Chapter 429 Are You Trying to Compete with the Air From Here?

More than ten minutes ago, outside the Gila Mann mansion.

Tai Lung, who had been lurking in a nearby house of a person who had not returned home yet, stared at the mansion not far away, lost in thought.

According to the intelligence received by General Du Quecao from the Grand Commander, the manor was full of deadly weapons.

Several war masons who tried to sneak in before were knocked unconscious by gun barrels that suddenly appeared from nowhere, and then were captured by the eldest daughter of the Gila Mann family, who is currently a detective by profession.

Not only that, the craftsman named Li Lin seemed to have invented a mechanical facility capable of long-distance monitoring, which was somewhat similar to the "detection guard" made by the mage.

Tyrone's face was solemn, and he took out from his pocket a rough topographic map of the Giraman family that was sent back by a certain war mason.

This map is not perfect. It only has detailed information about the buildings around the manor and a rough outline of many missing places in the Gila Mann mansion. There is no internal structure at all.

War Masons are Noxus' resourceful scouts, engineers, and warriors who are superb at drafting and can visually estimate the size of targets with an error rate of no more than 10%.

But judging from the current drawings, no war mason has been able to completely draw the drawings of Gila Mann Manor, which is enough to show how difficult this parliamentary family is.

No……

To be precise, it should be that the mission target is difficult to deal with.

Tai Long casually picked up a hard-shell pen on the desk. This was also a new style of pen that Li Lin promoted after his rise to prominence. It was much more practical than the feather pens used in Pi City and other areas.

He spread the drawings on the wall, which originally had several "crosses", mainly focusing on Gila Mann's gates, walls, and the balconies of the main house and side houses.

These areas were personally tested by the previous war masons, and the information was added by other people who were supposed to be in charge.

Originally, the layout of Gilaman Manor was not a secret among Piltover's upper class, but due to the serious problem of masons in the past two years of war, and Li Lin's return from Shurima a few days ago, the council immediately announced an internal rectification, which seemed to be for the sake of Unified forces to deal with the threat of Shurima, and along the way, many hidden war masons were discovered.

Now, as long as anyone inquires about Gila Mann or other councilor families, they will be reported to the Piltover Police to receive rewards.

No matter what the purpose of the snoop is, the attitude of the law enforcement officers is to arrest you first. If you are found not guilty later, Chief Grayson will naturally apologize personally.

After an afternoon of personal inspection, Tai Lung discovered that there were actually many problems with this drawing.

The first places marked with a cross and marked as dangerous are not all hidden weapons, but also cameras exposed to the outside world.

Although Tai Lung didn't know what it was, he was proficient in black powder and muskets. The "muzzle" of that thing was obviously a piece of glass. How could it fire ammunition?

He made modifications on it, changing the "cross" where the camera was located to a "circle", and then added new crosses and circles in more than ten places outside the circle, and also marked many question marks, indicating that there should be dangers there.

If Li Lin hadn't noticed this scene because Catalina was with him, otherwise he would have exclaimed "Wizard"!

Tyrone had marked almost all the locations of cameras and hidden weapons on the perimeter of Gila Mann Manor, except for two or three less important omissions.

After finishing all this, he threw the pen back on the table. The orientation of the pen end and nib was the same as when he picked it up.

In addition to combat, going without a trace is a compulsory course for an assassin, and it is also taught by Du Kecao himself, which can save a lot of subsequent troubles.

Since succumbing to Du Couture after his failed duel with him in the slums of the Immortal Fortress, the legendary general has taught Talon many finer points of the Assassin's ways that he had never learned before.

Even if he is not performing assassination missions, Talon can still complete various secret operations to spy on intelligence. He has even entered the secret room of Demacia's capital without being discovered by anyone.

The goal of the mission assigned by Du Cacault this time was to complete the infiltration of the Giraman Manor on behalf of the war masons, and to obtain as many blueprints as possible about the mechanical device invented by Li Lin.

Just as Li Lin guessed, Du Cacao didn't trust his daughter, so it was naturally impossible to assign important tasks to Catalina. She was just a cover, and Tai Lung needed to complete the specific tasks.

Katarina…

Tai Lung touched the small bulge on his waist, where his favorite knife was pinned.

When he heard the footsteps in the corridor outside the door and the subsequent sound of the door lock turning, he took a deep breath and quickly put away the drawings.

It's time to act...

Tai Lung jumped out of the open window very quickly, grabbed the edge of the window with one hand, and as fast as a monkey, climbed to the roof in less than two seconds.

As the owner of the room downstairs muttered to himself, "Why didn't you close the window?", he looked ahead and tested the current wind direction and speed with a cloth strap tied around his wrist.

Immediately afterwards, he changed his direction and quickly took out a small bottle about the size of a thumb that contained almost transparent powder from his pocket. He uncorked the bottle and poured it on himself.

