Chapter 177: A Land Outside the Law
Half a month later, Xin Lin received the illusion mask.
At this time, he was no longer in the villa before, and at Shi Qikang's suggestion, he changed to a penthouse apartment in a skyscraper, which was also extremely secluded and safe.
The mask was placed in an ordinary courier box and sent to Xin Lin through a drone, unpacking and taking out the mask, Xin Lin used telepathy to carefully observe this mask-like thing, as thin as a piece of paper, and I couldn't feel much weight in my hand, soft but extremely tough, and I don't know what material it was made of.
"It's better to call it dough." Xin Lin thought to himself.
Standing in front of the mirror, Xin Lin took a deep breath, put the phantom mask on his face, and immediately reacted. The light mask was originally solid, but in a second, it melted like water, seeping into the skin, and a cool feeling was felt on the face, as if there was really water splashed on it.
After a few seconds, the Phantom Mask completely vanished.
Xin Lin sensed that he seemed to have an extra organ connected to his brain, which was able to control the adjustment of his facial muscles and many skin adjustments on the surface of his body. It's so simple that you can master it without training, and it's as agile and fast as your fingers.
He took a few breaths, the muscles on his face began to rise and fall, the corners of his eyes were elongated, the bridge of his nose was slightly straightened, his cheeks were contracted, the distance between his eyebrows was narrowed, and his skin was a little darker.
Compared with Xin Lone's original appearance, this appearance looks older, between youth and middle age, a little less affinity, more indifference and arrogance, and it doesn't feel easy to get close to.
The original owner of this face is called Shi Hongyi, fifty-four years old this year, a high-ranking thermal warrior.
Shi Hongyi is a real person, his parents died in a spaceship crash together, he grew up in a federal welfare home, has no siblings, and has a withdrawn personality, but he became a Force warrior at the age of twenty, so he dropped out of college and became an interstellar mercenary to travel the stars.
In the Earth Federation, mercenaries are an irregular profession that is not officially recognized, roaming the fringes of the law, and they are often found on the battlefield or in the most dangerous areas of the stars, for one purpose: money. All the actions of mercenaries are for money, and as long as the bid is high enough, they can be hired by anyone to do anything.
In many cases, mercenaries will also work part-time as killers, and even many killers are mercenaries on the surface.
Shi Hongyi has been a mercenary for more than 30 years and has good strength, but because of personality problems, he always likes to act alone, so he is not very famous in the mercenary industry, and he can be called obscure. What's even more unfortunate is that he was accidentally killed in a covert operation last year, and the real identity of the employer is actually an undercover agent of the Federal Intelligence Agency, although the murderer was brought to justice afterwards, there is no way to bring him back to life.
Because Shi Hongyi has no relatives and no friends, no one cares about him after he dies, as if he never existed in this world.
When the Lu family screened forged identities for Xin Lian, they listed more than a dozen filings, from all walks of life, including space marines, white-collar workers, students, mercenaries, architects, teachers, etc., both completely fictitious identities and real but impostor candidates, let Xin Lin make his own decisions.
Xin Lin chose Shi Hongyi's identity at a glance, the reason is very simple, he decided to personally investigate the mastermind behind the 100 billion bounty!
He has always liked to take the initiative, but this time he was completely passive, which made him very unhappy.
Maybe pretending to be an ordinary person and hiding in a corner of a certain planet to cultivate with peace of mind, and waiting until his strength grows before taking revenge is the safest way, but Xin Lin is unwilling to wait like this, what if the Lu family can't find out who is behind the scenes?
As long as he thinks that the other party is hiding in the dark to watch his jokes, Xin Lin is angry in his heart, whoever makes him feel bad, he will make it impossible for anyone to live!
Looking at his face in the mirror, Xin Lin reflected himself with telepathy, fine-tuning it according to Shi Hongyi's data and images.
The main function of the illusion mask is to control the facial muscles, and the muscles in other parts of the body can also change slightly, not much, but enough.
Xin Lin and Shi Hongyi's figures were originally very similar, he continued to adjust the details and body habits, his height increased by one or two centimeters, reaching one meter nine, his skin color became lighter, his eyes became colder, and even his temperament was no different from Shi Hongyi's life, and he looked like a living person should not be approached.
If Shi Hongyi was still alive and saw Xin Lin at this time, he would definitely wonder if Xin Lin was his clone.
"Prepare yourselves to die."
