It was completely obvious that the man before him, whose eyes were as sharp as a hawk’s, was truly a cold-blooded killer. Countless people had died at his hands, and at this moment, for him to kill Gavin Clark would be as easy as crushing an ant.

　　At such a life-and-death moment, one should have been trembling with fear, but he couldn’t help wanting to be witty. This was a bit unlike him, Gavin Clark. Although he was the director of a psychiatric hospital, he himself was not mentally ill, but now he truly felt a bit neurotic.

　　Suddenly, Gavin Clark shrugged and said, “That’s just who I am—I like to joke.”

　　The other party said, “You beheaded thirty-nine people in broad daylight. You were clearly doomed to die. Do you know why you alone survived?”

　　Gavin Clark thought for a moment and said, “Because I’m handsome?”

　　The other man took out a mirror and placed it directly on the table, letting Gavin Clark see his own face clearly.

　　He really wasn’t wrong—he was indeed very handsome, and looked almost identical to the Gavin Clark from Earth. Because of the ancient-style long hair, he appeared even more strikingly good-looking.

　　But there were some slight differences: the color of his pupils was different, and his face shape was also somewhat unlike.

　　The Gavin Clark of this world was hard to describe. How to put it? He was incomparably handsome, but at a glance, he didn’t look like a good person—he had the look of a lecherous villain from every angle, the kind of character who would always be a villain in movies or TV dramas, exuding an aura that was both sinister and seductive.

　　What kind of logic was this? Why did the Gavin Clark of this world have the same name and almost the same appearance as the one on Earth?

　　“Do you know who I am?” the other man asked again.

　　Gavin Clark said, “Jinyiwei? Eastern Depot?”

　　The other replied, “Heilongtai!”

　　Gavin Clark realized he had very little memory of this world—who the owner of this body was, what his name was, why he had become a condemned criminal—he knew nothing at all.

　　Heilongtai, the most powerful secret service organization in the history of the Great Win Empire, the mighty hounds of His Majesty the Emperor. When Heilongtai was on the move, the whole world would be in a state of panic.

　　There were rumors that an official once complained to his wife in bed at home, and within an hour, that complaint was written up as a secret report and delivered to the imperial palace.

　　In this world, there was nothing Heilongtai couldn’t handle, and no one they couldn’t kill. Once targeted by Heilongtai, even fleeing to the ends of the earth would be useless—death was certain.

　　The other man said, “We are the emperor’s hounds, the most powerful force in the world. As long as the party chief moves a finger, someone’s head will fall a thousand miles away. If he moves his finger again, the royal power of a nation a thousand miles away will be overthrown.”

　　Hearing this, Gavin Clark felt that this was already far beyond the Jinyiwei or the Eastern Depot—Heilongtai was much more professional and formidable, probably equivalent to the CIA plus the KGB.

　　The other man continued slowly, “You were supposed to be executed, but the reason you survived is because I took a liking to you and want to recruit you into Heilongtai as an imperial secret agent.”

　　A secret agent of Heilongtai? An imperial agent with a license to kill, like 007? Or maybe an inner palace agent 008?

　　“You’re right, the reason I chose you is because you’re so handsome—so handsome it makes people jealous, even want to ruin your face,” the Heilongtai expert said. “And I just happen to have an undercover mission that requires a super handsome man.”

　　Gavin Clark said, “No problem, I’ll go! Who am I supposed to seduce?”

　　The Heilongtai expert said, “A female demon who kills without batting an eye—stunningly beautiful, highly skilled in martial arts, with vast power, and she dominates that region.”

　　Gavin Clark said, “You Heilongtai are the most powerful secret service in the empire’s history, full of experts. Killing a female demon shouldn’t be hard, right?”

　　The Heilongtai expert said, “It’s not about killing her, but about taking her down, and then taking over her entire power base for the empire’s use.”

　　Gavin Clark asked, “What’s her power base?”

　　“Lie Feng City!” the Heilongtai expert replied.

　　Lie Feng City?! What place is that? What kind of power?

　　Poor Gavin Clark had almost no memory of this body’s original owner, and was completely ignorant of this world.

　　So naturally, he had no idea what kind of place Lie Feng City was.

　　“The territory of Lie Feng Valley covers thirteen thousand square kilometers, with nine subordinate territories and one main city, and a population of four hundred thousand. This power is extremely important to the empire’s interests,” the Heilongtai expert said. “It’s a key part of the empire’s layout in the unclaimed lands, and may even affect the future war between the north and south, as well as the fate of the ten thousand miles of land south of the Tianjiang River.”

　　Gavin Clark desperately searched the original memories of this body, and vaguely had a hazy impression.

　　As the saying goes, what is long divided must unite, and what is long united must divide. And this world was in the midst of the most turbulent era of great contention.

　　Six kingdoms vied for supremacy, competing for the position of overlord of the world. Whoever could unify the world would end a thousand years of chaos and become a sage-king remembered for all time, the true dragon emperor reigning over these tens of thousands of miles of land.

　　The Great Win Empire, where Gavin Clark was, was expanding rapidly—within just a hundred years, it had gone from a third-rate small country to a first-rate power, rising like the morning sun and shining brilliantly.

　　The unclaimed lands, as the name suggests, belonged to no country, lying at the junction of the three great powers, and for hundreds of years had served as a strategic buffer zone.

　　Many strategists had already said: whoever can take the unclaimed lands will win the next war and gain the ticket to the final battle for supremacy over the world.