death hourglass

Chapter 2

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By the willow-green lake, the big boy was sitting there alone, but there was an extra sketchbook in his hand, and he was focusing on describing the scene in front of him.

At this time, the girl who caused him to fall into the lake covered her face and ran over. When she was about to run to the edge of the lake, she accidentally tripped over her foot and fell to the ground.

"Wow...wow..."

A cry that could destroy the whole world erupted from the girl's mouth, and the boy not far from her couldn't help but frowned.

"Crazy! How could I have flirted outside, how could I have cheated! He never thought of going outside, and used such inexplicable reasons to get angry with me! Crazy, crazy! Huh..."

The girl didn't know whether she wanted to cry or talk, her face desperately wanted to be buried in the soil, her hands grabbed the poor grass and pulled desperately.Such a girl, no matter whether she has a perfect figure, no matter whether her voice sounds soft even to the bones, no matter whether she is beautiful like a fairy or not, I believe that as long as it is a male animal, it will definitely choose the first place. Fleeing for a while—it’s a pity that he who was sitting by the lake sketching is really reluctant to part with the unfinished painting in his hand. If he doesn’t finish it now, it will be difficult to draw the same feeling tomorrow, after all, the shadow changes Scanning has always been the hardest to master.

"I swear to God, I'm going to go out this time! Yes! That's it! Now no matter who I see, I'm going to cuckold that damn guy! It's decided!"

The girl suddenly jumped up and sat up, her face was full of tears and dust, she was in a mess, and not far from her, he unconsciously shivered all over.

In the area D divided by the death task force, in the city full of festive atmosphere at 55.3 degrees north latitude, Yidao tied a white silk on his forehead, and he was smiling at the little girl in front of him with a smile that was too happy. Four yelled something like working hard and cheering.

And Xiaosan, humming a happy tune, caught up from behind and came to Yidao, absently asking her doubts in her heart: "Is our mission this time really to guard that man named Yin Zihao? The god of death guarding human beings? It feels weird." of."

"Isn't it good that our warm service includes guarding?"

Looking at Yidao's overly bright smile, Xiao Si couldn't help complaining, "It sounds nice, but the so-called protection seems to guarantee that he will die in a year, right?"

"Hospital service should not be limited to these."

"Yes, Xiaosi, let our happy work bring happiness to everyone!"

Xiaosi looked back and forth at the happy faces of Yidao and Xiaosan, and sighed unconsciously: "I said, who would like to be guarded by the god of death? And be forced to accept the service of 'death without a doubt'? Not an idiot..."

It's a pity that no one cared about what he said, because Yi Dao and Xiao San had already chatted.

"Little San, this is a pamphlet for your safekeeping."

"booklet?"

Xiaosan took the booklet handed over with a knife, and saw that the cover of the booklet was completely black, and there were gloomy skull bumps shining.

"I heard from the group of backbones that this is a newly developed prop that can help us achieve our mission."

"Complete the mission?"

"It will show some factors or conditions that will inevitably lead to our client's death, and we must follow those things to guard."

"It makes our jobs so much easier, which is great."

"By the way, I remembered. They said this thing is called the Death Notepad."

"What a long name."

As Xiaosan said, she stuffed the booklet into the small bag on her waist and then slipped away, and started humming a little tune.

"I said Senior Yidao... Do you think Senior San is a bit weird recently?"

"What's wrong?"

"That's...why is she humming that tune all day long?"

"Is this weird?"

"But... Senior San was not like this before..."

"This is a good thing, why are you frowning and humming a song to receive souls, so that our service can make people feel at home! That's right! We will do this when we go to receive souls in the future, so it's settled! Remember! Is it little four!"

"what?"

Xiaosi was tongue-tied, and at this moment, a loud melody came from Yidao's exaggeratedly large LV backpack.Xiaosan, who had already slipped away, drew a beautiful arc with her feet when she heard the melody, and came to Yidao at the fastest speed.

