Shapeshifting and Disguise

That day, Bai Ge returned to his place after going out to practice boxing. He had originally planned to continue studying his "brain hole."

Suddenly, his phone rang. When he looked at the caller ID, he saw that it was Zhuang Ze.

"This little brat..."

Of course Bai Ge knew him. He was the youngest of all his clients, only a senior in high school.

"Xiao Zhuang, are you looking for me to scare people again? Forget it. Last time you made it sound so serious, but in the end, you didn't even get to fight..." Bai Ge said.

Zhuang Ze was a rich second-generation heir who neglected his studies and caused trouble all day long. Ever since he met Bai Ge, perhaps because he had read too many novels, he thought Bai Ge was incredibly powerful and could do anything.

Against ordinary people, Bai Ge's former combat skills were more than enough.

After building up a reputation a few times, people would often feel that they had already lost as soon as they saw him arrive.

The last time Zhuang Ze had gotten into a fight, he had paid two thousand yuan to hire Bai Ge. Bai Ge had simply stood there with a cigarette in his mouth. With his tall, muscular build, he had only flexed his muscles once, and the group of punks had been too afraid to fight. The other side had immediately chickened out.

Since then, Zhuang Ze had become even more fond of causing trouble...

To be honest, Bai Ge rather liked earning this kind of easy money when no fight actually broke out.

"Brother Bai, it's not about fighting... Don't you know the gaokao is coming up?" Zhuang Ze said over the phone.

Bai Ge thought about it and realized that it was true. He had spent the past two months frantically learning martial arts and increasing his strength. Before he knew it...it was already June, and the gaokao was about to begin.

"There are only two days left, right? Have you decided to study hard?" Bai Ge asked with a laugh.

"Study my ass! You know I don't study that crap." Zhuang Ze spoke for a moment before suddenly lowering his voice. "But the girl I like said she wants to get into Peking University..."

Bai Ge's smile vanished, and his heart skipped a beat. "What are you getting at?"

Zhuang Ze was silent for a moment before saying, "I've decided! Brother Bai...I'm going to get into Peking University too!"

"..." Bai Ge froze, the corner of his mouth twitching.

"What the hell? You want to get into Peking University? Your exam scores are all single digits, and you still want to get into Peking University? Why don't you just ascend to heaven?"

Hearing Bai Ge's blunt words, Zhuang Ze felt no shame at all. He said righteously, "I can't do it myself...but don't I still have you? You're the Cleaner!"

"The Cleaner" was the nickname Zhuang Ze had given him. It meant that he could settle any troublesome matter.

Bai Ge's teeth hurt just listening to him. Zhuang Ze had truly started treating him as omnipotent. It was also partly Bai Ge's fault for bragging too much back then, claiming that there was no place in the world he could not go and no problem he could not solve.

That had merely been sales talk when he had volunteered his services. Zhuang Ze was simply so embarrassingly chuunibyou that he had actually believed it.

"Your family is rich, isn't it? Have your father find a way to donate you into Peking University," Bai Ge said, while thinking of how to turn him down.

"How could that work? Even if my dad could do it, he wouldn't. He knows I'm bad at studying and plans to send me to business school to muddle through life. So if I want to go to Peking University, there's only one way. I have to get in myself! Then even my dad won't have anything to say," Zhuang Ze said.

Bai Ge shook his head. "Get in by yourself? Do you think there's any hope?"

"Zero hope." Zhuang Ze at least had a clear understanding of himself.

"But if you can steal the exam papers for me, Brother Bai, then things will be different..."

Bai Ge was stunned. He exclaimed, "You want me to steal the gaokao exam papers?"

Although he had already expected it, Bai Ge was still shocked when he heard the request.

Zhuang Ze was truly bold! He also thought far too highly of himself.

The gaokao papers were prepared under complete secrecy, sealed by professionals, and secretly escorted by armed police. How could they possibly be so easy to obtain?

