I feel like things aren’t quite right. If you… if there’s any danger, tell me, and we’ll all be together…”
Gonggong shook his head: "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing! You don't need to worry about this."
After saying that, he grinned at Chen Xiao and was about to turn and leave, but before leaving, he couldn't help but look back at Chen Xiao, his eyes filled with complex emotions, and his voice and tone carrying an unfathomable quality:
"Xiao Xiao... do you think the future can be changed?"
Chen Xiao was stunned for a moment, but before he could speak, Gonggong had already quickly walked out the door.
The future... will change?
Chen Xiao's expression suddenly changed as he remembered that day...
A prophet...the future...fireworks?!
Could it be... that this matter is related to what the fireworks said to Gonggong that day?
Chen Xiao clearly remembered that Gonggong's emotions had subtly changed after he came out of the fireworks that day. Although he hid it well, he could not hide it from Chen Xiao's eyes!
"Wait! Wait a minute!"
Chen Xiao shouted and ran out of the gate as fast as he could, but on the deserted street at night, the streetlights flickered and Gonggong's figure had already gone far away. He heard Chen Xiao's footsteps in the distance, turned around and waved to Chen Xiao.
Please.
Chapter 77 [Xiao Qing's Hope?]
Chen Xiao was very worried about Gonggong's strange behavior on Thursday night, and he even regretted agreeing to his request. Chen Xiao had an impulse to tell Lao Tian or Zhu Rong about it quietly.