One knife took out a small black box from the LV backpack, and there was a cute skull button on the box.This black box is the communicator used by the backbone of the Reaper Task Force to issue orders-of course there is no trainee Reaper.

I saw that the skull button was pressed with a knife, and a line of crooked characters immediately appeared on the top of the box.

"This word is really not ordinary ugly."

Xiao Si, who seems to have a tendency towards perfectionism, said in an old-school tone.

"This is the handwriting of Lord Reaper No. [-], our red-haired backbone."

"yeah?!"

Xiaosi was scared by Xiaosan's words and backed away, because she lost her balance and fell on all fours.

"Why are you so careless?"

With the help of Xiao San's friendly hand, Xiao Si finally stood up, and then looked at the line of text.

Regarding the text part, one can tell at a glance that the person who wrote it has no education level at all, because the other party just cobbled together a few words into a naive and reluctant sentence, roughly meaning to let Yi Dao and Xiao Si go back to the headquarters first to wait for the new task , Let Xiaosan continue the task alone.

Xiaosi's eyes were wide open, his feet slipped again, and he fell to the ground, under Yidao's gaze of "you are hopeless", thinking that he would follow Yidao to perform tasks alone in the future, he couldn't help but sighed deeply My own path to death is about to fall into a doomsday...

"Then, I'm leaving."

Xiao San held up the scythe in his hand, waved it happily to Yi Dao and Xiao Si as farewell.

The scenery along the road changes, and after passing through the small dense forest, the view suddenly opens up. There are many quiet and elegant cottages connected to the grass-smelling pasture. foraging.There are fences on both sides of the path, covered with green leaves and unknown small wildflowers, stretching happily in the sun.Gradually, the path became wider and there were more and more pedestrians.On Sunday morning, everyone rushed to the church to go to mass. The children happily let their parents hold hands. Under the blue sky, the eyes were shining innocently. Seeing this, Xiao San couldn't help slowing down .At this time, the life-threatening notepad delivered with a single knife made a strange sound.On that hard page at the moment was written the first mission she met Yin Zihao - to let him talk to a woman in a white dress with curly hair, and then go on a date with that woman.

"What a strange mission..."

Xiaosan murmured while closing the notepad, at this moment, there was a sudden scream in front of her...

"I said, it's rare for me to come to accompany you on vacation, and you don't dump me. What kind of justice is this? It's simply a decline in the world... Moral decline!"

Yin Zihao's pair of star-like eyes were browsing the exotic scenery through a thin layer of lenses. He was in a happy mood and luck was so high that he didn't seem to hear the cry behind him, but he still took a long step as usual.The movie starring him finally wrapped up yesterday. He managed to get such a vacation before entering the promotional period of the movie. It just so happened that today is the local annual mass festival. A festival not to be missed.It's just that I didn't expect that when I walked out of the hotel, I ran into Ying Kui who didn't know which nerve had gone wrong. He ran all the way to look for him, and after knowing that he was going out, he dragged his suitcase and chased him idiotically.

"I said! Can you walk slowly, the luggage in my hand is very, very heavy!"

Hearing Ying Kui's cry again, Yin Zihao couldn't help turning his face away, and was about to question whether there was something wrong with the eye-popping comprehensive IQ of 180 he got in the intelligence assessment he participated in when he was in college. They made a mistake, but they didn't expect to see a child suddenly broke free from his mother's hand and ran to the road at the small intersection not far from them, but was tripped by a small pit and fell to the ground. At this time, a truck carrying straw was rushing towards it at high speed, dragging billowing smoke and dust.

"child!"

The child's mother was so astonished that she could only scream. Yin Zihao turned around and pushed Ying Kui who was blocking him, and ran to the intersection. Unfortunately, he was still late, and the truck was only one meter away from the child!Yin Zihao gritted his teeth and rushed towards the child with all his strength. At this moment, a gust of wind passed by his ears, and a soft and bright black arrived at the child's side at an alarming speed and picked the child up from the ground. , and before he came to his senses, the child had been forced into his arms.

