Thousand-Faced Dragon

Chapter 1 Does it look like

"I'm Li En Sudar, not Li Ensu!"

The mirror reflected the young man's pale face. As his Adam's apple moved with difficulty, beads of sweat slid down his forehead into his wet shirt.

Li Ensu. Li En looked at himself in the mirror, and his self-suggestion like a spell echoed in the small bathroom.

Anyone who has disguised their identity knows that the most easily exposed detail is not the identity forgery or the appearance error, but the momentary hesitation when someone calls your name.

For the time traveler Rean, if he wants to seize the face and change the name, he must seize it and believe in it himself.

"I'm Rean."

After finishing today's homework, Li En wiped his face and walked out of the bathroom.

"Snapped!"

After wiping the water droplets off his face, he poured himself a glass of water and put on disguise while hydrating himself.

Scales stuck to his face and arms, looking like freckles or birthmarks.

A blue horn and a broken horn were inserted into his head, with the intact part sticking out of his hair.

Forget about the tail. It was dragging on the ground yesterday and was stepped on by a pack animal. It was almost exposed on the spot.

Unless you are willing to insert it into a certain part of your body, this kind of external fake tail has no sense of control. It is too obvious in this world where real ones are everywhere. It is better to pretend to be an unlucky person whose tail has been cut off.

"Tsk, why is it that other travelers have no problem with the language, appearance, or identity when they arrive in another world, but I have to figure everything out on my own and nothing has changed."

Li En looked out the window and saw a busy street with people coming and going.

There are people, but they are orcs.

There is a car, but it is a steam locomotive.

There are horses, but they are the horse racing girls who are whistling past. Cough, Kurda people.

If it were three months ago, he would have definitely thought it was a filming studio. This street full of animal ears and tails was too challenging to his worldview, and he even suspected that it was a live-action COS movie for a mobile game.

Werewolves, cat people, elves, dwarves, angels, demons, everything you need is there, enough to put together an atlas of races from another world.

The most common creatures in the area were various types of mixed-blood orcs. What Rean couldn't accept was that his physical body hadn't changed, but he didn't see a single one of his own kind.

It's not completely impossible. I found a "hairless monkey" race that matches my appearance in the library, with no tail and no animal ears. But in this world, it is a super taboo that no one dares to recognize.

"If I hadn't been so cautious, I'd have walked onto the street and would have been at the stake. Uh, I might have been sliced into pieces."

"Clap!"

A sudden knock on the door interrupted Li En's thoughts.

"Open the door! The police are checking the room!"

There were murmurs outside, some hurried and some dissatisfied.

"These wild dogs." Li En sighed, picked up the clothes hanging on the rack, and walked into the bathroom again.

The cheap wooden door of the hotel creaked when knocked, but there was no response from inside.

At this point, Talia Siddar, a female police officer from the local patrol department, became a little impatient.

With short golden hair and a cold face, she looks a bit tomboyish if you only look at her face, but if you look down, her vest can't cover her plumpness.

The female leopard police officer, who was over 1.8 meters tall, had a look of impatience on her face. The muscle lines under her police uniform were as smooth as a cheetah's, her waist-to-hip ratio was quite amazing, her muscle curves were explosive but not bulky, and the tip of her shaking tail was embedded with an electric shock iron ring.

The knocks on the door were ignored because the person inside was putting on makeup.

When the door opened, the female police officer saw a gentleman in a smart suit with an unhappy face. Li En felt that when you really have a problem, being too attentive or too weak is not a good thing.

"What's the matter?" Li En touched his cane.

Is this the annoying aristocrat? He instantly remembered the female police officer who had her salary docked after the complaint. The honey-colored leopard print tail was flapping irritably under her military uniform.

But what needs to be done still needs to be done. When she suddenly approached, Li En was completely unable to react.

"Sniff."

The pretty nose suddenly approached and sniffed Rean, which was quite an offensive behavior, but it made Rean shudder violently.

He didn't move, because this was the way predators recorded their targets and was also a prelude to attack.

Only then did he notice that this was a "leopard", a rare and powerful race.

"Stranger?" The leopard's ears stood up and her pupils shrank into a line. That was the leopard girl's instinct to be alert. She smelled something wrong.

"Well, how did you know that?"

"You smell like dirt, but not much of the diesel and fishy smell of the local streets. Do you have any identification?"

Li En quickly handed it over, but the photo surprised the outsider.

The moment the ID was handed over, the police officer's eyes widened.

"Is this you?"

"Yes?"

"Is this you the fuck?!"

"Yeah, I was still very thin that year."

As he spoke, Rean puffed out his cheeks, making them look plump. The policewoman immediately burst into laughter. She picked up the parchment and compared them directly.

