It was already the end of dusk. After flinging the last sliver of sunlight onto this city, the sun sank completely behind the mountains and hid itself away.
Yue stood in front of a public restroom, hesitating over which entrance she ought to take, men’s or women’s.
This was the old district, and the place was remote, so the street was empty of people.
The rare one or two passersby would not choose this hour to come use the toilet in this ghost of a place where something or other often happened.
In short, the restroom was empty. There was not a single person. Walking into either entrance would be the same.
Incidentally, probably because of the side effect of [Misfortune], two “tails” were now following behind Yue.
Their technique was practiced. Anyone without this kind of experience would have a hard time noticing them.
[Misfortune] events that had already occurred could not be offset with the [Heads Coin].
Fortunately Yue was a retired assassin and possessed a certain amount of tracking and counter-tracking technique. She counted as experienced.
Pity that, hindered by this body’s extremely limited mobility, she had looped twice and still failed to shake these two “tails.”
17:40
She could not wait any longer.
She had to deal with these two fellows as soon as possible.
Because…
It was time to eat.
Yue stuffed her phone into the messenger bag and walked resolutely into the women’s restroom.
To be honest, in her current state, making this choice was only the most normal thing in the world.
Of course, in her heart she still felt a little…
A little awkward.
Previously, while in this state, she had always been carrying out missions given by the organization. She had never relied on the convenience of the form to do any shady things, such as going into a women’s bathhouse or the like…
Once inside, it was not as special as imagined. Compared with the men’s restroom it only had a few fewer porcelain urinals and a few more stalls.
So the women’s restroom was not some sacred ground either.
There was no barrier, and there was no ward.
If one wanted to enter, one entered.
Of course, what Yue meant was that those two fellows behind her would not have as many scruples as she did. They would definitely come straight in to grab her.
The quality of the hoodie was very good, and Yue could also be certain she had not shown her face. But there was no helping that this body’s frame was simply too small. One look was enough to know that under this set of black clothes there was definitely a girl.
Covering herself this tightly in a place like this did carry a flavor of trying to hide and only making it more obvious.
So these two blind fellows were absolutely coming for her person.
Human traffickers.
Break a child’s hands and feet and put them on the street to beg…
Or take certain organs from their bodies…
Or tie them up and sell them off to remote mountain regions or small islands…
As for a little beauty in the making like Yue, she would most likely be thrown into a small iron cage, flow into a black-market auction house, and end up bought by some tycoon with special tastes. The fate after that would be miserable.
In short, the fate would be wretched.
True, this had always been a world where the weak were prey to the strong, and those unfortunate children had nothing to do with the equally unfortunate Yue.
But these two fellows dared to set their sights on her. In that case Yue did not mind letting the two of them have a taste of being prey as well.
Of course, it would not be her own hand doing it.
Yue was afraid of trouble. Moreover, if she really had to act herself… who knew what this restroom would be turned into.
She was tired and hungry right now and had no desire to clean up that kind of mess.
The sleeves were very long. Yue shook them for quite a while before getting her hands out, then fished a small ball of glass from the messenger bag.
This was a miniature monitor, only about the size of a grain of rice. It could feed both image and sound back to a terminal at the same time, but the price of the reduced volume was that this little thing had no storage system. Therefore it had to be used together with a phone terminal in order to store video, pictures, or audio.
Yue pinched the bead, turned it two circles at a special angle, heard a faint ka-da, then flicked it up above the threshold.
A blind spot in the field of view. A normal person coming through the door would definitely not see it.
The shape was very unusual. Even if someone really looked up and saw it, they would not think in that direction.
After installing the monitor, Yue walked straight into the innermost stall, locked it from inside, then took out her phone and put on her earphones.
Once the phone terminal connected to the monitor at the doorway, she pressed the “Start Recording” button at the lower right of the screen.
With all of this preparation done, she could call for reinforcements.
After mixing in the organization for so long, she still had some connections.
Yue sent the monitoring terminal to the background, opened a special messaging app, and sent a cipher to the fellow whose code name was [Hua Jun]:
[Wai bi wai bi, wai bi ba bu…]
The general meaning was:
[My little sister is in the public restroom near you. There are two tails. Help me handle them. After you get her out, take care of her for a while while you’re at it. She’ll come back on her own later. Thanks.]
Attached was a picture of satellite-positioning coordinates.
All right. The only thing left to do now was wait.
[Hua Jun] was someone from the organization, an old senior not much older than Yue. He had the bones of a good person, yet had been born into an assassin organization, carried out missions for several years, and only then finally bought himself out.
Yue was different from [Hua Jun]. Back then he had joined the organization of his own will, withdrawn with his whole body intact a few years later, and after that his connection with the organization was like an eagle and the sea—gazing at each other from afar, no longer in contact.
After obtaining his freedom, [Hua Jun] had not chosen to leave the organization. Instead he had taken over a black internet café and used it as a base to do logistics and intelligence work for the organization.
Withdrawn to the second line, sitting in front of a computer every day with melon seeds, air conditioning, and happy water. Rather leisurely, actually.
That internet café was only a few hundred meters from this public restroom, but Yue did not visit the door directly.
First, those two “tails” had tightened the speed of their pursuit and already showed prior movements of being about to act, and Yue’s stamina had already given out.
Second, to this day no one knew about this state of hers, not even her life-and-death partner [Hua Jun]. A sudden visit would be hard to explain identity-wise, so she might as well make use of the topic.
Third was Yue’s consistent style of doing things. She was afraid of trouble, so she would borrow the organization’s power and wipe this nest of eyesores out in one pot. Cut the grass and pull the roots. End the future trouble forever.
And because of personal experience, Yue felt [Hua Jun] would be quite willing to do her this favor, especially the later favor of “taking care of her for a while.”
Because…
[Hua Jun] liked children.
That kind of well-behaved, cute, clever little sister would attract him in particular…
In short, he was a damn lolicon.
And Yue right now happened to be a perfect, peerlessly beautiful little loli.
This was not seduction!
Nor would it be a lamb walking into a tiger’s mouth!
Because in a certain respect, [Hua Jun] was extremely “twisted,” so much so that he could not…