"...... Mi?"

Faced with Jiang Yan's question, the little slime was naturally full of question marks.

Well, Jiang Yan shook his head with a smile, and he didn't expect this little guy's IQ to be able to answer such a question that must be secret.

Even Jiang Yan thought that if his guess was really true, then this kind of secret was not something that ordinary low-level elves could know.

"Well, it's a bit too early to think about these things now, if you want to touch this kind of thing, at least you have to wait until your strength improves." ’

......

A little later than scheduled, Jiang Yan finally found the location of the stronghold of the assassination branch arranged for him by the military department.

"22 Shiratori Street...... I guess this is it. ”

On the crowded street, Jiang Yan raised his eyes to look at the small shop with a very simple appearance and decoration with a bright nightingale bar sign, and without too much hesitation, he directly stepped forward and pushed the door and walked in.

It was still a bright morning, and there were no customers in the bar, at most there were only two people in the hall the size of an Internet café in Jiang Yan's previous life, one was a bartender who was wiping his wine glass with a white handkerchief, and the other was a man in his thirties in a black suit with authentic blonde hair and blue eyes sitting leisurely at a table reading a newspaper.

There were only these two people in the front hall of the store, and the environment seemed a little deserted.

After Jiang Yan pushed open the glass door and came in, the two of them didn't raise their heads, and the man in the suit reading the newspaper said lightly: "Little guy, are you lost? This is not the place where a child like you should come!"

There was a low sense of indifference in the voice of the man in the suit, if it was really an ordinary lost child who was inadvertently curious to come in, most of them would be suppressed, and then obediently retreat.

Jiang Yan didn't care about the man in the suit, he glanced at the environment in the front hall of the bar, and then walked straight to the back door in the corner of the front hall.

Brush ——!!

Jiang Yan tilted his head slightly, and felt a strong wind flashing next to his cheeks, and a cold light suddenly flew in front of him, and at the same time, there was a muffled sound of a sharp weapon being nailed into the stone wallboard not far away beside him.

As soon as he turned his head, Jiang Yan saw a slightly trembling dinner knife stuck in the wall over there, and the man in the suit in the distance was still looking at the newspaper, but one of his hands had been raised to make a throwing posture.

Obviously, this is a warning.

"Do you need me to repeat it kindly, but next time, you may accidentally slip your hand, maybe your ears will have to move, little ghost, this is not the place for you to come!"

“...... Alas, strange, haven't you received an order?" Jiang Yan sighed and read out a paragraph in a deep voice: "ASBL-6-213." ”

Hearing this number, the bartender and the man in the suit finally stopped ignoring Jiang Yan, and both of them suddenly turned their heads, looking at Jiang Yan with a hint of vigilance and scrutiny.

"This must be the branch of Billon City, right? I'm a new recruit who came to report! ”

"Oh, you're the newcomer?" The man in the suit put down the newspaper and stood up, slowly walked in front of Jiang Yan, looked at him condescendingly, and suddenly grinned with a sneer, a pair of eyes widened, and unabashedly exuded a sinister look at Jiang Yan's eyes: "Hey, little ghost, didn't your instructor tell you that recruits should be punctual when they report?"

Facing the other party's gaze as if he was about to eat someone, Jiang Yan's eyes were very calm, and his tone didn't even change.

"I guess I'm not late, the appointment time on the appointment issued by the military department is not until 10 o'clock in the morning, right?"

"Hey, newcomer, pay attention to your attitude!" Seeing this, the man in the suit was slightly surprised for a moment, and then turned to a sneer: "In order to wait for you, I wasted a night in vain!"

"Wait for me?" Jiang Yan said clearly: "So, you are my temporary partner and instructor?"

Of course, the military department will not let laymen like Jiang Yan directly join the assassination unit when they first arrive, and if the newcomer fails, it doesn't matter if he dies himself, the key is that the assassination target is likely to be taken aback because of this, causing the difficulty of the task of the successor to rise out of thin air, which is only to increase the trouble.

Therefore, it is common for an old timer to lead the newcomer for a period of time and team up to carry out the mission. If the novice fails, the veteran will remedy it in time.

