Act I. 【Orient Express】
The sound of the train clattering, and after getting used to it, the rhythmic crashing sound also became a lullaby, making people drowsy.
Bai Ge sat on his bed, looking at the wasteland galloping backwards outside the window, and only then did he truly realize that he had indeed left his hometown.
To the west of the Western Regions Province is a real wasteland as far as the eye can see, with yellow sand, storms, and a rare oasis next door, which shows a lonely and alienating atmosphere under the light of the stars at night, which makes people feel melancholy.
The Orient Express is speeding through the wasteland at the moment.
The train is divided into three seats, the ordinary, two-car third-class ticket for people living at the transit station; The second-class seats are bunk berths for four people, and ordinary dining cars can be used; The first class seat is a luxury ticket with a separate room and a high-class dining car service.
Bai Ge bought a first-class seat.
It's not because he thinks it's rare to take this kind of legendary transcontinental train once and lose money without a first-class seat, absolutely not.
It's because Bai Ge, as an upgrader, naturally has to keep a certain distance from others.
Sitting on the soft mattress, Bai Ge took a sip of black tea with lemon slices that was not of high quality, but tasted pretty good.
Tonight, the Orient Express will spend the night in the wasteland, stopping for only 10 minutes at 12 a.m., and then stopping at another transit station for resupply and routine inspections until 6 a.m. tomorrow morning, just after dawn.
In other words, something special will definitely happen tonight, either a monster invasion or a train accident.
In addition, the private room next to Bai Ge seems to have been empty and there is no movement, and it is really a bit strange to contact the conductor who said that Bai Ge is the last ticket.
Hope people are okay.
Thinking of this, Bai Ge laughed self-deprecatingly, turned his gaze back, and looked at his palm.
After a few days of familiarization and adaptation, Bai Ge has basically been able to master his third-order, [Hero's Proof] stage ability.
Just like the rank name [Assassin], at this stage, Bai Ge's combat ability has made great progress.
First of all, it is the ability to apply various light weapons, including but not limited to daggers, short swords, pistols, etc., as long as you get it in your hands, Bai Ge can quickly master its usage, structure, just like an old driver who has been driving for many years, he can drift by touching the steering wheel with his eyes closed, this ability also strengthens Bai Ge's card throwing skills, and now, even if he uses ordinary cards, Bai Ge can also cause a considerable degree of damage.
Secondly, Bai Ge's physical strength, dexterity, tolerance to injury and other physique-related abilities have improved again, especially the explosive power of short distances, and can even burst out with huge strength in places where there is only a small space for movement, relying on the slight movement of various joints and muscles in the body, in a narrow place similar to a room and indoors, Bai Ge's speed has also increased by a notch, which is enough to complete the high-speed assassination that Qin Kewei has not yet noticed when he killed someone.
Then, Bai Ge's [Eye of Thieves] can also be regarded as an upgrade to [Assassin Vision], in addition to the flaws that can see everything and the blind spot of consciousness, as well as the weaknesses of things captured when holding the [Picture Poor Dagger], it can also react to subtle feelings such as killing intent, and no longer needs to concentrate, becoming a permanent ability that can be switched on and off at any time.
In addition, Bai Ge obtains a small inspiration ability similar to [Crime Premonition], this intuitive ability can smell the breath of official personnel, and is particularly sensitive to criminal behavior, without special concealment, Bai Ge can easily distinguish those with official status.
Finally, the appearance transformation of [Man with a Thousand Faces] has been raised to a higher level, which can more finely simulate characteristics including smell and body fluids, and has an impact on the clothes to a certain extent, confusing the other party's impression of Bai Ge's clothes when the subject is not particularly concerned; The distance of [Stealing] and the quality of the items that can be stolen have been increased by 50%, which can be regarded as an enhancement of the previous ability.
And what is truly called [Assassin] is the extraordinary ability of the name.
The first item is [Tu Poor Dagger], this ability Bai Ge can create an invisible dagger in his hand that is consistent with the most primitive abyss relic [Tu Poor Dagger], the strength of this dagger is equal to the abyss relic period, and the greatest convenience is that it can be hidden at any time, Bai Ge used this ability to make a dagger when he killed Qin Kewei.
