Chapter 46 (1/2)
[1,776 new people liked Bai Liu’s small TV, 2,006 new people have bookmarked player Bai Liu’s small TV, 345 people have charged player Bai Liu.]
[2,004 new people are watching player Bai Liu’s small TV and you have gained over 1,500 likes in one minute. Player Bai Liu has finally become serious!]
[Yo~ your performance is back on track ~ yo~ my punishment won’t be shifted ~ yo~ until you keep flying~ yo~]
[Player Bai Liu still needs 47,294 likes, 50,860 people bookmarking your small TV and 14,724 points to be charged before you can leave the burial mound dancing area.]
Mu Sicheng ran through the train many times until all the passengers got off the train and he had a chance to breathe. He lay on his back, filling himself with a physical strength recovery potion. He wiped the hair that was wet from sweat off his cheeks and stared at the resting Bai Liu with a gloomy expression.
“Bai Liu, have you long guessed that my personal skill is stealing?” Mu Sicheng had the same guess as Wang Shun. “You used stealing my things to lead me and make me think that your skill is also stealing so I would reduce my vigilance.”
“Previously at the entrance of the game hall, you pretended that you didn’t guess my skill. You spoke nonsense that my skill enhanced my senses. In fact, you fucking knew that my skill is stealing, right?” Mu Sicheng’s eyes were like electricity as he stared at Bai Liu.
“Yes,” Bai Liu confessed.
Mu Sicheng took a deep breath as he kept watching Bai Liu. “When did you know?”
A personal skill was something that tacitly wasn’t discussed on the forum. It might be known but talking about personal skills would offend people. Apart from the puppet master who needed to spread his skill publicly to recruit players, other player’s personal skills weren’t discussed in public.
Bai Liu was a newcomer. The only way for him to know the personal skill was to buy Mu Sicheng’s game videos to watch them.
The skill panel when playing wasn’t open to the audience. In other words, the audience couldn’t see the specific skill. If Bai Liu wanted to know Mu Sicheng’s skill then he would have to make multiple purchases of his videos to guess the personal skill or discuss it offline with old players.
However, Bai Liu had never purchased Mu Sicheng’s videos and Mu Sicheng had found him the moment Bai Liu logged in. There was no chance for him to discuss with other players who knew Mu Sicheng’s skills! Why did this guy know his personal skill?
Bai Liu said, “I knew what your skill was when I met you after logging out of Siren Town.”
Mu Sicheng looked at Bai Liu incredulously. “When you left Siren Town? I found you as soon as you logged out. You couldn’t have time to find out what my skill is!”
“I really wanted to lie to you for a bottle of mental bleach in the beginning. I didn’t expect to set you up.” Bai Liu rubbed his nose. “Your reaction revealed that your personal skill is stealing. In addition, you are fourth on the rising stars ranking so your strength is pretty good. I thought that since you were already here, it would be a bit of a loss if I didn’t do something to you. So I followed the flow…”
Fucking, if he didn’t do something then he would suffer a loss? Wasn’t this taking seizing any opportunity too far? Mu Sicheng was so angry that his chest moved up and down and he was unconvinced. “How did my reaction reveal my personal skill?”
Bai Liu turned to look at Mu Sicheng. “It is because after I stole your mental bleach, your first reaction was that my skill is stealing.”
“Otherwise?” Mu Sicheng was speechless. “Is there any other skill that can take directly from my system warehouse?”
Bai Liu reminded him, “However, we were in the game hall. You clearly knew that theft is prohibited there but when I stole your physical strength supplement, you still persistently thought that my skill was stealing. I think that any normal player would feel differently about my personal skill. For example, I manipulated you to give me the items. However, you were firm.”
“You didn’t change the idea that my skill was stealing even after entering the game.”
Mu Sicheng was taken back.
Bai Liu told Mu Sicheng, “This is your subconscious reaction. It shows you have a strong obsession with stealing. The personal skill is linked to desire so I guessed that your skill is linked to stealing.”
“Fuck.” Mu Sicheng was embarrassed and interrupted Bai Liu’s words. “Even if you wanted to manipulate and use me early on, you couldn’t be 100% sure that I would follow you into the game. The groundwork you laid would be wasted if I didn’t follow you into the game!”
