After all, she is known as the Iron Fist, and Eve's fighting skills are still very strong. She is not only good at boxing, but also excellent in ground skills.
Luo Ling looked at his teammates, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise a little, but after a slight hesitation, he said, "I haven't even said why I refuse this commission."
"Is this important?" Cen Xiangyun replied while pulling at the limbs that Eve had locked. "If you don't want to go, then don't go. The reason is not important. What matters is that you don't want to go."
"Don't forget, we are... a team."
Eve locked up Cen Xiangyun and planned to drag Lu Manqing back into the fight.
Unfortunately, Lu Manqing was quite sensible and hid far away after breaking free from the naked choke.
Even without using the ability of the "Judgment" path, Eve's physical fitness and close combat are at a level that crushes "Element" Cen Xiangyun and "Ten Thousand Spirits" Lu Manqing.
"... ..."
After a brief silence, Luo Ling smiled and said,
"Yes."
Although they don't know much, they know one word: "trust".
Trust your close teammates.
This would be the case even if Luo Ling did not give the specific reason.
So...
“This feeling seems pretty good.”
Luo Ling stood up and walked towards the girls who were fighting on the ground.
"Hot tea is here, sisters, come quickly... Oh my!"
Elsa walked into the hall carrying a large pot of hot tea. She was instantly startled and almost dropped the pot of hot tea on the ground.
Luo Ling used brute force to lock Eve's arms from behind. No matter how advanced her ground skills were, they would be completely useless in this situation.
At this time, Cen Xiangyun and Lu Manqing next to them took advantage of this opportunity to start touching Eve and doing whatever they wanted to her. An even more tragic scene was unfolding, which frightened the young Elsa.
“Asshole… Hahahaha… Asshole… Hahahahahaha… ”
“Asshole, hahahaha… asshole!”
... ... ...
The next morning.
When the sky began to turn pale, the clock hanging on the wall pointed precisely to six o'clock.
Elsa, who had completely taken root in Luo Ling's bed, stretched sleepily, but when she reached out to touch her side, she did not touch the soft body that usually lay beside her.
She woke up instantly, and after groping for a while, she finally saw a figure from the corner of her eye, sitting next to a desk not far away.
"Oh, Miss Luo Ling, why are you sleeping outside again..."
Elsa muttered, then rustled back the covers.
“I didn’t sleep outside.”
As if startled by the noise made by Elsa, Luo Ling turned around on the chair and looked at the stunned Elsa calmly.
"Ah, is that so? Miss Luo Ling, you got up so early today? Even if you were going out, you didn't need to get up at this time... The other sisters must still be sleeping!"
"I didn't sleep."
Luo Ling withdrew his gaze and looked at the clock and sacrificial utensils on the desk, wondering what he was thinking about.
After the commotion last night, the team members had a discussion and decided that since they were all planning to skip work together, they definitely couldn't stay in the apartment.
At Eve's suggestion, everyone decided to go out and have fun for a rare day.
Having said that, after several people from Jiangcheng County came to Victoria, none of them had a good tour of this world-famous city.
You know, compared with the setting sun empire that came after it, Victoria of this era could indeed be called the light of human civilization. Even though it also had its ignorance and shortcomings, it was far ahead of its contemporaries.
However, due to the "company's" strict attendance system and grading mechanism, and the unfortunate coincidence of encountering the busiest hatchery accident period, the Twin Ponytails Team has not had a rest for a long time.
I am afraid that such a rare opportunity will not come again for a long time - because being absent once is quite serious and it will take a long time to make up the year-end bonus.
"Oh my, how come Miss Luo Ling is like a little kid, so excited about going out to play that she didn't sleep the whole night."
Elsa got off the bed, walked in front of Luo Ling, and stared at Luo Ling's face seriously. She didn't breathe a sigh of relief until she didn't notice even a trace of fatigue in it.