"squeak!"

There was a deafening sound of brakes, and the truck finally stopped at the place where the child had fallen down. The big man with a beard in the car opened the door and jumped out. He hurried over to check if the child was injured. The mother of the second child finally stopped screaming and walked over with the help of other passers-by. She took the child back from his arms with tears in her eyes, and desperately said some words of thanks, but Yin Zihao didn't listen carefully. , because his eyes were staring at the blackness that quietly receded beyond the crowd.

Xiao San withdrew from the crowd and turned to look at the child, only to find that the man wearing sunglasses in the middle of the crowd was staring straight at his direction.At this time, the life-threatening notepad in her pocket made a sound.

Opening the notepad, a colorful photo suddenly appeared on the notepad, which happened to be the guy wearing sunglasses.

"Confirm the target person, Yin Zihao? Huh? What a coincidence!"

She held up the notepad in her hand, and turned it around a few times happily, "Sure enough, it's a new technology! Then when you meet that 'woman with curly hair in white dress', there should be a reminder, that's great! "

For her who is possessed by the lazy god, this is undoubtedly great news.

On the other side, the crowd finally dispersed, Yin Zihao's eyes were still fixed on the figure who was indifferent to him, and at this moment, a strong wave of resentment mixed with choking complaints sounded from behind him.

"Yin Zihao!"

Turning his head, his face changed a little, and he finally laughed out loud after enduring it.

"stop laughing!"

The white designer casual clothes on Ying Kui's body were covered with mud and broken sand, and they were sticking to his body at the moment, and the dirty yellow water droplets were falling from his head, passing through his body. The handsome face that he thought was incomparable, passed by his chin that claimed to be so beautiful that even David would stand aside...

"I said, saving people is saving people, and there is no need to murder brothers! How dare you push me into that ditch that is so big and scary!"

Yin Zihao followed Ying Kui's big finger and looked at the so-called "scary big ditch", but it was actually just a puddle the size of a face, so he was able to persuade him in a more normal tone after a long time: "Go back and change it. clothes."

"Of course! My lovers would hang themselves if they saw me in this embarrassment."

Yin Zihao made a gesture of invitation to him, so Ying Kui turned around and left, but suddenly turned back after walking a few steps, and said puzzledly: "Aren't you going back too?" Yin Zihao challenged Ying Kui He raised his eyebrows, pointed to the towering Gothic twin-tower church not far from them, and then gently pulled the corners of his lips.

"You made me so embarrassed that I still have the mood to go to mass!"

"Ah."

"Forget it! I knew you were such a heartless guy! I'm going back! Don't come back so late, I have something to tell you!"

Seeing Ying Kui turn around in embarrassment, Yin Zihao lost his mind and fell silent.

The twin towers that came into sight soared straight to the sky, and the wall carved with the totem of tranquility solemnly made Xiao San sigh in her heart.Although, as an envoy of the nether world, she really shouldn't have any admiration for the buildings that admire the heavenly world, but the towering rose window lattices, and the radiance that shines through and gathers on the sacred altar makes her feel hot inside, as if in her body. Some parts were touched, and I just felt that my eyes were numb and my nose was sore.

Yin Zihao didn't dare to blink easily, because the soft black just stood in front of him like that, the slender and charming silver thread lightly covered the exquisite curve, the long eyelashes were trembling, and the eyes that were crystal clear like glass could not be moved. Staring at the dome of the church with complacency, then the cherry red lips were lightly closed, and the white snow skin became more transparent under the light of the rose-style window lattice, the soft shoulders seemed to be trembling because of inexplicable feelings. He tightly hugged the skull sickle in his hand...

This is the third time he has met her.

He couldn't control his pace, and he couldn't control his will, and he came to her in a flash.Mixed with indescribable feelings, he blurted out hesitantly and contradictoryly: "Is that you?"

Xiaosan turned her head and looked at him who was close at hand unexpectedly.