“I really wasn’t 100% sure you would follow me,” Bai Liu admitted it honestly. “Still, I was 80% sure.”
Bai Liu raised his eyes. “It is because I have something you want to steal. The Merfolk Amulet, right?”
Mu Sicheng felt suffocated.
“I previously found it very strange that you would come to the game logout area to find me.” Bai Liu continued. “You are a pretty good player in this game. Even if you are curious about my personal skill, you wouldn’t stick to me after losing 2,000 points.”
“You aren’t a fool to do something that is unprofitable. Thus, there must be something you want from me. You also had a strong confidence that you would get it so you came to me as soon as I logged into the game. You wanted to make sure that I brought the thing you wanted to get from me. In thieves’ jargon, it is called ‘casing the target’ right?”
Mu Sicheng’s expression finally turned dark. “You knew that I wanted to steal the Merfolk Amulet from you? You used this thing to hook me?”
Bai Liu changed his way of speaking and smiled kindly. “How can it be called hooking you? God Mu, I merely sought cooperation from you. I gave this to you as a gift. Look, I can control you but I didn’t ask you to return it to me, did I?”
Bai Liu’s ability to speak nonsense with wide-open eyes reached the peak. In fact, he couldn’t control Mu Sicheng to return the Merfolk Amulet to him. It really was a cooperation between Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng and Bai Liu couldn’t force Mu Sicheng to do something.
Mu Sicheng’s expression became a bit better after hearing this. Bai Liu didn’t make him give it back. This meant that at least Bai Liu wasn’t like the String Puppet Master who used his puppets regardless of life and death. Mu Sicheng was temporarily safe.
Mu Sicheng no longer spoke to Bai Liu, this player who made him so angry there was pain in his liver. He opened his panel and took a look.
[Player Mu Sicheng’s Personal Panel]
[Health: 94 (decreased after being burned by fire)]
[Physical strength: 30 (empty, restoring in progress)]
[Mental value: 75 (mild alienation due to being attacked by passengers)]
If Mu Sicheng was running on his own then his physical strength decline wouldn’t be so severe and he wouldn’t have been burned by those monsters. It was because he brought Bai Liu with him. In order to maintain his original speed, the physical strength consumed using the skill almost doubled.
Mu Sicheng wasn’t clear to what extent Bai Liu’s control over him was. He didn’t dare to rashly hurt Bai Liu but this didn’t prevent Mu Sicheng from sarcastically speaking. “You were carried by me but your physical strength was exhausted. Your panel attributes are so weak that you should’ve died long ago.”
“Isn’t there God Mu offering me a helping hand so I don’t die?” Bai Liu leisurely opened his panel. “There must be a blessing in a disaster. We have triggered the first monster book page.”
[The Exploding Last Train Monster Book has refreshed—Exploding Passengers (1/3)]
[Monster Name: Exploding Passengers]
[Features: Extremely fast movement speed (1,000 points in movement speed, flames have a bonus effect)]
[Weaknesses: ??? (Unexplored)]
[Attack method: After being burned by the exploding passenger’s body, the health and mental value will decrease.]
“What is the use of triggering the first monster book page?” Mu Sicheng chuckled and raised his head to drink the physical recovery agent. “Do you want to collect the monster book in the level 2 instance, Exploding Last Train? Bai Liu, let me tell you, even I don’t dare to collect the monster book in a level 2 game that no one has cleared before.”
“There is always a first time for everything.” Bai Liu always had the ability to kill people with anger and he smiled casually. “Isn’t there me this time? God Mu, why not try to gather it? Let’s cooperate.”
With these words, Bai Liu almost clearly threatened Mu Sicheng to force him to help Bai Liu collect the monster book.
Mu Sicheng felt his anger that was finally suppressed rising up again. He took two deep breaths and adjusted his heartbeat and breathing, lest he be killed by anger. “Your damn health value is about to be cleared and you are thinking about collecting the monster book. You really want money and not life.”
Bai Liu felt he deserved it. “You’re right. I’m that type of person.”
Mu Sicheng, “……”
Mu Sicheng was right. Bai Liu’s panel attributes were much more miserable than Mu Sicheng’s A-grade panel attributes.
[Player Bai Liu’s Personal Panel]
[Health: 31 (decreased after being attacked by player Mu Sicheng and being burned by flames)]