Judging from his stature and gait, he is a young and healthy man.
Seeing this person walking towards this side with steady steps, Candice couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Gulu swallowed his saliva, hesitated for a few seconds, and asked tentatively:
"You are... 'Su Shi'?"
When she spoke, she deliberately squeezed her voice so that her voice was not as tender and crisp as before.
The man walked to about two or three meters away from Candice and stopped. From the eye holes of the black mask, a pair of eyes cast a cautious look as he looked up and down at the petite figure in front of him.
Then, he slowly said:
"……'amber'?"
His voice was hoarse and a little unnatural. It was obvious that he had his voice changed and this was not his real voice.
Hearing the word "Amber", Candice breathed a sigh of relief, then nodded and said in a low voice:
"You, you brought that thing here?"
The tall man codenamed "Su Shi" hummed, and took out a fist-sized oil paper bag from under his cloak with one hand and held it in his palm:
"This is it."
"Okay, I'll get it..."
Candice stared at the oil-paper bag and let out a long breath. For some reason, she felt as if a stone in her heart had finally fallen to the ground.
She took out a few golden El coins from her pocket and handed them to the man opposite her.
Seeing that the other party took out the money without hesitation, "Su Shi" was obviously stunned for a moment. After staying there for a second or two, he asked in a very strange tone:
"Aren't you going to check it out?"
"……Well?"
Hearing his words, Candice was also stunned. She tilted her head slightly and thought for a while, then she realized that the other party was not her subordinate or her father's confidant, so she didn't necessarily care about honesty and trustworthiness.
"Oh……"
She withdrew her hand holding the money with a little embarrassment, took the oil paper bag handed to her by the man with her other hand, and tore it open roughly to reveal its contents.
"……no problem."
After careful confirmation, she nodded, stuffed the thing into the most secure pocket of her cloak, and handed the gold coin to the other party.
Su Shi casually counted the money, put it away, and said to Candice who was about to leave:
"Miss, before you leave, can you answer a question for me?"
"what?"
Candice, who had turned halfway, stopped in confusion and looked at the other person with a frown.
"Although once we accept a task, we will never take the initiative to inquire about any information about the employer. This is the basic principle of our industry." The man said slowly, "But I am still very curious, so... classmate, are you a student of Imperial National University?"
"what?!"
Candice's eyes widened instantly, and she shouted out in horror:
"how do you know?!"
"I wasn't sure at first," the man laughed bitterly and shrugged helplessly, "but now, I'm sure."
Candice opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but she immediately reacted and stopped herself without making any sound.
"Classmate, I didn't mean to spy on you, it's mainly because you are too wary..."
Su Shi said, pointing at Candice's collar.
She was wearing a cloak, with almost no exposed skin except for her hands and half of her chin. It was estimated that no one could tell her identity with the naked eye.
But perhaps it was too hot, so she loosened the collar of her cloak when she got off the carriage, so the collar of her inner clothes was not blocked by the cloak.
"The first thing I saw was a crimson bow tie," he explained, "which reminded me of the uniform of the Imperial University, so I asked you a question on purpose, and you just..."
"you you……"
"Classmate, since we are alumni, I will tell you directly."
Seeing her hesitant look, the man spread his hands:
"If you make such a stupid mistake again next time, the other party might not be as friendly as I was."
Candice was speechless and could only hurriedly tighten the straps at the collar of her cloak as a futile remedy.
The man sighed, shook his head, and was about to say something when he suddenly heard a loud commotion.
It was coming from the wall on the side of him. This wall was the exterior wall of the "Hibiscus Bar", and the other side should be the interior of the bar.
It seems...some incident happened in that bar?
"boom!!!"
Before the two could react, an extremely loud bang suddenly exploded in their ears!
The wall exploded instantly, and an extremely dishevelled figure flew out from the hole and slammed heavily into the wall across the alley!
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"what!"
Candice was frightened by the sudden change and subconsciously took a few steps back.
The figure flew out from the hole in the wall like a cannonball, and passed through the space between her and the "Su Shi" with a whoosh, carrying pieces of rubble and dust on his head, and his back hit the wall on the other side.
"Oh!"
With a heavy muffled sound, the man spread his limbs and pressed against the wall, freezing for a second or two before slowly sliding down in a very cartoon-like posture and falling to the ground with a "thump".
"This this……"
Candice was stunned and instinctively turned to look at the man on the ground.
The man was wrapped in a black robe, his head and face were covered with a black turban, and even his hands were covered with a pair of thick black leather gloves.
Except for the eyes, there is no exposed skin on the whole person, which looks very evil.
"Uh...ahem..."
He fell to the ground with his cheek pressed against the ground, but he was not unconscious and was struggling to stand up.
But it seemed that he fell too hard. For a while, he could only twitch on the ground, coughing violently in his throat, and the black cloth on his mouth was oozing dark red.
"What, what happened?!"
"Su Shi" was also startled and reached his hand into the cloak vigilantly, as if he was grasping something hidden inside.
Then, a rhythmic sound of footsteps came from the big hole in the wall.