The physical constitutions of the awakened ones vary. Some can stay up for several days in a row without any problems, while others can only strictly follow their biological clocks.
Elsa is obviously the latter, but it seems that Miss Luo Ling is the former.
"I feel like you've become like an old woman lately, Elsa."
Luo Ling found Elsa's serious little face funny and reached out to pinch it.
"Oh, no, I'm still very young." Elsa pouted and said, "Also, it's all Miss Luo Ling's fault for being too stupid. She can't even take care of herself."
"No way."
“Very much!”
Erza said, her hands on her hips.
However, what Elsa did not say was that she could vaguely feel that Miss Luo Ling seemed to like the feeling of being taken care of, so she was secretly working hard to become an adult who could take care of Miss Luo Ling, even though she was still very young.
Luo Ling stopped arguing, but just slightly increased the strength of the fingers that were pinching Elsa's little face.
Just a little bit.
As the other members of the team woke up one after another, after having Elsa's breakfast as usual, everyone began to prepare for today's travel plans.
Eve enthusiastically planned the attractions and destinations, and also selected a few restaurants - this time she paid special attention. The restaurants she chose were all opened by the Gauls next door. As a local, she knew the level of the locals very well. After all, even the chef at home was from Gaul.
Cen Xiangyun started to have feelings for Luo Ling. She had wanted to do makeup for Luo Ling a long time ago, but unfortunately she had never found a good opportunity. She didn't want to miss it today.
Luo Ling stared at herself in the mirror intently, and then memorized Cen Xiangyun's techniques bit by bit. After saving this memory, she could replicate it herself later.
Lu Manqing was fiddling with her camera. She loved taking photos so much that she would even take a few photos when executing a commission. She called this the "settlement screen."
"Bingo! Done!"
Cen Xiangyun patted the remaining makeup powder on her hands and patted Luo Ling's shoulder proudly, as if she was introducing her masterpiece to everyone.
"Did I recognize the wrong person? Is this really... Luo Ling?" Eve made an exaggerated expression, her face full of disbelief, "It's amazing, Xiangyun, she is completely different from usual."
Lu Manqing nodded in agreement and sighed, "It feels like a new head. No, not only the head has been replaced, but also the person has been replaced."
"It's mainly because the sisters have a good foundation."
Cen Xiangyun smiled reservedly, but her eyes could not hide the pride.
"Nonsense, Miss Luo Ling has always been beautiful!" Elsa was unhappy. It was obvious that Cen Xiangyun only changed Miss Luo Ling's usual gloomy hairstyle, and there was no other change.
"It feels... not as good as the one Auntie made for me."
Luo Ling looked at himself in the mirror, touched his chin and said.
In terms of makeup skills, Aunt Fiona is still better, even though she puts on Lina's makeup.
However, Cen Xiangyun deliberately used foundation to cover up the faint scales on her temples, and used colored contact lenses to cover her eyes that were glowing dark gold.
These strange features were previously deliberately concealed by Luo Ling with her hair, so her temperament appeared particularly gloomy, and she was even described by Lu Manqing as a "ghost-like girl."
Luo Ling now finally looks like a normal adolescent girl, with less weird and sinister temperament.
At this time, Lu Manqing got a few small yellow hats from somewhere and wanted to put them on everyone in the team. It was only after Cen Xiangyun fought desperately that they finally got rid of the group from a shopping group of girlfriends to a group of elementary school students on an outing.
By the time everything was ready, it was already noon. When the team walked out of the apartment, the warm sunlight made their shadows barely noticeable.
"First stop, let's go have a Gallic feast!"
Eve held the travel guide in her hand while wiping the saliva from the corner of her mouth.
She hadn't had a good meal for a long time. The chefs in the Wellington office were all out on commission, and all the chefs hired were locals, and the food they cooked was so greasy that even dogs wouldn't eat it.
only...
Just when everyone had walked a few steps out of the apartment, the sky, which had been shining brightly, suddenly and slowly darkened, and soon became as dark as night.
