Chapter 211: The Killer in the Shadows (Part I)
For Birkner's players, their lord, the legendary Cunzài, who had confronted a dozen Rank 8 and above thieves and killed nearly four of them, was said to have woken up. Although Xu Fei had already settled the bounties of those players who ran to rescue Chen Kai, he still couldn't stop those players from wanting to pay tribute to Chen Kai, the second player in the combat power rankings.
It's just that Chen Kai is probably not in the mood to meet these requirements, in fact, the players in Burkner Town are very aware that after their lord is assassinated, the vigilance of the entire town will definitely increase. It's just that they didn't think that the vigilance would be increased so much, it turned out that the number of guards patrolling the street was already very high when Chen Kai didn't wake up, but when Chen Kai woke up, this frequency became even higher. In particular, the area where the Lord's Mansion is located has reached almost the distance of sixteen patrols passing by every hour. This means that within five minutes, at least two patrols will appear around here, and then walk around the roads around the entire Lord's Mansion for about ten minutes.
The Lord's House, which was originally barely guarded, has now been guarded by at least two hundred aboriginal soldiers. In the eyes of most players, the Lord's House in Burkner was originally a manor house for only the player, and some players were even able to run inside and visit for ten minutes after paying a small sum of money to a thief. But now it is basically impossible for them to enter this place, because the six fierce men in purple heavy armor at the door are not as good at talking as the undisciplined thief, let alone giving money, if there is nothing close to this place, they will be investigated from top to bottom for a long time.
Therefore, the area around the Lord's Mansion has now become the least favorite place for players to stay, after all, no one wants to be investigated like a thief for half a day every time they pass by. At the same time, the small bazaar that was originally opened in front of the lord's palace was also moved nearly a kilometer out because of some willingness, and was placed in a small square not far away. In the small square in front of the City Lord's Mansion, basically no one wanted to approach except for the patrolling soldiers.
In this case. I don't think anyone will be in the mood to run to see a demi-giant who is in a bad mood. Of course, Chen Kai will not be willing to let people pay respect. In fact, he now preferred to kill all the Assassins. Then quietly run out to level up, but unfortunately this idea is just a luxury after all.
"Hey~~~!" Standing on the windowsill of the Lord's Mansion, Chen Kai sighed as he looked at the small square that had become much cleaner not far away, in order to prevent the assassins from relying on the player's cover as a cover, the original small bazaar was canceled. So the area around the Lord's Mansion is now quiet. At least in Chen Kai's opinion, this is much quieter than the noisy situation in the past. Fearing assassination, Chen Kai now had no way to even go to the Dawn Temple to pray, so he could only pray in the small hall in the lord's mansion. Of course, this doesn't really make much difference to the player, who are not as religious as the aborigines. As a result, many natives believe that the player's entry into the temple profession is an insult to the gods.
In fact, when a few blasphemous players took up the position of a temple profession, many Aboriginal believers even had a feeling of faith collapse. Fortunately, after these players took office, their profane language will be much more subdued, and they will even begin to transform into believers, which makes some believers feel that the majesty of our gods is a little less depressed.
"Hey~~!" Chen Kai sighed again, and then slowly closed the curtains, when he closed the curtains, his eyes seemed to catch some malicious light, but when he opened the curtains to look, he couldn't find any clues.
"Looks like I've been holding it for too long!" Chen Kai looked at the calendar on the table, it was the seventeenth day since he was assassinated. During these seventeen days, Chen Kai barely left the Lord's Mansion for half a step, and the only thing he could do every day was to deal with the things of the territory, then meditate and then cultivate Dou Qi and then eat. It looks unusually boring. But this is the only life he has had during this time, although Su Wan has stopped turning his face for him recently. But he still didn't give Chen Kai any good looks. This made Chen Kai extremely depressed, after all, it turned out that Su Wan was very gentle with him.
"But it really didn't feel wrong just now?! How can you not see people? Chen Kai lowered his head and rubbed his eyes, although Chen Kai couldn't level up because he couldn't leave the lord's mansion, but he didn't think that he was holding back for too long and his brain was broken. In fact, staying in the Lord's Mansion, Chen Kai's strength is still growing steadily, and he is now wearing a weight-bearing armor weighing 200 kilograms all over his body, while exercising his fighting spirit for at least three hours a day, praying and meditating for three hours. Although the weight-bearing exercise did not allow Chen Kai's strength to increase in a short period of time, it made his muscles gradually adapt to the high-intensity strength burden, and at the same time, his fighting energy and magic power increased by ten to fifteen points every day, so that Chen Kai's fighting energy and magic power values increased by nearly two hundred points during this time.