Xin Xiao whispered, his voice also changed, and even the intonation and rhythm changed, and he couldn't hear his original voice at all.
Looking at the figure in the mirror, Xin Lin nodded slightly, he was very satisfied with this change.
There were other things in the box, including a new phone, a Gongfa chip, and an identity scanner. Xin Lin took out his mobile phone and turned it on, this is the mobile phone that Shi Hongyi once used, and it also fell into the hands of the Federal Intelligence Agency, cracked the password, and can be used normally.
I opened the address book and looked at it, there were only a dozen contacts on it, judging from the name notes, these people were all Shi Hongyi's former employers, as well as a few traders who sold stolen goods or bought equipment, and they didn't even have a friend who had a slightly better relationship.
Xin Lin shook his head while watching, thinking that this Shi Hongyi was too much of a failure to live.
What is recorded in the exercise chip is "Melting Star Gong", which is a three-star exercise, which happens to be a simplified and shrunken version of "Seven Colors Stellar Flame", except that the power is a lot worse than the genuine version, it looks very similar in other aspects.
"Shi Hongyi's cultivation talent is good, the three-star "Melting Star Gong" only took more than thirty years to cultivate to a high-level warrior, only a few nodes are missing and have not reached the limit, which is already much better than most Force warriors." Relevant information flashed in Xin Xiao's mind, which was one of the few bright spots on Shi Hongyi's body.
However, compared to his cultivation talent, Shi Hongyi's martial arts talent has become more ordinary, his usual weapons are long swords and firearms, but only one swordsmanship has reached the realm of thoroughness, and most of the time he relies on firearms in mercenary operations.
Xin Xiao smiled secretly, in terms of using guns and swords, his impostor is many times stronger than the real person.
The last one in the box is a scanner that verifies that the identity disguise has been successful.
Xin Lin picked it up and opened the scan for himself, a green circle of light was brushed from head to toe, and the result was shown with a tick, and Shi Hongyi's image information appeared on the screen.
"The camouflage worked."
Xin Lin put down the scanner and knew that there was no problem with his identity.
In fact, only his appearance and voice have changed, which are characteristics that can be distinguished by the naked eye, but the genetic information and iris fingerprints have not changed, if even these characteristics have changed, then he is no longer Xin Lone, but the real Shi Hongyi.
The Lu family just tampered with the content of Shi Hongyi in the federal citizen information database, except for the two most significant features of physiognomy and voice, the genetic information and iris fingerprints were replaced with Xin Lone's, and when the scanner read Shi Hongyi's appearance, it also read Xin Lone's genetic information, and then pointed to Shi Hongyi's identity.
If Xin Lin takes off the illusion mask and reads it with the scanner again, it will point to Xin Shan's true identity.
In other words, Xin Lin is now a body, two identities, and which identity he uses to appear in front of the world depends on his appearance. As long as he doesn't use Xin Lone's identity activation verification, he will not leave any whereabouts information, which is equivalent to disappearing in the eyes of outsiders.
Ten days later, Xin Lin boarded a spaceship bound for Juling Star as Shi Hongyi.
Juling Star is a terrestrial planet four times larger than the Earth, only fifty light-years away from the Elite Star, this planet only has a thin oxygen-free atmosphere, the planet's surface is full of deserts, hurricanes are raging, gravity is more than three times that of the Earth, it cannot live at all, and it cannot be transformed, but it has a glorious history.
Hundreds of years ago, a prospecting company discovered a vacuum crystal mine under the Juling Star, which immediately caused a sensation in the entire Federation, and countless people flocked to it, throwing a large amount of money and investing hundreds of millions of robots to dig frantically on the Juling Star, making many people rich overnight and creating a wealth myth.
Because the surface of Juling Star cannot be inhabited, several mining companies have teamed up to build a space city in orbit, which provides a place to rest and is also a transit station for minerals.
A hundred years later, the interior of Juling Star was full of holes, forming a huge labyrinth underground, most of the vacuum crystal mines were hollowed out, and the output was rapidly declining, until a single vacuum crystal could no longer be found.
Mining companies have withdrawn, and the space city in orbit has been idle ever since.
After hundreds of years of change, the space city has become a place outside the law. A large number of unscrupulous people gathered here, killers, mercenaries, incognito wanted criminals, and all kinds of people who had to hide in the gray area, or traders who came for profit, smuggled here, established a black market to sell stolen goods, and restored an alternative prosperity.