This man, who will be seduced by her in a year's time, has a faint blue flame in his eyes, as if he wants to suck people in, so she can't look away.

"Rain! It's really you! I just thought I misjudged the person!"

At this moment, a woman suddenly ran over from behind Xiaosan. She was a young woman in a white dress with the most fashionable curly hair—and it completely matched the records in the death-defying notebook.

Quietly retreating to the side, Xiaosan stuck out her pink tongue lightly.

She was scared to death, thinking that Yin Zihao was talking to her!

At this time, the photo of this woman was displayed in the death-death notepad, and the identity statement was thoughtfully attached.

It turned out that this woman's original name was Ouyang Jiahui. After winning the singing contest, she entered the entertainment industry and changed her name to Ouyang Zhuzhu.After debuting for half a year, she took a pure route, and she is the lead actress in the movie "When the Sunset".

"Beads."

Zhuzhu, people in the circle call Ouyang Zhuzhu like this, just like everyone doesn't call Yin Zihao but his real name is Rain, it doesn't mean how close the relationship between them is.

"I didn't expect to meet Rain, who I admire the most, here. I'm so happy! I'm so happy! By the way, Rain, do you like to come to the church for mass when you are free?"

"Ah."

Yin Zihao responded in vain, his eyes drifted to Xiaosan who was on the side again.Xiaosan was stunned for a moment, and purposely went around to Ouyang Zhuzhu's side.

"Really? Then if you want to go to mass next time, can you also call me? This way everyone will have a company, so you won't be lonely!"

Yin Zihao didn't speak, but raised his eyebrows with a puzzled expression.Ouyang Zhuzhu, on the other hand, blushed quickly and explained: "Actually, what I mean is that we can remind each other to avoid those reporters' tracking. Do you know that I was followed several times when I went to mass? It made me fail to complete the mass, and I had to play hide-and-seek with the reporters..." As he spoke, Ouyang Zhuzhu stuck out her tongue cutely, "I'm stupid, aren't I?"

"Being yourself is enough."

Yin Zihao said sincerely, and his eyes quietly drifted to Xiaosan again. He was already sure that he was the only one who knew of Xiaosan's existence, because Ouyang Zhuzhu never noticed that Xiaosan beside him was making faces at her.

"Okay? Rain?"

After finally recovering, she found that Ouyang Zhuzhu was staring at herself with longing eyes.She clasped her hands together and said in the most pious and eager tone: "Is it okay? Rain? Can we have dinner together tonight?"

"Have a meal?"

Almost in unison, Yin Zihao and Xiaosan shouted together, but the former's tone was restrained and resisted, while the latter's was full of excitement.

"Please promise, okay?"

Even though she knew that Yin Zihao couldn't see her, let alone hear her voice, Xiaosan still went around to his side, imitating Ouyang Zhuzhu's clasped hands and eagerly looking at him.

Hurry up and agree, as long as you agree to her task, you can easily complete it.

However, this Yin Zihao lowered his eyelids, and the faint blue flames in his deep pupils obviously exuded a taste of rejection, and he was obviously indifferent to Ouyang Zhuzhu's request.

What should she do?Is there any way to make them date successfully?
Use spells?
I have never had the experience of guarding others, nor have I heard any relevant rules, so it is probably not a foul to use spells on humans to complete the task, right?

Thinking about it, Xiao San opened her eyes and smiled, the palm of her right hand widened, and speckled light particles began to condense on her palm.So, she raised her right hand and was about to hit Yin Zihao's heart when something unexpected happened.

"Ok."

After thinking about it, he agreed!

"Did you really agree?"

Ouyang Zhuzhu was so happy that she seemed to be jumping up.

Xiaosan was eager to stop her casting hand, but the out-of-control spiritual power bounced back, causing her to almost lose her balance and slip forward. Unexpectedly, Yin Zihao's hand suddenly extended, which just buffered her loss of balance.

Xiaosan stood up again in shock, and looked at Yin Zihao's expressionless face in astonishment, as if everything just happened was just a coincidence.

