After leaving the train station, Luo En hailed a taxi carriage on the roadside.
"Sir, are you going to a hotel?" The coachman, seeing Luo En's luggage, asked familiarly while shaking the reins.
"Mm." Luo En nodded, not denying it.
"Then, would you like to go to 'Red Tail Alley'? Outsiders all like to go there." He used an ambiguous tone that all men understood.
"No, no…" Luo En, who was on the run, had no time for such matters.
"Take me to a quieter, erm… more out-of-the-way hotel."
"Out-of-the-way?" The coachman was a bit confused but didn't ask further, just shook the reins to get the carriage moving.
As the carriage moved forward, Luo En looked out the window, trying to ease his tension with the scenery.
About 20 minutes later, the taxi carriage stopped at the entrance of a hotel.
"1 su le."
Luo En handed the coachman a banknote, then got out of the carriage with his luggage.
Azure Hotel.
Luo En surveyed the sign in front of him, looked at the sparsely populated surroundings, and after confirming that the coachman hadn't just randomly taken him to a hotel to scam him, he carried his suitcase inside.
"Hello, how may I help you?" The front desk asked Luo En, who looked like a traveler.
"A single room." Luo En glanced at the price list and said, "A second-class one, booked for a week first."
"Alright, 10 su le."
Luo En handed the 10 su le banknote to the person.
"The innermost room on the second floor." The front desk handed Luo En a key.
Luo En carried his luggage to the second floor, opened the room door, and looked around.
"The environment's alright, there's a bed, a cabinet… and a washroom." Luo En walked into the room, put down his suitcase and bag, and immediately lay on the bed, splayed out.
He was too tired that day, both physically and mentally.
Now wasn't a good time to rest, but extreme drowsiness had already swept over him; Luo En hadn't slept all night waiting for the train.
"Can't sleep…
Can't…
A quick nap should be fine, right?
Just for a bit.
A bit…"
Feeling the soft bed, Luo En felt his eyelids growing heavier, and soon, steady breathing could be heard in the room.
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Backlund.
Silver-haired Demoness Yilin was still immersed in the afterglow of digesting the potion.
As a newly advanced Demoness of Pleasure, her experience in these matters was far less than that of the seniors who introduced her to the trade.
The most obvious point was that she still couldn't contain the constant allure and charm radiating from her.
She was in a good mood today because a new person was about to join them.
And it was a new person who held fantasies about the Assassin Pathway, just like he once did.
Yes, it was he, not she.
Because the Witch will change gender; as long as you drink the potion, even if you are a man, you will become a true Witch.
If he had known that Sequence 7 of the Assassin Pathway was Witch, he would have died rather than choose this Pathway.
"Assassin"—what a handsome, aspirational name. Who would have thought it could be related to Witch?
As a once pure young man, he was also seduced by her superior, the Demoness who brought her into the trade, and muddled through drinking the Assassin potion, thus embarking on a path of no return.
It was precisely this experience that made her very enthusiastic about recruiting potential new people for the organization.
Watching them happily become Assassins, then advancing step by step, and finally… hehe.
As the saying goes, if you've been rained on, you should also pull away others' umbrellas.
If recruiting new people had a scoring system, she could be considered the top new saleswoman.
It was 8 PM, and she was about to go find that new person. Yilin believed that the boy would surely not refuse the Beyonder temptation, just like she did back then.
"However, he was actually able to resist my temptation to a certain extent." Recalling Luo En's performance, the smile on her face became even brighter.
"He has good talent; promotion should be easy, right?"
"It seems another sister will be added. I really want to see his expression the moment he turns into a Witch; it must be very interesting…"
Yilin, who was mentally planning a suitable new name for the newcomer, arrived at the agreed-upon alley.
To her surprise, the alley was empty.
"Did I come too early?" Yilin pulled out an exquisite lady's pocket watch and checked it.
"No, it's correct."
"Could it be that he was too excited after gaining Beyonder powers, so he forgot the time?"
"A newcomer, and a future sister, it's understandable." Yilin paced back and forth in the alley, muttering to herself.
Another half an hour passed, and still no one came.
A dark cloud gradually crept onto Yilin's delicate face.
"Haha." If anyone were present, they would see that Yilin had a completely fake smile, with anger clearly written on her face.
Good, good, so this is how you play.
Playing dirty with me.
"Hmph." She took a strand of hair from her pocket, a smile returning to her face.
When she had approached Luo En and secretly given him the potion earlier, she had secretly taken a strand of Luo En's hair.
Although she didn't believe she could misjudge, she also anticipated the possibility of the other party doing something unexpected.
Just like now.
"Little brother, you are too naive. A Demoness is not that easy to shake off, you know." Yilin's face showed a cold sneer.
Her previous Sequence was Witch, and Witches are most skilled in black magic and curses.
"Standing up a girl has serious consequences, you know~" She stretched out her hand, radiating spirituality, intending to directly cast a curse to teach that ignorant boy, who dared to take her potion for free, a lesson.
However, just then, a strong gust of wind suddenly blew, and the flying sand blinded Yilin's eyes. She instinctively reached up to cover her eyes, but her hand loosened, and the strand of hair floated into the air with the wind, then disappeared into the night.
"What?" Yilin was a bit surprised.
"It's okay, if I can't curse, divination is still fine." Witches are also very good at divination. Even without the other party's hair, Yilin believed she could easily divine their whereabouts.
After all, what ability could a mysticism rookie have to counter-divine?
She pulled out a small mirror from her bosom and gently wiped it. Then, her eyes narrowed slightly, and she began mirror divination.
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"What?!"
Looking at the shattered mirror, Yilin was stunned.
"Divination failed!"
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Luo En barely managed to pry open his sticky eyelids, instinctively wanting to turn over, but found his entire face covered by something furry.
When a wet sensation suddenly brushed against his cheek, Luo En's nerves tensed up again.
"Ah!"
"What is it?"
Luo En, who stood up directly on the bed, saw nothing unusual.
"Meow~"
Luo En turned around and saw an orange cat squatting on the wrinkled pillow, its flattened cat face still showing traces of their recent close contact.
"It's you." Luo En looked down at the equally bewildered cat.
"By the way, is it already the next day?" Luo En looked at the mechanical clock in the room and was surprised to find that he had actually slept for over ten hours.
He rubbed his eyes, opened the room window to let in fresh air, and then stretched lazily.
"Ah~"
Don't tell me, the scenery around here is quite unique… Luo En stuck his head out the window, surveying the surroundings.
For example, the house next door has a large red chimney; it's very recognizable at a glance.