The City of Stars is located in the center of the continent, at the corner of the huge barrier of the Forest of Death.
This is an extremely large and ancient city, with dark walls that are dim and simple.
Outside the city wall, there are some small villages scattered here and there, and a silver-haired girl is walking peacefully in the fields between these villages.
She seemed to be walking slowly, but in fact she was walking very fast.
For example, the entire five or six miles she walked from the city wall to now, she only walked for a few minutes.
This was much faster than most people could run, but she kept walking.
Until she finally stopped in front of a lonely wooden house.
This is a wooden building with a small fenced vegetable garden. The vegetables inside are green and delicate. It is obvious that the owner often takes care of it.
The girl walked through the vegetable garden and then entered the wooden door.
Her expression was calm to the point of indifference, and the man inside the wooden door was wearing an apron and standing in front of the stove.
"Little Xingxing, you are back." The man greeted her warmly with a smile: "I brought you something good today, you must not have imagined it."
The silver-haired girl didn't nod or even pay attention.
She just sat calmly in the living room of the cabin and in front of the dining table.
Waiting for the meal to start.
The man was busy for a long time, and then placed plates of food in front of the girl.
Stir-fried eggs with garlic sprouts, stir-fried bacon with shredded bamboo shoots, preserved eggs mixed with jellyfish, and braised lion head.
The soup is tomato egg drop soup.
The rice is white rice.
Four dishes and one soup.
The man laid out the last plate of food, packed the rice for the girl, and placed it in front of her.
The girl finally nodded slightly.
Then she started eating.
The girl eats with absolute regularity. For example, among the four dishes in front of her today, she will start with scrambled eggs with garlic sprouts, then stir-fried bacon with shredded bamboo shoots, then jellyfish mixed with preserved eggs, and finally braised lion's head.
She only takes one chopstick to eat the same dish, and then pairs it with another chopstick of rice, and then repeats the cycle again, until the rice in the girl's bowl is finished, and she chooses to use the empty rice bowl to fill up a bowl of soup and drink it in one go.
She doesn't prefer any kind of meal. Even if it's a big meatball like braised lion's head, she will choose to use her chopsticks to pick off a small piece of comparable size instead of just picking up a meatball and putting it in front of her. .
"Can you tell me what kind of food you like best?" The man sitting opposite her said with a smile while eating the food in front of her.
"No matter if I make it taste bad on purpose or I try my best to make it delicious, you always finish it without hesitation. Do you feel that this is boring?"
The girl didn't answer, she just raised her hand and made a gesture quietly.
This is a gesture that represents silence.
That is to tell men to shut up.
In this family, the girl hardly has any unnecessary communication with the man, and even when he is told to shut up, the girl does not want to talk to him.
The man shut up, sighed, and took out a strange-shaped glass bottle and a transparent glass from his arms.
He opened the glass bottle for the girl on the table, and then poured the strange dark brown liquid in the glass into the glass.
The liquid hits the wall of the cup, producing countless tiny bubbles that burst in the liquid, eventually forming a layer of fine, tiny dark brown foam on the glass.
The girl didn't even look at this and stood up.
"Xi Che made these drinks in Ye Ye City. I finally had the opportunity to buy some. Don't you want to try them?" said the man behind the girl.
The girl's steps stopped.
She turned around, drank the dark brown drink in one gulp, and then looked at the man quietly.
He calmly held out a finger.
The girl's straight fingers were thin and white, like a young onion with its leaves peeled off.
But the man understood the meaning of the gesture.
It means run away quickly.
The girl will give the person she wants to kill three seconds to think about it. If you turn around and run away, there is a certain possibility that the girl will not chase you.
Unless you have a clear kill order.
The man smiled.
He looked at the girl calmly.
"Does it make sense? Even if I escape now, you can either choose to catch up and kill me, or you can choose to stay where you are and be killed by those people."
"What's the point?"
The girl said nothing.
She stubbornly held out a second finger.
She can only count to three.
The man sighed. He didn't say anything more. He just stood there and looked at the girl quietly, and then said, "Can I put the table away first?"
The girl paused, then withdrew her finger.
The man thanked him softly, then turned around and carefully put away the food on the table. The girl ate the rice very cleanly, as if she had licked it, but there was a lot of dishes left, because according to her way of eating, there was no food left on the table. Can't eat much.
So the man took away the four dishes and put them in the kitchen. He usually finished the remaining dishes of the girl. If he couldn't finish it at noon, he would leave it until the evening. If he couldn't finish it at night, he would leave it until the second day. It's daytime.
Anyway, I will finish it one day.
The man didn't delay at all. He just arranged the table calmly according to his usual habits. After about ten minutes, he had everything done.
Then he returned to the girl.
"Did you know?" The man said calmly: "The so-called weapons mean that you must obey orders completely. The person holding the weapon can kill all enemies in front of him, so no matter who you are asked to kill, you cannot hesitate. Only then will you have a chance to survive."
"I don't know." For the first time.
The girl spoke rarely.
Her voice was a little sluggish, and she obviously rarely spoke.
Even when she spoke, there was no emotion in her voice.
The man smiled.
"I know you are afraid of killing me, but having fear is wrong in itself."
"You're afraid of knowing me, you're afraid of understanding me, you're afraid of killing all the people you know and like, so you simply don't know or like anyone."
"But we have lived together for so long. Even if it is just a puppy, you are probably already familiar with it, let alone me who has been cooking for you for so many years."
"But you know that."
"You have no other choice."
"I don't know." the girl continued.
This is all she seems to say.
Of course she didn't just say this.
But what she knows is her own destiny. What she doesn't know is whether she has any other destiny.
"I..." The girl finally opened her mouth to say another word.
Then she stopped.
Because opposite her, the man calmly made a gesture.
A silencing gesture.
It was a gesture girls often made to annoying men, and now it was her turn to see it herself.
"I have known about your identity, your origin, and the reason why you were sent to me a long time ago, because you are so lovable. I really want to know why you are so lovable. of you."
“Then I found out a lot and learned a lot.”
"I am a person who has made a big mistake. In order to help me, some people have gone to great lengths to send you to me. Some of these people really want to kill me, and Some people want me to kill you so that I can regain my freedom and power."
The man looked at the girl and said nonchalantly.
"But I have lived a little longer than you, and I understand a little more about the world and myself."
"I taught you many things, but you never really called me teacher."
"But even so, I still have to teach you one last lesson today."
"Do you remember? There is no one in this world worthy of your trust, including me."
"The so-called existence of the two as one has been an eternal proposition since its birth."
"Everyone has their own secrets, including me."
"I hope I can leave with my secret, just like a normal existence."
Saying this, the man suddenly raised his hand and thrust it into the girl's heart with lightning speed.
Regardless of speed and power, these were attacks that were enough to kill her.
But the girl's attack is faster.
Even though the man struck first, the girl still pierced the man's heart with her knife, and the cold breath spread from the wound to her body in an instant.
But the girl's expression was endlessly confused.
It all comes naturally to her.
Her hands were even faster than her thoughts.
The moment she sensed the attack, she instinctively launched a counterattack.
"I..." the girl said in a daze.
"You did a great job," the man said with a smile.
"I hope you can still find someone who can cook for you in the rest of your life."
The person in front of him smiled and was slowly frozen.
Then it shattered into a field of crystal ice shards.
