Reborn as Xiao in another world, targeted by the little red bird

Xiao and Qiao Huanxi left the City Lord's Mansion. On the way, Xiao recalled the memory of when he first crossed over and asked, "Are we going to the association to accept the commission now?"

"What commission?" Qiao Huanxi looked at Xiao puzzledly.

"Uh?"

Isn't it? Escorting something weird.

Xiao was stunned for a moment, then he thought that this illusion did not seem to be acting according to his original memory. Many things did not happen, and some people he should have known had not met yet. It seemed normal that this commission did not exist.

Xiao put the matter aside and did not mention it again. Instead, he followed Qiao Huanxi silently, wanting to see what the latter was going to take him to do.

Therefore, in the following time, he met many people who held high positions in the city, such as the owner of the auction house, the manager of the arena, and the general in charge of city defense and order. This development caught him off guard.

He knew most of these people. After all, when Licheng was facing the fading beast tide, they often held meetings together to discuss strategies.

In terms of socializing, Xiao lacks the ability to perform on the spot, so after knowing his next itinerary, he begins to rehearse in his mind the topics he might encounter and the responses he might use to deal with them.

But the more he rehearsed, the more unsure he became, and he realized that he had no idea what these people were like in their daily lives.

At that time, the shadow of the city's destruction crisis was looming over their heads. Everyone's attention was focused on the enemy. They were so busy that they had no time to think about what kind of people their comrades around them were.

He felt a headache. When he thought about having to meet more than one person, he began to have the idea of ​​retreating. This idea reached its peak after Red Xiao expressed his gloating.

He really wanted to throw the control of his body to Red Goblin and let the other party feel it for himself and see if he could still laugh, but he couldn't do it in the illusion.

too difficult.

Finally, he left everyone with the impression of being a quiet man, and by the time he was able to move freely, most of the day had passed.

At night, Xiao was discussing tonight's actions with Hong Xiao when he suddenly received a notice from Qiao Huanxi, asking him to return to the Adventure Association.

The two Xiaos looked at each other.

Xiao guessed: "Could it be that the illusion wants to obstruct our investigation?"

"Maybe. In that case, you should be more careful." said Hong Xiao.

"What about you?"

"It was alright before, but in this situation, you still want me to solve your problem for you?"

"No," Xiao hastily retorted, "What I want to ask is, if midnight comes and I can't get away, what are you going to do?"

"Of course I'll go check out the door by myself." Hong Xiao looked at his other self jokingly, "Why, you're such a grown-up, but you still need me to accompany you on such a small matter?"

elf:"……"

His intuition told him that tonight would not be peaceful.

……

When Xiao returned to the Adventure Association, there were few people in the association hall. Apart from the receptionist at the counter, there was only an adventure team that had just completed a mission. The four of them walked out while chatting about the details of the mission, passing him by.

The captain weighed the bag containing the commission fee and said, "It's indeed a special commission. The place where the thing is hidden is really tricky."

The sturdy man with his sleeves rolled up said, "That's right. Otherwise, how could it be possible that so many people couldn't find it and it was finally promoted to a special commission?"

The man with the bird's nest hairstyle came up to the three men from behind and said, "Looks like we guys are lucky today. Let's go gamble later?"

The young man who looked very quiet said, "Forget it. If we spend the money from this commission normally, it will be enough for us to have some free time. Special commissions don't come often, and even if they do, it takes a lot of luck to receive or complete them."

The burly man with his sleeves rolled up glanced at him: "What are you talking about, kid? Luck or no luck? This is called strength. We are good at finding things."

"But……"

"Okay, okay, if you don't want to go, don't go. Go wherever you want." The captain interrupted the quiet young man, took out a few tickets from his bag, and patted the latter on the chest, "Don't worry about him, let's go."

"A newcomer should have the intuition of a newcomer. Don't always think about commanding the old ones." The man with the bird's nest hairstyle said a few sarcastic words, and he hurriedly followed the captain until he called him from a distance.

Xiao looked at the backs of the adventure team as they left, and a doubt arose in his mind.

The rating of the commission is related to the difficulty and dangerousness, right?

He suddenly felt a little unsure about this.

