8. Peers in the night

[Now, Angul...... Are the humans in this world really as crazy as Ye said?

[Hmm, because you don't have to worry about what you do to lift the earth, that's why you are so reckless~ After all, this world, compared to yours, is much "stronger" and can withstand ...... toss]

[Is that so?]

The maiden found that it was a wise decision not to rush to go it aloneβ€”the people of this world were far more "crazy" than she had expected, and with the character she had cultivated in a peaceful world, it would have been difficult for her to mingle in this world, especially since she herself was now a dazzling source of trouble.

[Feeling scared?]

How much...... Somewhat. 】

[Hawkers, this world has always been like this, because the difference between the strong and the weak between people is too obvious, the strong do not take the weak seriously and oppress arbitrarily, and the weak do not take themselves seriously and do not fight, which is a long-standing reality. Coming here from a world of relative rule of law, it's normal not to get used to it. 】

Wasn't it the same with Lynn at the beginning?

It's just that the people of the "novice village" in Linzhi are simple, and that kind of bad interpersonal relationship is not much reflected. As for the girl, her luck is not very good, and there is a little excitement at the beginning of the game, so she is in a trance for a while.

[But then again, the first thing you did when you came here was to make a murder weapon for the Assassins, and strictly speaking, you are not qualified to stand on the moral high ground...... For the sake of your own selfish desire to survive, you have also brewed many deaths in the future. 】

The girl bowed her head in silence - Angul was telling the truth.

[That's right, I'm not happy to accept Ye's commission, even if I know that this will involve myself in the dispute on her side...... Sure enough, I. I can only say that "I am not a bad person", but I can't reach the level of "good person", right?

[I am not a good person. The criterion for this evaluation and judgment is not in oneself. Don't think too much about it...... By the way, how much has your mastery of your abilities recovered now?]

Hearing Angul's inquiry, the girl's face suddenly became a little bitter.

【So-so...... Seriously, manipulating things like "souls" is really hard for me to understand. 】

Angul also understands the girl's current problem - it is no longer a question of whether she can do it, but whether the girl "can accept it...... This power belongs to her, just like the memories she has forgotten. It's still in her brain, just waiting for the day when it's rediscovered.

[Aggressive means are very limited now, but you can barely control the mind of a person who is not strong-willed and hallucinate, so it should be no problem to work hard.] 】

Remember that when she was in another world, there was not much about "mental manipulation" in the embodiment of this girl's ability, because of the different psychological states of the two time periods? In the past, this girl was full of aggression in her heart because of some obsessions. So the ability is concentrated in the operation of aggressive evil spirits, and now, because confusion and hesitation occupy the mainstream, coupled with the abstract concept of "soul", there is more or less resistance to the mind. As a result, the ability has shifted towards "mental operations......

[That's fine, if you use this skill, it will be very helpful for you to infiltrate.] 】

......

"Amazing efficiency. ”

Ye firmly choked the mouth and nose of some unlucky ghost. The object of her assassination, the time of struggle in her hands. It was noticeably shorter than it used to be - the hideous wound in the carotid artery didn't look like a knife wound at all. It was as if it had been torn apart by a beast.

Gently dragging the lifeless guards into the shadows, Ye began to pick up the other party's clothes and disguise them. She needs to minimize the possibility of being discovered this time, once it causes chaos on one side, I am afraid that the action on the other side will add a lot of trouble...... In the worst-case scenario, I will be saved by then.

A moment later, Ye swaggered through the heavily guarded mansion dressed as a dead guard.

"It's a little weird......"

Ye was advancing towards the bedroom floor where the lord was mentioned in the information, and found that the atmosphere around him was a little weird - there was hardly a "smell" of nervous vigilance in the air. The guards in charge of the security of the mansion garrison, even if there is no incident, will never be so lax. Along the way, Ye Du tested the attitude of these people several times, and no one was wary and suspicious of her, a guy who "left his post without permission"?

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is "turning a blind eye".

"Could it be that there are other 'rats' mixed in...... Huh!?"

When he reached the top of the stairs, he suddenly found that the lights on the upper floor were a little dim - there must have been a house where the lights had been extinguished! This lord was a lord of luxury, and he had always had the lights bright all night, and he would not go out one or two lights temporarily!

Ye felt a little uneasy in his heart, and he didn't care that his identity might be exposed, so he directly gave up the armor that hindered his movement, and rushed to the top floor in three steps and one step at a time...... The room where the lights were turned out was indeed the room of the lord recorded in the intelligence!

And the expected battle did not happen, and the two guards guarding not far from the lord's room, at this moment, there was no longer any possibility of fighting with Ye - under normal circumstances, people whose heads had moved could be identified as "corpses".

"There's a living man's breath over there......"

But the high-pitched screams that followed clearly indicated that the other party's life was in danger. Ye immediately made a judgment - that voice was definitely not the goal of his trip, this male voice was too young.

Maybe it's the son of the target? Who knows.

Without hesitation, Ye put away the three-edged thorn, changed into his usual weapon, and flew and kicked open the closed door of the room.

Ding――

At the same time as Ye broke down the door, he threw a dagger into the room. As she expected, the assailant hiding in the room. Unceremoniously launched an attack on her. Ye, who has excellent night vision, immediately discovered the weapon used by the assailant. Like himself, he is a dagger suitable for assassination.

The other party's outfit was also black, the standard attire of an assassin in the traditional sense, and it was not known what kind of enemy the owner here had provoked, so the other party unceremoniously targeted him and his family.

"Guards!"