"Go to Mass, it's about to begin."

After Yin Zihao finished speaking, he turned and walked into the church, while Ouyang Zhuzhu followed step by step, leaving Xiaosan blinking his eyes ignorantly, deeply puzzled by the contact with Yin Zihao just now.

Coincidence?
How can human beings touch the god of death who is only a spirit body?

After the mass, Yin Zihao was taken to a remote small beach by Ouyang Zhuzhu.

A small rattan basket is abruptly placed on the small beach. Next to the small rattan basket is a wine stand with red wine hanging diagonally and two crystal-clear long-necked glasses. There is even a large square scarf dotted with small orchids on the ground.It is not difficult to find that this is Ouyang Zhuzhu's deliberate arrangement.

So, they sat on the big square scarf, and Ouyang Zhuzhu began to arrange food for him attentively.

"Come on, Rain, this is the food I made with my own hands! Rain?"

He took a bite of the sandwich Ouyang Zhuzhu handed over to him silently.

"How is it? Is it delicious?"

"Well, it tastes good."

Although he really wanted to ask why the taste of this sandwich was so similar to that sold in the bakery opposite the hotel?

"Eat more if you like!"

Ouyang Zhuzhu smiled happily, and while eating a sandwich, she told Yin Zihao some childhood memories that she thought were interesting.Soon, more than half of the food in the basket had been disposed of. At this time, Ouyang Zhuzhu suddenly said "ah", scolded herself a few words, and then stuck out her tongue, "Why did I forget about the red wine?" What! Rain, here you are."

Yin Zihao took the red wine handed over by Ouyang Zhuzhu, and absently swirled the wine in the glass.

"Rain, do you like the sea?"

Ouyang Zhuzhu's voice came suddenly, with a faint aroma of red wine.

"Ah."

Yin Zihao was still shaking the liquid in the glass, and had no intention of drinking it. Seeing this, Ouyang Zhuzhu couldn't help but speak again, with soft and coquettish numbness in his voice: "Rain, don't you like red wine?"

Yin Zihao looked at the rose in the glass, his eyes focused like staring at the lover in his arms, "Red wine is my favorite wine."

"Then why don't you drink?"

Ouyang Zhuzhu suddenly embraced Yin Zihao's hand with her soft and boneless hands, leaned forward and got very close to him, which made him slightly startled, but his expression did not change.

"I heard that you like red wine the most, so I went to a nearby vineyard to buy this bottle of red wine. Do you know? I searched for a long time, and walked so far that my feet became thick. I found this bottle of red wine until the skin was worn out..."

Yin Zihao looked at Ouyang Zhuzhu whose face was flushed with drunkenness and love was evident in his eyes, and said lightly, "You're drunk."

"Rain, I just want to ask you, why can't I?"

"Ok?"

What can't?

"Why is it widely rumored that you will take action on every heroine you work with, but when I have spent all my efforts to win such a heroine, you just don't do anything?"

Yin Zihao's expression didn't change, he just gently took the wine glass away from Ouyang Zhuzhu's hand.

"I... I just want a trace of nostalgia, that's why I entered the entertainment circle, and came to find you..."

Ouyang Zhuzhu suddenly choked up like a child, and hugged him desperately.In fact, he has a lot of experience in being confessed, especially after joining the entertainment industry, but there are very few people like Ouyang Zhuzhu hugging him and crying.However, this does not mean that Ouyang Zhuzhu is special, just like those women who have had scandals with him, in his life, they are just superficial, without trace or dirt, but those who are interested in him have always been curious about his personality. Emotional life will have too many fantasies and too many falsehoods.

Just thinking about it, Ouyang Zhuzhu's voice came again: "Rain, please... love me, please? If you can give up singing for Yingxue, then I swear that my existence will definitely allow you to find your right singing." passion..."

Immediately afterwards, Ouyang Zhuzhu said something again, but he didn't listen carefully, because that name severely cut off all his thoughts.

