Alien Executioner

Who could she be?

There was a rustling sound falling behind me.

An Xiao subconsciously turned around and started to devour Wu, but there was no one there.

She saw the photos on the ground and the sound just now was just the photos falling.

Picking up the photo, the girl's face was clearly visible in the photo. She looked only twelve years old. This was the only photo with a face.

An Xiao stared at it for a long time. It was a face that looked very much like Gu Zhilan's.

But more like Xiao Nuo.

She silently hid the photo in her inner pocket, turned around and continued to stare at the curtain, wondering what she was thinking.

Chapter 242 The Fourth Night (Part )

Outside, the hovercraft was leaning against a tree. Nanasha did not move the car immediately. It was snowing heavily, but she sat in the cab smoking.

"Hey, Xiao Nuo." Nanasha said, "Is this really your name?"

"Why are you asking this suddenly?" Xiao Nuo looked at the scattered snow outside the window.

"Just curious, whose first name is just one character? You don't even have a last name."

"Hasn't anyone told you that I'm a member of the An family? If you want to be serious, I can call you An Nuo." Xiao Nuo's pupils flashed a gleam of light for a moment.

"You are not completely a member of the An family, at least you don't have An family blood in your body." Nanasha smiled, "I often meet members of the An family, and I'm used to it. There is a special feeling about the An family. How should I put it? There is madness hidden in their bones, and it is a purposeful madness."

"Purposeful madness?" Xiao Nuo was puzzled.

"To put it simply, it means that you can give everything for something." Nanasha said slowly, "The An family are all paranoid lunatics, but most of the time they don't even realize it. Just like An Xiao, she may console herself that she is looking for Gu Zhilan, but in fact, it is more for a girl who may not exist in her memory."

"what do you want to say in the end?"

"Since you are not a member of the An family, I am curious about what you are doing here." Nanasha took a deep puff of her cigarette and exhaled white smoke, looking at her with a sharp gaze, "You are definitely not here to accompany An Xiao, am I right, Xiao Nuo?"

Xiao Nuo was silent for a while, stood up, opened the roof, grabbed the cigarette butt and threw it out before Nanasha could react, and clapped his hands after finishing.

"This is the last cigarette I brought with me!" Nanasha scratched her head, feeling very heartbroken.

"Are you going to choke me to death by smoking in such a closed place? I don't want to be a non-smoker who has lung failure before you." Xiao Nuo looked at her unhappily, "You really should quit smoking. FACA should stipulate that executive officers cannot smoke and endanger passers-by!"

"If an executive officer doesn't smoke and drink, he will really die." Nanasha denied her discrimination, "Unless the alien species is exterminated, everything is empty talk."

"Then please stand outside in an open place when you smoke." Xiao Nuo pouted.

"Anyway, that was the last one, whatever you say." Nanasha continued the previous topic. This time she looked directly into Xiao Nuo's eyes and whispered, "If it were me, I would stop An Xiao from looking for that girl, no matter if that girl exists or not."

"Why? Don't you think that's cruel?"

"Does this count as you acknowledging that the girl in An Xiao's heart really exists, and that you think meeting her will have good results?" Nanasha asked back immediately.

Xiao Nuo was surprised.

"Don't really think that my appearance is a coincidence. I am Ling's best friend and a friend of the family." Nanasha sighed and looked up at the sky.

"The An family asked me to come here. Oh no, to be precise, it was my fake best friend who tricked me into coming here to spy for the family. Ling told me that something big would happen here and it would be related to An Xiao. I originally wanted to contact her to dig up some clues, but..."

Nanasha paused and directed her words to Xiao Nuo.

"You seem even more unusual."

"You mean to say that I have bad intentions towards An Xiao." Xiao Nuo tilted his head.

She didn't even try to argue, and chuckled at Nanasha's solemn expression, "Yes, I do have bad intentions towards Sister An Xiao. I like her very much, so I'm very jealous of that guy named Gu Zhilan, and the girl in her memory that she misses day and night. It would be great if they didn't exist."

"I knew it from the beginning. She couldn't hide it from me. Even I could see it. That's why I said that if it were me, I would try to stop An Xiao from looking for them. This sentence actually refers to you. You shouldn't have accompanied her willingly. Your attitude is too submissive. I find it strange."

"Is this why you haven't moved your car to talk to me alone?" Xiao Nuo said lazily, "It's just gossip."

Nanasha didn't deny it, "Yeah."

"Who said I'm willing?" This time Xiao Nuo showed a cold smile, "I want to see them with my own eyes, and then kill them with my own hands."

Nanasha was stunned. Xiao Nuo had been checking the time. To confirm the time, he lowered his head to check the electronic watch. Seeing that he was dawdling for a long time, he urged:

"Let's go. I was just joking. Don't take it seriously. The real reason is simple. I joined in by accident and there is no chance for me to quit. I can't walk out of Siberia. Since Sister An Xiao wants to go to the finish line, I have no choice but to follow her."

