Hidden moth

Chapter 198 Where can I go after you leave me?

Lan Jiuwan looks quite mature, but she is younger than He Kao thinks. In fact, she is not even 23 years old, and she just graduated from university in July this year.

In other words, when she was performing various tasks for Ku Cha, she was actually a college student... Are the hands-on abilities of contemporary college students so strong?
She had just graduated from high school when she met Ku Cha, and was a typical young beauty.

I have received the admission notice after the college entrance examination, but have not yet reported to the university. This may be the most relaxed and unrestrained time in my life. I finally have no homework, and I go out to play almost every day, and my parents don’t care much.

One day, a group of classmates met up to go hiking outside the city. Actually, they were going off the beaten path, climbing a wild mountain that had been developed for tourism. But something unexpected happened. Lan Jiuwan accidentally got separated from her classmates and encountered a gangster in the mountains.

There were two criminals who might have suddenly decided to rape her and took her to the mountains to commit a crime... Bitter Tea appeared at this time.

Hearing this, He Kao began to discern a pattern. Ku Cha recruited these cleaners, and they all first met at a critical moment when the other party was in danger, and he happened to pass by, not only saving the person but also demonstrating incredible and mysterious skills.

At that time, Lan Jiuwan was kidnapped into the mountains. She wanted to call for help but her mouth was covered. She could only struggle instinctively, which further aroused the beastly desires of the criminals.

Her clothes had been stripped off, her hands and feet were held down, and her mind was blank... The gangster who was holding her down suddenly flew up and was swept to the side by a force.

The timing of the appearance of bitter tea is neither too timely nor too late, in short, it is just right.

In Lan Jiuwan's eyes, Ku Cha was like a god descending from the sky. He kicked one of the gangsters unconscious, and the other gangster ran away when he saw the situation was not good.

Ku Cha summoned a flying sword, shot it out and took the man's life, then circled and flew back to his hand.

Lan Jiuwan squatted with her hands on her chest, curled up into a ball, and was stunned... It was not until Kucha came over and comforted her, saying that everything was fine and that she didn't need to be afraid anymore, that Lan Jiuwan regained the ability to speak.

Lan Jiuwan asked him if he was a god. Kucha shook her head and said no, he just practiced secret techniques... Yes, just like she imagined, the monks she saw in various literary and film works, mastering magical techniques.

The clothes were torn in many places, but they could still be put on. When Lan Jiuwan came to his senses, he was faced with a very serious problem - the master he met in the mountains had just killed someone!

This wasn't the United States, but the East Country, where murder was considered a major crime. Lan Jiuwan was just a high school graduate, and she had never seen such a scene before.

Call the police? Ku Cha told Lan Jiuwan that she could choose to call the police, but Ku Cha himself would not show up to testify, and he did not want anyone to know of his existence.

He had just taken action to save people, and those two people deserved to be killed, but he did not want to reveal his identity as a secret practitioner, otherwise he would not have worn a mask.

In this case, Lan Jiuwan would have to explain to the police what happened alone, and she couldn't explain it clearly... Even if she told the truth, no one would believe her, and it would only arouse all kinds of suspicion.

A mysterious masked man descended from the sky and killed the criminals with a flying sword? This is nonsense! There must be something wrong with this girl. I don't know what happened between her and those two men, but someone died!
But if you don't call the police, one of the criminals is still alive, just temporarily unconscious.

Ku Cha handed the flying sword to Lan Jiuwan and asked her to do one thing, which was to kill the criminal who was still unconscious, claiming that this was her business and she should handle it cleanly.

The so-called flying sword is a sharp short blade. When Lan Jiuwan took the short blade, she was completely stunned. She was just an ordinary high school student and had no idea how to react to such a situation.

Lan Jiuwan couldn't even remember how he stabbed the unconscious gangster to death with a short blade with the "assistance" of Kucha.

