Chapter Fifty: The Secret of Cold

  This is their first mission failure since they collaborated. It can also be said that this is the first mission failure since they became assassins. However, thanks to the timely rescue, Shuang came back alive.

  Although the mission failed, they still successfully protected their employer from leaving the scene and silently killed two confidants of the opposing organization's leader and nine elite members. The organization did not blame them. In fact, Leng and Ying both knew that if it weren't for their own value to the organization, they would probably...

  After this operation, their identities were exposed. Originally, there were many high-level killers in the killer world who wanted to prove their strength by beheading Sakurajima.

  They want to kill them, not just people from other organizations, but even those within the Crimson Empire itself... Now they have become the target of public criticism, and that force is stirring...

  Although Leng and Ying had never been afraid of anyone, they still lived a life of dodging and hiding.

  After that incident, Ying asked Leng more than once why he had saved her. She even asked him why he had chosen her in the first place.

  His cool response was always the same, very simple "Because you are like me." As the saying goes, those who can become bosom friends are often people who are similar to themselves in all aspects.

  One morning, cold suddenly found shadow.

  "Shadow, I'm currently playing a very exciting game... I like it a lot. Let me try for a while longer, if it's fun, I'll bring you along! What do you say?"

  "What game?"

  "I can't tell you yet! But if I could, I'd keep playing like this forever..."

  "Cut... always piques my interest and then doesn't finish." Ying gave him a cold stare.

  "I'm playing games with ghosts! Do you know? Sometimes the cruelty of human hearts far exceeds the fear brought by ghosts..."

  Yin looked at Leng with a helpless expression, "I know you've always liked excitement, but ghosts... are just too unrealistic. The number of people who have died at our hands is countless, if we're to say that ghosts really exist, then why haven't the ones I killed come after me? Haha, ridiculous... running over here so early in the morning to spout such nonsense..."

  Leng didn't refute, he just sneered. Ying often sneers too. The two of them sneering together really makes them seem a bit alike...

  What Leng said was a game, it's actually the nightmare game I'm participating in right now.

  One day, "Shadow, I... I want to quit being an assassin..."

  "Cool! What are you saying?! Your current position is something that many assassins dream of... Are you just going to give it up like this?!"

  "I liked a girl before, she was very pretty and lovely. Sensitive, calm, clever... it's simply impossible to describe her perfection with words... She was as clean as an angel, I swear I've never seen such a kind-hearted girl..."

  He smiled coldly, but his shadow had never seen such a smile before, full of happiness.

  "I'm captivated by her... She's so special, for her, I can give up everything..."

  "It's terrifying to think that a killer like you has developed feelings, and it may cost your life... Forget it, do as you please..." The words were cold, but in his heart, he felt a chill of regret... After all, for so long, he had made the cold his companion, even his friend!

  "We grew up in the organization since we were kids, facing struggles, killings, blood and corpses every day... Actually, my dream was to be No. 1 in the world of assassins. But after I met that girl... I don't think that way anymore, she wiped out all my ambitions."

  "Women... Ha! Are you still short of women?..." Indeed, with Cold's status as a high-ranking assassin, the payment for one mission is enough to support an ordinary person for several years.

  "Shadow, I can't describe the feeling in my heart...I hope that one day, such a person will appear in your life too!" Leng hesitated for a moment, "In the future, I'm afraid there won't be any chance to meet again...the organization won't let me leave so easily..."

  Ying turned around, with her back to Leng, and said in a familiar tone, "It's settled then... let's go..."

  She gave a cold glance at Ying's back, didn't say anything else, just smiled slightly, this time it wasn't a sneer... then turned and left.

  And the shadow turned away, their memories echoing in his mind... "Goodbye, farewell... never to be seen again... good luck." This was the first time the shadow had a taste of tears, the first time he felt heartache.

  Leng's departure had a great impact on Ying, who was depressed for a long time and spent most of his days getting drunk in bars to numb himself. Occasionally returning to the organization, he saw wanted posters plastered all over the walls for Leng's capture.

  Although he's skilled at escaping, it's basically impossible for anyone to catch him, but sometimes... Alas, after all, one can't fight the crowd, and every day, Shadow worries about Leng. Every night, Shadow stands on the balcony, gazing into the distance, silently thinking "Leng, you can't be so stupid, if you get caught I'll look down on you!"

  Ying really wanted to try to find Leng and tell him about the current danger, but the big boss of the organization also knew about their close relationship and had already sent someone to keep an eye on Ying. Ying had also sensed this and didn't dare to make any rash moves...

  Until one day... all memories of coldness in Shadow's mind disappeared, not just Shadow, but everyone forgot that there was once an X-level killer with the codename Cold.

  All scenes flashed by, savoring the delicate and precious memories that had been lost and regained...

  Originally having completed the game three times, Ying had 45 survival points. In less than half an hour, he abandoned his precious 15 survival points and obtained some cold information as well as a part of his lost memories.

  I really don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing... The girl that Leng had mentioned before, the one who captivated him, the extremely kind and intelligent girl turned out to be Mo Lian Xi... And when Ying met Lian Xi later, he also had the same feeling. Is it that girls like Lian Xi have a special attraction to assassins?

  No, this interpretation is too far-fetched. Only then did I understand what Leng had said earlier: "Because you're just like me."

  At this moment, he is more entangled than ever... because he has also deeply fallen in love with Lian Xi. And Lian Xi happens to be the lover of his only friend, Leng! Ying doesn't know how to make a choice...

  If I hadn't fallen in love with Lian Yu, Jing would have worked hard to make up for the scores and let Leng revive, but now...

  The only thing he can confirm now is that he wants to protect Lian Xi, no matter what, let Lian Xi survive! For himself! Also for Leng!

  He stumbled out of the tomb, his trembling hands still clutching the paper with all the information about Cold. Suddenly, Shadow remembered that he hadn't read the game rules yet.

  He hastily pulled out his own special game rules from his shirt pocket, which were already crumpled with wrinkles.