Chapter 471 - Each to One Side (1/2)

Deception didn’t delay and ran out through the door, but when he looked left and right, he saw that there were already people on the two ends of the street. The two rooftops were also dangerous. His character was still in battle, so he couldn’t log off. Deception had no clue what to do. It felt like today was going to be the day he died. Thinking of how killing off that Launcher had been a huge waste of time, if he hadn’t wasted time there, would he have been able to escape?

Deception was somewhat annoyed. His most important goal in sc.r.a.p picking was to escape alive. In order to do this, he had to be content with what he had and couldn’t be greedy. Many sc.r.a.p pickers were in situations where they could escape, but died after trying to pick up an eye-catching piece of equipment.

Different from sc.r.a.p pickers who traded their lives for money, Deception wanted both his life and money. However, this time, it looked like his streak of never dying was about to end. Who knew how much equipment from his inventory he would drop.

“Don’t block the entrance!”

Deception was trying to figure out his future plans, when he heard Lord Grim grumble and also exit from the building.

“What a scene!” Lord Grim looked around left and right and mumbled to himself.

The enemy guild players hadn’t arrived too quickly. Their main goal was to create a perfect encirclement. Catching a turtle in a jar would only be a matter of time.

“From the looks of it, I feel like that street over there might have fewer people.” Lord Grim went back to the window.

Deception wanted to cough up blood, but he didn’t want to die either, so he ended up following Lord Grim back into the building. Then, he saw Lord Grim rush to that window, but not go through it.

“What are you doing?” Deception couldn’t understand.

“Get ready!”

“What?”

“Go out!” Lord Grim shouted. Deception saw him throw a grenade and then go out the window.

The blinding light from the grenade covered for them and because Deception was in the same party as Lord Grim, he wasn’t affected by it. He also jumped out through the window as well.

“Go!”

A word flashed in the party chat. Outside the window, people who were hit by the explosion lay on the floor. Lord Grim had charged forward to a nearby street and jumped onto a rooftop.

Deception didn’t dare delay. The small grenade didn’t have a very large explosion radius. It had only knocked down the small group of players outside the window. The others behind them had already come chasing after them. Deception was too afraid to even run forward and made a roll. Even so, he was still hit by a few attacks. Fortunately, he didn’t take any significant damage.

Deception drank a potion and also leaped up, using his ninja blade to climb up the wall.

This rooftop wasn’t very high and Deception quickly reached the top. When he looked back, the streets were filled with people. Long-ranged cla.s.ses were firing continuously at them. Deception hastily flipped onto the roof to dodge these attacks.

“Why didn’t we jump here earlier!” Deception realized that there weren’t any ambushes waiting here.

“Just because there aren’t any now doesn’t mean that there weren’t any before.” Lord Grim replied and then continued forward.

After a short pause, Deception came to a realization. When Lord Grim had leaped out of the window previously, the area close to the window might have been empty, but there were people waiting out on the rooftops. As a result, he immediately returned back through the window to let them think that he wouldn’t come this way. This way the enemies on the rooftop were lured down. But then he came back again and threw a grenade outside the window, giving them a pathway to the rooftops.

By going in and out, he had actually made so many calculations. Deception was naturally amazed.

The area in front of them was completely empty. The enemy’s encirclement was now behind them. As long as they paid attention to any stray pursuers and avoided getting trapped again, they would successfully escape.

However, after seeing where Lord Grim was running, Deception creased his brows: “Isn’t that way a bit roundabout? This way seems better.”

“Oh? It sounds like you’re familiar with this area?” Ye Xiu heard Deception speak and replied back.

“Yeah.” Deception didn’t say anything more.

“If we’re going to run away, then that way is better, but I don’t think I ever said we were going to run away did I?” Ye Xiu smiled.

“Then what are you planning on doing?” Deception was puzzled.

“Didn’t I say it already? I’m going to go sc.r.a.p picking.” Ye Xiu said.

“You……. You’re crazy!” Deception stopped moving.

“What? Isn’t this a good opportunity to go sc.r.a.p picking?” Ye Xiu asked.