old dream

Chapter 370 The Mask Is Too Ugly
Luca's As Hotel is a place that Colin is all too familiar with.With the Five Hands gone, it became the property of the Stade Institute.The new boss spent much more money than the frugal Luca, refurbished all the rooms on the first and second floors, provided hot water, and replaced the matchbox-like walls with thicker spruce boards, but the price was still 60 per day Aspen, if you have no money, you can still pay on credit for a while, and pay back when you find a job in Stade.

Almost no one has credit for more than two days. Stade seems to be robbing people everywhere these days. As long as the hands and feet are healthy, they can find a living as soon as they go out.

Colin and Rui also chose to stay here and asked for a room respectively.After closing the door, Colin laid the suitcase horizontally and opened the lock on it casually.But Boyd Elvis in the suitcase didn't respond, because she seemed to like this dark and narrow place very much, and slept very peacefully in it.

Ke Lin didn't bother with her, and went to wash up by himself, letting the running water take away the fatigue of the journey.After tidying up for a while, Colin left the room. He had already eaten on the train, so he just wandered around on the first and second floors, looking around at this familiar yet unfamiliar place.

There are no traces of the gang era in the Aspen Hotel. The surrounding area is clean, and no one even speaks loudly. If you come here for the first time, you will think it is just an ordinary hotel.

When it was about the same time, Colin glanced at his watch, turned around and walked towards the office on the top floor of the hotel.In Danaro he rarely looked at the time, and as his intentions grew stronger, his perception of time became more and more precise.But the watch was always on.

The office didn't have a lock, it opened with a twist of the door handle.The first and second floors of the hotel have been refurbished, but the furnishings in the office on the top floor have not changed, shutters, large but unadorned desks.No one was there, usually someone was in charge here, but this time they received the notice and left quietly.

Colin strolled to the window, pulled down a window leaf with his fingers, and peeked out at the increasingly bustling streets downstairs.At this time, there was the sound of the door opening behind him. Colin turned his head and saw two familiar figures coming in.

"Colin." Ricardo called out this name, almost with a look of relief on his face:
"If we hadn't received the secret letter, we would have thought you had..."

"No matter what happened then, it's all right now." Colin smiled and spread his arms to Ricardo.

Ricardo also opened his hands, and the two friends embraced, just like in the past.

"I survived." Ricardo whispered.

Colin patted him on the back, approving softly:
"Very well done."

Colin has been watching Stade's current situation all the way, and Ricardo's management is of course the credit for this.After the hug, Colin looked at Ricardo's appearance for a while. After several months of experience and growth, Ricardo's expression became more calm and capable, and his clothes were changed into a well-tailored dress. I don't know if it was an illusion. He seems to have grown a bit taller.

"Fortunately, everything was in your hands in advance." Colin sighed slightly, otherwise "Lieutenant" suddenly disappeared after the winter solstice, and who knows what will happen to Stade?

Ricardo glanced back, he didn't bring any guards with him on this trip, he only brought one entourage, and that was Benny who was in charge of all the accounts of the institution.Benny understood what Ricardo meant, and took out the thick ledger from his purse, intending to show it to Colin, but Colin stopped him.

"There is no need to bring the accounts here. It is too dangerous. Just do what you did before, and do it in the future." He said:
"It was mentioned in the secret letter that the Grand Duke planted secret stakes in the organization. Is there a list now?"

"It has been re-examined." Ricardo said: "There are not many people who have been promoted to the top after the winter solstice, but there are two people who have concealed their wizard identities, and we recorded them when they joined the club. After that Giovanni and I investigated everyone who had contacts with them, and found three other wizards and two more suspicious ordinary people among the peripheral members."

With the cooperation of Ricardo and Giovanni, the advantages of ordinary people when facing wizards were brought into play again.Ke Lin asked himself, if the target's rank was higher than that of the female moon, it would be difficult for him to follow for several days without being noticed. In addition to the spiritual element reaction, the wizard's intention was more obvious like a torch.

But ordinary people can achieve no trace in the true sense.

Their only weakness is that they cannot sense the spirit element, but the use of the blue spot bacteria has evened out the gap in this respect

Ricardo handed over a detailed list to Colin, and Colin opened it. In addition to the seven names, the paper also marked each name's position, address, and frequent places. It was detailed and accurate. .

"There is also this, the wizards who are currently staying in Stade." Ricardo said, and took out another list.Colin opened the longer list and glanced at it, frowning slightly:

"180 seven people..."

Almost more violent personnel than the Stade Institute, and their ranks are unknown.Even for the current Colin, it is impossible to fight against so many wizards at the same time with his own power.

"And the number is still increasing." Ricardo sighed slightly: "Some of them have already started their actions, killing our people openly or secretly, and a lot of property was taken from some strongholds. But Most of the remaining wizards didn't make any moves, which made me dare not fight back easily, because I didn't know what they were waiting for."

Colin flipped through the list. Because there were too many people, it was not detailed, but he also roughly noted the clothing, appearance, and residence of each wizard. Some of the wizards who knew their names were also marked with their names.

"Are you and Giovanni making these lists?" Colin asked.

"Stalking and tracking are shared by other members." Ricardo said, "But without your consent, I don't want to increase the supernatural manpower without authorization, so Giovanni and I are responsible for all the testing. I Fortunately, at most it’s just a little tired, but Giovanni’s side..." He paused and said:

"Can't say why, but I'm a little worried about him."

"Is that so..."

Needless to say, Colin also knew what Giovanni was facing today.Over the years, the abundance of life overdrawn by Old Fang will only be more and more serious than his own.What's more, he also added some vitality because of the pale earth, but he didn't.

After fighting with an ordinary body for so many years, sooner or later there will be a price to pay.

Colin sighed and said:
"Let's put aside the monitoring of wizards and other things for a while, you all have a rest. I will visit him specially later."

Ricardo responded, but he didn't ask Colin how to deal with the difficult situation in front of him. He had an almost instinctive trust in Colin.After explaining everything about Stade, he took out the burn mask painted red from behind and handed it to Colin:

"Now that you're back, it's time for this mask to return to its original owner."

Colin looked into Ricardo's eyes, took the mask from his hand, held it in front of his eyes with both hands and studied it for a while.This mask was just as in memory, made of the cheapest wood, rough workmanship carved out nondescript facial features, and was painted an angry red.

"Such an ugly mask, you should keep it in the future."

As Colin spoke, he casually threw the mask to Ricardo.

Ricardo almost missed it, he held it in his hands in a panic, and looked up at him blankly.

After all, this flimsy mask now represents a mountain-like power.

"I came all the way back to Stade, not to reconcile accounts or manage affairs." Colin said lightly, those annoying trivial matters, just leave them to you.

He shook out the list in his hand:
"To be honest, I came back to kill people."

(End of this chapter)