Of course, this kind of teaming is temporary, and after only a few tasks, the team will be disbanded when the newcomer is used to being able to be independent.

"Of course it's me, you can call me Master Mande! Little ghost, if you can name that number, your identity will basically not be wrong, but you still have to go through a procedure to confirm it first, and take out the appointment!"

Jiang Yan took out the order given to him by the military department and displayed it in front of Mande's eyes.

Mander looked at it seriously and nodded, "Hmm...... That's right, then-"

Then, he leaned over and grabbed Jiang Yan's neck and lifted his small body into the air, with a look of banter in his eyes.

"The name is ...... Jiang Yan, right? Little ghost, do you know that as temporary partners, old-timers like us still have the obligation to give necessary guidance to newcomers. And you have to know that how to show the right attitude at the right time is also an important lesson in assassination, that is, disguise! Now, looking at your performance just now, I am very dissatisfied! I think that before you really start your mission, I have to teach you the first lesson: 'How to respect your predecessors'!"

Jiang Yan shook his head very calmly, as if the person who was raised roughly was not himself.

"Is the so-called guidance of your predecessors your current way of violence?"

"Uh......"

Originally, seeing that Jiang Yan was so young, even if his identity was relatively special, Mande also looked at it with contempt. But at this moment, he saw that the other party was not suppressed by his momentum at all, and his face couldn't help but stiffen a little.

In the next second, the banter in his eyes disappeared, and the real anger emerged, and the wrist that grabbed Jiang Yan's neck gradually began to increase its strength.

Click......

Jiang Yan's neck even began to faintly hear the wailing sound of bones.

"I'd like to advise you - let it go. But Jiang Yan's face remained unchanged, and his eyes looked at Mande calmly.

"You little devil ......!!! Sure enough, as the information says, you really haven't seen anything in the world, haven't you recognized the current situation, it seems that you have to really eat something...... Huh!?"

Before he finished speaking, Mande suddenly felt a tingling pain in his palm, and in the next second, a numb and painful touch quickly spread from his palm to his body.

Unable to help but let go of Mande's paralyzed arm weakly, Jiang Yan's body was free.

"What?!damn it!!"

As an old-timer, Mande's reaction speed is not bad, he suddenly realized that he should have been plotted, the look of anger flashed in his eyes, Mande mobilized his spiritual power to instill it into his arm and began to dispel the paralysis, and at the same time raised his big foot mercilessly and kicked towards Jiang Yan, who had just been freed and was still in mid-air and gradually falling.

A gust of wind blew in the fierce kicking room, which shows that Mande is really merciless this time, although he did not deliberately aim at the vital point, but being kicked this time, with Jiang Yan's physical fitness at the moment, he will definitely suffer enough internal injuries to vomit blood.

Faced with this scene, Mande found that the imp's expression remained unchanged.

It's as if you don't know what danger and pain are.

'This little ghost...... What kind of freak did the military stuff for me!' muttered helplessly, but Mande's kick did not reduce the force in the slightest. He believes that a thorn like Jiang Yan must be made to suffer some substantial hardships and sharpen his temperament before he can bring it.

Poof——!

The big foot in the black leather shoes kicked Jiang Yan's lower abdomen firmly.

However, Mande's face changed instantly.

'Wait, this doesn't feel right?!—— it's not a human body!!'

In the next moment, Mande was shocked to find that Jiang Yan's whole person in front of him had melted like mud, completely losing his human shape, and turning into a semi-liquid substance and flying out.

At the same time, a chill suddenly rose from behind.

"Please don't act rashly, senior, or if I accidentally slip my hand, maybe you will have to get a big hole in your body. ”

The feeling of being pushed against something in the back of my waist and abdomen came to me.

Mande squinted and turned his head to look at the corner of his eye, and saw Jiang Yan standing behind him for some time, holding a white pistol against his waist, with a grinning expression on his face.

Turning his head again to look at the semi-liquid creature in front of him that had been kicked apart by himself and was slowly reuniting together, Mande knew in his heart: "...... Is this the slime elf of the mutant species with a very strong camouflage ability of the newcomer mentioned in the information......? But newcomer, are you sure you're going to threaten me with a gun?"

