Chapter 1 Love Etude
Late night, it rained heavily.
Youkesin City, Xiashui Street.
The bead-like rainwater gathers into streams and moves along the veins of the city streets.
The light on the street is variable, but there is an antique shop with bright lights.
There is a very common electronic screen hanging above the antique store, with a line of red fonts scrolling slowly:
[Collecting antiques, miscellaneous items and handmade art - June 22, 1997]
In the antique store, there is a display window next to the wall.
In the orange light, antique works of art are displayed one by one, and it is difficult to see the authenticity.
Deep in the store, a solid wood table is placed against the wall, with a lamp on the corner of the table.
Under the beams of light, a red wooden wooden sculpture about fifty centimeters high stood quietly.
Suddenly, a pair of hands reached into the light and wrapped around the ordinary wooden puppet.
The owner of the hand is a young man wearing casual clothes, with neat black hair and handsome features.
Click.
· The young man exerted a little force on his fingertips, and cracks suddenly appeared on the surface of the wooden doll. Wisps of white light that were different from table lamps seeped out from the cracks.
Immediately afterwards, the wooden shell shattered and fell, revealing a jade figure with a faint light of thought.
The jade woman's transparent surface has light green lines like fish patterns, which shine under the light. It is obviously valuable.
Crack the wooden shell and turn waste into treasure.
This scene was watched by a strong man wearing a dog-head mask by the door of the antique store.
It's just that the man seemed to understand the young man's abilities, so he wasn't surprised at all.
He crossed his arms, looked directly at the young man, and said in a steady and powerful voice: "Moro, why did you refuse the gift that Melena prepared for you?"
"Gift?"
The young man called Moreau suddenly raised his head, met the dog-headed man's gaze, and smiled helplessly.
"Brother Dog, let me kill twenty-one strangers. This can be considered a gift..."
"Of course it's a gift. As long as you kill them, you can immediately rise to level 21. After that, if nothing unexpected happens, you should be able to master one more telekinesis ability that caters to your own needs. Even if the final result is different, you can at least increase your strength."
The dog-headed man's voice was always steady and powerful. After a pause, he continued Continued:
"Morrow, Melena needs to get feedback on the effects of her telekinesis as soon as possible, so don't let her down. Besides... you can become stronger just by killing a few random people. This kind of thing is beneficial to you."
Just kill a few people randomly...
This is the way of gangsters.
In other words, in this world called full-time hunter, it is not uncommon to ignore life and trample on individual existence.
This was something Moro realized firsthand when he traveled through time a year ago...
He stared at the dog-headed man in silence.
As a time traveler, he is familiar with the plot and characters of Hunter.
The dog-headed man in front of me and Melena, who rescued him a year ago, are both characters from the gangster family who appeared in the Cajun King's succession chapter.
Putting aside Melena's status as the illegitimate daughter of the Cajun royal family and her future status as the gangster boss of the Ai family, what impressed Morrow most deeply...
It was always Melena's ability to read in the original work.
It is a kind of telekinesis ability that allows others to upgrade and become stronger by killing people...
"You can become stronger by killing people, how easy it sounds."
Moro suppressed his thoughts, an inexplicable smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but his eyes were so calm that no waves could be seen.
"Brother Dog, why is the ability to read so shallow? There is a system of oaths and restrictions... Although I don't know how Melena discovered this ability, one thing is certain."
Speaking of this, Moreau suddenly looked away, looked down at the beauty on the table, and said lightly: "That is risk, a huge and unknown risk."
Hearing Moreau's words, this time the dog-headed man fell silent.
Silence is sometimes equivalent to acquiescence.
However, he did not forget his position because of this. He quickly broke away from the silence and asked directly: "So your answer is rejection?"
Why? How could it be... My life was given to me by Melena."
Morrow lowered his eyes and smiled a little self-deprecatingly, but Melena's bottomless dark eyes flashed in his mind.
After a pause, he looked up at the dog-headed man again and whispered: "Give me a day."
"Okay, I will tell Melena."
The dog-headed man nodded towards Moreau after hearing this, and then turned around and left.
Just when he was about to open the door and walk out of the antique store, he suddenly stopped as if he thought of something.
"By the way, Melena said she hasn't decided on the name of her ability yet, and she wants you to help pick one."
..."
Morrow was startled for a moment, and couldn't help but think of some fragments from the original work.
"Love Etude"
This is the name of Melena's reading ability in the original work.
As for the ability to read, which is full of destructive meanings, why it has such a name...
Moreau doesn’t know.
Thinking of this, Moreau almost didn't think or hesitate, and answered directly according to the information in the original work: "Let's call it a love etude. If Melena doesn't hate it..."
The dog-headed man was a little surprised. He did not expect Moreau to give such a style of name.
But he didn’t think much, waved his hand towards Moreau, opened the door and strode into the night rain.
Morrow looked calm and watched the dog-headed man leave.
Creak——
The door closed and closed.
A few minutes later, Moreau slowly withdrew his gaze and turned to look at the transparent jade figure standing among a pile of wooden shell fragments on the table.
"I can only run away..."
There are some things that I don't want to do, and there is no room for maneuver, so Moreau decided to leave Melena's circle.
It’s not that he resisted killing people, because among the twenty-one people Melena sent over, there were babies and children.
