Chapter 66: Fake Phone (1/2)
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”s.h.i.+t!”
Gui Guzi and I instinctively drew our swords and swiftly dashed over. It didn't matter who had killed Li Le. As long as someone killed our b.l.o.o.d.y Mercenaries' client during the period of our task, they were ignoring our prestige!
Cough cough, let's pretend we have some prestige for the time being!
A human figure swayed and the person who had killed Li Le appeared. The name was extremely familiar—Unyielding Mad Dragon, Mad Dragon's ace a.s.sa.s.sin had actually appeared here!
”Tch!”
Unyielding Mad Dragon had already seen me and Gui Guzi. He quickly reached out and placed the Creature Holding Stone and the several pieces of equipment into his bag while grinning. ”Come and get it if you've got the guts to!”
I and my Dark Wasp arrived at his side the very next moment. Its stinger gleamed with a cold light as it came stabbing from the sky.
Unyielding Mad Dragon was incredibly calm. He reached into his robes, found some fluorescent powder and threw it to the ground, disappearing from our sight. It was a Level 30 a.s.sa.s.sin skill—Vanis.h.!.+
It was hard to forcefully break invisibility, especially when players at this stage of the game didn't have many AoE skills.
MISS!
MISS!
Gui Guzi and I both missed. The only thing left in the area was Li Le's corpse, Unyielding Mad Dragon was nowhere to be seen.
I stepped on the ground then suddenly turned around, sweeping a horizontal slash with my Weeping Fire Blade!
Whoos.h.!.+
The invisible Unyielding Mad Dragon dodged. Even though I couldn't see him, I could clearly feel the movements of the wind. My mind was incomparably clear at this time, and my senses at this time seemed to be sharper than ever before.
Found him!
I yelled, ”Little Gui, 25 degrees northeast, now!”
Even though Gui Guzi was a bit dimwitted at times, his reactions were fast inside the game. He had already moved by the time I voiced the last syllable. His spear shot out as fast as lightning, like a divine dragon bursting out of the sea!
Puchi!
A sliver of blood spurted out, causing the hidden Unyielding Mad Dragon to come out of his concealment. My senses were spot-on.
”f.u.c.k, how?!”
Unyielding Mad Dragon raged, then turned around to run. He never imagined that Du Thirteen would already be blocking his rear with a mighty air. Thirteen pointed his sword at him and smiled. ”Give up now, kid!”
Crack!
I dashed over and easily struck from the back. a.s.sa.s.sins had very limited HP, so it only took a strike each from me and Gui Guzi to end him.
When Unyielding Mad Dragon fell, the Creature Holding Stone dropped again. This thing's drop rate is seriously high!
The three of us formed a circle around it but none of us went to pick it up.
”How are we going to deal with this Blood Skeleton?” Du Thirteen asked.
Gui Guzi wondered, ”Should we give it back to Young Master Le?”
I shook my head. ”No need. He's the one who died and dropped it. Giving it back to him is just us meddling in his business.”
”Then what?”
”Yeah, what should we do?” Du Thirteen was also at a loss.
I thought for a moment, then said, ”We can't sell this ourselves. Let's do this: Thirteen, you take it and go sell it anonymously. Once the price pa.s.ses 600 gold, just sell it. Don't be greedy!”
Du Thirteen nodded. ”Okay. What do we do with the money earned?”
”Confiscate it and make it our workshop's operational funds. Mn, it'll basically be our food expenses!”
”Haha, no problem!”
Du Thirteen originally wanted to keep the Blood Skeleton and level it himself but what I said earlier changed his mind. Leveling a meats.h.i.+eld pet at this stage of the game wasn't too bright. It would still be okay for a powerful damage dealer with a small HP pool like Mage, but Warrior should forget about it.
I looked at the two corpses on the ground. Unyielding Mad Dragon and Li Le laying there head-to-head like a pair of good brothers made me smile. Li Le was a second generation rich boy and Unyielding Mad Dragon's boss, Roaming Dragon, was also a rich family's young master. Those two would definitely end up fighting with each other, which would make Floating Ice City's future events much more interesting.
At around 5 pm, Du Thirteen anonymously sold the Blood Skeleton on the online trading platform. Someone bid 700 gold, a sum which was promptly exchanged into 80 RMB per. I also sold my 900 gold, causing my personal account to reach almost 100,000 RMB.
Due to the transformation caused by the virus, my brain delay had already been shortened to about 300 milliseconds. It was a pretty big feat I've achieved in Heavenblessed. I looked at my account balance and heaved a sigh. Fate was a fickle thing. If I had my current reaction time, I wouldn't have been repeatedly killed by Candlelight Shadow, and Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls wouldn't have ended up in such dire straits.
Speaking of which, this could be said to be a blessing coming out of misfortune. After narrowly escaping death, my body had been strengthened and my brain activity had gotten much stronger. It was just that I wasn't sure if I could be called human any longer, especially when I woke up to see red patches of skin, or grunted in pain due to the burning pain under the sun. My medical state kept me from returning to Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls, and motivated me to develop b.l.o.o.d.y Mercenaries in the shadows. It was the best way to protect them, protect my home, protect the place I missed and longed to return to.
I went offline, clock approaching dinner time.