This dagger can also be thrown, but if it does not touch Bai Ge's body within five minutes, it will disappear into air, and Bai Ge can only make one dagger at the same time, purely from the perspective of [assassin], this ability is indeed simple and practical.
The second item is an upgraded version of [Disappearing Magic], [Shadow Jump], this ability expands the distance between [Disappearing Magic] and the object to exchange positions to fifty meters, and there is almost no limit to the number of times it can be used at the same time, and its own [Shadow Jump] is able to allow Bai Ge to transfer in a certain concentration of shadows, and this shadow can be shuttled to another shadow with a maximum distance of no more than fifty meters, which also requires the support of the path, but it is used a lot, At least Bai Ge felt a little tired after using it fifty times in an hour.
[Shadow Jump] also has an additional ability, which is to reduce the chance of Bai Ge being perceived and detected when he is in the shadows.
In the end, Bai Ge's [Personality Mask] was actually strengthened after he entered the third order!
Before, Bai Ge could probably only appear when he was highly mentally concentrated and under great pressure to survive, but now Bai Ge can take the initiative to use it.
When used, a similar phantom will appear around Bai Ge's eyes, and at the same time, speed, strength, dexterity will be greatly improved, and the damage tolerance performance will be improved, and most importantly, when he can cause damage to the enemy, he can recover himself at the same time, so to speak, before the spirit is exhausted, Bai Ge can completely rush into the crowd with a big sword to open Wushuang, and the stronger he fights, the stronger he gets, the stronger he fights.
This greatly improved Bai Ge's frontal combat ability.
Of course, based on the rank type of [Assassin], Bai Ge still did not have offensive means such as resentful spirits, ghosts, and minds.
"This is really a sword in the dark."
Thinking of some people, Bai Ge curled the corners of his mouth.
Now he is only a preliminary attack, and the assassination of Qin Kewei has not brought much improvement, perhaps because the other party is too weak, Bai Ge guessed that according to the records of the [Assassin Biography], most of the assassins in this are still daring to make a move in the face of the king, so his current [Assassin's] attack on the name should also face an enemy of the same level or stronger to complete the assassination in order to improve.
As for the plans after that......
Bai Ge's current ostensible identity is Yasin Hercule, a student who has finished college in Zhuxia and is about to go to the Pan-Western Sea Business Community School City to receive an education.
Under this layer of identity, Yasin is actually a private detective, born in Zhuxia, and because he left a certain criminal record, he decided to leave there and return to his hometown of Panxihai, where he had never been.
BELOW ASIN'S IDENTITY IS THE FAMOUS MONSTER THIEF JOKER, WHO, AFTER CAUSING A NUMBER OF CASES IN JINGJIANG, DECIDES TO SHIFT HIS TARGET AND GO TO THE MORE CHAOTIC PAN-WESTERN SEA.
Under the monster thief JOKER, he accidentally got the fragment of history and became the white song of the upgrader.
Under Bai Ge, he is the temporary worker of the Abyss Relic Affairs Department, the only witness and survivor of the Jingjiang natural disaster, Bai Ge.
Bai Ge has left corresponding proofs between these layers of identity, not to mention Zhuxia, who checks the household registration like eating and drinking, and a country that advocates freedom and looseness like the Pan-Western Sea Business Community, it is almost difficult to find out Bai Ge's true identity.
As for finding someone from the Abyss Relic Affairs Department to verify?
I'm sorry, Bai Ge and Bai Ge can't be generalized.
When he arrived in the Pan-Western Sea, Bai Ge was ready to change trains directly and go to the school city located in the southern part of the Pan-Western Sea, located on the shore of the New Mediterranean, which is one of the cultural centers of the Pan-Western Sea.
In the old days, almost on the same coordinates, there used to be great libraries that tried to contain all the books in the world, and a school city where scholars, poets, and anyone from all walks of life could study freely, but all this was destroyed by the war.
After the Great Collapse, a fifth-order of the Pan Western Sea, it is rumored that Alexander the Great's ascended person presided over the rebuilding of the school city and the great library, and the ascended person also took this opportunity to complete the name raiding ceremony, promoted to the sixth order, and became a demi-human and demigod powerhouse.
