Contest of Wisdom and Bravery

  Yi Xiaodao and the others hid their guns in the bathroom, then deliberately walked heavily to the door and peered through the peephole for a while. The light in the corridor was not very good, only two men and women wearing police uniforms were seen standing outside the door.

  Yi Xiaodao pulled the door open a crack and asked, "What's going on?"

  The male police officer looked up and glanced at Yi Xiaodao, saying: "Check your temporary residence permit."

  Yi Xiaodao finally saw clearly, it turned out to be two household registration police officers. He couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. The lily in the bathroom also let out a sigh of relief, but she still didn't dare to be careless. If these two household registration police officers came in and saw her, she would have no choice but to kill them.

  As she thought of this, Lily quietly screwed the silencer she had brought in earlier onto the muzzle. With a 9mm pistol equipped with this silencer, the gunshot would be only fifteen decibels, and even if someone outside pressed their ear against the wall, they wouldn't hear anything. However, the two police corpses inside the house would soon be discovered, and Easy Knife would be finished.

  Just as Lily was considering whether or not to care about Yixiaodao's life and death, the police were interrogating Yixiaodao.

  The male police officer asked: "How long have you been living here?"

  Yi Xiaodao said: "It's been half a year."

  "Does he live alone?"

  Yi Xiaodao said: "A person lives alone."

  The female police officer suddenly raised her head: "You're lying!"

  Yi Xiaodao and Lily, who was hiding in the bathroom, were both startled at the same time. Had the female police officer discovered something?

  The female police officer flipped through a registration book and said: "According to the previous registration records, there are two people living in this room, one male and one female. Is she your girlfriend?"

  At this time, the male police officer also looked at Yi Xiaodao with vigilance. Yi Xiaodao smiled slightly and said, "Yes."

  The female police officer immediately pressed: "Then why did you say it was one person living?"

  Yi Xiaodao said: "I am indeed living alone now, we broke up three months ago."

  The female police officer looked suspicious: "Really?" She had an attitude as if she was facing a cunning and sinister terrorist.

  Yi Xiaodao nodded: "Absolutely true."

  The female police officer glanced down at the registration book and sneered: "However, the last registration was just three months ago! I saw it with my own eyes that there were two people!"

  Lily's nerves were stretched taut again, rechecking that the safety on her pistol was off, and if necessary she would shoot to kill both of them.

  But then Yi Xiao Dao let out a bitter laugh and said: "So it was you who came to register three months ago? You're really the culprit behind my heartbreak!"

  The two policemen were stunned, and the male policeman asked: "What's going on?"

  His tone suddenly turned serious, saying: "It was three months ago, you came to register at over 10 o'clock at night, we had just fallen asleep early and were woken up by you. You disturbed our peaceful sleep, left without a word, and we ended up having a big fight because we couldn't afford a house and lived in this slum, only to be harassed by your repeated checks! Do you remember? For three months, you came once every month, relentless. From that day on, we fought every day about the house, because we simply couldn't afford one. A week later, we broke up! If poverty was the powder keg of our breakup, your appearance was the evil fuse!"

  It's as if he had a ghost in his heart, Yi Xiaodao's tone was particularly excited, and his facial expressions were very rich. By the end, his voice and color were both stern, completely forcing the female police officer's momentum back. His generous words made the female police officer want to find a hole to hide in on the eighth floor.

  The male police officer saw the situation was not good, dodged Yi Xiaodao's saliva, and quickly came to mediate: "Sorry Mr. Yi, we didn't know such an unfortunate thing would happen. Checking your temporary residence permit is just our job, please forgive us. Now that our work is done, we won't disturb you anymore!"

  After finishing speaking, he pulled the female police officer who had lost all her momentum towards the staircase entrance.

  Yi Xiaodao opened the door and stuck out his head, shouting: "I haven't shown you my temporary residence permit yet."

  The male police officer said without turning his head: "No need, no need, I know you."

  Yi Xiaodao loudly muttered: "You have time to go check out those chicken shops downstairs, ninety percent of them don't have temporary residence permits."

  The male police officer no longer responded, his footsteps had already reached the eighth floor, it was unknown whether he heard Yixiaodao's words.

  Yi Xiaodao closed the door, and Baihe walked out of the bathroom, putting the pistol on the table.

  Yi Xiaodao said: "This place is not suitable for a long stay, hurry up and change clothes, let's go."

  Lily sat down with a big knife, saying indifferently: "I didn't expect you to be so good at acting. Yi Xiaodao, what kind of person are you?"

