Chapter Seventy-Five: No Such Person
Sloan gestured back to Fawkes, and she froze, then walked straight to the armor plate and stood there with her hands on her hips.
Qin Yan didn't expect her to really do it, so he didn't say anything, picked up the pistol in his hand, aimed it at Fawkes's forehead, and directly pulled the trigger.
"Bang!"
The bullet ran towards Fawkes's head, and just as it was about to hit her, the bullet magically turned a corner, grazed the right side of her face, and then slashed not far from the armor plate, and then changed to a straight line, heading directly for the bull's-eye.
"Smack!" the bullet hit the target directly.
Everyone present was stunned, especially Sloane, he didn't expect Qin Yan's progress to be so fast.
After moving the armor plate, the results of Qin Yan's shooting were revealed.
In the black and white ring of the target, a small hole runs through the center of the circle. Ten rings! Qin Yan directly hit the ten rings!
Everyone present applauded, Qin Yan had now finally learned the skill of turning bullets.
Qin Yan put the pistol on the table, Sloane walked over, pointed at him and said, "Do you know how many years it took me to learn this skill? I used it for twenty years! And you only took two weeks! My God! Are you Superman?"
Xiaomei sent the news: "Congratulations, you have obtained the tenth level of the bullet turning skill. Fawkes has +35 opinion of you and has a progress of 45/100. ”
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After this display, Qin Yan's position in the Assassin League was consolidated at once. This was originally a place to speak by strength, the capable are great, and the people who once despised Qin Yan were completely impressed by him.
Everyone began to gather around him, listening to him tell the story of his "fierce war" in Africa, which was difficult to kill Qin Yan, he could only make up one story after another, such as sneaking into the enemy camp in the rainy night, fortunately, he had added some movies before, which gave him some material.
In the next few days, Sloan took Qin Yan to visit some of the core places of the Assassin Alliance, such as the Destiny Loom, which was protected by a large house and had many mechanisms in between, which ordinary people could not approach at all, and only the leader of the Assassin League had the right to approach here.
Qin Yan followed him through many mechanisms and rooms, and finally came to this dark-looking room surrounded by red bricks.
"This room is hundreds of years old, and the Loom of Destiny is placed in it. Sloane looked at the red house and said.
"The whole house is a Destiny Loom?" Qin Yan said, he saw that this house covers an area of no less than 200 square meters, and the height is at least 3 meters.
Sloane nodded, took out a special key, and opened the metal door to the room.
Qin Yan followed Sloan and walked to the room that looked old.
The room is decorated with stained glass with Renaissance statues, oil paintings of the leaders of the League of Assassins hanging on the walls, and a huge loom of fate in the center of the room.
The style of this loom is not much different from the shape of the loom that Qin Yan saw in "Ip Man 1", but because of its age, it has been somewhat decayed in some places, and many materials are made of wood.
It was covered with white cotton yarn, layered on top of each other, and Qin Yan estimated that it was several kilometers long.
"How do you know who to kill?" Qin Yan asked suspiciously.
"It is from here that the god of fate writes here who deserves to die and who deserves to live. Sloan said, pointing to the Loom of Destiny.
"It's just a loom?" Qin Yan still didn't understand.
Sloan beckoned Qin Yan to walk to the spinning place, where there was a square wooden table with a side four meters square, covered with cotton yarn extending from the loom, and this table was more like a workbench, on which was actually placed a magnifying glass with a large mirror.
Sloan looked at the magnifying glass and said, "Fate is woven into this, and through this magnifying glass, you can see who is to be punished." ”
Qin Yan walked over, came to the magnifying glass, looked through this device, and found that on the evenly spun warp and weft, some threads were not arranged according to normal conditions, some protruded a piece, and some three threads were entangled, could it be that this was the message that the Loom of Fate told Sloane to them?
"Isn't this a normal phenomenon? the slightest vibration of the spinning machine may cause these phenomena to occur, which fabric does not have some flaws?" Qin Yan turned around and said puzzled.
Sloane smiled and shook his head, and said, "This is not a simple flaw, if you look closely, there is a thread, it is clearly protruding, there is no thread around it pulling it, is this also caused by the failure of the spinning machine?"
Qin Yan observed the spinning through a magnifying glass again, and found that there was really a thread protruding from it, and there was nothing abnormal about the surrounding threads. Just such a line, there is no abnormality in front of it, and it is inexplicably protruding at this node!
Sloan picked up a small notebook and wrote something there with a pen, and after a while, he presented the results to Qin Yan. Qin Yan took the notebook and looked at it, and found that it was a person's name: James Durant.
"How did you know this person's name?" Qin Yan was puzzled for a while.
