Pretending To Be A Boss

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But this was tantamount to creating a catastrophe. The upper echelons might be fine, but the second and first layers might be destroyed by an overwhelmingly terrifying force.

This would cause a large number of non-combatant casualties. Tang Xian wouldn't allow him to do this.

Fortunately, Tang Feiji had felt some trouble brewing, and Tang Xian had arrived just in time.

A vast darkness descended in an instant, as if the night had fallen from the sky.

This was the signal.

Tang Feiji unexpectedly felt a tinge of fatigue.

Fighting with hands tied in a place full of humans was one thing.

These Judgment Knights weren't very strong, but even so, Tang Feiji, as a powerful member of the Dragon Clan, couldn't bear too many hits from that ray.

If it were any other perfect being, any attack wouldn't even necessitate dodging.

Yet the Judgment Knights' offense made avoidance unavoidable.

The darkness quickly dispersed, and when the guards and the Judgment Knights saw the light again, the invaders had already escaped.

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The next day.

Li Wanye of the top layer watched the surveillance footage.

The lord of Lincoln Fortress also listened to reports from his subordinates.

People around the second layer, as well as news agencies around the world, were reporting on the sudden invasion as fast as possible.

The two masked men, one of them repelled all hunters of the thirty-ninth fortress with irresistible strength.

The attacks from the hunters were like child's soap bubbles, utterly unable to cause any harm to him.

The other man shattered countless Judgment Knights with a terrifying and somewhat sleazy laugh.

The strength of the Judgment Knights was well known to the gifted individuals across the lands and the lords of the fortresses. Yet they had never imagined that in the world of humans, someone could confront creatures on par with the fierce beasts of the evolutionary zone all by themselves.

Although not all of the thirty-ninth fortress's defenses had appeared, the two masked men seemed to have not shown their full strength.

Just how strong were they?

This question was rapidly published the next day like a tangible embodiment of fear.

Was there really a monster out there with power so great that an entire fortress could not withstand it?

And this monster… unlike those past that seemed far away, it seemed could appear at any time in the places where humans lived.

The masked weirdo's modus operandi was known to the gifted ones active in the mining areas, and to the hunters and guards who participated in the Yuepela Plains battles.

And these were no longer secrets. In the lower second layer, many ordinary people also knew about the existence of the masked weirdos.

If the previous abduction of Miss Li was an appetizer supplementing the fear, then this time, the joint action of the two masked men was the main course.

No matter where, every lord was hoping that these two plagues would not come to their fortress.

Because every fortress had some evil secrets buried within.

What made them most desperate was that the arrival of the masked weirdos was tantamount to being labeled a wrongdoer.

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On the third day after the prison break event.

Tang Xian settled Yuan Wu and Liu Lang at March Marsh, and after having Tang Feiji keep an eye on Yuan Wu, he returned to the thirty-ninth fortress again.

The fortress's defenses had tightened significantly.

However, the temporary workers in the lower layer seemed to be much more active.
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Which allowed him to blend in with the crowd.

The pleasure district was indeed a good place.

Song Que, Yu Xiaozhe, Lin Sen.

The cooperation of these three brought great convenience to Tang Xian.

Song Que had already returned to the first fortress.

Tang Xian had asked Song Que for a favor, hoping he could help investigate which of the more than two hundred fortresses in the federation had the most "simple and honest" folk customs.

The best would be those who thought of throwing in the towel at the slightest disagreement, staging strikes every other day demanding a wage increase.

Song Que probably guessed that Tang Xian now needed a large workforce and promised to take on the task.

However, this matter unfolded in a way that even Song Que couldn't have imagined later on.

As a result, Song Que and Tang Xian truly developed a life-and-death friendship.

So much so that Li Xiaoyu saw him as a threat surpassing Akasi.

In that unnoticed fortress, a wickedness that no other fortress could imagine was festering.

Having received Tang Xian's request, Song Que quickly arranged his schedule.

He took the step that would change the world.

Just now, neither he nor Tang Xian knew the arrangement of fate.

Beyond Song Que, Tang Xian also entrusted Yu Xiaozhe.

The master of forgery had quite the skill, with document forgery actually being one of the lesser competencies.

Truly transforming one person into another was his real forte.

Grey-white sideburns, British curls, plus an expensive custom-made suit, and the soft leather shoes worn by a perennial limp, complete with a gold-framed pince-nez —

In the pleasure district, the ladies clearly remembered two young men going in, but when they came out, there was only one young man, and the other was an old-fashioned British style elderly gentleman.

"Remember the habits, Tang Jikede is a national of our country, but moved to the London Fortress since he was young.

He worked on Thames Street but developed a leg defect in his youth due to mischief. He neither smokes nor drinks excessively, his only flaw is lust, but he is rather skilled with women, able to sniff out which shampoo and perfume a woman uses. From these scents, he can deduce the woman's overall temperament and character quite accurately, almost always hitting the mark.

This is why this man is the hardest to impersonate. But you also possess a similar knack for seeing through people's hearts. As long as your act is convincing, nobody will suspect you.

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