This increase has made Chen Kai's fighting spirit, which has already exceeded 5,000 points, and now it has exceeded 6,000 points, and is even close to the 7,000-point mark. At this moment, his fighting spirit value has reached 6,730 points, and at the same time, his magic power has also knocked on the 5,000-point mark, reaching 5,130 points. However, his level has barely increased recently, and his current level is still at level 63, killing four eighth-order thieves has given him a lot of experience, and he also has experience in governing the city, but it is still difficult for Chen Kai to upgrade. However, during this period of time, Chen Kai did practice a certain divine technique very proficiently, that is, the Eye of the Stars, of course, now this divine technique has been upgraded to the Eye of the Stars.
Although the possibility of seeing through the stealth every time is very low, at least at some point, Chen Kai can already use this magic technique to find a certain bad thief who has infiltrated the lord's mansion, and then wave a broom to sweep the other party out. It can be said that Chen Kai was able to comprehend this magic technique thanks to the bad big thief named Leif, as an intelligence agent of the Thieves' Guild, this thief named Leif can be regarded as a frequent visitor to the Lord's Mansion. Of course, most of the time he is a character who is thrown out, and even sometimes Chen Kai is so angry that he wants to use his sword to split the other party into ten or twenty knots.
It's a pity that the opponent's extremely powerful stealth ability makes Chen Kai have no way to take the other party at all, even if he releases Donnie and Xiaojin to patrol the lord's mansion. There were a few times when it wasn't for shit luck, maybe Chen Kai and the others didn't know that this thief would enter the lord's mansion to collect Chen Kai's information. For a specialized intelligence data collector trained by the thieves' guild like Lef, Chen Kai had almost no way. Because the other party became very vigilant after being caught once, and fled immediately as soon as he was discovered, the terrifying speed made it very difficult for the group to even catch him. In the end, it usually evolved into Chen Kai asking Xuehaifeng and Su Xinghe to take a large group of soldiers to run to the thieves' guild to block the door. But that didn't stop the thief from sneaking into the lord's mansion.
But as Chen Kai comprehended the Eye of the Stars. Gone are the days of the great thief in the Lord's Palace. When Chen Kai first upgraded the Eye of the Stars to the Eye of the Stars. He didn't know what it was for, but when he saw an illusory figure and slashed at it with a sword, everyone found that their lord was wielding a greatsword and chasing a thief with blood on his ass. This is the first time that the great thief Leif has been chased and driven out of the Lord's Mansion in Burkner Town, and then every time Leif touches the Lord's Mansion, he will be discovered by Chen Kai. After that, he didn't dare to approach the lord's mansion. Because every time someone is chased with a giant sword, it is not a comfortable memory. Therefore, this Leif is quite afraid of Chen Kai, and it is precisely because of this other party that Chen Kai has gradually mastered some special effects of the Eye of Delusion.
The original Eye of the Stars can also spot hidden enemies, but only if they are hostile to them and are evil creatures. If only there is hostility. Then, sometimes it is difficult for Chen Kai to find stealth enemies, especially high-level stalkers like Leif.
As he gradually became proficient, Chen Kai had spotted the Assassins hiding around the Lord's Mansion several times, but they usually only appeared for a moment, rarely exposed to sunlight. Therefore, many times after Chen Kai found out, he summoned his soldiers to rush there, and those assassins had fled without a trace. At the same time, as the number of these things increased, these assassins also understood that Chen Kai might have the ability to break through invisibility, or that someone in the lord's mansion could break through their invisibility. Therefore, they are exposed less and less, and even if they run around the lord's mansion and step on the spot, they are almost all shrunk under the cover of the house.
This time, the shadow that Chen Kai saw was actually an assassin, but unfortunately he only captured a shadow. Although Chen Kai's eyesight is very strong, it is hardly worse than a low-level archer, and even much more than that. But he could hardly catch a fleeting shadow in less than a second. Even Zhou Xuan didn't dare to say that she could capture the other party's shadow at that moment, because she hadn't mastered the archer's ability to break through stealth. Even if she mastered this ability, it would be impossible for her to lock on to a fleeting shadow in less than a second.
However, the heavily guarded Lord's Mansion caused problems for the Assassins who were determined to assassinate Chen Kai, and the Assassins were not just thieves in the game. In fact, the Assassin is not only a profession but also a position, with the former being a special advancement for the Guò Thief and the latter spending a little money to join the Assassin Guild. Even a helpless farmer can become an Assassin, as long as you know how to kill.
Of course, these assassins who were going to assassinate Chen Kai were not those farmers, and almost none of them were below the eighth order. If there were so many eighth-order powerhouses in Burkner Town in the past, Chen Kai would be very happy, but if he knew that there were more people in Burkner Town now, then he would have a headache, because they were all here to trouble him.
"Enchirano! It's all your fault for eating alone, if it weren't for your guy, the garrison wouldn't be so tight! "In a pitch-black basement, a dozen Assassins are gathering. The Assassin who was speaking had a very ugly face, as he was not a thief and had no ability to hide, and he had been in this stronghold for almost since the siege of Berkner.