……

They returned to the brick house and completed the task five minutes later than expected. As the door was too small for the hovercraft to pass through, Nanasha simply and violently demolished a gap in the wall. After all, it was just an abandoned building temporarily sheltering from the blizzard, and there was no need to be gentle with it.

An Xiao was still in the basement room. He lit a candle to completely illuminate the eerie bedroom, which made the two of them feel creepy.

“It’s really scary.”

Xiao Nuo didn't dare to look directly at the photo on the curtain, she was scared, and Nanasha was no exception. The girl in the photo had no face, and they all faced the camera. They could feel that they were being stared at by the faceless girl in the photo. The dim candlelight created a semi-dark and terrifying atmosphere.

"Sister An Xiao, aren't you afraid when you watch it alone?" Xiao Nuo asked, hiding behind him timidly.

"No." An Xiao replied softly, "I just feel very sad."

"Sadness?" Nanasha was puzzled. She looked around but couldn't find any source of sadness. Could it be that the An family could see things that others couldn't see?

"Sister An Xiao saw a ghost?" Xiao Nuo trembled with fear.

An Xiao shook his head. "It's a photo."

"What can you see from the photo?" Xiao Nuo bravely leaned over and muttered after glancing at the bloodstains on the photo, "It looks like a prisoner, with his face peeled off... Who is so miserable?"

"It's a room hidden in the basement, and this is deep in the remote Siberia. Anyone would feel insecure." Nanasha nudged An Xiao gently with her arm. "Are you empathizing with her? From the photo, I can see that she is very sad. You don't think she is the girl you are looking for."

"His figure looks similar to mine." Xiao Nuo made a new discovery.

"Have you looked anywhere else?" Nanasha looked at An Xiao.

"We've searched it all. It's an empty room. The previous owner left nothing behind, or it may have been searched by someone else."

The latter is very likely, as someone might have already arrived before them, and this place has no surplus value other than serving as a temporary shelter.

"not necessarily."

Nanasha glanced at the corner, and when she turned around, her eyes lit up. She walked over, bent down and picked up the thing under Xiao Nuo's feet. It was half a piece of almost blank paper, which was yellowed and had been there for some time.

An Xiao stared at the half piece of paper in Nanasha's hand. She was sure that she had searched every place, including the corner next to the door where Xiao Nuo was standing.

"Bad news, this should be a letter paper, it happens to be at the bottom, most of it is blank." Nanasha raised half a piece of paper, "The good news is that the name of the writer happens to be left, so we can guess the owner of this place, Yald, do you have any impression?"

"Yarde..." Xiao Nuo's expression changed.

"you know?"

"I heard this name when I was in the orphanage, but I've never seen him." Xiao Nuo shook his head in denial.

"Who told you that?" An Xiao looked into her eyes and asked, "How much impression do you have?"

Xiao Nuo tilted her head and recalled:

"It was the old dean. She mentioned this name several times during Christmas. The dean is very old and always likes to talk to herself. I happened to hear her when I gave her flowers once. She said it would be great if Yarde was still here. She is always indispensable at Christmas. That's all."

She guessed that An Xiao would ask further questions, and added: "I am not interested in the people that the old dean cares about, so I didn't ask who Yaerde was at that time."

"You remember it so clearly." Nanasha couldn't help but interrupt.

Xiao Nuo rolled her eyes at her.

An Xiao took over half a piece of paper and saw only one sentence above the name. The handwriting was very beautiful, and the arrangement was not only neat but also very distinctive. The last stroke of each letter was rising like a butterfly.

[…I will pick her up in person, and we will have a chance to meet again in ten years. —Yard, 2036.2.7.]

She turned on her low-battery cell phone, and even though there was no network signal, the calendar and time were still running as usual.

Today is September 2046, 2.

Chapter 243 The Fourth Night (Part )

"Sister An Xiao, are you asleep?" Xiao Nuo was lying on the sofa of the hovercraft, looking at the closed canopy and asked softly.

"I fell asleep." The girl next to him was sitting in the other corner of the sofa. The hovercraft could only accommodate two people lying down to sleep, so An Xiao took the initiative to give up her seat.

"Sister An Xiao, maybe it's because of different customs. If people here fall asleep, they won't take the initiative to say 'I fell asleep' when asked."

"How should I answer?"

"You should just say you didn't fall asleep." Xiao Nuo turned over and sat up to make more room. "Sister An Xiao, you go to sleep. I'm not sleepy yet."

"It's okay. I'm thinking about something. You go to sleep first. You'll feel better after a while." An Xiao shook his head.

"Is it necessary to give in to each other like this? It's not a big deal. I might as well give up my position." Nanasha didn't sleep either. The whistling sound outside the brick house was too loud, the wind was blowing hard, and heavy snow was drifting in through the gaps in the wall and the cracks in the door.

