Chapter 1088 - 1084: Identical Letters

Chapter 1088: Chapter 1084: Identical Letters

The two of them just stood there, neither moving for a long time, and only then did Ban Qiyun’s aura slowly retract as she sighed. "Forget it. Even though someone spotted a flaw this time, it might not be such a bad thing."

"At the very least, it let me know I’ve got a weakness..." As she spoke, she wiped a hand across her face like a Sichuan opera face-change, and in an instant she turned into an ordinary-looking woman.

Even though Xiao Tian could be sure that this still wasn’t Ban Qiyun’s real face, it was still better than staring at someone who looked exactly like him talking to him—with a voice that sounded no different from his own...

That feeling was truly indescribably eerie!

"What you actually want to say probably isn’t any of that, is it?" After Ban Qiyun switched to a woman’s face, even her voice turned clear and pleasant, a completely feminine voice.

Xiao Tian was stunned for a moment and said, "Uh... I personally don’t have anything against guys in women’s clothes, but if you’re a man, you’d better switch to a male face and use a male voice when you talk to me."

Ban Qiyun, hearing Xiao Tian pick her apart like this, practically wanted to knock him out with a single palm. She snapped, "How about I just change back then?"

"No no no!"

Xiao Tian frantically waved his hands, gesturing for her absolutely not to do that, and said solemnly, "What I want to say is, our situations are a bit similar. I don’t know if you’ve ever had this feeling—that there’s always a pair of eyes fixed on you. Usually there’s nothing, but at critical moments it gets very clear, and the more you think about it, the more it feels full of suspicious points..."

"That feeling is like walking through a forest filled with miasma: you can’t see what’s around you clearly, yet without realizing it you’re already at the point where you could lose your life at any moment!"

Ban Qiyun’s delicate body shuddered, her gaze sharp as she looked at Xiao Tian. "What you’re saying... is that your real experience?"

In that instant, Xiao Tian seemed to see pinpricks of starlight in Ban Qiyun’s eyes, and a feeling of absolute certainty welled up in his heart... "Eyes this beautiful definitely don’t belong to someone with an ordinary-looking face!"

He nodded slightly and said, "That’s right. In fact, I’ve even received two letters from that person... Mm, or rather, calling them provocative war letters might be more fitting."

The light in Ban Qiyun’s eyes grew even brighter as she pressed, "Can you let me see those two letters?"

Though she felt it might be inappropriate, Ban Qiyun still spoke up, because she had the same feeling... Maybe the person Hunter mentioned and the one who’d been secretly watching her from the shadows were actually the same.

It wasn’t just relying on so-called intuition. The thing was, that feeling Xiao Tian had just described—he’d genuinely experienced it. And more importantly, letters that were basically provocative war books... she had received those too.

Right now Ban Qiyun’s thoughts were very simple: as long as she compared the letters Hunter received with her own—from handwriting to wording, sentence breaks and other details—and cross-checked everything thoroughly, she believed it’d naturally become clear whether they were from the same person!

A moment later, she first took out something like a postcard from on her person and handed it to Xiao Tian. "This is the letter I received from that Mysterious Man. I don’t know if it’s the same as the ones you got?"

Xiao Tian moved his gaze over—but suddenly his eyes widened, and he reached out and grabbed the letter held up in front of him... which of course included Ban Qiyun’s hand.

Ban Qiyun’s face flushed red at once, a hint of shy anger flashing in her eyes. I’m showing you the letter; I never said you could grab my hand.

However, after she carefully studied Xiao Tian’s face, she saw that his surprise didn’t look fake at all but was genuine astonishment, so the anger in her heart eased quite a bit.

But then, after quite a while, Xiao Tian was still staring fixedly like that, still gripping Ban Qiyun’s hand. That she really couldn’t tolerate or understand.

When had she ever had such intimate contact with the opposite sex? As for letting someone hold her hand for this long, that was something she hadn’t even imagined.

Yet now, not only was someone holding her hand, the guy seemed intent on keeping hold of it forever, with no sign of letting go at all.

Annoyed in her heart, she couldn’t help yanking her hand back forcefully, then snapped, "Don’t force me to make a move!"

Xiao Tian snapped out of it like waking from a dream, but was utterly puzzled. "When did I ever force you to make a move?"

Ban Qiyun looked at Xiao Tian’s hand still frozen in midair, then at that completely innocent expression on his face, and got even more annoyed. "Anyway, show some respect!"

"Respect?"

Xiao Tian muttered, then realized what she meant, hurriedly pulled his hand back, and said with a blush, "Sorry, I just got a bit excited, uh... Actually it wasn’t even excitement, it was... how should I put it, anyway I definitely didn’t do it on purpose. You get what I mean, right?"

Ban Qiyun ground her teeth. Get it? Get your big stupid head!

Her face cold, she said, "Didn’t you just say you received letters? Take them out and let me see." Her tone had already turned outright commanding, and she’d already decided that if this bastard tried to fob her off with some excuse like "I don’t have them on me," then regardless of whether it was true or not, she’d beat him up first and ask questions later.

From that brief physical contact just now, Ban Qiyun had already judged that Xiao Tian’s strength was definitely inferior to hers. Saying she could totally curb-stomp him might be a bit exaggerated, but giving him a good thrashing wouldn’t take much effort at all.

Xiao Tian chuckled awkwardly, still savoring that soft, boneless, smooth touch in his mind, thinking, Looks like this top assassin really isn’t used to swords or weapons; otherwise the tiger’s mouth and joints should show some marks.

Thinking that, he started feeling around up and down, searching for those two letters he’d received.

However, what landed in Ban Qiyun’s eyes at that moment was standard "pretending to search seriously." Her voice turned cold. "Mr. Hunter wouldn’t happen to have forgotten to bring them, would he?"

Xiao Tian almost blurted, "That’s possible," but his instincts screamed at him not to say it, and the tone in which Ban Qiyun was asking also felt off, giving him a strong sense that one wrong word and they’d be fighting.

Luckily, after a bout of searching, Xiao Tian still managed to find the two letters and held them out toward Ban Qiyun, one in each hand.

The next instant, Ban Qiyun’s gaze snapped onto Xiao Tian’s right hand—the letter that looked like a postcard, covered in what seemed to be cipher text.

At that moment, she finally understood the source of Xiao Tian’s shock, and subconsciously did the exact same thing he had: she grabbed that letter in one go, catching Xiao Tian’s hand along with it.

Xiao Tian’s right hand, suddenly wrapped in a ball of softness, made him even more certain that Ban Qiyun truly hadn’t trained much with swords or other weapons. Just judging from these hands, they were practically as soft as a baby’s; no one would ever peg them as the hands of a top assassin.

But Xiao Tian did not doubt for a second that these soft, jade-like hands could become hands that kill at any time, so he couldn’t afford the slightest carelessness.

After a while, Xiao Tian couldn’t help coughing twice and pulled his hand back, grumbling, "Young ladies really don’t know how to behave. What kind of propriety is it to keep holding my hand like that?!"

"Besides, I’m practically about to have a family already. Isn’t this just forcing me to make mistakes!"

Xiao Tian looked wary and said, "Please show a bit more respect!"