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Raymond nodded: "Yes, it's obvious that this dragon won't kill you on its own."
But I don't want to be drained dry and die!
Gu Ran muttered to himself.
“Alright, now it’s time to talk about your task.” Raymond changed the slide again, and a high school student appeared on the projection screen.
Gu Ran looked at him and felt that the high school student in front of him looked somewhat familiar.
Upon closer inspection, isn't this a low-budget version of myself?
“Looks like you’ve noticed too,” Raymond chuckled. “This person looks a lot like you.”
Gu Ran's task was simple: to play the role of a high school student named Jin Shiyu.
A day earlier, the South Korean executive department discovered that the high school student had received a Charizard badge, so they immediately took him under their protection.
Then, through Norma's facial analysis, the executive department discovered that Jin Shiyu and Gu Ran's faces were 80% similar.
Moreover, their height and build are also very similar.
"Wait, although we look alike, the differences are still quite obvious, right?" Gu Ran looked at her reflection in the airplane window and compared it with Jin Shiyu on the screen.
He's better looking than Kim Seok-woo; his nose is more defined, and his eyes are more expressive.
“Norma has done a comparison. If Kim Seok-woo gets a nose job, then gets his eyes widened, and then slightly shaves his chin, he will look exactly like you.”
As he spoke, Raymond pressed a few keys on the keyboard and brought up an animation that Norma had made, showing how Kim Seok-woo underwent plastic surgery to become Gu Ran.
Raymond said, "People in South Korea like plastic surgery, so this minor adjustment is perfectly normal to them."
"Cosmetic surgery also takes time to recover, right..."
“Don’t worry, the people from the South Korean branch said there won’t be any problems.” Raymond continued, “So, your task is to impersonate him for 18…18 days, starting first thing tomorrow morning.”
Gu Ran asked, "What about the language problem? I don't speak Korean."
"Don't worry, this Kim Seok-woo is a very arrogant person. He doesn't usually talk much, and you'll be wearing headphones, so you'll have our support."
Raymond took out a small earphone that fit perfectly into the outer ear canal, making it very discreet.
He continued, "In addition, we have prepared a megaphone for you, which completely simulates human voice. You just need to lip-sync."
As he spoke, he took out a tie clip and clipped it onto Gu Ran's clothes.
On the surface, it looks like a tie clip, but it's actually a megaphone and a micro-camera.
Looking at these products from the world of Detective Conan, Gu Ran thought to himself that the people in the Executive Department had actually brought art into their lives.
He asked Raymond, "Does the Executive Division have any suspects right now? Surely Norma can gather some leads?"
“Norma’s leads are limited because the previous crimes were too well-hidden, and the perpetrator never appeared on surveillance footage,” Raymond said. “Moreover, dragons can consciously control their form and even change their appearance… This is why the Execution Department deduced that the perpetrator was a dragon rather than a hybrid.”
“Heh, okay,” Gu Ran suddenly realized, “I think this isn’t an infiltration mission, but a fishing mission, and I’m the bait!”
He looked at Raymond with a deceived expression: "How can you guarantee that the bait won't be eaten by the fish, and that you can still catch a fish?"
"Don't worry, I'll protect you from behind," Raymond said with a smile. "And the South Korean executive branch will protect you too."
Chapter 48 Long Yuan
"I'll protect you from behind" is a famous flag that never works.
"This guarantee doesn't sound reassuring at all." Gu Ran had said this to Lu Mingfei just a few hours ago, so he complained to Raymond with great dissatisfaction.
Raymond seemed to know he was unhappy, so he took out a brocade box from behind his back.
The brocade box is rectangular and about one meter long.
He said to Gu Ran, "Didn't I say before that the principal would give you a special reward? Here it is."
"Not afternoon tea?"
"Of course not, it's just a cup of cheap tea, who would risk their life for it!" Raymond said realistically.
Gu Ran waved his phone: "Very good, I have recorded what you just said. I heard that the principal is very vengeful. He still remembers being shot by someone more than a hundred years ago."
Raymond smiled and didn't care. Who among the students at Kassel College hasn't said a few bad things about the principal?
He handed the brocade box to Gu Ran, indicating that she could open it and take a look.
Gu Ran opened the brocade box and found a sword inside.
He picked up the sword, and it felt quite heavy in his hand.
Then he drew his sword.
The sword was drawn from its sheath and immediately emitted a pale golden luster.
“This sword is called Longyuan, which can be understood as sending a dragon into the abyss. It is also known as the Dragon-Slaying Sword. Legend has it that it was forged by Ou Yezi and Mo Xie. We reasonably suspect that these two famous swordsmiths from the East were great alchemy masters,” Raymond explained from the side.
He continued, "This sword is a family heirloom of your mother's. It is usually kept in the branch office. Now that it has been handed over to you, it can be considered as returning it to its rightful owner."
“Returning the item to its rightful owner can’t be considered a reward…” Gu Ran said.
However, the origins of Zhang Qiong, the mother, have sparked much speculation.
“The principal said that when he has time, he can take you to visit some old guys back home,” Raymond said. “It’s his special service, like being your bodyguard.”