The air cushion was no warmer than outside. In fact, they had not eaten for a whole day and did not even have extra fuel. All they had were a few candles picked up from the brick house. They were now in a very dangerous situation and had to find a way to find food before reaching the destination.

Fortunately, they are all very tolerant of hunger, so they can still hold on for now, but it’s hard to say what will happen in the future.

Nanasha couldn't sleep because she was thinking about what to do. She was not an optimistic person. She was used to looking at problems in the long run and always worried about problems that she would have to consider in the future.

Insomnia was one of the reasons why An Xiao didn't sleep, but more importantly, she didn't want to.

Those photos and the words on half a page of letter paper linger in my mind.

"You really don't want my seat?" Mio

Seeing that neither of them spoke, Nanasha muttered to break the silence and turned over to lie in a more comfortable position.

She was really a little sleepy. She didn't know when the snow outside would stop. She hoped that when she woke up, the brick house would not be overturned and the hovercraft would not be submerged.

An Xiao still seemed to be in deep thought, while Xiao Nuo muttered a few words and lay down again without making any movement.

At this moment, rest is the most important thing. Without food, we must maintain our strength and reduce consumption. The three of us stayed in the small space of the air cushion cabin like a group of hamsters.

“Why does the atmosphere become silent whenever I speak…” Nanasha complained softly. She quickly became sleepy and closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Following the rise and fall of light snoring, Xiao Nuo confirmed that the blond director was really asleep, then he opened his eyes, which were unusually bright in the darkness.

The place where An Xiao was looking was the gap in the wall of the brick house. She could see the snow outside and the whistling of the cold wind was clearly visible in her sight.

"Who is Yarde?" An Xiao knew that Xiao Nuo had not slept at all. They were all worried and had their own little thoughts.

"She is the old director's best friend that he always misses. In fact, she comes to the orphanage every Christmas and brings gifts to all the children." Xiao Nuo closed his eyes.

"Why did you lie then?"

"I hate her and I don't want Sister An Xiao to know her." Xiao Nuo sat up again and stared at the blizzard outside.

She explained softly:

"I've only met Yarde twice. I was actually one of the youngest children in the orphanage. Yarde had been there for a long time. When I came, it was her last two years in the orphanage. She was an ugly, old woman with a strange smell. Children my age didn't like her. When she left, she said she was going to take in a new child, and she never came back."

An Xiao thought of the faceless girl in the photo.

She was silent for a moment, and when she heard Xiao Nuo claiming to be the youngest child in the orphanage, she recalled the illusion she had experienced on the train before.

The girl who trudged across the river with him also couldn't see her face clearly. She said she was going back to the orphanage, but she claimed to be the oldest child in the orphanage.

They are all orphanages.

"I hate the orphanage. It's very depressing to me. In fact, it's best not to go back there for the rest of my life." Xiao Nuo slowly lowered her head. "I don't want to have too much contact with Sister An Xiao, no matter who she is, as long as she comes from there, so I lied to stop you."

An Xiao looked at her face and knew that Xiao Nuo was hiding something from him. Shouldn't she have known it when they first met, but he just didn't want to doubt it.

It was hard to explain the feeling now, but she just didn't want to doubt the girl, nor would she question her.

If there wasn't a photo of a girl who looked very similar to Xiao Nuo, An Xiao would never have asked this question.

She tried to use her brother's thinking to observe the flaws in the problem, but failed. She couldn't be as calm and rational as An Ran.

When An Ran faces the unknown, he will regard everything as a potential enemy and explore it based on this.

A bit...cold-blooded.

That's why he has almost no friends, that's why he instantly fell for An Xin's gentleness at that time, that's why he subconsciously admires violence, that's why he can never get rid of Naya, that's why, that's why... there will never be another person who is truly worthy of entering his heart.

An Xiao was tired. She had replayed the encounter between Naya and An Xin on the rooftop in her mind more than once, except that she replaced An Xin with herself. What if the person sitting next to Anya was herself? She always regretted not reaching out to help her brother when he was desperate and sad.

This is a knot in my heart. Perhaps the reason why I am attracted to Gu Zhilan, get close to her and help her is because her experience is very similar to An Ran's, and I just want to make up for that regret.

She was confused about Gu Zhilan.

After a long while, An Xiao nodded gently, "Yeah."

"I'm sorry I lied to you."

Xiao Nuo rested his knees against the console, and it was hard to tell whether he was optimistic or smiling bitterly:

"I guessed that the girls in those photos might be the ones you were looking for. You couldn't sleep not because of sleep, but because you didn't want to sleep at all. You kept thinking about this. I know everything. Actually..."

She really wanted to say that she didn't want Sister An Xiao to look for any of the girls, but her voice became smaller and smaller.