  Yi Xiao Dao ignored her, packing a few clothes while saying: "You can rest assured, if I wanted to frame you, you would have been at the police station by now."

  Lily said: "Why don't you just say I'm your girlfriend? Your act is overdone and it's easier for people to remember you."

  Yi Xiaodao stopped his action of putting away the knife and said, "So you were referring to this... Actually, what I said was true." After a slight hesitation, he continued to put things away.

  Lily was taken aback and said, "Are you really that poor?"

  Yi Xiao Dao didn't even lift his head and after a while said: "Can't you see?"

  Lily knew she had spoken too bluntly and hastily explained: "I just think you shouldn't be so poor—"

  Yi Xiao Dao interrupted her: "Poor or not, what should or shouldn't be? The house price in Nanhua City is 10,000 yuan per square meter. I earn 2,000 yuan a month and even if I don't eat or drink, it will take me five months to buy one square meter! I've already thought about it, anyway, I'm just a single man, when this work contract expires, I'll go back to my hometown to raise pigs."

  Lily didn't respond immediately, and after a moment of contemplation, she said: "Actually, as long as you're willing, with your skills, not only will you have no worries about food and clothing, but becoming extremely wealthy and honored won't be difficult for you either."

  Yi Xiaodao stuffed his clothes into a bag and said, "Thanks for your concern, I'm not interested in the profession of an assassin. Hurry up and change your clothes, we'll set off in ten minutes."

  Lily wanted to say something else, but Yi Xiaodao had already handed her back the same set of clothes as before.

  "Where's my gun, AW?" Yuriko asked as she walked into the bathroom.

  "You're running for your life and still want to bring a gun? The police are probably catching people with guitar cases all over the streets now, if you want to bring it I'll go get it for you."

  Yi Xiaodao made a move to open the door, but Baihe hurriedly waved her hand: "Forget it." Then she slipped into the bathroom to change clothes.

  "Is your wound okay?" Yi Xiaodao asked, tossing the handgun on the table to Yili. Yili had just come out of the bathroom, changed into Ah Jiao's deep blue jeans and pink short-sleeved shirt, looking even more innocent than Ah Jiao. If it weren't for seeing her take the gun with such a familiar and smooth motion, probably no one would have associated her with being an assassin.

  "No problem." Lily took over the pistol and added a sentence: "Thank you."

  Yi Xiaodao smiled and said: "Will you still say 'thank you'?"

  Lily didn't know if she was infected by Yixiaodao's smile or felt a little embarrassed, so she looked at Yixiaodao and smiled slightly. This time it wasn't a cold smile, plus her originally delicate face, as well as the refreshing feeling after bathing, Yixiaodao couldn't help but feel a shock in her heart. Unexpectedly, the female killer's smile was actually so captivating.

  "You look great when you smile." Yi Xiaodao couldn't help but praise, and in order to make his words not seem like flattery, he continued: "The corners of your mouth are raised very nicely, and the corners of your eyes are also smiling."

  Lily suddenly felt her face heat up and turned her head to say: "I'll go change my shoes first."

  Yi Xiaodao also woke up from this brief ambiguity, took out a pair of women's sports shoes from the shoe cabinet and said: "Wear this. Your shoes are dirty, throw them away downstairs later."

  Lily took a closer look and indeed found a few drops of bloodstains on her shoes, although they had long since dried up, leaving only brown marks, but if the police were to discover them, they could still extract DNA from them.

  On the one hand, she secretly admired Yi Xiaodao's meticulous thoughts and sharp eyesight, while on the other hand, she quickly changed into those sports shoes. Perhaps it was just a coincidence that this pair of Nike sports shoes, which originally belonged to Yi Xiaodao's ex-girlfriend A Jiao, fit Baihe's feet perfectly.

  Lily stood up and looked at her sports shoes with satisfaction, nodding her head in approval.

  "Let's go." Taking advantage of Baihe's momentary distraction while changing shoes, Yi Xiaodao had already picked up the small bag containing a few clothes, opened the door, and grabbed two black trash bags by the door.

  Lily stuffed the pistol into the pocket of her jeans, barely covering it with the hem of her shirt. Although as an assassin, she never carried a gun on her person when not on a mission, but now that the situation was special and she had not yet escaped the police's encirclement, she had to keep the pistol on her in case of emergency.

  The third shift is completed today.

  Hasn't your collection increased at all? Hmm...