Jiang Yan grinned, completely different from the expressionless mimic pretender before.

"Ha, senior, are you interested in trying my family's 'Xiaobai's unique skills?"

Another small white pistol appeared on Jiang Yan's other hand, and he directly raised it and aimed it at the wall next to him and pulled the trigger.

A transparent water bomb with almost no traces shot out in an instant, directly in front of Mande, corroding the wall into a bowl-sized pit.

This power made Mande, who witnessed the whole process, couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

"How is it, the power is good, senior?" Jiang Yan smiled and pressed forward a little bit against Mande's lower back, and at the same time glanced at the other party's left hand unabashedly: "By the way, do you want to guess whether this 'me' behind you is the real body, or is it still a disguise?"

Mande was silent for a few seconds, had to disperse the spiritual power that had been secretly accumulated in his left hand, and then looked at his right arm, which was still in a state of paralysis, and smiled bitterly.

"Well, I admit, you win, newcomer, I surrender. ”

"It's rude. Jiang Yan retreated a few steps when he saw that it was good, and the water gun in his hand also disappeared directly in front of Mande, and he didn't know if it was really put away, or if it was simply invisible.

Mande, who turned around, flashed a little hesitation in his eyes, looking at the little boy in front of him with a faint smile, but in the end he didn't make a move, and sighed instead.

"Whew...... In terms of ability, I have to say, you are really suitable to be an assassin!"

Jiang Yan, who was praised, had just the right amount of shyness on his handsome little face: "You praised it, it's just some little tricks that can't be put on the table." ”

The little boy smiled a little wryly, just like a real ordinary **-year-old child when he was praised by an adult.

It was completely impossible to see that a moment ago, this thing was still holding a murder weapon that could brutally take people's lives, threatening others.

Mande looked at Jiang Yan's expression and pulled the corners of his mouth: "Tsk...... Little ghost, are you really as the information says, you haven't had much contact with the outside world before?"

People who come out of that kind of place, no matter how you look at their personalities, shouldn't they be like Jiang Yan!

"Huh?" Jiang Yan replied with a smile: "Isn't it the predecessor you just taught?" ”

After a moment's steady observation, Mander shook his head.

“...... Forget it, as far as the partner of the mission is concerned, this will also save me a lot of effort. ”

The two of them did not delve into the issue anymore.

"According to the usual process, the rookie still needs to run in and train for a period of time after reporting, but with your kid's performance just now, I can already avoid those examples, so let's go straight to the point and start the task today, right?"

Jiang Yan nodded and said no opinion.

Next, Mande first explained to Jiang Yan the composition and operation of their special assassination units under the military department.

The special assassination unit adopts an operational structure similar to that of mercenaries, but it is different from the voluntary task method of normal mercenaries, in essence, their work is compulsory under the military department, and many tasks must be enforced as long as they are issued from above, and they must not shirk them.

Of course, in order to motivate the enthusiasm of subordinates, although it is a compulsory nature, the assassins also have bonuses to receive.

Unless there is really no assignment issued, each member of the special assassination unit must complete the required amount of assignment on a regular basis. For example, Jiang Yan, although he has just joined, he must complete the task of the assigned evaluation level three times a month.

By the way, failed tasks are not counted in the task amount, and if you don't die because of the task itself, you will be punished. The lighter ones will be deducted from the bonuses, and the heavier ones will even be deprived of all rights and interests, and will be directly reduced to slaves of the empire, or sent to the front line as consumable cannon fodder, or even sent to the extremely dangerous test benches of some research institutes, in another form of sacrifice for the empire.

After giving a general introduction to the situation of the special assassination unit, Mande took Jiang Yan back to the front desk, talked to the bartender, and then took a mission order from him.

Jiang Yan raised his eyes and glanced at it, and found that there was a fat bald middle-aged man on it, and his face with a kind smile was piled up with fat that seemed to be dripping fat, which was easy to identify.

"As the first test of the waters, let's choose this guy. ”