Anyway, when she regained consciousness, the two criminals were not only dead, but also buried in a deep pit. Ku Cha told her that she had killed the man with her own hands, and said that she was a promising talent and could follow him to practice secret techniques in the future.

This is how Lan Jiuwan met Ku Cha, and she became Ku Cha's disciple from then on.

On the way home from the mountain that day, she met her lost classmates. She didn't say what happened, but just said that she accidentally fell and her clothes were torn...

Lan Jiuwan may not be aware of how outstanding her talent is. Anyway, she has achieved "superior secret cultivation" in her sophomore year, which means she has become a third-level sorcerer.

The Ruwei technique that Kucha had taught her was incomplete, and theoretically, she couldn't cultivate it to the third level of perfection. But as a "master," Kucha couldn't be without teaching her, so he also taught her a lot of applied techniques, not just limited to the Ruwei Sect's inheritance.

Besides that, Kucha also taught her many skills that weren't necessarily magic. For example, Lan Jiuwan was proficient in disguise, tracking, stealth, poisoning, and assassination, and didn't look like a Ruwei sect sorcerer at all.

For traditional Ruweimen disciples, their "professional direction" is mainly to refine equipment and create various items.

The first time Lan Jiuwan met Kucha, she killed someone in a state of panic. Later, Kucha trained her to become an assassin. According to Kucha, her mission was mainly to eliminate those secret practitioners who relied on their cultivation to commit crimes.

As an assassin, Lan Jiuwan is very outstanding. Her real identity - a young and beautiful female college student - also provides a good cover for the mission, because few people will deliberately guard against her.

At first, Lan Jiuwan really thought she was carrying out "just punishment" because the person she killed was indeed not a good person, but gradually she realized that something was wrong...

Ku Cha forbade his disciples from discussing the content of their daily tasks, and also forbade them from inquiring about each other's real identities. Therefore, Lan Jiuwan initially did not know who his companions were or what they did in their daily lives.

Ku Cha also gave Lan Jiuwan a mask that could conceal her spiritual consciousness, a treatment that none of her companions had. Her companions did not know her true appearance, but she knew what her companions looked like.

On several occasions, Lan Jiuwan's mission was to eliminate companions she had met before. Like her, they were disciples of Ku Cha.

According to Ku Cha, they are degenerates who rely on secret methods to pursue their own evil.

Lan Jiuwan is only an executor, not an investigator. He is only responsible for elimination, not verification. As an assassin, he focuses on sneaking up on the enemy and hitting them with one strike. It is impossible for him to reveal his identity and have any communication with the target.

During her close observation, she also discovered that those guys were indeed not good people.

But on the other hand, she was also very puzzled. Why did Ku Cha's disciples, her former companions, appear one after another as bad guys? They were all taught by Ku Cha and usually carried out the tasks assigned by Ku Cha.

Were they guilty of all those crimes at Ku Cha's behest, or were they simply habits formed under Ku Cha's command? As soon as this thought appeared, it was like a poisonous snake gnawing at his heart, unable to be shaken off.

She guessed right, but not right enough!

Many of Kucha's cleaners, after just a few missions, would realize they were doing dirty work that was not meant to be seen in public, but so what? They were getting too much for almost nothing.

They inherited the secret techniques and mastered magical abilities. While helping Ku Cha with his work, they could also get some benefits to satisfy their own selfish desires. After all, they were doing dirty work, and if they could do it for Ku Cha, they could do it for themselves.

More importantly, Ku Cha pays great attention to examining the "quality" in this aspect when "selecting talents". Since they are trained to do dirty work, they must not be good people, otherwise they will lack enthusiasm and initiative.

For example, people like Feng Zilong and Gao Chenshu are not good people and are suitable for doing bad things. We can't ask them to do good deeds and accumulate virtue, right?

But for people like Ye Liangcheng and Lan Jiuwan, because they are responsible for more special tasks, Ku Cha’s selection criteria are different. This is also called teaching students in accordance with their aptitude and knowing how to use people well.