"No, it's a peer. ”

Ye picked up the dagger, raised his hand and threw it towards the door, directly nailing the dagger to the back of the heart of the young man who wanted to run away in a panic. The young man couldn't even scream, just staggered a few steps. His hands kept clutching his throat, and he let out a few "hiss" ** in extreme pain, and then fell to the ground without a sound.

Obviously, the dagger was quenched with poison.

And it's quite poisonous.

"Those guards downstairs seem to have been affected a little mentally, did you do it?" Ye kept his eyes on the other party's body when he spoke, looking directly into the other party's eyes.

The other party met Ye's direct gaze unceremoniously.

"I see. Are you still alone and breaking in? Are you really ...... Don't burp when you fool people. ”

Ye "slowly" stretched out his right hand towards the back, maintaining an uncoordinated posture, and stopped the quenched dagger in his hand at a certain position. She snapped her fingers with her free left hand, and the crisp sound spread. It was as if a stone had been thrown into a pond, and it rippled, and there seemed to be something behind the leaf. was shocked by this blow and opened the disguise.

"Don't move. ”

Ye looked at the assassin in front of him, whose expression had changed drastically, and his right hand shook lightly twice. The blade of the dagger, glowing with a strange green light, scraped the skin of the neck of the man behind him. Ye could feel the person behind him tremble uncontrollably.

"Just scratch a little bit of skin and see a trace of blood...... My poison-coated blade could take her life in no more than (9) seconds. Generally, people with low toxicity resistance kneel within 5 seconds, and those with higher toxicity resistance ...... Well, as long as you can't get rid of this toxin, you'll quickly scratch your throat because of the intense pain - do you want to try the effect on the spot?"

Isn't there already a live performance of a test subject?

"You...... How did you find out......"

"Although your eyes are well restrained and do not show a trace of panic, it is clear that you are still not good enough to learn - you patronize to hide your 'weakness' and 'panic', but let the emotion of 'you have been fooled!' manifest itself...... You're just opening your chest to me and jumping into the pit, okay?"

"Uhhhh

"Surprised? Well, I'm actually very surprised...... It's rare to see a team of three people carrying out assassination activities, and it's still three imps so young. ”

When Ye's words were spoken, the faces of the two assassins present changed in unison, and they never thought that the human in front of them could discover the companion they were hiding at the end! When they found out that the human in front of them showed a look of "sure enough", they realized that they had fallen into the other party's way!

"You...... You're fooling me!?"

"No, it's just 'confirmation'. Ye glanced at the assassin behind him who was subdued by his own poison blade, "I usually develop and make some poisons, I don't dare to say anything else, I am very confident in my nose, although my sense of smell can't pass the limitations of humans after all, I can't be very sensitive, and I can't smell too far...... However, I can easily distinguish the ingredients of a dozen herbs mixed together by my sense of smell - although you have disguised it, the faint special body odor on my body cannot fool me. ”

Ye reached behind him and removed the hood of the little assassin behind him.

"Am I right, little fox?"

Hidden under the hood was a young face that looked to be no more than fifteen years old, but unlike ordinary people, this beautiful girl had a pair of large, distinctive ears - they were fox ears.

"And the kittens over here?"

The little assassin who confronted Ye at the beginning let out a "sigh" unwillingly, now that her companion was controlled, and now that her hidden back hand was discovered, she couldn't act rashly.

"Since the other members of the two clans in the Spirit Clan have appeared, then I speculate that there is still a little rabbit left, which is quite normal, right? Let the gentle and unaggressive rabbit clan act as a hidden hand, if I hadn't discovered your identity, I'm afraid I really wouldn't have thought of it and couldn't find it. ”

However, there was no need for Ye to look for it slowly, and from the shadows, a slender figure slowly walked out - after Ye saw the appearance of the other party, he immediately understood why the most hidden position had to be handed over to the rabbit clan, and even the previous sneak attack had to be done by the fox clan who shouldered the function of illusion...... Because compared to the fox ear lady and the cat ear girl, the rabbit ear girl's pair of long ears that are raised high can't be contained in the hood at all!

It's completely impossible to hide your identity, so you can only be responsible for the final mending work, and you can escape immediately after killing with one hit, right?

"You put the ...... at once Let go of the hostages in your hands! Otherwise, if we are three against one, you may not be able to please you!"

"Even if I have a hostage in my hands?"

"You can try it...... Can we cut her neck before we chop off your hands and kick your head!

Do you want to save your companions even if you fail in your mission and expose your identity? Ye has also heard that the relationship between the mysterious Three Spirit Clans is very good and very close, not so much the relationship between "compatriots", but rather their social relationship is a "big family" -- for these beast-eared girls, the importance of "family" is above anything.

And...... These three little guys are indeed not easy characters to deal with.

Even Ye vaguely felt that the hostage who was now "controlled" by himself, the little fox girl, might not be controlled in his own hands. The girl of the fox clan is good at all kinds of spells, and it is said that she is stronger than the elves' talent in this area, and the "hostage" in Ye's hand is actually a hot potato.

As for the combat effectiveness of the cat clan, naturally I have heard of it...... In the past, the rabbit clan has always been evaluated as the weakest branch of the spirit clan, although Ye doesn't know if this statement is true, but for now, she can be sure that the strongest of the three people is the rabbit girl who has not moved her mouth at all since she appeared.

"Well said...... But it makes no sense. ”

"You-"

"Yes, you are good warriors and spellcasters, but you are still far from a qualified 'Assassin' - the weapons of an Assassin are never limited to themselves, understand?" (To be continued......)