When Richard came to his senses, he looked at every costume in this room, whether it was a gorgeous chandelier or a revealing woman's art photo, even the wine bottles scattered on the table and floor were like a pair of black eyes, and every object here was Chiba Shu's third eye, indifferently mocking everyone who entered his room to try to understand him, to find out him, but was self-righteous.

"Did you find something?"

Chiba Osaku's lazy voice came from the other side, leaning against the wall around the corner, with a little surprise and appreciation in his eyes.

Exactly the same lazy voice, but the person seemed to have changed one, Richard looked at Chiba Xiu in shock, the crumpled black coat was replaced by a delicately made floral shirt, and the silver skull cufflinks at the cuffs added a sense of bohemianism to him, the most surprising thing was that face, the beautiful silhouette that was completely exposed after scraping off the traces of the stubble, yes, it was beautiful, this word that should have been described on a woman is now very suitable for Chiba Xiu, a man.

"You...... Skinned? Richard asked for a long time.

"I washed my face and shaved my beard," although the outline of Chiba's face suddenly became clear and handsome, the decadent smell of tobacco and alcohol still escaped from the high-end suit, as if no matter how expensive the luxury, it could not alleviate the depression and decadence revealed from his bones.

But this decadence is not really the decadence of those street corners, but the decadence of a playboy, in other words, it is not so much decadence as another kind of bohemian erosion.

It's just that Richard doesn't know whether this kind of decadence of Lu Dao is Chiba Xiu himself, or whether he deliberately exudes it to induce the judgment of others.

"You haven't answered my question yet." Osamu Chiba walked up to the sofa from the corner and threw himself into the arms of the sofa like throwing an old dress. Then he took a bottle of vodka and squinted and continued to drink, as if he was going to die if he didn't drink for a moment.

"This room...... It looks like it's been deliberately arranged. Whether it's the scattered beer bottles or the little decorations, it's like they've been deliberately placed there."

"But that's what I came to when I knew that you were an ace agent," Richard smiled wryly, "and if it weren't for that precondition I would really think you'd be a decadent artist."

"My eyesight is better than I thought, huh?"

"It's not just the decoration that's deliberately arranged, it's the taste."

"Oh?" Chiba Xiu raised his eyebrows in some surprise, he didn't expect Richard to notice this detail, this half-reserve didn't seem to be so unbearable, "Tell me about it."

"You drink only one kind of wine; Strong vodka, smoking, the smell of tobacco on the body and the smell of tobacco in the room are relatively light, but people can smell it when they get a little closer. And the taste of this tobacco mixed with alcohol helps you give outsiders a wrong judgment." Richard didn't want to be overpressed by the future instructor at the first meeting, and he was trying to tell some of the details he had observed one by one, trying to get back the carelessness he had been at the side door!

"That's good," Chiba Shu smiled, "You even caught the taste, which is quite unexpected."

"But," Chiba Xiu changed his words, "It's still too weak, I hope you can really observe and learn something in this room, let's go with me, go to a simpler place for you to practice."

"Where to go?" Chiba Osamu never explicitly told Richard exactly where they were going.

"A place where people automatically take off their disguises and put on a mask of hypocrisy to hide their inner vulnerability." Chiba Osa's lazy voice echoed in the room with an erosive atmosphere.

……

"Old Cripple Bar?"

Richard looked at the flickering neon in front of him suspiciously, it was almost 8 o'clock in the evening when they arrived from Osamu Chiba's apartment, the winter night had fallen earlier, and the street lights were already on.

"Well, your first test point." Chiba Shu's eyes seemed to light up as he looked at the neon sign, flashing with a desire to indulge in the night.

Richard silently observed the change in Chiba Xiu's expression, he thought that he finally understood what this beautiful man was an ace agent, he hypnotized himself into the identity he wanted to disguise, completely hypnotized, and there was no trace left!

Every moment of his words and actions was a real reaction, because when he began to disguise himself, he was no longer Chiba Shu but someone else, a husband who was perhaps married, a wife, or even a father with two girls and a boy.

It's just that this hypnosis made Richard feel a piercing fear......

Walking into the old lame man's bar, the flickering five-colored lights made Richard frown, he had never been to such a place, every lonely night in the past Richard would lock himself in the mechanical room, and then frantically disassemble and reassemble those parts that had long been tattered, or sometimes just quietly look at the silent basic cultivation chamber, listening to the sound of the flow of electricity.

The loneliness of these people is to get drunk in neon and indulge their tired flesh in the heavy metal rock music of the middle of the night, but Richard's loneliness is cold and mechanical, and he will only expose the tenderest corner of his heart in front of the eternally silent steel......

"Remember it for Lao Tzu! Brothers and women will betray you! Only cold, silent steel will not! ”

……

Taking a deep breath, Richard returned to the dimly lit bar from the boss's roaring warning, and although he didn't like the place, he forced himself to express his longing desires.

He began to hypnotize himself......

……

"If you want to disguise yourself, you must first learn to see through the disguise of others." Chiba Shu leaned on the side of the bar and shook the wine glass in his hand, "At six o'clock, there's a woman wearing your academy badge."

"Give you 8 minutes, whatever you disguise yourself or use your identity to approach her, and in 8 minutes I will hear your detailed report about this woman."

"Name, age, phone number, identity, home address, hobbies, the more detailed the better."

As soon as Chiba Shu's lazy voice fell, he turned around and hugged a bar girl, seemingly forgetting Richard's existence.

Richard helplessly glanced at Chiba Shu, who was beginning to have fun alone, raised his eyebrows slightly like flying knives, straightened his collar and walked towards the woman who was sitting in the direction of 6 o'clock.