This has already touched the bottom line.
Furthermore, he knows better than anyone else the true purpose of Melena hidden deep in her heart.
Destroy the Cajin Kingdom, destroy mankind, destroy the world, destroy everything...
This is what Melena pursues.
So Moreau would leave sooner or later, but he didn’t expect this day to come so quickly.
Over the past six months, the antique shop he ran has brought a lot of profits to Melena.
If nothing unexpected happened, he actually wanted to repay Melena as much as possible for her life-saving grace in this way.
That’s enough...
Morrow thought silently in his heart, then raised his right hand and looked at the back of it.
There is a tattoo pattern like an annual ring consisting of hollow rings of six different colors.
The colors of annual ring tattoo patterns, from inside to outside, from small to large, are white, green, blue, purple, red and gold.
In the middle of the annual ring, there is a very small black infinity symbol.
Morrow does not know the origin and function of the annual ring tattoo pattern.
A few days after he traveled through time, he noticed that the outline of a growth ring tattoo suddenly appeared on the back of his hand, from shallow to deep, and then gradually became fixed.
The information that can be determined so far is that others cannot see the growth ring tattoo on the back of his hand, and the back of the hand covered by the growth ring tattoo seems to have the effect of an "indestructible" oath.
In addition, he can fill the hollow areas of the annual rings by absorbing the ancient thoughts.
This is also the fundamental reason why he chose to run an antique store in Youkesin.
Over the past half a year, he has absorbed many weak thoughts from antiques or handicrafts, and now the innermost white growth ring has been almost filled.
Morrow did not think about leaving Melena for the time being, and focused on the beauty entangled with weak thoughts.
As long as the mind energy from the jade woman is absorbed, the white annual rings should be filled.
Even if it is not full, the employees he sends out will bring back some antiques that may haunt him tonight.
In the quiet antique shop, Moreau stretched out his hand to cover the beauty.
There was no movement or fluctuation, but the weak thought energy from the beauty was integrated into the back of Moreau's palm at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The slight gap in the white annual rings was also filled up and became relatively complete.
It seems that there is no need to wait for Niuma employees to come back.
While Moro was thinking, his eyes were fixed on the white growth rings on the back of his hands. After more than half a year of hard work, he felt a little hopeful at this moment.
Because in his opinion, the growth ring tattoo is likely to be the golden finger that people often call time travel.
If he can provide help at this moment, he will have more confidence to break away from the Aiyi family.
Morrow patiently waited for the change, but as time passed by, the white growth rings that were filled like energy bars did not produce any abnormality.
"The worst result has occurred."
Seeing the motionless growth ring tattoo, Moreau shook his head slightly.
At the moment, there are probably only three possibilities for this situation.
One is that all the growth rings need to be filled in order to reveal the yet unknown abilities.
One is that the filled growth rings require certain conditions to reveal abilities.
The last one, the annual ring tattoo is not the golden finger he expected.
Morrow was a little disappointed, but he didn’t pay too much attention.
Even if he could obtain the ability of Golden Finger at this moment, for him, it would be an unexpected surprise at best.
The real confidence lies in the ability to release thoughts that he has worked hard to cultivate since time travel.
The night is getting darker, and the rain shows no sign of letting up.
The dog-headed man walked through the heavy rain and came to a black car on the roadside.
The window of the back seat of the black car lowered, revealing a delicate and elegant woman.
A woman's eyebrows are like willow leaves and her eyes are like red phoenixes.
However, there are two parallel hideous scars on her beautiful face.
The scar ran from her hairline through her left eyelid to her cheek, almost spanning half of her face, which was extremely shocking.
"Melena."
The dog-headed man bent down and looked at the woman in the car.
Melena raised her eyes: "Aquan, what did he say?"
"Moro asked you to give him a day."
The dog-headed man replied truthfully.
Melena lowered her eyes and seemed to notice something.
The dog-headed man waited for Melena's response and let the heavy rain hit his body.
After a while.
Melena habitually reached out and touched the scar on her cheek.
Forget it.
She murmured softly.
The dog-headed man was slightly startled.
Melena put down her hand, looked past the dog-headed man, and looked in the direction of the antique shop.
"A Quan, you know... there is something about little Moro that I hate."
"What?"
The dog-headed man asked.
Melena's eyes were deep and her tone gradually became cold.
「底线。」
「……」
狗头男人不知该说什么。
Melena said coldly: "My people can't have such a thing."
The dog-headed man understood what Melena meant. He thought about persuading her for a moment, but held back, and asked instead:
"Melena, I don’t know who the Phantom Troupe is chasing. Many gangs have been involved in a bloodbath. It’s best to inform Moro..."
"No need."
Melena withdrew her gaze, "This is his own choice."
"I understand."
The dog-headed man sighed softly in his heart, and then said the name of the telekinesis ability that Moreau helped give.
Love etude...
Melena heard a wave of excitement in her eyes, and it was still not complete...
Even if she could feel Little Moreau's loyalty in the deep kiss, the "purpose" was completely different, so it was meaningless.
Melena lowered her head slightly. Although she could not get feedback, she also discovered the flaw in her ability.
A Quan looked at Melena and heard a hint of sadness in the other person's tone...