98. Nick's Reckoning
Nick's expression looked unusually dignified on the surface, but his heart was already completely turbulent.
A thousand faces, a guy you've never heard of!
But his strength is just as genuine!
Nick knows that with his current strength, he may be able to be on par with the other party, but it is impossible to defeat the other party. Even, he thinks that the other party has not exerted his full strength so far, otherwise the other party would not have appeared in front of him so without scruples.
And what will be stronger than his median hero?
Superior heroes?
Epic?
Nick didn't know, and he didn't want to know.
Outside the door, there was a rush of footsteps.
And then soon, someone started to open the door suddenly.
Because the short but fierce battle between Nick and Su Yan was enough for everyone in the entire secret stronghold to find out.
"Don't come in!" Nick and Su Yan were still wrestling, but that didn't stop him from letting out a roar.
The sound outside the door suddenly stopped.
"It's none of your business here, leave!"
"But, the chief, ......"
"I say! Leave! Nick let out an angry shout.
"Yes." Although there was a strong reluctance in the voice, the sound of others leaving was still heard outside the door.
Listening to the sound of his men leaving, Nick began to slowly relax his strength, as much as possible to show that he was not in the mood to continue fighting: "I think we can talk, really talk." β
"Of course." Su Yan also nodded, and had no intention of continuing to be aggressive.
Maintaining the same tacit understanding, both sides soon retreated at the same time.
Blade, separation.
But unlike the situation where the slashing blade in Nick's hand was still intact, the one in Su Yan's hand was broken from itβthe location where the fracture was broken was exactly where he and Nick collided with each other when they used the sword drawing technique at the same time just now.
However, Su Yan didn't care, what he was holding in his hand was as if it was an intact chopping blade, and he still put the knife back into its sheath.
And Nick didn't seem to see that the weapon in Su Yan's hand was damaged at all.
He stretched out his finger and pointed to his face, and then said, "Can you, change your face." The way you look makes me feel a little ...... Schizophrenia. β
"Yes." Su Yan nodded.
Then, he reached out and wiped his face.
With the wiping of his left hand, his whole face suddenly changed.
What appeared in front of Nick was a plain-looking, but sharp-eyed face.
And it was only at this time that Nick suddenly realized that his attention was completely attracted by Su Yan's left hand just now, as if it was a left hand full of magic, so that he didn't even notice when Su Yan's hair color and hairstyle, as well as the momentum exuded from his body and body, changed.
This made Nick's heart even more vigilant.
But Su Yan knew that this was entirely the credit of the chameleon mask.
When using this mask, no matter how powerful a person is, he will have a moment of trance, and he will not find out how the disguiser disguises his identity.
Of course, the function that this mask can provide is really just a disguise of identity. It may be able to turn Su Yan into Nick, but it won't let Su Yan have those skills of Nick - in fact, whether it is the previous [Sky Breaking Slash] or the later [Sword Drawing Technique], these skills are only the combat skills that Su Yan has mastered. As for the chopping blade, it was naturally because Su Yan had collected information from Antia in advance, and then had a tool to prepare.
The image he needs to create is to make people think that "Thousand Faces can not only disguise themselves as each other, but even perfectly replicate all of the other party's abilities." β
"This is who you really are?" Nick looked at Su Yan's appearance, and then couldn't help asking.
"Guess." Su Yan asked rhetorically.
However, Nick did not continue to dwell on this issue, but simply chose to change the topic: "Regarding the information about the person you want to entrust the task, it is impossible for our Thieves Guild to give you directly, because it will damage the reputation of our Thieves Guild." β
He knew what the man in front of him, who called himself a thousand faces, wanted, so he said directly.
"If you can't give it to me directly, then it means there is another way." But Su Yan didn't eat this, he was too familiar with the word games that these insidious guys wanted to play.
Nick didn't answer directly, but continued: "Sain and Dami have already met with the client. The mission publisher was obviously very anxious for this task, so he had asked to go to the Winston Hotel to find him as soon as he had any news. β
Su Yan didn't speak, but stretched out his hand again to wipe it off his face.
This time, when Nick saw Su Yan's movements, he began to stare at him with all his attention.
But the result was the same, he didn't know when his attention was completely distracted, and by the time he came back to his senses, the thousand faces standing in front of him had been replaced by the image of Dami.
Su Yan didn't pause, he got up very simply, and then turned to leave.
All the while, he didn't look at Nick again.
This is another impression that Su Yan wants to make "Thousand Faces" give to others: silent, cold and arrogant, with the ability and courage to act directly at the target, and never waste any time.
A crisp and crisp image.
Watching Dammy in Su Yan's disguise leave, Nick was silent for a moment before finally getting up and leaving.
There are some things that he needs to confirm.
After all, the Thieves Guild is in charge of all the intelligence work in the entire continent.
But the appearance of such a mysterious person, Nick felt that it was definitely a dereliction of duty on the part of the Thieves Guild.
Maybe others will think it doesn't matter, but he definitely won't.
β¦β¦
The Winston Hotel is a hotel located on the edge of the border between the slums of Shandu and the middle class.