There is no distinction between good and evil, and there is no moral bottom line, the laws of the federation are not binding here, everything only speaks with strength, and it is also a breeding ground for evil.
There are many extralegal places in the Federation like Juling Space City, distributed in many star fields, they are the darkest corners of the Federation, and ordinary citizens cannot imagine existence. The federal government has also thought about cleaning up, but the forces behind each extralegal place are intricately intertwined, and they affect the whole body, and in the end, they are always lost.
Xin Lin wanted to investigate the mastermind behind the 100 billion bounty, and the first thing that came to mind was Juling Space City.
Because the evil wolf came from this space city, he received the bounty from the Juling Space City before going to Yiling Star, and the information given by the Lu family also pointed here, and the killer organization "Blood Handprint" was very likely to be hidden in it.
On the ship, a musty smell was everywhere, and the facilities in the room were similar to antiques, very backward.
The old spaceship had been in service for at least two hundred years and had fallen into disrepair, and when Xin Lin first saw it, he almost thought he had made a mistake. The exterior of the ship was covered in armor patches and tattered, like a large pile of space junk, making people wonder if it could sail, let alone faster-than-light.
However, there is only one spaceship from Yiling Star to Juling Space City, and ordinary people can't even buy tickets without special channels, and Xin Lin also relied on the guidance of the Lu family to buy tickets.
After Xin Lin boarded the ship, he found that none of the passengers on the ship were good-looking, most of them had strong force, both men and women were not good-looking, and there did not seem to be a good person, and the passengers showed deep vigilance against each other, as if a conflict might break out at any time.
Rumble!
A violent fluctuation came from the wall, and the whole room shook, Xin Xiao was helpless, shook his head and said, "It's fighting again!" ”
When the spaceship sailed out of Space City, he really experienced what chaos is, these guys who went to Juling Space City seemed to have an energy that could never be exhausted, and every few hours someone would fight over a little quarrel. It was useless for others to fight, but the spaceship was in the process of warping and sailing, and Xin Lin was worried that if the hull was broken, he would also be buried with him.
"I'm X you......" A series of shouts and curses came, mixed with the fierce fighting sounds, making people feel uneasy.
After a few minutes, the chaos subsided, ending with the defeat of one of them.
Xin Lone's telepathy swept through, and he probed every corner of the ship, and found that no one was surprised by the battle that had just taken place, and everyone was accustomed to it, with a cold attitude that did not care about themselves.
"It's really a world of the jungle, maybe this is another interpretation of the dark forest......" Xin Silence sighed secretly, retracted his telepathy, and concentrated on his cultivation.
Before leaving, he got this year's Blue Sky Fruit, but after thinking about it again, he decided to postpone eating it.
Last year, the Federation used its own Blue Sky Fruit to do research, and a few months later, it came up with a set of plans to eat it with the fruit, which can improve the success rate of generating telekinesis and reduce the damage after failure. At that time, the high-ranking samurai who participated in the sacrificial ceremony together except for him all successfully transferred to spiritual power, and some of them had the original idea of double cultivation, which was very beautiful.
After the news spread, this year's Qingkong Fruit was about to be robbed like crazy, and the Super Energy Affairs Department originally wanted to firmly grasp the distribution power of the fruit in its hands, but all parties exerted pressure on it, even Xiahou Zheng couldn't stand it, so he had to take out a part of the fruit for auction, and the one with the highest price would get it.
The auction took place in a virtual network and ended in the first two days.
The transaction price of the Blue Sky Fruit is shocking, even the lowest one has been sold for a sky-high price of 500 million!
There are really too many rich people in the Federation, 500 million is not much for some big rich people, if you can exchange 500 million for a warlock, there is simply no more cost-effective and transactional than this. If it weren't for the fact that taking the Blue Sky Fruit itself has requirements for brain wave frequencies and restricts the conditions for use, the price of the Blue Sky Fruit would only be higher.
After Xin Lin learned the price of the blue sky fruit, he was reluctant to eat it.
Anyway, in another year, his Force cultivation will be able to reach the limit of the node and launch an attack on the generals. Once he is successfully promoted to a general, according to Ji Xingxian, he will naturally become a warlock, so that he can save a Qingkong Fruit, and after selling it, the 500 million can do a lot of things.
The only thing he needed to do now was to cultivate the Force to the nodal limit as soon as possible.
Three days later, the ship broke away from its warping state, and a large yellow-brown planet appeared ahead.