Chengdu is the capital city of Sichuan Province where there are a lot of people.
The streets were as complicated as a maze, so many of those who come to Chengdu for the first time would often find themselves lost.
Moreover, there were a lot of streets which were either burned or collapsed from the recent catastrophes. The streets were fortunately restored over time, but it became completely different from what it used to be.
At the completely different appearance of the streets, people who recently visited Chengdu again after a long time often lost their sense of direction and wandered around the area.
Tae Yongha was one of them.
The first time he arrived in Chengdu was about ten years ago.
At that time, he thought that he had already completely memorized the streets and corners of Chengdu, but as soon as he entered Chengdu again recently, he could not hide his embarrassment at how much things had changed.
Tae Yongha looked around and moved.
“All the information I’ve gathered so far turned out to be useless.”
He pretended to be dead in order to enter Chengdu secretly.
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After pretending to have fallen into the river, he dived and went into hiding. After a while, he went into the shore, took off all the clothes and changed into the new clothes he had prepared before entering the city.
He also didn’t forget to change his face to show off a different atmosphere.
Unlike his identity before which was the youngest porter of the Xuanwu Merchant Group, he now looked like a Confucian scholar.
His real name was Baekrok.
Tae Yongha was just an alias he used for the people of the Xuanwu Merchant Group to call him by.
He had dozens of such aliases. And once a fake name is used, he would never use it again. Such as in the case of Tae Yongha.
Baekrok was an assassin.
He doesn’t accept assassination requests from insignifiant people nor of low commission rates. Most of the quests he received were dangerous missions that would earn him large sums of money.
That shows just how outstanding his abilities were.
His area of activity was originally on the east coast of Jianghu. This would include areas such as Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, which are the opposite of Sichuan.
When he was still a young chick who knew nothing, he had once done a quest in Sichuan. But since he suffered so much at that time, he never again accepted a request that involved visiting Sichuan.
The only reason he came back to Sichuan was naturally because of another request he received. It was a request from an opponent that he could not reject, so he had no choice.
It was a wise choice for him to follow the Xuanwu Merchant Group to Sichuan Province. Thanks to them, he comfortably followed the Xuanwu Merchant Group and successfully carried out the quest.
He used poison under the disguise of qi deviation.
No one doubted him.
But Baekrok remained vigilant.
He knows that no matter how perfect his plan was, there were bound to be loopholes somewhere. Furthermore, the world is full of unexpected twists and turns. Sometimes, a small variable that he didn’t even care about is capable of ruining his whole plan.
Baekrok didn’t want that to happen.
So he faked Tae Yongha’s death and changed his face.
This was to completely exclude even a small variable that might exist.
Baekrok walked the streets of Chengdu and captured the scenery.
On the surface, he looked like an ordinary scholar leisurely enjoying the scenery, but in reality, he was meticulously remembering the topographic features of the area.
Just because he hasn’t been caught up to now, doesn’t guarantee that he wouldn’t be found out in the future.
Baekrok made sure to thoroughly familiarize himself with the topography before proceeding with his assassination. Only then can a safe escape route be secured.
In particular, it was important to secure a safe and secure escape route in a more complex city like Chengdu.
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As Baekrok walked down the street, he pictured an escape route in his head and became familiar with the atmosphere. The atmosphere was especially important. It was because his atmosphere had to change depending on the atmosphere of the street.
He had to melt into the streets.
If he stands out, other people will be bound to notice.
It was important to keep people from recognizing him.
To do that, he had to completely blend into the street.
It was for the same reason that Baekrok was dressed as a scholar.
‘It can’t be said that they live very well, but it is a place where people who earn above average income still live. Even if a scholar passes by, no one will think it strange.’
That was then.
“Put one kid over here.”
“Yes!”
A group of people appeared on one side of the street.
A man who seemed to be the leader made his subordinate stand on one side of the street.
Baekrok recognized their identities at a glance.
‘The Hao clan?’
The Hao clan members had a unique atmosphere.
Although they could be said not to be a significant threat due to their shabby clothes and weak strength, there were many people who had excellent observation skills.
The same was true for the Hao clan member, who stood in the street he was passing by.
The Hao clan member might have looked plain ordinary with his shabby clothes, but his eyes remained quite sharp. He was standing on the side of the street, secretly watching all the passersby.
The problem was where he was standing.
It was the best location to observe people passing by at a glance. Anyone who passed through this street had no choice but to be noticed by the Hao clan member.
‘What?’
Baekrok had a gut feeling that something was wrong.
The Hao clan members were rushing around, setting up a guard at the main point of the Chengdu.
‘Did they already know of the branch manager’s death? Even so, this is too fast.’
After he obtained the information he wanted, he killed off the manager of the Chengdu branch. He thought that he would be able to earn himself at least two more days after checking the schedule of the branch manager.
Furthermore, even if the manager’s death was revealed sooner than planned, it didn’t matter. Because Baekrok made sure to disguised the death of the branch manager as a natural death caused by overwork.
He thought that no one would figure out that the manager of the Chengdu branch had been murdered because he had completely erased his traces.
But judging by the reactions of Hao clan members now, it was clear that they know that the branch manager was assassinated.
‘What happened?’
Baekrok frowned.
He was sure that he completely erased his traces.
The Hao clan members’ abilities should not be enough to be able to figure out what he had done.
Some external force must have acted for them to move like this.
‘Someone intervened.’
Baekrok felt a strong sense of crisis.
After working as an assassin for a long time, he developed his senses and intuition. But this was the first time he had felt such a strong sense of crisis.
The movement of the Hao clan members was simply not out of their own will. It felt like someone had encouraged them.
An invisible hand was obviously intervening in his plans.
Baekrok tried to keep a calm expression. If by any chance he shows his agitation here, the Hao clan members will surely notice him.
He walked calmly.
He could see the Hao clan members scattered all over the streets of Chengdu.
‘I must hurry.’
He was trying to execute his assassination requests with certainty over time.
But things have changed.
If the situation changed, his plan also had to change. The information he collected so far had to be reviewed again from the beginning.
Baekrok hurriedly returned to his residence.
His dwelling place was a guest house in Chengdu. He would like to find a much safer dwelling, but it was not easy to find a home in this distant place without a single helper.
On the contrary, his actions could be revealed while trying to find his own house. So for now, it was best to use and stay in a guest house.
Baekrok stayed in his room and checked his tools. He mainly uses poison, but that doesn’t mean his martial arts was weak.
He mainly used a rapier the length of a child’s forearm.
The rapier is only half the length of a normal sword, and it is thin enough to be reminiscent of a skewer, but if it gets stuck in the body of a person, it causes a huge amount of bleeding and kills people in an instant.
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