Although the people Lan Jiuwan eliminated had different ways of seeking death, Ku Cha's selection criteria were based solely on whether the other party was still loyal and reliable. It was unlikely to expect these guys to be truly loyal in their hearts; reliability was the main thing.

Some cleaners gradually disobeyed Ku Cha's orders, such as secretly seeking information about other members' identities and missions, secretly performing unconventional tasks, or acting on their own initiative while carrying out tasks, leaving clues that could expose their identities. Once these people were exposed, they would be doomed to death in the hands of the clan hall, and Ku Cha would also be implicated. The cleaners themselves also needed to be eliminated in stages and batches.

Although Lan Jiuwan sensed something was wrong, she did not dare to act rashly, because in her eyes, bitter tea was a mysterious and powerful existence that was irresistible. She could only pretend that she had discovered nothing and investigate carefully.

The event that really made Lan Jiuwan confirm the true face of Ku Cha and this organization was two years ago, when she found out the identities of the two criminals.

The two criminals had been buried long ago, and no one reported the case afterwards.

But Lan Jiuwan investigated further and found out that they had rushed to her hometown from other places the day before the incident, as if they had deliberately run to meet there. Could it be that they just wanted to meet and molest a high school girl in the mountains?
Why investigate these two people? Because they were already dead, even if Lan Jiuwan investigated privately, it would not easily attract attention.

At that time, Lan Jiuwan was no longer the ignorant girl she used to be. She immediately realized that this matter was deliberately arranged by someone, and the person who designed this scheme must be Ku Cha.

If she hadn't gone hiking that day, she might have been in danger somewhere else and been saved by Kucha. The two criminals weren't sorcerers, but they were enough to deal with a female student.

There was another type of person under Ku Cha's command: those who hadn't yet mastered the art. Despite screening for qualifications, Ku Cha couldn't guarantee that everyone would be able to master the art within the timeframe he desired.

This kind of person is not very useful, but he is also useful. The two criminals may be in this situation.

He Kao felt that Lan Jiuwan was cruel to her, but in fact, she was also forced to do so. After realizing Ku Cha's true face, she did one thing: she started skipping classes, going to bars, smoking, drinking, having promiscuous sex, and even got a tattoo...

Hearing this, He Kao interrupted: "Tattoo?" He indeed did not notice any tattoos on Lan Jiuwan.

Lan Jiuwan explained somewhat embarrassedly, "It's not a real tattoo, but it looks real and can't be washed off with water. I mixed the pigment myself and did it just for others to see."

It is obvious that Lan Jiuwan did it on purpose. She is a typical rebellious and decadent young woman in society. She has violated school rules and regulations many times, failed many exams, and even skipped classes for a long time. No one knows where she went to fool around.

The school wanted to expel her, and her parents were furious many times, scolding her for being a bad student and saying it was so shameful!
But she didn't try to persuade them at all, as she no longer needed money from her family anyway. Her parents were so angry that they later claimed to cut off ties with her, and she really cut off contact with her family.

Despite this misdeed, the school ultimately allowed her to graduate and receive her diploma and degree. It was said that a school official had been threatened with a mysterious threat and had to make an exception. It was simply a matter of words.

Lan Jiuwan's last mission was to hunt down someone abroad before the Spring Festival. She chased him from Sawa to Wadi. While completing the mission, she happened to encounter an internal conflict within the local fraud gang and met a man named Shang Yan.

Shang Yan looked very similar to her, but died in a civil war.

As a third-level appraiser of Ruweimen, what Lan Jiuwan saw as a resemblance was not just the appearance, but the contours of the facial features, especially the spatial position and proportions, which were extremely similar to hers.

This person smuggled out of the country and left no record at the East Country Customs. She also carried an East Country ID card and passport, and also spent money to buy an identity from the Wadi Country.

This means that the person named Shang Yan's Eastern identity is relatively clean, and no one would know even if she died overseas, so Lan Jiuwan took away her ID card and kept her fingerprints for backup.