He didn't take on many commissions, and the only commission he took on as a team was the one that President Qiao found for him when he first came here. Most of the time, it was individual commissions.

His membership rating is low, and his promotion is not as fast as in the arena, and the money he can earn is far less than that from fighting in the ring, so he rarely accepts commissions privately.

After listening to the conversation between the members of the adventure team, he suddenly became interested in the commission, so he went to the counter to check the commission list.

"High-level commission, helping a young lady from a wealthy family in the west of the city find her cat that has been missing for several days..."

"Intermediate commission, running errands and delivering goods for a restaurant in the south of the city..."

"Primary commission, helping a family in the east of the city to repair their roof."

"Xiao, are you interested in becoming a member of the Adventure Guild?"

Xiao was looking through the list of commissions when Qiao Huanxi's voice suddenly came from behind him.

He stopped beside Xiao and looked at the list: "Do you need me, the guild leader, to help you skip those complicated procedures?"

"Let's take a look first." Xiao glanced at the second half of the list and asked, "Why are all these commissions in the city?"

"Where else could it be if not in the city? Outside the city?" Qiao Huanxi asked back. Looking at his natural expression, it seemed as if he was saying something that was a matter of course.

Seeing Xiao's confusion, although he didn't understand where this confusion came from, he still explained: "The mission of our Adventure Association is to reduce the pressure on the city's defense so that they don't waste their energy on trivial matters. As for things outside the city, that is not under our jurisdiction."

No, that's not the case. At least the Licheng branch still has the task of collecting intelligence inside and outside the city in the form of outsourcing, that is, entrustment.

Xiao keenly sensed that something was wrong. He had infiltrated the upper echelons of Licheng before and was well aware of the other role of the Adventure Association.

Even if the illusion cut out this part of the complex function, the fact that the Adventure Association's commission had no "adventure" at all was a strange thing in itself.

He suddenly thought of the commission he had remembered during the day. At that time, he thought it was an illusion and did not arrange this. Now that he thinks about it, there must be other reasons behind it, right?

He wanted to ask Hong Xiao's opinion, but when he turned around, he found that the latter had disappeared at some point.

At this moment, outside the association hall, the sound of gongs was heard three times in a row, one slow and two fast.

A shout floated into the hall along with the sound of a gong: "All is well—"

It's time.

......

Licheng College.

As soon as midnight arrived, Hong Xiao appeared on time in the toilet where the strange story was circulating, and his target - the door had already appeared on the wall.

During the day, he thought about it and felt that to be on the safe side, the faster the progress, the better. He must find out the details behind this door today.

He put his hand on the door and slowly closed his eyes.

A strong wind suddenly blew in the windowless toilet. With a "whoosh" sound, the roof was blown away by the strong wind.

Of course, this noise could not be hidden from the dean who lived in the college. He rushed over at once, but before he could see the situation clearly, the inky black fan swirling above the toilet blew it back.

He got up in a panic, notified a few colleagues and rushed back to the scene. However, the strong wind had disappeared and a half-open door appeared on the wall of the toilet.

"The door is actually open?!" The dean was very surprised, but did not follow in.

The other side of the door.

Hong Xiao's eyes swept towards the door. Although it was half-open, it still acted like a barrier that isolated everything. He could no longer sense the situation on the other side of the door.

"Sure enough, as long as I mobilize my strength like I did to tear apart the last illusion, I can push the door open. Strange, why did the lion's aura disappear after I came in?"

He withdrew his gaze and looked at the space on the other side of the door, and his pupils shrank involuntarily.

There are bright stars above his head and flowing galaxies under his feet. He seems to be out of the world, and wherever he looks are the vast stars.

Among these stars, there stood a young man dressed as a Taoist priest.

"Is this the gatekeeper?"

Just as Hong Xiao was looking at the young man, the other party was also looking at him.

The young man seemed to be disturbed by his sudden intrusion, and looked at him with confusion and surprise.

But soon, these emotions in his eyes disappeared.

"Monster?"

As the young man's words fell, a murderous aura filled the sky. The stars were attracted by something and extended from one point to another, like strands of silk threads, weaving murderous intent towards the red goblin.

In an instant, star-like threads appeared in all directions, and the red goblin had nowhere to escape.