Today, the Library of Alexandria and the Palace of the Muses bring together almost all the written materials available in the world, and there are even auctions of historical fragments, regular explorations of the abyss, and the city of learning is open to everyone under the policy of free trade.
As an ascended person who can move freely, it is impossible not to be uninterested in this school city with a thick history, and Bai Ge is naturally the same.
Not to mention, his mysterious mother once went to the school city and studied there for a while.
Whether Bai Ge is improving his strength, looking for the secret left by his mother, or waiting for Bi Zhenyan and other guys from the Order yesterday to show their fox tails, they will inevitably go to the school city.
"It's a pity that I don't have much money......"
Bai Ge still had more than five thousand pounds "stolen" from Qin Kewei in his pocket, and this money was enough for him to spend a month or two in the Panxi Sea, so Bai Ge needed to find a way to make money.
"Why do you have a feeling of suddenly entering society from school, I didn't feel it before, but now I really feel that I need money everywhere, and it's really uncomfortable not to be reimbursed."
Bai Ge smiled softly and laughed at himself.
"Well, either after arriving in the Pan Western Sea, get an identity such as a dark knight, punish rape and eliminate evil at night, and exercise the ability of [assassins], you can also make money by capturing those wanted criminals, and they all say that killing people and setting fire to the gold belt, this may be a way."
He had read some of the introductions about the Pan-Western Sea, and the country was not a complete and unified country, but as the name suggested, more like a business union.
More than 40 cities on a broken continent are independent, forming a political structure similar to the old city-state system, and at the same time, most of the cities are not dominated by kings and mayors, but by large corporations and large corporations.
It is precisely because of this loose structure that the Pan-Western Sea is not even uniform in laws, such as the city of New Brandenburg, where Darmstadt was born, has a strange law that it is illegal to undress in front of a portrait of a man, and the city of Neu-Constein, where the train terminates, has a law that prohibits painting the lawn red, and strange laws such as no ice cream in trouser pockets, no selling of hollow wood, "self-generating" decapitation, and no plastic bags of ketchup.
Under this kind of legal system, large conglomerates and large enterprises are naturally able to control the legislature to a certain extent and introduce legal provisions that are beneficial to themselves, so when there is a commercial dispute in the Pan-Western Sea and it is necessary to resort to the court, which side of the home court usually means who the victory ultimately belongs to, so some old cases have even been fought for hundreds of years without results - if you win me here, I will win you on the other side, quite a child's childish sense of playing rebound and rebounding rebound.
But that's the reality.
The legislation is so bizarre, the law enforcement is even more messy, and it is often difficult for MI5 and local police stations to effectively crack down on criminals, so in the Pan Western Sea, bounty hunters, or mercenaries, private detectives are quite common, and even major enterprises and consortia have their own private armies, and Bai Ge's idea is not nonsense.
There is also a bounty system in the Pan Western Sea, where some famous wanted criminals are on the bounty list, and as long as they can get their heads back, they can get a huge sum of tens of millions of pounds - of course, most of these wanted criminals are promoted people, and those who can defeat them are not short of money.
Speaking of which, Atlas, the game development company of "Destiny: Upgrade Designation", is rumored to be located in the Pan-Western Sea Business Community, but in order to prevent players from sending blades, no one knows the address, only that it is located in Atlas City, and the legend of this city is also quite a game element, which can be called a large playground, Bai Ge feels that if he has a chance, he must take a look.
Thinking of this, Bai Ge felt that the speed of the train slowed down, and a small platform appeared in front of him, as well as the fortifications and solid structures around the platform, this should be the supply station tonight, and in the next six hours, the train will no longer stop, lonely and alone in the wasteland.
Bai Ge took off his coat and was about to lie down and rest after the departure of the train, when there was a sound of people next door, in the originally empty private room.
Bai Ge relied on his keen perception and quickly sketched the image of those three people.
Two young men in thick coats, a middle-aged man with a slightly hunched back, are carrying luggage, walking into the private room next door, well, it seems that there is still a small animal?
"At this time, get on the bus here?"
Bai Ge was confused, but he knew very well that now was not the time to meddle.
The commotion next door quickly subsided, and the train started again, speeding through the silence of the night.
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