This is a kind of reflective powder made of special magic materials. When sprinkled on the body, it will make people have a temporary "transparent" effect through magic, which cannot be seen at all if you don't pay close attention.

This kind of "invisible powder" has a high reputation in the assassin world, and it often allows some assassins in crisis to reverse the situation.

Of course, its price is almost too expensive for ordinary assassins to afford.

However, Talon has the support of the Du Kecao family, so valuable magic items and money will naturally not be a problem.

With his body almost transparent, Tai Lung quickly jumped to the opposite roof, swiftly and silently passing over the eaves.

The place he chose was an area where crosses and circles seemed to be sparsely distributed and seemed a bit omitted.

The invisibility powder did not last long, only about ten seconds, but for Talon, who was ranked among the top three assassins in Noxus, it was not a problem at all.

With only less than a second remaining in the invisibility effect, he moved quickly through the outermost "checkpoint" and landed silently on a branch with a lush crown. He didn't stir up a fallen leaf, and he was there without disturbing. Servants cleaning leaves below.

After a while, when the servant left the tree where he was hiding, he took out a bottle of invisible powder and poured it on himself. He immediately took a breath and ran as fast as the wind to a bush on the roadside again, waiting for another person. Two chattering servants passed by, then continued to sprint forward silently.

Since the outside of Gila Mann Manor is dangerous enough, the internal situation is unknown, but according to Li Lin's character according to the intelligence, it is impossible for him to let anything slip inside.

Tai Lung carried 30 bottles of invisibility powder this time, 25 of which were mainly used for him to sneak in, which could last for about five or six minutes without interruption.

Of the other 5 bottles, three are used as backup, and two must be left for retreat, otherwise those firearms hidden somewhere will suddenly attack, which is too dangerous.

In other words, after using 25 bottles of the invisible powder and before he could steal the design drawings or intelligence of Li Lin's mechanical creation, the mission failed.

Tai Lung's face was stern, and he quickly walked behind each servant, turning into "transparent". Every move he made hid himself in the quiet shadow.

The last mission to clean up Catalina failed. Although Du Kecao didn't say anything, he had already planted a seed of disappointment in his heart.

He would not allow himself to fail a second time.

Bypassing the main house and the side house, Tyrone soon came to the garden behind the manor, where several craftsmen's workshops were located.

Tailong, who got into the bushes, glanced around and quickly identified the most luxurious-looking workshop among them. Compared with the description in the written information, it was probably Li Lin's workshop.

It seems that the task of infiltrating is not difficult, but the task of stealing intelligence is not necessarily difficult.

As the sixth bottle of invisible powder was poured, Tai Long quickly walked around the door and stared at the two cameras at the main entrance to the side wall. He looked up at an open window four or five meters high.

He mustered up the energy to bend his knees slightly, jumped up suddenly, grabbed the window edge with his right hand and one arm, ducked sideways, and entered the workshop along the gap of the half-open window, then landed smoothly below, and quickly hid in another place. From the shadow position of the workbench, use the corner of your eye to observe the situation in the house.

There are no lights in this workshop, but it does not hinder Tyrone's view in the slightest.

He soon caught a glimpse of a set of black and blue armor parked in the glass display window, and he couldn't help but feel happy.

However, Tai Lung did not act impulsively. Instead, he used another bottle of invisible powder, avoided the mechanical device in the corner of the house, came to the door of the house, held the door handle and twisted it gently.

However, before he could open the door in front of him, a creepy voice suddenly came from behind the empty space:

"I didn't even open the defense facilities. It took you so long to get here. Are your movements too slow? You were hiding and hiding along the way. Why are you just sitting there fighting against the air?"

Tai Lung was horrified. He suddenly pulled open his outer coat, revealing the barbed blade connected to his back with a dark red cloth belt and flicked it back.

But with the noise of several "ding-dong-dang-dang" metal collisions, his heart sank and he secretly thought something was wrong.

The next second, with a soft "buzz" sound, the dim room was instantly illuminated by blue-white light.

Even Tailong couldn't dodge, and was hit in the chest by the energy light ball. He flew backwards and hit the wall, and passed out.

The lights in the workshop were turned back on, and Li Lin, whose armor returned to normal clothes, walked a few steps and squatted in front of Tai Lung, who was knocked unconscious by a shock bomb, and reached out to poke him in the face.

"I thought you were so powerful, but you still can't compare to the magical Katarina."

Afterwards, he disarmed all Tai Lung's weapons, including more than thirty daggers and throwing knives of various sizes, among which there was still "invisibility powder" that could make him invisible.

"Analyzing this component may be useful to us."

Li Lin threw the small bottle in the bag to the floating mechanical assistant who flew over, then grabbed Tai Long by the collar and opened the door and walked out.

Catalina, who was also unconscious, was lying in the middle of the room.