Candice turned her head and looked through the irregularly shaped hole, she saw the interior of the "Hibiscus Bar".
In the crowded and chaotic bar, a beautiful and petite figure was walking towards this side step by step with her arms folded across her chest.
She was a girl with fair and tender skin and a petite figure. She looked about the same age as me, and had beautiful, long, smooth black hair that was extremely enviable.
Even though she was wearing a small hat with its brim covering the upper half of her face, Candice was still stunned by the extreme beauty she revealed and fell into a brief trance, as if she was dreaming.
The girl is wearing clothes that are very different from the Empire style, but it doesn't seem unconventional or out of place. Instead, it has a very natural and fitting temperament.
“Damn it… cough cough…”
The man in black robe coughed a few times, and with trembling hands he propped himself up from the ground. He stared at the girl who was pressing on with malicious and angry eyes:
"You...bitch...how dare you go against us..."
At the same time, a deep purple light suddenly appeared on the surface of his body.
Immediately afterwards, enormous power burst out from his limbs, and a shallow pit instantly appeared on the ground beneath him. Flying gravel shot in all directions, and smoke and dust rose up.
"Oh!"
He suddenly turned into a black shadow and rushed into the sky at an extremely fast speed.
"You want to run away now?"
Qi Ji walked slowly through the big hole in the wall and came to the alley behind the bar, completely ignoring the extremely surprised looks of Candice and the "Su Shi" man, and muttered to himself.
His sight slowly moved to the air, watching the man in black robe about to escape.
The moment his figure disappeared among the crowded, low, messy rooftops, she suddenly stretched out a hand and grabbed something in the air casually and easily.
"call!"
The movement of her hand pulling back was obviously delayed for half a second, as if there was some resistance against it.
But this obstruction only lasted for a moment, and Qi Ji pulled out a figure from the void.
A tight black robe, a fitted headscarf, black leather gloves...
It was the black-robed man who had just escaped!
"what?!"
The moment his figure appeared in mid-air, he was obviously stunned for a moment, and his eyes were full of astonishment and shock.
There are four main new abilities that Qi Ji gained from his quick glimpse of the "mysterious shape in the starry sky".
They are "stand-in flash", "space grafting", "barrier crossing" and "telekinesis".
"Substitute Flash" allows you to swap positions with any self-made puppet. There is basically no distance limit, so it is a very practical movement skill.
But if you don't have your own puppet near the destination, you have to send one to crawl over there. This is the only inconvenience.
"Spatial grafting" can "graft" the space where itself or an object is located to another location, achieving the effect closest to teleportation.
But the prerequisite is that the destination is a place you have been to. A completely unfamiliar place cannot be "grafted".
Moreover, the farther the destination is from the original location, the more difficult it will be to "graft". Once it exceeds ten kilometers, even with Qi Ji's current magical attainments, it is difficult to guarantee the success rate.
"Barrier Crossing" allows one to pass through any entity by opening a "virtual door" without destroying the obstacle at all.
It can be used in some special circumstances to make up for the shortcomings of "space grafting" and "stand-in flash".
The last "Telekinesis" is one of Qi Ji's most commonly used and practical skills.
She can "pull" any object she touches, whether it is dead or alive, to her side out of thin air.
And there is basically no distance limit, even if the target is at the ends of the earth or above the star realm, it will not be ineffective!
This is a miracle.
Just now, she used the "telekinesis" to pull the black-robed man who was trying to escape over.
Because her hand touched his body when she knocked him away, the man in black robe was also an object that she had "touched".
"To sum it up, these four skills I got from Xingkong are the ones I use most often..."
Unable to help muttering in his heart, Qi Ji did not wait for the black-robed man to react. He grabbed his collar with his backhand, took a step forward, and pressed him against the wall with force.
"Oh!"
The brick and stone wall was hit directly by the back of the man in black robe, leaving radiating spider-web cracks and becoming shaky.
The man in black robe also felt dizzy and his pupils dilated for a few seconds.
Qi Ji took advantage of his still confused state, swung his arm extremely quickly and smoothly, and threw him out. He fell to the ground with a thud, landing on his head.
The man in black robe could no longer bear the severe impact he had endured. His neck twisted and he fainted completely.
"Okay, now we can see what they want to investigate."
Qi Ji clapped his hands and took out a document sealed in an oil paper file bag from the inner pocket of his coat.
While slowly using his beautifully round fingernails to cut open the kerosene package, he turned his head casually and looked towards a certain direction in the sky.
It seemed that for a moment, several extremely panicked figures flew past and fled into the distance along a zigzag trajectory.
“Haha, go ahead…”
With a faint smile on her lips, she slowly withdrew her gaze and leisurely looked at the paper document she had taken out of the oil-paper file bag in her hand, and was about to start reading its contents.
"Wait, that voice...you, you are..."
At this moment, a crisp shout came from the side.
Qi Ji turned his head slightly and glanced at her from the corner of his eye. He saw Candice, who was dressed mysteriously, pointing at him with a finger. Her tone of voice gradually became flustered and surprised.