Left, lizard head.

Right, human head.

“This is not you!!”

Comparing the portraits, it’s not a question of whether they look alike or not, the species are different!
Immediately, Li En showed an aggrieved expression, but did not say anything.

"He has a receding ear," a colleague said quickly, pointing to the man's deformed broken horns, one long and one short.

"I'm sorry, you degenerate species. I'm not discriminating. Uh, I just can't find the right words right away."

The appearance of the beastmen in this world may be due to multiple hybrids. Most of the main bodies are similar, and they are often just human subspecies with one or two extra parts (beast ears, beast tails).

But there are always some lucky ones. The more beast-like they are and the more powerful they are, the more respected they are in the tribe. They are called naturally evolved species (atavistic species) and are much stronger than other people of the same tribe from the beginning.

But there are also some unlucky ones who are either injured or sick, or are cursed and punished, losing their racial characteristics and becoming the so-called degenerate species.

Such people are often expelled from the clan.
"It's said that even the ears of degenerate species will continue to shrink, eventually returning to a semicircular shape!"

Officer Leopard was frightened by her companion's popular science, and she blurted out what she knew.

"Those super short half ears? Wouldn't that be so ugly!!"

"Don't point, don't point, boss, do you want to be accused of racial discrimination?!"

This crime was a serious one and frightened the female police officer.

"This is my family emblem." Li En sighed and took out a lizard head chest emblem with a knife mark on it.

And the existence of such a thing also hints at his identity.

"Nobles? Where did they come from?"

"A former noble, the third son of Count Sudar, from the Storm Kingdom."

"Sorry, desert lizard from the south, sorry, I'm not discriminating against desert species. Are you exiled?"

The police officer with a domineering figure seemed a bit too direct and was pulled by his companions before he reacted.

With this little episode, the subsequent inspection went much more smoothly. In fact, from the moment Rean opened the door, there were no major problems.

Leopards have a good sense of smell, especially when it comes to specific targets.

Rean was clean, or at least he thought he was clean.

After patrolling the room and confirming that there were no problems, the police team prepared to leave.

"Be careful, the serial killer 'Tail Collector' is striking again. Uh, you don't have a tail? That's lucky you won't be targeted."

(The companion dragging her away quickly: Big sister, big sister! No, no, no, watch your words! Aren’t you complaining enough?!)

Although this unlucky guy with lopsided ears smells of cat's body fluids that should only appear in nightclubs, he is completely different from the victimized dog. He should be the cat maid of the hotel.

As for cracking down on pornography and illegal publications, I, who am investigating serious cases, should not be responsible for it.

Li En just breathed a sigh of relief as the two police officers left.

"Snapped!"

There was another knock on the door. When it was opened, it was the round-faced cat police officer who had been smiling apologetically just now, and the impatient Leopard Woman on the other side of the aisle.

"Oh, I forgot something. Just a routine announcement. You should know this hero, right? He's the one known as the Light of the Kingdom."

"Hero? I've never heard of him. I'm from the desert and have only been here for the past two days."

"It's okay if you don't know. This is just a routine report. Lady Lena was the kingdom's strongest guardian, but she disappeared some time ago. The situation has been very chaotic recently, and various countries have issued search warrants. We need to hand them over to travelers."

As he said this, he stuffed a reward document into his pocket and was dragged away by his impatient colleagues.

Li En breathed a sigh of relief again, but just as he breathed a sigh of relief, he took a look at the document and his eyes widened.

He glanced outside, made sure no one was around, and quickly went into the bathroom.

An ancient book at his waist was opened, and he murmured a few words. The next moment, a small plane door appeared in the narrow space.

It was a very long passage, and I didn't know where it led to. It took me two minutes to reach the end.

There, there was only an iron chair with a person tied to it.

She was tied up very tightly, with a blindfold, handcuffs, and anklets. The chains bound her beautiful body, and liquid kept dripping from the ball gag, and the area under the Iron Throne was already wet.

"The hair color is a bit similar."

"The eye color is a bit similar too."

"That dagger-like glare is a bit similar, a bit similar."

He picked up the portrait again, holding the portrait on the left and the head on the right, and compared them carefully.

"They look alike, so alike, so alike. The face shape is very similar, and there's also the beauty mark in the same spot under the right eye. The gems on the brave crowns on their heads are exactly the same. Oh, and that knife scar too. They're so alike!"

Li En gave a dry fake laugh.

"Oh my god, this is just one person!! What's wrong with you, Brave Master?!"

Well, we are back.

Well, this is the first fantasy book after the Mad Lich’s Experimental Log. It’s a return to the genre I’m best at. I hope you all like it.

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(End of this chapter)