Sloan handed Qin Yan another instruction manual, on which were drawn various strange shapes of spinning, and each shape corresponded to a word in the form of Morse code. It seems that by looking at the shape of the spinning yarn, after the translation, you can know who made the decision on the spinning machine.
"This man is an arms business owner who sells arms to poor and backward countries through secret channels to cause civil wars. The people there are suffering, while he enjoys luxurious villas, seven-star hotels, and it is like paradise. God will not keep such a person. Sloane said the name, his face full of anger.
Qin Yanxin said that this Sloan was quite hidden, and in the eyes of others, he was a leader worthy of admiration, but in fact, his greed was more than he ordered to kill everyone.
But he couldn't say that, he saw Sloane so angry, pretended that he was also infected, and said: "Since it is the order of the Loom of Fate, then let's hurry up and prepare, this person must be done as soon as possible, there are many dreams at night." ”
Unexpectedly, Sloan shook his head and said, "It seems that you still don't know what a killer should do before acting, if every killer is as reckless as you, this industry would have disappeared a long time ago." ”
"So what are we going to do?"
To be honest, Qin Yan is really inexperienced, and the movies he joined before were either a policeman, a martial artist, and he had never been a killer. No experience at all.
"Before acting, you need to know all the information about the other party in detail, understand his living habits, activity patterns, and so on, and make a detailed plan accordingly, and you must make more plans for backup. Sloan said like a professor.
"Why is it so troublesome, isn't it enough to make a plan?" Qin Yan was puzzled.
"Have you ever heard of Murphy's Law? It says that if things are going bad, then it's going to happen. We have to think things through, what if he suddenly changes his itinerary at the time of your assassination? My credo is to prepare for the worst and act in the best direction. Sloan said firmly.
Qin Yan seemed to be suddenly open, and he understood at once. His IQ has also been improved now, of course he knows what Sloan means, a person like James who has been in the arms business for so many years must have done things well, otherwise he would have been discovered a long time ago, if he went so rashly, he would definitely lose more than win.
"Then how should I prepare?" Qin Yan asked.
"We have a library here with all sorts of ways to kill people, and you can also watch him online, or from near his home. This is your first mission, and I'll send Fawkes to assist you. Sloane commanded like a commander.
Qin Yan suddenly became interested, asked Sloan about the location of the library, and immediately ran to that location to do it.
The Assassins' League library has a very rich collection of books, but they are all inextricably linked to the word "killing" in general.
Qin Yan used the desktop computer here to google this James's profile, which showed his address, family members, and occupation. He is a middle-aged man in his fifties, and he looks like the president of the European Union in the RTS game "Red Alert 3 Moment of Uprising". He was ostensibly a philanthropist and banker, donating hundreds of millions of dollars to charities every year.
Just as he was browsing the pictures, he accidentally clicked on a photo of him and a woman entering a hotel, and the photo only took pictures of the backs of James and the woman, the two of them holding hands, and the woman turned her head as if she was smiling at the reporters around her. It looks like the two of them are going to a drinking party.
The resolution of the photo was not high, Qin Yan couldn't see who the woman was, he just felt that this woman was very familiar, so he was ready to zoom in and take a closer look.
I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it. He will never forget this woman, although there is only a back and a side face, but he still recognized it at once, this person turned out to be Li Yue!
What the hell is going on? Could it be that Li Yue has also entered this film space? How can she be here? What is her relationship with this James?
This matter is very unusual, but he is not an expert after all, if he wants to figure out the relationship between the two, he can only ask others for help, and just as he was about to get up, Fox walked in, and Qin Yan took a look at her.
She looked at Qin Yan happily and said, "Are you looking for information here?"
"yes, do you know about computers? I have a picture here, which I think is weird. Qin Yan crouched in front of the computer desk, pointed to the screen and said.
"What's going on? I'll take a look. Fox looked very understanding, walked over and sat in the leather chair in front of the computer, and looked at the screen.
"It's this woman, can you find any news about her?" Qin Yan pointed to Li Yue's photo and said with a frown.
"What are you looking for her?" Fawkes wondered.
"I think this woman may know something about James, can you help me see what the relationship between the two is?" Qin Yan couldn't say anything about his relationship with Li Yue, so he used James as a cover.
As soon as Fox heard that it was related to the task, he immediately came to his senses and immediately started working. Qin Yan watched her fingers running rapidly, like a small motor.
After a while, she suddenly spread her hands on the table in a decadent manner, looking dejected.
Qin Yan was puzzled and asked, "What's wrong?"
Fox spread his hands and said, "I checked all the information about this photo, and I couldn't find any clues about this woman, as if she had never existed in this world." ”
What? How is it possible? Qin Yan's eyes widened, his mind full of incredulity.