After returning to the East Country, Lan Jiuwan used the method of extracting objects with his spiritual consciousness to carefully create a mask. After many tests, he found that it could deceive the facial recognition system of the East Country’s safety supervision department, so he appeared as Shang Yan on weekdays.

She did this to avoid Ku Cha's pursuit, but she was still very unsure about it. The more she thought about it, the more terrified she felt. Her mask could still be seen through by her spiritual sense, and Ku Cha also knew her identity and origin.

But she didn't know that just a few days after she returned home, something bad happened to the Huimingshi family. Kucha only had time to issue one last order, telling his cleaners to hide on the spot, and then he committed suicide.

According to her mission timeline, it seems that He Kao also went to Sawa at the same time, and the two might have met by chance in a foreign country.

After introducing this experience, Lan Jiuwan lowered his head and said, "Do you have anything else you want to ask?"

He Kao: "I have two questions. First, how did you find out the identities of those two criminals?"

Lan Jiuwan: "Through a nationwide facial recognition system."

He Kao: "What! Weren't those two buried for a long time?"

Lan Jiuwan raised his head, slightly surprised, and said, "Mr. Yin'e, you are well versed in the techniques of the Ruwei Sect, but you haven't practiced the Ruwei technique yourself, right? You might not be very clear about the true abilities of a second-level Mo Ke and a third-level appraiser..."

A first-level imitator of the Ruwei Gate, whose sensory abilities have been greatly enhanced and who is good at observing various details of objects, has a nickname called Thief Eyes.

The second-level Mo Ke of the Ruwei Gate is nicknamed the Copier. They not only have enhanced sensory abilities, but also have corresponding body control abilities, and can accurately depict the details they observe.

This kind of person is very suitable for making fakes, such as calligraphy and paintings. They are good at copying, but they often only capture the form but not the spirit. If the person is an artist himself, such as Xiao Wu's master Zhang Yanfei, then it is another matter.

A third-level appraiser of the Ruwei Sect, who has mastered the spiritual consciousness, has been nicknamed the Scanner. His ability has made a qualitative leap. With the power of controlling objects with the spiritual consciousness and the method of refinement, he can imitate various items and achieve the effect of almost reproducing the original.

Although Lan Jiuwan had never heard of the Ruwei Sect before and had just learned these terms, she herself practiced the Ruwei technique and was a genuine third-level appraiser.

Moreover, she has practiced various applied magic techniques and is better than most serious third-level magicians of the Ruwei Sect.

Although she was not a sorcerer at that time, she was emotionally stimulated and remembered the appearance of the two criminals very clearly. She could not forget them even in nightmares.

When she broke through to the third level of cultivation, she no longer needed to dig out the skulls of the two criminals. Instead, she found materials herself and made two human face models. With the help of her ability to control objects, she could even make the models make expressions such as blinking.

Such a model should not be able to fool iris recognition because it cannot copy the iris, but the facial recognition system does not need to recognize the iris.

Where can I find a facial recognition terminal connected to the national resident ID card database? This requires help, such as an insider in the public security department.

Lan Jiuwan also tested it in this way when he made a mask to impersonate Shang Yan.

He Kao inherited the art of subtlety and began to practice the art of identifying objects. However, he did not formally practice the fundamental techniques of the art of subtlety, so he did not understand the details.

He did know some practitioners of the Ruwei Sect, such as Wu Yanjun, but they had never told him about these.

More importantly, he had previously known a third-level warlock of the Ruwei Sect, Ye Liangcheng. However, Ye Liangcheng had not "awakened" the great abilities of Lan Jiuwan, so He Kao had never thought that he could actually do this!

After hearing Lan Jiuwan's explanation, He Kao suddenly realized a very important question and quickly asked, "So, as long as you have seen those cleaners, there is a way to find out their identities?"

Lan Jiuwan didn't say anything, just nodded.

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