The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

"As expected, it's a mirror image. The Dark Bronze Mirror did succeed back in Guard City Three!"

Song Gua was glad that he had considered the consequences at the time, so he did not switch positions to recruit people. Otherwise, the person standing opposite him now would not only be the clone, but also his original body!

Thanks to the Shi family's repeated attempts to remove the hoods, Song Gua finally decided to give the bandits active in Glory City a mahjong face.

Otherwise, his handsome face would be seen by the dark artifacts after being reflected in the dark bronze mirror.

Although the Federation may not necessarily believe the nonsense about the Dark Artifact, it could still become a huge hidden danger.

"Who the hell attacked me?!"

The Mirror Ghost used a tree branch as a weapon and unleashed a skill behind him.

Ghost Brother immediately recognized it as one of his skills, but the effect it produced was somewhat strange, as if it was reversed.

"Even the skills have been mirrored?"

The hand that Mist Brother conjured was instantly shattered into mist by Mirror Ghost Brother.

So what if it gets scattered? This kind of attack won't do any damage to the mist-like Mist Guy.

Mist Bro is the most like a Logia-type Devil Fruit user. He doesn't have an ability similar to "Armament Haki," so it's very difficult to hit him.

After attempting to command the mirror figures and discovering they were unresponsive.

The Song hexagram has determined that the mirror image clones are not related to oneself; they are not connected to oneself like normal clones.

"To be honest, I can give you a formal position, as long as you are willing to be assigned by me."

You should know that none of you have identities, and your appearances are strange, so it will probably be difficult for you to integrate into this world.

We share the same roots and origins. If we were to take action, it would only bring pain to our loved ones and joy to our enemies.

To be honest, our bandit group offers excellent benefits. Joining us means generous compensation, and I can provide you with a rallying core to form a new legion.

The eyes inside all the clone masks were glancing sideways at Song Gua.

"I'll believe what you said before, but only a fool would believe your last sentence."

"That old scoundrel is making empty promises again."

"False pie-in-the-sky promises: promise to our own people; true pie-in-the-sky promises: promise to our enemies. Impressive!"

"If that old thief ever becomes a Spirit Illusionist, we suggest he create a 'Pie in the Sky' technique. It'll guarantee he can overwhelm any enemy, making him invincible!"

Upon hearing Song Gua's words, Mirror South Wind laughed heartily, spread his arms, and a strong wind swept up his body, lifting him up and suspending him in mid-air, overlooking the entire scene.

"Ridiculous! What kind of 'kin' do you think you are, a mere knock-off? You dare to order us bandits around?! We only obey the orders of the great Dark Bronze Mirror!"

When the genuine Nanfeng saw this, he secretly gave a thumbs up.

"As expected of me! Finally, I added some drama! Too bad I put it on a counterfeit product!"

The conversation yielded no results, and Song Gua didn't waste any time, directly exchanging positions and returning to his base camp.

"These mirror figures possess the original body's abilities and only obey the Dark Bronze Mirror's orders. Let's expose them to the fakes to prevent the Dark Artifact from using them to cause trouble and damage the reputation of our bandits."

Song Gua doesn't care about reputation.

Rather, they feared that the federal government would take the opportunity to wipe out both the real and fake bandits.

Since I haven't reached the third job advancement yet, and I don't have a full set of divine artifacts, my combat strength is insufficient to contend with the clergy in the Federation. Of course, I should avoid a complete confrontation with the Federation if possible.

Ghost Brother raised his machete and commanded his clones on the local network.

"Everyone, wear your red scarves and distinguish between friend and foe!"

Although local area networks can distinguish between friend and foe, confirmation requires both making and receiving a call, which is rather cumbersome.

The battlefield is ever-changing. Even if both sides are dressed exactly the same, it is still easier to distinguish them if they have markings on their bodies.

While the real bandits were putting on their red scarves, the mirror image bandits suddenly started diving.

They jumped in groups into the winding river between the three groups of people.

You read that right.

They were actually diving.

The bandits looked at each other in bewilderment.

What are they doing?

"They've already committed suicide and surrendered before the fight even started?"

"Good heavens, even I, a genuine bandit, can't keep up with this imposter's train of thought!"

"Oh no, I really can't tell them apart!"

"I said, their diving technique is really good, there wasn't a single splash."

"That's true, with this level of skill, it would be a rigged operation if they didn't win the gold medal at the Olympics!"

Soon, the bandits realized something was wrong.

The Mirror Bandit did jump into the river, but he disappeared after jumping in!

Upon closer inspection, it appears that their bodies disappeared the instant they touched the river surface, without ever entering the water.

Song Gua thought of the ability of the bronze mirror mentioned by the pocket watch, which had the function of traveling through the mirror.

"They must have escaped!"

The crowd looked around.

"Where did they go?"

Upstream of this winding river, there was also a part of Fog Brother's body. He saw the mirrored bandits emerging from the water upstream.

"They went upstream!"

The meaning of the Song hexagram became clear instantly.

"It's the ability to travel through mirrors; these mirror figures seem to possess some of the abilities of the Dark Bronze Mirror!"

Ghost asked.

"Should we still pursue them?"

Nanfeng looked at the long river in front of him.

"What's the point of chasing them? Unless we drain the water, we have no chance of catching up with them."

A gamer who's addicted to video games has a faster mind.

"Even draining the water wouldn't work; if I had that ability, I could just disappear to pee anytime!"

After thinking about it for a moment, everyone realized that it really could be used as an excuse to pee—amazing!

Song Gua frowned and pondered for a moment.

"The main force should retreat first. Brother Wu, you take a few groups to follow them and see what Dark Bronze Mirror wants them to do. If it threatens our interests, I'll lead men to intervene!"

Wu Ge transformed into the shape of "OK".

"Okay!"

Ghost and his group jumped over the river and continued their retreat towards the Misty District of Huiye City.

Only a dozen or so bandits followed the direction of the mirrored bandits as Fog Brother, who had transformed into a "→" shape, chased after them in the direction they had fled.

In the shadows, the hosts of the Dark Compass, the Dark Cross, and the Dark Golden Seal quietly appeared.

Luo Tong: "The bronze mirror was very reliable this time. His mirror image did indeed obey his orders and did not get entangled with these bandits."

Monk: "But I feel that these mirror bandits seem to have quite a personality."

Cross: "That's normal. After all, it's a mirror image of the bandits. The bandits are so incredibly individualistic. As long as they can be controlled by the bronze mirror, it's fine."

Luo Tong: "Go to Guard City No. 3 and see if they can successfully transfer the person to Wang Miao's side."

……

More than a dozen investigation teams from the Special Bureau arrived at Guard City No. 3 one after another.

After Xiao Chen and his group entered the city, they were greeted by the overwhelming stench of blood.

After walking a few steps, they saw the corpses of the garrison regiment scattered all over the ground.

"My God, are the bandits here to massacre the city?"

"It's terrifying. We didn't see a single bandit's body; they were all members of the Shi family..."

"Bandits are truly not to be trifled with. While Shi Qi is still capturing bandits in the city, they're massacring the entire city here!"

"Sigh, the Shi family, why did you have to provoke the bandits? You really didn't think of anything..."

"According to Captain Yue, this bandit is challenging the garrison's right to garrison duty. Is that legal under federal law?"

Is a city-wide massacre legal?

"Who would have thought that someone would use this rule to settle personal scores? I reckon the federal government will have to revise the relevant policies soon."

"It seems the federal government has changed quite a few policies because of the bandits."