Ying Xue, that was the only woman he had ever admitted to the media, and also the only one...

"Finally found you, you are the shell that apprentice Shinigami 666 is looking for, right?"

In the distance, Xiaosan happily held up a tiny scallop towards the setting sun.

The setting sun had gradually set and sank into the vast sea. Yin Zihao gently removed Ouyang Zhuzhu, who was already drunk in his arms, and let her lie on the square scarf, and then covered her considerately. coat.

After straightening out the wrinkled clothes, she walked slowly towards Xiaosan.

The pure and clean smile from the heart made him unable to look away.

"This must be the shell that trainee Reaper 666 has been looking for! It must be right! Hehe, that's great, I found it..."

Xiao San happily circled the beach a few times, and then stopped, because she finally noticed that her prospective client was standing in front of her, watching her motionlessly.

"You...can you see me?" Xiaosan leaned forward and looked at him mischievously, but seeing that he didn't respond, she turned around and said to herself: "Haha, what are you kidding, ordinary man?" How can humans see me, I am..."

"What are you?"

"I'm a trainee..." With an exclamation point in his heart, Xiao San's stiff body slowly turned around, "Just now... you were talking to me, weren't you?"

Yin Zihao didn't speak, but just nodded.

Xiaosan backed away in shock, for a moment she forgot that she was standing on naughty wheels, so losing her balance seemed to be an inevitable result. When Yin Zihao saw it, he immediately reached out to hold her hand, stabilizing her leg at the right time. body.

"thanks……"

Wow, she was about to catch up with Xiao Si and fell so ugly... But, new problems came one after another, he, he, he... Not only could he see her, but he could actually touch her!
Xiaosan looked at him who was silent in a daze, and a sea breeze blew up, blowing her silvery soft long hair.The tips of her hair fluttered, messing up her sight and heart.And he stretched out his hand, and gently pinched a strand of her silver thread.

"You haven't told me what you are yet."

His voice was deep and mellow, like a breeze, gently plucking at the heartstrings.She felt a little intoxicated, and she didn't dare to speak easily, for fear of ruining the ambiguity in the air.

"Tell me who you are?"

"See, trainee guardian angel... 953."

It took a lot of effort for her to order herself not to confess to him.And he, looking at her, moved his eyes slightly and lowered them halfway, as if he was disappointed with her answer.But soon, he hid the emotion.

"Angel?"

"Yeah, don't I look like that?"

For the convenience of future work, she must not let him know her real identity.

While talking, she put the shells in her pocket into her pocket. At this time, a gloomy sickle appeared between them. Xiao San was startled and immediately hid the sickle behind her back.I couldn't help scolding myself secretly in my heart for forgetting the program that the death scythe would automatically appear after searching for shells.

"It's really special, an angel with a gloomy sickle."

"Yes, this is the most popular collocation in our heaven. Who stipulated that only demons can take these things, are you right?"

Knowing that these words are not convincing at all, but she is still so righteous.

"Then why are you with me?"

"Because I am your guardian angel! Starting today, I will guard you, please enjoy the warm service I provide you with peace of mind!"

His eyes are powerful.

It's been almost five years since she was the god of death, and it was the first time she met someone with such powerful eyes, and was stared at by him like this, she was about to hit the wall for her lies.

"What did you say your name was?"

"Apprentice Reaper 953."

"Apprentice Reaper?"

Xiaosan was taken aback, and quickly changed her words: "The trainee guardian angel 953 is the one. I'm sorry, I'm new here, and I haven't been able to figure out the situation. Although the name is a bit long, it will definitely not affect my warm service for you. Yes, customers please rest assured!"

Yin Zihao didn't speak, just stared at Xiaosan's face blindly.

The wind was blowing between them, Xiao San was very nervous, not knowing how much he believed his lies.Then, I don't know how long it took, the clouds in the sky changed from orange to purple blue, and when the lovely crescent moon slowly appeared obliquely above them, he said slowly: "Your warm service includes letting you Have you become what your customers care most about?"

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