Of course, it also works part-time as a tavern business.
The person standing behind this inn is naturally a member of the Thieves' Guild.
It's a clear stronghold of the thieves' guild in the mountain capital.
Most people come here if they want to buy information from the Thieves' Guild.
Of course, in addition to the purchase of information, many businessmen also chose this inn as accommodation after coming to Santo.
The reason is the good and cheap service here.
However, at this time, Dami, who was disguised by Su Yan, did not enter through the main entrance, but entered the hotel through the back door.
When passing through the kitchen from the back door, everyone took Su Yan's appearance for granted, and no one shouted about it, and there was even a woman who seemed to be a waiter leading the way for Su Yan without a trace.
For this, Su Yan was not the slightest surprised.
In his past military career, he was very aware of these cats - even if this was not the case in the game, Su Yan would not treat this real world as a game. Although this world has a lot of traces of "Eternity" and similar problems that cannot be reversed, Su Yan has never treated it in the way of the game in terms of thinking logic.
He has his own logical concept.
The maid who had led the way in front quickly left without a trace.
Exposed in front of Su Yan was a booth in the corner.
If you enter through the main entrance, you will never be able to find this booth due to the viewing angle. Only when you go closer to the edge can you find this independent booth arranged in the shadow of the corner - it is just a matter of light, but it is like a clear border, separating this booth from the entire hotel lobby, forming two worlds.
The corners of Su Yan's mouth raised slightly: It's a little interesting.
So, he walked straight to the corner, and without waiting for the man in the corner to reply, he was already seated opposite.
"You're breaking the rules." Su Yan said mercilessly.
"What do you mean?" The man lurking in the shadows asked.
His voice is very young, but he knows that some people's voices will be more unique Su Yan, but he doesn't think that the person in front of him will be a young man.
"You know what you mean." Dami, played by Su Yan, snorted coldly, "In addition to us, there are people who are also investigating that couple!" β¦β¦ When you send a commission to our Thieves' Guild, you should know the rules. β
"It's certainly not ......"
"Okay, you think I'm going to say something like that without solid evidence?" Su Yan sneered, "What do you think our Thieves Guild does?" β
"It's a misunderstanding, I assure you......," said the man with a very young voice.
"Alright, this boring nonsense, I hope it can be converted into something more substantial." Su Yan waved his hand, and then spoke.
"What do you mean......" the other man's voice seemed a little hesitant.
"Hmph, the little girl you wanted, we caught it." Su Yan said in a deep voice, "But the information you gave us is also wrong!" The other party has a very powerful shadow guard, if it weren't for the fact that we didn't believe your so-called intelligence from the beginning, I'm afraid we would have planted it by now. β¦β¦ So, come over and take that little girl away, we don't want to set ourselves on fire! β
"What? Already caught!? There was an incredible tone in the other party's words.
"Huh." Su Yan, who knew what the other party was thinking, naturally threw out a bait that the other party couldn't deny at all, "Didn't you tell us that the little girl was a half-elf and had a good relationship with the elves of the Elders' Council. β
The next moment, there was a bit of dry laughter in the other party's voice: "This, I don't know very well." β
"Alright, come with me. β¦β¦ I want to complete our commission before the elves find out. Su Yan no longer paid attention to the other party, but got up.
Soon, the man who had been huddled in the shadows all along got up and followed Su Yan away.
It was a very young-looking man.
But in fact, Su Yan had already obtained the answer he wanted from the other party.
Because, this is an elf.
Although the other party was well disguised, the intelligence information revealed in front of Su Yan's eyes would definitely not deceive him.
Soon, Su Yan led the other party to a slum street without any people.
"Mr. Dami, this ......" The elf asked, as he seemed to be a little confused.
But in exchange, it was Su Yan's sudden twisting attack.
Without giving the other party any chance to react at all, Su Yan had already stunned the opponent with one punch, and then caught the opponent's figure that was about to fall. At the same time, he stretched out his hand and changed his appearance again, changing from the image of Dami to the image of Glaven, one of the three elves in the Notia trial team who survived the demonic attack in the city of Acala.
He picked up the elf who had been stunned by him, glanced at the shadows next to him out of the corner of his eye, and then quickly left the place with the other party.
After Su Yan and the elf who had been subdued by him completely left this place, the shadow that Su Yan had targeted just now suddenly had a burst of distortion.
Nick, with a dignified face, walked out of it.
He looked at the direction in which Su Yan had left, and his voice was unprecedentedly solemn: "Not only can you disguise yourself as a human, but even an elf can you disguise yourself?" And ......" Nick thought carefully about the beginning of seeing the disguised Sein, and then to the elf image just now, and every time he remembered an image, his face was a little lower: "...... Moreover, each disguise seems to be able to master the opponent's abilities. The characteristics of Sein's strength, my skills before, and then Dami's speed...... Could it be an alien creature? No, no, there is no way that an ectopous creature could be so reckless. He didn't seem to care that his identity would be revealed...... So that's it...... He has a Void Relic on his body!? β
A flush of excitement appeared on Nick's face.