"Kolagu! Don't think that you can despise me if I'm hurt! The thief assassin who covered his chest glared angrily at the warrior who slapped the table at him, the thief assassin named Enqilano was the leader of the thief assassin who had assassinated Chen Kai for more than ten days. After escaping using a teleportation scroll, he infiltrated the town of Burkner once more, entering the stronghold to recuperate.
"What if I despise you? If it weren't for your Enki thieves wanting to eat alone, how would things have become like this?! The warrior clapping the table glared at the other man, but he didn't really have much idea about the other party's eating alone, a warrior named Kolagu, because if it were him, he would also want to eat alone in that situation. It's just that in his opinion, he will definitely complete the task, instead of running away and not only not completing the mission, but also evolving things to the point of getting out of control.
"I eat alone! Haven't you eaten alone in Kolagu? Ahem~~! The Assassin named Encirano also slapped the table and stood up, but the next moment he began to cough violently, and after a few mouthfuls of blood ran from the corners of his mouth. Because of Chen Kai's terrifying attack. Leaving the thief assassin with a hard wound. Although it was not fatal, he needed to recuperate for at least half a year after being injured in the lungs.
"Even if I eat alone, I won't become a wolf like you! Tuberculosis ghosts! The Koragu warrior chuckled contemptuously. As for the person he ridiculed, needless to say, it was naturally Enchirano who coughed up until he vomited blood.
"I'm cǎo you! ~~" Enkirano, who was ridiculed by the other party as a tuberculosis ghost, pulled out the dagger directly from his waist, intending to give Kolagu a hard blow, but at this time, a pair of miserable white palms were placed on the table. The table made of iron and wood creaked under the weight of the palms of these hands. Then it shatters in an instant.
"Have you had enough trouble?" An emotionless voice appeared in the ears of the two of them, and the other assassins who had been watching the play also instantly fell silent, looking at the owner of the palms in horror. Neither Encirano nor Kolagu had any idea of arguing, because the owner of the palms of his hands had the power to kill them in an instant.
"Enchirano! If this mission fails, your group of thieves will bear the main responsibility! A rebuke slowly came out of the mouth of the owner of the miserable white palms. When he heard this, the thief assassin's face was a little pale because he was coughing and vomiting blood, and his face became even more ugly.
"Master Cap! I can explain! I—" The Rogue Assassin, who had been very arrogant in front of Koragu, had only endless panic on his face at the moment, and he tried to argue something, but when he saw the face of the Master Cap in his mouth, he immediately shut up.
"Don't question my decision! Enchilano? Dikla! A more soothing phrase poured out of the mouth of Master Cap, and the rogue assassin's body began to tremble like a sieve when he heard it.
"Listen to me! Those who offend the Duke must die, and this is the only purpose for which the Lord brought you here, and the only reward you can give to the Lord of Lordship! If you can't even do that, then you don't have to save zài! The man Enkirano called Master Cap said slowly, but as his gaze swept over the people in the chamber, few dared to make eye contact with him.
"If you complete this mission, the Duke will not be stingy with rewards, but if you can't! I think you should know where you're going! When Master Cap had said this, he slowly got up from his chair, and no one dared to say a word to catch his breath until he left the room, and it was not until he had been gone for nearly ten minutes that the people in the room began to breathe slowly, and soon after everyone left the room.
Enchirano and Coragu were the last to leave the room. Although they were still hostile to each other when they left, they saw that the chair that Master Cap had been sitting in was instantly shattered into slag by a gust of air. The fear in their hearts made the hostility between them disappear in an instant. They knew that the Lord would never lie, and if they didn't have a way to kill Chen Kai, then they might really be erased from this world.
For Chen Kai, he knew very well that those enemies lurking in the darkness had definitely not disappeared, but unfortunately he didn't know where the other party was now. One is in the light and the other is in the dark, even though Berkner Town is a new city, Chen Kai still doesn't know how many secrets he doesn't know in his territory. It may sound ridiculous, but it's true.
Although Chen Kai's territory has not yet developed any troublesome underworld underground forces, Chen Kai understands very well that some people may have infiltrated his territory without his knowledge. Even if Chen Kai very much hopes that he can run his territory like an iron bucket, in fact, his territory is only a wooden barrel, and it is also a wooden barrel with many sieve-like holes. Just one piece of information, Chen Kai suffered very much. Even though Fei Yuntong Guò contacted players to form an intelligence system that belonged to Burkner Town, the operation of this system made him very depressed, and most of the information he got was useless and often wasted Chen Kai's money.
However, this time, Chen Kai found some strange clues in some of the information submitted by Fei Yun, such as the powdered ironwood chips found in the trash can, such as a handkerchief with blood on it, and so on.
"Let Fei Laosi focus on investigating this area!" Chen Kai pinched the scraps of ironwood that had been handed over, and he knew very well that this kind of scraps would definitely not be the product of carpenter's carpentry, but the result of someone's slap with terrifying power. Chen Kai didn't think that such a store would go to his territory for a vacation, and he would have to hide his traces from being discovered, so he immediately paid attention to the area where the sawdust was found. (To be continued.) )