"Zhuang Ze, I'm not going to do this. Give up," Bai Ge refused decisively.

However, what he said was that he "wasn't going to do it," rather than that he "couldn't do it."

That was a professional habit. Bai Ge never said he could not do something. Even if he refused a job, it had to be because he did not want to accept it.

Yet for some reason, Zhuang Ze seemed determined to get into Peking University this time.

If Bai Ge could get into Peking University, he would have done so back then! Why would he have gone to police academy?

Of course, after obtaining the brain hole, Bai Ge's speed of absorbing knowledge had become frightening. He had learned quite a bit over the past two months. If he crammed and filled in the knowledge needed for the exam, there was still enough time.

If he were truly given a chance to take the exam, getting a high score would absolutely not be a problem.

Bai Ge was utterly speechless. For the woman he liked, Zhuang Ze could come up with all sorts of bizarre ideas.

Yet even after the conversation had reached this point, Zhuang Ze still refused to give up.

"Please, Brother Bai. I know you have a way. How could someone in your line of work not have a few special methods?" he said.

"Heh..."

Bai Ge was completely at a loss for words.

Zhuang Ze had obviously read too many novels. Did he think Bai Ge was some hidden master thief? And now he wanted him to disguise himself too...

Forget it. If all else fails, I'll just tell him the truth and admit that I don't have the ability.

Just as Bai Ge was preparing to confess, he suddenly froze.

He thought of his brain hole. If they were talking about disguises, perhaps the brain hole could really make it happen.

The shaping of real-world matter could be carried over into reality.

He had already used it on the corpse of a vicious dog during a previous mission. It had successfully fooled that household and perfectly concealed the dog's true cause of death.

Then what if he used this kind of shaping on himself?

After all, it was his own body, so he could not alter it recklessly. But making only subtle adjustments to his appearance would not cause any harm.

It was nothing more than moving the positions of his facial muscles and transferring some excess fat.

"Brother Bai? Brother Bai, say something..." Zhuang Ze urged.

Bai Ge ignored him. Instead, he entered the brain hole and tried to modify his own body.

He did not dare to change too much. Facing the mirror, he made only minute adjustments to his face.

Soon, he had made himself more handsome...

People who did not know him would not be able to tell. At most, people familiar with him would think he had undergone minor cosmetic surgery.

"What if I make the changes a little more drastic?"

Bai Ge focused on adjusting himself and began increasing the intensity.

Soon, even he could not recognize himself... He had completely become another person.

When he returned to reality, this appearance had been carried over. Reality would not idly change him back for no reason.

When Zhuang Ze heard that Bai Ge was not refusing but was talking about money, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Bai Ge had investigated Zhuang Ze's family. His father operated gas stations and had more than a dozen of them! He also invested all over the place and was a shareholder in many companies. His net worth was considerable.

"I'm not doing something like this... Don't I know what you're like? This is just a momentary impulse to chase a girl," Bai Ge said.

Perhaps to demonstrate his determination, Zhuang Ze said seriously, "That's where you're wrong. I've pursued her for three years and never given up. I'm still hopelessly in love with her even now. Bai Ge, I really like her."

However, Bai Ge had barely made any money over the past two months because of the brain hole, and his savings had already run dry. He was genuinely short of cash.

Although he had already come up with several ways to use the brain hole to make money.

Zhuang Ze looked thoroughly excited.

He had hurried over because he wanted to see Bai Ge's real abilities.

Zhuang Ze was rather chuunibyou. Because of Bai Ge's unusual profession, he had imagined all sorts of things about him.

Bai Ge understood this state of mind perfectly and never exposed it.

He never said he could do something, nor did he say he could not.

"Brother Bai, I used to think you were just bragging, but now it looks like you really are the Cleaner! Can you use martial arts too? I want to become your disciple!" Once Zhuang Ze got carried away, he stopped caring about anything else.

"Stop imagining things. Just be your rich second-generation heir properly."