Gu Ran thought to herself, what danger could there be in the country?
Moreover, he has little interest in mixed-race families in China.
He was too lazy to think about the future, and just stared at the sword. He could clearly feel the majesty emanating from the sword. There were strange characters on the sword, not seal script, but it seemed to be... dragon script.
And this sword seemed to possess a peculiar allure, igniting his blood.
In an instant, he felt the blood in his body boil without warning.
"Damn it, this can resonate!" Raymond noticed that Gu Ran was acting strangely, so he immediately slapped the hilt of the sword and put it back into its sheath.
He told Gu Ran to control his emotions and explained, "I've heard that this sword, along with the Dragon Slaying Platform, is known as the two great swords of dragon slaying in the East. Countless dragon souls have died by this sword, but the specific historical background is not very clear to Kassel College, and its function is also unknown. You should be careful when you use it."
“Using any powerful weapon comes at a price,” he said to Gu Ran in closing.
Gu Ran put down the Dragon-Slaying Sword, sat back on the sofa, closed his eyes to meditate, and suppressed the restlessness in his heart and the boiling of his blood.
When he examined the dragon pattern closely just now, he felt an urge to kill and be tyrannical.
It seems this sword isn't so easy to control.
Seeing that he had calmed down, Raymond said to him:
"Alright, the tasks have been assigned. You should get some rest. We'll be starting the mission first thing tomorrow morning."
……
The next morning.
In an apartment in Gangnam District, Seoul.
Kim Seok-woo's rented apartment is about 40 square meters, with one bedroom, one living room, and a kitchen and bathroom.
Gangnam District is an affluent area of Seoul, where land prices are extremely high.
Gu Ran plays Jin Shiyu, who comes from a wealthy family. His parents run a seafood canning business, such as canned tuna, and their business is quite successful.
Canned food sold by the Kim family can be found in major supermarkets and shopping malls in South Korea.
They could afford to give Kim Seok-woo an elite education and send him to a prestigious private high school in Gangnam, but buying a house in Gangnam... still put some pressure on them.
At seven o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock rang. Gu Ran had only slept for a little over three hours, and now she had to get up to prepare for school.
He brushed his teeth and washed his face sleepily, casually wet his hands, and ran his fingers through his messy hair.
Then he changed into his school uniform, put on a tiny communication headset and a megaphone tie clip, and prepared to leave for school.
Just as I stepped out the door, the door opposite opened as well, and a woman in her late twenties came out.
She stared at Gu Ran's still somewhat disheveled hair and asked in Chinese:
"You're going to school like this?"
This woman is Ha Ji-yeon, an executive officer from the South Korean Executive Department. She came specifically to assist Gu Ran's undercover operation.
Gu Ran yawned and asked, "Otherwise what? Do I have to go to the beauty salon to get my hair done and makeup done?"
“You’re going to a prestigious school, where they place great importance on appearance and demeanor. Besides, Kim Seok-woo is a proud man who always dresses impeccably.”
As she spoke, Ha Ji-yeon grabbed Gu Ran's tie and led him into the house across the street.
In the living room of this house, there was a large number of listening devices and dozens of surveillance screens, which monitored the streets within a hundred meters of Gu Ran's residence.
Several people from the operations department were watching the screen. When they saw Gu Ran enter, they remained expressionless, merely glancing up at him and nodding slightly as a greeting.
Raymond, who came with Gu Ran, was fast asleep on the sofa.
Ha Ji-yeon led Gu Ran to her room. Since she was the only woman in the group, she was given a private bedroom.
She pressed Gu Ran in front of the dressing mirror, then wet and dried his hair, then dried it again with a hairdryer, and used some leave-in conditioner to finally make his hair smooth.
Ha Ji-yeon's technique is very skillful. According to her, she once worked as a makeup artist for an undercover mission.
"You're not going to put on makeup, are you?" Gu Ran asked, noticing that she seemed to be trying to put something on his face.
“Your skin is great, you don’t need foundation or concealer, but your nose is too high, it looks too different from Kim Seok-woo, it looks very unnatural. You need to apply some contouring to make it look more like him.”
As she spoke, Ha Ji-yeon began to treat Gu Ran's nose.
Ha Ji-yeon's fingers were slender and nimble. She gently applied some strange cosmetics to the sides of Gu Ran's nose with her fingertips.
"Let's fix your eyebrows. Your eyebrows are quite delicate, while Kim Seok-woo's eyebrows are very thick."
Ha Ji-yeon picked up the eyebrow pencil again and started drawing Gu Ran's eyebrows.
After a while, Gu Ran looked at herself in the mirror and seemed a little unfamiliar. Her nose was smaller, her eyebrows were thicker, and her whole demeanor looked more... domineering.
Ha Ji-yeon glanced at the time and said, "Okay, there's still enough time. You can still go out for breakfast."
Chapter 49 Teasing?
Ha Ji-yeon straightened Gu Ran's collar and then tied his tie.
These clothes are a bit too tight; to be honest, Gu Ran doesn't feel comfortable wearing them.