"Ah, is it going to rain? The weather forecast clearly said that the sky would be clear and sunny." Cen Xiangyun frowned slightly and said, "Damn forecaster Bert, is he being lazy and not using his ability to investigate again?"
"No, it doesn't look like it's going to rain."
Lu Manqing looked up at the sky with his camera, took several photos, and said while holding the photos.
At the same time, Luo Ling also discovered the abnormality above the sky and said in a deep voice,
"There are no clouds in the sky."
Not only were there no dark clouds, there wasn't even a single cloud.
It was as if it was splashed with thick ink. The entire sky was infected by darkness. Even the sun was not an exception and was slowly swallowed by the eerie darkness.
"What's going on?"
Eve said with a panicked look on her face. For some reason, she felt vaguely uneasy in her heart. Some unknown and terrible danger made her feel as if she had nowhere to hide.
"It's... the Hatchery."
Elsa, who was the most sensitive, immediately confirmed the answer that everyone had already sensed.
The reason why Elsa had been unconscious in the hatchery before was because her senses were too sensitive. But after this period of training, she has overcome this and can even detect the existence of the hatchery earlier than Luo Ling.
"... I didn't expect it to come so soon." Luo Ling sighed softly.
At the same time, a sword light flashed from the darkness and attacked the team members with lightning speed.
But... the target is not Luo Ling.
The tip of a sword suddenly protruded from her heart, then rotated and stirred, completely tearing her chest apart.
Half of a blood-stained travel guide slowly fell to the ground, blood spurted out like a fountain, followed by a plop.
Eve slowly fell into a pool of blood.
A beautiful and bright blood flower blossomed at her heart, like a red rose with thorns.
Chapter 61 Red Moonlight (7k)
It was clearly noon, but the sky was filled with inky darkness, and even the warm sun lost its brilliance at this moment.
The shocking bright red flowed slowly on the ground, almost forming a river. The girl's expression remained in the last moment of astonishment, and the bloodstains on the ground made her skin look deathly pale.
Unexpectedly, "The Company" has already started to take action. The storm that is about to sweep over Victoria is gently touched by a blood-red rose at this moment, and the last tranquility before the storm... is finally shattered.
As this tragic scene began, the sound of breaking was deafening.
... If the "company" wanted to take action against Luo Ling's team, it didn't need to spend too much time and effort to plan any overall plan.
There was no need for a hatchery that was just right for the Twin-Tails team, nor was there a need for a well-paid B-rank commission, nor was there any need for careful preparations to be made in advance that would take days to execute.
The reason is simple.
Because... they are too weak.
Compared with the "Hunter" team, the entire Twintails team only has one upper-level awakener, and he has just been promoted not long ago and has not adapted to the new abilities and new powers. His combat effectiveness is much weaker than that of an ordinary seventh-level awakener.
The "Hunting" team consists of six experienced eighth-level awakeners, all of whom are elite warriors who have been on the battlefield for a long time.
Even if we ignore the traitor Frick, their strength is still far superior to that of the Twin Ponytails Team. They also have a secret burst technique and can confront Lina of level nine or above under certain circumstances. They are truly an elite team at the pinnacle of humanity.
Even if the directors took action directly, it would be difficult to kill all the members of the "Hunting" team silently.
In this situation, the "Company" and the "Fire Granter" need to carefully set up a killing plan to lure the "Hunting" team gradually into the abyss of sacrifice.
But what does the Twin-Tails Team have
There are only a few fragile lives. There are countless teams like theirs in Victoria. For the "Company", destroying these bright flowers is just a piece of cake and can be done easily.
Their death and withering are just an insignificant part of the dust falling from the rolling wheels of history.
However, Luo Ling did not expect that the first person to be killed would be Eve, not her or Elsa.
In addition to killing her, the other party seemed to have other missions.
"team leader!"
"Sister Eve!"